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You Know I Used To Dance?

by KIND BEAST

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1.
Do you believe that prayer can heal? If so, lay one on me Soft and sweet Oh, please dig deep Into your heart, pray my soul to keep 'Cause I've got wildness on my mind I've got the itch, I've got the pinwheel eyes Every time I see your smile My heart's so full… my heart's so full of crime And on these clouds we ride As our blood beats with the ocean tide I've been waiting all my life to say Goodbye, bye, bye To the illusion of our precious lives And on these clouds we ride And they say young is just a state of mind They say you only need what you can find In plain sight, relinquish our desires But I reserve my right To follow you until the end of time Where on these clouds we ride As our blood beats with the ocean tide I've been waiting all my life to say Goodbye, bye, bye To the illusion of our precious lives To the illusion of our precious lives On these clouds we ride on, on these On these clouds we ride on, on these On these clouds we ride on, on these On these clouds we ride on On these clouds we ride As our blood beats with the ocean tide I've been waiting all my life to say Goodbye, bye, bye
2.
You know, I used to dance? You know, I used to dance? You've just never seen those moves But what else could we do? Once god took our drugs away Let us sway, let us sway 'Cause we still like to party… but now we do it straight Feeling strange In the best of ways 'Cause we still like to party… but now we do it straight Feeling strange In the best of ways Feeling strange In the best of ways Your skin, your bones, your hair, your face Crazy that we aren't anymore young thangs But give us wisdom, give us grace Meet me there if you know the place Does it look the same? Feeling strange In the best of ways Feeling strange In the best of ways Meet me there if you know the place It doesn't look the same as when we used to rage But the essence remains… Unchanged Feeling strange In the best of ways Feeling strange In the best of ways
3.
Evil Uncle 05:45
Look who's on the porch A smiling face, but knives in their heart I've heard your prayer before And, by god, may you prosper May hell-on-earth give you all You deserve I'd like to show you something A hall-of-mirror game Repressed scenes, the eye with which you see The eye with which you see Staring right back in Don't open the door I've known too many evil uncles before You know they always come back for more Always want another piece of your soul But I've tried to say You're no kin No kin To me But you've always looking For an audience From your air conditioned anti-erudition You're a chattering skull On the nightly screen Don't answer the phone I've known too many evil uncles before You know they always come back for more Always want another piece of your soul They don't have one of their own From here on I'll choose My family, it won't include No cowardly motherfucker Like you You can even keep the name, never wanted it in the first place You can even keep the name You can even keep the name, never wanted it in the first place You can even keep the name You can even erase, my photo from the album No trace, no trace… You can even keep the name, never wanted it in the first place You can even keep the name You can even erase, me from the photo album No trace, erase, no trace… You can even keep the name, never wanted it in the first place No trace, no trace…
4.
Hot Black 05:00
Hot black Walk back, man If you still can The light is slight, the city is damned Nothing happened by chance It was here, same corner streetlamp I think when we met Clean snow, dirty cash You hailed a cab Hot back sugar sometimes I run to your room in my mind Where you're in the back Crystals and ash Mirrored ceiling, medicinal plants You struck the match Hot back sugar sometimes I run to your room in my mind Animals come alive It wasn't wrong if there was never anything to decide Choice was never mine I hurled my mind 'round the galaxy and back Bright light flash You wanna know, you wanna know what it meant? I ain't allowed to confess You wanna know, you wanna know what it meant? If now is never, then there's never better time to begin Hot back sugar sometimes I run to your room in my mind Animals come alive It wasn't wrong if there was never anything to decide Hot back sugar sometimes I run to your room in my mind So be kind 'Cause even freaks like you and me deserve love maybe once in awhile So won't you be kind 'Cause even freaks like you and me deserve love maybe once in awhile Lift our higher mind But if there's no soul left you're not doing it right Lift our higher mind But if there's no soul left you're not doing it right Lift our higher mind But if there's no soul left you're not doing it right Lift our higher mind But if there's no soul left you're not doing it right Lift our higher mind But if there's no soul left you're not doing it right Lift our higher mind But if there's no soul left you're not doing it right
5.
She's celebrated as a composer Of dark poems But I knew her as a dancer-by-night Barista-by-day You see, that was New York The pre-handheld computer age By which I mean, as the sun rose we sensed the coming day With our hearts, with our face High point of the bridge above the East River Where it was imparted to me You may love many times but this one This one will be Sweet and unforgettably Strange as can be… beyond belief So now what light have we brought to this life? I don't mean the numbers games, portfolios, the collection of "likes" For what was accused as weakness In the end bears strength If all the pain could've been for something Where it was imparted to me You may love many times but this one This one will be Sweet and unforgettably Strange as can be… beyond belief I was accused of possessing too much Too much spirit Also, ineptitude for mechanistic designs Watched numbers on the page arrange themselves into patterns of flight Help me never to strive Amid the city of external lies I do not understand the basic principle that money-is-time And you soul-is-for-hire But I recall… I recall the sense of your hand in mine Of your hand in mine Your hand in mine
6.
Love So Wide 05:46
7.
This poltergeist of vibes, am I no longer fly? In this place that tried to sink me Yeah, I left town with its dirt in my teeth Only to return short on cash, much improved In the art of burning hours to ashes I'm sorry honky... I'm sorry honky it might be, I'm no patron to your scene I'd burn my records to end this wide-awake dream It's so obscene All this screaming inside self-important skulls Don't they realize it's all impermanent even the fucking sun? Let me speak honestly what I've seen You don't know to what hemispheres I've been My white ass can go as black as the sea I'd burn my records to end this wide-awake dream It's so obscene Still the devil she comes vamping into any room in which I sleep I see it coming again Here it comes again... Okay you play the boss All of us will walk the stations to your cross But let's not waste this sweetness The grace with which Oh let's not waste this sweetness The grace with which life will break you... Oh let's not waste this sweetness The grace with which life will break you... Over and again Over and again Let us feel it when Over and again.... Okay you play the boss All of us will walk the stations to your cross Okay you play the boss All of us will walk the stations Okay you play the boss All of us will walk the stations to your cross
8.
My cage rattles day and night I'm always inside From time to time, come on by And whisper through the bars 'Cause nothing's kinder than the truth It seems However much it hurts, I'm down for the real thing Mother Mary, I've still got the mark on me Sister Rainbow, don't be wary, you know we beasts come in peace You'll see Our story is never ending I heard you singing in the garden Or was that just a dream? The song, the words, the voice That howled only for me After the outrage, tell me what do you really need? Now that you've yelled from the mountain Might we slither through the weeds? Mother Mary, I've still got the mark on me Sister Rainbow, don't be wary, you know we beasts come to please You'll see The need repeats Repeats, indeed Our story is never ending I've still got the mark on me It never really leaves, never really leaves I've still got the mark on me It speaks to me I've still got the mark on me It never really leaves, never really leaves I've still got the beast in me It speaks to me
9.
City To Town 04:30
Stepped outside, called your mother I wonder does she still Speak our name? Does she ask you if we're ever coming back again? I wandered to the river That I might be delivered Two years, too long Licking at wounds Fresh rain banging down the windows And eye to the town As you come along We came here alone Waiting to lose, hoping to be found After all, do you run City to town? And who knows you now? My son, can you hear? I know we've never met You're someone out there A voice at the end the street We came here alone Waiting to lose, hoping to be found After all, do you run City to town? And who knows you now? City to town And who knows you now? City to town City to town City to town I hear voices through the ice, through the ice I hear voices through the ice, through the ice We came here alone Waiting to lose, hoping to be found After all this time Living so close But they don't know you so much As I heard voices through the ice Through the night Are you still out there now? Do you run City to town And who knows you now?
10.
Who paid you to say that? Too good to be true Who paid you to say that? We just want the truth Do you truly stand for these things that you do? Who paid you to say that? To sweet to be true Did they pay you to stay down like that? While they do to you, what they're gonna do Who is the patron, who is the fool? Exactly who the fuck are you pandering to? We've seen this dance before We know the moves However cold, however damned, however cruel… You can't buy the sky You can't sell the moon Who paid you to say that? Too good to be true Lift up that mask while you can It's time to see some proof Who is the patron, who is the fool? Exactly who the fuck are you pandering to? We've seen this dance before We know the moves However cold, however damned, however cruel… Give us it like it is You don't know what fires we've been through However sold, however damned, however cruel… You can't buy the sky You can't sell the moon on a virtue Who paid you to say that? Too good to be true Did they pay you to stay down like that? While they do to you, what they're gonna do, are you getting through? Show us your transcripts, your returns, your I.O.U.s And yes a record of everyone with whom you've flown privately, too Who paid you… Who paid you…

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released December 17, 2021

Recorded at Tempermill Studio and Down Peninsula Audio.
Mixed by Chris Weingarten at BananaPPEAL.

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Nighttime freedom cruise on the outskirts of Detroit and guitars still matter and there is big love in your kind, beastly heart...

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