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Chandelier
03:22
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Fall into the couch
Leather cold on my skin
It's a warm embrace
Without the friends
Doing what you’re told
Buying into the pictures
Make enough. Earn you envy
Become a boardroom fixture
It’s all for the glow.
Bring down. Bring down the chandelier
Walled off garden so we can’t see
Let alone a table where we could eat
Keep us divided. Don’t let cultures speak
That’s for the power.
Not for you and me
We’ll get what we’re allowed
If we stay just the crowd
The bewildered herd
Don’t forget who bakes the pie
Well they cut it too
Stomping up the stairs
Careening over the rail
Swinging from and bring down
Bring down the chandelier
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Lobby
02:30
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Sitting in the lobby
Know the hum in the air
Piano still playing
Why do we pay to be here?
Is it to run away
Even if just for the night
I can’t say why I’m drawn
When i hate to leave and i hate to fly
You’re chasing looks and angles
And a memory of the sea
A worthy story to convey
One that’s rich and compelling
So you put some space between you
Running at the unknown
Hope you find what you’re looking for
Somewhere between the coasts
You can tip the lamp and close the shades
As strangers go running by
The echoes in the hallways
Dodging food and trays outside
Only here for another night
Then it’s onwards back to home
Touching base along the way
Anticipating the known
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3. |
Round the Bloc
02:39
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Mind yourself
Minding no one else
Why you here
Don’t want your time
Best to leave
Best you’d fade away
Yet you’re on my screen again
Let the old
Let the old fade away
Think for you
Think for something better
Get your hands
Get your hands off her
Cuz it’s not yours to say
Decide to stay in the water
Show you how they can swim
You cannot float on the shore
Don’t need your legs they have fins
Devolved, responsible for this
Pulling you down in the tide
Mouth is filling with saltwater
Got their hooks into our side
Light a match
Light up this tunnel
Stomp it out
Let them know you’re here
You’re not lying down
It’s a sign
It’s a sign of the times
Shut your mouth
Just fucking listen
It’s for love
But I honestly doubt
What you mean
When you say you’re a pro
All i hear is you dragging us behind
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4. |
Prediction
03:09
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Staying put. Build a career
Build a house and you move in
Distract your head from the news
Obsess over being thin
Promise yourself it will change
Travel the world. See some things
Make a friend. Leave one behind.
Change your plans if it stings
You are no mystery
You are a prediction
Linear calculation
Middle-class fixing
Can’t take it all with you
Buried the dog in the back
Pull the tape and smell the marker
Having a beer as you pack
Feet are stuck in the concrete
Wrote our names with a stick
Roots have grown up through
But it’s these sunny days I’ll miss
Look for something special
On your way to find the gold
Someone to share it with
Before you both grow too old
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5. |
Deepfake
02:44
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Make me a deepfake
Knows what I want
Make me dependent
Provide where they don't
Tell me my taste
Wear me down from a point
Tell me what’s best for me
Keep me dull and disjoint
Have my own thoughts
Electric up my spine
That this isn’t living
This is social decline
They'll get the wiser
Stop letting it be
Better make that purchase now
With 2 day delivery
Choking down a burrito
Barely had to pay
The animal in me
Tells myself it was prey
Back from the drive thru
Sit and turn on the screen
Pour all my thoughts in
So I have something to repeat
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6. |
Without Any Kids
03:18
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Something tells me that she’s not been sleeping
Tossing turning through the night
The fan keeps on wheezing
Walked away from a job to sell flowers
A toxic monoculture
With only the men in power
It grabs a hold of you
The hum in your mind
Weeks are turning to years
Lost your sense of time
Find a new place
One where you want to live
Picture perfect horizons
Without any kids
Few years later
Settled down in the mountains
Distance from the family
Only option’s a flight then
A dog to walk
In the morning before coffee
Repeat the evening news
Catches herself reciting
Will always wonder
What could have been
Had they stayed any longer
If she would have listened
That’s the cost
Of running away
But it’s not really running if you’re looking to stay
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Buffalo
02:59
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I want to stand in desolation
I want to stand where the buffalo
Met their ends in hundreds
And where we made the natives go
Staring at the edge of the midwest
Can see for days and what it means
Feeling obsessed with getting out
And a fascination with the beach
Gravity rushing over me
Finally reached where you out to be
Ill-fated plans of men
Like trash in the sea
Grab it up. Sweep it in your mouth
Getting fat sitting on your couch
No lesson learned. No changes
For those at the end it seems
Insulation on wires and hands
Bodies of bones to feed
The left forgot to tend
The right disdains what it means
So we let it get the best of us
Wasted time being stressed
Use the remaining minutes
To scream and hate at the West
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8. |
Art for Fascists
02:43
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Red on the ceiling
Dripping down the walls
Grab him by the neck
Until he coughs
Rally like a circus
Bring them to a fervor
Concoct an enemy
Out of the foreigner
Get your clown makeup on
Matching suits for an image
Mimic that leader's face
Parrot the same message
Get your clown makeup on
Women. Foreign.
Immigrants. Foreign
Intellect. Foreign.
Liberal. Foreign.
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Moving
03:56
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Feeling stuck. It’s getting hot
Couldn’t move. Decide to stay
Room is silent but a whir
Then voices in the hallway
Jostled awake from this dream
Pull my clothes on from the floor
Waking up in weird cities
They just aren't like before
This is what we made
This is who we are
Where did we end up
How do I leave this place
It’s not on the map
We’re just guessing the way
I could ask for help
What would the doctor say?
Chaos in my head
I know you’re the same
Nothing to see in the streets
Hoping to watch it disappear
The fading sodium glow that was
Now In a rearview mirror
Blind faith in another town
Where I don’t recognize the signs
Put up some years ago
By a simpler time
This is how we live
This is who we are
Don’t Speak. Thinking
Criticize
You know nothing
Don’t say you’re thinking.
You weren’t here
You know nothing
Don’t say nothing
Don’t stand for anything
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10. |
Ibuprofen
03:53
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the swelling went down by the morning
the ibuprofen holding her head together
Now she’s tryin to stay hydrated like he told her last night.
he’s at home, sleeping it off
Coming over operator because she just doesn’t get it
the medic has got to work it all out
Now he’s trying to figure out why hasn’t he found it yet?
the years are getting disappointing
Can’t recognize herself in the mirror
The camera is all too noticeable
Need some sleep to just get rid of the bags
These endless nights have left their mark
her circles are shrinking. but is it his fault?
She tries to stay social but there ain’t no one listening
Just can’t walk away and talk for a minute
she’s scared as it hits her. everything that she felt
is gone for good.
Some years later going over in his head
The motion sickness, nausea’s overwhelming
Any way he cuts it, he’s still coming up empty
He should have let her know way back when
Swears his liver can’t serve much of a purpose
The lines on the road start streaking
Speed limits approaching. road signs harder to read
The miles adding up and it’s showing.
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Mind yourself
Minding no one else
Why you here
Don’t want your time
Best to leave
Best you’d fade away
Yet you’re on my screen again
Let the old
Let the old fade away
Think for you
Think for something better
Get your hands
Get your hands off her
Cuz it’s not yours to say
Decide to stay in the water
Show you how they can swim
You cannot float on the shore
Don’t need your legs they have fins
Devolved, responsible for this
Pulling you down in the tide
Mouth is filling with saltwater
Got their hooks into our side
Light a match
Light up this tunnel
Stomp it out
Let them know you’re here
You’re not lying down
It’s a sign
It’s a sign of the times
Shut your mouth
Just fucking listen
It’s for love
But I honestly doubt
What you mean
When you say you’re a pro
All i hear is you dragging us behind
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