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Can I Borrow a Lighter​?​/​Loose Cigarette (Live)

from MOUNTEBANK: Live from Lake Wobegon by Mountebank

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"Can I Borrow a Lighter?"

What do you keep behind closed doors?
Who will I find beneath your floorboards?
Collecting blood to paint the town—
My you're a hell of a gal

Forget the average let's talk mean
Smack me around a bit my darling orphaned edge-queen
That's if your latest trick allows.... I wish.

It's just another reminder of this ||
I left a note to remind her of this
Odd intervallic reminders of

How I would love to be, it only for a while
I would love to be like Aldous Huxley's child
I would love to be imagined or asleep
Might add up to a ghost
Still I count on this black sheep

"Loose Cigarette"

I'd absolutely love to be the Unibomber if that meant that I would have healthcare
Catch up on rent for the apartment, all 300 squares

The kitchen houses the commode
It leaves me with a very funny feeling
Like I should have looked up all along to see
I'm getting fucked on vaulted ceilings.
And it's a cold night
But if you don't mind to sit down with me
I know it sounds preposterous but I could see us sharing twin linen sheets.

After your man has lent a cigarette to the Terrible Machine who comes to claim you//We'll throw our gears down on the table as we dry hump and laugh.

We almost got back to my place but what
stopped us wasn't who we were deceiving
It's just my neighbor standing freely based and screaming at his newly broken/broke-in TV—
That's not what parking lots are for, man.

Well anyway if you'd still like to make an ampersand with me
Can't stand to see the face of some half-ass twice the man that I'll ever be
You claim to hate this routine
We can't keep our Terror unseen
Fell for this broken Machine
Who barely has a third of a cheek

And it's a cold night
I understand if you can't spend not just a little more time with me
I'll keep my wallet empty//like a frame that displays nobody's teeth
As though a fire came and chewed out the memories
And ate up all of our 300 sq. ft.

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from MOUNTEBANK: Live from Lake Wobegon, released October 4, 2016
Huge thanks to David Evans Audio.

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Mountebank Austin, Texas

Another filthy Austin-based-band cashing in our drink tokens and falling in love all too quickly.

We formed in June 2016 after having played in several other bands for years; the Hand of Fate slapped all those projects around a bit but thankfully we are way into that kind of thing.

That and biting.

Post-Pop/Indie-Rock/Alt. Folk ... more

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