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Hallways (Intro)
01:14
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Baby Teeth
02:52
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I don’t know if I will ever lose my baby teeth
Feed me peanut butter brownies, little cups of peach
Your pet alligator wishes he could last a round with me
My appetite will never end
Mother nature father writer
Crime of passion, we got needles in our sleeves
No rhyme or reason, we got needles in our sleeves
Go wash your mouth out, we got needles in our sleeves
I know I will never be as good as Owen Pallett at making you cry
But in the sanctuary tree house, I’m the only one controlling the button
To make the rockets crash into the ocean
And the pilots bail
Mother nature father writer
Child of season, fight with needles in your sleeves
My wide-eyed pirate, fight with needles in your sleeves
Go smite those giants, fight with needles in your sleeves
My wind-up tyrant, fight with needles in your sleeves
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3. |
Save Grandad's Chair!
03:35
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My blood flows thin after mice get in
Rip right through the foundation
Chew up fabric not intended to protect against invasion
Tear out chunks of my grandfather’s favorite chair
Like it’s not even there
If you’re so smart, then Jesus Christ, get to your calculus and save us
Just cause my dog sometimes sleeps with both eyes open
Doesn’t mean she’ll take an active role in keeping beasts at bay
For public safety
Write out words on the sidewalk
Ponder the rainfall
Promise to try a little harder
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4. |
Tina
03:50
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As a boy you were in love with a boa constrictor
She draped herself over the branches of a tree behind some glass
You visited after school at the children’s museum
Could you feed her a rat when the dinner bell rang?
I could not
I could not
I cannot watch something die
You would find another coiled inside your grandfather’s canoe
You wouldn’t touch the water, while your brother wore his life jacket so well
And you were right to shudder
Nature doesn’t smile on the ones who haven’t sinned
Could you feed her a mouse when the dinner bell rang?
I could not
I could not
I cannot watch something die
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Tadpoles
02:54
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Will love make sense when they breach the fortress walls?
I found my journals
I’m not the boy I used to be
Here it comes on another vacant sea
Here it comes from another empty canopy
Don’t make Jamie build a clock
Just cause the tadpoles learned how to walk
Would love make sense if we sank it in the pond?
I heard grown-ups talk about their life expectancies
Here it comes from the little room upstairs
Here it comes
I have never felt so unprepared
Don’t make Jamie build a clock
Just cause the tadpoles learned how to walk
We made our castle in a tree on someone else’s property
Collected scabby eucalyptus shavings
Fortified our ranks
And shouted words into the breeze that we could barely comprehend:
“Think big.”
“Think big.”
“Think big.”
“Think big.”
"Think big."
"Think big."
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Little Animal
04:04
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Little animal, are you sensing?
Are you feeling?
Are you tugging on my sleeve?
I will give you what you want
Little animal, what’s your secret?
Tell me what you don’t understand
Take a sip from a glass of water
Cauterize your wounds
I got messed up
I can’t hold my head up straight
Lead me to my private burial
Back behind the brush
In the corner of your garden
Little animal, are you crying?
Where’s your favorite toy?
Are you making a nest?
Is it invasive if I watch?
Little animal, find my beacon
Find my flashing light
I can’t remember the way it feels to go to sleep alone
I’m so messed up
I can’t hold my head up straight/focus my eyes on a single point
Guide me to my private burial
Back behind the brush
In the corner of your garden
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Hansel and Grendel
03:23
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Heirloom, you muzzle and multiply
I’ve thought of a plausible alibi
Leave me in peace and return to your stall in the market
If talking to strangers was dangerous
How perturbed we’d be when the three of us
Swallowed our pride and plastered our eyes to the moon
Because casing the places that sold the goods
Wasn’t quite our conception of brotherhood
We promised ourselves great reward when the times changed
I took up my arms and made camp on the tiled floor
You were bearing your teeth like a dinosaur
When it finally happened to us like everyone said it eventually would
I remember the sting of the afternoon
When we lost track of time chasing red balloons
You stood on the doorstep bellowing threats like a monster
But nothing could stop us, we rocketed past you
Our house was on fire, but I knew I’d outlast you
And then there are days that I’m certain I made a mistake
Cause down on the carpet I was losing my mind
While the painters labored on your redesign
And I still had a number of secrets to cling to when it was convenient
I developed respect for the cages
You stayed on your sofa for ages
I’ve already stopped trying to erase the mark
When the floor drops out
When your jaw goes slack
When the faucets burst
When the glaciers melt
When the earth turns sour
When the people stare
When the cities fall
When the oceans swell
When the light burns out
When the sun explodes
When the cars collide
When the wheels fall off
When our eyes connect
And the systems fail
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I Won't Let You Grow Up
04:27
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Afternoon, you landed on the windowsill
And made an awful sound
I carefully unwound the string
And flew the kite to take the morning back
"I won't let you grow up."
Apricots and stolen cars are funny things to find together
Chimney sweeps and battered knees
And climbing trees with you is never boring
"I won't let you grow up."
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Monster Furniture Brooklyn, New York
"Giant Egg" out now!
Monster Furniture is the moniker of Brooklyn-based recording artist Gabe
Smoller. Across genre-spanning albums and with a rotating cast of collaborators, he writes songs about dogs, death, containment, illness, and home renovation, finding complexity in the mundane (and with just enough DIY eccentricities to keep things from getting too heavy).
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