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Sound of Mind
05:11
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In seven hours, ten minute breaks
Data was gathered to formulate
The following assessment, the techniques of which are accurate
According to practitioners determined by the state
Slim, athletic build
She looks back when she walks in
We’ll be watching her
Hands begin to shake
She looks up and makes a face
Well what’s stopping her?
What does she see in the clouds?
God knows how she got to
Answers like these on the test
Survey says
That she’s laughing louder than the static
She’s tapping out of standard time
Can someone tell her turn it down
And figure it out?
Hear that sound?
Tone elevated
She used to be a better kid
So what’s stopping her?
What does she see in the clouds?
God knows how she got to
Answers like these on the test
Survey says
That she’s laughing louder than the static
She’s tapping out of standard time
Can someone tell her turn it down
And figure it out?
Jesus Christ
Can she hear the sound of mind?
And in conclusion, her scores provide
Only an estimate to analyze
Exhibiting obsessiveness like that of a perfectionist
Resulting from a deficit we can’t identify
And so she simply must decide
Which of her deficits to hide
Yes, she simply must decide
To narrow her mind
Narrow your mind
Narrow your mind
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Coffeemoney
03:44
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7 AM gotta finish a novel
Before this chapter begins
Dr. Shaqra filled me a bottle
To get me up and firing
Minute late to class, call it a success
Wander off with a friend
Dr. Remmell’s strategies
Prescribe how much time to spend
Who can I blame for this? I make a list when someone says
Someday, you’re gonna pay
And where ya gonna get your coffee money?
How ya gonna get through life without a boost?
Are you really gonna tell me
You need it made to order and handed to you?
How can you be self-sufficient when you get so much assistance
And spill your cup?
Running out of coffee money
Is gonna wake you up
Tripping over balls I dropped
Swear I’ve meant to pick em up for weeks
But Dr. Rand made time to talk
Right now about my chemistry
Didn’t start the task, a different kind of draft
Can vouch for me
Dr. Bailey gave me four letters
To spell my apology
Curl up in pain from this, I bang a fist when someone goes
When you’re full-grown, you’re on your own
So where ya gonna get your coffee money?
How ya gonna get through life without a boost?
Are you really gonna tell me
You need it made to order and handed to you?
How can you be self-sufficient when you get so much assistance
And spill your cup?
Running out of coffee money
Is gonna wake you up
Where ya gonna get your coffee money?
How ya gonna get through life without a boost?
Are you really gonna tell me
You need it made to order and handed to you?
How can you be self-sufficient when you get so much assistance
And spill your cup?
Running out of coffee money
Is gonna wake you up
Running out of coffee money
Is gonna wake you up
1 AM I should start this novel
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3. |
Hang Your Clothes
04:22
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To the woman I want to be someday:
How’d you stop showing up five minutes late?
Do you hang your clothes? That’s something small
Tell me how you did it all
Tell me how you did it all
Did you swallow a pill to slow you down?
Do you form a sentence before it comes out?
How have all those acts of kindness gone?
How many have you done?
How many have you done?
The fact that I’m not you keeps me circling
Flying over the town
The fact that I’m up here makes me want to keep
Trying to figure this out
From the woman who’s got to change herself:
How’d you ever stop needing to be someone else?
The irony in asking you
Is that I’m doing what you’d never do
Does it ever still happen to you?
I know that it must seem inconsiderate
Flying on my own time
I know how it must look, but I swear I’m just
Trying to live a good life
That’s respectable, right?
Keep applying a brand new coat of paint
Think it’s all smoothed over and I’m still a flake
I’m losing my footing, I’m about to fall
Tell me how you did it all
Tell me how you did it all
Tell me how you did it all
The fact that I’m not you makes me think about
Dying, I have my doubts
The fact that I’m still here makes me want to keep
Trying to figure this out
So I guess for now
I’ll keep fucking around
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Bryn Battani Minneapolis, Minnesota
Slyly intense and disarmingly earnest, Bryn weaves clever, tongue-in-cheek lyrics with vibrant arrangements. Influenced by artists like Fiona Apple, Andrew Bird and Regina Spektor, she supports her lyrical craftsmanship with genre-bending chamber pop arrangements and folk instrumentation colored by her Austin, Texas roots. ... more
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