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Brooklyn Central Booking
02:45
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Hey momma, pick up the phone
I’m calling
I’m balling
Locked in Brooklyn Central booking
That’s right I got caught
Just drinking
Just smoking
Public urinating
I can’t stand still
The officer took my yellow pill
So what am I to do when everything just makes me ill?
It’s us
The last of a breed
That’s dying on these city streets
Pay the fine
Mind the sign for cleaning
It’s just unsanitary
It’s just a broken window theory
And heart makes a mess when bleeding
I can’t stand still
The officer took my orange drink
So what am I to do when everything just makes me think?
In a jail cell
That is my hell
That is myself
Call up the slumlord president,
Representatives, the district courthouse
But they can’t hear me shout
Another noise complaint and we’ll be through
Hey momma, the whole world don’t seem free no more
Just feels messed up to me
I left it all on your answering machine
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And I was sitting in the back of the class
With my orange drink breath
Teacher says,
“we’re gonna have a snack, it’s your birthday party”
How ya gonna eat when ya got nothing on your plate?
Another check-up at the hospital
Another weekly physical
They take my blood and my mommy’s dough
With the butterfly needle
I feel fine
I brought my Buddy Holly
He was a friend of mine
And Dee Dee and Joey and Debbie
Radio drown me out
Homocystinuria
And then
The hip hop hurray came through
It was 1992
Teach me to dance in the waiting room
Teach me to laugh at the doom and gloom
It’s alright, I got Bobby D
Jimmy C, Sister Nancy
I got The RZA
The GZA
The STZA
Got Kid Creol
Come save my soul
I had Missy and Chrissie
Come with me
Radio drown me out
Homocystinuria
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3. |
Oxytocin (Love Buzz)
04:29
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They say that move is just a chemical
That stays for days or years and fades to tears eventually
They follow after in quick succession (secession)
A thick fog of depression is just a side-effect
Of the comedown
Come down with me love
Come down with me
Catch me I’m falling out of love
I need another dose of
Your love buzz
They say there’s no such thing as fate
That love is just a trick to fool your brain
To mate and pro-create
Well I don’t want it to be true
I wanna stay in love with you forever
And do whatever you want to
Come down with me love
Come down with me
Catch me I’m falling out of love
I need another dose of
Your love buzz
Something’s changing and I don’t know why
The laws of physics say that we can’t stay
This high forever God knows I sure tried
To push my luck
I think I did too much
Imagine magic is a construct
An illusionary thrill that routine kills
And ages out over the hill
Like Xmas Eve and “E-Pills”
They’re only made to leave you in time
If you stop believing it’s not true
Come down with me
Don’t let me down love
Come back
Catch me I’m falling out of love
I need another dose of
Love buzz
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4. |
How High?
03:17
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Julia’s hanging on the corner
I’m out drinkin with the boys
And I know I should be home
Sleeping next to something warm
But don’t wait up I’m going down
On the morning sen
Feelings turning like the seasons
These things changing all the time
Could you give me some good news
That don’t end in self-abuse
Nah don’t say nothing I’ll be gone
At 3 in the morn’
Oy vey!
Now you got me
Right where you want me
When you say jump
I say “how high?”
Whatever you want
I’m your guy
A thousand faces on the screen
But they’re scrolling back to you
The only thing you have to do
Is drop a shoe
And I’ll come running back to you
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Love is real
But it’s got nothing to do at all
With how I feel right now with you
Floating on clouds with your feet on my couch
And my head facing down turning blue
But I don’t feel nothing for you
It’s only drugz that I’m on
Soon they’re all bound to ware off and you’ll be gone
Just another chemical
Why is it the same thing that dries out
The rain always hides behind clouds and pain
And how come I always feel most alive
When it’s just about ready to die
But it’s only drugz that you’re on
In a little while you’ll be ready to flee
I’ll be stuck with me
My lover
Here comes self defense
Just limerence
Leaving our bloodstream
My lover
My love
But you don’t feel nothing for me
Soon they’re all bound to ware off and I’ll be gone
Just another chemical GRRL
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6. |
Clickbait, Click Me
03:35
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Click me
You always leave me with my head down wanting more
Clickbait
Always falling to the floor through your trap door
Like staring at a field and I know that this is real
But I cannot concentrate
On the scenery at hand
I got one hand on the wheel
But the other feels like dead weight
Click me
Trying to break free
But you captioned my day dreams
So you always bring me back
Now I just can’t tell what’s true
It all reads like news
And it’s all becoming you
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Way way before the pitchfork was godly
Back in grade 6 this bully named AJ
Would flex his pecs in the school cafeteria and try to put the fear in ya
When he hit me I just turned the cheek
When he told me I’d die in my sleep
He said “you wanna start beef but you can’t even eat it, why not kill yourself freak”
Homocystinuria
The whole wide world said “wouldn’t wanna be ya”
Feel the same with the boys in the band
Feel the same in the crowd when I stand
I see a carbon copy
A shirtless phony who doesn’t speak for me
Don’t fit in with the punks at the show
Don’t fit in the E.D.M. disco
Don’t fit in at the label or school or work or the dining room table
Homocystinuria
The doc said “see ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya”
And I’ll always feel (the same) strange
And I’ll always feel strained
No matter the rules, no matter the game
No matter what changes no change is made
Me
I’m just
Me and you’d never feel the same
I’m the only one of me
Who’s ever felt this uniquely lonely
And the only one who feels it only
Homocystinuria
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8. |
I L.U.V.I.O.U.
03:38
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9. |
Teenage Angst Forever
03:40
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Mom’s in the backroom arguing with dad
And sisters in the bathroom getting trashed and so am i
I take a photograph of my ass and i snapped it
on the internet to prove that i'm alive
Filling up on a one buck chuck of cheap wine
Throwing away my life
And i think there's an army marching behind me
Mom said that im a brat
My step dad said that im a psedo anarchist
First world leftist
But i'm not a communist or a capitalist
I am some devil's advocate denying i exist
Scratching off a losing lottery ticket i'm throwing away my life
like a litterbug
And i think there's an army marching behind me
I feel no change in weather
Only teenage angst forever
Let's all go down together
My teenage angst
Forever
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Alex Orange Drink Brooklyn, New York
Alex Orange Drink is the solo moniker for Alex Zarou Levine, lead singer and songwriter of The So So Glos. Alex is known for his "streetwise and irreverent lyrics", which have drawn comparisons from William Wordsworth to the Beastie Boys.
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