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Wild Mercury

by quick forest

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Joel Wissmar
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Joel Wissmar The lyrics in this song are beautifully hypnotic and I love the tune. Favorite track: 2nd & Honesty.
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1.
Victims don’t need tickets And maybe the only hope for us is gone If we fill our hearts up at the Dairy Queen And the empire tumbles like a tumble weed At the red lights of 2nd and Honesty I lied to her when I told her that our wounds would heal And that one day our drinks would all have ice But she knew that my mind was stuck on default As I stumbled and fell upon the sidewalk At the red lights of 2nd and Honesty Some of my ostensible friends Live good lives that are only theirs to lose In late payments, and dark rendezvous With hands upon the wheel at ten and two At the red lights of 2nd and Honesty In a window I catch my reflection And wither in the clear-cut of my future And in this moment I spend all the money As the moon climbs up the high-rise into view The girl beside me, she knows my secrets And the girl beside me has her secrets too At the red lights of 2nd and Honesty Life comes to me in tiny little pieces Like broken glass scattered on the road I bleed the color of neon And I fear the white teeth and the rumours And the faulty wire in my heart As the city grows around me Without a plea to bargain In the shadow of a prison At the red lights of 2nd and Honesty
2.
Maybe I’ll live in a mobile home out highway 49 My dog’s name will be Kafka; he’ll be a rescue and maladjusted And we will go for long evening walks down the side of the road Maybe I’ll write a novel in a basement apartment It’ll be a romance with holes in all the bottles And the ending will be arbitrary I need a change, I need a change, I need a change, I need a change, I need a change Maybe I’ll hit Nevada, do peyote in Death Valley And write down all my goals in the sand Because then I’d understand that life is a last minute plan Maybe I'll become an expert on agriculture And ditch it all to live off of the land And every night I’ll sit beside the fire, beneath the stars I need a change, I need a change, I need a change, I need a change, I need a change
3.
I grew up on easy street I was a privileged kid I laughed a lot and bragged a lot About the things I did I spent my money at the corner store And behind that store I smoked some weed And when I looked up at the clouds I saw the shimmering face of Jesus I fooled around at the old mill wall With a girl who was proud of her puberty As for me, I was a real late bloomer So let’s just say she was unimpressed But two years later I met her at a party She could tell that I had changed We locked ourselves in the bathroom And everybody had to wait I was sixteen when my best friend died It was suicide His folks were away on vacation On a second honeymoon He picked the lock on the gun rack And went down into the basement Stretched himself out on the sofa With his favourite record on I grew up on easy street I guess I was a privileged kid I laughed a lot and bragged a lot About the things I did I was a privileged kid I was a privileged kid
4.
I was younger than her With no nihilistic urges to speak of But she saw something in me I guess it might’ve been my innocence She sat by me in history class I was familiar with her pheromones And when she put her glasses on My heart went boom boom boom Oddeline, I fell so hard Oddeline had a rebellious streak She had a buzz cut dyed bright green And down the sides of her ripped up jeans there must’ve been A thousand safety pins She wore mesh tank tops And on the back of her jacket was The Exploited Her favourite boots were army boots With hot pink laces Oddeline, I fell so hard Maybe it was lust that drove me to say “Oddeline, your skull is perfect…” And when she smiled I knew My life was about to change Oddeline, Oddeline, Oddeline
5.
West seventy-six In a vacant lot We cut the throat of decency And left it to rot I knew we were endangered species I knew we couldn't survive Because I glimpsed those empty swimming pools On Rodeo Drive Towering around me Is a big hotel Full of people making The best of hell It’s cold and grey in here Just like her eyes Her eyes are empty swimming pools On Rodeo drive
6.
There is a monster Hiding inside With great big eyes That see everything All of the pain And the suffering All of the bombs and the guns And the blood stained streets All of the lies and the greed And the pyramid schemes And he says, “Oh praise the eternal justice of man. There’s something at work in my soul that I don't understand.” There is a monster Living inside With x-ray eyes That see everything All the corruption And the deceit The exploitation And profiteering All the wilful ignorance And stupidity And he says, “Oh praise the eternal justice of man. There’s something at work in my soul that I do not understand.”
7.
He always makes the time to get outside his mind In the dingy bars of the borderland Where fires burn like whisky and fever in the mirror is unkind And he maintains his love for the barren plains above Where the winds are bold as children And the seven deadly sisters dance all night to the drums of oblivion But he’ll never have any love And he’ll never have any time For going through the motions of life He always makes the time for girls with erstwhile eyes In the dingy bars of the borderland Where saboteurs nurse elixirs made from long forgotten creatures of the night And he maintains his love for the girl in the room above Who dreams in screens of silver As the seven deadly sisters conceal their deadly whispers like knives But he’ll never have any love And he'll never have any time For going through the motions of life Yes, he’ll never have any love And he’ll never have any time For going through the motions of life

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One delving day, two friends decided to make a record.

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released October 5, 2016

All songs and lyrics written by Aaron Louis Asselstine
All songs arranged by Asselstine and Barry George
Recorded, Mixed by Asselstine and George
Mastered by Asselstine, George and Donovan Gopaul
Recorded by George and Asselstine at Coal Borne Studio in Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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quick forest is a conversation between friends in a city reclaimed by nature, several decades after the end of the world

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