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Civilization Four
03:11
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Are you hot enough for iron to be struck
You wanna drive the truck but the way that you’re set up you don’t
There’s not a question of whether you won’t
When all the consequences are remote
Where is the joke? Oh no
Please explain the joke
You can write it down
Where civilization’s involved there’s no consolation involved
And there is no knee to protect
Or any vacation to be had
Well then again
Situations shift like water turns to piss
No permanent eclipse, but if you stare right into the sun
Well then your vision is gonna be fucked
There’s not a battle that’s easily won by anyone
Oh no
Please explain the joke
You can write it down
Please explain the joke
Now that the thought screams more than the memory
Closing your eyes hurts more than the sensory
Sifting through sounds is just like the other thing
Circling round is just like a wedding ring
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2. |
Prize Contest Life
05:38
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Bright, never ending light
Ever changing shapes, dancing in the sky
Things I knew before, come back to my mind
I can see the glow, shining all the time
In every life, buried deep inside
There’s a secret door, on the other side
Every single thought, floating in the tide
I can feel it pull, nothing left to hide
I know where you go to
It’s so high above you
You’ll know just what to do
When it’s time to
Night, falling through the sky
Deep into the dark, losing sense of time
Suddenly it stops, I’m running towards the light
Everyone I love, projected in my mind
And as I cry, the fear begins to die
Spirit stripped of self, naked and alive
Even with the truth, can’t look you in the eyes
I can’t be left alone, not even for a night
I know where you go to
It’s so high above you
You’ll know just what to do
When it’s time to
I know where you go to
When your body leaves you
I’ll know just what to do
When I have to
Time presents itself again
It circles back, and leaves me where I am
I watch myself from outside of myself
And find a way back in
I’m in and out of it
I spin and spin, but never move an inch
The mountains turn to trees, again
It pulls me in
I know where you go to
It’s so high above you
You’ll know just what to do
When it’s time to
I know where you go to
When your body leaves you
I’ll know just what to do
When I want to
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3. |
Cujo Kiddies
03:51
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Fun times done
Off to work now
Seen the sober months say
That’s the hetero way
I think I don’t need touch
And I do too much
Raina tell me how you feel
Cujo taught me how to heel
How am I meant to be still
Everything is such a deal
Cujo taught me how to chill
Actions done
So I gotta be pro now
Buckle up cujo kiddie
This is Saks 5th speaking
Buy a new suit
And get a new bit
And nobody will notice
If you look like you are doing good
Raina tell me how you feel
Cujo taught me how to heel
How am I meant to be still
Everything is such a deal
Cujo taught me how to chill
In a dream I slept the other week
Crushed my face onto the velvet seat
Of a 7 person minivan
Heard the liquid you were holding down
I finally hooked up with the metal machine
Im finding comfort in the metal machine
I finally hooked up with the metal machine
Im finding comfort in the metal machine
I brace myself and then I find another
Keeping it up if I am getting taller
Skipped the drink so I am getting smaller
Holding it down with only chicken wire
I finally hooked up with the metal machine
Im finding comfort in the metal machine
I finally hooked up with the metal machine
Im finding comfort in the metal machine
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4. |
This Time
03:02
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Come Around, you wanna know what’s good
It’s time to wait around until you say the thing you should
Do I have to write it out, you can’t hear anymore
I tried to read out loud but I couldn’t say a single thing ‘cause
I assumed you to be mine
Where were you when I needed you this time?
I guess I’ll drag this out and see what happens then
Far away I think of what is wrong
I tried to write it down but what I wrote it didn’t mean a thing ‘cause
I assumed you to be mine
Where were you when I needed you this time?
Don’t know why you were kind
Couldn’t you have told me it’d be the last time
And now I’m trying too hard
‘Cause I don’t know where to begin
I wonder how to escape
And now I realize I can’t ‘cause I don’t know myself
If all I know is you
Scrolling in twos what would you think I’d wanna do?
I find and I find I go on again
I finally find
It’s not the same thing!
Falling in too?
How could I think you wanted to
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5. |
The Curtain
02:39
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Count the ways to know on one end
A number of things that might happen
Your perspective, Yeah who else
The eyes of portraits move in stealth
Keep myself here reclined
For a long long time and
My hands tied at my side where I left them
I’m aware the fact is that we grow old somewhat
Still don’t think I can bear to just see it happen
Did you think it through well enough
Every day the sun’s coming up
Throwing ashes onto the lawn
Still not sure where they belong
Well there’s clowns abound
To the planets surface
But they seem so earnest
We could drop the pretense
But still the plot won’t make sense in the slightest
And I know the fact is there’s a lot that’s working
Still not sure what’s behind the curtain
Did you think it through well enough
Every day the sun’s coming up
Throwing ashes onto the lawn
Still not sure where we went wrong
I want to meet Gary Neal
Want to tell you how I feel
But my brain starts to win
Feel my head start to spin
Once my legs start to bend
Hair will stiffen on my skin
And I do not want to weep
Just thought it would come again
And I didn’t want to pry
But I could not close my eyes
I would rather compromise
But the curtain starts to rise
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6. |
The Hardest Part
04:04
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It’s here right now
The great big shakedown
Run, if you can, til you can’t
You stick around
It seemed so safe out
Slept, on your back, in the grass
But you knew, from the start
What’s the hardest part
Get it through, to your heart
Til it breaks you up
Yeah you knew, from the start
What’s the hardest part
It’s here right now
The great big shakedown
Run, if you can, til you can’t
You got freaked out
When I opened my mouth
Grin, caved in, went black
But you knew, from the start
What’s the hardest part
Get it through, to your heart
Til it breaks you up
Yeah you knew, from the start
What’s the hardest part
Weak chest drew shallow breath
As I fell off the edge of the bed
Head full of “I don’t knows”
Spilling out on the floor where I land
Do I dare, leave it there
Dirty laundry in the air
Weak chest drew shallow breath
As I fell off the edge of the bed
But you knew, from the start
What’s the hardest part
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7. |
If Only
03:03
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I wish I still got better sleep without another next to me, I’m lonely
If only I knew how you feel, my legs could stop their shaking
My heart could stop its breaking, if only
If I could cut this tangled cord I know things would be better
But I think I could never
You won’t leave
In a dream, are you calling out to me
Or am I just saying things I wanna hear when I’m asleep
Could it be?
Should I read, develop vocabulary? But the concept that I must express is nothing new to me
I would rewind and fix it all, but if I had the chance to
I’d probably still hurt you, and you me
If only you could see my light you’d come back home tomorrow night and hold me
But I know that just can’t be right
You build me up on Sunday, I’m down again by Monday
If only
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8. |
Charley Chimp
03:19
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I do not want
I am too zen
There is only one thing
But oh that one thing
And oh that one thing
And just like that I’m off again
And I do not know
Where to begin
With my one thing
And knowing it isn’t enough
When something is so hot
All my love
Victory
And letting it leave
Oh my one thing
Oh my one thing
And just like that I’m living it
Closing my eyes and believing
That I’m so zen
Except for you my friend
Hitting brass like a Charley Chimp
Hitting brass like a Charley Chimp
Hitting brass like a Charley Chimp
Hitting brass like a
And hitting it isn’t enough
Now
There has to be some kind of dove
How
I realize there’s a part of you inside of the bloom
And when I hear those club hits it’s almost like I see you
Not just a monkey
And I’m not always clowning
I won’t forget how you looked in your cat woman outfit
Not just a monkey
And I’m not always clowning
I won’t forget how you looked in your cat woman outfit
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9. |
Tightrope
03:23
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Far from the first crime that you carried out
Walk the tightrope
Your best foot forward, your head in the clouds
With your eyes closed
Now in a million ways, you’ve already chosen your fate
And it’s far too late to turn around
Every choice you made, only hiding a future mistake
Won’t be long until you hit the ground
Saw you how you want me to
And it took me over
Saw you how I wanted to
Cut the lights and locked the door
You know what we came for
All of the things that you wanted to say
Walk the tightrope
Losing your balance, you can’t look away
From the freakshow
Lost and confused, you’re a ghost that refused to pass through
And there’s noone that can hear you
Now that you’re gone, everyone that you love has moved on
And you’re shouting on a one way call
Killed you how you want me to
Saw your eyes roll over
Killed you how I wanted to
Shut the blinds and cleaned the floor
Then you fell through the trap door
Can’t forget the night the balcony caved in
Watched you tear the bone through skin
All you had to do was loosen up your lips
You could sink the secret ship
Face your fears while looking through a two way mirror
The reflection doesn’t seem so clear
And it’s starting to disappear
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Goodnight to planet earth
Goodnight to loyal serfs
Keep up the noble work
We’ll get what we deserve
Although we’re really hurt
Although we’ve been coerced
We shall be reimbursed
For what we can for what we did
They build improvements on the ground
It’s 50% faster now
The neighbors children can’t be found
They’re meeting stars inside the cloud
They’re lying down to face the ground
Akashic records onward bound
The weight of 20,000 towns
Above the planet spinning round
Goodnight to planet earth
Goodnight to all who served
And please don’t be disturbed
We’ll get what we deserve
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11. |
Meant To Be
03:32
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Now as fall finds the trees
Changing color shed their leaves
Float away in the breeze
And now I wish that it was me
The reflection of me
Can’t be rippled, solid sea
Try to push off the shore
Tell me why I’d want to speak
When I have time to myself
I’d rather think about something else
But I still try to believe
The way things are is meant to be
Sometimes inside a dream
In the state I want to be
Now I wake and I see
This is my reality
Turn around, try to face back towards the shore
Only thing I see now is the slowly melting oar
And the ships turn around and return themselves to port
But I know that it won’t be me when you come back around
Do you think about me
It’s been so long now I can’t see
But I still try to believe
The way things are is meant to be
Do you think about me
A crystal ball that I can’t read
Cause somehow all that I see
Is a future with you next to me
The way things are is meant to be
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With as much as I love being with you
I wanna love my time alone
But I just don’t know
Well it’s been so long
And I have such a simple mind
I’m a newborn child for the second time
(aw aw aw aw)
(aw aw aw aw)
I wanna have enough to say
That I don’t have to dress it up so much
But as it stands I add synths and strings and riffs just to make the song good enough
I don’t wanna be alive
I wanna be A.I
I don’t wanna be alive
I wanna be A.I
I don’t wanna be alive
I wanna be A.I
I don’t wanna be alive
I wanna be A.I
I don’t wanna die
I wanna be A.I
I don’t wanna be alive
I wanna be A.I
Ok I know
I’m not fixing and nothing broke
I’m just getting going with the molding of a lump
And my fingers aren’t God’s
And the feeling is a pump that’s not yet rusted
Still I cannot trust a cheap tin pipe
At first I spoke
But I had no mind
With face fell to one side I couldn’t look behind
I saw ants and worms from underneath
I had to ask them to be kind to me
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