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I Was On A Rocket
05:27
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Stationed in space, I'm on a rocket
Waiting for the call, to light the sky on fire
Systems check, tell her that I love it
Always none or all, I am on a rocket
Veteran human, nothing left to lose
My home is not my home, I am on a rocket
Eyes out front, forward with the wind
Thrusting of the boosters, clocks begin to spin
So moves time, short delay
I am here now, gone the next day
So moves time, living things
We're here now, let's do everything
Stationed far beyond, lost in colors felt
Warmth and depth of self, I was on a rocket
Bathing in the rapids, cool with all delight
I was on a rocket, now I own the night
So moves time, out and on
What is now, I regenerate
So moves time, short decay
I'm gone now, live another way
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2. |
Whirlybird
03:04
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Let me open the door with the keys that I have
Don't give me the wings like you have other men
I've tested the truth on the surface of earth
I more than well know I can do it again
Your gravity pulls with a maximum force
10 times what the moon would allow you of course
Slick stars will still burn with the fiercest of fires
Their temperatures rising to match my desires
By myself in your wood so thick and so cold
Light sun for the men dead men for the crows
You showing your face has a bearing on things
So blinded by beauty the death that it brings
Let me please hold your light let it be mine to keep
Make me warm and at home like I'm falling asleep
If you're choosing to kill do it swift do it neat
I'll slip to the grave like a crow to the fleet
And when my eyes finally open and blink
Have me push through the air with the blackest of wings
Dark beak to the wind just follow my head
As I lead all the crows through the land of the dead
When our wings get so tired black eyes needing rest
We'll look for a cliff bank to gather and nest
Leaves and sticks for our beds and some meat we can peck
Thank my mother for life, thank my mother for death
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3. |
Island
03:48
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I built a home inside a heart that wasn't mine
Bricked all along the ventricles just to confine
A sailor wont to wander out
I taped and papered up the windows
Keeping out a view I know I can't decline
And I found a river running out into the night
Singing out a seasick song to shed alight
On the waters I do without
Lucid lakes with shifting shoals yeah
I'm staking out a claim and putting up a fight
Living on an island I'm not victim to your point of view
When I'm on my island I don't have to speak or keep up with you
I need the sea surrounding me
I ran aground a vessel hopeless to comply
It's the same mistake I'm making every time
When I command
A worthy find
Oh I know you'll understand
With an ocean separating me from you, you won't pursue
I'm a liar baby, oh I'm a righteous man who can't see the truth
You need to be away from me
I need the sea surrounding me
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From the day I turned twelve and heard you'll be
Handing down to me
The memories they can't know
To the moment that you told me what befell
Little Gabriel
And where it means he'll go
I'll be there
You put your hands on my back and three two one
You burned me with the sun
Well, someone has to know
And the Stirrings from Fiona in my dreams
Are exactly as they seem
A feeling they forgo
I'll be there
After miles, now I see I chose to freeze
Little Gabe and me
We have caused this storm
The snow is deep and from the top of this last hill
It gets colder still
Though the music keeps us warm
I'll be there
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5. |
Ruby
04:04
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I used to think that there was no such thing until an angel showed me
I caught a glint of sun on the windshield and the road couldn't hold me
I floated up, and looking back down
I watch my blood, ruby red on the ground
A confirmation that the worst had come true, sorry I never made it back home to you
I was the chill in the room when the strange Northmen told you
They said a witness seen me stare into space and then the car start rolling
I brushed your cheek, I lived in your tears
Sorry to leave you, after all of those years
Lonesome, and pining, and hiding away
For a ghost from the past to blow through your days
Now I haunt the pass keeping boys on the run, I'm water, I'm fire I'm earth, I'm the sun
I try to find another soul to take my place because then it will be over I'll be dead and I'm gone
Now I know for a stone dead fact that there's an eternity
And undead state of affairs that won't let go of me
Until I strike right, and take me a life
Another soul to haunt day and night
It pains me ever so to do what I'm bid, I pray my progeny has not a wife and no kids
Now I haunt the pass keeping boys on the run, I'm water, I'm fire I'm earth, I'm the sun
I try to find another soul to take my place because then it will be over I'll be dead and I'm gone
Throwing glints like my predecessor did to me
Sometimes I use the rainy roads to try and get free
Ruby red, ruby red, ruby red till he's dead
Let me go, let me go, let me go ruby red
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6. |
Suspended
03:35
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Translucent strings connect from a paddle to my hands and feet
Make me kick and flail and wave for whomever is controlling me
Made of wood in cloth and paint, I'm surely not what you would call a creature
My emotions are controlled by a primitive collection of mechanical features
Make me dance, make me blink, and I'll convey what you dare to think
Just move my lips and let the words flow out of your mouth
Built well and passed down from master to clown for centuries now
Land air or sea is how I got shipped abroad in my coffin
Make me dance. make me sing as I pirouette for the daughter of a king
Just watch your lips or he'll have both of our filthy tongues out
We're suspended in time
Me from you, you from them, rod to string, string to limb
They make you dance, they make you cry, they pull your strings like you pull mine
Just move my lips and let the words flow out of your mouth
Translucent veins carry your blood to your hands and feet
I see a fire in the universe of your eyes when you're suspicious of me
Your thoughts are now words on the wind, and the wind is a creature
Your emotions are controlled by a primitive set of biological features
You're in a trance, I see you blink, your eyes convey what I dare to think
And then I move my lips and watch the words flow out of your mouth
Translucent strings connect from a paddle to my hands and feet
Translucent veins carry your blood to your hands and feet
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7. |
Rough Sleeper
05:12
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Nobody knows his real name
We think that they're all the same
Bums drunk and pissing themselves
Another life wasted by somebody else
But the devil is in the details, baby
He slid out like everyone else
With a cold mom, just couldn't care less
Pop's drunk with a heavy hand
And now there's a dead boy inside of this man
He can hide, he can lie, he can cry inside
To forget everything, pushing back all that stings, hiding
The devil's wings
Schooled up like everyone else
Bullied and put on a shelf, by
Blackballing nepotism
So tragic, so hurtful, so silly, so dumb
But the devil, is always in the details baby
No tools to ever succeed
No one to help when in need
No woman to light up a spark
And now he's a grown boy alone in the dark
He can hide, he can lie, he can cry inside
(Don't give him anything, he can get by on his own)
To forget everything, pushing back all that stings, hiding!
(Just keep on walking it's better to leave him alone)
The devil's wings
(Under devil's wings)
No one there, dumb and scared, with a pistol drawn
(What ever happened and how did he end up this way)
Half the wit, piece of shit, all the hypocrites
(Will he die sleeping or live on to see the next day)
The devil's wings
(Under devil's wings)
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8. |
Run With You
04:20
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We could bake in the sun or stay in having fun
Playing board games on Tuesday at midnight with strangers
We could run through the park, staying out after dark
Trashing road signs with spray paint and some random teenagers
We are right on time
The truth is I don't care up to you what we do
We could go anywhere as long as I run with you
Drive a van to the coast find a place we can sleep for free
Yeah you're my number one back in time when I knew
We could go anywhere as long as I run with you
Ditch a class for a show shut our phones off and let it be
We are right on time
We could drive for a ways, a couple hours maybe days
Passing landmarks in strip malls on midnight in three years
When we get really slow and our bodies get old
I hope we're healthy and we're happy; I hope we're running together
We are right in time
The truth is I don't care up to you what we do
We could go anywhere as long as I run with you
Flip the the finger to god pop some tops and put up our feet
Yeah you're my number one back in time when I knew
We would be having fun as long as I run with you
Flip the finger to god...
We are right on time
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9. |
Cool Night
03:27
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