1. |
Sisyphos
02:14
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It's your psychological Sisyphos
Don't get your heartbreak on me
You loved as well as I could in this
It was enough to be free, ah
Hey
Can you breathe
Through all that masking
I'm fixing up to be
You're fixing up to be Icarus
Don't fall back into the sea
You loved as well as you could in this
Just not enough to be free, ah
Hey
You're bending over to a broken disease
Can you grieve
Through all that grasping
I’m shifting round in my seat
Well are you waiting for me
Was it the advent of wheat
This sempiternal disease
I'm fixing up to be irate
Didn't fit right on my knees
Hey
You're bending over to a broken disease
Can you breathe
Through all that masking
At night you knock on my door
You’ve come to settle the score
Reiterate that I’m right
I wake up hugging the floor
Was it the advent of wheat
Was it the advent of wheat
Was it the way that I lied
Oh, was it the advent of wheat
It's your psychological Sisyphos
You're fixing up to be Icarus
It's your psychological Sisyphos
Oh I'm fixing up to be
I'm fixing up to be irate
Didn't fit right on my knees
Oh
You're bending over to a broken disease
Can you breathe
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2. |
Tutankhamen
02:50
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Where do we go
We sold our homes
They were filled with holes
Ah ah ah
Tutankhamen, a funny case
Young fool, sick and rotten
The pure and chaste
Gold face of three millennia of wealth and misery
I meant to check with you, the plans you made:
Are they subject to a change?
I would've looked in solitude for validation
But baby, then you rang
You rang
And a light shined across my face
Ah ah ah
Tutankhamen, a funny case
Young fool, sick and rotten
The pure and chaste gold face of all there was
Now you know, you know the rain
It's coming
It's coming to stay
It'll wash away the warpath
You know the rain, it's coming
It's coming to stay
It'll wash away the warpath
You know the rain
It's coming
It's coming to stay
It's a shame to be a sunset
You know that rain
It's coming
It's coming
It's coming
It's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming
Ah it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming
Ah it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming
Ah it's coming, it's coming
Ah
I should've seen it in its latent phase
But I was busy trying to hold back hate
I tried to
Look inside of you for validation
But baby, this ain't fate
It's late stage heartache in a cake
Ah ah ah
Tutankhamen, a funny case
Young fool, sick and rotten
The pure and chaste gold face of all there was
Now it's all there is
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3. |
Dead Man
03:06
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Caged up from the outside
Something moving within
I can sometimes see their faces
Swaying thin in the wind
I'm a dead man
Caged up from the outside
(Caged up from within)
Something moving within
(Something moving within)
I can sometimes see their faces swaying thin in the wind
I can sometimes see their faces
I think they're looking for me
(Yeah they're looking for me)
Out there burning their fires till I start to see
Yeah I saw the light
The preacher's missing
And you've been with him
I got a
Dead man
When I see you
Don't know what I really think
Fixed beneath you
Just trying not to sink
Right through the floor
Now I know
I'm a dead man
Slammed shut from the inside
Something moving within
I can almost hear them in the night
Think they brought some friends
I can sometimes see their faces
I think they're looking for me
(Yeah they're looking for me)
Out there burning their fires till I start to see
I got a rot in the brain
(The preacher's missing)
You were reared off a sunken name
(And you've been with him)
So I shout till I'm sane and right as rain
It was you
To blame
When I see you
Don't know what I really think
Fixed beneath you
My path begins to shrink
And now I'm stuck
Took census, they're gone away
Now I know
I'm a dead man
Two knocks from the outside
Nothing moving within
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4. |
Shotgun
04:03
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I think they're getting close now
I can feel them on the wind
I used to hunt, I wondered, I know now
Yeah I can smell it creeping in
Well I loaded up my shotgun
And I waited for the end
The sweat's pooling on my brow now
Slipping down and sinking in
Yeah my skin is itching
Trigger finger twitching
And there’s a shape like dying men
Gave remorse a thought but it's done now
So I tallied up my sins
Yeah I hear my mother call now
Wonder if she made it in
Dishonest have nots
Leaking like an anxious dog
Through the wall
I loaded buckshot
Shattered final ecstasy
Instead this mess in front of me and
Here I am
Nine dead men
Wished on a padlock
Couldn’t feel it sinking in
All my friends
They watched me lock up a coward's lockbox
Tried to fall back in my reverie, but
Still this mess in front of me
It smelled so grim
Ten dead men
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5. |
Wonton Soup
05:11
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Strange
I spent my time there thinking
If we’d strung it out would you still have gone your way
But this way we're friends
And you can hear what I’m thinking
So though the seal ain’t sound
I’m closing it up today
We mucked around
I said I was sorry
I saw you then
You saw me all the way
So we’ve been there before
But I don’t wanna take it
No not anymore
Oh I’ll shout it dear
It’s coming out today
I gave it all that I got
I thought the gun was shot
Oh but I looked the other way
Yeah I licked my wounds
Cauterized them too
With my time in here
Oh my lord but it cut my dear
The urge to let the people pay
So when I come a’running and a’shouting
And a’running and a’shouting
And a’running and a’shouting
And a’running and a’shouting
Well I beg you dear
Just look the other way
Well we mucked around
You mucked around then said you were sorry, girl
I loved you then
You loved me all the way
So that’s right I've been there before
But I don’t wanna take it
Oh no not anymore
Oh I’ll shout it dear
It's coming out today
Running and shouting to find you dear
Oh just to find you dear
Then turn around and look the other way
Running and shouting to find you dear
Oh lord
Running and shouting and
Running and shouting and
Running and shouting and
Running and shouting and
Running and shouting and
Running and a'shouting and a'running and ooh
Running and shouting to glimpse you dear
Oh my lord just to have a little peace
Then turn around and look the other way
Running and shouting to have you dear
Oh my lord
Oh lord
Oh lord
Oh lord oh lord oh lord oh lord ah
Squeeze my knuckles and bleed me
Don't look the other way
Running and shouting to have you dear
Oh my lord, just to have a little peace
Then look the other way
Don’t look the other way
Oh please
Well I’m
(Running and a’shouting and a...)
Begging you please, I’ve bent my knees
I tried to sit, I cut my hair
I hide in halls that stink like stares
Oh please
Yeah well I loved you
Just look the other way
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6. |
Rub Your Eyes
02:25
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Close your eyes and try again
There's nothing better to be
Get re-disguised and lie again
No there ain't nothing to be, oh baby
Baby
Baby, don't you wipe off your yearning on me
Rub your eyes and look again
Nobody better to be
So now put
Back your disguise and lie again
There's no way better to be
Oh baby
Baby
Baby, don’t you wipe off your yearning on me
Baby please
I've been practicing
I've been dying to grieve
But I don't wanna cry
Close your eyes and look again
There's nothing better to be
So now go
Get re-disguised and try again
No there ain’t nothing to be
Oh baby
Baby
Baby, don’t you wipe off your yearning on me
Like you'd wipe off the pit in your stomach
As it grips and it pulls
Baby please
I’m a wretch at the bottom
I like my pose
It’s the easy thing
Ascend and sing
But if I sit then it stings and it stings
And it swells away
But still I don't wanna try
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7. |
Ender
02:55
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I wanna get on that road
My rider don’t
He chucked them in front of me
Forgot they might close his throat
I like to play like they work some
But Imma go where I’m gonna go
Still I resent it when he
Shoots his funny looks, man
I’m going where they were a few weeks ago
Please slow your roll
You know I hold control
You’re just a talking head man
Know your role
(You know I hold control)
Give up control
And don’t pretend you know
If you only got to know me
Took me out to lunch
Then I could keep myself in check
Just let me see what I'm working with
Elephants never forget
Keep throwing peanuts
We might go into shock
You’ve got this heady complex
I think it comes from your spot on top
Breathe when I give it
If you loiter, it’ll burn your lips
Hey, you’ll be just fine if you hold
When you really don’t want to slip
And oh
Quit making rules
Quit holding your pool cue
Like you could choose what you use it to do
(Yeah what you use it to do)
If you only got to know me
Took me out to dinner
I'll paint the lines while you take your steps
There might even be a reason that you overslept
And oh
It's just me-you in a big hall
And we’ll watch as things fall
And lights flash wall to wall
We’re all here, there’s nothing to grow (no)
But you’ll bleed, else no show
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8. |
Jockey Full of Bourbon
03:39
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Edna Million in a drop dead suit
Dutch Pink on a downtown train
Two dollar pistol but the gun won't shoot
I'm in the corner on the pouring rain
Sixteen men on a dead man's chest
And I've been drinking from a broken cup
Two pairs of pants and a mohair vest
I'm full of bourbon, I can't stand up
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire and your children are alone
Hey little bird, fly away home
Fly away home
Schiffer broke a bottle on Morgan's head
And I've been stepping on the devil's tail
Across the stripes of a full moon's head
All through the bars of a Cuban jail
Bloody fingers on a purple knife
Flamingo drinking from a cocktail glass
I'm on the lawn with someone else's wife
Admire the view from up on top of the mast
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire and your children are alone
Hey little bird, fly away home
Fly away home
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire and your children are alone
Hey little bird, fly away home
Fly away home
Yellow sheets on a Hong Kong bed
Stazybo horn on a Slingerland ride
To the carnival is what she said
A hundred dollars makes it dark inside
Edna Million in a drop dead suit
Dutch Pink on a downtown train
Two dollar pistol but the gun won't shoot
Well, I'm in the corner on the pouring rain
Oh hey little bird
Your house is on fire and your children are alone
Hey little bird, fly away home
Fly away home
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire and your children are alone
Hey little bird, hey little bird
Oh fly away home
Hey
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9. |
Bluefish
03:30
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I'm afraid it's late
You wore it down too straight
Too thin
But go on and wait
You cut off the water
It’s coming in
Take out your pride and give it in
Ah give it in
Cut around the mend
Slide it through the crease you made again
Get your sandbags
I'm afraid it's late for ten
You wore it down too straight
You blocked off the water
It's wearing thin
Cut off the crease and take it in
Ah take it in
Cut around the mend
Slide it through the crease you made again
Again
I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna break
But here I am
I don't wanna
Sandbags wearing thin
(Get your sandbags)
You cut off the water and stopped it off
Rope off the precinct
It's sunken cost
Take out your pride and give it in
Give it in
And then
Yeah
Let it in
Let in all your doubts and then
Yeah
I know, I know
Let it in
Till you shout in the strange and shake like a name
With a route to maintain to resist the pull of change
You shout in the strange and shake like a name
With a route to maintain to resist the pull of change
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10. |
Down South
02:16
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I'm shackled up to his reign
And I'd be lying if I said I could remember his name
It was something grey
Jump start leaving close the curtains baby shut shades
Board up windows always lurking but I'm not afraid
Caught him working down south, eyes closed
I was smelling something foul compose
(I'd be lying if I said I could remember)
Now I'm waiting on his count 'fore I go
Can't make no more mistakes
I'd be lying if I said I could remember his face
Won't you give me grace
Jump start leaving close the curtains baby shut shades
Board up windows always lurking but I'm not afraid
Caught him working down south, eyes closed
I was smelling something foul compose
(I'd be lying if I said I could remember)
Hit me on the other side down low
Now I'm waiting on his count 'fore I go
Hit me right in the face
And I've been driving 'round in circles looking for his embrace
Just take me away
Jump start leaving close the curtains baby shut shades
Board up windows always lurking but I'm not afraid
Caught him working down south, eyes closed
I was smelling something foul compose
(I'd be lying if I said I could remember)
Hit me on the other side down low
Now I'm waiting on his count 'fore I go
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11. |
Haint
03:46
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I'm losing sight of the laws we tried to write
Who took the fall
And who was right
I went outside
Put a green shade on the light
I lost a friend
And what it's like
They take a little from the people you make
That faint grey outline that lives in your brain
Such a shame, it never goes on a break
That haint takes every little chance to create
Well I threw a fit
So though it’s your turn to take the hit
We're losing light, I'll let it slide
Let's go outside
Put a pink shade on the light
One little grin
We're back inside
They take a little from the people you make
That stress-checked expectation array
Such a shame it never goes on a break
That haint takes every little chance to create
Baby
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Well which decision was you
Rain, rain, rain
Let it in
Let it drain, drain, drain
Let it pool again
Step away
Look back where you came
I threw the fit
Well maybe it’s your turn to take the hit
Wake up and die
Try and ride that borderline
Get back 'cause
It's coming in
It's here to fight
They take a little from the people you make
That faint grey outline that lives in your brain
Such a shame, it never goes on a break
That haint takes every little chance to create
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12. |
Seventh Whale (Part IV)
02:45
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Well I guess you wanna know
Well I guess you wanna know how it all went down
And I guess I know
The feeling that you're feeling
When you're wondering how
Though you've seen the show
Well I grow
I grow green in my blood flow
Green in my blood flow
Fist is tight like a vein
Hope the man hears me pray
And I come to
Let it into my apartment
It tore through my things
Really peeling back the paint
Well the wind
Yeah it rode in
(With a smile)
Yeah the wind
Ahh you should've seen it
When I had it in me
It was only an easy short step away
Intrinsically felt I could be right there
Not even a step away
Hey
Oo yeah, I'm burning with rage
I set off in an hour
Get there in less than a day
Oh, you should've seen when the wind
Yeah it rode in
Oh, I was a sight to be seen
But he was undeniable
Oh, he flew into his machine
So free
And my eyes were burning holes all the while
Can’t you see
Said he, ah
You’re my child
All at once it left me, yeah
Left me all my rage
(Yeah)
Just like that it hit me in the face
(Hit me in the face)
Ticked his last then left in a cloud of laughs
Almost just like steam dissipates
Had no time to waste, I
I took my rightful place
There I stayed
And buzzed my life away
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13. |
Owe
02:41
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You've been missing
Missing in your life
Someone to take the pain
And to give it back inside
When you saw me
Yeah I saw it in your eyes
Soon as I turned around
I knew that it was mine
So take a penny
And time aplenty
Oh give it quickly
Unless you long for something
More
Well tell me what you owe
You can save it from the grave
Just sell me your soul
Sell me your soul
Our fate is twisted
And once you hear the rhyme
Just a flick of my hand
And you're right back on the line
You'll come to miss it
Yeah you'll come to find
In the heart of the land
Certain living is a crime
So take a penny
And time aplenty
Oh give it quickly
Unless you long for something
More
Well tell me what you owe
You can save it from the grave
Just sell me your soul
Yeah I thought that you should know
It's like the ministers say
You're not in control
We're not in control
I won't insist it
Yet in the end of times
I'll be sitting right here
Giving guidance by your side
It's expected
It's how it was designed
How can you turn away
From this little light of mine
So give a penny
And time aplenty
Oh give it quickly
Unless you long for something
More
Well tell me what you owe
You can save it from the grave
Just sell me your soul
Yeah I thought that you should know
It's like the ministers say
You're not in control
You should know I ain't your foe
Got higher crowns that I could pray for
I'm not in control
We're not in control
Got higher crowns that I could pray for
Not in control
You should know I ain't your foe
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