1. |
Dead Animals
02:20
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this town is full of poison dead animals falling from black sky gasping for breath and collapse on the pavement into a miracle "somebody take me home"
this is the end of knowing not what you sow as there is a blight come over our field of gold will this be the end of everything terrible will this be the end of everything
somebody take me home
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2. |
Out of the Past
03:59
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there is a ghost in my backyard
tracing these shadows on the fog
waiting for the crows to leave
but where no wind breathes they are hopeless
is there a plot for you and me
a name survived for centuries
shading the grass that paints your knees
wait for me there's a feeling
i left behind the raven's door
you've seen it all before but i will be buried there
and at a crest beyond the sun
where all the signs are foregone i will be buried there
femme fatale don't let your guard down you'll be found face down in your childhood swimming pool
why float when you can sink just pull in your arms and fall backwards into the rain
this is your path to walk now i am eurydice i am the one who leads
reels running back now
but i am nothing if not a lamb for the slaughter my blood to spill in the soil with autumn comes a harvest of ages and i will be buried there
gunsmoke in your eyes unfocused there is a price for getting too close so come on don't take the black just get up and fight back and let me be buried here i'll be buried here
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3. |
Your Sword/Falling
05:17
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autumn comes and the storms are brewing
winter fades and you drown into spring
the line above neck
ready to shipwreck
no matter the wounds need tending
no battle is ever ending
sun up to sundown
no cry is out loud
put your sword down we're falling we're falling
the summer sun on the frozen wheel do you believe in me like i believe in you
vigil vacations
island cremations
enemy can you open your eyelids and tell me where you are is the sun still shining
can you see the gates where you lie and can you tell me when you think they'll let the line in
and on the day that you're finally free will you be constantly looking around and too busy to see
violet iris
no star so skyless
where will you go who will you be and will you only forever be thinking of the distance from me
our statue dances
no second chances
when the circle closes we'll be together at last
no boy don't fall on your sword
you don't want to
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4. |
Return Eternal
05:05
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go around with a fear in your eyes
false summer to fall lies
fading dreams that no longer apply
lost angel city of night
you and i locked in opposite eyes
windblown away to a far out green light
this lonely garden our grave tonight
left on our own in paradise
for all the last to know
for all those who follow
into the valley of the shadow
i return eternal
all i need is one more look in your eyes
so i can recall what the way out looked like
i'll follow you to the other side
but i'll arrive all compromised
now i walk this path alone
with all conclusions foregone
into the valley of the shadow
i return eternal
for all slaves to the golden dream
condemned to a life on repeat
from the mountain to the sea below
i will return eternal
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5. |
Soft Eyes
05:06
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hold my pen to the paper while you reach for the knife stab it into my soft eyes
outside edges dissolving you disappeared in the smoke of the fireworks
i'll be the dreamer dreaming
you'll be the fountain
turn on the water
it always looks so much better in hindsight our secret summer spent sneaking out wasting away on the beach with sand and smoke in our eyes we run away from our parents and all their mistakes
i'll be the dreamer dreaming
you'll be the fountain
toss in a quarter
on this your wedding day teachers don't recognize you
on this the most sacred day neighbors don't recognize you
on this your wedding day parents don't recognize you
on this the most sacred day your friends don't recognize you
you'll be the dreamer dreaming
i'll be the fountain
turn on the water now
i'll be the fountain
toss in a quarter now
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6. |
Vive l'amour
04:06
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a phantom in between the walls
live your life door to door
you parked your car outside the mall
and you called it amour
to walk along the river side
see the bench where you cried
while girls and boys are taking rides
to where the animals die
that's where we finally found each other
in the fluorescent light
and all the scars we'd leave one another
were apparent that first night
the island in your arms the country in your eyes
i'll be waiting for you on the other side
it never was that hard to find in the violet skies
but you were hiding under the bed the whole time
when will you realize
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7. |
Stranger Silence
06:23
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you are not so different from me but my eyes can see the waves that yours can't see it's a fast track catastrophe and you know somebody's gotta bleed and if we don't see this through to the end then you and i will be the ones left in the pen cause you and i are only flesh to them
under deck with the other stowaways i have learned to say what you never could say and how i'd love to take this day to let all trouble float away but if we don't lose some weight right now then together with the ship we're all going down and you and i will be the first to drown
hold onto and restrain your silence
your stranger silence
only to lose the chains of silence
of stranger silence
just hotel kids my sister and me
she took me right up to the edge of the dream
said "just behind this electrified fence the climate controlled land of our birth right awaits but you and i are locked outside the gates"
get on line to restrain your silence
your stranger silence
it's their crime but we'll be framed in silence
left to the flames in silence
and when there's no one else around we'll make our own waves underground
and when there's no one else around we'll rise our own tide underground
look from the other side
put yourself behind unseeing eyes
if you're not building a raft for us all then you might as well not even build one at all cause i won't be the one to make the call
don't leave the stranger silent
don't leave the other blinded
inside your mind
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8. |
Paradise Park
09:28
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on the roller coaster ride i look for solid ground
disappear
polaroid of a dove sailing on through the tunnel of love and i just need some solid ground
disappear
this all can't be real we're stuck at the top of the ferris wheel and all i want is my feet on solid ground
to disappear
paradise
underneath the storm
i'm surrounded by the sound but i'll come back around
or disappear
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9. |
True Voyage
04:33
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fountain dry
drown tonight
ocean side
i see a light
silver road
hair of gold
so alone
so alone
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shore lights New York, New York
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