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Prisoner
05:33
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That was me back when
When I did em, I did em in
And I still use my hands, even though a
well bound man I am
But I'm no sad old friend, I'm everyone
I'm more of who I am than what I have done
You'll find me under the sun, thinkin on someone
Waitin on my time to come
I'm ok if this prison is my home
I can't say what I'd do if they let me go
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2. |
Partner
03:46
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I'll always need a lookout
I can't rob a bank alone
I'll always need a car driver
To make my getaway back home
I always need a partner
Crime takes time need someone on my side
I'll always need a sharp shooter
You fire low, I'll fire high
They can get us to run but they can't make us hide
What they don't expect we'll resist till we die
They can try to take us out
They can try to take our lives
But there ain't no way we'll go away without a flight
You and I were made to rampage
Stockpile guns and kill em all the same
You and I we have a violent mind
If we didn't try it'd be a crime
We're a slow, low, crawling, criminal
We're a slow, low, crawling, criminal
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3. |
Doer
03:02
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Oh no, I think I did it again
I might have done that thing again
Don't go, yeah I might never quit
But what am I without it
My old self said he'd be a better pal
But what's he know bout who I'm now
Just because once I was, what then I did
But now I am and I didn't
What that was, that was then and this isn't
I swear I won't at this moment
Everyone does what everyone does
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4. |
Swimmer
04:01
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We got outta hand, we got disconnected
Like hell on earth, fire and armageddon
Like the continents set adrift, disconnected
Or the elements in a nuclear combustion
Everyone loves a man with his head down
If the ground runs out, if water reaches the mouth, this is just the beginning
There's too much distance from the surface, it's time to start swimming
Everyone loves a man with his head down
Even when love is not the last thing he's thinking, everything is sinking down
Gasp for air, the last chance before nothing is there, we're past the darkest part, it's all blue water from here, relax, lay back, let your lungs, releasing the fear
Gasp for air
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5. |
Dancer
02:58
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6. |
Vampire
03:22
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I got the latest greatest shit off the ground
Got the most expensive dirt you'll find lyin around
Got some trash that I stole, its worth more than your soul
Got a very fine home deep in a very fine hole
You can guess what I paid for this sparkling chain
Off the corpse of a man who sang his very last day
There's more gold in my eyes from what I can surmise, when I close em real tight and give way to my lies
I'm a vampire livin in the light
Steal your heart, steal your soul, steal your mind
I'm a vampire livin in the light
Steal your heart, steal your soul, steal your mind
Oh It's so easy to be just anybody
One day I'm you and the next day you're me
Yeah it's the simplest thing, like this song that I sing
We all steal who we are but we're still what we think
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7. |
Grave Robber
02:55
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I'm headin out lookin for buried treasure
I'm goin round to dig up some old cadavers
All that I've found is dusty old tired and hollow
Still pull em out I'll melt em down into a dollar
I heard them bodies are buried in jewelry
They lay em with their secrets between their teeth
I heard their eyes are covered in wheat pennies
They fill all their bones up with ivory
But what I discovered is not what I remember
These bones are rather rough and altogether weathered
I can make the best of most of anything I don't want to consider
So here I am in a hole, holding up another
My mind is playin tricks on me
Nothin that I see is, what it seems
So I'm just about sick of all the climbing out
I might stay down someone else dig me out
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8. |
Finder
02:45
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I'm too tired to think too tired to try
It's too early to drink but I got too much to unwind
It's too late to matter too sad to cry
Too old to care too young to die
The aimless heart tries to find
Purpose born in the mind
It tries for coffee, it tries for wine
All it knows is it all it finds
Gold is gold even if it's old, just a drop a polish from a bottle I'm told
No one knows what a trouble I've stowed
Someday it might bubble, this trouble will blow
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Driver
06:40
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Oh say can you believe what I see
I see our bodies exploding
Do you really think if we keep driving
We'll break free of the barricade
Stop me if you think you'll be ugly up on the big screen
I want you to be pretty when they arrest me
Or stop me if you're getting hungry
We can't go dying on an empty belly
Maybe nothing can stop us when we're driving
Oh baby when it's you and me we will survive anything
Oh baby hold on tightly
Even if we crash and burn we will survive
Even if we crash and burn you and I can never die
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Belaver New York, New York
Belaver is the project of NYC-based songwriter Ben Godfrey. In 2014 Godfrey released his debut EP, Wild Desperation, produced by songwriter Robert Ellis, with elegantly stark instrumentation and ominous murderous narratives. In 2019 Robert Ellis produced a follow-up Belaver LP, True Love of Crime, as lush contrast to Wild Desperation with electronic elements over themes of lovers on the run. ... more
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