1. |
Prologue
01:00
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White flowers pushing through the cracks in the street
And all the birds that I'd meet
They tweeted happily
But now
Now, it's all snow
And the only
The only color's red
From a cat that lost its head
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2. |
Millennium
02:21
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Oh no
Oh no
Well it's been a long, strange winter
I still ain't seen no one else
I've been across the country
I'm by myself
I've prayed at shrines
I've lived some lives
But they all were close to mine
Still I've had a good time
Who am I to complain
I'm alive
Well they tell me I could sleep through an earthquake
Out from Sunday to Thursday
Did I miss the man come back?
I guess that'd make this is the Millennium
Does that mean I
Does that mean I ran the track
Am I the only one that got the plaque
Now there's vines masticating the white house
Wonder when they'll scarf it down
I'm sure this is the way of things
I don't know should I laugh or frown
It's been five years time to meet my kin down south
As the end of the line thought they'd raise me up high
But I'm just a precocious runt
Wish that I'd held out
Read bonobos are a mite less blunt
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3. |
Good Going Down
02:18
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Well I'm terrified to give in to the frown
So I'm trapped in some good going down
And I don't know if it's right to lay my weapons down
'Cause then there's "Who am I without"
Yeah it's there then it ain't
You can scheme you can wait
You can plan this whole thing out
But what's the plan when it all comes down
I got a shady hat
So I can see it now
Yeah I'm trapped in some good going down
And yeah I know how to swim
But I don't want that now
So I'm trapped and the boat's going down
Is it all that bad
To bleed all that you had
To taste the bitter fruit of a tree growing up your ass
Seems it is
It's the filth in the toenails of the lord of scum
So fuck the fire fry in the pan
I got a brimless hat
And blindness wiped my frown
Yes I'm filled with the good as I drown
Yeah it's all right there
Get crushed or bow
Yeah it's all just good going down
You could seethe
You could hate
You can burn
(Yeah you can burn baby)
You can wait this whole thing out
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4. |
Slinking Destitute
02:12
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Baby (baby)
Baby
Baby, it's taken hold
(Won't you listen to me)
Wake me
Yeah then send me home
(Listen to listen to listen to listen to listen to me)
Burn my things and go
It was nice to be a clone, never felt alone
You were first class company
Willing
A strange state to be
(But don't you misconceive me)
Baby, you've been good to me
Listen to me (listen to me)
Well I'm moving as I moan
(I'm slinking destitute, yeah I'm feeling there's a breach)
I'm finding time to kill
My knives are dull and they're out of reach
I'm rolling destitute
Yeah I could do without the speech
Well baby (baby) baby (baby)
Baby
I can't feel my face
My lips my tongue they taste
Bitterness I've lived with this now how's it just gonna go away
Baby when will I know
(Won't you listen, won't you listen, won't you listen, won't you listen, won't you listen to me)
Buried deep in that hole
(Listen to listen to listen to...)
Baby you know you've got to go
(Won't you listen, won't you listen, won't you)
When my love runs cold
I'm dreadful company
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5. |
Cult of Sanctity
02:22
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Won't you break my fall
Come take it all
I'm at the phone store
Got my face to the floor
Got a call went to see who it's for
(So I got up to check and see who it's for)
Yeah it's a cold war
I kept one eye on the door
While I got up to check and see who it's for
And it's for me
I want it
But that's not me
Not what I wanna be
Want to love it
But that's so bleak
The cult of sanctity
Want to covet
(I want to covet, I want to covet...)
Is that so meek, no
It's sugar sickly sweet
Baby
My stomach seethes
(Please keep that distance from me)
Raindrops stop my clanking teeth
I gotta go
When did I grow past Babel, too tall to see the show
And am I the only one not laughing?
Am I the only one?
I'll say I want it
I'll say I want it
I’ll say I want it
No shit I want it honey
I’ll say I want it
I say I want it
I say I want it
Oh I’ll say I want it now
Say I want it but that’s not me
Or what I wanted to be
You know I
Want to covet, is that so meek?
It's sugar sickly sweet
The cult of sanctity
Pride, soiled sheets
What a world of creeps
Yeah I want it, but that’s so bleak
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I woke up and I felt afraid
Dreamt I was sleepless
Couldn't die at the end of the day
I wasn't god
But the closest thing
Just a lonely endless pattern
In the way
I took my bread
I sucked my grain
And I felt fear magnified
By the strength of sempiternal days
Got out of bed
Fell into the fray
Lemme tell you something honey
Ain't nothing new under the sun not now not ever
Not no way
Turned back to the calendar on my wall
It was the day of their lord so I'll be good
Sunday I'm mean and tall
'Cause when you're thrust headfirst into the banality of it all
Ain't no fun stickin' to your own proclivities
I tried that for the first half of eternity
So for the last whole freedom is the enemy of creativity's hanging on my wall
Hey
Well I woke up and I felt afraid
And I felt fear enveloping every last one of sempiternal days
We're coming around to year zero now
Think its time I try for fame
Maybe bring some good into the world
And when it turns bad well that, that's also okay
And what's life when the sun goes out
Or they burn the earth to dust
Just wait till I'm out in that inverted Alaskan winter wilderness
Night so dark and black it turns my brain to mud
I woke up and I felt afraid
Baby, I am petrified
Oh, and to think once I felt I had it made
Jumped out of the bedpan and into the flame
Just a lonely endless thread in the fray
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7. |
Lean Hard
02:15
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Through the pitch, clawed
Shot the shared god
Sewed him up with stitches as the witch cawed
Try and clean shards from the green part
Fake it till you slake it baby, lean hard
(And then ya)
You'll just breeze on through
No there's no excuse to ride the latitude
You eat
Ya ain't the food
So I could really do without the goddamn attitude
Shake it baby shake it baby twist up all your pistons baby
Maybe movement ain’t the function this afternoon
Weighty snippets maybe keep you with the sixes daily
But its sunny and I ain't havin' none
Well what's a breeze on through
If you really wanna ride the latitude, go 'head
Eat
You ain't yet food
So I could really do without the goddamn attitude
All hail the prince of pain
Your bitter bishop is an insult to his fame
Move you span out half the plane
Brick up an oven bake me
My silhouette is my name
You got two hands to touch
Whatcha gonna do?
You're just a pound of clay
Hey
Listen what I say
Bake it then you'll break it keep it wet and keep it naked come on
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8. |
Feel
03:01
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I got a funny little
Feeling
Everything started on a beautiful evening
The sun was out and in my eyes
And then I
I got into some trouble for stealing
A little piece of heaven's light
I got a feeling
That everything's alright
I said hey
I'm reelin'
(Can't you feel me reelin' babe)
But everything's just, everything's just fine
I got a funny little
(It's kinda funny)
They always say I had a problem with dealin' well
What am I gonna do
Hey I'm reelin'
I got this funny little feeling baby
(Got this feeling)
I'm fine
I said hey
It bears repeating, darling
Everything, it's fine
I said hey
I breath it in I got this nice little feeling
(I got a feeling)
That all the words are mine
I said hey
Don't look at me I'm just this nice little feeling baby
That everything is gonna be just fine
I got a funny little feeling everything will be just fine
I got a
I got
I
I got a pretty little feeling baby everything will be just fine
They pulled me in I had it difficult seein'
The sun was out and in my eyes
Then on high
They licked their tongues and swaddled me in that feeling baby
There's nothing there to be but just fine
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9. |
Time
02:39
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I want to want you
Yeah I want it all
With nothing but time to break my fall
I want to predicate
All my wants on you
But wants make a lousy shield from the truth
Hit it for me six times so they know that I really mean it
I want to want you
Yeah I want it all
With nothing but time to break my fall
I want to predicate all my wants on you
But wants make a lousy shield from the truth
Oh baby you know it's true
(Oh baby you know they do)
I want you baby
I want you real bad
But I just don't know
Now when you come back in give me twelve, I don't think they believed me the last time
Baby I was the fool you were the crime
Pretty baby you were the reason I'm falling behind
And I won't be right there
Right by your side
I want to want you
Yeah I want it all
With nothing, absolutely nothing to break my fall
I want to predicate all my love on you
But oh that, that's just a lousy substitute for the truth
I wish it wasn't
Really wish it wasn't babe
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10. |
Ink Veined Ghosts
03:04
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The love interest in a fairy tale
Made with baked in heartache like a moat
I was never meant to be close
I was born in a fairy tale
She was found in a home
All her friends were washed up ink veined ghosts
So we clicked and we hit it right off
But she never really dove all in
Can you taste my chagrin
And this is what I'd tell her I'd say
I'd say listen to me honey
Please don't try
I don't ever want you to cry
'Cause they're here right now but they won't be all the time
So tell me why
Truth's truth no matter how you deny
Yeah I'm here right now and I'll be here all the time
Oh baby
I would love you
I'd love the love you bring
(Love to love the love you bring)
Yeah I'd love you girl oh
Want you to be my everything
Can't deny it
We fit with a click I won't get over it
Won't say I'm sorry
(I'm not sorry no not at all)
I'll take the fall
No I can't say I'm sorry honey, at least not now and not for the near future, I can, I can tell you that much
Please don't cry
You're a fool to treat the truth like a lie
(Don't treat the truth like a lie)
Yeah I'm here right now and I'll be here all the time
Go on and
Fight
Push back with all of your might
Yeah I'm here right now
And I'll be here when you die
My baby
Our children will be born in a fairy tale
We'll make this story a home
You'll soothe the seething witch bought pitch wrought moat
And when she asks me
Well I can't help but lie
I can't stand when she cries
So she still thinks that she's one of them
I'm sorry baby
You're one of us now
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11. |
Mound
02:56
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Wish I could live like a sound
Just shake and bounce till I'm all worn out
But I like creating
I'm making
A mound that'll crush my doubt
And the same thing that moves me steals my rest
And reminds me that it's never enough
But these tracks were laid among the best
So who am I to say I got it rough
Popped out the womb with a wedding band
I'm in the palm of his hand
He wears a clock like a crown
Despite the way that it makes him frown
Well we'll be singing and dancing and running around
He sees the time and he sends me down
(I see the time and I send him down)
Yeah so the same thing that moves me steals my rest
And reminds me that it's never enough
But these tracks were laid among the best
So who am I to say I got it rough
And so while I wrote that line with a gleam in my eye
It was born from a dread filled night
I'm making out and I'm moving up
But with my governor oh what's the use
Thank you kindly
Thank you much
For nullifying all I got to lose
Yeah, so
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12. |
Fog
03:48
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Lately I'm clanking my chains
There's a world outside
And it's light is my shame
(I'm going crazy)
(Drinking moonlight till the morning)
And baby
Ain't nothing changed
I'm a hollow man
And you've gone away
Drinking moonlight till the morning because I couldn't sleep
Drag your fingers through my noggin
Until your fingers bleed
Now you're just pangs and I'm running dry
(Yeah baby I'm running dry)
All I got is a fog of things
(Oh baby)
That once got me high
It's automatic
I got some time, I give one a try
It feels good to chase that dragon
But then I look inside
(Then I look inside)
(Never look inside your mind)
And I'm just staring at my mind
Drinking moonlight till the morning 'cause I couldn't sleep
Ran your fingers through my noggin until your fingers bled
Well I want you
And I love you
So baby give me one more try
Yes I need you
And I love you
So baby give me one more try
Yes I want you
And I love you
So baby give me one more try
Yes I need you
And darlin' I want you
So now baby give me one last try
And when I have you here back down from the cloud
Oh and you're floating in my fog well don't you make a sound
'Cause every time I reach and you slip through my fingers
I'm just that much nearer to throwing you back on the ground
Where we'll dance for a while and make like it's not done
Till you're evaporated back by that fiend the sun
And I'll pick up where I left off loving you from afar
It's so much better this way darlin'
Hope sealed up in a jar
(Just seal it up in a jar)
Baby I love you
And I want you
So baby give me one more try
Yes I need you
And darling I want you
So baby give me one more try
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