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Getaway
Everyone's a critic looking back up the river
Every boat is leaking in this town
Everybody's thinking that they'll all be delivered
Sitting in a box like lost and found
But I found my place and it's alright
We all searching for our better way
Got yours off my plate, it's alright
I got my own way to believe
Find a lighthouse in the dark stormy weather
We all could use a sedative right not
Holy rollers sittin with their backs to the middle
All hands on deck, sinking is the bow
And if you wanna have to pray, it's alright
We all be thinking with our different brains
Get yours off my plate, it's alright
I got my own way to believe
It's ok
Sometimes you find yourself
Having to put all your faith
In no faith
Mine is mine, and yours won't take its place
Now make your getaway
Science says we're making love like the lizards
Try and say that fossils ain't profound
Simon says that we are not allowed to consider
Simon says "Stand-up. Sit-down. You're out!"
But I found my place, and it's alright
Bearing witness to some stranger days
Get yours off my plate, it's alright
I got my own ways to believe
It's ok
Sometimes you find yourself being told to change your ways
There's no way
Mine is mine and yours won't take its place
Now make your getaway
It's ok
Sometimes you find yourself
Having to put all your faith
In no faith
Mine is mine, and yours won't take its place
Now make your getaway
It's ok
Sometime you find yourself
Being told to change your ways
For Gods sake
Mine is mine and yours won't take its place
Now make your getaway
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Mind Your Manners
I've got an unfortunate feelin', I've been beaten down
I feel I don't believe and now the truth is coming out
What they've taken is more than a vow
They've taken your innocence and then they throw them on a burning fire
All along they're sayin' mind your manners
I caught myself believin' that I needed God
And if it's hard for some we sure could use it now
Try my patience, my patience tried
This world's no longer good enough that makes me wanna cry
All along they're sayin' mind your manners
Silence save him
Self-realized and metaphysically redeemed
May not live another life
May not solve a mystery
Right around the corner
Could be bigger than ourselves
We could will it to the sky
Or we could something else
No longer sayin' mind your manners
Always burning
Self-realized and metaphysically redeemed
May not live another life
May not solve a mystery
Right around the corner
Could be bigger than ourselves
We could will it to the sky
Or we could something else
Go to Heaven
That's swell
How do you like it
Livin' Hell
Go to Heaven
That's swell
How do you like it
Livin' Hell
Go to Heaven
That's swell
How do you like it
Livin' Hell
Livin' Hell!
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My Fathers Son
I come from a genius, I am my father's son
Yeah, too bad he was a psychopath and now I'm the next in line
Lonely nest dear mother, yes, surely she's a work of art
I never got top dollar, but she gave us all a star
Can I get a reprieve?
This gene pool don't hurt me
Can I beg a release
From the volunteer amputee?
From the moment I fell
I called on DNA
Why such betrayal
Got me tooth and nail
Yeah, how's about one conversation with nothing else left to be had
Oh, is this your long lost son, and he's never had dear old dad
I forget the insemination and for that I'm supposed to be glad
What a pity you left us so soon to climb your mountain of regret
Can I get a reprieve?
This gene pool dark and deep
Can I beg a release?
Can I volunteer amputee?
From the moment I fell
I called on DNA
Why such betrayal?
Oh I gotta set sail
Oh real bright light shining as you're trying to breathe in thin air
Cannot forget you're hiding collected wounds left unhealed
When every thought you're thinking sinks you darker than the new moon sky
The faraway lights rising in the whites of your eyes
Now father you're dead and gone and I'm finally free to be me
Thanks for all your dark gifts for which I've got no sympathy
I'm living in a walled-up place in the bounds of fifth symphony
Thanks for this and thanks for that, I gotta let go, learn to see legacy
Can I get a reprieve?
This gene pool don't hurt me
Can I beg a release?
Can I volunteer amputee?
From the moment I fell
I called on DNA
Why such betrayal
Oh I gotta set sail
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Sirens
Hear the sirens, hear the sirens
Hear the sirens, hear the circus, so profound
I hear the sirens more and more in this here town
Let me catch my breath to breathe and reach across the bed
Just to know were safe, I am a grateful man
The slightest bit of light and I can see you clear
I have to take your hand and feel your breath for fear this someday will be over
I pulled you close, so much to lose knowing that nothing lasts forever
I didn't care, before you were here
I danced in laughter with the ever after
But all things change, let this remain
Hear the sirens covering distance in the night
The sound echoing closer, will they come for me next time
For every choice, mistake I made, it's not my plan
To send you in the arms of another man
And if you choose to stay, I'll wait, I'll understand
It's a fragile thing this life we lead, if I think too much, I can get over
Whelmed by the grace, by which we live our lives with death over our shoulders
Want you to know, that should I go, I always loved you, held you high above, tru
e
I study your face, the fear goes away
It's a fragile thing this life we lead, if I think too much, I can get over
Whelmed by the grace, by which we live our lives with death over our shoulders
Want you to know, that should I go, I always loved you, held you high above, tru
e
I study your face, the fear goes away, the fear goes away, the fear goes away
The fear goes away
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Lightning Bolt
She comes on like a stone
But you dont know where from she was thrown
Like a burning meteor from miles high
Looking for a place to land
She said "Have you got yourself some sand?"
And whatever youd reply she took as yes
Now she comes out the deep
With her newly planted seeds and soon youre
Thrown down on your knees and then youll dig
And then before you know the weeds are obesely overgrown
With all the wild seeds she sows in your sleep
You gotta know youll never let her go
She's a lightning bolt!
Lightning bolt!
Lightning bolt!
Always something and never nothing
Isnt that the way were taught to be to be
Flipping through the worn out pages
And stages when you knew not who to be
Yeah Yeah
Until the lightning strike sets you free
You gotta know youll never let her go
She's a lightning bolt!
Lightning bolt!
Lightning bolt!
The crashing stormy waves erode her shoreline everyday
Until the castle of her ways turns to sand
She holds her lovely breast as her birds fall from her nest
Flying towards the great northwest
And with no repair in sight
There is no god with such might
As you open her world wide with such a view
And your death will soon arrive as she finally decides
That all her problems, they wont die with you
A-yeah! A-yeah! A-yeah!
Never let her go
Shes a lightning bolt
Never let her go
Shes true
She's rock 'n roll
She's a lightning bolt
Uncontrollable
Like you
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Infallible
Keep on locking your doors
Keep on building your floors
Keep on just as before
Pay disasters no mind
Didn't get you this time
No friends left at the crime
Our ship's come in and it's sinking
Of everything that's possible
In the hearts and minds of man
Somehow it is the biggest things
That keep on slipping right through our hands
By thinking we're infallible
Oh we are tempting fate instead
Time we best begin here at the ending
Want a third second chance
Put your faith in big hands
Pay no more than a glance
All good things come to an end
This could be good as it gets
How's the view from the fence
You think we've been here before
You are mistaken
Of everything that's possible
In the hearts and minds of man
When progress could be plausible
In the verse we curse ourselves
By thinking we're infallible
Oh we are tempting fate instead
Time we best begin here at the ending
Of everything that's possible
In the hearts and minds of man
Somehow it is the biggest things
That keep on slipping right through our hands
By thinking we're infallible
Oh we are tempting fate instead
Time we best begin here at the ending
Here at the ending
Keep on locking your doors
Keep on building your floors
Keep on just as before
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Pendulum
Can't know what's high
'Til you've been down so low
The future's bright,
Lit up with nowhere to go,
To and fro the pendulum throws
We are here and then we go
My shadow left me long ago
Understand what we don't know
This might pass
This might last
This may grow
Easy come and easy go
Easy left me a long time ago
I'm in the fire but I'm still cold
Nothing works works for me anymore
Ah ah ah ah ah
To and fro the pendulum throws
To and fro the pendulum throws
To and fro
To and fro
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Swallowed Whole
I can feel the dawn, I can feel the earth
I can feel the living all around
I can choose a path, I can choose a word
I can start the healing, Bring it now
Whispered songs inside the wind
Breathing in forgiveness
Like vibrations with no end
Feel the planet humming
What is clear far from the noise, gets swallowed whole
I can feel the sun, I can see the sound
I can set myself right hear and drown
I can feel the rush, I could clear the clouds
I could set the needles spinning love
I can hear the crash, I can feel the pound
I can feel the current pulling down
Whispered songs inside the wind
Breathing in forgiveness
Like vibrations with no end
Feel the planet humming
What is clear far from the noise, gets swallowed whole
With no quiet to be found
spirit lifted off the ground
and what lies beyond the grave
might be welcomed change
And will come, come what may
with no rest in peace
Until that day
I could choose a path, I could choose the word
I could start the healing, bring it now
I could be the sun, I could be the sound
I could set myself right here and drown
Whispered songs inside the wind
Breathing in forgiveness
And the chapter Ive not read
Turn the page
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Let The Records Play
When the Kingdom comes he puts the records on
and with his blistered thumb hits play
and with the volume up he goes and fills his cup
and lets the drummer drum take away the pain, the pain
Breaking, forsaken, whats that youre taken?
Bleeding the feeling, he lets the records play
I should the future dim
The cigarette lights in
the vaporizer green light grim
and when the shot glass talks he goes to listens up
until hes nice and numb again, again
Shaken, the breaking, not one for faking
the reeling is healing, he lets the records play,
theres wisdom in his ways
Ive been down and I fell so hard and far from grace
Ive been hurt and I still recall the flaws on her face
Ive been off but I'm up on my feet, my feet again
Shaken, forsaken, whats that youre taking?
Oh! The weeding, the feeling, he lets the records play
Shaken but breaking, not one for faking oh!
the reeling is healing, he lets the records play!
Oh, theres wisdom in his ways
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Sleeping By Myself
I should have know there was someone else
Now I'm alone I always kept it to myself
Now I believe in nothing
Not today as I move myself out of your sight
Oh I'll be sleeping by myself tonight
I could never go to noone else
The hurt don't show but who knows, time will tell
Now I believe in nothing but the pain
That I can't see this turning out right
Oh I'll be sleeping by myself tonight
Forever be sad and lonely
Forever never be the same
Oh I close my eyes and wait for a sign
Am I just waiting in vain?
Oh I close my eyes and wait for a sign
Am I just waiting in vain?
Oh, I believe in love and disaster
Sometimes the two are just the same
I'm beginning to see
What's left of me is gonna have to be free to survive
Oh, I'll be sleeping by myself tonight
I believe in nothing but the pain
And I can't see this turning out right
I'll be sleeping by myself
I'll be sleeping by myself
I'll be sleeping by myself tonight
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Yellow Moon
Here far away
One could feel the earth vibrate
Moon changing shape and shade
as we all do under its gaze
Yellow moon on the rise
Yellow moon on the rise
Round we go, where we stop no one knows
So tonight the moon I go
Yellow moon on the rise
An echo that rings a bullet unchained
one life, one grave joins the parade
At night the sky grows dark with fallen stars
who comes so far a headstone and grave
the colors turns grey, the black and white fades
Yellow Moon on the rise
Yellow Moon on the rise
Yellow Moon on the rise
Yellow Moon on the rise
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Future Days
If I ever were to lose you
I'd surely lose myself
Everything I have found dear
Ive not found by myself
Try and sometimes you'll succeed to make this man of me
All my stolen missing parts Ive no need for anymore
I believe and I believe cause I can see
Our future days, days of you and me
Back when I was feeling broken
I focused on a prayer, you came deep as in the ocean
Its something I cant hear
All the complexities and games, no one wins but somehow they're still played
All the missing crooked hearts they may die but in us they live on
I believe and I believe cause I can see
Our future days, days of you and me
When The hurricanes and cyclones rage
When winds turn dirt into dust
When floods they came and the tides they raised, ever closer became us
All the promises at sundown, I met them like the rest
All the demons used to come round I'm grateful now they've left
So persistent in my ways, Angel I am here to stay
No resistance, no alarms
Please this is just too good to be gone
I believe and I believe cause I can see
Our future days, days of you and me
You and me
Days of You and Me
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