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Thank you, you’re a star, so many songs… it feels like Christmas.
Benadryl & Sunshine probably saved my life a couple of times….now, who has lyrics? what? ;OD
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Your surprises wear disguises
All of your truths masquerade around on Hallow’s Eve
So I’ll never know what you show to unfamiliar faces
So impressed by you undressing
Did you take his hand aside from love?
The truth would break me in two
I’ll never know what you show to unfamiliar faces
This is the voice that’s scared to hear those names
This is the void we’ll leave a hole in space
I’ll take it kindly if you’d blind me
Holding inside the thoughts I have inquisitively wondering
I’ll never know what you show to unfamiliar faces
But this is the voice that’s scared to hear those names
So this is the void we’ll leave a hole in space
I’ll never know what you show to unfamiliar faces
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Hahaha.
Just for that Squealer, I think I’ll make a shrine for you.
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yeah, that’s all I got. I’m procrastinating laundry, but I’m not up for the challenge of deciphering through the echo.
edit: haha, thanks Dizzy.
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whoa thanks…. i’ve been singing the wrong words haha 
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Hehe, no problem!
I have a compulsion where the first thing I do when I hear a new song (Matt’s in particular) is write down the lyrics. (it’s ridiculously fun for me) I still have old Notepads of what I thought were the lyrics to Miss Magnolia and some other’s from UF and random songs from videos I’ve never heard again. My point is that I do have lyrics, but they’re mostly question marks, so I’m not sure how much they’ll help.
Here, have some Magnetic Fingers:
magnetic fingers
you’ll just need a touch
magnetic fingers
when you’re outta luck
oh if you’re feeling some pain
they’ll take it away
magnetic fingers you can feel
are pushing and pulling you like steel
hypnotic girl ??? a tell-tale heart
hypnotic girl who’s like a shot in the dark
shoot straight to your veins
eyes start to strain
hypnotic arrows mesmerize
either you’re in love or hypnotized
pushing you and pulling you like steel
pushing you and pulling you like steel
shoot straight to your veins
eyes start to strain
you’re feeling some pain
well let’s take it away
magnetic fingers you can feel
are pushing and pulling you like steel
magnetic fingers
the kind of fingers you can feel
are pushing and pulling on your steel
And “I Won’t Let You Go” seems impossible with that echo. I just listened to it three times in a row and all I got was “I won’t let you go” Ha.
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Here’s my best yet still sad attempt at I Won’t Let You Go…
father(s)? you know
sometimes I’m wrong/ I roam ???
found you tripping on the stars
making lone wheels out of darts ???
and she found you lying on the ground
all the birds are singing
we get lost and found
father said son
winter will come
with your lilly white hands
we can ? cross ? out plans
found you weeping in the snow
hark the bells are ringing
I won’t let you go
with the seas we will sway
the sky and heat ?
your stillest wait /way ???
found you weeping in the snow
hark the bells are ringing
I won’t let you go
??? Errrr, yeah, it doesn’t make much sense in places, but I am fairly sure about that last part about snow and bells….
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But it’s good! This is what I had. I couldn’t even make a proper guess in most places-
———
———
———
making—out of—
what she found lying on the ground
like the birds are singing
we’ve been lost and found
———- sun
winter will come
with your lily white hands
making crafts out of plants
found you weeping in the snow
like the bells are ringing
I won’t let you go
and with the trees we will sway
the sky in———
you’re still this way
found you weeping in the snow
the bells are ringing
I won’t let you go
See, it’s fun right? YAY FUN! Yes, I’m a loser.
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I was pretending the first line was “five years ago” but that’s definitely wrong. But now SwanSong’s suggestion of father led me to “father’s alone” which I’m not completely sold on, but anyway here’s my attempt.
father’s alone, sheltered in my room
found you tripping on the stars
making mobiles?? out of cards
what you found lying on the ground
all the birds are singing
we get lost and found
far away is the sun
winter will come
with your lily white hands
making crafts out of plans
found you weeping in the snow
but the bells are ringing
I won’t let you go
and with the trees we will sway
the sky and geese
your spirits wake
found you weeping in the snow
while the bells are ringing
I won’t let you go
Also, here’s my silly story that makes me love this song. Three years ago Matt came to Pittsburgh and I talked to him after the show, and told him that my sister was sad she couldn’t come because she was very pregnant…and somehow this led us to talking about baby names (he was pulling for Matilda, but I told him Madilyn aka Mattie was on the short list) Fast forward to last year, my sister and I talked to him after a show, and told him my niece is named Lily and that my sister may name another daughter (not that she was expecting one) after another flower. I told him my vote is for Magnolia, and call her Maggie. Then we started talking about all the flowers/girls in his songs, and he told us about where he got some of the names in his songs. So, we told him that he would have to write a song about lilies. So that one line that’s actually clear in the recording “lily white hands” about made me fall off my chair the first time I heard it. I’m sure it’s a coincidence, but it makes me happy anyway. The end. (ps my sister is currently expecting a boy…Lily wants to name him Chicken, I think it’d be funny to name him Leif, and my sister is undecided).
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Magnetic Fingers is much easier. I think you were right with the hypnotic arrows thing, so much so that I think it’s this:
hypnotic arrows from a tell-tale heart
hypnotic arrows like a shot in the dark
shoot straight to your veins
eyes start to strain
hypnotic arrows mesmerize
either you’re in love or hypnotized
I love that last line, “either you’re in love or hypnotized”...dunno why.
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Acrobatic women dancing
dressed up horses, hands clapping
violins play, beating big drums
through calling? does he run?
and people laugh at his painted face
his cartwheels and ??
walking with the other clowns he
paints his skin to face the day
no one knows just what they’re thinking
smiles and frowns crumble away
there are two sides to the painted face
one side’s real and one side’s fake
with one jump to fall and one saving grace
one jump hahahaha
with one cup to drink and one cup to taste
one life to live and one life to waste
one jump to fall and one saving grace
one brick wall and one’s below paved
the fire breather, tarot reader
lion maestro, pack up and drive
over hills with icy peaks
the painted face was left behind
far behind is the painted face
one side leaves and one side waits
(and no, my laundry is not done)
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I love that line in Magnetic Fingers, too. Buddha Belly posted a video awhile ago of the song and it’s the only thing that stuck in my head.
squealer - Mar 16, 2009 07:30pm
with one jump to fall and one saving grace
one jump hahahaha
with one cup to drink and one cup to taste
one life to live and one life to waste
one jump to fall and one saving grace
one brick wall and one’s below paved
(and no, my laundry is not done)
That’s okay! You can procrastinate tomorrow!
I like you wrote down the lyrics to his little goof. Haha
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painted black on my window
faded like a quilt in this old room
I held you once but was unable
you cannot be bound by any stable
so run run run
run run run
but next time I’ll try
I’ll try to hold on
next time I’ll try
I’ll try to hold on
It may be foolish to keep waiting
but I’ll stop loving her when I stop dreaming
now if you find someone who says they love you
never let them let go of that feeling
run run run
run run run
but this time I’ll try
I’ll try to hold on
this time I’ll try
I’ll try to hold on
painted black on my window
faded like a quilt in this old room
I held you once but was unable
for you cannot be bound by any stable
run run run
run run run
but next time I’ll try
I’ll try to hold on
but next time I’ll try
I’ll try to hold on
I will try
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squealer - Mar 16, 2009 07:13pm Magnetic Fingers is much easier. I think you were right with the hypnotic arrows thing, so much so that I think it’s this:
hypnotic arrows from a tell-tale heart
hypnotic arrows like a shot in the dark
shoot straight to your veins
eyes start to strain
hypnotic arrows mesmerize
either you’re in love or hypnotized
Oooh. Duh, self. Now that you mention it, it’s blindingly obvious.
Same for the lines in I Won’t Let You Go.
It does sound like “making mobiles out of cards” And it actually sounds like a song now instead of echo-y moans and mumbles set to music.
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omg, there’s a lot of good stuff here…i feel like i left the party early last night, haha.
so much to comprehend in one sitting… yeah!
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