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In Yer Tomb
01:01
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I often wonder why
Why I chose this town
Why I'm even around
Why I plant feet down.
I went into your room
when you weren't around
I entered your tomb
When I plant my feet down
In your room
or in your tomb?
I enter your room when you're not around
in your room.
In your room.
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2. |
House by the Sea
03:00
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House by the sea
don't look at me
Come out to the coast
to find your nervous host.
Be my company,
maybe a remedy.
I don't have the strength to be a better me.
It's so easy to breathe, with these fresh new lungs
Forgive me when I freeze, and I can't go on.
it's so easy to breathe.
I want an oyster's burden or puppy love
I D.P's angle, or a shrink fitting glove.
I want a nail gun or a cordless T.V
To toss on a ship, and head out to sea.
Your hardcover half crystalized, it never opened again.
Your words once hypnotized hundreds and thousands
of men.
In your colosseum eye, watching crowds pass by
In your colosseum eye.
Oh, house by the sea.
Dont look at me
Come out to the coast to find your nervous host.
Be my company, maybe a remedy.
I don't have the strength to be a better me.
I want an oyster's burden or puppy love
half crystallized with no help from above.
I want to find myself alone in your room,
it's so easy to breathe when I'm in your Tomb.
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3. |
Coast Carves in
03:36
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I've watched the caravan cross the desert at night. I've seen your tomb,
in the pale moonlight.
I've seen reflected fireflies dancing in your eyes.
I've seen the edge of the world.
I've seen the way the coast carve in, I've seen the coast guard win.
I've seen the ancient war, that always reminds me of him.
But I'm still reluctant to take a swim.
I've seen the crocodile slap, redden your back
I've seen towering cliffs
and cowering valleys
I've swam from stream to stream, without learning a thing.
I've seen the world, inside of me.
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4. |
Marble Lookout
03:12
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I drove
into town today
to a marble lookout
near where you stay
you're city your spotless statue
at this time of day
And you are the tallest building
and the deepest subway.
And in the Hills
I'm a wandering man,
and you're the tree that supports
my well-traveled stand
and
the roaring rapids that carve to sea,
and the restless fish to which it feeds
oh an entire ocean to thank you soon
for your warm heart in its ribcage tomb.
In your body, I'm a healthy vein
and your nervous spine,
transmitting your pain.
and in your city, I'm your highways and drives
and a faulty wire you've learned to despise.
But to win you back would be my enterprise
for those memories beyond your eyes.
And I stow them away with my lonesome pride
somewhere beyond your city lights.
So we drove
to our home that day
to the spotless city where we now stay
to the marble lookout that we visit every day.
to the tallest buildings and the deepest subway.
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5. |
Finger Tips
03:49
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Well hello, and thank you for your hospitality.
I know there are many others here quite like me
from university crooks
to the mentally derailed
from chemical cooks, and all the re-jailed
But for all your little booking details
and what I've said, won't be true.
and I've burnt my fingertips, just for you.
Dont ask me why, you already know
my twisted story
and the lies that I sew.
I was hired when you caught me
and I needed the dough
so let's move this along now, you oughta let me go.
Oh lawyer help me please, I cant seem to find any Identity
or a single friend of mine
to speak on my behalf
to get this judge off my back
Oh hear what I say,
and watch me sail away
I don't mean to leave you astray, but I'll be on my way.
Well hello, and thank you for your opportunity.
I know there are many others here quite like me
from grand theft
to folks just like me.
to international money laundering.
But for all your little booking details
and what I've said, won't be true.
and I've burnt my fingertips, just for you.
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6. |
Coastal Sun
03:08
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Oh I felt I had overstayed
on a pristine summer day
caught between strokes of anatomy
with some folks from the academy
oh skin still warm from the coastal sun
yeah its comfortable,
but I got to run
And this courting display
really has me feeling strange
I know that I'll pay to get me some strange
and this courting display
really has me feeling strange
please excuse the way that I act, it's just
the chemicals in my brain.
Oh I felt I had overstayed
on a pristine winter day
caught between strokes of anatomy
with some folks from the academy
oh skin still warm from the coastal sun
yeah its comfortable,
but I got to run
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7. |
Termites
02:49
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Well, violence reminded in some wonderful time
casually rewinded like the last sounds of a rhyme.
Like genetic cancer haunting a family tree.
Or termites in the roof above you and me.
Like my dog dying on the hwy
like the man why died there yesterday
or his wife seeing it too
like those planes that collided above the ocean outside our house
or the dead they pulled ashore
Like that climber that fell from the cliff
we saw him airlifted into the sky
with his friends down below
with no reason to say goodbye.
Like bloody hotel rooms
or news coverage of Erewon's crash
It all survives
even if its in the past.
But what are we going to do about those termites in the roof
above you and me
yeah, there's termites in the roots of your family tree.
what are we going to do about those termites in the roof
above you and me
yeah there's termites in the roots of your family tree.
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8. |
Crystal Ball Renegade.
03:12
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Oh, you're feeling great
you're at heavens gate.
and you're trial is just a play on words.
oh, you're feeling great
you're a renegade
among the people of our world.
yore ganna feel bad in your compound now
when the juice has been had and they ran out for you
you're all alone and you're heading home,
back to your old ways.
Among the people of your world
Back to your old ways.
Among the people of your world.
Bellys full of rhymes and hymn about sin
and when to clear your mind and think about
your god and the people of your town,
always searching all around and wondering about
their body and its place in the world
and where it's going to go.
Try to fit into your hometown now
when you've exiled yourself on religious fringe
and you're all alone, and you're heading home
back to your old ways
Among the people of your world
Back to your old ways.
Among the people of your world.
Bellies full of lies and sin about truth
and it's placed in your world
what you're going to do
with your crystal ball,
renegade?
when you wanna go home but you're feeling betrayed
because your colony collapsed
and you never saw it in your crystal ball.
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9. |
Mount Vesuvius
02:28
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Mount Vesuvius blew into the sky
as the allies made their way
into the nazi underside
and everyone's wondering why
with all that ash in the sky
why halt our invasion, waiting on our bombers our fly?
why halt our invasion waiting on our bombers our fly?
why halt our invasion waiting on our bombers our fly?
A B52 covered in black
A preacher ushers children from the creeping lava coming down the path.
The germans are somewhere
deeper inland
They left some traps
they took our men.
But it won't bring us down
we're going all the way
straight to berlin
for that judgment day.
Why halt our invasion waiting on our bombers to fly?
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10. |
Desert Prince
03:02
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To see the Desert Prince
at his seductive desert lair
where ships ride the hidden sands
that carve the lines of your palm.
Then you go to see the gypsy
for you need your future told,
to know who’s hand you will hold.
Though, who will be the sailor
that is drawn by your lonesome song?
But it seems you have forgotten,
I've heard it all along.
A Siren in our time,
and doesn't she look divine?
Doesn't her skin just shine?
And doesn’t her voice carry?
And my friend,
you would lose your compass too
if she got her song into you.
The waters offer land just when you need land,
and you offer me your hand to free yourself
from the carving of your palm.
Though your clouded mind wanders
and I still hear your song.
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11. |
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Oh late one evening
when the sun sunk low
all the children looked
for a place to go
a place to inhabit but not to live
a border to breach, just to say that you did
but something came and strikes him down
and ran off with a blood curdling sound
"it was the jungle!"
Jack tried to explain
how the jungle came alive and damn near killed his friend
"it was the jungle!"
Jack tried to explain, yeah he tried to explain
while they picked his brain
Well, it was early that evening when grandfather said,
stay from that jungle or you'll end up dead
but what he forgot to mention
was the beast that is fed
carefully controlling the light that was shed.
"it was the jungle!"
Jack tried to explain
how the jungle came alive and damn near killed his friend
"it was the jungle!"
Jack tried to explain, yeah he tried to explain
while they picked his brain
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12. |
Through the Walls (demo)
03:17
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Now dont you wish that you did not exist
you could walk through the walls
and float on through the halls
and be an entity inside of me
feeding off the anxiety
don't even mention me, I need privacy
and If you want to talk speak quietly.
Expensive jewelry and fine wine,
who really has the time?
She won't even look at me until I pay
And even then I can't get the time of day.
Now dont you wish that you did not exist
you could walk through the walls
and float on through the halls
and be an entity inside of me
feeding off the anxiety
don't even mention me, I need privacy
and If you want to talk speak quietly.
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