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1999
02:46
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A bag of chips, a flat soda
I take a handful
It's meaningless to count me out, I'm always out
You took your stuff out of this room
And yet it lingers...
How to get rid of all the small defeats
Is anything remotely real ?
I've been known for better things than this
Make it stop, kill the lights, kill the lights
I feel it all, kill the lights, kill the lights and
Make it stop, kill the lights, kill the lights
I feel it all, kill the lights
Everything is standing still, as you left it
This house is not a home when I'm alone
What is there to do but smile,
and hope for the best,
I can only look at you with weary eyes
Is anything remotely real ?
I've been known for better things than this
Make it stop, kill the lights, kill the lights
I feel it all, kill the lights, kill the lights and
Make it stop, kill the lights, kill the lights
I feel it all, kill the lights
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2. |
Fields of Gold
03:12
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These days, I feel so drained
just being someone, someone’s something
All the time
I can’t stand your speeches, all dyed bible black
To take a step away, from the tarpit
Above the trees, the city lights
I’ll think of you and me, and God maybe
Fields of gold, fields of gold, carry me to sea
Along the shores of Sweden
Where the rye is high
And the bread as black
As a miner’s hands
And no one knows my name
No one knows my name
Sick and tired, of keeping up with
Who is on whose side, and who’s to blame
I need something to wash
The insomnia off
Above the land
The northern sky
I need the silence
I need the calm
Above the land
Just you and I
I need the silence
I need the calm
Fields of gold, fields of gold, carry me to sea
Along the shores of Sweden
Where the rye is high
And the bread as black
As a miner’s hands
And no one knows my name
No one knows my name
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3. |
Web Grenade
02:49
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What can I do to try it once and not remember ?
How did this happen, how did it happen ?
I will always ask for more than I can take
How could I see the little things that go together ?
It's always a bad time, there's something on my mind
I keep throwing things at the wall but nothing sticks
When the show is on, nothing in the world can bring me down
It's getting easy, when I get the feeling
I can catch all the spirits around me
How could I see the little things that tear us apart ?
I know how it goes, I know how it goes
I keep throwing things at the wall
I keep throwing things at the wall but nothing sticks
One day I'm gonna try with a brick
I gotta know what it's going to take to make it break
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4. |
Turn
03:33
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Let the heavy sleepers
Sweat and soak these lowlands,
For the whole word to watch.
Panting on the sidewalk,
With lead dreams and cut off shorts,
We had so much to spare, so much to
Burn away, the heat
Will crush us
You laugh it off
And roll the dice on
My own summer
Let me mean something,
In someone else’s pipe dream
Scrub me off those streets
We're your cemetery dogs,
Your guitar center dweebs
Simmering on God’s back burner, we
Turn away, the heat
Broke my mold
Sweat out the cold
My heavy metal
Burn away, the heat
Will crush us
You laugh it off
And roll the dice on
My own summer
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5. |
Ambergris
02:29
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So you crawled back from work
Was it six or seven ?
And you muttered out loud « Anybody,
I’m home »
Like any other day,
Nobody was
Not even you, in your spectral form
Your spectral form
Ugly buildings, pretty people
They both crack easily
Cowardice, licorice
Both leave a taste you’d rather spit
Out in the cold with your scarf down
Mumbling your way around town
Drowned in smoke in a shit pub
Nothing happened today
Nothing happened anyway
Dragging along
Your therapy sessions,
Out on the curb with the
Stoner cashiers
Memories seemingly
Badly reenacted
By amateurs who fuck up the play,
Fuck up the play
Creeping on you like
The death toll
Ugly buildings, pretty people
They both crack easily
Cowardice, licorice
Both leave a taste you’d rather spit
Out in the cold with your scarf down
Mumbling your way around town
Drowned in smoke in a shit pub
Nothing happened today
Nothing happened anyway
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6. |
Smashed
02:42
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All I saw
Nailed me down to the floor
I know
What is left to ignore
Smashed like never before
I'm a bird on a wire
The taste of gold
Went to my head I know
I wanna dream some more
I know
What is left to ignore
Smashed like never before
I'm a bird under a tire
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7. |
Lean on Me
02:48
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All this hustle, I thought it'd stop and
All of these doubts, I thought they'd fade
I could not be more wrong, we fidget like bugs
Swarm like a plague in the summer sun
I've heard that you've been looking for some
Well-deserved peace and understanding
Hold on to the rings
Under your eyes
I have a haven with your name on it
Where all of your burdens called it quit
Rest all you want, lean on me
I'll be around, count on me
Lay down your burden baby
Save your breath, that's on me
As long as you need me to be
I'll be around, count on me
Rest, baby, rest
Take your time but
Always aim for the best
I'll meet you down the line
Take care of yourself but face the facts
I'm no cure and you know that love can't heal
But you might find joy underneath
Rest all you want, lean on me
I'll be around, count on me
Lay down your burden baby
Save your breath, that's on me
As long as you need me to be
I'll be around, count on me
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8. |
Kindness (Takes Over)
03:15
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At this point in time, so many roads merge together
Read between the lines
No time to save the good things for later
Young boys make their moves and they make the world turn
They never cry when life passes them by
I cannot relate to that scenario, how could I relate to that ?
I cannot relate to that scenario, I would never fall for that
I can't believe she doesn't mind
She wants to see what I'm about to be
She looks at me, turns over and rests upon my shoulder
Kindness takes over
Looking at the skyline
Your mind is quick and thick as leather
Read between the lines
No time to save the good things for later
Old men sing the blues and they keep it together
Keep it together, keep it together
I cannot relate to that scenario, how could I relate to that ?
I cannot relate to that scenario, I would never fall for that
I used to drive on a rocky terrain
Every little thing would make me go insane
But I try to be another man
I can't believe she doesn't mind
She wants to see what I'm about to be
She looks at me, turns over and rests upon my shoulder
Kindness takes over
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9. |
Off-Axis
02:22
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Eager to move on, I never belong
This conversation's sinking its teeth in me
Eager to move, stop playing along
This conversation will be the death of me
Stay off the grid, close to no one
Stay off-axis, gravitate above the world
Silent and withdraw, waiting till you're gone
Your petty chatter is holding me in thrall
Silent and withdrawn, waiting till you fall
This sick optimism you're shoving down my throat
Stay off the grid, close to no one
Stay off-axis, gravitate above the world
In ataraxia, I'm silencing the world, in ataraxia
Stay off the grid, close to no one
There's nothing I miss from the noises of the world
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10. |
Treason Season
04:40
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Put your coins back in a pocket full of holes
Another pointless run to the grocery store
I read the signs, I read it all around
I know I'm done
Strip me of my pride, wrap your sword in a jewelery box
I have made my time,
I wonder where you are
Come over for treason season
Knives are half-priced
And I guess this makes us even
I read the signs, I read it all around
I know I'm done
Strip me of my pride, wrap your sword in a jewelery box
I have made my time,
I wonder where you are
Hold on to what you know, sing back to the stereo
Trust me I'm the biggest fraud
What about him, what do we do about him ?
Take my name in vain, scrap it off the mailbox tag
All the city stopped to think
What about him, what do we do about him ?
Lost in every way, you bet
Burning out along the way, you bet
Lost in every way
Lost in every way
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11. |
Forcefield II
03:31
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Classic rock radio spewing out
All the tired old cliches
And trite words of wisdom about freedom
And living on the edge
And as dumb as it may sound
Right now, it’s all I want to hear
The soundtrack to my stroll around this town
This town,
This one’s for all the friends, the neurotic,
The pot smokers, in my forcefield
I just brush off, your sycophants, your backstabbers
I got my own people,
In my forcefield, in my forcefield
Call your local politician
'Cause I know all the good spots to take a whizz out here,
And I’ve been loitering, since I have learned to walk
Places where we used to go, kick trash cans and play card games
Tumbling down from idlers’ heaven ‘round this town
I’m late for the show,
Line check, then let’s roll
Bowl of rice on the boat
Same set for the same 5 friends
And I love it
And I love it
Rushed, unfazed,
Unbrushed, unkept, anxious
Beatnik, cynical prick,
Dumbass, jackass
I sing this one
For all the friends, the neurotic
The pot smokers, in my forcefield
I’ll just brush off
Your sycophants, your backstabbers
I got my own people,
In my forcefield
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