1. |
In Retrospect
04:44
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it is working
in retrospect
i’m floating in this presence, never leaving adolescence
i’ve got sins to make and failures to obtain
you’re not the same person, you grew out of cursing
time is liquid but
there’s no room for swimming to the horizon
you get baptized in
this mixture of salt water and cold blood
our culture is viral
my perception is viral
let’s face the trial
with the help of our rivals
they have never been here
so there is only fear
you have to take it with you
time is liquid but
there’s no room for swimming to the horizon
welcome the sea sickness
you’ll have to carry this
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2. |
Blister Me Sister
03:30
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your job here is done
i can’t be the the only one
who doesn’t work at your firm anymore
calm down the stock market is shutting down
while unemployment is rising high
produce me develop me and
blister me sister cause i can’t get enough
calm down when the masters are gone
you’re instantly climbing those stairs
blister me sister
now everything’s fine
never go back to the old silver mine
your working girl suit
is the crushed cast of time
your work here is done
i can’t be the the only one
who doesn’t work at your firm anymore
calm down the stock market is shutting down
while unemployment is rising high
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3. |
Nostalgia For The Light
03:41
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nostalgia for the light
like when i was a child
like when i was the world’s little boy
the ads were so much happier
my lung’s ill from the dust of the coal
i’ve been working so long
now i’m spitting out black words
i’m dying for a new era and
it has come and it is gone
oh how the light stops when
the source ends to exist
somehow everything i do
it reflects on my past
lost in a roman
wilderness of pain
and all the children are insane
waiting for the summer rain
my dreams show the way into the past from the dark
i keep dreaming about others loving me
but i cannot think less and i cannot act more
i keep dreaming about losing my teeth
so how could i be reborn without the light
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4. |
The Division
02:57
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here she lies above
shouting: oh my god
there’s no help in sight
heaving through the night
crawling nude and waiting
the divison will come
when the day is done
to take her away
minutes stretched to hours
blocking the august sun
with the big black one
here they come to take her away
there’s no meaning after all
it’s just an endgame
the divison will come
when the day is done
to take her away
minutes stretched to hours
blocking the august sun
with the big black one
here they come to take her away
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5. |
Versus
02:55
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what is to fight?
to be thrilled, strong-willed
to be gilded and killed?
i don’t think so actually
that word is not in my dictionary
word versus world versus word versus world
this is the circle of life how i heard
what is to forget?
to be cleaned, to be empty
to be shallow, to be neat?
i don’t think so actually
that word is not in my dictionary
word versus world versus word versus world
this is the circle of life how i heard
what is to vanish?
to be rootless, to be white
to haunt through the night?
yes i think so
that word is added to my dictionary
what is to remain?
to be secret or vain
or break every chain?
i am bored with these words
the pages fall to pieces
word versus world versus word versus world
this is the circle of life how i heard
it’s never over
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6. |
Adoption
03:17
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am i here already?
has the circus begun already?
yes i’ve adopted these thoughts
but they’re mine
yes i’ve adopted this world
because it’s free
yes i’ve adopted this youth
and now i’m blind
they think i’m trembling
the noise is deafening
buy me a trampoline
and play on the tambourine
to make me feel calm
children running through the gates
escaping all these old parades
they take it like big red shiny fake ballons
they think i’m trembling
the noise is deafening
buy me a trampoline
play on the tambourine
to make me feel calm
the circus leaves town
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7. |
Applause
03:39
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the long-awaited applause
that i’ve done nothing for
saying true or false
is an elemental choice
the long awaited applause
say hi to the boys
bow down to the girls
with a rudimental pause
the long-awaited applause
caress this winter rose
the need for divine love
is the sentimental cause
the long awaited applause
say hi to the boys
bow down to the girls
with a rudimental pause
do i have nothing to say?
don’t i have nothing to lose?
why do i live another life in my head?
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8. |
Walden
05:28
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clangs and buzzes behind a blank page
hallelujah for this modern age
all the workers are severe and saint
build new contsructions until we feel faint
answers of hope are mumbled and booed
a language not to be understood
the city of law slopes into the sea
why should i care when walden is free
give me a smoke and let me be
let me have this borrowed glee
colors and smoke will blend into ash
swapping one smile for a crazy toothgnash
lost the connection with the mighty green
we got instead an eternal spleen
so many tried but a few made their escape
i’m longing for one last movement to make
the city of law slopes into the sea
why should i care when walden is free
i’m moving out
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9. |
Father
03:19
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you won’t be here for long i know
i can feel it
you’re a product, a prophet, a prequel of
raw, impure fatherhood
a father of distrust a father of plenty
softened by the booze
father bless me in this superior anonymity
i got the music from you
i hope at least that makes you happy
thank you for my happenstance
under this pale and stale occurence
you left a bite of anger in me
would put away my dirty plea
but you deleted my name
fuck my name
deleting names and cursing
on your own
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10. |
Sunday
05:48
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it’s sunday again my friend
and everything’s coming to the end
on the seventh day he rested
from all the work he created
he looked down to the earth
and cried like a firstborn child
some of us are still petrified
he doesn’t move so we abide
now i look down at myself and cry
cause one day i know i will die
and if i look back from this present tense
from Monday i had every chance
quiet prayers falling, the clouds are beating
providence is reaching down
the sun is moving, the earth is drowning
but it’s a happy drown
cause when we disappear
all comes out of luck and love
and a peaceful act of resignation
a subtle touch of noise and light
a temporary atomic movement
in one single day
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