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I tumbled down a deep ravine
Bottomless, or so it seemed
Swam across the darkened air
I didn’t care
I floated to a sheltered cove
Took a breath, and then I dove
Trekking through the diamond stars
Not very far...I crashed the car
Not very far...
Compulsion lights the way
Compulsion drives the --
The voice rang out inside my head,
Disembodied, dull and dead,
An echo of a lesser place
Without a face
I twist and turn to prove I'm wrong
But this martinet is just too strong
There's nothing in a wanton town
But talking down...embrace the frown
We're talking down...
Compulsion lights the way
Compulsion drives the --
Compulsion lights the way
Compulsion drives the --
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Ah, burn the scenery down
Make them all afraid
The crackle of hot lights, hot lights,
Hot lights, hot lights
Shake down below, with everybody
Please take it slow, not just anybody
Can take the strain of admonition
So hide below, where everybody
Ah, underneath the ground
No one makes a sound
The patter of small feet, small feet,
Small feet, small feet
Shake down below, with everybody
Please take it slow, not just anybody
Can take the strain of admonition
So hide below, where everybody
Plastic red, Plastic red
Shake down below, with everybody
Please take it slow, not just anybody
Can take the strain of admonition
So hide below, where everybody goes
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3. |
Hey God Bone
02:26
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Hey god bone - fossilized into a stone
Buried in the wooly earth
Comfortable for what it's worth
Speak thy name - punishment without the shame
A tree, a limb, a twig - simple as a whirligig
Aquinas says he knows
Artemis draws her bow
Aquinas says he knows
An arrow flies away
Proof's in the pudding pound - nose like a baying hound
Children in his image made - certainty amidst the fade
Chill the unwilling flesh - never let it know the crèche
Words always stay the hand - buried in creator's land
Aquinas says he knows
Artemis draws her bow
Aquinas says he knows
An arrow flies away
Hey God bone?
Leave this fragile world alone
Hey God bone?
Just leave my fragile world alone
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Epilogue
03:06
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Bang! There's the starting gun
Did you run, run, run, run, run?
See! The world has passed you by
Did you even try, try, try?
Watch! As the bitter grows,
From a seedling to a tree
So, here's your epilogue
Where the story ends, you're free
Read us - read us - read us - read us -
Read us - read us dry
Born down -- got to make it work
These sounds -- got to make them work
Born down -- got to make it work
These sounds -- got to make them work
Hey! Were your friends all there?
Did they pat you on the back?
Sure, now here's your epilogue
Just place it in the stack
Read us - read us - read us - read us -
Read us - read us dry
Born down -- got to make it work
These sounds -- got to make them work
Born down -- got to make it work
These sounds -- got to make them work
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5. |
Crown Shyness
03:26
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make a little light
beneath the trees
their trembling knees
far from oversight
teeth are gone
so help the dawn
to build the shining lines
so vast, so vast
we'll build the shining lines
so vast, so vast
there are many ways to make a home
searching for a place we've never known
there are many ways to make a home
dreaming of a place we've never known
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Paint the world with liquid gray,
Drag us through another day
Are we wrong? Are we wrong?
Tell yourself we’re better off,
Just ignore that nagging cough
Hey ho, let's drown the workers
Hey ho, let's make them pay
Hey ho, let's drown the workers
Hey ho, let's start today
Water's up around your ears,
Tell us all your darkest fears
Are we wrong? Are we wrong?
Hey ho, let's drown the workers
Hey ho, let's make them pay
Hey ho, let's drown the workers
Hey ho, let's start today
Sing for your king (can't hear you!)
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7. |
Dewclaws to the Dawn
02:34
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Bright sunshine day
Pulls me away
Do we decide
When we're alive?
Warten sie hier
Hilfe kommt
Wir sin freunde
Sie sind sicher
Run, save yourself
No one here dares help
Strange how they see
No life in me
Warten sie hier
Hilfe kommt
Wir sin freunde
Sie sind sicher
Our dewclaws to the dawn
Faces to the wind
Stateless, sober, and stale
Warten sie hier
Hilfe kommt
Wir sin freunde
Sie sind sicher
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8. |
Sentimental Traces
02:12
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Make a little room for the aged ones
You can clearly see that they've come and gone
Spare a tiny slice from your golden cake
The dam is overflowing, and sure to break
Say a soft prayer in the chilly bed
Chained and humble 'fore men long dead
Sentimental traces, real life debris
Track me down, you can't catch me
Occidental spaces, soft and round
Put them through their paces, not profound
The Trumpeters of Dawn on a verdant lawn
Practicing the parts until their lip is gone
Polishing the bars of the Pearly Gates
Working off the clock 'neath the hands of fate
Sentimental traces, real life debris
Track me down, you can't catch me
Occidental spaces, soft and round
Put them through their paces, not profound
Make a little room for the aged ones
You can clearly see that they've come and gone
Make a little room for the aged ones
You can clearly see that they've come and gone
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Ex Libris
01:56
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Oh, did you know,
That everything works out best
If you take it slow.
And hey, can we say, that happiness
Is only surely just a blink away.
Seems right
Seems right
Seems right
Seems right
Hurry, gather 'round today's soft target
Funny like a joke, a joke in sherbit
Hurry, gather 'round today's soft target
Funny like a life, a life in transit
Clap both your hands,
Buried up to our necks in the shifting sands.
And hey, can we say, that happiness
Is only surely just a blink away.
Seems right
Seems right
Seems right
Seems right
Hurry, gather 'round today's soft target
Funny like a joke, a joke in sherbit
Hurry, gather 'round today's soft target
Funny like a life, a life in transit
Funny like a life, a life in transit
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10. |
K.V.D.V.
01:59
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Aunt Magnesia
Built a solid fence
Bought a skinny rabbit
Named him Seven Pence
K.V.D.V
Waving goodbye
They're waving goodbye
Waving goodbye
They're waving goodbye
Straight-back Alan
Married to the land
Ordered steak and whiskey
Hid his withered hand
K.V.D.V
Waving goodbye
They're waving goodbye
Waving goodbye
They're waving goodbye
The plots are full up -- full up to the brim
K.V.D.V
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I dub this ride "too little, too late,"
A heap of ashes on a golden plate
Come on brother, look at me now
Gonna pop the cork for your final bow
Pop that cork for your final chow...
Hey ho, let's drown the workers
Hey ho, let's make them pay
Hey ho, let's drown the workers
Hey ho, let's start today
Service with a smile in the shadow of the Wall
Pour yourself a drink, pour one for us all
Pour yourself a drink, pour one for us all
Hey ho, let's drown the workers
Hey ho, let's make them pay
Hey ho, let's drown the workers
Hey ho, let's start today
Sing for your king (One more time!)
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