1. |
Electric Birds
04:38
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There's an empty seat next to mine
Rinning out of feeling, I'm running low on time
There's electric birds in the air tonight
and they fly for you through a starlit sky
A flicker through my chemistry
A flash of black with an ounce of green
I searched for affection inside my dreams
and I found things I wish I hadn't seen
I can live on love, but can love live on
long enough
There's an empty space inside my brain
that you try to fill but always fail
You pull until my hearstrings moan
and almost move this muscle of stone
The birds return with newfound hope
Sing I must manage, I will cope
Under my pillow, over my head
I keep your bleeding heart inside my bed
I can live on love, but can love live on
long enough
No, it will never last
It will never hold
With your cursed cries
you froze my soul
to ice
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2. |
Asshole
03:38
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I look down on my feet
and see I'm standing on sea
all black beneath
when you're not here with me
I know I'm worth
my weight in dirt
I will dissolve
in deep waters
I'm an asshole darling, but I hide it well
and you'll never notice, it's impossible to tell
So hold on to me, I'll hold on to you
Though I'll never see what you see in me
And we'll reach from the highest bottle on the shelf
And we'll drink, until we can't stand up by ourselves
But while you sleep I'll drill the holes
This ship will sink close to shore
That's how you know it's me
That's how you know who I am
I'll be tearing at the walls, I'll be screwing up your plans
but hold on to me, I'll hold on to you
Though I'll never see what you see in me
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3. |
Bitter Fruit
04:58
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Hold it in your hand
Freshly picked from the oldest plant
Grown deep in the woods
Where we went but never should
I take the bitter fruit, the heartache starts again
I take the bitter fruit, the heartache never ends
We picked them up piece by piece
Indecent feelings that lay broken at our feet
Exploded outcome of the violent release
I shot you down
I shot you down
Hold it in your hand
Poison, tasteless, from the coldest land
Grown in restless sleep
Too dear to waste but too sick to keep
I take the bitter fruit, the heartache starts again
I take the bitter fruit, the heartache never ends
We picked them up piece by piece
Indecent feelings that lay broken at our feet
Exploded outcome of the violent release
I shot you down
I shot you down
You're frozen in mind in your perfect fall down
Then you'll lay still for a thousand winters
I wait around just to see it through
It's the perfect end, it's the perfect sound
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4. |
Autumn Leaf
04:09
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Earth spun faster than I could do
Will I float like an autumn leaf away from you
Hands can hold on a little while
My cracked smile could accompany your sigh
All these words inside of me
Never had the courage to set them all free
Hold me hard because I'm fading fast
Pull me close because my future has become my past
Earth spun faster than I could do
Will I float like an autumn leaf away from you
All these words inside of me
Never had the courage to set them all free
So you never want to see me again
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5. |
Evil
04:06
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They were striking out
Taking me by storm
Breaking up the padlocks, burning down my home
Oh such evil, I can't be responsible
when there's just no hope for people
There's just no hope for people
(wait)
What is your great talent?
Your great revelation fragment that just
upped you even classes?
There's just nothing that can back it
And I know the hole in your heart
takes the shape of an alligator
When there's nothing left to want
you start wanting less for other people
And I wish that I could change your mind
I'm evil
You're evil
I was striking out
Taking them by storm
Breaking up the padlocks, burning down your home
Oh such evil, you can't be responsible
when there's just no hope for people
There's just no hope for people
So what is your great talent?
Your great revelation fragment that just
upped you even classes?
There's just nothing that can back it
And I know the hole in your heart
takes the shape of a shark
Sorrow will fill your pockets with stone
It's easy just to let go
I'm evil
You're evil
And I wish that I could change your mind
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6. |
Waxwing
03:55
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Waxwing, fly high, nothing can hurt you now
Fly away south, it's daylight-saving time
Carry my love and keep it warm
for I'm sure it won't last this winters storm
Come back in the spring and give my love back to me
wrapped in a seashell, set it down carefully
Hold it to my ear and let it haunt my memory
Every century needs it's misery
Well, we'll have plenty when they make love in a factory
(I'm coming up to you now)
Let the knife scrape the bone
Drop your heart like a stone
Falling on the pieces, the shards, the shreds of reason
I'm throwing rocks at the birds
hoping your one gets hurt and
drops your seashell to the earth
So I can steal your love from you
Steal your love from you
I never thought I was like them, but then again
I never had a chance to sin until now
(I'm coming up to you now)
Every century needs it's misery
Well, we'll have plenty when they make love in a factory
I'll live in exile on an island
When I learn true love is an asylum
In a beach-shack by the ocean
I'll come back when you give me your devotion
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7. |
Oh Hanna
04:27
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At the end of the road
you were with me on the phone
and you asked me what went wrong
I couldn't tell you, but I came so close
Now you'll never know
Oh Hanna
You will never understand
It was my mistake
What an ass I made of myself
in that mist of rage
in that new strange shape
in that teenage heartache
Oh Hanna
How I left your land
and I ran from love
for so many years after that
And I wrote 600 sad songs
that became 600 sad soldiers
fighting a wave
Building a barricade
But nothing can stop that
nothing can stop that pain
Now you'll never know
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8. |
The Titans Goblet
02:48
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Nothings what it seems
My heart is slightly softer than rock
Something in the breeze
Rearranging mountaintops
I know I have to leave
I know I have to leave
The titans goblet
rising at my feet
A hanging garden
a place where I can be
Though it's making sence
emotion bypass my defence
The parting of my friends
the world inside a cameralens
I know I have to leave
I know I have to leave
Though you can explain
I just can't believe
I want to burn the old world down
assemble all your broken dreams
I know I have to leave
I know I have to leave
The titans goblet
rising at my feet
A hanging garden
a place where I can be
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9. |
Your Foreign Life
05:02
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Rivers run around my mind
as I peek into your foreign life
Lowlife people pray for their souls
Some fucker takes their hearts out and throws them
hard on the floor
So throw all you have
and come fly with me to our homeland
It won't take much thought
It's what takes us apart
It's what takes us apart
Give me brighter skies, give me brighter skies
Give me better ways to waste my time
Assort the words, assemble the rhymes
But they can't capture what's on my mind
Birds pick up the scattered crumbs
The myth could not outdo the sum of the misery
that you find on these streets
So throw all you have
and come fly with me to our homeland
It won't take much thought
It's what takes us apart
It's what takes us apart
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10. |
Altitude Sickness
05:45
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Sing to me
about mountains and rivers flowing
Sing to me
about anything
Sing to me
about rainstorms and beautiful lightning
Sing to me
about anything
This thing is a poison, it spreads like a flame
and I'm calling it out but it don't have a name
So I laugh at the ceiling, I'm laughing at you
while you push me out windows for pulling your tooth
But I, I will be back before the end
To pull you back up, halt the descent
This weather is so strange but I'll be OK in the end
It's just a fork in the road
A question of control
Sing to me
about good life and dark halls brightening
Sing to me
about anything
I catch a glimpse of the things that we saw
when we climbed up this distance to get where we are
but now I can't remember those fields of green
since I fed all my memories into my bad dreams
Now they glow in the furnace like some sort of fuel
and the feelings they power are ugly and cruel
I catch your reflection in it's fleeting glow
and I pray for an ending, I wish you would go
But I, I will be back before the end
To pull you back up, halt the descent
This weather is so strange but I'll be OK in the end
It's just a fork in the road
A question of control
Sing to me
(I dreamt I was flying)
I dreamt I was flying inside a machine
but we cut off the cables and fell in the sea
Now we're stuck on the ocean, it's only us two
and we're floating on driftwood, don't know what to do
But I, I will be back before the end
To pull you back up, halt the descent
This weather is so strange but I'll be OK in the end
It's just a fork in the road
A question of control
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11. |
The Bright Future
04:53
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(All must progress
Everything must move on
Everything that's old will burn
and be forgotten)
Take me to the fire
Take me to the fire
The bright future is burning my skin
The bright future is burning my skin
Take me to the fire
Take me to the fire
Everyone I love will be there
I will follow after
I will follow after
And I'll take you out
And I'll show you around
And I'll claim your heavy heart as mine
Take me to the fire
Take me to the fire
The memories I want gone for good
They'll disappear, they'll burn like wood
Take me to the fire
Take me to the fire
Everyone I love will be there
I will follow after
I will follow after
And I'll take you out
And I'll show you around
And I'll claim your heavy heart as mine
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