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Who Am I?

by Jonathan Best

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My Last Roll 01:09
I ate my last roll So there's nothing for me now I'll just wait for my passing angel One final touch Now it's perfect so I'll just let it go to my passing angel And leave my body Then reconvene below Your lips I never kissed Is what I'm leaving for you now
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This thing that we got goin When it started it was flowin But now I see it goin To places ain't worth knowin Let's take this circus tent down Let's make it easy On this simple, quiet, little town When I met you at the station You let your imagination Run wild and I got on with you Careening round the bend I see the steeple and the wheels slow down Let's make it easy On this simple, quiet, little town Disappointment standing at the front of the classroom Tells my head to stand in the corner My heart is thumpin faster and faster Knowin it can't hide any longer This thing now that it's over It plays over and over You know that it was short and to the point As we gaze down from this hill Let's not make a sound Let's make it easy On this simple, quiet, little town
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It Wasn't Me 02:03
It wasn't me Who ate your dinner Beneath your eyes It wasn't me Who forked away your fries It wasn't me Who kissed you while you ate alone Who drank your wine so you could drive back home It wasn't me It wasn't me
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Backup Plan 04:28
I'm your backup plan I'll make him fall in love with you I'm your backup plan I'll be your compost pile too Break my home and my heart Til I'm less than the sum of my parts I'm your backup plan Sex will make you drink and gamble Love's been wrongly accused Sex will make you stink and dangle Love's been wrongly accused Sex will drive love away While you're gearing up to lose But on the other hand sex will feed the soul No need to bring love into it Sex will give to you my soul No need to push love into it Love is everywhere you turn It's there when you sit down take a shit
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The one I feared the most Climbed up my tree She pulled my hair She poked my breast and pulled me near And then undressed My wrinkled heart And then she left The lovers nest Was never meant To keep me safe I burned it then that very night Before its owner came back home Is that someone behind that tree Looking for my heart Still beating
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To the Bones 03:29
Put your hands on the ground Put your hands on the ground Dig deeper and deeper Dig Deeper and deeper Til you reach the bones Til you reach the bones In your hands Put that stake in your heart Put that stake in your heart Push it deeper and deeper Push it deeper and deeper Til you reach the bones Til you reach the bones Take me home Take me home The roots are growin' All through me The bugs are crawlin' It's almost like they knew me Then the rains come down Wash me down Wash me down To the Bones
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Thank God I’m Alive and I Die I died when I lost my laptop I died when I lost my mom And I died when I lost your precious love Thank God I’m alive Thank God I’m alive and I die Thank God I’m alive Thank God I’m alive and I die I died when I lost my erection I died when I lost my home Then I lost the election Thank God I’m alive Thank God I’m alive and I die I died when I lost everything I believed When the rivers of hatred filled up my seas I waited for love that I could not receive So I waited for death And now I can breath Now I die between every inhale and exhale Every gift I give and I get And I die when you give me your precious love Thank God I’m alive Thank God I’m alive and I die Thank God I’m alive Thank God I’m alive and I die Thank God I'm alive
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You were a mountain so far away Didn't think I'd reach you Certainly didn't think that I would reach you today Didn't know your grasslands gave life its very home Didn't think I'd lie there Certainly didn't think that I would never lie alone Didn't know your secrets were my secrets too Certainly didn't know that I would love you like I do Your mountain peaks rise above breathable air Didn't think I'd climb them Certainly didn't think that I could make it up there Didn't know your streams led to rivers deep and long Didn't think I'd walk them Certainly didn't think that I would follow one back home Didn't know your secrets were my secrets too Certainly didn't know that I would fall in love with you You are a mountain so far away
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And on this wintry eve the air is warm Outside dad leaning on his horn But all I hear is the beating of my heart As the world slowly falls apart All my life I’ve waited patiently For God to give to me my due But now my beating heart is telling me That long ago he gave it all to you The gift with my name under the tree It’s not for me The gifts with my name under the tree They’re all for me To give to you So I hope the snow will stick around And cover all the gifts strewn across the ground And the one wrapped in my broken heart While the world slowly falls apart The gift with my name under the tree It’s not for me I’m hanging by a thread to the gift with my name My very life depends on the gift with my name Wrapped in my heart Under the tree So now I hope the snow will stick around And help to soften that blaring sound Of the angels blowing on their horns celebrating your birth And now they’re singing with me the song I’ve been singing all my life The gift with my name under the tree It’s not for me The gifts with my name under the tree They’re not for me The gifts with my name under the tree They’re all for me To give to you
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Tree Hugger 03:21
I'm a tree hugger baby I been tree huggin since I was three I'm a tree hugger baby I been tree huggin since I was three Last night tree huggin made a fool of me I'm a tree hugger baby Sometimes I take tree huggin too far I'm a tree hugger baby Sometimes I take tree huggin too far Last night cop caught me tree huggin in my car I'm a tree hugger baby But I think my tree huggin days are through I was a tree hugger baby But I think my tree huggin days are through Last night I saw my tree huggin you
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I want you to hold Please hold me Hold me in your lovin’ arms I want you to lift me From this road lord That’s been wearin’ down my soul too long   Ford’s got a better idea A better idea than you When the devil wants to hold you Lucite’ll turn you lose Ford’s got a better idea A better idea than me Lord I want you to lift me than I’ll fall into the Gap Go back to Starbucks get a latte Go back to Starbucks get another Go back to Starbucks get a latte Go back to Starbucks get another Go back to Starbucks get a latte Go back to Starbucks get another Go back to Starbucks get a latte And then we’ll fall into the Gap
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Who Am I 03:07
Who am I? You ask me who am I? I'm your hand on your belly Cells dividing in the jelly I'm the alpha the omega On a photon all the way from Vega Who am I? I ask you who am I? I'm the birds in the trees Lookin down at me I'm Columbus on his knees Crying at the gates of hell I am all that he can smell Who am I? I'm the mountains in the distance Here in your throat I'm death's insistence I'm your glassy clouded eyes Looking through the book of lies I am you you are me I'm in prison you are free

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released February 29, 2016

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