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Small World

by James Linck

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1.
if i see you today, i wanna have something to say... no c notes just playin' these middle c notes in the haze of gray weed smoke, i'm staring through at the easel when i check the peep hole there's no people and i'm a dull pencil, a broken vessel.. so i watch psycho but muted with all the lights off put on a little michael, put on rachmaninoff i chain smoke 'til the sun starts comin' up in a dark castle, a broken vessel and i'm so restless tryn figure how to address this the issue why no checks is coming towards my address when i check the checklist, first is make a checklist but i got no stencil, a broken vessel and i just hate shit. i hate shit for the sake of hatin' i'm runnin' outta patience. i'm bout to be a patient.. but i know all about the laws of feng shui. i shouldn't left you standin' lone by the doorway. and i don't trust 'em like shiny shields of justice. i never been well adjusted, just fake it when i'm forced to.. and each week dreamin' up a new scheme, to pay the rental, a broken vessel all my favorite tv shows about men with trust issues and then i watch tv, while i'm fallin' asleep and the feeling's embedded in me and puts me ill at ease. i'm a vessel. i'm a broken vessel.
2.
my social life's an inside joke and nobody checks their spelling anymore before they post i'm splitin' roaches and sick of sittin' home imma spark the babies then i'll meet you at the painted lady lookin' shady in my hoodie, faded in a bar where they would never play this so you know i gotta spark the babies three's a party but nine's a crowd doc said bank your likes for a moment of self doubt i'm splitin' roaches and sick of sittin' home imma spark the babies then i'll meet you at the painted lady...
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Buttons 02:30
let's have some fun babe i always choke on your bong what are you recoiling from i must of hit it wrong always seem so simple tryin' to love you now i don't know what i'm doin' i'm just mashing buttons it's may 29th but it'll be many months by the time you hear this song i wonder what you'll be doin' i don't wanna fight, it's our last life but just like i told ya i ain't tryin' to control ya i'll put down the controller just to hold your hand now
4.
Small World 01:58
i'm screech and urkel zack and theo dwayne wayne in shades all mixed together and kevin arnold is always narrating i'm raph and leo link and mario teaming up to save the mushroom kingdom but most times i fall like glass joe in the ring you think you wanna be with someone like me but you should really think about it there's a lot that you don't know cause you could be my girl the kind that can tell anyone about it now you could be my girl in a small world
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Whatup 02:47
sometimes i'm frightened of the future or just sentimental for the past but these hits i make 'em while i'm takin' hits so i can hold my heavy heart right in my hands this for the kids in the tiger fitteds and all the chicks that let me hit it whatup this for the words in a pretty song and all the people that put me on you're sittin' pretty in your precepts i'm drunk as fuck and talkin' shit cause my friends are all dying or makin' plans and i can't help but speak my mind on where i stand this for the coats and the dead end jobs and all winter with the furnace off this for the shorts and the master plans and all the summers that came and went i can't do much but i can fill a cup and turn it off for a while
6.
when you're still wearin' last night's clothes and you're sick of your face and your phone just say your name out loud and repeat it 'til it don't even sound like anything anymore stare into the mirror 'til you disappear top five tips for takin' little trips down the smoke rings of your mind when you're twisted between the sheets and she's lookin' at you so sweet don't tell her that you love her then dream about another if you're prone to talkin' in your sleep lie straight through your teeth even while asleep top five tips for stayin' outta shit when your hundred's at a ninety-nine if you follow these few tips it'll make you completely rethink all those nights you thought you knew yeah i'm really for real dude when you're setting out to write a song and you know that the feeling is strong don't call it top five if you can't think of four and don't let nobody give you no advice about love
7.
Andrea 04:20
i got 1,328 friends but i'm never quite as lonely as when i look at them and sometimes i can't think of nothin' that don't make me feel sad but andrea got my name tattooed on her leg cause she knows i'm ice cold and we're both stuntin' on hoes there's rappers in the dives i don't go to the clubs there's clubs up on our wheels and smoke in our lungs there's pots in the road and coke on the stove there's glass around our roses and rats in our homes a mattress in the alley and bugs in our beds but andrea got my name tattooed on her leg and i wear the same clothes everyday i wear the same clothes graffiti in the gallery and art on our arms there's songs about paintings and some paintings are scars there's songs about love like there's always been andrea got my name tattooed on her leg
8.
where i can only guess but home is where i lay my head don't know the address but home is where they'll send my checks i've been dreamin' about my baby since sunday afternoon she's always changin' faces and walkin' outta rooms but she knows her way back home all most home don't take much imagination detroit is a space station isolated with no escape from fill your heart then watch it breakin' always feelin' too little or too much better put on this podcast of alan watts wish there was an app that'd severely shock when i try to text you after many shots why do i believe in love probably listened to too many marvin gaye songs fearless exaltation was the sound of this town now where do i belong
9.
Open Layup 01:32
i wanted an intro but feels like time is running out please god let the right words come out my mouth cause my debts they aren't like prison where you might get out only sentence are the sentences that i still can't spit out don't ask me why i sing about the past and open layup but i didn't use the glass and i know your brothers never coming home but i just hope that he found what he was looking for
10.
Tape 02:41
i'm always fucking around doing things that i should never do but i'm not sorry baby the whole worlds gone crazy tryin' to act the way someone told him to i fell asleep before the rest of your messages came through and i'm real sorry baby but i can't help think maybe they came in through the dream when i heard this tune i keep breakin' your heart and mending it with tape but i'll keep playing my part cause i think that it's so great that what i say on a tape is just what i said and even long after i'm dead they can play it for you

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released July 7, 2015

ALL SONGS WRITTEN, RECORDED, AND PRODUCED BY JAMES LINCK EXCEPT BROKEN VESSEL: ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION BY EDDIE LOGIX AND ADDITIONAL DRUMS BY DAVID KENDZORSKI, ANDREA: BASS GUITAR BY STEVEN KENDZORSKI, SPACE STATION: ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER JARVIS AND BASS GUITAR BY STEVEN KENDZORSKI, TAPE: ELECTRIC GUITAR BY STEVEN KENDZORSKI

MIXED AND MASTERED BY JON ZOTT

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Wistful nostalgia, of the vein innate to many millennials, is the mood pervading from alt-R&B crooner James Linck.

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