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Strangers
03:44
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strangers when we met
woven into firmament
haunted there and back again
strangers in the end
every time we cried,
passage forth duly denied
haunted well into the night
robed in incandescent light
i know that's what you want—
hand for a gun, throat for a song
but i can't abide
i really tried, but the heart wants what the soul cannot
if you think of me
out beyond the raging sea
cast it gently from your mind
let the mystery suffice
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2. |
I Only Want to Love You
04:17
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i only want to love you
from the dust in fields anew,
i only want to love you
time will dry up like water
time will run dry like a river
you tower over like a rainstorm
we lie adjacent to a canyon
we lie, inviting all
but i only want to love
know that i would rather die
for the sake of our final fortune
and not what might
stop me before it kills me.
though i might already be gone,
stop me before i love
know that i would rather die
for the sake of our final fortune
and not what might
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Dreaming of Babylon
02:26
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let it go—
love anew.
days of plum and gold
are fading into blue.
all of it is dead and gone;
i am out here alone.
i keep acting like it was a big [redacted] surprise,
but i already knew!
i'll travel out thru a keyhole
and into the deep
far to the outer reaches of Callista
to the CMB
you know i love you so, darling!
but i can't even begin to tell you
how many times i've fallen into
a cycle of poison and grief
...only to dream!
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bully, bully, bully
you live to think that i'll hurt you
lover, lover, lover
i really don't want to let you go
father, father, father
whatever happened to piecemeal?
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The Glacier
03:14
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Archimedes sat on the glacier
sifting thru the ash of the cosmik tides
for any trace of surrender:
a family, a sender
when he was alone, he was dangerous
when he was alone, he was in his prime
his family rang for a doctor
what met her shocked her
left me all alone at the glacier
never thought that she'd put the moves on me
i'll cut a hole in the ice sheet
and jumpstart the jitney
don't you ever mention the glacier
the chore was never the journey
it's more like forgetting
stop.
here it comes, all at once:
i am leveled by you.
i'm gonna know
how it feels
to become someone new
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6. |
She Will
01:57
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over the hill is a sanctuary
that's where my true lover claims to be
i wanna hold her in my arms
she will elude me, but mean no harm
a world apart: rumpled, strange beginnings
make way to blooming of broken things
i wanna run and hide
the clock at zero, the time is nigh
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all jacked up for the leaving
face is dirty and bleeding
she don't give you a reason to go
you can't hide what you're feeling
little heart keeps a-beating
your whole life is receding from view!
so when you sleep, you feel awake
but when you wake, you start to break
you take a loan out on your soul
just to feel like you're in control
she's swimming 'round inside your head
with all the things that you could've said, like:
' yo! everything we had
is something for which others
hope, dream and pray
...but you're giving it all away! '
--
you're giving it all away— shout out to charity
you're giving it all away, just 'cus you mad at me
it wasn't for the difference in salary
if it was, then i would've left more casually
it's not about the time that's invested
it's about our minds and how we stressin'
when love intertwines, it's a blessing
but we can't afford all the violence domestic
now check it:
we had something for which people
kill for, steal for, cheat for and lie for
and so i've gotta ask this question:
if you could live forever, then what would you die for?
would you die for love?
it seems that you would - well, apparently
i'm trying to keep up my faculties
i'm riding thru the 'bush with my woes
Mr. Cubillos, he on the track and i lace the flow
that's how it goes
and i don't know
i'm just trying to maintain my composure
and if i don't get any closure
then i might just have to close the book on it
and i don't even put a hook on it
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Laika Forever
03:20
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carrying on 'til the day is done
if i carry on, i'm gonna hurt someone
all through the night, just 0's and 1's
if i carry on, i'm gonna hurt someone
every day
i couldn't even wave goodbye, my love
if i carry on, i'm gonna hurt someone
every day
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don't you feel worthless?
the spool unwound and hit the ground— worthless.
don't you feel ready to break the seal?
don't you feel hopeless?
not like before, but even more hopeless
don't you feel ready to bend and kneel?
the end of the line for a lemon is
the juice and the juice
the juice only brings out what's inside
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10. |
Evil
05:46
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i can't deny
amorphous time
the ability to provide
an unavoidable rise
you take what you can,
the rest is implied
beside myself in light
i can't be pacified
how feels the light?
more or less right?
and hearts a-beating eye
the death of better times
what was the crime
i committed this time?
in tort, another mile
i break just like a child
i won the prize,
so saith i
it's good to be alive!
--
and as i stood there, atop the crescent bluff
powdered, bleary — but with the fullest heart
a thousand ships and a thousand more
traced the periphery of my view
and what i saw was ocean:
golden, glassy, and never-before-so-opalescent ocean
"well, maybe now they'll believe me!"
--
come along with me
come along with me
come along with me
the mystery of life indeed
is that it is free
and what's inside will more than provide
what it is you need
this world can't stop us now!
all the evil in this world can't stop us now.
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