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Re:Telescope Eyes
02:44
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You could say,
You could say my eyes,
You could say my eyes are like telescopes late at night, open wide.
You could call,
You could call my mouth,
You could call my mouth a megaphone screaming out loud, to make new sounds.
but only now and then I can make them right.
you could say,
say that in between,
there's a mess of wires and fire all bright and clean, we're all machines.
and so we feel,
we feel our fear,
we feel weight of the perfect
pulling down our heels from year to year
But every now and then we can make ourselves...
I would know,
I would know the world,
I would know the world is like a giant parachute,
you're strapped onto.
And if you count,
if you count your time,
you don't get that much so you be sure to weigh yourself down,
down to the ground
but every now and then I just get so light.
time will cheat you,
love will leave you,
fate will disappoint you,
but I will never forget you.
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2. |
Next Of Kin
03:00
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Hide your head up in the clouds
the sun's so bright you'll never come back down
drown your ears somewhere downtown,
the song's so good you'll never lose the sound
but you can't begin
to hide the way you feel at the day's end
if practice makes the perfect devil's twin
then I win
but i'm not actually him
I'm only next of kin
and despite these silly faults
I'm still alright
2am in gentle glow
the television volume is set to low.
and how that vision fades of youth
always breaking down
but not of me quite yet, of me quite yet
but I can't begin
to hide the way I feel at the day's end
I'm in,
if practice makes the perfect devil's twin
then I win
but i'm not actually him
I'm only next of kin
and despite these silly faults
I'm still alright
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3. |
Working Days
02:45
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So I've got my working days
I've got my hallowed days away
my hands keep pushing on, my hands they always know the part
And no matter how i get away,
I'm just not meant to stay
I'll clench my jaw you see
I'll give you that for free
but oh my head is gone
its shriveled up and fallen off,
no no,I don't need it on,
I swear I'll still do the job,
cuz everybody has to please,
be perfect in their infancy,
I guess it's hard to see
What we're meant to be
and as my life is draining down and down swear I
watch it swirl spinning round and round I
turn my head away and force a laugh oh,
it's so surreal
so if I keep on keepin’ on
will money come? or time be gone?
I hold my grimness in, I hold my winnings in
And no one has the nerves to say,
we're just the useless fray.
I'm not sure what you mean but
I see you clench your teeth.
Well I've got work to do,
yeah I've got things to do
I hide behind the truth
that there's nothing else to do
All of my time is gone,
I swear my time is gone
I don't know what went wrong but
I'm not up to par
and as my life is draining down and down I
watch it swirl spinning round and round I
turn my head away and force a laugh oh you know,
it's so surreal
so as I pack all of my things away
I know just what I'd like to say
I know which thoughts I'd like to save
and others just won't stay away but
never is moment lost
when someone else is still your boss
I just smile at that,
I just smile at you-
cuz I've got work to do
yeah I've got things to do
I hide behind the truth
that I don't know what else to do
I'm scared to death that this is,
I'm scared to death to quit,
I'm scared to death that this is it
I'm scared to question,
and as my life is draining down and down I
watch it swirl spinning round and round I
turn my head away and force a laugh oh,
it's so surreal
As I'm getting out suspiciously well,
To go and find a more judicious sell,
Another place to turn my brain off as well,
It never ends
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4. |
Porridge And Cake
02:24
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You said save me,
You said save me,
That night on a summer’s eve
When you sold me into slavery,
I calmed my shaking knees
But I Oh, Oh, Oh,
But I just don't know.
Oh oh oh I just don't know.
But I can’t believe,
That this is really happening,
And I do believe
there is something here for me.
So I gave up my namesake
Yeah I sold it for porridge and cake, but I didn't know where to go after that and I saw everything was Live or not.
Oh I do, believe, in such a thing as happiness.
And I do believe, that is has got room for us.
And I saw
In my hands
This weight
Is a cancer
You survive.
But I just don't know.
But I do believe
That I have gotten here with you
And I do believe that I am rather fond of me…
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5. |
I Concede
04:09
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So I ask you,
Is everything you think you have,
Really all you've ever had?
And is everything you think you've thought,
Really all you've ever thought?
And although sometimes I like to slow it down,
My brain is me and I'm happy now.
So I ask you, is everything you think you've heard,
Really all you've ever heard?
So I ask you,
Is everything you think you saw,
Really all you've ever seen?
And although sometimes I like to slow it down, my brain is me and I'm happy now.
So I ask you,
Is everything you think you've felt,
Really all you've ever felt?
And I ask you,
Is everything you think you've thought, really all you've ever thought?
Although sometimes I like to slow it down, my brain is me and I'm happy now.
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6. |
Cutting My Teeth
02:14
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You don't know what you are,
until you're not that anymore.
You don't know what you have, until it's walking out the door.
Oh I cut my teeth on troubled times, it's getting through to me
I don't want the world to know just who I am till I am free.
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7. |
Tidal Wave
03:28
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Now and then you feel ok,
and not insane.
Now and then you understand,
That nothing stays.
But I can feel the wall, smooth against my hands,
I can feel the heat pushing on my back,
Every other day bleeds into the same,
Every stupid face mocks I turn away
Woohoo.
So sell yourself on change.
Everyday.
Cuz soon we'll see the world turn,
The other way.
And time and time again,
I can see the end,
As everybody screams
Write another scene
Yeah tell me that you're clean,
Yeah Tell me You are free
I'll spurn the day.
I'm a tidal wave
Woohoo.
Yeah I am gonna save the world, in another way.
Yeah I am gonna save some souls,
From old decay.
But I can see the sheen,
Yeah I can smell the fear, and
Everybody seems to catch their own disease, yeah turn the camera on, watch you're fate roll on.
I tried to say,
I'm a tidal wave.
Woohoo.
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8. |
Pharmaceuticals
04:38
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I've got plans for what we're doing,
I've got Pharmaceuticals and drinks,
I don't believe in evolution
I don't believe in anything but guns.
Oh I'll finally feel alive and
I think this gamble is the final one,
But whose to say this is the last time,
As if i was in control at all.
I put the gun back in the holster,
The weather took a silly turn for the worse,
That’s thunder rolling over pastures screaming fury wild
And now everything hurts.
A twitch. A spaz, a fit, and it's beginning;
A twitch a spaz a fit and now it running course,
There's nothing I can do to stop it.
That’s evolution at its best and worst!
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Wait it out come on just wait it out
Cut the line and everybody's gonna sink.
I should've known it'd happen in the first place, I should have (known and watched it all running down) watched my own demise running down.
I've got to fight it
Ive got to write it down
Ive got to fight it-
I've got to tell it all
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And for a moment it's abiding,
And for a moment I am in the eye-
Life and death rages all around me,
Life and death is craving that I try and defy.
But you know thoughts are everlasting?
even then when I would surely rather die
There's a moment of hallucination,
An eyebrow raised up rather high.
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Wait it out come on just wait it out
Cut the line and everybody's gonna sink.
I should've known it'd happen in the first place, I should have (known and watched it all running down) watched my own demise running down.
I've got to fight it
I’ve got to write it down
I’ve got to fight it-
I've got to tell it all
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You’re kindly sitting by my bedside.
We'll stay up late and defy our own death.
Maybe tomorrow I can do it
Maybe now I can get out of bed.
But wait everything is shaking,
But wait I am going on back in
This time gravity is flipped and
My legs thrashing all the chaos below
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Wait it out come on just wait it out
Cut the line and everybody's gonna sink.
I should've known it'd happen in the first place, I should have (known and watched it all running down) watched my own demise running down.
I've got to fight it
Ive got to write it down
Ive got to fight it-
I've got to tell it all
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9. |
Diseased
03:34
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I've been alone
I've been alone
For so very long, I don't know but
I'm getting off
I'm getting off at the next stop,
To try my luck oh
What if you could see me now
A shell to work, A husk of dirt oh,
I carry on and force my thoughts to these new spots oh
Watch me drop
I'm not crazy,
Just a little terribly mistaken maybe,
You and I could make a thing
But baby, lately I am all but finished and I hate the way the songs are always with me late at night.
My swinging arm
My working arm don't know
The difference man or fence
It haunts me oh,
It haunts the soul
And every day I see your face,
I hear the screams, I hear pings
But now you both are gone for good,
And sleep is coming less and less
But don't let me show you my mess oh
I'm not crazy,
Just a little terribly mistaken maybe,
You and I could make a thing
But baby, lately I am all but finished and I hate the way the songs are always with me late at night.
I sold my soul,
You tell this basket case it's time to save some face,
And now it's,
And now it's,
Well it's pulling on me
Well it's pulling on me
I'm not crazy,
Just a little terribly mistaken maybe,
You and I could make a thing
But baby, lately I am all but finished and I hate the way the songs are always with me late at night.
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10. |
That's Wild
05:13
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If the world will end despite your flaming throat,
Would you bide your time,
Or reach another result?
Oh is it really that bad,
To make such beautiful prose?
Yeah true or not,
I'm still the king of my own show.
Cuz I was working on an answer but I guess I lost my feet.
It's all a little too convenient but
At least I kept my seat.
So I grip the ancient pages
Oh my knuckles turning white!
I swear I'll never tear them outside
But you can lose your head to some place in the the clouds.
And you dont really see whatever isn't allowed.
Or even worse your waiting patiently for a pen
And if there's nothing happening then you should look harder my friend!
And then all at once it happens you can see what it all means.
And so I'm rushing towards the ground now I'm staring at my end.
But in a momentary flash I see the place that I messed up.
I could have sworn there was an author but I guess I got mixed up
That's wild.
That's wild.
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