St. Vincent - Actor (2009)

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I like the material, which makes it easy to sort of delve into it, and then also I was too tired to be nervous. I was just happy. The anxiety, the anxious energy was not there, because I was too exhausted.

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I'm just the same but brand new
And anything you wrote I checked for codes and clues.

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I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.

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We're sleeping underneath the bed to scare
The monsters out
With our dear daddy's Smith and Wesson. We've got to teach them all a lesson.

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What would the neighbors think?
Oh no! If they only knew.

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I love the idea that something would be whimsical, and like "delightful", you know, but also disgusting — so I like this sort of, you know, a really gnarly guitar — really gross, disgusting guitar and then a — really a whimsical... — it's one of those things you can only describe in sort of awkward hand gestures and eye motions. Imagine!

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Honey can you reach the spots that need oiling and fixing.
H E L P Help Me.

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You're a supplement, You're a salve,
You're a bandage, pull it off
I can quit you, cut it out.
You're a patient, iron lung.

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The keys are in my pocket and they rattle you awake.

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Good souls have born better sons,
Better souls born worse ones.
Paint the black hole blacker...

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Just like an amnesiac, trying to get my senses back.
Oh where did they go.

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Tomorrow's some kind of Strangerland where all the news is good.

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Tomorrow's some kind of Stranger I'm not supposed to see.

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Honey the party went away quickly, but thats the trouble with ticking and talking.

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I'm a wife in watercolors I can wash away what seventeen cold showers couldn't wash away.

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Lover, I don't play to win but for the thrill until I'm spent.
Paint the black hole blacker. Paint the black hole blacker

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I traded my plot of land for a plane to anywhere
Oh where did you go.
And I can't see the future but I know it's watching me.
All my old friends aren't so friendly
And all my old haunts are now haunting me.

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Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.
I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now.

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What do I share?
What do I keep from all the strangers
Who sleep where I sleep?

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The unkissed girls and boys of paradise
Are lining up around the block
Back pockets full of dynamite
While their neighbors talk and talk.

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Let's pour wine in coffee cups and drive around the neighborhood
And shine the headlights on houses until all the news is good.

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Bodies like wrecking balls fuck, fuck with dynamite.

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