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People In Hell Want Ice Water

by Akrasia

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1.
Penthouse 04:08
i roll up to the penthouse lie out on the blue couch watching all the clouds swirl by like kaleidoscopes got an old soul but it isn't done yet, naw we're just getting starting here i roll up to the penthouse looking for a new friend watching all the girls swirl by like kaleidoscopes kinda half kicked but it isn't done yet, naw we're just getting starting here got a jetpack under my arm gonna fly to skylab with my patron saint and my pretty pretty princess lowcut sophomores in the crystal chamber making sounds like pleasure i don’t know them but they all know me i roll up to the penthouse lie out on the blue couch watching all the clouds swirl by like kaleidoscopes got an old soul but it isn't done yet, naw we're just getting starting here i roll up to the penthouse looking for a new friend watching all the girls swirl by like kaleidoscopes kinda half kicked but it isn't done yet, naw we're just getting starting here everyone's gonna be there mr smith, dr b, benji b, katieb, jess b, j-frey j-bark, k-rock, steveclark, herb and erb and the saraheses mr rob and the moleman, erin, stizzle, liz, nita, shira, julie, mollie, and m v v, billymo, mattormitch, reneee, clay, shady jay from the mafia kegstands in the elevator kegstands in the elevator kegstands in the elevator kegstands in the elevator kegstands in the elevator kegstands in the elevator kegstands in the elevator kegstands in the elevator i roll up to the penthouse i roll up to the penthouse i roll up to the penthouse lay out on the blue couch watching all the clouds swirl by like kaleidoscopes got an old soul but it isn't done yet, naw we're just getting starting
2.
drove six hours on the turnpike for one more cigarette with you lost the muffler outside breezewood i'm coming fast, i'm coming loud maybe we're looking for something we thought we knew when we thought we knew what to look for maybe we never found everything left to find (found you a hat at a thrift shop but it looks good on me so i kept it) if we end up at your apartment you might just help me burn it down or make a bed out on the old green couch blankets someone's grandma made and my second favorite pillow and you say wow this is nice feels like how it used to be back in the day before all we had to talk about was how things back in the day used to be and i say what happened to us and you say happening, we're always happening, que sera sera and you take a deep breath, hold it behind your eyes and let it go real life in real time real life in real time real life in real time real life in real time drove six hours on the turnpike for one more cigarette with you wind the windows down turn the volume up is there gas in the car yeah. i met the devil on the corner of bates and atwood street traded him my immortal soul for an old guitar, a bucket of deep fried chicken, some tennessee opium, and a velvet print of francisco pizzarro i wrote ethereal songs of love and life and girls and you trying to find some love in this life with a girl like you and now i found it i like it real life in real time real life in real time real life in real time real life in real time real life in real time real life in real time
3.
Zelda 06:12
stonewall jackson civil war general got shot in the back by his own men now he's buried in lexington, virginia bout a half a mile from robert e lee robert e lee when he lost the civil war became the president of a small virgina college used to be called george washington college now they call it washington and lee zelda wants what zelda gets and zelda gets three hundred dollars she gets to keep seventy five dollars new rock club weird part of town local band turned up too loud where's all the people who look like me where's all the people who think like me everybody here dances like a penguin everybody here plays with their hair everybody here plays with their new phone everybody here dances like charlie brown zelda wants what zelda gets and zelda gets three hundred dollars she gets to keep seventy five dollars when i was back in college i dated a crack whore an actual crack whore for five or six months met her at a party bummed a smoke and told her she was pretty took me back to her place showed me her tomatoes and i ditched my classes to go the park to lie in the grass and look up at the clouds and she was pretty cool and she was great in bed and it never even mattered that i had no crack domine deus rex caelestis deus pater omnipotens interdum nos planto erroris interdum erroris es emundo this one’s for you you could've had it if you wanted it but you never asked me for it so i kept it for myself sometimes you’re so awesome i want to shout it from a mountain sometimes it's too good to do anything but feel zelda wants what zelda gets and zelda gets three hundred dollars she gets to keep seventy five dollars zelda wants what zelda gets and zelda gets three hundred dollars she gets to keep seventy five dollars
4.
you you can do anything you can do anything you can do but you do what you did yesterday do it again today all the landless peasants say 'eh. what time's the game on?' all the landless peasants say 'eh. i like your facebook status. gonna fockin like ya.' all the landless peasants say 'eh. i'll have a cold light beer' all the landless peasants say 'eh. i voted for the other guy' they say 'i rolled and i tumbled, cried the whole night long' they say 'i rolled and i tumbled, cried the whole night long' they say i want some money but i don't want to work for it i want some money but i don't want to work too hard i want some money but i don't want to work for it i want some money but i don't want to work i just do what i did yesterday do it again today what comes after the blues what comes after the blues what comes after the blues what comes after the blues you you can do anything you can do anything you can do but you do what you did yesterday do it again today what comes after the blues what comes after the blues what comes after the blues what comes after the blues we can be as good as we want to be we can be as good as we want to be we can be as good as we want to be we can be as good as we want to be
5.
the day bob dylan came to bethlehem played this wheels on fire absolutely sweet marie i stayed home, washed my clothes for the morning it was november seven days before thanksgiving red skies in the morning sailor's warning got up too early, drank black coffee crawled back into bed with you and the light came in where the curtains weren't so there and your skin was white like an angel and you leaned in close whispered in my ear today is the day the world will end god knows we try god knows that we try to have a good time, baby have a good time, baby grainsquall undertow queen of the pyramids mathematic atheist crucifix between your breasts and the light came in where the curtains weren't so there and your skin was white like an angel and you leaned in close whispered in my ear today is the day the world will end the day bob dylan came to bethlehem played this wheels on fire absolutely sweet marie i stayed home it was november seven days before thanksgiving and the light came in where the curtains weren't so there and your skin was white like an angel and you leaned in close whispered in my ear today is the day the world will end
6.
Mahogany 05:30
said i'd write love songs for you if all of the good ones aren’t written already and it's you and me you and me you and me the air is so thick you're breathing so heavy and it's hot in this old place tonight i'm going to kiss from your neck to your shoulder wherever you are is where i want to be someday i'll get around, i'll get around to it someday i'll get around when i feel like i can sweet queen victoria keeping me on the bench sweet queen victoria keeping me down but it's hot in this old place tonight i'm going to kiss from your neck to your shoulder wherever you are wherever you are wherever you are is where i want to be where i want to be where i want to be where i want to be where i want to be let's make a deal, miss candy jones miss six stroke engine, miss poison lipstick one kiss on top of the ferris wheel when it all stops it all stops it all stops it all stops but it's hot in this old place tonight i'm going to kiss from your neck to your shoulder wherever you are wherever you are wherever you are wherever you are is where i want to be where i want to be where i want to be where i want to be
7.
When / If 05:49
maybe i'll wake up next to you maybe i'll wake up and you're right there five in the morning is too early to wake up drink some water, pet some cats, go back to bed next to you the worst part of my day is when i wake up and i gotta go to work and you can stay in bed but i can't gotta find a flashlight, gotta get a shower gotta catch the bus, gotta go downtown gotta get some sausage biscuit sandwiches for breakfast gotta do some work, drink coffee, do work, drink coffee, do work read some blogs, drink some green tea, eat some goldfish crackers eat some more goldfish crackers and when i get to leave i take the first bus out of town that takes me home where you is and you're cookin’ dinner mah favorite dinner noodles, sauce, and meat and we break out the big red pillow break open some big red wine and my time with you that's my favorite time that's my favorite time and then we fall asleep and i have some crazy dreams but i don't remember them in the morning and there's a cat sleeping on my head, and a cat drinking all my water cause they know a good place is a good place maybe i'll wake up next to you maybe i'll wake up and you're right there and 'll go back to bed maybe i'll go back to bed go back to bed next to you (i'd like that very much)
8.
Tomorrow 07:45
somedays all your friends are busy somedays no one calls you back somedays are for beer and smokin’ somedays there ain't nothing wrong with that somedays all you do is sit around sit around go outside for a cigarette tomorrow will be different tomorrow will be different all the hangers-on are getting bored dusting the museum me, i never been better maybe tell em when you see em somedays all your friends are ditching someday you go out like you came in someday you won't feel so tired someday real life can begin somedays getting out of bed ain’t easy somedays are just for staying in bed and there ain't nothing wrong with that tomorrow will be different tomorrow will be different tomorrow will be different tomorrow will be different tomorrow will be different tomorrow will be different tomorrow will be different tomorrow will be different

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seven days before thanksgiving

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released November 17, 2011

(c) & (p) 2011 akrasia llc
all songs (c) danylo except track 2 (danylo-balix)

AUTH, jordan - geetars
BALIX, benji - bass, geetars, clavinova
BIEL, eric - drums, geetars
BURIC, dr - geetars, e-bow
DANYLO, bill - vocals, geetars, percussion
DESMAN, paul - geetars
HALI, ash - geetars
ROBUSTO, matt - banjo

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