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| 3:15 | 
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Think I'm stranded but I don't know where
I got this diamond I don't know how to shine In the sun where the dark winds wail And these children leave their rulers behind As we cross ten leagues from a rubicon The matchsticks for my bones If we can learn how to freeze ourselves alive We can learn to leave these burdens to burn Cast out these creatures of woe Who shatter themselves Fighting the fire with your bare hands Now my journey takes me further south I want to hear what the blind men sing With their fossils and their gypsy bones I'll stand beside myself so I'm not alone And how can I make new again What rusts every time it rains And the rain it comes and floods our lungs We're just orphans in a tidal wave's wake If I wake up and see my maker coming With all of his crimson and his iron desire We'll drag the streets with the baggage of longing To be loved or destroyed from a void To a grain of sand in your hand |
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| 2. |
| 2:57 |
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If I could to hold hold out for now
With these ice caps melting down With the transistor sound And my Chevrolet terraplane Going around around around Come on little gamma ray Standing in a hurricane Your brains are bored Like a refugee from a house that's burning And the heat wave's calling your name She's got on a cactus crown With a dot dot dot on her brow And she speaks inside a cloud With her countenance turning around Hit me like a gamma ray Standing in a hurricane And I'm pulling out thorns Smokestack lightning out my window I want to know what I've lost today Come on little gamma ray Standing in a hurricane And your body's bored Like a refugee from a house that's burning And the backwater's calling your name |
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| 3. |
| 4:38 |
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I can't believe what we've seen outside
You and me watching the jets go by Oh, Oooh, Oh Oh, Oooh, Oh Drown by sea, so many people've already drowned You and me watching a sea full of people Try not to drown So many people, so many people Where do they go? You and me watching a sky Full of chemtrails That's where we belong All I can take from these skies is hope But all I can see in this light are boats Sinking Oh, Oooh, Oh Oh, Oooh, Oh Down by the sea swallowed by evil They've already drowned You and me watching a sea of people Already drowned So many people, so many people Where do they go? You and me hit by a test of white evil rain Watching the jet planes go by You and me watching You and me watching The chemtrails is where we belong That's where we'll be when we die in the slipstream We'll climb in a hole in the sky |
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| 4. |
| 3:13 |
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I feel uptight when I walk in the city
I feel so cold when I'm at home Feels like everything's starting to hit me I lost my bearings ten minutes ago Modern guilt - I'm stranded with nothing Modern guilt - I'm under lock-and-key Misapprehension is turning into convention Don't know what I've done but I feel ashamed Standing outside the glass on the sidewalk These people talk about impossible things And I'm falling out of the conversation Like a pawn piece in a human shield Modern guilt is all in our hands Modern guilt won't get me to bed Say what you will - smoke your last cigarette Don't know what I've done but I feel afraid |
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| 5. |
| 2:58 |
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There's a bottomless pit that we've been climbing from
Just to get on level ground Shake your seasick legs around Everyone in a logo town Signs of life are stark and flickering I need a bed to lay my body down Dead weight to carry me down Some static is lulling me to sleep Hang your clothes on a chain link fence In a junkyard say amen Your mouth is full of wordless hymns And run-on sentences And we're helpless and forgetting in the background holding nothing And we're youthless and pretending in the bearhands holding nothing There's a million horse dragging down a monolith these trademarks so bereaved Tied my leg to a barricade with a plastic handgrenade They tried to turn emotion into noise I need a teleprompter for my life Need a pipeline to the night My body can't get no relief And this life it goes by fast To treading water in the past While you try to reanimate something that you don't understand And we're helpless and forgetting in the background don't saying nothing And he's youthless and forgetting in the bare hymns tied to nothing And he's helpless and forgetting in the background don't saying nothing And he's youthless and pretending with his bare hands tied to nothing |
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| 6. |
| 2:20 |
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Some days we get a thrill in our brains
Some days it turns into malaise You see our face in the veneer Reflected on the surface of fear Because you know that we're better than that But some days we're worse than you can imagine And how am I supposed to live with that? With all these train wrecks coming at random Hey - what are you gonna do? When those walls are falling down - falling down on you Hey - what are you gonna do? When those walls are falling down - falling down on you You got warheads stacked in the kitchen You treat distraction like it's a religion With a rattlesnake step in your rhythm We do the best with the souls we've been given Because you know we're nothing special to them We're going some place they've already been Trying to make sense of what they call wisdom And this riff-raff ain't laughing with them Hey - what are you gonna do? When those walls are falling down - falling down on you Hey - what are you gonna do? When those walls are falling down - falling down on you You're wearing all the years on your face Turn a tombstone into your own place And your heart only beats in a murmur But your words ring out just like murder |
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| 7. |
| 3:25 |
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Make a perfect replica of your life
Cut the paper with exacto knife Tape it up, tape it up against the howling wind I'm so tired - don't know where to begin It's so unreal It's all I need This replica I was the last to see me down on my knees These antibodies learn to be the disease And I learn to be what fights against me We'll make a replica - a place we can sleep And we could live in a hollow tree Grow up old and bury the sea And when this replica begins to look cheap I'll throw it out but now it's home to me It's so unreal It's all I need This replica Build it up, build it up This replica Now we build it up Build it up, build it up Build it up, build it up |
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| 2:35 |
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Beat my bones against the wall
Staring down an empty hall Deep down in a hollow log Coming home like a letter bomb Cold was the storm That covered the night Call a doctor, call a ghost Put a fire into your bones Sic a dog on all you know Cut it loose before you go Cold was the storm That covered the night What makes the soul, the soul of a man? Beat my bones against the wall Put a bank note on your bond Gris Gris and a goldenrod Down deep in a hollow log Cold was the storm That buried the night What makes the soul, the soul of a man? |
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| 9. |
| 3:41 |
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In a cast iron cage you couldn't help but stare like a creature
With the laws of a brothel and the fireproof bones of a preacher And your lingo coined from the sacrament of a casino On a government loan with a guillotine in your libido Who's gonna answer Profanity prayers Who's gonna answer These profanity prayers Well you know how it looks when you pull all your books from the table And you stare into space trying to discern what to say now And you wait at the light and watch for a sign that you're breathing 'Cause you can't just live on air and float to the ceiling Who's gonna answer Profanity prayers Who's gonna answer Profanity prayers Who's gonna answer Profanity prayers Who's gonna answer Profanity prayers |
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| 10. |
| 4:29 |
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And I've been walkin' on these streets so long
I don't know where they're gonna lead anymore But I think I must have seen a ghost I don't know if it's my illusions that keep me alive I don't know what I've seen Was it all an illusion? All a mirage gone bad? oh I'm tired of evil And all that it feeds But I don't know And I've been driftin' on this wave so long I don't know if it's already crashed on the shore And I've been ridin' on this train so long I can't tell if it's you or me who's drivin' us into the ground I don't know if I'm sane But there's a ghost in my heart Who's tryin' to see in the dark, oh I'm tired of people Who only wanna be pleased But I still wanna please you And I heard of that Japanese girl Who jumped into the volcano Was she tryin' to make it back Back into the womb of the world? oh And I've been drinkin' all these tears so long All I've got left is the taste of salt in my mouth I don't know where I've been but I know where I'm goin' To that volcano, woah I don't wanna fall in though Just wanna warm my bones on the fire a while |
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