1. |
Exordium Beta (Intro)
02:10
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2. |
World Turning
02:24
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Thought I smelled smoke
thought I saw the forest burning
thought I lost hope
thought I felt world turning
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3. |
Baby
04:25
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Born in ‘71
face turned to the sun
gonna make it big
gonna find the one
face turned to the sun
Baby turns a blind eye
to him it’s all the same
and Baby leaves the light on
and dances in the rain
gonna make it big
gonna find the one
face turned to the sun
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4. |
Iteration 41
03:07
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I received a letter from my friend the other day.
I was worried - you see - I hadn’t seen or heard from him in some time.
Heard he changed his name and caught the last plane West -
heard he joined a cult - heard he walked into the river
Anyway - I couldn’t be sure.
So for weeks I left his letter lay unopened
but every night after midnight it would start -
t i c k i n g
And no matter where in the house I would hide it
I could still hear it -
t i c k i n g
So finally - you see - I opened it.
It read -
Dear Friend
I have paid an ungodly amount
simply to be one step closer to heaven
But what I’ve learned about America
is that if you believe it deep down
it’s probably true
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5. |
Realiti
04:30
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When we were young, we used to get so close to it
And you were scared and you were beautiful
I wanna peer over the edge and see death
If we are always the same
Oh, I fear that no life will ever be like this again
'Cause your love kept me alive and it made me insane
There were moments when it seemed okay
Whether you go or whether you stay
There was a time when the music would play
Oh, baby, every morning there are mountains to climb
Taking all my time
Oh, when I get up, this is what I see
Welcome to reality
When we were young, we used to get so close to it
And you were scared and you were beautiful
I wanna peer over the edge and see death
If we are always the same
There were moments when it seemed okay
Whether you go or whether you stay
There was a time when the music would play
Oh, baby, every morning there are mountains to climb
Taking all my time
Oh, when I get up, this is what I see
Welcome to reality
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6. |
Genesis
05:11
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Your love is pushing me over
Over and into the sea
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7. |
Mikel
06:02
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Mikel
I tried
truly wild
All I’ve learned
is all I’ve done
Mikel
All I know
down I go
All I’ve thought
is all I’m not
Mikel
I know
it’s not your fault
it’s all I’ve got
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8. |
TORU
04:30
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In this dream I’m on a tight rope
and I’m tipping back and forth
trying to keep my balance.
And below me are all my relatives,
and if I fall I’ll crush them.
This line, this bloodline,
the only thing that binds me
to the turning world below and
all the people and noise and songs and shouts.
This long thin line, this song line, this shout.
This thing tightrope, this tightrope made of sound.
This tightrope, so thin,
made of my own blood.
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9. |
Honey (Live Demo)
04:19
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No, you're not gonna get what you need
But baby I have what you want
Come get your honey
Every color and every taste
Every breath that whispers your name
It's like emeralds on the pavement
At the heart of some kind of flower
Stuck in glitter, strands of saliva
Won't you get me right where the hurt is?
And the waves come in and they're golden
But down in the deep the honey is sweeter
And the sun sets on the water
But down in the deep the current is stronger
No, you're not gonna get what you need
But baby I have what you want
Come get your honey
And the waves come in and they're golden
But down in the deep the honey is sweeter
And the sun sets on the water
But down in the deep the current is stronger
Get me right where the hurt is
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10. |
Plumes
03:43
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My trusty steed was growing tired
as we made our way down the other side
of the mountain range
I couldn’t tell you why
but I had to know
I had to see for myself
those swirling stacks of Mojave
those plumes of desert skin
haunting the horizon
So you see -
we traveled for days
through the heat
through the trees
through the canyons
through it all
But were still no closer
than when we started
So I cried out
and the trees replied -
Now at first you see -
I thought I was dreaming
that I’d fallen to their incantations
to the Lizzie’s in the hills
And then I saw a red flash
and I heard a crack of thunder
and I fell
and when I woke up
I saw them
those plumes
were getting closer
and closer
So I cried out
and the canyons replied -
And before I could answer
I felt myself submit
and I was swept up
swept away
into that plume of dust
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11. |
Der Berliner
04:34
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“There are many people in the world who really don’t understand, or say they don’t, what is the great issue between the free world and the communist world...
Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us...Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.”
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12. |
Indie Disco
03:49
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I was never cool enough for New York
I didn’t have enough
I didn’t have enough money
I didn’t have enough friends, talent, or vision
I didn’t have enough followers
I didn’t have enough hats
I was never cool enough for New York
I’ve never kissed a lover on the Brooklyn Bridge
I’ve never hailed a cab on Broadway
I’ve never seen a Pollock at the Metropolitan
I’ve never read Patti Smith at The Strand
I’ve never had tea at the Plaza
I’ve never seen Vampire Weekend at The Bowery
I’ve never been invited to an opening in Bushwick
I’ve never been trapped on The L
I’ve never danced to techno at Mood Ring
I’ve never seen Chloe Sevigny smoke a cigarette on fifth avenue
I’ve never felt part of my soul die in Times Square
I’ve never stood in Central Park and thought about the 90s
I was never cool enough for New York
I guess you just had to be there
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13. |
Morning Fog
02:16
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The light
Begin to bleed,
Begin to breathe,
Begin to speak
D'you know what?
I love you better now
I am falling
Like a stone,
Like a storm,
Being born again
Into the sweet morning fog
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14. |
For Mark (Memento Mori)
05:02
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The fan whirling like the blades of a copter
Lifting into the skies above a foreign land
Fire and iron soaked with the bodies of so many friends
He was on his way home
He waved good-bye to his comrades in arms
And all the twisted things he had seen
He waved good-bye
And the blades hit something
Maybe just fate but the blades hit
The copter went up in flames
He never went marching home
They took his name and they carved it on a slab of marble
With several thousand other names
All the fallen idols
The apples of their mother’s eye
Just another name
Meanwhile back on that burning shore
His comrades stood speechless
They looked up with misbelieving eyes
There were bits of metal - and the embers
The embers of his eyes fanned out in the air
Black dust flames
Someday they will make a movie about him
And in the making - some mad apocalypse
It will become even stranger than the simple act
Of a boy - just going up
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