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I fall in love every night
So future looks alright
Cobwebs and moss grow high
Rivers of loss flow through the starlight
I fall in love every night
I fall in love every night
Float like a stone in the ozone
The world can be so big and mean
The beautiful things in between the lines
Blow the dust
Shine the light
Burning bright and evergreen
I can’t tell if you’re a dream
But you come to me and say “everything is gonna be alright”
I fall in love every night
I fall in love every night
Float like a stone in the ozone
I fall in love every night
I fall in love every night
Never fade, perennial
As you pluck the petals off
You whisper “everything’s gonna be alright”
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2. |
Breathe
03:28
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Breathe
Breathe
Breathe
I was lying on the side of the road
Not so different from a pile of trash
irritated as a heat rash
plucking hairs out of my moustache
One by one
Thought my upper lip needed some sun
And I was looking for the secret code
Wandering around American roads
Oh, it was an inspiration payload
Pretty good grease for frying memories
Strike a bolt of lightning into me
Surfing in a sea of ecstasy
Wonder how this all could come to breathe
Breathe
Breathe
Breathe
Do it again, do it again
Take a deep breath and hold it, hold it in
Wait around all night to strike the match
But all the fumes have wandered home
So what should be an inferno
Is a faint nostalgic glow
Pretty good grease for frying memories
Strike a bolt of lightning into me
Surfing in a sea of ecstasy
Wonder how this all could come to breathe
I had a dream love and light were winning
I woke up laughing, I woke up singing
And now these memories,
They strike a bolt of lightning into me
Surfing in a sea of ecstasy
Wonder how this all could come to breathe
Breathe
Breathe
Breathe
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I dedicate this to everyone who thinks they’re better than me
It’s easy to see how I could agree
And I dedicate this to expectations
To whatever is above
To finding real love
To be worthy of
Your dedication
Dedication
All in the name of dedication
The more you fight against it
The more its power grows
The closer it gets
The harder it is to know
It has the location of your desire
Like a master archer
The arrow flies
To dedication
To dedication
All in the name of dedication
Twelve ways to die in a fire
Ten ways to be consumed by desire
Eight things you didn’t know about the all consuming shadow of
This empire
Five ways to get out of bed
Seven ways to get stuck in your head
What was that that you just said
About dedication
Dedication
It’s dedication
This dedication
Is dedication
All in the name of dedication
All in the name of dedication
All in the name of dedication
All in the name of dedication
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4. |
The Poet [Can't Jam]
03:44
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I like a warm embrace
I like a pretty face
The smell of lemon, thyme, ginger, rosemary
Ah, my favourite things
I line ‘em up
I put ‘em all down upon a shelf
I watch them all collect dust
I lose my touch again
Don’t quote me, I’m just a bad poet
I can’t fly
I can’t walk
I can’t swim
I can’t talk
I can’t sing
I can’t dance
I can’t rap
I can’t jam
But ooh, look at my tasteful use of metaphor
I think up things you never ever heard before
I can see an idea that’s been around a corner hiding
Useful to attentive listeners
Borderline exciting
The best day of your life
It has come and gone
The bags under your eyes, too big for carry-on
I’m a tired boy, an empty void
A favourite song to sing along
I get along with everyone
I have a good time whenever I go out
But don’t quote me, I’m just a bad poet
I can’t fight
I can’t pray
I can’t riot
I can’t obey
I can’t see
I can’t preach
I can’t wake up
I can’t sleep
But ooh, look at my tasteful use of metaphor
I think up things you never ever heard before
I can see an idea that’s been around a corner hiding
Useful to attentive listeners
Borderline exciting
Ooh, it wears off after a day or two
Or gets absorbed into collective conscience
Added to a big pile
Or more like a hole that’s mined
From time to time to verify one has a soul
But uh
I can’t act
I can’t paint
I can’t teach
I can’t bank
I can’t laugh
I can’t dream
I can’t find the god damn things
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I'm Fine
02:02
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Flips the bird like a lady
She’s the one the boys go crazy for
These words I wrote for her
I’m a little bit tongue tied
Shaken up a bit, I’m fine
I talk just a little bit softer
Poor in love as a pauper
She looks at me like sunlight flickers through a chain link fence
Oh but I’m fine, I’m fine
I’m fine, I’m fine
Run to doom
Run to me
God damned unsociable
Highly emotional
I had a dream and you weren’t there
Billions of people and they just don’t care
I’ll find you
You’ll find me
I am embarking on this journey
Oh, I had a dream and you weren’t there
Please wake me up from this nightmare
Now run to doom
Run to me
God damned unsociable
Highly emotional
But I’m fine, I’m fine
I’m fine, I’m fine
I’m fine, I’m fine
I’m fine, I’m fine
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Hey you, hey, hey you, hey
Hey you, hey, hey you, hey
You gotta let it go nowhere
You gotta give it time
And if nobody will offer
You gotta change their mind
You wanna let it go nowhere
You gotta give it time
And if nobody will offer
Reach out and change their mind
Hey you, hey
Say that you wanna stay with me darling
Because I really need it now
Say what you wanna say to me darling
Go on and on I need it now
Hey you, hey, hey hey you
You wanna let it go somewhere
You gotta give them hell
And if nobody will offer
Reach out and touch yourself
Say that you wanna stay with me darling
Because I really need it now
Say what you wanna say to me darling
Go on and on I need it now
Hey you, hey, hey hey you
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7. |
Squeaky
04:37
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Somewhere in those wicked woods
You build your fire
And somehow in those foolish floods
You keep it dry
Idiots blow their wasted wind
But it burns so bright
Some time in that lonely life
You’ve become the night
Now somewhere there’s a little star
In the big black sky
And somehow in that endless void
You see its light
And spinning around its burning core
There could be life
Looking up at you
For answers in the night
Hot potato armageddon
Patriarchy paper shredding
What a stinkin’ time
Just to be alive
All the people keep forgetting
A piece of bread, tuck it in your cheek
For a rainy day
Yeah, but you get rainy weeks
You’re a busted wheel, babe
But you never squeak
So they pass you over every time they sweep
But your signal fire is buried deep
In the wicked woods that you like to keep
So you throw your body upon the heap
And the flames surround you from head to feet
And it’s boiling over as the fire leaps
You embrace a grove of surrounding trees
And you feel it spreading like warm disease
And we all turn toward you to face the heat
Become the fire
Become the fire
Become the fire
Become the fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
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8. |
Hazy Wave
01:17
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9. |
Wavy Haze
04:05
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Wasn’t complicated
Hadn’t sunken in yet
Still had juice to squeeze out the nose
If it dropped you’d pick it up
Let it bleed don’t stitch it up
Boys like you know how to be alone
It’s a broken ritual
Agitated habitually
Bet you got the balls to disagree
Separated
Made out
Hiding from the fade out
Girls like you know how to wait and see
Was it what it seems?
Was it what it seems?
In that wavy haze
In that wavy haze
Wonder what you see
Wonder what you see
In that hazy way
In that hazy way
If it broke don’t fix it up
Lie down there and lick it up
Haven’t got a problem with that
Miss the stuff you did not need
Attention headaches, nicotine
Alcohol and some amphetamines
Was it all the way it seemed
How I wonder what you see
In that wavy haze
In that wavy haze
Was it all the way it seems
Now I wonder what you see
In that hazy wave
In that hazy wave
They were crazy days, indeed
Microwave a Hungry Man
Brava, Sol and 50 cans
Acne prone anxiety attacks
But you see a light come shining
From behind reminding you
That kid is always on your back
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