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You and I will be together

When we shed our memory

I won't wear an orange sweater

When I get it off of me

When it's as it someday is

It always will have been the case

When your ever-searching finger

Finds the button marked erase


Finger find the button marked erase

Like a deep sea diver

Falling into a mermaid's embrace

Put one box on the sidewalk

Then you return with the next

And the first one's gone

Everyone gets on the bus out of town

And the lights start going out one by one


Button marked erase

When darlings must be murdered

When your heartbreak overwhelms your heart


Think of this as solving problems

That should never have occurred

Please don't call it strangulation,

That is such an ugly word


Press erase, ignore the shrill alarms

See the way the deep sea diver

Falls into the mermaid's arms

Put one box on the sidewalk

Then you return with the next

And the first one's gone

Everyone gets on the bus out of town

And the lights start going out one by one


Button marked erase

When darlings must be murdered

When your heartbreak overrides the very

Thing you can not face

The skeletons that won't stay down

The mercy kill that can't be drowned


Put

Box

Sidewalk

Then

Return

Next

First one gone


Everyone

On

Bus

Out

Lights

Out

One by one


Finger find the button marked erase

Like a deep sea diver

Falling into a mermaid's embrace

Put one box on the sidewalk

Then you return with the next

And the first one's gone

Everyone gets on the bus out of town

And the lights start going out one by one


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  (She Was A) Hotel Detective   [untitled]   0Can You Find It?   200 SBemails   25 O'clock   32 Footsteps   85 Radio Special Thank You.   9 Secret Steps   A Self Called Nowhere   A Shooting Star Is Not A Star   Aaa   About Me   Absolutely Bill's Mood   Absolutely Bill's Mood   AKA Driver   Alienation's for the Rich   Alienation's For The Rich   All The Lazy Boyfriends   Alphabet Lost And Found   Alphabet Of Nations   Am I Awake?   Ana Ng   Another First Kiss   Answer   Ant   Apartment Four   Au Contraire   Bangs   Bastard Wants To Hit Me   Bastard Wants to Hit Me [*]   Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (Hidden)   Become A Robot   Bed Bed Bed   Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth   Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (Hidden)   Birdhouse in Your Soul   Birds Fly   Black Ops   Boat of Car   Boss Of Me   Boss Of Me("Malcolm In Middle"   Bread Hair   Broke In Two   C Is For Conifers   Cabbagetown   Cage & Aquarium   Cage & Aquarium   Call You Mom   Can You Find It?   Can You Find It? [DVD]   Can't Keep Johnny Down   Careful What You Pack   Cells   Certain People I Could Name   Chess Piece Face   Christmas Cards   Circular Karate Chop   Clap Your Hands   Clap Your Hands [*]   Clap Your Hands [DVD][*]   Climbing The Walls   Clowntown   Concrete And Clay   Confusing The Mind   Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (Hidden)   Contrecoup   Counterfeit Fake   Courage the Cowardly Dog Theme   Cowtown   Critic Intro   Cyclops Rock   D & W   D & W [DVD]   D & W   D And W   D Is For Drums   D Is for Drums [DVD]   D Is for Drums!   Damn Good Times   Damn Good Times [*]   Dark And Metric   Dead   Destination Moon   Dig My Grave   Dinner Bell   Dirt Bike   Doctor Worm   Don't Let's Start   Don't Let's Start (single mix)   Don't Let's Start   Dont Know Why It Takes That Long   Doris Cunningham   Dr. Evil   Dr. Worm   Drink!   Drinking   E Eats Everything   E Eats Everything [DVD]   E Eats Everything [Elegant Too Remix]   Edison Museum   Edison Museum [Wax Cylinder Recording]   Eight Hundred & Thirteen Mile Car Trip   End Of The Rope   Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (Hidden)   Even Numbers   Everything Right is Wrong Again   Experimental Film   Experimental Film [*]   Experimental Film [DVD][*]   Exquisite Dead Guy   Extra Savoir-Faire   Fake Out in Buenos Aires   Fake-Believe   Fake-Believe (Type B)   Fake-Believe (Type B) [DVD]   Fake-Believe [DVD]   Feign Amnesia   Fibber Island   Figure Eight   Fingertips   Fingertips (Reprise)   Finished With Lies   First Kiss   Flying V   Flying V [DVD]   For Science   Four of Two   Go For G!   Go for G! [DVD]   Good To Be Alive   Goodnight   Goodnight My Friends   Goodnight My Friends [DVD]   Greek #3   Hall of Heads   Hate The Villanelle   Hearing Aid   Hell Hotel   Here Come The ABCs   Here Come the Abcs [DVD]   Here Come the ABCs!   Here In Higglytown   Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal   Hi Honey I'm Home   Hi Honey I'm Home   Hide Away Folk Family   Hive Mind   Hiya   Homunculus   Hopeless Bleak Despair   Hot Cha   Hot Dog!   Hotel Detective   Hovering Sombrero   How Can I Sing Like A Girl?   How Much Cake Can You Eat   Hypnotist of Ladies   I Am a Grocery Bag   I Am A Human Head   I Am Not Your Broom   I C U   I C U [DVD]   I Can Add   I Can Hear You   I Can Help The Next In Line   I Can't Hide   I Can't Hide From My Mind   I Find It Hard To Believe   I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die   I Need Some Lovin'   I Palindrome I   I Should Be Allowed To Think   I'll Sink Manhattan   I'm Def   I'm Impressed   I've Got A Fang   I've Got a Match   I've Got A World That Swings   I'll Sink Manhattan   I'm A Coward   I'm Def   I'm Impressed   I'm Sick (Of This American Life)   I've Got A Fang   I've Got A Match   If I Wasn't Shy   If I Wasn't Shy   In the Middle   In The Middle, In The Middle, In the Middle   Introducing C Is for Conifers   Introducing C Is for Conifers [DVD]   Introducing Z Y X   Introducing Z y X [DVD]   Istanbul   Istanbul (Not Constantinople)   It's Kickin' In   It's Not My Birthday   It's Kickin' In   It's Not My Birthday   James K. Polk   John Lee Supertaster   Kiss Me, Son of God   Kiss Me, Son of God (alternate version)   Kitten Intro   L M N O   L M N O [DVD]   Lady is a Tramp   Lazy Head and Sleepy Bones   Lazyhead And Sleepybones   Let Me Tell You About My Operation   Letter / Not a Letter   Letter Shapes   Letter/Not a Letter   Letter/Not a Letter [DVD]   Letterbox   Lie Still, Little Bottle   LMNO   Lost My Mind   Lucky Ball & Chain   Lucky Ball & Chain   Lullaby To Nightmares   Madam, I Challenge You To A Duel   Maine   Mainstream   Malcolm in the Middle(Theme Song)   Mammal   Man, It's So Loud In Here   Man, It's So Loud In Here   Marty Beller Mask   Maybe I Know   Meet James Ensor   Memo To Human Resources   Metal Detector   Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Theme   Mink Car   Monsters Of Mud   Mr. Klaw   Mr. Me   Mr. Xcitement   Mrs. Cinderella   Mrs. Train   Museum of Idiots   Music Jail, Pt. 1 & 2   Music Jail, Pt. 1 & 2   My Brother the Ape   My Evil Twin   My Man   Nanobots   Narrow Your Eyes   New York City   Next Plane To London   Nightgown of the Sullen Moon   No One Knows My Plan   No!   Nonagon   Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes   Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes   Nouns   Now That I Have Everything   Number Three   O, Do Not Forsake Me   Older   On Earth My Nina   On The Drag   Ondine   One Dozen Monkeys   Ooh La! Ooh La!   Operators Are Standing By   Out Of Jail   Particle Man   Pencil Rain   Pet Name   Photosynthesis   Pictures Of Panda's Painting   Pictures of Pandas Painting   Pictures of Pandas Painting [DVD]   Piece of Dirt   Pirate Girls Nine   Planet Of The Apes   Planet Of The Apes (Hidden)   Prevenge   Purple Toupee   Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head   Q U   Q U [DVD]   QU   Rabid Child   Read A Book   Reprehensible   Return From The Planet Of The Apes (hidden)   Rhythm Section Want Ad   Richards on Richards   Road Movie to Berlin   Robot Parade   Robot Parade [DVD][*]   Rolling O   Rolling O [DVD]   Roy G. Biv   S - E - X - X - Y   S-E-X-X-Y   Santa's Beard   Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love   Schoolchildren Singing \"Particle Man\"   See The Constellation   Sentimental Over you   Seven   Seven Days Of The Week (I Never Go To Work)   She Thinks She's Edith Head   She's Actual Size   She's an Angel   Shoehorn with Teeth   Sleeping in the Flowers   Sleepwalkers   Snail Shell   Snowball In Hell   Someone Keeps Moving My Chair   Speed and Velocity   Spider   Spider-man Theme Song   Spine   Spines   Spiraling Shape   Spy   Stalk Of Wheat   Stalk of Wheat [DVD][*]   Stand on Your Own Head   Stomp Box   Stuff Is Way   Subliminal   Swing Is A Word   Take Out The Trash   Ten Mississippi   The Bells Are Ringing   The Big Big Whoredom   The Biggest One   The Bloodmobile   The Cap'm   The Cap'm   The Darlings Of Lumberland   The Day   The Edison Museum (Another Version)   The End of the Tour   The Famous Polka   The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)   The House At The Top Of The Tree   The Incredible Shrinking Day   The Mesopotamians   The Shadow Government   The Statue Got Me High   The Vowel Family   The Vowel Family [DVD]   The World Before Later On   The World's Address   The World's Address (Joshua Fried re-mix)   Theme From Flood   There's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow   Thermostat   They Got Lost   They Might Be Giants   They'll Need a Crane   This Ape's For You (Hidden)   Through Being Cool   Thunderbird   Till My Head Falls Off   Toddler Hiway   Turn Around   Twisting   Underwater Woman   Unpronounceable   Unrelated Thing   Upside Down Frown   Violin   Violin [DVD][*]   Wake Up Call   We Want a Rock   We're the Replacements   Wearing A Raincoat   Weep Day   When It Rains It Snows   Where Do They Make Balloons   Where Your Eyes Don't Go   Which Describes How You're Feeling   Whistling in the Dark   Who Put The Alphabet In Alphabetical Order?   Who Put the Alphabet in Alphabetical Order? [DVD]   Why Does the Sun Shine   Why Does the Sun Shine?   Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Inca...   Why Must I Be Sad?   Wicked Little Critta   Window   With The Dark   Withered Hope   Women & Men   Women & Men   Working Undercover For The Man   XTC vs. Adam Ant   Yeh Yeh   You'll Miss Me   Your Own Worst Enemy   Your Racist Friend   Youth Culture Killed My Dog   Z Y X   Z y X [DVD]   ZYX

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