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Cosmic Re Entry
03:27
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hey
if you think men in suits
in steel toed army boots
are gonna save the world they broke
then hey
I've got a bridge to sell ya
cause I don't know what to tell ya
they said "nothing's free"
and they're trying their fucking hardest to make it so
preach about the horrors of the world
it's by intelligent design
to crush us under the weight of inflation
every nation has to opt in or out
and even those who try to quit
they can't stop craving it
who's selling you this shit?
shoot for the moon
land among the stars
refuge from the earth
until they start building highways on the sun
and come back home as heroes
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Postdiluvian breakdown, how could you know?
They tore down the walls and started selling shields
Lost and crushed by the sadness, they cascaded
Leaving everyone heartless and tied to their yields
The name is “no”, and it does everything right
Two palaces built for it overnight
Down the stretches of madness, we endured
Finding new forms of sickness, but never the cure
Some crepuscular beam down says they’ll change
But they never do, it’s built that way
The name is “who” and it can’t get anything right
40 days and it got fucking lucky one night
Here lies the truth
Bare and unguarded
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We've Hit A Low Point
01:15
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I had it by the vein
you made me drop the gain
I wanted to feel pain
you wouldn't let it stain
by all accounts we've hit a low point
filled up my cursing jar
by opening a scar
and letting all the war
pour out onto the floor
but it can't get any lower
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In The Soft
04:25
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everything I say
you throw it back my way
and everything I know
it's all just been for show
but I missed the feeling
buried deep in the softest parts of your heart
when you used to open up
and let the room air out a little
is it so revealing?
buried deep in the softest parts of your heart
no issue with dead tissue
no stress over blood vessels
suddenly bursting and painting the walls red
everything you say
you're throwing words away
I can see right through your magic eye
and everything you know
another liar seed to grow
I can hear your heart stop beating
your eyes so warm
your hair so gold
your arms so soft
your hands so cold
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Red Water Part Two
03:34
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Here lies the last day of our lives
Though we wouldn't know it at the time
I sensed you smiling
Clutching an old umbrella
The rain falls red on a city plagued with seas of blood
I heard you crying from the flood
The screens exploded and left shrapnel in your skin
"Nothing's gonna happen here"
The man on the TV says, sweating through his suit
The streets were emptied out into neighboring dry counties
As docks eroded, walls were built
I saw you dying from the top of a lighthouse
"Nothing's gonna happen here"
But everyone is drained and everything is stained
Cars exhumed as racers bled down the highway
Stayers wore 3D glasses to maintain an illusion
I felt you flying from the wreckage of the heart
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First Waves
01:20
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I just wanted to speak my mind
don't like people getting left behind
when money is ripe, excuses run dry
but they didn't agree
I see the condor hasn't died
this Dirty War will never subside
whether I'm sleeping or holding my breath
the whirlybird ejects me to death
it just had to happen, it had to be done
erased from existence via gravity or gun
someone in many years will find one bone
out in the wilderness of the Southern Cone
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Drunk On Your Roof
03:17
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I'm locked in the trunk of an old rented car
it's cluttered with junk, I think
that the last renters tried to hide away
my last hope is bunk, I'm certain of it
that someone might not find me here
I'm drunk on your roof, please come and get me down
I'm sunk in your pool, tried my best not to drown
I'm locked in your room, hope no one finds me out
I'm following you through a delirious maze
it seems like we're running in circles
we've been here for days
caught in a loop of one repeated phrase
a series of infinitely feedbacking delays
it's clear I lost something along the way
over the sky and under the bay doors
something keeps reaching, trying to force me to stay
but I won't go away
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Like It Says
02:07
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my face in a painting
in the lobby of nowhere
on a wall with no color worth a name
i don't like what it says
about me
my name in a text
jumbled letters that mean nothing
except for the words
that spell out me
source for the ancient
unwritten rules
built into the walls of
elementary schools
where kids don't ask why the walls
feel so uncanny
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He buried the wine
Where you wouldn’t find it
Ask the vine
And you’ll be denied it
And it hurts a little
To watch it dribble
Down your chin
And blankly
Like when you couldn’t thank me
For leading you away from the river the first time
When I forced the hairpins into straight lines
So your cries form a fountain
As your lies construct a mountain
You can’t build a bridge of fire
Or a future out of buzz
When you tried to sell it back
I had to ask what was
Lost in celebration
And denial leads to decantation
I can’t be your killer
But I won’t let you lose
To swim or simply drown
I cannot let you choose
Your river’s filling with the water of the hive
Get a little wet or ride in for the dive?
For you it’s entertainment
A plot for your estrangement
A ploy for self-containment
I buried the wine in here
Where you shatter into fear
And the silence is unclear
But the violence disappears
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With money like that, you should just buy the sky
And a hot air balloon to look down at the world
And say hi
And maybe in sixteen years or a day
You can add to the list of accomplishments
You’ve claimed
But I’ve got nothing against you
With a knife in your hand and a gun to your head
Your Jacob & Co died as the blood poured red
Inside
And where the Ishafans used to provide relief
Your mansions burned and your grief was left to die
High as the sky you own
Alive as 88 Rue du Rhone
Drive your Aspark into Yellowstone
The water is gone and you’re gasping for air
The hotter explosion, the harder fall into despair
And where the easily impressed once floated like moons
The orbit has broken, they’ve gone into their cocoons
Old Earth ripped into light
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Hello Whirled Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Album count: 49.
Release count: 137.
Song count: 1447.
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