1. |
Lesser Star
03:50
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You just perpetuate the puddle
Crying it out onto the floor
And if it isn't too much trouble
Can you not do that anymore?
You're quintessential 90's drama
I'm 1940's film noir
Behold the beauty of Red Giant
Eclipse the death of lesser stars
With all the theatre behind a war time speech you
Deliver your 11th hour decree and
I try not to fall asleep
You just perpetuate the puddle
Crying it out onto the floor
Hey, if it isn't too much trouble
Can you not do that anymore?
Heya, nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
Heya, heya
With all the theatre behind a wartime speech you
Deliver your 11th hour decree and
I try not to fall asleep
You are hypothesized cold fusion
I'm burning up the Nth degree
You just perpetuate the puddle
Crying it out onto the floor
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2. |
At Intermission
03:18
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Your mind is malleable
Wild-eyed and beautiful
Naive, but that's ok
Might just be good these days
This town will eat your heart
Then call it modern art
Fashion you for display
In most peculiar ways
Go and see the World
Don't forget that you're my girl
Go get lost outside
Don't forget where home resides
And tell me your thoughts at intermission
Give me your heart at denouement
I've been indigenous
To the deciduous
The river through your skull
The untapped wherewithal
Go and see the world
Don't forget that you're my girl
Go get lost outside
Don't forget where home resides
And tell me your thoughts at intermission
And where be your heart at denouement?
Go and see the world
Don't forget that you're my
You're my girl
Go get lost outside
Go get lost
Don't forget where home resides
And tell me your thoughts at intermission
Relinquish your heart at denouement
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3. |
One With Nature
03:25
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Left alone to our devices
Hate, hurt, fury, love, and numbness
Poetry we birthed in crisis
Hate, hurt, fury, love, and numbness
Filling up the cracks you find us
Hate, hurt, fury, love, and numbness
Sentimental means that bind us
Hate, hurt, fury, love, and numbness
Communism works in theory
Coffee shop talk, and reefer
Politicians hunt the weary
One with nature
In the dimly lit crevices
Hate, hurt, fury, love, and numbness
Anarchy goes down on justice
Ha, yeah
Hate, hurt, fury, love, and numbness
Communism works in theory
Coffee shop talk, and reefer
Politicians hunt the weary
One with Nature
Nothing ever goes your way
Nothing ever goes your way
Nothing ever really goes your way
Detrimental dental rates, decimated interstate
Traffic trailing off into the fray
Still I know you're here to stay, yes I know you're here to stay
Yes, I know, you'll never go away
Waiting on a tax rebate
Everything is on delay
Carve into a picnic bench "No Fate"
Competition, conspiracy
Red eyed livestock
And reefer
Politicians hunt the weary
One with nature
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4. |
Street Rats
03:59
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Took a walk to clear my head
Let me eyes acclimatize with the sun's descent
It goes so slow
Hurry said or hurry yelled, hurrying, worrying, 'till we fizzle out
Its fight
Or flight
Am I right?
How do I find you...?
Coming alive - only at night
Scavengers born on sketchy city streets
I know the struggle is real and
Savages retreat at signs of early light
That's when
August brings the heat babe
And when I can't sleep babe
That's when I go deep babe
Pursuing you
Took a walk to ease my mind
Let my brain rearrange how I perceive time
It goes, oh, so slow
How do I find you...?
August brings the heat babe
And when I can't sleep babe
That's when I go deep babe...
Coming alive - only at night
Scavengers born on sketchy city streets
I know the struggle is real and
Savages retreat at signs of early light
That's when
August brings the heat babe
And when I can't sleep babe
That's when I go deep babe
Pursuing you
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5. |
Elephant
03:40
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She never forgets
Just like an elephant
Tasted my best
Witnessed my worst defects
She never forgets
Laying down residence
Up in my chest
Up in my chest
Maybe it's just fortuitous
Or she chose me over the rest
She's indigenous
Adorned in feathered dress
And painted flesh
But that's a dream, I guess
Maybe it's just fortuitous
Or she chose me over the rest
Yes
No one knows you like I do
Convoluted and misconstrued
Here comes a change in your mood
No one knows you like I do
Like I do
Like I do
Like I do
She never forgets
Just like an elephant
Tasted my best
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6. |
Plea from a Pomegranate
03:58
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I need one more day to ripen
Just give me one more day
Before you go to siphon
Everything I am away
I never really asked for all that much
I never really asked for all that much
I had never asked for all that much
Just to stay
She prayed for absolution
For all her misspent youth
For a stay of execution
'Till she's a little longer in the tooth
She never really asked for all that much
She never really asked for all that much
She had never asked for all that much
Just to stay
The trees reach for sunlight
As do we, I guess
She soaks up enough to suggest that she's a little obsessed
The trees reach for sunlight
I must confess
The new dawn relieves the dark and deep-rooted duress
I need one more day to ripen
Just give me one more day
Before you go to siphon
Everything I am away
Ah, everything I am
I never really asked for all that much
I never really asked for all that much
We had never asked for all that much
Just to STAY
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7. |
Office Obsession
03:37
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Look who's altered
Made an adjustment
Wears her hair stirred a little different
No one pays her nary a compliment
It's a sin
Let's be foreign
Emigrate somewhere
New and warm and emulate all their
Beauty born regrettably self-aware
That's a sin
I wanna tell her I love her
But the damned bureaucracy
Another work week wraps up
40 hours of misery
Lunch room love
My office obsession
I don't know what to say
Cryptic talk and pre-written questions
Lead me astray
Water cooler swallow my confessions
Oh, that's a sin
I want to tell her I love her
But the damned bureaucracy
Another work week wraps up
40 hours of misery
But I crush on her so hard
We disenfranchise the creep
Another work week winds down
40 hours of misery
I want to tell her I love her
But the damned bureaucracy
Oh mama, they want to reprimand me
No one ever falls for the freak
I want to tell her I love her
I want to tell her I...
Oh, Lorelai
Lorelai
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8. |
High Function
04:23
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Maybe you will wake up mistaken
And it will be a good day after all
Maybe no migraine comes
Don't tell me your sweet skull's forsaken
One day too big
The next it's
Far too small
Maybe no migraine comes
Maybe no migraine comes
The speed of sound
Ain't fast enough
To bring me down
To your level
Where I have found, fraulein, I can eat your pain
Sick in the head? No.
Misunderstood
Give it a hundred years
They'll praise your work
After the migraine comes
After the migraine comes
The speed of sound
Ain't fast enough
To bring me down
To your level
Where I have found, fraulein, I can eat your pain
Ohhhh Mother cries
"What have you done!?"
Ohhhh, Mother cries
"What have you done!?"
Condemn the son
Maybe we have some fun...
The speed of sound
Ain't fast enough
To bring me down
To your level
Where I have found, fraulein, I can eat your pain
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9. |
Germ Machine
05:12
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One collective cough
Of everyone but me
Riding through winter
On the Germ Machine
Oh, to escape this vulnerability
Or stay, for the pageantry
The salt the season
Leaves behind in spring
Obscures your shoes and
Sullies everything
Hold back your sigh, son
Summer is coming
And stay, for to hear the birds sing
Be ready to run!
(Different does is come with age?)
After all is said and done
(Now internal war be waged)
At the sound of the starter's gun
(Saving face just turn the page)
You'd better be ready to run!
(Now internal war be waged)
Now we endure the folly of father
Even the days he cannot be bothered
And look for strength from your older brother
Who stays for the pageantry
Be ready to run!
(Different does is come with age?)
After all is said and done
(Now internal war be waged)
At the sound of the starter's gun
(Saving face just turn the page)
You'd better be ready to run!
(Now internal war be waged)
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10. |
Sun Still Climbs
05:35
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You'd better not tell
Keep it to yourself
Believe it
The secret
Makes you rather interesting
The ancient jasmine
Is and has been
Surviving
Thriving
In amidst the evergreens
Please believe, the sun will shine
Darling, when Shakespeare lifts the languid fog
Words that stand the test of time
Darling, those introspective monologues
Why, yes, I followed
Watched your eyes hollow out again
Go all dark again
Devoid of emotion
Such is your defence
Such is your defence
Please believe, the sun still climbs
Darling, when F. Scott's eloquence prevails
Winds that push the sands of time
Filling up imagination's mighty sails...
You always had your books
Please believe, the sun still shines
Darling, when Shakespeare lifts the languid fog
Words that stand the test of time
Darling, those introspective monologues
Please believe
Please believe
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