1. |
Caroline
03:52
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Caroline
You always wanted love
Ever since you were young
Nobody obliges
Now tell me are you free?
Would you wanna speak to me?
Caroline
Do you want love?
Do you just want love?
Caroline how are you feeling?
Is your head still a mess?
Have you read anything good lately?
Caroline when was the last time you got some rest?
Caroline
How are you feeling?
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2. |
99 Heroin Balloons
03:06
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First rule of ascension:
Keep the rabble waiting
Way too long
Without light
A second skin is welcomed
And you can wear it
Any time
That you’d like
As power recedes
It gives way to
The palace of excess
Within
Disingenuous
Specimen
Writhing gut memory
In banishment
Your poetry revealed
1,000 pain tablets
In
99 Helium balloons
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3. |
Slab!
04:04
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It’s in the water
It’s a microdose
It’s in the food you eat
It’s on your clothes
It’s in the particles
Of the air
Everything you touch
It will be there
It’s in the things you think
The things you do
It’s all because of me
It’s all because of you
Everything is tainted
But everything can’t last
And all this rotten future
Will turn into the past
Now you don’t know
What you’re doing
Slab!
Afternoons
A code, a cue
A slab
The end result: A slab
Slab!
A revolt
A slab
A cue
A code
A slab
Slab!
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4. |
Diane's Good Fortune
03:19
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Are you able to speak?
We haven’t spoken in weeks
Life, it never peaks
It just grinds on
Like nothing’s wrong
Is there a song
You could sing to me?
Cos you’re never scared
And you’re always prepared
For what comes next
Diane
You’re so much stronger than I am
Are you able to sleep?
I can’t seem to get any
Peace is always just out of reach
For me
In a psychic coup
I wish I was more like you
You take the pain
And turn it into
Something new
Something you can stand
You always have a plan
Diane
Diane
You’re so much stronger than I am
Diane
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5. |
Old Familiar Tocsin
03:43
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Well
I feel unwell
As though you hadn’t noticed
It could take
A day
A year
Forever
For me
To explain
I feel no fear
I see no evil
In my brain
Yeah
When you’re near
To me
Yeah
When you’re here
With me
Sure
I feel unsure
The cure is liable to kill me
I can’t bear it anymore
It’s so much nicer to pretend
A cold sweat runs down
Runs down my neck
And heals me
But that old familiar tocsin
Keeps screaming in my ear
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6. |
SC Johnson Wax
01:50
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Stop staring at the ground
Stop seething around
Stop staring at the ground
Get up and do something
Stop staring at the ground
Stop sitting around
Stop staring at the ground
And go outside
Stop staring at the ground
Stop seething around
Stop staring at the ground
Get up and do something
Stop staring at the ground
Stop sitting around
Get up and go somewhere
Try to get out of the house
I used to be just like you
But now I ain’t no more
I used to be just like you
But nothing ever is like it was before
Stop staring at the ground
Stop sitting around
Stop staring at the ground
Get up and do something
Stop staring at the ground
Stop sitting around
Stop staring at the ground
And try to go outside
I think the chemicals
Are starting to get to you
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7. |
Arrebato
01:33
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A rapture in the dirt
Everything is captured on the film
How long do you think you can stay here?
How long could you spend in ecstasy?
A rapture in the dirt
Picture me
Wasting away in front of the screen
I am feeling trapped
I’m in its thrall
How long could you spend in ecstasy?
A rapture in the dirt
Everything is captured on the film
How long do you think you can stay here?
How long could you spend in ecstasy?
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8. |
Hey Dean
03:51
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If you want them all to suffer
Or If you want to make that thought go away
It’s illusion, it’s all nothing
We’re ready for blitzkrieg
Give us a break
Justine,
It’s obscene
How you only think
Of just one thing
Coca Cola’s done you wrong again
And now the world ain’t what it seemed
If you want them all to suffer
If you want to make that thought go away
It’s illusion, it’s all nothing
Just the indignity of drawing breath
Everyday
Give us a break
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9. |
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Harm will come to me
In the factory
If I don’t watch
My fingers
Harm will come to me
At the grocery store
In the piano shop
In the revolving doors
Harm will come to me
If I don’t pay attention
And I don’t wanna
Get struck by lightning
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10. |
Concussed
03:24
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The languid
Move so beautifully
When they ever move at all
Concussed in the grass
The thoughtless
Do so much all day
And I worry
About y’all
If you’re asking
Concussed in the grass
This kinda feeling
Just can’t last
Doo wop doo wop
Adrenaline kick
I’m under a microchip
Concussed
Put me on a pedestal
Or kill me now
Concussed
In some place
Out there
Absolutely
Busted up
And cursed
The hours pass so languidly
If they ever pass at all
Concussed in the grass
The thoughtless
Do so much all day
And I worry
About y’all
If you’re asking
Adrenaline kick
I’m under a microchip
Concussed
Concussed in the grass
This kinda feeling just can’t last
Can it?
Doo wop doo wop
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11. |
Marjorie
02:20
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All of these people make me sick
Cos I’m such a hypocrite
She reads good literature
There must be something wrong with her
You still working a 9-5?
Still feeling more dead than alive?
Feeling more bad than good
Doing less than you thought you would
Living your life
On the edge of a knife
Marjorie
Your sanity’s slipped
You’re taking a trip
Marjorie
You know
Your time it will come
Out in the sun
Marjorie
Toss off all your ignorance
Or are you finding it permanent?
Is there no substance to bliss?
I won’t commit to indifference
I guess
Nothing is as it seems
We caught it all on the TV screen
Ain’t you feeling more bad than good?
Life is just not what it should be
Maybe you’re right
It’s just one horrible night
Marjorie
When you’re mine
Everything will be fine
Marjorie
You know your time
It will come
Out in the sun
Marjorie
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12. |
Hallucination Strip
04:27
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Out on the Cape, the spit, the bay
Hallucination strip,
They say
Will make the days drip away
Time is decay
I feel fine
I feel great
As yet unfazed
Life’s dull hum
Still
Drones on
The same
Having too much to drink
Washing up in the sink
Everything
Is either
Better or
Worse than you think
Cigarette burns on the couch
You’re tonguing a sore in your mouth
We’re all the same
Within
as without
In psychic receivership
Hallucination
Strip
Trapped in a day, a year, a life
misspent
They’re manufacturing consent
Look, another chronic malcontent
Lashes out
Avoid all contact with men
And You’ll be better off
Than them
At any rate,
We’ll all be
Vermiform
In the end
Having too much to drink
Washing up in the sink
Everything
is either
Better or
Worse than you think
Having too much to drink
Washing up in the sink
Hallucination strip
Everything is just like you’d think
Everything is like you’d think
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13. |
Turning Around Again
02:35
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You know you’re never alone
You can always come home
And do something about it
You can scream and shout it
You can scream and shout it
You could always
Run down the street
Without any clothes on
I think things are turning around again
No hospital stays
No black, cloudy days
I think things are turning around again
You know you’re never alone
You can always call me up
On the telephone
To talk
We could take a walk
You could always
Run down the street
Without any clothes on
I think things are turning around again
No hospital stays
No grey, blank days
I think things are turning around again
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