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Prologue: 1964
00:52
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When I was a boy
I thought that life was just a dream
But I soon found out that that just wasn't true
And I grew up, thinking someday I could go back to that place
But I know it doesn't exist anymore
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Fortified
04:33
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Lucky
03:15
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Wanna feel lucky?
I got a rabbit's foot
A four-leafed clover and
My lucky rubber band
Knockin' wood just in case
Avoiding ladders and
knocking salt over and
Opening umbrellas and
Even talking to you
If you feel lucky
Make me feel like you do
If you feel happy
Make me know what that's like too
Hang up a horseshoe and
Board up the windows and
Some armor plating
'Cause I can't take anymore
Avoiding ladders and
Knocking salt over and
Opening umbrellas and
Even talking to you
If you feel lucky
Make me feel like you do!
If you feel happy
Make me know what that's like too
If you feel lucky
Make me feel like you do
If you feel happy
Make me know what that's like too
Wanna feel lucky
Wanna be happy
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Slinking down a one-way street
He shuffles on his well-worn feet
He's done the best he can do
Aiming high, but landing low,
There's nowhere else that he can go
He'll keep on following through
Herald the coming of our Lord
Laugh as he falls upon his sword
All hail the Patron Saint of Mediocrity
Built to last and
last in line
His unpicked mind is never mined
He's just too lame to be cool
Trusting always
Never minds the warning signs
He falls behind
The tragic crest of a fool
Stuck in his orbital decay
Right in the middle's where he'll stay
Bow to the Patron Saint of Mediocrity
Herald the coming of our Lord
Laugh as he falls upon his sword
All hail the Patron Saint of Mediocrity
Here comes the Patron Saint of Mediocrity
Make way for the Patron Saint of Mediocrity
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Go ahead and scream
There's no one 'round here for miles
If you're with our team
Then you know we're all smiles
It's a crap-shoot, yeah
But it's the best game in town
We just set them all up
So we can knock 'em down
You sit and laugh
While they carry you away once more
And what is more
There's a bounty on your head, for sure
I'm sure you've got
All the answers that you need indeed
Your greed is God but your
Temple's really gone to seed
To think that we had such high hopes for you
(You're a weed)
When you were voted "most likely to"
(To succeed)
You sold your soul to be the golden boy
(There you go!)
And keep your inner demons employed
Go ahead and scream
While we pour salt in the wound
In this fever-dream
You're never leaving this room
You wanna scratch the itch
But you can't find your hands
Careful, you'll bust a stitch
And there go all your plans
You sit and laugh
While they carry you away once more
And what is more
There's a bounty on your head, for sure
I'm sure you've got
All the answers that you need indeed
Your greed is God but your
Temple's really gone to seed
To think that we had such high hopes for you
(You're a weed)
When you were voted "most likely to"
(To succeed)
You sold your soul to be the golden boy
(There you go!)
And keep your inner demons employed
Destiny as a motive
Treachery as a plan
It's no longer like murder
When he's no longer a man
You sit and laugh
While they carry you away once more
And what is more
There's a bounty on your head, for sure
I'm sure you've got
All the answers that you need indeed
Your greed is God but your
Temple's really gone to seed
To think that we had such high hopes for you
(You're a weed)
When you were voted "most likely to"
(To succeed)
You sold your soul to be the golden boy
(There you go!)
And keep your inner demons employed
To think that we had such high hopes for you
(You're a weed)
When you were voted "most likely to"
(To succeed)
You sold your soul to be the golden boy
(There you go!)
And keep your inner demons employed
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6. |
Flatline
04:06
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Kind of in a mood
Lie around in the nude
Feeling like the Dude
Feeling kinda rude
Got a yen for the sound in my head
It's around can't you hear?
It's right there It's so clear
Getting close very near
Now I know it's my year
Gotta take all control
This is me on a roll
This is something that I've been wanting to do for a long time
Now the time is here and I'm making up for so much lost time
Yes, it's something that I've been wanting to do for a long time
And I'll probably do it until the day I flatline
Kind of in a funk
Surrounded by this junk
Feeling like a punk
Feeling sorry, getting drunk
Got a yen for the sound in my head
It's around can't you hear?
It's right there It's so clear
Getting close very near
Now I know it's my year!
Gotta take all control
This is me on a roll
This is something that I've been wanting to do for a long time
Now the time is here and I'm making up for so much lost time
Yes, it's something that I've been wanting to do for a long time
And I'll probably do it until the day I flatline
This is something that I've been wanting to do for a long time
Now the time is here and I'm making up for so much lost time
Yes, it's something that I've been wanting to do for a long time
And I'll probably do it until the day I flatline
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Furthermore
01:53
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Furthermore
I don't adore
Your "simple-Simon" mindset
I will ignore
Well, now
Heretofore
If that's what's in store
I'd rather take a powder
(Forevermore)
Whatsoever
I will say "never"
Nothin' ever sticks to you
'cause you're so clever
Well, now
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8. |
Aliens Run Hollywood
03:20
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We found this planet
With lots of "Humans"
They're really stupid
They destroy everything
They kill each other
Over this "Money"
Or something they call "God"
It's pretty pitiful
We dangle carrots
And shiny rings of brass
Over their pointed
Little monkey-heads
They fight and scrape
To reach the mountain top
And when they get there
We knock 'em all down again
We corralled all the pretty ones together and then
Put 'em in a TV show and sold it back to them!
As it spills from the bowl, they lick it up from the floor!
When we thought they had enough, they ordered 13 more!
In this lame syndication, in the middle of sweeps,
We will implant tiny sensors while your little world sleeps
That will make you more deadly to each other just so
You will kill each other and become a part of the show!
Back on the day the earth stood still
We made you take that bitter pill
that makes you act the way you do - and you do
We got picked up for another season
Re-runs & re-hash,
Laugh tracks & pratfalls
Big tits & ass
Sequels, ad nauseam
Criminal creeps
Preach from the podiums
Their tongues are forked
Their lies are bleeding through
Big stars with millions
Peons in poverty
Gas-burning tanks,
Mummified soccer-moms
They fuck and breed,
Consume like locusts
When the mothership comes down
We'll burn it down to the ground
We corralled all the pretty ones together and then
Put 'em in a TV show and sold it back to them
As it spills from the bowl, they lick it up from the floor
When we thought they had enough, they ordered 13 more
And the best part of this
Is that when we are all through
We will turn your planet back into a great big zoo
And someday when the others come to claim it their own
Their piss will make a mud out of the dust of your bones
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If this is love, forget it
I thought it would be everything that I want it to be, now
But it's not
If this is love, forget it
I thought it was going to be "rainbows & sunshine"
It's raining
Thanks a lot
Every day
I wake up and say
"Tomorrow's gonna be different!",
But it's just the same, yeah, yeah
If this is love, forget it
I give you all I've got
Still you take it all and given me nothing
That's not cool
If this is love, forget it
I gave up everything, just to be with you,
And now you're leaving...me a fool...
Every day,
I wake up and say
"Tomorrow's gonna be different!",
But it's just the same, yeah, yeah
It was nice, for a while, don't get me wrong
We were happy, we were good, we were getting along
I don't know where we went wrong, I wish I could go back in time
To the place where we could do no wrong in each other's eyes
Every day,
I wake up and say
"Tomorrow's gonna be different!",
But it's just the same, yeah, yeah
If this is love, forget it
I gave you back your stuff,
Still you never gave me back all my records
What the fuck?
If this is love, forget it
I saw you yesterday
Hey, you're lookin' really good
No, I mean it
Give me a call
Every day,
I wake up and say
"Tomorrow's gonna be different!"
But it's just the same, yeah, yeah
If this is love, forget it
If this is love, forget it
If this is love, forget it
If this is love, forget it
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You look as if you've been here before
But you don't live here anymore
The memories of a childhood
Forget the bad & recall the good
Another grey hair to count the days
You fall into another daze
A movie of all you've done before
Is playing on in your head, forevermore
But it's all gone, now
You're a man
But you can't
Feel a man
'Cause you can't
Get beyond
What you want
'cause you know
That you're not
And you want
What you're not
But you can't
Hit the spot
Give a damn
But it's not
Quite enough,
So you're not
You look as if you've been here before
But you don't live here anymore
The memories of a childhood
Forget the bad & recall the good
But it's all gone now
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11. |
Glacier
04:57
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If you try to find a reason
And you just keep coming up blank
And you keep searching for reasons
Then you've got your own self to thank
In a hundred thousand decades
You could never pay off this debt
If you've ever seen a glacier
Then you know how cold it can get
I never want to feel that way again
In a frozen, winter wasteland
A cathedral built of your tears
houses all your secret longings
All your regrets, all of your fears
When you thought you had me figured
That is when you knew me the least
A control freak's wonderama
A bipolar-bear's Christmas feast
I never want to feel that way again
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12. |
Hollywood Confidential
03:11
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You made the big-time
You signed the deal!
you got your kneepads
('Cause they want you to kneel)
The big, red carpet
The velvet rope
Bottle of Cristal
and a head full of dope
You always talkin' bout the things you'll do
Caviar and limos and who-knows-who
Cocaine & ecstasy and thousand-dollar shoes
Fuck another starlet and you're front-page news
Hollywood Confidential
The paparazzi,
The tinted glass
You're just a puppet with a hand up your ass
Heart like a viper
Feet of clay
You gave your soul up when you sold it away
You always talkin' bout the things you'll do
Hummers and Escalades and who-knows-who
Hotels & private jets & mansions in the sky
All the shit you're doing's sure to make your mother cry
Hollywood Confidential
You always talkin' bout the things you'll do
Super-model parties and who-knows-who
What will this all matter when they find you dead
Naked and bloated, with a sheet on your head
Hollywood Confidential
Hollywood Confidential
Hollywood Confidential
Hollywood Confidential
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13. |
Oscillerai Dal Patibolo
01:44
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Music/Dialogue: Eric Skodis
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14. |
You're Gonna Swing
04:35
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Grab a rope and tie a slipknot
Find the tallest tree
Necktie party in your honor
The sole invitee
You're gonna swing for what you done to me
From a cord of rough-hewn hemp on Beggar's hill
You're gonna dance a jig until your final breath
And the last that you'll hear's the requiem bell
When you're gone, we'll burn your house down
When you're in repose
Bury you face-down and salt the
Earth so nothing grows
You're gonna swing for what you done to me
From a cord of rough-hewn hemp on Beggar's hill
You're gonna dance a jig until your final breath
And the last that you'll hear's the requiem bell
You're gonna swing for what you done to me
From a cord of rough-hewn hemp on Beggar's hill
You're gonna dance a jig until your final breath
And the last that you'll hear's the requiem bell
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Magic Hour
05:27
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As I ride off into the sunset
I see everything
in my life, laid out, like a map leading to the end
The sky's so beautiful
All the golden-reds & regal purples
The end of the day gives close to a chapter
But, with the sunrise, starts anew
Everything that you've known until now
Will come into foreground and let you know how
To put back in order your house & affairs
No more elevators - you're taking the stairs
What you see
Is not what you get
So take it from me
It's not over yet
Funny how the simplest things you see in your day-to-day can give you
Clarity beyond means; a sunny sky, children laughing
Maybe just a word from someone who cares a lot about you
In this "magic hour" I can see where I must go...and what I must do
Everything that you've known until now
Comes back in view and will let you know how
To put back in order your house & affairs
No more elevators - you're taking the stairs
What you see
Is not what you get
So take it from me
It's not over yet
Everything that you've known until now
Comes back in view and will let you know how
To put back in order your house & affairs
No more elevators - you're taking the stairs
What you see
Is not what you get
So take it from me
It's not over yet
What you see
Is not what you get
So take it from me
It's not over yet
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