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Fridge Magnets
03:56
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Caught up, cornered, cut off
I found you with my lazy eye
Characters we play...
are shapes... and stories
They don't have much to say
I can feel you from a mile away
I know where you're headed now
I can feel you from a mile away
I know where your head is now
Thinking, listful, smile
You caught me with your quiet mind
All the words are rearranged
in shapes... in theory
They don't have much to say
I can feel you from a mile away
I know where your head is now
I can feel you from a mile away
I know where you're headed
Caught up, cornered, cut off
I found you with my lazy eye
Thinking, listful, smile
You caught me with your quiet mind
...with your quiet mind
...with your quiet mind
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2. |
Out of Windows
02:33
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Some people are windows
you see right through them
Other people are shuttered
they're hiding who they...
Who they are...
Who they are and where they've been
Some people are doors
so you walk right through them
You've been carrying bags
can you keep your footing?
Or will you fall...
Fall back down to earth again
You're standing tall but objects are closer than they appear
So many faces on the change in my pockets
I don't want to leave the house
I just want to crawl around on the floor with my records
...and the rats.
Some people are mirrors
you bounce right off them
Seeing nothing but smiles
in your reflection
you're standing tall and objects are closer than they appear
you wont fall 'cause Baby, the sky's all clear!
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Highwire
04:24
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Just another half mile
Road running like a wave
Can't see a home behind and I can't find an early grave
Kinda makes you feel like Sundays are all you have to trade
I guess that's the way it is...
is it ever gonna change?
Highwire
I'm hanging on for days
Highwire
There's no other way
Highwire
I'm hanging on for days
While the days keep slipping away
Just another half mile
Something's bound to change
I think I see the ocean in front of me and I don't know where I've been
Kinda makes you feel like Mondays are always here to stay
That's the way it is right now
But I'm bound to make a change
Highwire
I'm hanging on for days
Highwire
There's no other way
Highwire
I'm hanging on for days
While the days keep slipping away
Highwire
I'm hanging on for days
Highwire
There's no other way
Highwire
I'm hanging on for days
While the days keep slipping away
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4. |
Death Always Wins
03:17
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Started walking
Started talking
Learn to get it right
Get a job
Buy a car
and maybe lease a wife
Started buying
Started selling
Swelling up with pride
Get a house
You've figured out what brings eternal life
Live for what you take but what you give
Will help you learn to live with what you did
Come to find that "you ain't bonafide"
Somehow Death always wins
Started falling
Started crawling
Getting braced to fight
Trust a dream
that you believe
will lead you to the light
Steady climbing
Feel like crying
'cause you're scared of heights
Build a home
You're fully grown
It's time to live your life
Live for what you take but what you give
Will help you learn to live with what you did
Come to find that "you ain't bonafide"
Somehow Death always wins
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5. |
Pattern Has A Hold
03:52
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Maybe I should hesitate when I'm walking out the door
I could use some time to think while I'm walking to the store
I know I wont have to ache if I take a little more
I know I'll lay in bed awake 'cause this day leaves me sore
I can't shake this feeling
The pattern has a hold
I'm tired of revealing myself this way
I can't shake this feeling
The pattern has a hold
I'm tired of all of these days I waste
Maybe I should hesitate when I'm walking out the door
I could use some time to think while I'm walking to the store
I know I wont have to ache if I take a little more
Violently my body shakes in my bed I feel so sore
I can't take all these sad mistakes
I can't brake
This pattern has a hold
I'm so tired of these days
Give 'em all away
This pattern has a hold
Old
and dry
am
I.
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6. |
Centerfold
04:55
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Wait a minute Mr.I think I'm starting to relate
Lets "conversate" with words put in the dictionary late
We've managed to make progress in the way we propagate
In other words we're getting laid so everything's OK
I may not make it to the market or ever learn to tie my shoes
but if I never lay my money down than I can never lose
So if you're tired of the risk implied in everything you choose
just plug into your landline and turn on the evening news
I only walk high wire graves
I only want what I obtain
I only walk high wire graves
Think I'll marry me a centerfold and take her on a date
Then I'll give her lots of pretty kids that she can learn to hate
I've done the calculations so I know what roads to take
Don't bother with directions, I have the patience of a saint
Some would say that we belittle this precious gift of life
Just fill up this prescription everything will be alright
So if you're tired of the winning hand than I can help you lose
Just follow these instructions if you feel you can't refuse
I only walk high wire graves
I only want what I obtain
I only walk high wire graves
I may not make it to the market or ever learn to tie my shoes
but if I never lay my money down than I can never lose
So if you're tired of the winning hand in everything you choose
Just follow these instructions if you can't refuse
I only walk high wire graves
I only want what I obtain
I only walk high wire graves
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7. |
God pt3
04:01
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I've got a question I feel like asking
Was time an elegant waste?
Should we just table these long confessions
or maybe cut to the chase...
Another round and we'll get to the bottom of why we're running in place
If you're holding on to the answers deliver them with some grace
How 'bout you?
What would you say?
Where would you play the hand of faith?
What about me what should I do?
What about me?
What about you!
I hear you talking around the question
why don't you cut to the chase?
Another shot at inelegant answers
or another day full of rage
Another round and we'll get to the bottom of why there's nothing to say
Ive been holding on to the answers, I'm tired of running away
How 'bout you?
What would you say?
Where would you play the hand of faith?
What about me what should I do?
What about me?
What about you!
Waiting on Her Grace
They called her down
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8. |
SOS
03:18
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Come on my brother, its only time
This is no reason to end a life
Lets get together and heal our minds
One single lesson
One single lesson at a time
This is an SOS
From one consciousness
This is an SOS
Without love we are destruction
With all the mettle we have inside
We've got to reach out and end the subdivide
There is no treason, there is no crime
There're only brothers and human kind
This is an SOS
From one consciousness
This is an SOS
Without love we are destruction
This is an SOS
From one consciousness
This is an SOS
Without love we are destruction
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9. |
One Ride Home
03:38
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There you were
Standing in the darkness
Casting a shadow on the light
Still you were whispering in every corner of my mind
telling me it's time to fly
Maybe I should learn to take the wheel
Something in the courage of a ride
After all what couldn't be said in conversation
On one ride home
I never did shut down
but I don't know
I never did shut down
I never did shut down
but I don't know when I'm coming around
Maybe on one ride home
I was living a Yogi Master
Riding a blanket of creation
You were a unicorn on a damp field
That kissed me again and again in the summer sun
We vowed ourselves to never stop while music played in the distance
Smiling 'till our faces hurt, laughing in pain
We were standing at the doorway of possibility
On one ride home
I never did shut down
but I don't know
I never did shut down
I never did shut down
but I don't know when I'm coming around
Maybe on one ride home
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10. |
Motivation OK
06:26
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I've banished influence and still I can't find anyone
To confidently play the trigger to my loaded gun
Still
but still...
How come?
I count indifference among the issues I have conquered
I lost ambivalence to my heart and all the ways that its suffered
I played the best defense yet still I'm always counting time
In love with arrogance and movie screens and bottom lines
Still
but still...
How come?
Still
Yet still
I'm calm
She's all the way on the west coast
She's all the ways that I've grown
The way I've been dreaming
You never know...
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