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Dialin' In (Voodoo Eyes)

from Old Joy (demos) by Old Joy

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This was recorded in I think maybe May of 2013? In my old basement in Avondale. I played all the instruments on it.

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I don't mind flyin in
liars die mired in sin
dialers all are dialin' in the numbers of their lot

If I call, don't you shout
I'll call you up or call you out
cancel all your paper routes, give as good as I got

You've got your voodoo eyes on where my love goes to die
It didn't come as no surprise to anybody's spies
Sick dreams flood the streams of thought in my minds busted seams,
seemingly in reverie, I'm really in disguise
And if you recognize me in all my over-sized ambition and my do or die speeches one must give
then you've earned the trust lust has mustered into rust,
goin' big or goin bust at least you're gonna live

Love's not a carnival, some lovers are carnivores
sellin love will make you poor but buyin's either/or

Keep calm, keep the cut, keep stallin while you're cullin "what's?" from the seriously stunted cancer called a crowd.

Thick veins raining down all around the reigning sound, kings and queens go pound for pound but princes just go down.

Downtown rounders round corners like they cut em out, but I just fuck around stuck up on my mound.
I'm the king of the hill, starving till I get my fill of subjects who breathe through their gills, drowning right out loud.

Don't keep hope on high, loneliness will get you by. Utter isolation's fine, but sleep is better still.

Dreams are curses all, cursive at the curtains fall, curators curtailin' all the cold fish they can call.

God's got his mighty fist wrapped around a crucifix, he's askin' me to kiss it, shit I'm dyin' bit by bit.

well, love lies, suicide rides a thin red honest line. It's almost like you wanna die by just bein' alive.

Good girls hurl their pearls at pigs in this shitty world. Turntables do good turns for spurners wearing spurs.

Blood runs down the walls like subway station waterfalls, fallin' out in bathroom stalls or fallin' out of love.

I won't be the one that you put the hit out on, girl you gotta pin it on someone you really want.

Still I'll die for you, lay inside a lie for you, all I"m really tryna do is be used not abused.

Look, little rivers run, what are they all running from? The stream that gave birth to some....

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from Old Joy (demos), released June 5, 2016
guitars, drums, singing, keys by alex.

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