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Special Snowflakes

from Odds and Ends by Pile

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Matt Becker on guitar, Matt Connery on bass, Kris Kuss on drums and Rick Maguire on other guitar and vocals. Initially released in 2014 on the Special Snowflakes 7”. Recorded in January of 2014 by Dan Angel and James Ryskalchick at the Sex Dungeon in Philly PA, mixed by Ben Brodin

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Morning comes with birds and kids talking to themselves
For some reason
And wrists can vibrate at a comfortable rate
To get you to sleep or keep you from it

He wears that hole in his shoe with real grace
And if he wears it right he just might have
A leg up on everyone, but it’d feel so good
They’d all watch him tie those gold laces
And they become things he can’t stop tying
Becoming grateful and bitter for his brand new handicap
And holding the ropes that he’d been thrust upon
He can’t get his hands off his feet to enjoy the walk
Now it’s tough to tell if ever he was real
Just knows the crunch of his new boots crushes all special snowflake

Choke the evil out
Smoke the evil out
Stroke the evil out
Choke the evil out

It’s satisfied by removing chunks of dead skin
It turns it on the same way
It couldn’t keep a straight face staring at it, it turns it on

With that mirror you force yourself to stare
And you stink of the holiness they soaked you in
It ends up driving you bored and drinking you numb
So special for a minute, though.

He wears that hole in his shoe with the same face
And if he wears it right he just might have
To keep that leg up on everyone
Because it feels so good
They’d all watch him tie those gold laces
And they become things he can’t stop tying
Gratefully bitter for that old handicap
And gripping the ropes that he holds himself on
Feet paraded on high as his hands take the walk
Now it’s tough to tell if ever he was real
Just knows the crunch of those old boots keeps him a special snowflake

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from Odds and Ends, released September 7, 2018

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