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Xiola

by Jesse Thomas

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1.
I'm still here so I wait for you to come back someday I wonder what you might say if you could see what we became the secrets we promised to keep the night horizon kissed the sea i passed the test fell down the chute lost a friend gave away the boots take the show on the road I knew and now I know times goes by so slow for here or to go
2.
I Come Apart 03:58
I come apart baby bit by bit I come apart as easy as a candlewick gets lit I come apart so sorry to say I come apart each and every single day My mind is weak but my back is strong I can make the nicey-nice all night long Fill up your neediness Another cup of want With my grin I’m feeling like an idiot savant I come apart there ain’t no shame Everyone I know holds their share of the blame I come apart at the breastbone and the throat My castle’s crumbling, lost into the moat I come apart, darling, split just like a vest A set of vestments on a sinner’s chest Cracks are forming, light shines through I come apart just at the thought of you
3.
My Big Mouth 02:33
lost inside the sugar cave need to hide my thoughts away need to find my thoughts a place just one thing feels good to me but its no good to think that way every time i think to say 2nd guess double check the way crossed the line once again spoke too soon & lost a friend on the phone or on the call always my foot in my mouth Won’t hear me complain Underneath Duct tape We remove all doubt Me & my big mouth between the pages of my mind plain as day for you to find ive made mistakes its fair to say ive said too much thats just my way the way they raised us up from dirt taught me how to use my words then later on out came my voice shaky at best at worst just noise now its me without the boys just carnations bombs deploy made to rust my just desserts insatiable lust imagined hurt
4.
That girl's sophisticated I mean it looks like she knows how to dress that girl's sophisticated next to you oh honey you know I'm a mess She's the sweet seductress and he's the deceiver he might make it out ok but you know he'll never leave her when she bounces like a bunny it'll give you a fever she's the sender baby who'll be the receiver
5.
Roots 04:29
(Darling for so long where there were one set of footprints i carried you from the desert what kind of thanks is my children's distance ice forms around me please dont feel sorry there are two things we share roots and wings I fly so far away from you the wings turn to roots)
6.
Richard III 15:32
You be the dog and I’ll be the street and You can lose your mind when you walk all over me I can bite back just like 1,2,3 You be the dog and I’ll be the street You be the spider and I’ll be the fly You spin a web and decide when I die And you bite off my head and suck out my eyes You be the spider and I’ll be the fly You be the couch and I’ll be the chair and I’ll be over here and you’ll be over there and We’ll sit around like furniture, inert it’s only fair You be the couch and I’ll be the chair (I am Richard The Third; I’m the worst you ever heard)

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"I miss you my dear Xiola..." part of the opening monologue from the Jane's Addiction's song 'Three Days', I found it carved on a desk at Bridgewater State College years before I ever heard the song, I wrote it all out in my notebook and then later when I showed it to my new cool friends- they understood why I did that -why its important to save things that don't make sense at the time because you dream all will be revealed someday. And now I miss them all. (I'd sneak out to see them; the painting in my parents basement hid a secret passage to the outside or, in a pinch, the way back in.) Thank You for listening.

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released July 3, 2015

Recorded by Ezra Lange in the Sugar Cave, Summer 2011 - Winter 2014. Mixed and Co-Produced by Charlie Malave. Mastered by Peter Landry. Cover Art by Catalina Simon.

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