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Scattered Promise
03:26
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Call it insignificant, when I met you on the Summer of '95,
I fell in love with you, the night your band played live,
Cherry-picked so graphically, dunno how it happened so magically,
I fell in love with you and saw you every night.
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We made love and music, touched base with Heaven.
You see a photograph, I see a shard of Heaven.
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I knew all your songs from front to back,
Knew how you started out small, your pride in tact,
How you'd toss yourself into the crowd,
I watched you fade away, your future loud,
How you'd fade away, your voice would drown.
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The band would party but we'd talk all night,
and the world was ours until daylight.
The band passed out but we'd talk all night,
and you were mine until daylight.
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That Saturday night you said time flies,
I lit a cigarette while you put one out,
In a caravan bed looked in my eyes,
said 'I'm flying out tomorrow night',
said 'I might come back and I'll come see you',
said 'I might come back I'll see you soon'.
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Said he might come back but he left for good.
How twenty years sure takes a toll on something so damn magical.
Said he might come back but he never did.
How the years sure take a toll on something so damn beautiful.
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Said he might come back but he left for good,
Though he left for good it was for the best.
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2. |
Static Station
02:32
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I should've exploited the times,
I let them subside,
I watched them archive.
I should've expected the times,
They sped past my face at an unearthly pace,
I watched them pass by before my unbelieving eyes.
But what's that colour called?
That lies beyond the horizon
That hides when the sun is rising.
Because I've seen this before,
And I've felt this before,
Psychotic on the bathroom floor
But what's that station called?
That the train would never stop by,
Never saw anyone alight before.
Because I felt you there,
Like I was in a museum,
And I could look but not touch,
But I missed you so much,
Boy I miss you so much
But I never exploited the times,
Didn't read the fine print
Of your bottom line.
And I never expected the times,
I watched the high tide
Flood the shore and die.
But what's that colour called?
That lies beyond the horizon,
That hides when the sun is rising
Because I felt you there,
And I've seen this before,
Psychotic on the bathroom floor
What's that station called?
Train would never stop by
You only hear static,
But I swear I heard some noises,
And I swear I heard a person's voice.
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3. |
Hallucination
05:10
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If on any given day
You seek to earnestly proclaim
They are truly real
That they live beyond your eyes
Then it's irrefutable
That you will meet a great demise
But will they see?
That the hands are not your own
Can you really call it life,
When you're just tolerating strife?
Is the dark
Really tortured by the light?
Tell me who is operating
All the systems of the world
Stark and cruel
But the land is beautiful
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I could really make it happen,
You could live to see it happen,
I know I could really make it happen,
You may live to see it happen
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They speak eclectic numerology
Believe in ultra-violence
As a right
'Cause it's an eye for seven eyes
Let the testament
Of visionary entities
Consume you to the core
Their wisdom is your law
Say the only slavery
Is when you're always free
To walk out anytime
Exit's in plain sight
Someday come knocking on my door
Unhinged wreck aside,
I house a repertoire
They move in when I depart
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I could really make it happen
You could live to see it happen
I know I could really make it happen
You may live to see it happen
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Gotta get my hands on something new
Although my heart cries out for you
Neurotransmission, but from who?
Am I held captive by the truth?
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4. |
Job's Tears (Shell)
04:36
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The waves pull up against the north
I kiss goodbye to all my warmth
When the sun sets daily on the shore
The tide comes in to clean it all
Though, each day I built it up
By morning, all in all it's dust
I watch it seep back to the shore
I almost can't take it anymore
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When it washed you up I took you home
I polished you up real good
I kept you on the windowsill
I hear the waves crashing still
What's the point of holding onto things
That never belonged to me?
What's the point of holding onto
Memories and tear-stained dreams
I curse the thief in the night
That took much more than shallow pride
Alone, I wipe my weeping eyes
And what's left of a woman steps outside
But what's the point of walking to the water?
A shooting star, a fallen daughter
What's the point, why even bother
To fall on my knees underneath the stars
Plead with the ocean to bring you back
Wind in my ears, I can barely hear
Or plead with the Lord to change the facts
What's the point of holding onto things
That never belonged to me?
What's the point of holding onto
Memories and tear-stained dreams
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It's the tide that gives it all
It's the tide that brought you home
It's the tide that gifts the shore
It's the tide that took it all
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5. |
All Or Nothing
04:23
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Walking in the arms of a man in the city
(I should feel something)
Moonshine water bright light skyrise
(Should've felt something)
Sitting on the bench overlooking the edge
(I should feel something)
Waiting it out in the backseat
(Should've felt something)
It's all or nothing
It's all or nothing
It's all or nothing
It's all or nothing
Toying around with anyone I please
(I should feel something)
Letting their hands roam my body
(Should've felt something)
Toying around with anyone I please
(I should feel something)
Letting their hands roam my body
(Should've felt something)
It's all or nothing
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6. |
New Year's Eve
03:22
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If we knew each other,
There'd be no pain,
But on the same note,
On the same note,
It's just a game for you
It's just a game for you
I heard you're doing well,
But I guess the moon never changes.
I heard you found the world,
The moon we saw together.
It's just a game for you
It's just a game for you
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7. |
Adder
04:11
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Cook up a storm now, how the night is silent when it subsides
Feel that the earth is still and you are the one who is spinning
She's had her father's name permeate her corporate dreams
You take her out and see Eraserhead, ask her what the hell she thinks it means
Well you can handle the yuppie heels and the pseudo-intellectual bedroom babble
But when you hear her candid laugh and the childhood photograph is peering from the nightstand
Excuse yourself, weep against the glass partition
Excuse yourself, cry out to those constellations
Head on home now, and before you pull out the zip-lock
Take a glance in the mirror, feel your heart sink like a falling rock
Push away thoughts of your mother's face with your company card
So you're like an adder shedding his skin
Yeah, you're like an adder shedding his skin
Now strip your suit down, toss it on the leather armchair
As the 21st century sunset is glaring onto tempered glass
Think that if the past six years were on VHS you'd pay to destroy it
Create a different way to blow your wages everyday, and
Extrude the tar, you feel alive and you love the stars
Extrude the stuff, melting like it's never enough
Sitting on the high-rise penthouse loveseat like a child
Peering through teary eyes, it's just city lights overcoming the sky
Cook up a storm next Friday but the empty wind still blows your way
Feel that the earth is still and you are the one who is spinning
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8. |
Night After Night
03:48
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Well see you round,
Uncomfortable and I can tell,
Beside yourself and out the door,
He's back for another chance,
I know I'm just a means to another end
Ashamed and I can tell,
I want to hold you closer to myself,
When I feel your body tensing up,
When I feel your body pushing back,
I know what it means, but I don't care,
Stay the night 'cause I don't care,
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I don't have a conscience,
I can only sit and listen.
I just wanna be a part
Of something worth reminiscing.
I don't have the patience,
I need endless stimulation
Do you know what it is like to feel so dirty?
And to feel it night after night
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You come around
Hesitant and I can tell
I hate your formulated enterprise
You're so complacent and then so contrite
I can say that again and again
It's so vivid now
It's like that vision that I always had
Treading on paper thin ice
I searched for years and here it is
I don't want you to leave, but I don't care
Stay with me baby, I don't care
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I don't have a conscience
I can only sit and listen
I just wanna be a part
Of something worth reminiscing
I don't have the patience
I need endless stimulation
Do you know what it is like to feel so dirty?
And to feel it night after night
Night after night
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9. |
Flowers In Vodka
03:23
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Come and peek
Inside your closet
From when we were young
Pulling out
Those expired jars
You totally forgot about
You know those flowers
Were once so pretty
Till somebody came along
Plucked them from the fields
Drowned in spirits
And milked for their yield
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Might you look and see
The effervescent glow of a kind that only blooms in the night
May you linger and taste the sweetness
Of memories long buried
Don't it sneak up and grip you tight
And move you to another place
And a simpler time
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I'm seeing faces
And they are ghosts
And they would like to stay
Well be my guest
Because it's lonely
And I miss the way you sound
Soak those flowers so full of life
Press them down
Until they are dry
So if the tears
Are ever falling
Then you'll know just where you can catch them
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If you wake between midnight and the dawning sky
Then you might catch the dewdrops that are new
I can't imagine, I wouldn't want to
The mist that might even form
Poke your head out
Shine for an hour
And close your petals tight
And say goodnight
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10. |
Hollow Drill Stars
03:47
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Inside the snow globe
Well east is as west
Where you gonna run to?
Can only try your best
Taking pure questions
To all the wrong men
Sent a little dove out
Don't think it's coming home
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Follow the heartache
Hollow is the wind that leads the world astray
Swallow it down again
Hollow as the heartache
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Born an enemy of the state
Just trying to stand up
Staring out my cage
Numbered are my days
Outside the shell now
There's nothing there for me
Think I'll stay inside now
Alone in my cell
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Hollow as the heartache
Hollow is the wind that leads the world astray
Swallow it down again
Hollow as the heartache
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11. |
End Of The Line
03:46
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I was born alone and disowned by Him,
And I roamed the world and I let Him down.
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The stars are brighter than ever tonight, tonight
It's the end of the line
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I was born a thousand years ago
And I roamed the world and I let Him down.
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The stars are brighter than ever tonight, tonight
It's the end of the line
The stars are brighter than ever tonight, tonight
It's the end of the line
Of the line
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