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Wild and Pretty Games (Album)

by Mermaid in China

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1.
Wild and Pretty Games 04:28
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You can’t find me, I can’t find you You can’t find me, I can’t find you You can’t find me, I can’t find you You can’t find me, I can’t find you I can’t find you, I can’t find you I can’t find you, I can’t find you I can’t find you, I can’t find you I can’t find you, I can’t find you Positively fine when you’re around me Forcibly entwined when you’ll have thee Mask the words that come to you Relinquish them in fumes I know you don’t feel it too I know you don’t feel it too You can’t find me, I can’t find you You can’t find me, I can’t find you You can’t find me, I can’t find you You can’t find me, I can’t find you I can’t find you... Positively fine when you’re around me Forcibly entwined when you’ll have thee Captured in the melody Unwilling to ignore that I know you don’t feel it too Mask the words that come to you Relinquish them in fumes I know you don’t feel it too How long must I wonder? How long must I wander? I know you don't feel it too
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Demon of Perfection 02:47
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New digs in a plastic town You gotta fresh start and your lingo down You’re in phase but all you ever wanna do is talk about your silly problems Last call for your broken luck you gotta Work hard just to earn a buck for your pain It seems insane for me to say that money doesn’t snuggle well I don’t wanna be here to lose Put yourself in my shoes and help me finish the race I’ll push and pull to the end Close my eyes and pretend I want this more than I do Sweet dreams little buttercup why don’t you Heal me with your golden touch It’s ok you and I we never play nice Blue jeans slightly pinkish red it’s always So cold underneath your bed you got AIDS How could you claim you play the game When you don’t even know the rules I don’t wanna be here to lose Put yourself in my shoes and help me finish the race I’ll push and pull to the end Close my eyes and pretend I got ya bleeding Infecting all your dreams and Perfecting all these demons for you
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The View Subterranean 04:50
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I don't know which way to go You can't always find the road I'd set a course if I could see ahead I know only what I’ve seen Decades chopped to memories Many of which I'd sometimes rather just forget We gave up our labor yielded no fruit Thinking always I'm nothing without you Idle hands ambitious plans Secret vaults and garbage cans You will take none of it when you're done Sacrifice golden time most of life Just survive and provide blithely till we all die The clock measures time at a fixed rate But as we get older shorter seem the days We're all wandering this blue dot Serving all our self-regarding wants The best of times are all behind I can't see otherwise It’s clear the best of times are all behind and I can't see otherwise
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Way to Nowhere 06:00
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Oh pleasant day, flagrant story of the vain Without shade or remorse, from the promise sworn to all with eyes to see There hand in hand, glaring callously upon this weathered soul. You want to know it for yourself. While moaning clings to fragile bones For time’s a wary, heavy stone Caroling its vacant joke (curse) Lost on the way to nowhere, lonely for the ride Lost on the way to nowhere, seconds falling by Once in a woeful mile, life bears a smile Oh pleasant day, wavering slowly set engraved Like the first and the last, where the hour, it sings to only leave unheard Hard to settle down, as the twilight fades with night’s truth calling out Posh linen, crowns, and porcelain pets, Fake cologne on the wrist of your torment See the crux of a lustless tide burns right Inside myself, down in myself, ‘cause I’m lost You’d like to know it for yourself, To wear the eyes that sight inhales That hidden words fail to avow The pain that binds you Perched on the mind like a portrait Lost on the way to nowhere, always wondering why Lost on the way to nowhere, spinning through this life Born in this empty world, waiting by Held in the undertow, as strangers frolic ‘long the shoreline Summer’s a sunken dream, and I want to cry How is one supposed to laugh when they’re alone? Where is the gift that life seems to withhold? Nothing to win, no moment to be missed If years grieve helplessly before the Rose in the vase withers, plucked from its fair splendor Coals from the fire peter out for the last winter Lost on the way nowhere Right to the, straight through the finish
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Fantasma 01:10
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Where Are You Paradise? 02:58
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Rosies flowing on the vine Colors in a dream so well disguised Oooo Thirst and its promise washed ashore Pleasure swimming in the depths left unexplored And you knew There’s no true Paradise There’s a secret you should know Burning hot as lava down below I’m so blue Where are you Paradise?
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Stranger Danger, Pt. 2 03:26
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Would you mind if I sat behind from a distance Birds and bees calling me to claim our existence Truth or dare skin so fair Don’t play with me stranger danger Gets stranger and stranger everyday you’re awake I wish you could relate to all my pain
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Spirit 02:53
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I waited out the night clinging to the bedside Got up drug myself out into the wet cold day And there ain’t a thing that the multiverse owes to me It’s but a grim indifferent mass of entropy You’ll never know what it means Meditation vital self-deception You tried to make the best of what you lost an awful mess Contentment torture apathy Over and over the narrative on repeat Talks up doubt with a deafening wretched sound It’s a result of atomic junk Accidental luck What’d you think that you could turn it down You got up to find replenishing light But a leak in your head multiplied And the things you try to trick them sunken eyes Merely vain attempts to undermine eons of evolution Quit fucking around go get the sedative medicine take it down
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Prom 02:37
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released January 8, 2021

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Mermaid in China Portland, Oregon

🎸If Brian Wilson and Andrew VanWyngarden had a love child
🌋New album “Wild and Pretty Games” out Jan. 8th
🌲Portland, OR
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