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Ben Walsh

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1.
net dating 03:19
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what if you're effin right? i'd like to see your data in spite of those anecdoes that convince those guys i'd like to see your sample size fit those points with a line your internet looks so nice when you update your lies what kind of word is incentivize? what scandals materialized between your thighs? did anything happen at all inside your mind? chorus those suffragettes came marchin in and they took all the votes but what kind of men did they enfranchise the most? turns out it was me turns out i was meant to be waiting here patiently chorus
2.
fMRI 02:44
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yeah you maximize my function like no other ever even once did yeah you maximize my function and do it with such compunction i got problems but few complaints i got resources but they have constraints how can i get the most utility? give em to you so you can show me the thing about my function is its limits are infinite cause when i start something i just gotta finish yeah you maximize my funk ooh girl you got it real crunk with costs irrelevant and sunk you maximize my funk my funk, my funk, my funk funk fa funk, my functional MRI! what would find if you scanned my mind? imagines of you with me inside if you functionally imaged my brain you would find that you make me insane you'd find the reason that i'm perfectly sized you would find that my function's optimized repeat all
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motivational shred 01:59
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take it out and don't you put it away the time is ripe so do it today will you breathe today? do you feel alive? take it out put your machine in overdrive no shoppin no cleanin no preparin your meals instead somethin that makes you feel start it up, see it through make a change for us for yourself and the world be a plus is there a reason you are here? then don't hesitate get out your comfort zone and demonstrate
4.
kleenex 05 02:46
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i run my ideas by you you advise me on what to do i think i know what's good to do but you think you know better so i defer to you i bought my kleenex in 2005 i opened them today there was an ad inside it recommended that i buy buy, buy, buy, buy buy, buy, buy, buy buy, buy, buy, buy more kleenex next time i write these songs so you can relate to me and i, to you i'd like you to absorb them and then we'll be in tune yeah then we'll be in tune then we'll be in tune then we'll be in tune i run my ideas by you i think you know what's good to do you think i know some good stuff too so we stick together and get your brand of tissues we get your brand of tissues credits
5.
love dart 01:54
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if you’re expelling gas with so many farts i’ll deodorize now baby i’ll do my part i will absorb all of your love darts i’ll accommodate you baby i’ll do my part if you’re puckered up cause your soup's too tart i’ll sugar it up now baby i’ll do my part if you need my thoughts when we’re far apart i’ll send em first class baby i’ll do my part i'll do my part
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lay and wonder/balkan beat recycler 04:08
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and i lay and wonder every day what to think what to do what to say and its a wonder that with all this clutter i can think anything good at all i go over to the other side nearly every day and i see that it's camouflage and i slowly back away what else could you do confronted with an inferior version of you? would you sink would you slide or would you come back tonight? i'm a user i'm a saver i'm a omnivore i recycle everything that i use and more i reduce i reuse i conserve everything i do it when i shop when i eat when i sing i compost my fruits use every part of the meat and when i'm makin tunes i recycle my beats just like this from the burbs to the balkans so all my fans can dance to them all then and when you shake dat ass til you're completely spent cause these grooves make you move at 100 percent know that you can dance all night guilt free because they're environmentally friendly (yes) each beat is at least 10 percent top quality certified post-listener content
7.
traffic jam 03:07
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every day i go back and forth back and forth and i wonder really what it’s for what it’s for i got school so i go down south even though there’s one right up near my house on my bike on the bus in my car i could do somethin good instead i just travel far its nice to see the scenery throughout the year but it would really be nice if i could just stay here i got friends and relatives they live far away i see em at weddings, funerals and holidays i miss em i text em and i write sometimes if i could see em weekly it’d be quite sublime i could surf the internet all damn day i could rap take a nap or kiss my babe i could play guitar or take a book off my shelf but instead i use the time to go somewhere else my parents got a house in a town full of kids but they teach other ones that’s not where they live every town’s got kids hundreds or thousands they probably got teachers livin in their houses they could get together teach and learn right there perhaps they would like that if they cared rich kids go to private school somewhere else and the teachers wake up and rearrange themselves they live in the burbs and drive to their jobs traffic jams beepin horns like angry mobs they live in the city and still commute because they have a job that’s somewhere else too we can form business and other organizations we can sprawl out across this entire nation we can keep in touch buy stuff get ahead but maybe we can do that on the internet instead we go back and forth back and forth back and forth and i wonder really what’s it for what it’s for what’s so good about all these other places? that it’s worth spending hours changin our spaces on my bike on the bus in my car i could do somethin good instead i just travel far i kinda like the ride so it’s not that bad but if school came to my house i’d be really glad wouldn’t it be sweet to get far places fast and underneath all this dirt there’s lots of metal and gas they put it all together and invented the car but they could just stay and do stuff right where they are and when we use these things we destroy our planet it won’t last forever if we take it for granted you could bike buy a hybrid or take public transit but you could also just stay right where you’re standin we would like that we could do stuff we’d save money work less we’d get out enough we could travel when we wanted to for leisure no traffic more novelty it would please us so on your next trip if you start thinkin why stay home instead find somethin good nearby
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painful books/herbal remedies 04:48
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i was there you knew it but you acted like you didn't care you knew i was there i was there when this side of me sees that side of you there's nothing it can do to make you care i was inside and outside and sought everywhere and i was keenly aware that you weren't there you weren't there i thought things were so fine when you bade me drink your dandelion wine i thought things were sublime i thought you could be mine i was honestly surprised when you so quickly friended me online i thought things were sublime i thought you might be mine, mine, mine when you went back to doing art then you could be with your own kind i be that was sublime but you could have been mine when you went back to arizona where those lakes are running dry i bet that was sublime but you could have been mine, mine, mine
9.
nightlife 03:16
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i awoke to the high tide it was rushing in i felt it near i went outside it was crashing in i awoke to the nightlife it was pounding them there was nothing to stop it they bounced again and again they received entertainment they don't like thinking at night while they were out i was inside i had the time of their lives it was me, it was i! i had the time of their lives credits
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no guarantees/sunnyside 04:53
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when the hurricane comes when the hurricane comes there's no telling what it will bring when the hurricane comes when the hurricane comes you could lose everything when the hurricane comes when the hurricane comes as long as you're evacuating when the hurricane comes when the hurricane comes you'll be fine if you started with nothing when the hurricane comes when the hurricane comes you could lose everything when the hurricane comes when the hurricane comes you'll be fine if you started with nothing nothing! i don't want any guarantees i don't even want consistency i much prefer variety randomness is alright with me i don't want insurance! i don't even want security besides, i mean who would want to come and take me? you should know by now that i'm tryin to skip town i'm also tryin to leave you alone but you alone are mine what else could i do? go out, find something new? what could i find on only a bike? don't worry, i know what i like i know what i like oh my it's sunny outside today what'd you see when you looked outside today? i bet you couldn't find your usual skies of gray it's just so sunny outside today! you should come out and face the facts you should come back out make it a comeback today we'll just lay in the grass tonight we'll measure stellar parallax you get mixed up with your ins and outsides you get mixed up with your north and your south sides be careful cause one is the shadyside over there's rape, robbery and homicide but that makes the other one the sunnyside so get some fresh air go for a ride if you said it wasn't nice that'd be a lie
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i already know 03:16
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i already know what's in your underclothes, whoa so i ought to know what's in your arsenal all of the books will show how to cook vegetables bowls of artichokes, okay i'm all grown what makes your feelings flow? what makes your spirit glow? you know that grudge you hold let go, let's go where the people go own their own homes underneath the ozone, oh no that bird has flown that bird has flown
12.
mutual decisions 04:06
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it doesn't really matter to me if you try see, i can get a new one for 3.99 it doesn't really matter to me if you try i didn't even bother to ask why if it meant a lot to you then i would try it wasn't apparent whether it was ours or mine if you were ambivalent then i'd step aside but you cared so i tried
13.
closer 03:33
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do you ever wonder what it's like to be a movie star? you won't get very far do you ever wonder what it's like to be a CEO? well you already know the acquisition of knowledge has nothing to do with going to college but everything to do with what could be meaningful to you do you know what the difference is between your life and hers and his? it's nothing at all! if i am wrong then so are you all along we haven't known what to do, what to do, what to do in what sense are you alive? up til now i've realized that the rests of our lives they are waiting, they are waiting for us to arrive in what sense are you alive?
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shmufflepants 01:44
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i don't know how to stand i just know how to dance i shmiggle shmaggle shmoogle shmuffle in my shmufflepants it's irrepressible you can't control your dance c'mon and do the shmiggle shmaggle wit your shmufflepants c'mon and do this dance it puts you in a trance you'll shmiggle shmopple shmapple shmuffle in your shmufflepants uh smiffle shmufflepants buh biffle bufflepants a pipple poffle pupple poople popple pufflepants

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