1. |
Luggage
03:42
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Invite some friends over
Invite ‘em over and
Listen to my therapist
Two packs of cards on the table
She’s a non-binary feminist
And she, herself is a little unstable
Listen!
When I was at the airport
I was given the wrong luggage
But I left with it consciously
Cause I was too shy to say something
Now I’m dragging a suitcase
That looks just like my own
Now I dress like a minister but
I’m still having dinner alone
I would love to have been on your TV set
A marked letter in your alphabet
Holy moly! Bow for the popular figure!
Take a lick of their fingers
Taste their immunity
And if tastes like a million bucks
Let me tell ya - It is only the jewelry
I feel them passing by me
I feel them passing over me!
Smiling with a fork in my hand not knowing
If it’s the food or the company
A transitional person with some
Uncanny traditions
I’m just sitting around, thinking -
What similar traditions!
Iron
Have you ever seen iron in its liquid state?
Well, I have.
Access the gutters.
The outfit I was wearing
Is now wearing itself!
Maybe a little bit on the side
I genuinely appreciate it
Put it on my left side!
Invite everyone over and
Over and over and over and over and
Over again
I’m having convulsions
Swipe the card and open the gates
Of a high-security building
Having access to multiple nuclear shelters
Must be a privilege
Welcome aboard
Welcome aboard!
See anyone drowning?
Just invite them ashore!
I feel them passing by me
I feel them passing over me
Smiling with a fork in my hand not knowing
If it’s the food or the company
A transitional person with some
Uncanny traditions
I’m just sitting around, thinking
What similar traditions
And now that I’m all dressed up
My little hands get dirty
I’m just sitting around, thinking -
What similar traditions!
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2. |
Coldest City
03:21
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This is the coldest city
This is the coldest city, my
Dad had his shoes melt liquid
In this cold city
He was a-freezing,
Trying to leave town but
The heater in a train that he was in
Made his shoes melt down
This is the coldest city
No one ever leaves this city
My girlfriend woke up sick
But I walk the streets of this cold city
My boots are sticking to the
Frozen ground, but how
Come I’m so far out of town when
My boots are made to stick around?
This is the coldest city
This is the coldest city
I’m not feeling well this morning
I walk the streets of this cold city
This is the coldest city
I keep smiling, popping fingers
Can feel my clothed body
Going stiff in this cold city
This is the coldest city
I don’t feel like smoking, I am sick
But I can’t resist
‘Cause the smoke is thick in this cold city
This is the coldest city
This is the coldest city
I’m having a good time freezing with some
Cold friends from this cold city
Ah - has it ever been so cold?
This is the coldest city
My grandfather just arrived from
Moscow, then he laughed and said
This sure ain’t no coldest city
This is the coldest city
This is the coldest city
The heater’s on and I fell ill
I’m freezing in this cold city
Ah - has it ever been so cold?
Ah - it has never been so.. so cold!
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3. |
The Trial
03:21
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Happy birthday!
I say to the man
I barely recognize
He’s wearing a rubber band
Another day
Another day in the office
Another paper
Another cup of coffee
They disrupt my schedule
My hand’s doing gestures
From my muscle memory
But I’m doing my best here
I keep driving around
With a pair of guerillas
Keep entering buildings
Forts and pavilions
I’m entering rooms
Fell in love with a lady
She keeps changing the furniture
And rearranging it daily
When I visit to question
They call me a burglar
I stopped visiting yesterday
And now they call me a murderer
I talk to my lawyer
About the flood in the gutters
But it had been a decade
Since I’ve spoken to my mother
People offer me dinners
Say I’m on a diet
But I’m feeling unwell
Awaiting the trial
The evidence had been tampered with
Cloaked man with a hammer
Reads my conviction
I’m secretly thinking
He looks like a magician
As he reads my sentence
I’m deconstructing a stapler
And writing my name with funny letters
On a piece of paper
They take me away
But I’m used to it now
They drive me to a quarry
We joke around in the car
We laugh like winners
Shake sweaty hands
Before they stab me in the chest
And leave me bleed out in the sand
The evidence had been tampered with
But how come the evidence had been tampered with!?
If there is no evidence?
If there is no evidence,
No evidence could have had been tampered with
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4. |
Firm
03:30
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I used to have a
Wife and a baby and a
House in the suburbs, then I
THEN I finally made it!
Look at me now
Now I’m dating a model
I live in a much bigger house
Hell, it’s a mansion!
Let me show you around
We have coffee machines
And for those screwed over
There are answering machines, ha!
Invite em over
For something a little more than a cup of tea
Enjoying your tea?
Hoo - Ha! Reverse psychology
I'd tread lightly...
Cause if you're still not dead yet
Concentrate!
There still must be a role you have got to play
What a time
What a time to be alive
Think you have what it takes?
Look at me! I’m a natural!
Take your time... Take your time...
Take your time... Take your time...
And pay attention! Close... Attention...
Take your time to answer these questions
Do you consider yourself qualified? Capable?
Whatever you do, you don’t get attached to the customer
Say it like you mean it, stay cold, keep cool, mean it!
Friendship
Is the most beautiful thing
But given all circumstances…
There is a catch
In this situation
Being surrounded by friends
Can be dangerous. So watch your back!!!
And your bestest friend is
He is on the other side
The other side of the phone line
Hope he’s doing alright
They’re taking his car
They’re taking his house
Now they're takin' him too
Nothing to worry about!
We’re all enemies here
There’s a war in this building
We’re all godfathers here
To the other one’s children
We’re all backstabbers here
We’re all backstabbing
But you either play get played, mister
We’re just playing here
There’s used to be a
A little graveyard on this hill
Now there is a hill in the graveyard
'Cause it expanded tremendously!
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5. |
Annual Report
05:04
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If the world starts turning west
I will run like an athlete
In the opposite direction
Underneath magnetic sheets
I took fifty or so apples
And left them on the porch
With an open mind kept
Feeling trapped in my own home
If the world starts turning east
I’ll abstain with the priests
Regardless of our mutual affection
Underneath synthetic sheets
I saw ignorance on screen
And laughed in secrecy
Lit a candle afterwards
Then smashed that evil screen
I tear the pears apart
Out of fear that we would part
Within the concrete walls
With an empty shopping cart
In the mirror, I had stared
Felt like I’m staring into a wall
Barely recognize myself
Thinking about comics and salt
There’s a mirror on the stairs
I dip my eyes in crates of salt
You better organize yourself
Come, take a step into the wall
When we stumble around
Pledge to crumble the sound
There’s a rumble all over town
We end up crumbled all over the ground
I took fifty or so apples
And left them on the porch
With an open mind kept
Feeling trapped in my own home
I saw ignorance on screen
And laughed in secrecy
Lit a candle afterwards
Then smashed that evil screen
I tear the pears apart
Out of fear that we would part
Within the concrete walls
With an empty shopping cart
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6. |
Talk About My Friends
04:09
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The sun is bailing on us
Shadows fading from the ground
They remind of TV static
Even air imitates the sound
I found it to blinding and
Outstanding in a way
The last one of our days
Smells like candles in the rain
Discontinuation of a guideline
For a simple solution
To a particular problem
Will lead to a riot
We are bred to follow
And never ask questions
We are bred to understand
But what was the question?
I talk about my friends so often
But I really have no friends at all
Use it as a metaphor
For people who are not to be trusted
You were born with a mentality
That's what you were bred to believe
A mentality is nothing but your
Perspective as a prisoner
I only woke up yesterday
After 25 years of walking
Some imaginary guidelines
But I woke! So listen
This is the first time
I've seen the roof
Of that building in the distance
I walk past every morning
Are you capable?
Not with that size you're wearing
Are you able?
Not from the place you live in
Once the remaining atoms
Cool down to the temperature
Temperature of the universe
Time will be meaningless
I talk about my friends so often
But I really have no friends at all
Use it as a metaphor
For people who are not to be trusted
You were born with a mentality
That's what you were bred to believe
A mentality is nothing but your
Perspective as a prisoner
I only woke up yesterday
After 25 years of walking
Some imaginary guidelines
But I woke! So listen
This is the first time
I've seen the roof
Of that building in the distance
I walk past every morning
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7. |
People Get Buried
03:21
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While
People get buried
I’m writing notes
Guess I’m preparing
You never know...
Snowing or raining
So satisfying, I’m
Raising my thumbs up and saying
Goodbye to the dying
And while heads are turning
And while the world is burning
It so occurs
That behind the curtain
In a burning furnace
We serve our purpose
And that the world is burning
Doesn’t concern us
People get buried
Way past their bedtime
I’m still afraid of
People at night
I’m shifting sidewalks
Take small alleys
I take the ditches hoping
Nobody finds me
While
People get buried
I’m writing notes
Guess I’m preparing
You never know...
Snowing or raining
So satisfying, I’m
Raising my thumbs up and saying
Goodbye to the dying
And while heads are turning
And while the world is burning
It so occurs
That behind the curtain
In a burning furnace
We serve our purpose
And that the world is burning
Doesn’t concern us
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8. |
Two Layers Of Skin
03:20
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Oh, we were running
And sliding
With some people that look like they’ve
Got two layers of skin
See it in their eyelids
It is all in the eyelids
And their eyelids
They keep layering down on me
Oh, we were answering
Telephone calls
With some people that look like they’ve
Got two layers of skin
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9. |
Homesick
03:37
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Sometimes we live just around the block
Depends on who you ask
Sometimes we eat and slide under doors
Down the stairway, in black
If this is home I'll hand you the key
And wait what happens next
Breathe deep 'cause people are mean
Run your legs into death
I took a bath and froze for a sec
But it took me a year
Within a fortnight I thought of sex
And had to move out of here
I had a friend and called him a God
But he never fathered a child
I had a God and called him a friend
But I have lived in a lie
My neighbors ask what's cooking up there
Say we'd rather come down
Nothing works through the stairway of smell
And we oughta get out
I had friends who were girl scouts
And their rabid friends turned ‘em into hounds
A so-o-o-o-o-ound plan…
For the bringer of light!
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10. |
Goth Simulation
03:35
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Tidal waves drown everyone inland
Beyond the ancient grave
In a lost land amidst sea springs of dark matter
Their souls cry and wail
The great tide echoes across the world
In the name of our love
My voice is broken so weak it can neither grow nor shrivel
Just mutter in the flood
She gives off an appearance of a swollen sophisticate
I'm getting the taste of this
Tears get heavier, I fill pages completely
Tearing leaf after leaf
I've seen that face before in splashes of black fog
Out in the river of thorns
Out in the open, out in the waters
In the bloody tracks upon the shore
Pools of living, as they are conceived
When they pass into their graves
Their bodies fall in a furnace of their angst
And their hearts suffer in pain
With weakness in their souls
In the midst of the heaven's bloodthirsty flames
The vapour of death will be consumed by their soul-laden bodies
As they turn into clay
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11. |
Elastic Conversations
03:54
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You were given a face
And you’re wearing it good
Then you take it off and you take a good look at it
The word
Is irrelevant
When you’ve got nothing to say
And you’re saying it good
You’re saying nothing at all and dissecting it
And the subject
Is irrelevant
I have been through some
Exhausting conversations
And what I figured was -
These conversations, they are monologues
I keep wiggling my fingers
Cause I'm a bad listener
But I'm not a good speaker either, hell
I have to write a song for you to listen to me
Are you listening?
Are you listening?
I imprecate a curse on a listener!
Is anyone listening?
I have been through some
Exhausting conversations
And what I figured was -
These conversations, they are monologues
When we get out
When we get out
We’re gonna talk
We’re gonna talk
Stuck in a rut
Of getting out of a rut
Getting unstuck, ugh.
The water was boiling
The water was boiling hot
And I was just slithering
I was just slithering around
I lost my fiancée
In an arm-wrestling match
Take a spoon and participate
Leave scratches, leave unscratched
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12. |
Infomercial
04:02
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Tired of trying?
Trying is tiring!
Use your intelligence!
Time flies!
Hold on for a minute!
Listen up and sit tight!
And prepare for the
For the ride of your life!
I care about you! And I never
Never had a day this fine
So I’m giving you all and lots
More than money can buy!
I’m saving you time, I’m saving you cash
I’m saving you from yourself
So don’t be a tool!
It practically sells itself, huh!
And wherever you go!
And whatever the weather!
Finally, there's a better way!
Hey, but I'm not done yet!
Bear with me now!
And I'll double the offer!
I'll double the offer!
The unique cutting-edge,
High-end design action technology
Oh, and did I mention
It abides by the laws of ecology!
So what’s all the talk about? Well...
Meet real families
Husbands, wives, kids
And their relatives
Look at their faces! Oh,
Just look how they smile!
You can easily tell they are
Having the time of their lives
Still don’t believe me?
Better take a better look!
‘Cause these people are genuine!
They are satisfied customers!
So if you, my friend or someone you love
Suffers from whatever they suffer from
Fear not, remember, there is a way
And it’s just a phone call, just a phone call away
It's instant!
It's permanent!
It’s forever!
Mother Nature approved!
Without the negative side effects
Great for the house
Ideal in danger
Perfect for showing off
In front of strangers
Getting all the products
Labeled as time savers will
Save you so much time in the long run
It’s likely to start going backwards
But you gotta be careful
Not to grow old savin’
Wasting all of your time
Tryin' to save it!
Wherever you go
Whatever the hour
I’ll double the offer
I’m stuttering
Cut the camera
I’m not so sure anymore
I'm not so sure anymore!
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