1. |
Ideal Overture
02:20
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Overture and curtains rise
A set and a stage
Among a light mist
Revealed in trees the
Hideaway I founded
(a)Way before I learned about real life
I would rather be the one
Who doesn’t care to try
The way you failed me
Wasted energy
Who am I?
I would rather be the one who beds into your heart
I would rather be the one, I know
I want to be the one who gives it up
(I accept thee)
I would really love to sink in deep
And not know end from start
High low, no matter where we go
We will never be apart
I would rather be the one
Who has you by my side
With children playing
Down by lakes
Under clear blue skies
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2. |
Heavy
02:33
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In the time of Lord Karellen
That’s when all of us were born
It’s hard to understand what came before
Benefits and costs
What did we give up?
Why’s everything heavy
The surface wearing down
And in every space the pressure makes
The beast come out
I wanted to feel the love
My soul’s banal
Now, everything that I see
You owe it all to me
If I can’t be alive
I would rather die
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3. |
Cutesy
03:17
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Love, you made me promise not to run
If memory serves, you were the one to call it off
And so, what was the reality
Was it all just games, or were we in love?
This is the sound of…
Babe, we never left the park that day
And all that mattered in moments together is what we create
We play pretend, throw a frisbee, build a fort and make love in it
And despite knowing better we dreamed that there was no end
This is the sound of children playing
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4. |
Bateman
03:45
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Babe, you’re the keeper of my sunlight
You got me hiding in the cold
Bustin’ out like Hentai
You wrap me up in tentacles
Seems just like the other day
You helped me find there’s another way
And now I flip a switch like Gestalt
My pain has turned to pleasurable
It’s not enough to penetrate (all my holes)
Cut me up with a silver blade
On videotape
I don’t wanna be a nothin’ when I am gone
I want to find something in my life
It’s not like everybody’s hoping (I’d drop them a line)
Yet everybody will be watching (when it’s my time)
I don’t even know what’s real anymore but the police after me
I wave my gun in the sky and cry (yaAhh yaAhh)
Not sure what I done but I had my fun and maybe I got something wrong
I feel insane!
Gets lonely up here at the top of the world so a psycho I will be
Running naked with a knife I cry (yaAhh yaAhh)
I got all the assets so no one suspects I’m the villain of this story
Someone stop me!
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5. |
King of the Streets
01:50
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He’s the king of the streets
Here take a pamphlet
Everything that you need in there to understand it
He’s a generous man and all that he asks is that you listen
Money, power, fame
You want it, you get it, you change
And you build a prison where you’re the inmate
Where you’re a slave to all your subjects
And they necessitate the need to grow the state
And make a monkey of ya
He’s gonna be sending your collar in the mail
Also in the box, at no extra cost, a tail
With detailed instructions for installation
That should get your heart racing
It’s all GPS activated
So he’ll know where you are every minute
And when you hear his call
Coming from the proprietary app on your phone
You’ll crawl
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6. |
President Adolescent
02:50
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President Adolescent
That’s my name, give me ice cream!
I don’t have time for responsibilities
Matter fact, give them all a snack
It’s in the budget, right Jack?!
I don’t even need to ask you that
I don’t care where it comes from
I just wanna throw a bone
I’m tired of this anger coming at me
Give them what they need
I’ll sign anything, Jeeves
Please let me sleep
I wanna dream
Do you remember when
All of us pretended
We were aliens?
Open the chest filled with
Women’s dress and used them as
Uniforms
We made up a new language
Our economy was candy
And we never got along with human beings
So we patiently observed
Infiltrating all the world
Until it’s only us that they serve
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7. |
Rheya
02:59
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I cast you out
I’ve done everything I can
To forget about you
Still there are mornings when
You’re there, at the end of my bed
When I come to
But I’m not afraid
I know it’s a farce
It’s not who you are it’s just my heart
Looks like I got a lot of time
Before I shake you off
And I’m in love with a phantom
The absence of something once held
Will I ever feel like that again?
Could it ever be in my command?
I know there will be other lovers
I know in time I’ll find there’s so much more
To be enamoured with
Then there could ever be to miss
But that doesn’t change
That from now til’ the end
Some days I’ll wake and find you there in bed
Looks like we got a lot of time
Before I give up my ghost
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8. |
Over It
03:33
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I’m over it
I’m over all the bullshit
I’m over politicians
I’m over all the women
I’m over all religions
Ignorance and globalism
Grown-ups acting like they children
I need some help
Work on myself
You privileged mothafucka
You never were no assistance
How can you have no opinion?
Sayin shit about the children?
Hollywood abusing women?
You selfish racist pervert
Help the victims of the system
Your problems are not primary focus
(Aw shit man, did he really say that?)
Gatekeeper
I’m over all you lies
That you try to decide
What the people will imbibe
You hypocrite, you’re fuckin sick
You eat shit like it’s medicine
So suck on this and make it quick
Cause we ain’t gonna be around much longer
People ain’t getting along anymore
The dead are gonna be strewn upon your lawn
(It’s War)
War’s for the soul of humanity
War’s gonna be the life of me
They say the night is darkest fore’ the dawn
There ain’t nothing gonna stop this baby
Pendulum swings indefinitely
(I’m positive) I’m over it
I’m not gonna spend another minute
Feeding my ignorance in echo chambers
(I’m positive) I’m over it
Fuck this
I’m over casting votes outta fear
I’m over placating political spheres
Maybe we deserve the pain that we feel
Blow it up, see if I care, I’m over it!
It’s time to think for myself
It’s time to give them all hell
The preconceptions, dogmatic hexes
Actions without consequences
Om
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9. |
Gold Crumbs
03:05
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Regardless of all of the pain that you gave
You know that I won’t hurt you
Your scent
Your motherly love
It’s all that I trust
The moment I found you I already gave up
Wish I tried
I would hope that someday you’ll call me home
Generation relaxation in a onesie
Consuming comforts of our youth on repeat
Gold crumbs of the world at our feet
Every drug under the sun is in our blood and our seed
We’re weird about sex, we believe in the hex
And yes, we agree, Karl Marx is the best!
Like a fire we desire the screen
A second mother, like no other
Always there when you need
Do we really have any friends in here?
Do we really know who sees us clear?
Matter of fact, do you know yourself?
How else would you know how you come off?
I gotta be honest, we gotta start being honest
I’m tired of building a lie of myself
And what’s myself, if not the truth
If I shake off all that won’t do
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10. |
For Viv
02:30
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Vertigo Gambler Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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dancing in the apocalypse...
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