1. |
Apart
03:12
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Take a bow!
Everybody knows you’re right!
Show them how!
Nothing proved without a fight
Win somehow!
Technically you have the right
Anyhow: he’s higher than a fucking kite!
It’s a matter of the heart!
It’s a matter of the heart!
Take a bow!
What a great performance, now
You arrive and leave without a warning
In the sun - we lay in the water
You asked me what was on my mind and in my heart
It’s a matter of the heart!
It’s a matter of the HEART!
It’s a matter of the heart!
It doesn’t matter if we fall apart!
Falling down
Falling from a heavy height
Suffer now!
Standing in the blinding light
Heave the plow!
Drag the blade with all your might!
Heed the vow!
Winding sheet is winding tight
It’s a matter of the heart!
It’s a matter of the HEART!
It’s a matter of the heart!
It doesn’t matter if we fall apart!
APART!
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2. |
Terms
03:34
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Come on little darling, we’ve been living too long in the shadows
What happens next - nobody knows
Let’s wear a smile for a while, wipe the tears from your eyes and slow down
Feel the air in your lungs, feel the blood in your veins
Slow down, slow down
Come on little darling, all the baggage that we’re holding - let’s let go
Holding on won’t do nobody no good
Catalogue and file and the crimes and the lies - we made mistakes
It doesn’t last, does’t matter, doesn’t change me and you
Lay, lay your weapons down
Lay, lay your burden down
Lay, lay your weapons down
Lay, lay your burden down
Come on little darling, we’ve been looking too long out the window
Struggling inside while the wide world passes by
Let’s take the throne, wear the crown, hang around for a while: we’ve earned it.
I think I’m coming to terms
Lay, lay your weapons down
Lay, lay your burden down
Lay, lay your weapons down
Lay, lay your burden down
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3. |
Fire Escape
03:38
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Through the bars across the window
Through the bars of the fire escape
Bleak tall towers stop the sunlight from coming in
Your sad face in the shadows
Madness pass in proximity on the street
Trash bums sleep ragged in wine-drunk cavities
Pan down endless through apartment block balconies
Whores boardwalk under the window down on the street
Stars dimmed black - the gaudy reach of a million lights
Washed ashore - convulsing under streetlights
I was garbage strewn on a filthy shoreline
I could not breathe - I wanted to escape
Oh! There was nothing before that love!
And it filled me up where I had never been touched before
My father’s hand ringing across my face:
In the cold of home - love was forbidden
Now our love was not the love that it was before
But oh my love, was it ever?
Your sad face in the shadows of that place
And you just wanted to escape
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4. |
Driving South
05:33
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I’m driving south all away from your lies
I want out but I’m running out of time
You couldn’t keep all of your promises if you tried
Work it out or we can say goodbye
Whose opinion are you wearing now?
Paralyzed by your fear of ghosts
You and I: are we circling the drain?
Or are we orbiting the stars?
Disappointed!
Sweet siren, Queen of Nothing
Regent of the Incomplete
What you get is what you earn!
Dance in fire!
All my years are burned.
Disappointed!
I’m driving south all away from your lies
I want out but I’m running out of time
You couldn’t keep all of your promises if you tried
Work it out or we can say goodbye
Sweet siren, Queen of Nothing
Regent of the Incomplete
Sweet siren, Super Nova!
Sweet siren, it’s all over.
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5. |
Thursday's Song
03:49
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Somewhere all this is resolved
Somewhere all these paths have crossed
I don’t know but I trust
I trust
Somewhere all these questions have been answered
Somewhere all this tension has been lost
Stay right here within these soft walls
Stay right here where all is absolved
All is ok
Ok
Oh!
The sun is going down upon the buildings and the river
I’m watching in the reflection for her image
Is she coming?
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6. |
You Little So-and-So
02:41
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Your wife knows it
The landlord and landlady know it
Their noisy little kids know it
The guy at the corner store knows it
The girl from the wine bar knows it
The girl on the 10th floor knows it
Your brothers they all know it
Your mother, though she doesn’t show it
Oh! You little so-and-so
Oh! You little so-and-so
Your friends they all know it
Everybody in the band knows it
The innocent bystander knows it
Everybody in the taxi line knows it
The people at the bars you’ve been to
The airport security screener
The drunk East-European girl
The whole wide fucking world!
Oh! You little so-and-so
Oh! You little so-and-so
Oh! You little so-and-so
Oh! You little so-and-so
They’ve all seen you going at it
Acting like a lunatic
Speaking in tongues
And coughing up your antics
The orange-thrower in Amsterdam
Is probably a very nice man
But understandably he could not stand you
Acting like a so-and-so
Oh! You little so-and-so
Oh! You little so-and-so
Oh! You little so-and-so
Oh! You little so-and-so
The neighbors on the street know it
The pole-dancers at 13th Street know it
The telephone solicitor knows it
The bouncers at the door know it
Your colleagues on the job know it
The comments of a blog show it
Your buddies who aren’t buddies show it
They hide it well - they barely show it
Oh! You little so-and-so
Oh! You little so-and-so
Oh! You little so-and-so
Oh! You little so-and-so
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7. |
The Promise
03:36
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What happened?
Where has it gone?
You had the answers when you were young
You would not do what they had done
The years pass you by
Try not to lose it!
The years take a toll on you
Don’t let the fears take hold of you!
The cold in you can die if you can breathe
I don’t know how to carry on
Don’t know if I can can do it alone
Took things so far - now you’re gone
She said something she should not have said
You killed something that should not be dead
Remember!
Electric fire!
The years pass you by
Try not to lose it!
The years they take a toll on you
Don’t let the fears take hold of you!
The cold in you can die if you can breathe
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8. |
CapitulationAdvance
02:13
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Polite demeanor to the dilettante fool
Give the baby what it wants!
Give the animals the shirt off your back!
CapitulationAdvance
Smile your way through another dead day
CapitulationAdvance
Beaten bodily - it’s a daily occurrence
Oh no - you don’t stand a chance!
Yeh!
They’ve taken every fucking penny away
Disintegration is life
Ripe lies and newborn ripe with the flies
Cut your tongue out - you can watch what you say
You can watch what you say!
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9. |
Song #1
03:27
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Come ride the spinning wheel!
Come ride the spinning top!
Come see the sea of faces!
Just try to swim on top!
Come see the twisted faces!
Just try to stay on top!
Scream! Wish it wasn’t real!
But you know it’ll never stop
I ain’t tellin’ no-one
I don’t trust a soul
Words don’t come out shaped right
Choke them down! Keep hold!
So sick of being lied to
Why do I even care?
Just trying to resurrect me
Just trying to get out of here
Dread fills me up each morning
As I’m crossing the parking lot
Another day that they have taken
Another day that I am not
I ain’t tellin’ no-one
I don’t trust a soul
Words don’t come out shaped right
Choke them down! Keep hold!
Choke them down! Keep hold!
Come ride the spinning wheel!
Come ride the spinning top!
Two dozen internal dialogues
Cataloguing “Is” “Is not”
So sick of being lied to
Why do I even care?
I’m never going to get out of here
I’m never going to get out of here
I ain’t tellin’ no-one
I don’t trust a soul
Words don’t come out shaped right
Choke them down! Keep hold!
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10. |
Step by Step
02:41
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Books on myself
Stare at myself
Books on my shelf
Stare at my shelf
Go to the phone!
Leave me alone!
Answer the phone!
Do it alone!
Step by step
Watch your step
Take a step
Take it back
Stare at the wall
Take it all
Books on the wall
Answer the call!
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11. |
Stop Talking
06:35
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You know my game - you think you got my number, don’t you?
You heard my name - makes me just a number like you
I tell my shame - you tell me all the rules to follow
Coz it’s a game, and you’ve been playing longer than me
I can’t pull rank - there’s no hierarchy
You heard some things about me I don’t really want you to know
But if I’m shameful - you tell me I just need to let go
That’s real convenient, coz we’re not talking ‘bout you
and the things you’ve done that make you ashamed just like me
You still got your secrecy
Stop talking to me through your preaching mouth!
It’s so simple, is it?
You got it figured out
Stop talking!
You run your preaching mouth
What a wisdom is it that rips the spirit out?
You heard the news, so now you can rush in with your truth
You got your wisdom - just can’t wait to preach it to me
I’ve made mistakes, so who am I to question advice?
No matter what I get done - you think I can’t tell wrong from right
You’re going to show me the light
Stop talking to me through your preaching mouth!
So simple, is it?
You got it figured out
Stop talking!
You run your preaching mouth
What a wisdom is it that rips the spirit out, that rips the spirit out?
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12. |
Memory Afterbirth
03:31
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Beyond the point of no return
Beyond the point of anger
There is nothing left to burn
I don’t have your answer
Voices taken by the wind
Steals your laughter
Blood runs into the mud
Time slipping faster
Faces in darkness
Faces in light
Facts in the darkness
Facts brought to light
Dry, the leaves crack in your hands
Fall to the winter earth
These were answers that you learned
Memory afterbirth
Faces in darkness
Faces in light
Facts in the darkness
Facts brought to light
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13. |
Not a Part of Anything
04:39
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Not a part of anything
Not a part of you
Fall apart like everything does and always will do
Baby Blue it’s true
Baby Blue it’s true
Baby Blue it’s true
Baby Blue it’s true
It’s true
Not a part of anything
Not a part of you
Fall apart like everything does and always will do
Maybe when you’re older you will understand
All that’s on your shoulders will make the boy a man
Leave here without anything
Leave here without you
Leave here without all the things we tried so hard to do
Baby Blue it’s true
Baby Blue it’s true
Baby Blue it’s true
Baby Blue it’s true
As your heart grows colder you will make a stand
As you fail to hold her you’ll see what’s in your hands …
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