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The Origin of Air Quotes

by The Slow Clock

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1.
...It's Where We Begin 01:03
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Short and sweet and to the point Put that in your pipe and smoke it The undercurrent drags you in It’s where we begin
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This Is Not A Good Time 02:41
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I was going copy under Over yonder, over there Everything was going sideways Stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea It’s within the realm of reason Twist some arms, break some legs Get the job done in a minute It’s ever bigger than fiction This is not a good time This is not a good time This is not a good time This is not a good time This is not a good time This is not a good time He kills you with his kindness Coat is hanging by the door You control your own agenda Like a leopard knows its roar We were singing hallelujah Hallelujah to our friend To our friend and holy bastard I can’t feel a thing This is not a good time This is not a good time This is not a good time This is not a good time This is not a good time This is not a good time
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Inappropriately So 02:04
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It’s the slowest clock by numbers It’s the fastest car by far Hmmm, got a fast one You know what I mean I got a plan to get us out of here Through a convienence store It’s cultural antropology Inappropriately so Round and round and round we go Inappropriately so On the beach you found a million Very unidentical Manage to save just a little bit of money To seek our salvage somewhere else Hmmm, did a number You know what I mean It’s a formulaic answer To a question never asked Inapproriately so Low in saturated fat
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Monumental 02:30
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Move another unit Make a lot of money Drink another coffee It’s fundamental Solve another problem I can hear the grass grow Type another story Reach your full potential Attent another meeting I can take the low blows Make a lot of small talk It’s instrumental Write another contract Mail it to a contact Drink another coffee It’s monumental Trains of thought meandering Through rivers of misunderstanding It’s another hour I can’t write Listen to this trainwreck Leave it at the doorstep I forgot my nametag It’s monumental I can take the low blows I can hear the grass grow Ready from the get-go It’s monumental The headwound was a setback If you lack interpretations Give or take a million hours I can’t write
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Cutting A Zero 01:42
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In the midst of human weakness There’s a core that’s strong It was me in the library With the country and western song And while you sit there I won’t wait Of your vacant stare You’re a slave Put me down as a solid maybe I’ve been here for days Take a look inside Can’t stand potential go to waste You’ve had your fair share Time to clean that slate Shit isn’t fair But prepare for something great She’s cutting a zero into the fabric of time She’s cutting a zero out of the fabric of time Who’s to say the waking state is any more real Or the next part of a dream? She’s patching her knees with the zeros she cut out of time She’s patching her knees with the zeros she cut out of time
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Dervish Whirling 02:28
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I see the dervish whirling like an atom round its core In an ecstatic state where we communicate with god I see the angels poised on the tips of their toes Are they verge of flight or preparing to take care of us?
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For You 01:54
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Of course we have never met I haven’t even seen you play But I know everything there is to know I know everything there is to know How you laugh And how you cry How you live And how you die
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Win some win some more 01:57
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Here’s another one to keep you dancing And another one to stay on point And another one to numb all senses It’s another modern au suivant today Janet Jackson was my childhood sweetheart Drivling on about the glory days Which I’m more partial to Yes, I prefer gdvr gibberish to actual words You win some win some more You win some win some more
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Romanticized in Hindsight 02:03
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I’m a real boy walking on a tightrope Cold running round in circles on an ice slope I know as sure as x = x Hey Gepetto, put your money where your mouth is Lay down the hard lines just like a dogfish Beyond the shadow of a doubt Cut me my clothes from fire Turn me my water into flames Let what’s left inside of me my stomach melt Yeah In your end is your beginning Let’s not romantize in hindsight Wooly bully How’s that working out for you? I know I know I know as sure as eggs I know I know as sure as x = x Cut me my clothes from fire Turn me my water into flames Let what’s left inside of me my stomach melt Yeah Two sides to every other story Half the time There’s no reason to doubt it Wowie Zowie It’s not working out for me
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A Grown Man, Crying 03:01
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I’m reminded of a friend of mine He used to come on over (all the time) We were well into our twenties And the laughs were guarranteed A grown man Right here in front of me Crying Right here in front of me Don’t doubt it He’s here perhaps Cracking jokes like it was a match of peers Give us some of that happiness Long overdue, maybe it’s here A grown man Right here in front of me Crying Right here in front of me A grown man Crying A grown man Crying A grown man Crying A grown man Crying A grown man Crying A grown man Crying A grown man Crying A grown man Crying
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Whistling Random Melodies 01:54
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He’s got the borderline centered Recalibrated head And as far as things go They didn’t follow through as planned And he’s whistling random melodies all day To chase the demons and their wives away There’s no one to the rescue But his former self Damaged and abandoned Left inside this hollow shell And he’s whistling random melodies all day To chase the demons and their wives away There’s another horizon On the firmament Better keep an hour Under sixty minutes again And he’s whistling random melodies all day To chase the demons and their wives away
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The Origin of Air Quotes 02:12
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Lies Lies Lies Lies I got lost on this trail of truth Trainwrecking my brain how to reinstate these Lies Lies Lies Lies He broke north with no delay Kool-aid drinking with the king of Spain Lies Lies Lies Lies Burning matching like Lucifer He went straight for the jugular Lies Lies Lies Lies
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Like Another Leopard (featuring Amarins) 02:56
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Like a leopard on the prowl In a sea of leather jackets Time is a river without banks Like a leopard on the prowl In a sea of leather jackets Time is a river without banks It’s enery draining and drinking and dancing the night away like a pedestrian compulsive disorderly fashion I’m worried that god is my witness a livelong companion I’m busting my balls like Tennessee Walker slow clock in and out like a neighbourly stalker I got some advice for these passers by: S.L.O.W.C.L.- why? Like a leopard on the prowl In a sea of leather jackets Time is a river without banks Like a leopard on the prowl In a sea of leather jackets Time is a river without banks Leap and the net shall appear paramedics arrive very matter of factly a ticket to ride Are you stealing my thunder with sympathy pain it’s a sinkhole a doorstep a panic attack Say ‘hi’ in real life peaking at forty five are you dressed to impress? I got a double decked car parked in my backyard S.L.O.W. - dress the part Like a leopard on the prowl In a sea of leather jackets Time is a river without banks Like a leopard on the prowl In a sea of leather jackets Time is a river without banks Like a leopard on the prowl In a sea of leather jackets Time is a river without banks Like a leopard on the prowl In a sea of leather jackets Time is a river without banks
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Sky High 01:46
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In a hot air balloon Overwhelmed by the lovely view The sensation of flying high See that horse by the pond rolling on its back He’s baptised In time before getting crucified Follow the pattern of everyday It’s not a matter of sink or swim Sometimes it’s filled right up to the top of the brim Expectations are sky high tonight For an otherwise reclusive guy

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released March 3, 2022

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