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A Reunion (of sorts)
05:54
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The sun drowns below the waves
A childhood fear
Will it return tomorrow?
Will I live to see?
I can’t bear to see
My fishbowl face
In your eyes
In your eyes
Take me in your arms
And close your eyes
So what shall we do?
What shall I be
In your eyes
In your eyes?
Whatever happened to him?
Do you remember
Who he was?
Dial tone unbroken
Chain of words unspoken
Pen and paper strangers
Whatever happened to him?
Do you remember
Who he was?
We used to be so close
Avalanche of years
Avalanche of years
Will you return tomorrow?
Will I live to see?
Take me in your arms
And close your eyes
And what shall we do?
Who shall I be
In their eyes
In their eyes?
Whatever happened to him?
Do you remember
Who he was?
Dial tone unbroken
Chain of words unspoken
Pen and paper strangers
I looked away
Closed my eyes
Whatever happened to him?
Do you remember
Who he was?
We used to be so close
Avalanche of years
Avalanche of years
I can’t bear to see
My fishbowl face
In your eyes
In your eyes
Take me in your arms
And close your eyes
Whatever happened to me?
Do you remember
Who I was?
Open your eyes
Whatever happened to me?
Do you remember
Who I hoped to be?
All the things I wanted
All the homes I haunted
Avalanche of years
Avalanche of years
Avalanche of years
Avalanche of years
Come to nothing
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2. |
Company
03:33
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Anything is better than nothing
You say
You say
And nothing is all I own
You say
You say
When prayers are your only coin
And pockets empty of all but love
When the smoke in the distance
Feels like home
And angels circle up above
Tell me now, are you my friend?
Now, forever, in the end?
I’ve never been so hungry
While you lick your lips
Anything is better than nothing
You say
You say
And nothing is all you own
You say
You say
When prayers are my only coin
And pockets empty of all but love
When the smoke in the distance
Feels like home
When prayers are your only coin
And pockets empty of all but love
When the smoke in the distance
Feels like home
And angels circle up above
And angels circle up above
Someone eats tonight
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Did you hear the one about
the snake that ate its own tail
Did you hear the one about
the man who dug his own grave
Have you heard the one
that I’m about to tell you
What makes you think
I’ll tell you anything at all
I am growing up
I am growing weak
I am growing blind
I must leave it all behind
I am growing up
I am growing weak
I am growing blind
I must leave it all behind
I am falling upwards
The world moves too fast
Just one more chance
It’s all I ever asked
I’ve only said hello
But I must go
I am growing up
I am growing weak
I am growing blind
I must leave it all behind
I am growing up
I am growing weak
I am growing blind
I am growing dead
I am growing dead
I am falling upwards
The world moves too fast
Just one more chance
It’s all I ever asked
I’ve only said hello
But I must go
I am falling upwards
The world moves too fast
Just one more chance
It’s all I ever asked
I’ve only said hello
But I must go
I am falling upwards
The world moves too fast
Just one more chance
It’s all I ever asked
I’ve only said hello
But I must go
I am falling upward
I am falling upward
There is no anchor
I am adrift
No light to guide me
home
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4. |
Casualty
03:09
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I’ve seen the light
in the eyes of everyone
go out
I’ve heard
the spirit die
in every cheated mouth
And all the boys
in plastic bubbles
wait for a tender touch
We are misfit toys
broken and discarded
Now we’re just like
everybody else
angry eyed and hard hearted
Why do we fall down
and shatter on the ground
Where is our strength to stand?
Why do we fall down
and shatter on the ground
Where is our strength to stand?
Can we hide the evidence
of all our hopes and dreams,
or is it all too obvious
we once lived for love?
And all the boys
in plastic bubbles
wait for a tender touch
We are misfit toys
broken and discarded
Now we’re just like
everybody else
angry eyed and hard hearted
Why do we fall down
and shatter on the ground
Where is our strength to stand?
Why do we fall down
and shatter on the ground
Where is our strength to stand?
Can we hide the evidence
of all our hopes and dreams,
or is it all too obvious
we once lived for love?
Why do we fall down
and shatter on the ground
Where is our strength to stand?
Why do we fall down
and shatter on the ground
Where is our strength to stand?
Why do we fall down
and shatter on the ground
Where is our strength to stand?
Why do we fall down
and shatter on the ground
Where is our strength to stand?
Why do we fall down?
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5. |
Isinglass
03:40
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Love, walking pigeon-toed,
stumbles,
cries to see
its bloodied knees
If I open myself to you
like a whore’s bought thighs
and reveal the subtle
truth within my lies,
where is my reward?
Have you kept your word?
But there’s something in your smile,
that keeps me here a while
Yes, I’m in love with ruins
You know I’ve always been
It hangs in the air like justice,
like hungry mob justice
The smoking gun of your goodbye
The wasted breath of my alibi
I came back from the edge of the world
The doors were shut, the windows fast
I returned from the end of the world
and I could not meet my past
How do I remember warmth
how can I remember comfort
Now you’ve left me
here alone
I could never own
your heart,
kept behind skin and bone
I could never keep your heart,
though I thought I did my part
It hangs in the air like justice,
like hungry mob justice
The smoking gun of your goodbye
The wasted breath of my alibi
But there’s something in your smile,
that keeps me here a while
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6. |
Memory's Silver Kiss
04:36
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I dreamt of things unknown
Of what’s been hidden from man’s eyes
I saw the bitter seeds I’ve sown
And how betrayal rests within my thighs
But dreams erase themselves
And the mirror meets us at dawn
And the day holds us tight
All things burn when touched by light
And who should call when the world is night?
And why can’t I answer?
Why won’t I answer?
There is a room
where I store my past
A closet huge and hungry
I can hear the scratching
I can hear the dead
I can hear the scratching
I can hear the dead
And the day holds us tight
All things burn when touched by light
And you think you know me?
You still believe you know me?
I dreamt of things unknown
Unseen
Unreal
Unkind
And the day holds us tight
All things burn when touched by light
We wait for night (repeat)
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7. |
Stop-motion
05:47
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Soon there will be
nothing left of us
just Nagasaki shadows
on punished brick
We gave up too soon
I think we gave up too soon
Used up our love
now beg for scraps
It’s all been done
It’s all been done before
But do you remember the taste of desire
when it fell on your tongue like atomic fire
and you thought you could never get higher?
Oh, when did you grow old, why did you tire?
The years watch and wait
They lie in wait
And we thought we were free
and lived in blessed safety
And it’s killing me
It’s fucking killing me
But do you remember the taste of desire
when it fell on your tongue like atomic fire
and you thought you could never get higher?
Oh, when did you grow old, why did you tire?
Let’s ride the Ghost Train
one more time
The doors slam shut
the lights go out
And up ahead
someone is screaming
Forget me
Forget me
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