Magnifier

by Life Size Maps

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released 07 July 2011

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Track Name: This Same House
All my life I've been holding out

trying to stay away from this same house

my mind is tangled up and bound

can't stay away from this same house



it's what I'm coming to

it's what I'm coming to

22 and I'm wasted again



try to keep myself sane

try to keep myself sane

it's hard not to change



All my life I've been holding out

trying to stay away from this same house

my mind is tangled up and bound

can't stay away from this same house






I try to stave it off

I try to sleep it off

but I'm up all night



wanna forget my name 

wanna forget my name

but it's too late



run round circles
putting miles down

all caught up in

games we'll play

games we'll play
 today



All my life I've been holding out

trying to stay away from this same house

my mind is tangled up and bound

can't stay away from this same house


Track Name: Mechanical Man
Smoke in the windows

puffs as it billows

someone left the stove on

no one seems to mind



he grew up in jersey

liked to study tragedy

did his arson quietly

no one seems to mind



cuz he's such an astute writer

psycho keeps it together

until he snaps again

a glitch in the mechanical man




never had much feeling

never liked apologies

teachers never noticed

no one seems to mind



pick apart his nerve ticks

or watch him as his brain clicks

you know he's not quite right

but no one seems to mind



cuz he's such an astute writer

psycho keeps it together

until he snaps again

a glitch in the mechanical man




couldn't they tell
?
something was wrong

cracks in the shell

lasted too long


couldn't they tell
?
something was wrong

cracks in the shell

lasted too long



such an astute writer

psycho keeps it together

until he snaps again

a glitch in the mechanical man



Track Name: It's Leaking
You've got an urge right here
that's not worth controlling

You've got a beehive here
this honey is dripping

All filled up, all filled up, it's leaking
All filled up, all filled up, it's leaking

What's the expiration date?
Curdling a few days late

Parts of you that are too strange
Just let them slip out anyway

All filled up, all filled up, it's leaking
All filled up, all filled up, it's leaking

Swelling up, it's too much
Swelling up, it's too much

All filled up, all filled up, it's leaking
All filled up, all filled up, it's leaking
Track Name: When the Coast is Clear
when the coast is clear
open up the dirty window

see further than your eye

like looking through a telescope



you can watch the peacocks 

near the school out back

ruffling their feathers

don't like when they flaunt like that



ooh



when the coast is clear

go to the backside of the church

near the parking lot

misdirected, undetected



except by the bums

with the hands of crows

reaching for lit cigarettes

gathering around garbage cans



ooh



when the coast is clear
open up the dirty window

see further than your eye

like looking through a telescope



you can watch the peacocks 

near the school out back

ruffling their feathers

don't like when they flaunt like that



so forget all your witchcraft

and your clever jokes and laughs

and the grates beneath your feet

rough like the urchin seas

oh baby let your guard fall down

let your guard down around me

when the coast is clear



so forget all your witchcraft

and your clever jokes and laughs

and the grates beneath your feet

rough like the urchin seas

oh baby let your guard fall down

let your guard down around me

when the coast is clear


Track Name: The Sleepy Northeast
a quiet defeat in the sleepy northeast

was proud til I was quelled

in a clapboard house I fell



staring vacantly, just before morning

in a corner of wallpaper hell

as my wings began to melt

time to myself



wait to watch the plot unfold

clean and cold, clean and cold

wait to watch the plot unfold

clean and cold, clean and cold
don't you know that
you're starting to grow old

?

slowly reach my hand
to grab another can

in my attic there's a draft

that sweeps up well-made plans



figures dim and green
roving 'cross the screen

can't recognize them now

faces blurring out

time to myself



wait to watch the plot unfold

clean and cold, clean and cold

wait to watch the plot unfold

clean and cold, clean and cold
don't you know that
you're starting to grow old

?

clean and cold, clean and cold
don't you know that
you're starting to grow old

?