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You'll Never Understand
03:49
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in between time
and the fading sign
no one walks here
but observes from over there
you know the zone
under the right stars
in the wronger sky
you never questioned why
we had options before
symbols painted over nature's door
underground they hear the cannons roar
a place to fight demand
with supply everywhere
but none around to share
observe from everyone
you'll never understand
on the beaches of life
under the sand of space
the lines chase the dots
a mimicking car chase
they say it imitates
if not envelopes
a watercolor sky would prove
a statement...neither right or wrong
we had oceans before
water under the rocky floor
the trees had spaces between fires
until they swept the shore
history will never hold responsible
the names and addresses
plainer text could not help that
you'll never understand
they'll say it's your time
so they have a chance to hide
between the margins of the shadows
and the growing dividing lines
can never say they're heroes
paint another picture
they'll always look the same
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Trip Over
03:12
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prepared for the landing, to make your conjecture
traveling throughout your high architecture
spotless and clean in a dirty mind
singled out and burned in a cloudless sky
the upper hand is yours until you start acting sure
long time wanting to make you understand
one more night to play your folding hand
dragging out til your speech can't get any slower
another landmine for you to trip over
masked for approval, dashing behind the lie
painted over the mirror that hides your color-code design
carefully approached and illustrated deceit
the same four sentences you'll always repeat
I'll gladly step down but your only prize is a broken crown
long time wanting to take your breath away
one more night to take back everything you say
escalating til your platform can't drop any lower
watch you draw the dotted line that you'll trip over
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3. |
Plastic Glass
01:17
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I deny the cooler sight
warmer lows for softer highs
mantle castle taking ground
gored angels embrace the skies
all hail the ugliest rainbow
all right, we're just about to go
I rely on holy signs
halos snapped in half to bleed
ice devil between my toes
plastic glass beneath my feet
view my insides
canvas cast on naked arm
make yourself at home at home
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4. |
Early Color Film
04:15
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called the current number
lights up every head
delicate like a flower
but every thought is dead
the wait takes forever
anything to change
displacing star crossed lovers
or a violent rearrange
clock hands move every hour
everything else here remains
nothing makes a difference
nothing to ease the pain
a film in early color
rising rising rise
every script cold, manufactured
but engineered every surprise
and every change is granted
every single time
single wish for this recursion
singled out for me to die
and life repeats itself...
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5. |
Excess Jane
01:21
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last night I got a call from a voice I couldn't place
she spoke like she knew me but I couldn't match a face
how long did I wait to start today?
down the chain with Excess Jane
today I found a note slipped under my front door
claimed familiarity but I'd never seen those words before
sheltered inside while I wait out the rain
down the chain with Excess Jane
how long can I do the same?
down the chain with Excess Jane
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6. |
Replace
03:19
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they'll replace your eyes with culture - as defined by
everything well stocked on the store shelves - on sale sign
discounts for the market victories - loved first sight
entertaining research vessels - to consume the right way
picturesque dreams printed and distributed
allocated equally for the perfect chance to find
traveling down the aisles for false adventure
around in a loop til you're ready to buy
you're a number to them
goals and quotas, checkered flag, you're racing
they'll replace your eyes with culture
placed into machinery, construct order
they'll infect your mind with color
monochrome closed circuit cashier once-over
they'll switch the light to make it darker
satisfy the youth and make them older
at once it's settled now it's in disorder
it's a new revolution, and it can't go slow
it's all contaminated
free thought lacerated
they'll replace your eyes...with culture
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7. |
Fires Across
05:30
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there is no shorter line
there is no better place
there is no finer time
there is no great escape
there is no way to ground me
there is no world around me
there is another day
not all will remain lost
there is another bridge
but as I spread my fires across
it will not stand for long
years of knowing gone
I'm not forgiving now
I won't lay a hand but I want you to know
I'm not turning back now
just know where I stand as I stick to my path
and go
it fires across the coastlines
or down the street
reapproach my designs
and oppose my fleet
there is no shorter line
there is no better place
there is no finer time
there is no great escape
there is no world around me
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8. |
Button Administration
01:33
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gonna wake up real fucking early today
gonna eat some breakfast and shower today
gonna wear some nice clothes I don't like today
gonna do nothing productive for myself today
gonna make my boss a lot of money today
gonna push a lot of buttons that do nothing today
gonna watch lines do things I don't understand today
gonna go home and stare blankly at the things I love today
dead end
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Screening
04:20
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we brought you in for screening
test every limb and bone
we brought you in for reading
observe every page and tome
we want to know all about you
but that would never get past you
so we took some steps and found you
now we're learning everything about you
everything you love has been defaced
everything you own has been replaced
everything you know has been erased
everything you loathe was left unchanged
you're safe with us
in our nurturing arms
don't ever leave us
or you'll sleep with the worms
we've based every move
around you around you
striving for a great change
improve you around you
everything you know has been defaced
everything you own has been replaced
and the ones you love have been erased
they're not conducive for great change
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10. |
Glad You're Here
02:01
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there in the burning building
the north star hiding
losing all hot momentum
enter the new cold resistance
it's fighting loudly
caught off guard and you turned around
to watch it all go down
ice sky bearing the winter
angels calling us hither
above what's frozen over
to a northern end
peace be with the popular staging
all united in modular framing
visions separated
but as it does appear
the old horizons grow unclear
morals still there raising fear
I'm so glad you're here
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11. |
Former Island
03:53
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train tracks on the moon
painted runes on the sky
face the colored night in your own hands
watercolored eyedrops dripping down
to open up the island
bless the children
ring in the new tide
new tide
ride
little footsteps toward the flaming altar
circles and squares of people singing
making up the words on the dirt spot
you'd think it so out of your head
embracing the ride
embracing the rain
and slide
island
they speak their dreams into tomes
they write with only words
stored in somebody's ivory stream
inside the ice machine
saved for summer
melting over ice
an hour passes like a day
sometimes there's just nothing else to say
give yourself a good reason to stay
moving yourself out of everybody else's way
change embraced for the golden ride
ringing in the aging tide
I know it's safer out there
taken by the rain
consumed by the ocean
island
ride
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12. |
Never Asked
04:59
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saw you driving as I walked home
I hoped it wasn't really you
my heart felt like a stone
dragging the rest of me down so you wouldn't see through
you'll always be my angel
you'll always be the same
you'll always be my angel
inside this tortured brain
where we never changed
messing around I stop and hope you'll fade away
lost between the threads of time
and it gets to be a similar obsession
underneath the dotted line
why'd you have to be my angel?
you never asked me to
why'd you have to be my angel?
I never listened to
why you couldn't be my
notebooks and album covers scattered
archived poorly over years
if I could feel a bit more strongly about it
there'd probably be faded tears
you'll always be my angel
in only meaningless ways
you know you're not my angel
and if that's the way it stays
we'll all be seeing better days
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13. |
Point Is Mist
01:34
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the condition shown as debate
the arc is high
the point is missed
flown over reason
the water soft
the point is mist
the sinkhole opened up
for the masses to enjoy and ignore
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14. |
Disease Elementary
03:24
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elementary
diamond tower
host disease
it may call
and reaches out
squeeze the kids
today
outside
it may crawl
don't discount the spread
the charts charts charts aren't doing enough
stay inside
and chug chug chug the night apart away
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Hello Whirled Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Album count: 49.
Release count: 137.
Song count: 1447.
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