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Built To Spill “Israel’s Song”
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Treepeople “Pack of Lies”
From No Mouth Pipetting - a rare demo cassette the band self-released in 1988. Click the link to download the whole darn thing.
I can’t believe I told you
things I never even tell myself.
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Treepeople “Ad Campaigns”
You say, “What about our children’s children?
Well what about genocide?”
Believe in, support corporations
With ad campaigns that tug at
your heart strings.
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Treepeople “Handcuffs”
When your brain has an itch
Think of a scratch…
Why do the handcuffs have to be so tight?
Treepeople “Party”
Live at a warehouse in Seattle, June 1990. Look how young Doug looks!
I really wish these guys would reunite.
Built to Spill “Broken Chairs” live at Virgin Megastore, Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 1999. My bff Andrea was in charge of all of these in-stores, and this one was easily my favorite. I drove out from Vegas for it (and the show that night at the Roxy). You can see me in the crowd - I’m right up front, behind the guy in the blue hat. I’m the bleached blonde kid in the white t-shirt bouncing up and down (at the 2:08 mark). This was SUCH an awesome performance. Seeing BTS is such an intimate setting was amazing.
Treepeople “Liquid Boy”
Can’t tell when you’re talking to me
If you’re really saying anything
Can’t you say nothing?
Sometimes when you talk
The things you have to say
Are better left unsaid
Are better left in your head.
I hurt you
‘Cause I don’t want to hurt myself
When I want to
You’re right there and you’re uptight so
Lately everything you say sounds like everything you say
And I know what you’re talking about
But I don’t understand a word you say
I try to get away with getting more than I give you
Hope that you don’t notice that I am
I’ve been here for days
Won’t be here for a long time
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Treepeople “Fishbasket”
I don’t know what you think
But I like to think,
Think of you…
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Built to Spill “Distopian Dream Girl”
I’m the only thing that dies
if it came down to your life or mine
I would do the stupid thing
and let you keep on living
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Treepeople “Funnelhead”
Funnelhead has open mind
Wide on top to catch everything
Narrow at the bottom, to make sure that it all fits
Funnelhead takes what’s been said, brought it into brain translation
Funnelhead’s interpretation misses the point
Funnelhead has seen enough to know that there’s no black or white
It’s all off-white and dark grey
Funnelhead makes sure that what makes sense to him makes other people recognize
Funnelheads are cool
What you did not remember
Things you think you don’t believe
Funnelhead has open mind
Wide on top to catch everything
Narrow at the bottom, to make sure that it all fits
What you did not remember
Things you think you don’t believe
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Treepeople “No Doubt”
From their stellar debut album, Guilt, Regret, Embarrassment.
‘Cuz I know all about sex and death
I could talk for hours…
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Built to Spill “Aisle 13”
Often I am called by name
To clean up aisle 13
