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Give Em the Bird
03:06
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Give Em the Bird
Give Em the Bird
Forget what you've heard
Give Em the Bird
Predicting the lightening
The cosmic soup has been stirred
Don't swallow your words
Give Em the Bird
Why live a life keeping it light
When all you say is what's preferred
Put down your weaponized words
You've gotta Give Em the Bird
Deep ocean blue horizons for me and you
It gets brighter everyday
Yet somehow darker too
When it's occurred
After all we've endured
Revolutions don't need to be assured
Put down your weaponized words
And Give Em the Bird
Give Em the Bird
Give Em the Bird
Give Em the Bird
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All the People
03:38
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Stick your petunia in a rifle
Shooting blanks for the people
Disproportionate equals
With no place to run
Professed young wisdom means something
If you suck up to Buddha
Had you would've you should've
But now you can't stay calm
Keep your calm
Living among classless fathers and moms
Endear engendered pigment qualms
Clasp the palms into a chapel
For religions sake we will
Here comes the steeple
and out run people
Not for some or just one but
Everybody's person kind of people
All of the people
Sounds like people
Not for some or the one but
Everybody's persons kind of people
All of the people
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3. |
When Summer is Over
03:07
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4. |
How Many Times it Takes
04:46
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How many times does it take
To know what's going on
How many times does it take
To write a different fucking kind of song
How many times does it take
Tell me how many times does it take
How many times does it take
To tell the bad apart from the good
How many times will it take
To understand what cannot be understood
How many times does it take tell me
You fucking asshole
How many times does it take
To get to know all the things you should've known
How many times does it take
To make the best of your time
How many times does it take
To know you haven't faked
How many times can mistakes mark your fate
Elucidate
Your appetite can't digest all you ate
How many times does it take
Oh driving around with the people
Trying not to talk on my phone
In the dark of the nighttime
Oh who's that person smiling at themselves in the dark of the night
In their car too
Don't mind them or the way that they drive they're on their phone
Don't want to disturb them they're on their phone
Oh who's this next person
I suppose could wear some kind of
Shiny reflective garment on at night while jogging
They're on their phone
Oh I guess I hit a woman and child
Well they had it coming
They were on their phones
How many times does it take
To say you've made a mistake
How many times does it take
How many times can it possibly take?
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Moon of Cheese Dream
04:45
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As I drove to your space
With sweaty hands and gasps for air
It was not in my mind
When I drove to your place
That a spirit had brought me there
I know it
As I look at my face
I see no time to waste
It is not in good taste
That I think of you as often as I do
I know
I don't know
I don't know which
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6. |
Waiting for the Flowers
01:39
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7. |
Idealistic Fate
03:36
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How do I move on from you
Like I keep trying to do
I can't write about the news or find my shoes
When my heart is stuck like glue on you
I won't write anymore songs on your door
Or lay down to see you dance on the floor
None of it's real what you say that you feel
About me or what I feel for you
What will you have me do
How many hoops can I jump through
Light em on fire and call me a lion
I'll sell tickets to your circus for you
If there were a kiss or a glance I could steal
I'd rather be someone who feels as much as I do
Than someone who just wants to feel
I'd want to be free as you claim to be
But I'm not in it only for myself and me
Equality in this country is colorless slavery
I've seen the death of written words
The rape of raw magic
The end of privacy and true love
But that's okay I tell myself everyday
I'm not allergic to those cliches
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8. |
Forward
00:39
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I am not tired
Rest is not what I need
After all the passing time
I can only keep going forward
Not backwards
With the clock ticking
Like an axe in my head
For a reputation
Is all a man has
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Patriarchal Feminist
05:05
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How many times will it take
To expect what you anticipate
If you're hungry the Queen will bake
That evil poison coma Snow White cake
How many times have you been roused awake
From a dream for indigestions sake
How many times will it take
To make the most of the time there is to make
How many times will it take
To tell the bad apart from the good
How many times does it take
To understand what cannot be understood
How many times will it take tell me
The hypothesis you'd make
About as many many times as it takes
Until your whole entire skeleton breaks
Hourglass grains of sand suspend what you understand
Your supply and demand leaves bloodstains on my hand
How many leaves can you rake up before
There's not one leaf left up in the tree
It's been what it will be
Is what I've come to believe to see
Love in this world is free
I don't care what you say about me
With no expectations from me
I've only done what I can to have been what I could be
How many times will it take?
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Tavo Carbone
Experimental Folk Distopic Songs sung on voice/gtr/pno. Tape+CD orders or booking: email or Insta-DM
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