HIGH DIVING PONIES
BROKEN SUNBATHER

WORDS BY JOSH THOMAS

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DETAILS

i know you're trying to help
but you're not
so please stop
cheap things cost,
they cost a lot.

leaving out important parts of history
leaving out important details
leaving out details is lying


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SHOCKWAVES

it's not like this is a surprise
lost ourselves in all of our own hype

I can't wait to stand in line
I can't watch this all the time

we lost it all in a flood
water takes back anything it wants


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DISAPPOINTED

disappointed...

i can feel the judgment
i can see all the stares
i don't know why i care
i just don't want to leave you disappointed


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SELFISH PLEASURE FIEND

if i deny my urges
and pretend i can restrain,
does it do you any favors
if my mind's already made?

if i freebase me some freedom
then come down, will i stay free?
everything, it wears off
too soon for me to see.

my body wants to be naked,
my mind says "keep on clothes".
i can't decide who's right,
so i'll do nothing.

am i a better person for pretending not to feel?
pretending i don't notice

million year old urges
to create more of myself
have no place in modern living
when we're running out of space

when i deny the present
based on what happened before,
does the idea of a future
help me settle in on "no"?

if i pretend i'm noble 
and pretend i'm mostly good,
that i'm not a 
selfish pleasure fiend.


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TRICKSTER

we're not dead until they stop 
telling stories about us

i can promise you that
the truth's less interesting
the golden eyes of a trickster

we're not dead until they stop 
telling stories about us

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ARCHETYPE

playing up the archetype
even the accent's right

it's time you thought
about your thoughts
and how it's all
affecting us.

playing up the archetype
even the accent's right

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THE WORLD HAS NO PLANS FOR YOU

the world has no plan for you,
and i don't know enough,
to say what's not,
what's going on.

the world has no plan for you,
i don't know enough,
to figure out,
what's going on.

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SEARCH ENGINE

I'm not a search engine
designed to grant wishes
I'm not the books you'll never read

I'd like you more 
if I saw you less
are you just trying 
to make me feel useful
or are you really that helpless

I'm so tired of explaining
things that don't need explaining
I'm not the books you'll never read

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FREEZING FOG

maybe we'll feel better when it's warmer 
breathing all this cold air's killing us
it's killing us

maybe we'll feel better when it's warmer 
breathing all this cold air's killing us
walking through freezing fog
it's killing us