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Sea-Saw
05:47
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Sea-saw friends raise up your hands
Count yourself present
Pretend to understand
I need to say something to convince you to stay
I’m lonely here still
I thought it would go away
Take a look at my cards
Take a glance if you’d like
The spread’s painted black
All the heroes took flight
They felt they’d fit better elsewhere on the map
But they’re all on their own
And there’s no doubting that
I can feel you when I’m dreaming
I know this must sound like a lie
Bolt upright with the dawn
It’s the start of the day at the end of the night
Sea-saw friends training for death
Shouting mixed messages and losing their breath
I need to say something but the vacuum’s too strong
The sound would go nowhere to no one at all
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Arch Enemy Shuffle
03:02
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Take your pictures down to the picture framing store
And on the way forgive your enemies
Ya know ya got em
Buddy please
I hear the past is oh so attractive
If you try to recall it at all
But I’ve got better vliewscreens to stare at
I’m in touch all the time
Won’t you drop me a line?
New earth green seas
The flags all drag the floor
But you can wander this old world
Just like you’ve dreamed before
I look out my window each day for years and years
It never gets old (trust me)
But each and every career I try does
Oh, what a drag today
I say most days
But you know I’m lying or bending truths
I must admit that I will get a kick if I try
New earth green seas
The flags all drag the floor
But you can wander this old world
Just like you’ve dreamed before
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3. |
An Electric Time
05:42
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You made it through
I was brought here on my own
Against my will
I’m not trying to be your equal
Oh no no
Oh no no
Oh no no
I’m here to learn
How to weave these tattered remnants
Into tourniquets for bleeding out and bandages for burns
Show me
I can feel everything now and I’m certain of it
You were made of gold and I of brass
Which one is stronger?
Which one will last?
Show me
A fifty foot flag is flapping at half staff
And when the wind stops blowing it will just be dragging the ground
Yes, sounds about right
And we’ll be dodging a color-coated cat of nine tails
Whose ends are poisoned by debris
We never were quite dodging with our feet
Oh, how nice
Are you going to the polls today, my friend?
Well, have your ID ready
Pay your fines and buy a sitter for your baby
And take the bus to where you’re going
Pull that lever, honey
Its echo on the walls: your voice
Reverberating until it doesn’t and then you leave
We could buy expensive lunches after
Talk about things we’ve seen on screens
Now deep red laughter coats your walls
It’s all we have it seems
Advancing worlds weave cosmic dream
An electric time
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Here are some of my things
I’d like to know what you think
Even though I won’t blink
Doesn’t men you can’t control anything
When you speak
Just because you’re asleep
That doesn’t mean that you’re dreaming
It’s only blankness you see
Before you slide into dreams, hopefully sweet
And say goodbye to your worries
So you can walk through those trees
Say goodbye to your troubles
Ice will melt fire will freeze
Freeze
Just because you’re not home
That doesn’t mean I don’t wish I were there
There’s nothing better to see alone
Perched high on my stairs
They’re my own
I’ll say goodbye to me worries
So we can walk through those trees
Say goodbye to my troubles
And if you’re patient with me you’ll see
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Compare and Contrast
02:27
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Ever hear a live wether report from a city on the other side of the world?
You get up
You leave your chair
You go to the window
It’s right over there
Compare and contrast
Compare and contrast
I guess I’m living alright
That’s what I say if they ask
Compare and contrast
Compare and contrast
I guess I’m living alright
That’s what I say if they ask
Ever read a page in a book from a shelf in a building you’ve been too before?
And wonder if someone in some other place
Is just sitting ‘round lonely and they’re doing the same?
Under a different mayor
At a different latitude
But everybody’s got the same bad attitude
Nothing really matters so who really cares?
That’s what they’re chanting as society’s descending the stairs
Compare and contrast
Compare and contrast
I guess I’m living alright
That’s what I say if they ask
Compare and contrast
Compare and contrast
I guess I’m living alright
That’s what I say if they ask
Alright, your uncle’s a creep
And your grandpa’s insane
But they’re not off the hook just cause they learned it that way
Your body gets baggy and your brain does too
But your mentality keeps growing
It’s all up to you
Compare and contrast
Compare and contrast
I guess I’m living alright
That’s what I say if they ask
Compare and contrast
Compare and contrast
I guess I’m living alright
That’s what I say if they ask
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6. |
The Honor of the Cavalry
03:40
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What can I do for you?
That’s why you’re calling
We’re either oceans apart or we’re all in
Cut to the chase, my man
Lie you cut to the heart
I lit a final cigarette by the park bench
Slightly ceremonial, I’d say, unless my guard’s down
And I could hang it all out honest
It was mostly routine
There was a concentrated circle of friends
But the honor of the cavalry has come to an end
You say you’re tasting bitterness
I’m bunking in confectionaries now
I’ve heard you bellowing
Head in the stock
But I’ve never held the keys to the pillory locks
You’re screaming in a voice that don’t belong to you
Indiscriminately cardinal intermediate
North and south same as east to you
I’ve never had opinions about what you should do
We’re not a team my man
One and one not two
Your mother says that you’re blessed
But that ain’t something she can prove
Do you want to go west?
Is that what the lore of your heroes suggests?
If destiny is real, go on manifest
I wonder who’s ambitions you’ll devour and digest along the way
Well I know that we could pivot
Turn the cannons on me
But I’m the one who’s singing so I’m the one who’ll be
Stenographer, judge, the entire jury
But I’ll leave the execution to you
A reassessment’s in order, it seems
Oh I wonder how I ever thought we shared any dreams
Cause we never shared the spoils
The badges were imaginary
Okay, I see, you got me
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The Sunflowers are all gone
The Palm’s been taken inside
The Frost is coming tonight
But for now the sun shines bright
For now the grass grows green
And every single singer of every song agrees
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A little paper psalm
A litany to the end
15th of October
The new Ambrosian hymn
A lesson from the apocalypse recited by heart
A picnic basket
A modern work of art
And it’s all a bit different on the weekdays
Candy-colored hymnals and chocolate-covered hymns
Your vocal chords are worth a million dollars
We’ll pretend
You wait to shout the signals the angels will project
Straight to Saint Benedict, their Earthly architect
And it’s all a bit different on the weekdays
Your words are all so meaningless
Your melodies all the same
You never found a system to believe in or to claim
So you’re searching like the rest of us
But want the world to know
You’re gardening for gardening’s sake
You sow and sow and sow
And it’s all a bit different on the weekdays
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Used Guitars
02:52
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Hands on the fretboard but they’re not the first
Eyes on the right looking own to the left
Like those eyes from the past did before
Used guitars
You lay down in the car
You’re asleep in the house
You’ve had nightmares of grey hairs
And red carpet arsonists
Dreams that you’re changing the strings
Of used guitars
Well I know that we’re all part of some vast continuum
That doesn’t keep us from being so bored
We stare at the walls and and gaze at the floor
And we mindlessly strum the same chords
On used guitars
All the greatest theories in the world came from nobody around here
All the children in the street, they look happy
Happy from a distance
Playing jacks with the poets in the gutter
Not an officer in sight
All the neighbors say they won’t amount to nothing
But nothing is alright for the kids with the cigarettes and the used guitars
Used guitars
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Oh the summertime is coming
And the leaves are sweetly turning
And the wild mountain thyme
Blooms across the purple heather
Will you go, Lassie go?
If you will not go with me
I will surely find another
To pull wild Mountain Thyme
All across the purple heather
Will you go, lassie, go?
And we'll all go together
To pull wild Mountain Thyme
All across the purple heather
Will you go, lassie, go?
Let me be your one light
And if you'd like a true heart
Take the time to show you're mine
And I'll be a blue moon in the dark
While you sleep you'll see me there
Clouds race across the sky
Close your eyes and don't ask why
And I'll be a blue moon in your eyes
Morning comes and sleeping's done
Birds sing outside
If demons come while you're under
I'll be a blue moon in the sky
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