1. |
Subtle
03:17
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It might have been summer
but that wind chilled me anyway
It might have been later
than I thought in the day
It might have been over
but I went to it anyway
It might have been sober
It doesn't matter today
As the summer wastes away
You might have been closer
than I thought to the wave
You might have been bravely
falling more insane
Now that it's over
(I never thought that you wouldn't stay)
I'd like to stay closer
to everything you saved
Anything you saved
Yeah it doesn't matter today
Yeah as the summer wastes away
Yeah yeah yeah it doesn't matter today
Yeah as the summer wastes away
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2. |
In the Sun
03:36
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I miss you when the work's away
Another break until the day begins
And when I'm walking the other way
And everything seems softer in the sun
The waves break smaller, the leaves turn gray
The light that was pulsing bows to the rain
But some things grow stronger and never refrain
Even when the memory's all that remains
The greening leaves turn brighter riding the wave
It grows and it crests and breaks and it falls away
And everything in the end is all the same
In the sun the shine that makes another day
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3. |
Tick Tock
05:49
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Before they walk
Before they run
Before they snow camp for long
The little wrenches turn their
tick tock gear through, it rattles
A reckless time
Said they learned from it
A hopeless trampling walk
You only grab it and you go along
Beneath the sheets
where the belly sleeps
Of course they run the water
over the victims as they
classify until they occupy your mind
A reckless time
Said they learned from it
A hopeless trampling walk
You only grab it and you go along
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4. |
Stand In
03:54
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Every time they walk away
Along with dust and chaos and scattered things
Inside the lost and tortured way of
Loss inside a darkened cave
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5. |
Cavalcade
01:46
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My time has come
My will is good
The patterned horizon
protects all the infidel waves
But all this time
Hope they were good
A reckless path
A hopeless truth
Chosen a sea
of endlessly
rippling and fluid
and dynamic
I never understand
Why fight over land
to stretch a flag
with cash fist over hand
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6. |
Stranded
02:56
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You better walk to the side
You better take your time
You better make up your fucking mind
And wash up ho!
You better like the taste of your own kind
You better share the hide
You better lock the doors and pay your fucking fines whoa ho!
We better pay it no mind
even when it gets out of line
We better walk that line fine
So we feel better, yeah!
They better walk to the side
They better share the hide
They better not get out of line
They're gettin' better, yeah!
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7. |
Ceremony
01:52
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I don't need a library
I just need a book to read
I don't need a child
I just need a life to lead
I don't want to be your ceremony
A walk is fine for me
A walk is fine for me
I want to live in a moment
I don't want to own it
I'll take a terrible portent
And match it breath for breath
I don't want to be your ceremony
A walk is fine for me
A walk is fine for me
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8. |
Pregressive
03:26
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I never thought too hard
I never mentioned all the ways
until in a fading breath
Bloody leaches there to faze
Bleeding a reckless time
Freedom from fear in alleyways
Thought alone, just watch 'em run
when you whip out pitchforks in better days
Heart trumps talent somedays
Cash retribution never pays
Oh so many ways...
Later pause to run
into the wall, above the fray
Oh so many ways...
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9. |
Program Space
04:44
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Across I fell
while below they dropped
And where does it go?
Across I rode this gesticulating wave
Expressionless and violently
thrashing in the wind
It's begun when the room gets cold
It's alone that the lie gets told
Across I fell
over the line
while down below
the patriot shine
The fire in the burning light
is different than
the loss inside
A simple predilection
Predestination of Olympus
A write off of the winners
Face to face, who relegates
a bitter pill that's swallowed
A promise once not hollow.
It's begun when the room gets cold
It's alone that the lie gets told
Across I fell over the line
Across I fell down below
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10. |
Four 26
02:38
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A little bit the same
but all that's changed
has rearranged electric frames
And all they said
It can, it did
and will it be
A fallen star to lead, a new pathway to breed
A tale simple and sane
And all that remains
To bet on the horse you've tamed
I've see their trail manifest lies
I've seen the other perfect side
For all this time
I've lent you all I can
I'm not a part of the scam
I don't have money to burn
And all this time
I can't afford the pulpit to preach
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11. |
Eagle Man Vortex
04:37
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Clear them to walk the way
Clear them to go astray
The composure...the control
The charade of the
office is full
The edge of the blade
and perched upon the grade
impossibly - the charade is full
I am the eagle man!
Forsaking all your land
as I hunt for my prey!
The charade of the
office on the blade
The edge of the blade
and perched upon the grade
impossibly - the charade is full
The vision is complete
Every rodent on the street
My meat - my feed
I swap and greet the blade
The edge of the blade
and perched upon the grade
impossibly - the charade is full
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12. |
Kingbus
03:10
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A bettor way
for all the gambles
in a day
To run away
would leave all
the winnings
on the table
To run away
with all the scraps
left on the table
When a picture'd say
Whisper whisper
Eyes following you away
Cutting all the losses
covering becomes your
boss and never stays
Don't remind me now
about the dropping flakes
It always resonates
and makes its only way
a bettor way
to where it will land
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13. |
Even Better
03:29
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Pretend to show up
That's big these days
with monstrous pays
For all the trumpets sounding in key
And this will never be
a simple thing
to break their ring
The sparkle has long been known
to fade
but all the ways the days
deceive the believer into knowing
Defense is expensive
- for those who pay
But if you know a guy
who knows a guy
or knows the judge...even better.
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14. |
Fickle
03:21
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The face of your dream
is uglier than you have ever seen
when it turns to look into the mirror
The stare returned does not
express appeal
Easy come and easy go
They will come and they will go
I can hear you scream
I can't tell if it's fear or free
When returned the zeitgeist prowls
above the man face moon child
scowls
Little sirens everywhere embedded
in the rocks
But they're asleep! Asleep in the flocks!
When I tell you I mean
what they say
Giving up would only make
their day
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15. |
Nope
03:05
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A man named Nope broke free
And all that came to be
was a gentle shower, in the evening hour
to wash away being
This man named Nope
hoped he could resurrect falsity
And redirect the fury of the gods
into the sea
When water broke the shore
And tore up all the trees
Nope gave up hope and floated
Until he washed up generally
And all the wicked waters
come back to friendly murmurs
But Nope's big joke was never yoked
As he stowed away on the furor.
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16. |
The American Dream
02:56
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I've just been away
on a trip too far to describe
Lost inside a speeding train
with chips pushed into the pile
And they call you and the
doctors pray
On a ship listing to
the side
All citizens will pay
Jars...jars full of pennies
Decommissioned and left to the side
An agreed upon price for
the copper inside but
nothing else to claim
but the pride.
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17. |
404
01:57
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If this was a tribe
the dead would lead us
If this was a cave
the light would feed us
If this was a court
we'd murder the judges
If they were the whole
we'd cut them to pieces
If they knew their role
they'd sit on the bleachers
If they sat on the throne
they'd be jesters by nightfall
In this conspiracy,
yourself is the enemy
If this was a world
you'd be at the center
If this was a life
justice would enter.
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