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Things We Don't Need

by DUET_

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Tonight 03:28
With perfect words and parallel lines We’ll take these images straight out of time Making up words and making up rhymes And we’ll sing Tonight Faithful in fire and fairies of light Taking back pictures of strength and of might Flicking forked tongues out straight in the night And we’ll fight Tonight Cause tonight! We’re running backwards, tonight We’re flying black birds, tonight We’re giving up things we don’t need. Hotels and habits fall high from the sky Who’s here to tell us what’s wrong and who’s right Friends come in and friends go to die And we’ll sleep Tonight Pinpricks appear in blackened twilight Twins of our ages in celibate rite Collapsing in towers of ivory white And we’ll sing Tonight
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Bricks 04:32
Four years since I left you And there's no looking back that way again Decay of a lifetime Rusted water seeping thru the stain A pounding in my head All existence seems to slide against the grain Still forcing me onward Backwards thinking looking counting Pin feathers are slammed against the wall Spring winds giving way to winter's thrall Conflicts bottled stale dust The bricks are closing me inward Three years with my shadow Concrete cold caught beneath my weight Come enter the distance Come join me in fleeting self-restraint Why fight reinvention Why fight getting dragged down into fate Sun darkening pavement Linger languish stilted slighted Two years since I left me And there's no looking like myself today No one here seems to know me No one here seems to care in this masquerade This porcelain splinter A warning tale of this veneer portrayed Pale fragments of myself Costumes have become my clothing Wonderful is my life now and i just don't… need me anymore Surreptitiously hopeless Harbored feelings of self betrayal out-poured Jolting slamming synapses Binding time until this life I abhor This road I was building Layered into walls around me
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Never question the gods of our mother Never whisper the names of the dead Never question the sins of our lovers Never mention the thoughts in our head Never question devotion of father Singing his praises from mountain tops Question oh question! But say nothing Carefully stay the words that you speak "Smile," he said, to the ones that followed “Smile,” he said, “and think no more” He looked upon us, bleak and hollow Go not unto these lies you adore.
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Lucy!
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Seven years ago Sealed tears above the glow Shallow walk of “yet” A thousand pirouettes Come, follow me From death’s celestial tree White-walk amongst the breath From a fate worse than life Lies fall like regrets Regardless, life vignettes Fleurette to breach the sky More than meets the mouth Come, follow me From death’s celestial tree White-walk amongst the breath From a fate worse than life
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She grew up strong, but she had no lover Daddy’s protective and won’t let her have them I won’t fight for the water And I won’t go to the bridge I won’t fight for the water Not to the light of the ridge He showed her affections with all wrong intentions Skin of her soul cracks from the attention Pray the rosary daily Pray for years that I lost Pray the rosary daily Sins are not worth cost Twenty years old and running for shelter Ego is wounded and rage is aflutter Back to the shed I remember Back to the place where I bled Trading one life for another Trading wont bring back whats dead.
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We're silent. And demure Compliant. In Couture... ... for your needs. We're precious. Thin as ice. Delicious. Sugar-spice … for the deed. Plastic bodies! Beauty embodies! Tall as the poppies! Perfect we'll be... Everything that's good Everything that's right Everything our mothers Prayed for in the night. Plastic bodies, you’ll see. We're naked. And beautiful. Inflated. And suitable... ... for your needs. We're Youthful. And doable. Immutable. Penetrable ... for the deed Plastic bodies! Electric hotties! Fresh and Naughty! Perfect we'll be... Anything you want Anything you need Anything that satisfies Your lustful greed. Plastic bodies, you’ll see. Lashes are fantastic Waist is thin elastic Non-iconoclastic Everything is plastic
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Please don’t take this the wrong way, this Exuberant communique It's just something I've got to I don’t mean to But …. I like you, friend. Please don't run away If my welcome I overstay I know Rome wasn't build in a day I’ll just breath and count to ten And say ... I like you, friend. There's just something about you I can't put my finger on There'd be something about us That can't be wrong I know we've only just now met But I'm ready to get my feet wet A detriment that my hearts set Would it be the end... If I said, I ... I like you, friend.

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released July 16, 2015

DUET_ is Mary Hamer and Elizabeth Lain

All songs written and performed by Mary Hamer and Elizabeth Lain
Recorded and mixed by Elizabeth Lain at the Lonely Octopus Studios
Mastered by Forbes Coleman at the AudioBeach Studios, Brighton & Hove

Album photography by Balm in Gilead: thereisbalmingilead.com

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DUET_ San Diego, California

DUET_ is Mary Hamer and Elizabeth Lain, two classically trained musicians with an ear towards the absurd.

Based in San Diego, California, DUET_ likes to explore multiple genres and moods, and follow the creative pursuits wherever it may lead.
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