1. |
The Waiter
01:55
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I hear the words you are saying
but what is your motivation?
when you sleep, what are you dreaming?
speaking without any meaning
The spirit swims through somehow
waiting
Give me your interpretation
give me divine inspiration
give me a sock with no foot
The spirit swims through somehow
waiting
I did not write this memoir
it came from slick machine work
The spirit swims through somehow
waiting
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2. |
Potential
03:36
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I used to think I could live on a mountain
with all the gods and drink all their wine
but now I know better, I've got my head on
wear a wristwatch so I can keep time
and I know
They used to tell you about your potential
it developed a voice of its own
and it's getting scary, telling you
everything's not enough
but I know
We're just reading letters sent from ourselves
a long time ago
predicting the weather based on the trail
of ink on the note
when we could be feathers, writing together
on the window
and not stuck to better ideas of everyone
who thinks they know
I know
When you were a
child, you sipped the Kool-Aid from the fountain of your
elders seeking God upon the mountain of their
children seeking love and affirmation from their
elders wishing for the feeling when they were a
child who sipped the Kool-Aid from the fountain of their
elders seeking God upon the mountain of their
children seeking love and affirmation from their
elders wishing for the feeling
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3. |
The Broom Song
02:53
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When we sit at the table
never want you to pay for me
but the bill has arrived
can you take it away from me?
Find me drowning and drunk
can you please hold me down?
'cause if I get up
I won't be able to make a sound
You tell me
how can you stay
in the shape of a day
carved in the sand
where you stand
where you say
"there's no way."
Watch them hammer the nail
in the tomb for you
I only walk in the direction
a broom will move
Tell me
how can you stay
in the shape of a day
carved in the sand
where you stand
where you say
"Are you walking on the water? No."
How can you stay
in the shape of a day
carved in the sand
where you stand
where you say
"there's no way."
Are you walking on the water?
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4. |
Temporary Comfort
02:28
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Sometimes, sweet love
we all make a scene
we're all actors in a movie in our heads
but no one's gonna see
So give me temporary comfort
some sweet and temporary comfort
Sometimes people
can be so mean
don't you worry, they're just sinking other ships
because they're lost at sea
It gives them temporary comfort
to take your temporary comfort
Life rolls by me
days slip away like a dream
time moves quickly, takes exactly everything away
so give it to me
Give me some temporary comfort
that sweet and temporary comfort
give me some temporary comfort
it's all just temporary anyway
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5. |
On My Wall
03:16
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I used to read a music magazine
I flipped the pages and began to see
what I want
up on my wall
On my wall
is just a simple little masterpiece
on my wall
I cut the picture from the magazine
on my wall
I never ever want to set me free
from all my walls
Give me something I can live between
sex and drugs and cocky mystery's
what I want
up on my wall
I got something that'll keep me safe
outer forces never breach the gate
of my wall
can't climb my wall
On my wall
I'm just a meal without a recipe
on my wall
I only think I show the best of me
up on my wall
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6. |
Spectacles
02:22
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Eucalyptus
Washington Square
miso soup is everywhere
we come, we go
We're all becoming spectacles
we're all becoming you
Isolation
seemingly safe
euthanasia doesn't care
we come, we go
We're all part of a spectacle
we're all a part of you
Sin, synesthetic
path, pathology
E-I-E-I-O is in the air
we come, we go
We're all becoming spectacles
we're all becoming you
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7. |
Moments
02:53
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I feel it coming I've got something to say
compress a molecule and fade it away
into the silence show
I don't know
Place in time I'd like a moment of space
took a minute now I'm into my place
into the monophone
polychrome
And I know all of time from a room with a view
and my life is the number of moments I've stolen from you
Shape of time manipulating the wave
echo ringing now from out the cave
another shadow scene
hallowed dream
And I'm never gonna drop another dime on the ground
and the second's like a stone we carve it up with the sound
of an auto-read
philosophy
And I know all of time from the places I've seen
and my life is the number of breaths that you've stolen from me
Sometimes I am afraid
I've got something to say
'cause it's never enough
'til it becomes too much
and the leaves in my soul
dried and crackled and old
tell me it's all been done
let us breathe in the sun
and when it's far too late
recognize my mistake
time is all I can lose
now is all we can choose
and the leaves in my soul
dried and crackled and old
burning up in the sun
know that we are the one.
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8. |
Make Believe
03:09
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So now you float away
another game to play
I can't unclog your ears
we've spent our stolen years
I can curse at the night I can sleep all day
analyze what you meant but did not say
but uh-oh, now it's time to leave
quit playing make believe
Now I could disappear
and we were never here
I could toss, I could turn
I could lie awake
I could hide under covers from my mistakes
but uh-oh, now it's time to leave
quit playing make believe
Now
we're never coming home
no
we're never coming home
Now that it's time to leave
quit playing make believe
we're playing make believe
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9. |
Breather
03:20
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I've been a thousand things
been a gun, I've been a mother
been one of Saturn's rings
now I'm a breather
But oh, oh, oh, I'm floating out to sea
and I'm peeling in the heat of the sun
and oh, oh, oh, nothing else to be
just the water I breathe in my lungs
oh, don't know how to sleep
with the salt slipping under my tongue
are you a breather?
There are a thousand waves
in a lifetime, in an hour
so are you gonna save?
or will you waste your air?
But oh, oh, oh, nothing else to do
what I wanted I've already done
and oh, oh, oh, if no one's gonna see
then why am I keeping it up?
oh, don't know how to do it
when the many come out of the one
are you a breather?
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10. |
The Meaning
02:19
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I wish I could write you a better song
one full of alternate meanings
but there's only one thing I mean to say
the meaning of all things: I love you
We already know it
flowers bloom and grass will meet the sky
somehow from every time to time
If you were religion I'd be a saint
a prophet who found salvation
if you were the ground I would be the rain
showering kisses that say I love you
We already know it
planets want to fall into the sun
I'm only falling into you
I wish I could write you a better song
one full of puzzling hieroglyphics
but there's you are the one place where I belong
so all I can say is I love you
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11. |
London
03:31
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Some will wait until the train comes into the station
some will run upstairs and get in a car
some will walk real slow to the end of the platform
to this day nobody can say where they are
Oh, wouldn't you want to? Nananana
Some will wake up right when they hear the alarm clock
some will sleep in past when they should have arrived
some will find themselves right back where they started
and walk in dreams every moment they are alive
Oh, wouldn't you want to? Nananana
'Cause we're not living in a London town
we're not living in a London town
we're not living in a London town, no
"You can travel to whatever city you want to
and get away with speaking in tongues."
that's what they told you when you checked your bag at the airport
but then you're greeted with blank stares, and everyone shrugs
and they say
"We're not living in a London town
we're not living in a London town
we're not living in a London town, no."
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