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End Transmission
00:58
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2. |
Sisyphus
05:10
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I used to rock and roll
Now I’m just rolling this rock
Just running circles
From the hands of this clock
It goes: tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock
Tell me when it’s ever going to stop
It goes: tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock
I just keep rolling this rock
My pain is glass
All these little pieces keep on breakin’
Through all these years
All these tears they keep in takin’
I’m the maker who’s become the monster he was making
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3. |
The Empty Space
04:10
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At the heart of this
There’s an emphasis
On the moments when I thought that I knew you
But the truth conspires to escape from behind your smile
Please let the lies live on a while
And the you that I imagine…
Well I believed it for a while
Now I know that it’s all a lie
Sepulcher smiles, monkeys with fire
Now I know that it’s all a lie
I don’t want to ask questions
I don’t want to know why
I just want to see you through these eyes
The empty space plays home to my delusions
And the question mark, my emotions
But I can’t stop this motion
No
Nor the you that I imagine…
Just blink and it’s daylight
Don’t know you at all
My mind’s eye is blinded again
Your truth I can see now
This light’s just turned on
The mystery is gone
And this solitary heart just keeps beating alone…
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4. |
Harrison Bergeron
00:59
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5. |
Pop Culture
02:40
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Our culture goes pop
Love clots and starts stop
Well I know that we’re all great apes
But you can’t just be what you imitate
Get it straight
My eyes are black holes
Windows to the soul
Infinite and hollow
Infinite and (here we go)
Time doesn’t end with a period
They come one then another
An ellipsis of eclipsing
Planets that elliptically
Orbit each other
It’s a life sentence
For circular crimes
The sun dot’s my “I” (eye)
We’ve all got to do time
To be reborn
To be reformed
Got to first get formless
Becoming what came before this
And our culture goes pop
Everyone- put on your handicaps
Can’t go on- so we’ve got to go back
Sealed with a kiss
From apoca-lips
Growing new legs
In this metamorphosis
Sedated and waiting
For the beat to drop
And our hearts to stop
These symbols crash
And meta-form
The sound of creation
Inspire and expire
Reborn to resume respiration
I’m thinking in tongues
And I’m too young
Not to die
And I know that I must try
To trade these alpha-males for A-men
Here we are beginning at the end again
Wait!
Now let me reverse
To the first verse
‘cause I don’t really think that I made my point heard
I said: our culture goes pop
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6. |
Internal Combustion
03:52
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Come on, come on
Won’t you give it all you’ve got
Come on, come on
Won’t you please give me something
Come on, come on
And give me anything but apathy
‘cause it’s got me coming apart at the seems
Don’t listen to these lyrics
I know that you don’t want to hear it
Just focus on the beat
And nod your head like you agree
You remind me of the bullet that was meant for my head
Well you missed me baby, but I still feel dead
Hey, hey, hey
Let this internal combustion burst my heart into flames
Hey, hey, hey
I feel the same every day
All beat up
Just limping along
Had to go a little further just to write this song
I’m an earthworm
Ants are pickin’ me apart
Haven’t fought back yet
But you know I’m about to start
I’ve got this motherfucking fire burning in my heart
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7. |
Circumambulate the Sun
01:17
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8. |
Halo of Light
03:55
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There’s a reason to be born
It’s the reason we grow taller
And we believe that we want more
We reach up and we go: “Taller! Taller!”
Toiling under the sun at noon
On heaven bent as we build higher
We pull away from this dark womb
As we climb toward heaven’s fire
We struggle morning, night, and afternoon
The sun’s a light, an exit to this womb
Birth to earth and womb to tomb
Underneath this Halo of Light
It’s a superficial animal
Hungry and heard pressed to go on
Ravening to reach the sky
Each of us pushing our stone
We build this ant hill taller
A tower destined to fall
Those waxen wings go higher
‘till flung from heaven they fall
And we are ants that crawl
We struggle morning, night, and afternoon
The sun’s a light, it’s an exit wound
Our towers fall and we do too
Beneath this Halo of Light
Keep on, keep on
Go on and crawl
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9. |
Wasting Time
04:06
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If I screamed any louder, baby
Would it give me something to say?
The decomposers do their dance
And stability suffocates
Did you feel abandoned, baby,
When the umbilical cord was cut?
We’re all numb as numbers here
Our shadows are all that we’ve got
This is how we do it in the dirt
Life pulses inside of me
But I’ve got all these insects to feed
Decaying self, it’s so easy
This body a gift to entropy
The rhythm’s in the silence, baby
It’s in between the beats
I’m celebrating falling apart
Because time is wasting me
This is how we do it in the dirt
Every moment you’re alive
It’s a choice to let yourself die
Slowly
This is how we do it in the dirt
Each day’s despair on my sleeve
And death is grinning back at me
Muscles twitch ‘till I’m smiling
Because time is wasting me
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10. |
Orpheus
05:55
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The memory sits in my mind like dust
It yellows my thoughts
We dance amongst the ashes
We toy with what was lost
And we embalm the living in the sweat of yesterday
And we befriend our shadows
Ere alone we stay
Oh, my soul
Paled at your embrace
Sleep so cold
Could I but leave this place
Well I tried to stitch us together
So you couldn’t run away
A shadow’s lament
Cannot forget
Silhouette of yesterday
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11. |
Snake Song
03:48
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Hey Rattlesnake, Rattlesnake
I want to shed my skin like you
But the sound that the blood is making in my veins
Is the best music I can do
And what I am is all I am
A primate in the very end
You’re just specimens in a jar to me
I’m feeling removed like a limb
It’s all in my head
Wish I could take it all back out again
It’s all in my head
Hey Mr. Apple-pusher, Rattlesnake
I see you’re climbing up that tree
And I’m wondering if my head can hold the weight
Of the crown that you’re offering me
It’s all in my head
Hey Rattlesnake, Rattlesnake
You’re a spine so help climb mine
And stitch my pieces back together again
Except the parts that I can’t find
Hey Rattlesnake, yeah Rattlesnake
Who’s a monster wearing human skin?
Going blind staring at the light of the sun
Swallow yourself so this starts again
It’s all in my head
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12. |
Vitruvian Man
03:22
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Locked inside a ribcage
Heart stutters a beat
I swallow my pride
And watch my insides
Digest me
What makes me tick is a time-bomb
That’s going to implode
This anatomy of mystery
Feet walking down this road
Let your pupils teach you a bit
You’ll see me as I am
A pentagram
A son of man
Five fingers of my hand
That grips a bitten apple
That’s grown inside my head
And concentrates upon this matter
Transforming solid gold to lead
This semi-automatic reptilian mind of mine
A sacred fire stolen by the serpent of my spine
But I can be a golden spiral, fetal as a question mark
Though my shoulders carry heaven’s weight
My eyes exist to view its art
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13. |
The 0 and The 1
03:02
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She’s moving in time with the tide
Pulsing in rhythm with the sea
The moon is pulling us tonight
We are both “to be” and “not to be”
Alive inside the open wound
I could be the one for you
You could be my zero tonight
I’ll be the space between the stars
You be the new moon
We’ll both become the dark of night
And I’ll be one with you
Baby, Atlas shrugs
And bones turn to dust
Life and death are wed
And they’re making love
Our hearts beat together
I pulse with your blood
Ours is the space between
Below and above
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14. |
Apple Seed Song
01:57
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15. |
A Work in Progress
02:20
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This Life’s a work in progress
Like a monkey climbing up a TREE
Just breathing, repeating, going up and down
This shell’s a shelter and I’ll one day leave
And I’ll become the earth
And all your tears will water me
And I’ll rise up and grow anew
And I’ll know that I’m a seed
So strip the lies from your lips, baby
And strip the flesh right off this bone
A road to walk in solitude
I’ll wander into the unknown
Just like the one that’s chasing the zero
Just go ahead and let it go
You’ve tasted the fruit
So just be still and know
A sleep awaits with dreams that are
Still unknown
Just like the one that’s chasing the zero
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