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Jessie's Army
05:28
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Piecing you up in my head from lies I had been told
Shaping scenes around you in a place I'd never go
Suddenly defeated by a sin you used to know
Running off with Jessie to a room you used to go
I want you wrapping your black wounds in my cotton gauze
I'm here to firmly remind you I'm your lowly cause
I will set out to untie you from your mother's laws
And lay you down in the terrace til the winter thaws
Brethren of the chosen ones, I'll send to you a light
She will come on clouds of glory eager in the night
Arriving to the of boom of trumpets, raising up the dead
Leaving all who followed her with nothing there instead
I want you wrapping your black wounds in my cotton gauze
This is me freeing your demons and then drawing staws
I'm here to endlessly bind you in my giant claws
I'll always yearn to design you with my rotten jaws
Jessie's army marched along the river down below
Sounding off to what a merry future they would know
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Red River Gorge
04:21
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Pretending to live when you knew you were dead
Taking the stage to sing as a strange voice in your head
Whatever came back as a billowing dream
Would shake every quark til out of the dark came a glorious scream
You followed the path leading into a gorge
When out of the stream rose a light you would own and die never more
To preface the day on which you were born
You took the trip down a river and night reached its reckoning morn
Shaken to dust on the face of the earth
Laid with your hands covered in sand on the beach you would learn
You followed the path leading into a gorge
When out of the stream rose the man you would be and die never more
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Everytime (Reprise)
02:02
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Every time you cry, I love you
Every time you sin, I heal you
Every time you lie, I praise you
Every time you sing, I hear you
Every time you fall, I lift you
Every time you run, I trail you
Every time you leave, I yearn you
Every time you hurt, I feel you
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Reptilian Man
04:07
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Chauvinistic undergrad
Articulated, formally clad
Not a child anymore, but now a man
He's making statements famously bad
And I walk into the room like a reptilian man
You already heard, but we're the headlining band
I saw you dancing on the floor, I made a motion with my hand
It did not take very long for you to understand
(What I'm sayin now)
He's gonna be a millionaire
Respect the son, the royal heir
Every number, every name
Every body plays this game
Paper figures standin' in this place
Line 'em up, and put 'em all to shame
Represented by a light
Upon the mantle of a better kind
A reputation, a state of mind
A declaration, sing it one more time
And I walk into the room like a reptilian man
Calling on the muse of my ancestors' past
Step right up to the cage and throw a nickle in the can
Step on up to the stage and put ten dollars, ten dollars right in my hand
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Palette Cleanse
00:37
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So Calmly by the Door
05:00
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And to oblige you now, I want to tell the truth
It's a sad morning for everyone but you
On this day of separation, won't you come?
One cannot undo what has already been undone
On a chair, the final battle you have won
She died and she died so calmly by the door
And we cried and we cried and we cried out we want more
You can take what you find or leave it, either or
She died and she died so calmly by the door
On a cold winter's day, the sunlight hit the snow
It shined much brighter than anything I know
And they said this was the day that your father had been born
And the wall of life and death was neatly torn
On a chair you sat and then begun the war
She smiled and she smiled so calmly by the door
And she cried and she cried in hope of something more
She did not take a thing, she left it on the floor
She smiled and she smiled so calmly by the door
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Jet Rodriguez Detroit, Michigan
Jet Rodriguez is the publishing pseudonym of Detroit-based singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Cameron Navetta.
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