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Tying Loose Ends

by Octopantics

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Octopantics: Smoke gets in your eyes Smoke gets in your eyes and your head and your ears and your nose and your lungs and your mouth and your teeth and your holes Until you are smoke Speak in a smokey voice but everything you say is indiscernible Smoke blurs the pattern on the glass and it's irreversible Smoke gets in your eyes You live in an ashtray Neighbor's on smoke break Through the flickering you hear Backstreet Boys sing I Want It That Way Smoke gets in your eyes What did you do last night? What did they do to you last night? All you can remember is walls that smell like smoke Every once in a while you pretended to laugh at a joke Then you went under and almost drowned Now Taylor Swift is singing "Don't thread on his gown" You hate that song, but you can't remember why Your life is made of ashes, smoke gets in your eyes Baliga Balaga: humo cada dia humo en mi vida humo en lo alto alzame y tirame todo quema todo empieza cada día de mi vida humo nuevo siempre muerto siempre muero en mi sueño siempre huelo nuevo humo otro fuego viejos suelos yo recuerdo este infierno este humo no puede ser lo es si es tantos nombres cada día un nuevo humo no hay futuro en el que yo figure en el que yo me situe hay tantas yo hay tantos yo cada día un nuevo humo me cubre me sube el ego el fuego me sube me cubre cuanto tiempo hasta que arda hasta la calma hasta que me esfumo y me vuelva el nuevo humo
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Sold a penny to the railroad Nothing gained and nothing lost Kept it underneath the pillow And sent it out to you for your thoughts Sold a penny to the railroad Nothing gained and nothing lost Kept it underneath the pillow And sent it out to you for your thoughts Will you hold it close to your heart? Or will you lose it the same day? Will you throw it in the well To gently wish me away? Sold a penny to the railroad Nothing gained and nothing lost Kept it underneath the pillow And sent it out to you for your thoughts Will you hold it close to your heart? Or will you lose it the same day? Will you throw it in the well To gently wish me away? Do you really want me here? Do you really want me to stay? Do you really want me gone? Do you really want to wish me away? Do you really want me here? Do you really want me to stay? Do you really want me gone? Do you really want to wish me away? The television glow will keep you Safe and warm when you're alone And you won't be frightened by Ghosts of birds that fly around the room And terrorize you flying Flying I'm wide awake now You're sound asleep now I'm wide awake now You're sound asleep now I'm wide awake now You're sound asleep now I'm wide awake now You're sound asleep now And these Valiums are finally kicking in I can feel it under my skin I can feel your breath on my breath I can feel your heart on my arm I can see the glow in the room I can see the hummingbird fly away (Wide awake now) I'm wide awake now I'm wide awake now I can feel your weight in my arms I can feel this weight on my heart Do you really want me to stay? Do you really want me to go away? Wide awake now You're sound asleep now I'm wide awake now You're sound asleep now I'm wide awake now You're sound asleep now I'm wide awake now You're sound asleep now I'm wide awake now You're sound asleep now
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I still don't know why I yearn For people I will never learn I'll just wait my shitty turn I'll just watch the city burn I still don't know why I yearn For people I will never learn I'll just wait my shitty turn I'll just watch the city burn I got your text, it's a mini burn Sometimes wish I was any bird Freaking out, don't tell anybody but I found out my house is just a miniature Saw a cashier in an Indy shirt I don't wanna think about Indy God tugging on my chain: it's windy Bored watching Mork & Mindy Sleep in the park with my chain on Good Charlotte, Flocka, game on I say maison not maison I might sell out like Tay Zon' I still don't know why I yearn For people I will never learn I'll just wait my shitty turn I'll just watch the city burn I still don't know why I yearn For people I will never learn I'll just wait my shitty turn I'll just watch the city burn And I really like showing the process of like, how I get to there. Because like, I think for a lot of people, they- they don't want people to, you know, hear that process, and that's completely understandable, it's a very vulnerable space. It takes a lot of work to even like, get yourself to the point where you can do that, sometimes, without feeling like "oh my god", like, "uggghhh, I don't want anybody to hear me, I don't- I- It'll never sound right". But I want people to hear that. Switching in time Swimming in brine Shit's never been the same since Koruna & Lime Better not leave then come back to y'all stealing my lines Outside of my time I got a leash and I'm on both ends We can do it either way, it just depends It is exactly what it is, no pretense Feet firmly on the ground, no past tense Break into your house cause I heard you got a nice place Radiohead shit, left everything in its right place Except your dresses and your chokers and your miniskirts And I wear them better than you, that's gotta hurt Crypto bro going on about that technobabble Imma get between you and your mans, tower of Babel They're building it back up using humans bones as scaffold And when it falls down again they're gonna act baffled Taylor said do no harm but take no shit I'm stocking up on good luck charms and on potions Like a flag on my wall, like a prescription Your framework isn't real, I make my own restrictions I put the words up if you're confused by my diction Your old ass can't cure us, this is a modern affliction I don't got a lot of talent, make it up with ambition City's burning down, fuck the product you're pitching When I say cities, you say burning When I say something, shush, you're learning
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This gray, this gray, this gray Sky will never know That I'm alone and stray And cry in the snow God only knows that I am here To bury my broken heart This pale, this pale, this pale Sun will never see That I'm alone and stray To be one of these trees God only knows that I am here Swinging in the wind Can you see my frozen nose? Can you see my frozen hands? Can you see my frozen sighs? Can you see my frozen heart? This gray, this gray, this gray Sky will never know That I'm alone and stray And cry in the snow God only knows that I am here Snow, snow, snow....
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Changed my number like 3, 4, 5 times Freestyle, Coke Freestyle at the Five Guys Porpentine shit, make it out with those we love alive Befriending you or ending you cause either way I gotta thrive I'm tryna live my life long as fuck like Persona 5 On a ride Tired of the ride, get me off the ride Start a riot Bored and in town, I might start a riot Carter V Never coming out like Carter V That's a lie Switched up my Instagram so that's a lie So hungry I could bite the world off Imma fucking kill you if you cut my curls off I don't fuck with frauds man that's a turn off Hot with a lot to burn off Motherfuckers think they know my life, you could never guess You're playing my game here, this is not chess I am me, nothing more and nothing less I kick verses to take my mind off I pray to the goddess of ripping your spine off

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released August 6, 2023

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