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Artist: Stephen Malkmus
Canonical path: /stephen-malkmus/animal-midnight
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Animal Midnight
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Animal Midnight
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Sacrifice for you is just flirtation
And friendship a cold convenience
I wonder sometimes what you're made of
Is it rayon or is it dust?
How you calibrate your intuition
Such that it just feeds the kill
And every single night i try to make you come alive
You shove it right back in my face
You
You don't see me
Because you
You won't change
You
You don't see me
Because you
You won't change
With your big old russian brain
To keep you ahead of the stoplights
You to me is like carbon dioxide
You know i won't be your frozen rose
Why don't you just let me get up, yeah
Before you do the ratty ratty ratty ruff?
Reach reach...
Bleach bleach...
Sneech sneech...(?)
Where will we fall
Where will we fall
Where will we fall
Before the darkness hits
Animal midnight
A shit for a brain
Crawl up a leech line
Shocking me (?) in the yellow and blue
Is it piss?
Is it sky?
Is it why we try?
You
You don't see me
Because you
You won't change
You
You don't see me
Because you
You won't change
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