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Bombs​/​Beauty Pageants

by The Digital Pickup Line

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    Originally Released Fall 2009

    Click "Download Album" for a free 320kb (or higher) digital copy, including bonus tracks "Transmission" originally by Joy Division and "My brooklyn" feat. Chelsea D.

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1.
Much Ado About Nothing 05:19
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The blood in my eyes retreats and takes vacations Overcome in blue like a fish in the sea I can't contain my joy for mass transportation All these clever imposters dressing in costumes Coming to work and saying nothing to me Emily rolls her eyes and cures our cancer Wish fulfillment falling like the tears from her eyes Would that there were some way to hear her answer She speaks in words but everything blurs and I pray to the god of hiding under the floor We keep making love And our love keeps breaking, love keeps breaking
2.
Back To Me 03:38
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Reaching out in search of her fingers Remnants that still linger It carries on but I'm cutting all ties, cutting all ties In dreams, building up from the basement Elbows, knees on the pavement Leaning in close and watching it die, watching it die All I ever wanted was a place to plant my dreams Don't think it's too much to ask for you to give them back Give them back Give them back to me! Purging every thought of her traces Killing off all the places still reminding me Cutting all ties, cutting all ties Movement pulling into my station Constant sleep deprivation Wearing it thin then watching it die, watching it die Give it back, give it back to me! Give it back, give it back to me! Rising up in flames from the ashes Pulling nails from my casket Bury these hearts, I've watched them all die, watched them all die Can't think anymore on the past When nothing else here has lasted Letting love rot I'm cutting all ties, cutting all ties Give it back, give it back to me! Give it back, give it back to me!
3.
Heart Keeps Slipping 04:17
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Kissed tears away Now we’re left with nothing else to say And the silence sounds suspiciously okay Black makeup lines Spilling out like ashes from your eyes I can’t breathe, it’s no surprise And my heart keeps slipping, heart keeps drifting away All this trying and all my striving To pull you back to me In spite of everything All the drama that I’ve forgotten Just to make you talk to me New lipstick red Chasing all the stupid things I said Tripping fresh and landing on my head Not thinking twice She’s calling now and saying something nice I can’t breathe, I’m going blind And my heart keeps sinking, heart keeps drifting away
4.
Emily Clark (The Smallest Things) 04:38
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I can tell you're here alone It says so on your face It's such an awful waste That no one notices you there And no one buys you drinks It makes you stop and think The smallest things give you away The color of your clothes, the powder on your nose The smallest things you hope and pray Will leave them wanting more, will bring love to your door The blondes have kept them occupied There's not a soul in reach To lay down at your feet So unimpressive to their eyes A girl can only dream So much and not be seen The smallest things give you away The color of your clothes, the powder on your nose The smallest things you hope and pray Will leave them wanting more, will bring love to your door The smallest things give you away The sadness in your eyes, the tears that no one dries The smallest things you hope someday Will save you from the sound of drowning in the crowd Only love can break a heart... Only love can break a heart... I hate to be the one to tell you I hate to be the one to tell you this...
5.
I Didn't Say Anything 02:22
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I came back looking for a place to fall down And that was half a year ago Every time we kiss I feel nothing I feel nothing at all I've fucked up everything I tried to do for me I fucked up everything for you And everytime you call I say nothing I say nothing at all
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The Rain 04:11
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When I wake up it feels like raindrops on my face I'm self-resolved, I've closed the front door on this place The world's made madness seem like simple sanity I fear my grasp won't last around what's left of me And the rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling I'll sell my stuff and paint a portrait of my dreams Where life's the lace around the time you spend with me I build a boat so we can sail ourselves away We'll steer it far from all the painful yesterdays And the rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling I've been waiting on a clear blue day Don't know how else to keep the rain away Spent too long waiting for my parade Won't waste time walking inbetween the rain She pictures us without our clothes on and she smiles I haven't let my head go outside in a while The driest places in my heart are leaking out I want to kiss you but I'm scared to do it now The clouds won't let let us feel the sunlight on our skin I'll take a rain check and one day we'll try again
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Cure For This Cancer 04:33
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What if I was in love with the stars? Would it cripple my heart to see them falling out of the sky And what if I was impressive to you With all the things I could do All the mountains I'd move in your name If I knew you right We could find a cure for cancer Dancing through the rain Like lovers living without fear I hear that there's a way to make you smile And I won't die until I figure out Just how it's done I've just begun to realize What if I wore the glasses you do? Would that make me look cool enough for your friends to approve And what if I was the reason you sighed The only thing that you liked If I was there each time that you cried I'm scared to fall in love again So I'll just pretend That we're best friends And you would never leave me like that again...
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The Places We Belong 05:00
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I'm hiding in the corners of my mind, where I feel small Outside of confidence I'm trying not to think about conformity at all Won't bother to pretend that I can't fall Never thought it'd last so long The dreams I started with are gone The places where we both belong... Don't think they're out there at all And so I spent last Christmas trying to pull excitement from the air Gray tinsel-colored dreams And what it's worth? The cost of living life without them here Still everything around me seems replaced Never thought it'd last so long The dreams I started with are gone The places where we both belong... Don't think they're out there at all
9.
December We're In Love 04:58
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I call you down You pull me up I steal you from your parents' house December, we're in love For all it's worth And all it does Tonight could last forever 'cause December, we're in love I've kissed the winter from your lips And now my heart grows cold without you at my fingertips Time can heal the pain although it hardly ever does We've barely just begun at this December, we're in love I've laid a rose beside the blood I shed while trying to keep you close December, we're in love There's misery awaiting us I'm built to linger in your arms December, we're in love And it's all I want to do To die right here with you A sonnet to the life I knew before I don't know what else we have in store I couldn't ever love you more December open up your doors for me
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The Bomb And The Beauty Pageant 10:37
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I dressed my love in finest silk Eyes set on the prize Practicing her smile I told her I would love her still If she were to lose What else could I do? We never heard the threat arrive The judges all were burned alive In the midst of all the sirens blare I could hear her cry Somewhere out of sight Pow, Pow, Enemy Planes! Pow, Pow, Enemy Planes! Pow, Pow, Enemy Planes! Pow, Pow, Enemy Planes! (Repeat) We found her under rubble piled Calling out my name Asking how she'd placed I took her bleeding hand in mine Told her not to fear Help would soon be here The bombers made another pass I wiped the ashes from her dress In a whisper I confessed to her "You were, in my heart, the fairest from the start." Pow, Pow, Enemy Planes! Pow, Pow, Enemy Planes! Pow, Pow, Enemy Planes! Pow, Pow, Enemy Planes! (Repeat)

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Excuse me for not knowing what to do with you and all your exhausting beauty.
Standing in the rubble, I’m saved from the trouble of making amends with you again.
Hands I won’t be holding, strings I won’t be pulling, all the patience I don’t have.
Brushing out your hair, picking what to wear, smoking in your underwear,
Ashing in the sheets, singing in my shower, oh thoughts now in this dying hour:

Think of all the tables you won’t be turning, hearts you won’t be warming
with your youth and wit, such a shame to be undone under afternoon sun.
You poured coffee, remembered names, just to go down now in untimely flames.
People will ask after you, and gasp, what a shame, such a shame, shame, shame.
I’m smoking and wading through the ashes, nothing will ever be the same.

Rhinestones and wreckage, ordinary people, fire fighters and passer-bys.
Not one beauty managed to survive, hairspray lit and burned them alive
I guess you’re free not to think of me, waltzing endlessly in gown and crown.
Disaster in the headlines, and no one cares who would have won.
And I wonder if the other indifference-struck men are out to seek pardon.

On any other Sunday promenade, I’d be less reticent, less sedate.
I’d be smoothing and soothing, apologies I’d have to make for being late.
I’ll call this our last date, I’ll keep your old sash, and put the rest in the trash.
You little bombshell, I won’t forget the beauty pageant gone wrong.
Messy sheets, dirty streets, it’s a world to which you don’t belong.

- Tricia McSweeney

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released December 1, 2009

Brett: beats, samples, words & instruments

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