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i took my head to my favorite place swam in the dirt and got mud on my face felt like a reptile looked like an ostrich but wherever i go no one notices me i gave a rose to my librarian she says that i remind her of d'artagnan she hides like a hermit reads too much calvino but whenever she's near i'm a tigery guy [i have a banana at home that thinks it's a cat and whenever it goes it stays where it's at sometimes i think this is all really real but usually i'm slipping on my cat's banana peel] i fell right out of a tree that could talk pulled at the roots to see if it could walk quick disappointment turned to security when the tree said to me "i won't go anywhere" it's a giving tree....

my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs it's also measured out in cigarettes and tea my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs and maybe eno's shirts if he'd give some to me don't go changing that radio station don't go touching your little dial unless you put on that glass compilation any song yeah i don't care at all.... my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs by the magnetic fields, the soft boys and lou reed my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs by stockholm monsters and that fishy jbc my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs just like the smiths and maybe early morrissey my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs i even like that moody stuff on 4ad don't go changing that radio station don't go touching your little dial unless you put on young popular & sexy i always liked that railway children song my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs one's rebel rebel by david bowie my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs by all the davy jones & all the monkees my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs just like joao gilberto's simple joie de vivre my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs it's not a boast but i will say the marble tea too my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs the beatles, jojo, liz phair & the raspberries my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs the monochrome set & of course the go-betweens my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs smokey, stevie & (hey!) memphis tennessee my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs le disque du crepescule & factory my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs my life is measured out in 3 minute pop songs

i don't want to think of you as a lover just passing through there aren't enough days to live that way so i burn the radio and i melt the songs real slow now the music sounds just how i feel i don't care if you're through with me i might acknowledge it distantly when i see you each night in my sad dreams i don't want to be forgiving after all there's no crime in living but there is one thing i can't forget so i burn the radio and i melt the songs real slow now the music sounds just how i feel

here they come they're overcoats and they're warm and very good to us when you put one on i have to smile for i know exactly how you feel there they go they're overcoats i've got something i should say to those and your overcoat's my favorite piece of clothing yes your overcoat's my favorite piece of clothing