I apologize that much of this is nonsense - but it's what I hear in the recording. If it were easier to make out I wouldn't be asking for the collective help of the internet. This is the fourth song, "Black Art."
the truth that all cats know
alone is best
it's a state of rest
let your ghost go west
and a paint yourself
space age thank aid
I'll put paint in a couch of shame
the world was here when I valued you
little thing
just let me down easy
and I would smile, and walk that mile
and your heart breaks east
favors a raincoat
color taught
what's left to lose
I could be your friend
we could be raintroops
when the world was bright
it's a knuckle fight
and trickle night
but there's more to life
then killing bulls and fish
could have said excuses learned
and we're alive
and we can't stop
show our eyes
another night
so lets come find
the complex
I could be your boy I guess as cool as this
no matters in my mystery
I don't want to be alone anymore
not enough scare or bored I just do
(guitar solo)
til then be shima
which one belongs to a pycho cyst
and hara kare with a smith corona, what the fuck
left arm on the right way
we can't go back, or we can't go on
I could be your boy
and you could be this song
so you better pack
your gonna lose this kid
I am not your sordid boy
with so much to give
I'm hearing this part as: "i'll walk that mile in your hobnail boots, in your famous blue raincoat with the collar too"
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..."fuck or fight, drink all night, but there's more to life than killing..."
"...so let's combine and get complex..."
then later "there's no malice in my mystery. i don't want to be alone anymore. not because i'm scared or bored, i just don't"
"...ritual suicide poses and hari kari with a smith corona..."
5 years late
ReplyDeletethe truth that all cats know
alone is best
it's a state of rest
let your ghost go west
and amaze yourself
state a serenade
a ballpoint pen in a couch cushion
the work is huge, but I value you, little thing
just let me down easy
and I would smile, to walk that mile
in your hobnail boots
and your famous blue raincoat
with the collar down
what's left to lose
I could be your boy
we could be rainproof
Hemingway was right
you can drink or write
you can fuck or fight
but there's more to life
then killing bulls and fish
the perfect sentence still says a lot
and we're alive
and we can't stop
cause you're all eyes
and I'm all I've got
So let's combine
and get complex
I could be your boy (mumble mumble blake never enunciates this)
There's no malice in my mystery
I don't want to be alone anymore
not because I'm scared or bored - I just don't.
(guitar solo)
Felt like Mishima
Ritual suicide poses
and hari kari with a smith corona, what the fuck
the left arm of the right wing
we can't go back, but we can go on
I could be your boy
this could be your song
so you better act
your gonna lose this kid
I'm not your sordid past
there's so much to give
6 years late, but I think "there's no malice in my mystery" should be "there's no manners in my mystery" given that "Manners and Mystery" was the name of a Flannery O'Connor essay and the lyrics are stuffed to the gills with literary references -- Hemingway, Mishima, and Cohen all getting references, and I'm sure there's more I'm just missing.
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ReplyDelete7 years late but it's a play on Manners and Mystery but it is Malice in my mystery. This IS Blake Alexander
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