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"Second Order Vanity"

from Direct & Discreet EP by Conductors

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I’ll never see the point in button-fly jeans
Don’t look at me that way again
If you ask me what it all means
I won’t tell you if I am your friend

Does obsolete technology always become luxury?
It’s not for me

I used to ask all the pretty girls at the party
What was their favorite time of the day.
To appeal to women you have to use trickery
Is that OK?

I don’t want to be that way
I still want you to hear what I say

Do they think I’m vain?
Do you think I’m vain?
I’m a proud man, not insane
Still I’m worried and I don’t have anyone to whisper to
Is my gravestone gonna read,
“Only ever loved by his parents truly”?
Is this failure for me?
True humility is a stranger to itself
It’s stupid, ignorant
I strive and deny learning jokes in the middle of the night

I’ll never be comfortable in a scarf
And I can’t stand to wear a hat too long
Sunglasses on stage might make me barf
I’m not sure how I stand singing my own songs


Accessories are only good for crime
I avoid them all the time

When you’re easy going, you’re easily got
We’re not supposed to care about how we appear
Still I’ve got to look casual quite a lot
We have to jump through strange hoops my dear

Should all these things be meaningless to me?
Is that how I’m supposed to be?

Isn't that real vanity?

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from Direct & Discreet EP, released December 31, 2012

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Conductors Chicago, Illinois

"Mona tried to tell me
To stay away from the train line
She said that all the railroad men
Just drink up your blood like wine
An’ I said, 'Oh, I didn’t know that
But then again, there’s only one I’ve met
An’ he just smoked my eyelids
An’ punched my cigarette' "
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