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I am a haunted swimming pool
I am emptied out and drained
My capacity remains unchanged
I am a haunted swimming pool
I am emptied out and drained
My capacity remains unchanged
I don’t know the source of my faith
but I know I will be full again
Come on in and take a swim
I am a burning church
I am artifice and years collapsing
I have not yet become all that I will be
I am a burning church
I am artifice and years collapsing
I have not yet become all that I will be
And when my body has been spent my soul here will remain
Graffiti on a wall for all eyes to see
This only feels like the death of everything
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2. |
The Calendar Song
02:19
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Wish I was going someplace tropical
Wish I was going to Portugal
I want to walk the streets of Oporto
I want to be someone that I don’t know
Floating blind on a highway bed
Sleep speeding towards oblivion
Lay me down in a sea of dreams
Take me away from where I’ve been
Obelisk overlooking thee
Dirty river smells chemical sweet
Sun shines down on Glasgow greens
Feel the future coming fast towards me
Northern soul on a midnight boat
Play the slots, hope to win your wants
I’m thinking about jumping overboard
I take you with me everywhere I go
Crossing days of a calendar map
How long you been gone?
How long you got left?
Only a fool would live their life like that
Only a fool would live their life like that
Crossing days of a calendar map
How long you been gone?
How long you got left?
Only a fool would live their life like that
Only a fool would live their life like that
Waste your days counting what you’ve got left
What you never had and what you’ll never get back
Only a fool would live their life like that
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3. |
Shelter In Place
01:58
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Fra Angelico Blue,
All my love for you
My own private paradise,
Quarantine is very nice
Sunrise over Gibraltar
Some fucking rock, some fucking hotel
Bora, Bora, Linda Vista
Give me refuge in your shelter
Give me refuge in your shelter
Shock loss and sugar water,
I’ll be better come tomorrow
Double espresso and a croissant,
All day poolside under the palm fronds
Is the air cleaner to breathe?
Can you drink the water too?
There’s always someone dying to leave,
Where you’re dying to get to
Sunrise over Gibraltar
Some fucking rock, some fucking hotel
Bora, Bora, Linda Vista
Give me refuge in your shelter
Give me refuge in your shelter
Give me refuge in your shelter
Give me refuge in your shelter
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4. |
Return To Oz
01:50
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Smudge and blazes!
Green, green, green
I may be lifeless
But I value my hollow
Hormone wash
I’ve been chasing you like a goddamn maniac
Forget about your friends
They can’t help you now
Petrified polymorphs
I’m tired of the games we’re playing
Of many excellent qualities,
thinking has never been one of them
Can’t stop me now
Got to get going home
Take me home
Smudge and blazes!
Green, green, green
I may be lifeless
But I value my hollow
Smudge and blazes!
Green, green, green
I may be lifeless
But I value my hollow
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5. |
The Mountain Song
03:01
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Waking up to another lonely day
All my bridges burned and my friends are enemies
Feels like there’s always going to be something that I’m missing
What can you do with all this time?
Spend the rest of your years getting drunk and getting high
How long can you afford to pay this cost of living?
For one more high between me and you,
There’s not one goddamn thing I wouldn’t do
Worth all the busted up teeth and the bad tattoos
Throw me out like trash when it’s over
Chew me up and spit me out dry
Chew me up and spit me out dry
It’s a cold dark room and an empty bed
You’re staring out the window wondering what the fuck happened?
Sitting at the table you eat your eggs and drink your coffee in silence
I can only see one way out of this mess
No one’s coming with me, sure as fuck ain’t coming back
When I said I love you I only meant as much as I know how to
For one more high between me and you,
There’s not one goddamn thing I wouldn’t do
Worth all the busted up teeth and the bad tattoos
Throw me out like trash when it’s over
Chew me up and spit me out dry
Chew me up and spit me out dry
Coming down the mountain
Coming down the mountain
Coming down the mountain dry
Coming down the mountain
Coming down the mountain
Coming down the mountain dry
I’m all fucked up
But I’m alive
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Lost track of the time
How long have I been here?
Lost track of the time
How many tries have I failed?
Broken mug of many mornings
Wipe the grime off your walls
But don’t breathe it in
Supernatural possession
You are forever possessing
Supernatural possession
You are forever possessing
I’m having a hard time having a fun time
I’m having a hard time finding faith in myself
When the strange becomes familiar
And there’s no coming back from where you’ve been
Supernatural possession
You are forever possessing
Supernatural possession
You are forever possessing
Come sail on a spectral sea
Throw away all your hopes and dreams
Supernatural possession
Supernatural possession
Supernatural possession
You are forever possessing
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7. |
Hanging Tree
02:20
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Babies born unto apocalypse,
Got no vision, got no taste for death
You can’t trust a man with hair like that
Too much deception, no self conscious
We’ve got no pity, got no purpose
ain’t got no future, what’s the point in it?
God is good and God is great
Now get the fuck out of the USA
Christ like the American way,
A burning crucifix and a hanging tree,
A burning crucifix and a hanging tree
Learn to beg, learn to beg harder
Pray for walls, pray for slaughter
We don’t want to die quietly
We want to fuck shit up and cause a scene
Twit, twit, twitting from a golden tower
Ain’t got no soul to sell and that’s your power
God is good and God is great
Now get the fuck out of the USA
Christ like the American way,
A burning crucifix and a hanging tree,
Automatic weapons and white supremacy,
Protected privilege without apology,
Liberty and justice for the wealthy
God is good and God is great
Now get the fuck out of the USA
Christ like the American way,
A burning crucifix and a hanging tree,
A burning crucifix and a hanging tree,
A burning crucifix and a hanging tree
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8. |
Please Leave
01:51
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How can I convince you to leave?
There’s nothing we can’t get where we’re going
How can I convince you to leave?
There’s nothing we can’t get where we’re going
Do you want to sleep easy?
Do you want to go party by the pool?
Do you want to go home?
Do you want to go home?
I don’t know where I belong
How can I convince you to leave?
There’s nothing we can’t get where we’re going
How can I convince you to leave?
There’s nothing we can’t get where we’re going
Give me pointed purpose
Let me have share in the direction
Unrehearsed emotion,
Unrehearsed emotion,
It doesn’t matter where you go
Feels apocalyptic
It’s survival of the fittest
Cross the finish line
Cross the finish line
Promise of your paradise
How can I convince you to leave?
There’s nothing we can’t get where we’re going
How can I convince you to leave?
There’s nothing we can’t get where we’re going
There’s nothing we can’t get where we’re going
There’s nothing we can’t get where we’re going
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9. |
Why Kant I Be You?
02:32
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Is this what you expected?
The total of your want?
In the freedom of motion
Always leaving behind or gone
Sleeping in a stranger's bed,
What strange dreams have we shared?
Are you cut adrift?
Lost yourself to nowhere?
(Lost somewhere in between?)
If I could be anything but me
If I could be anything but me
If I could be anything but me
I would be you
I would be you
On the mass pike
Lost in conversation
What’s the radio playing
How long can you keep your nerve?
Feel the distance collapse
I know the in-between
Are you held in the grip
Lost yourself in the scene
If I could be anything but me
If I could be anything but me
If I could be anything but me
I would be you
I would be you
I would be you
I would be you
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10. |
Ice Cream Song
01:42
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Adjust your volume,
Open your head,
Heaven descends,
Sherbet yellow,
Sherbet blue,
Sherbet orange ,
all for you, only you
Magpies on the lawn down rose petal roads
It was a licorice black night
There was a ripe red strawberry moon
and I wanted to swallow the whole damn dry lake,
Seas of green and amber waves
I wanted to make it all a part of me
I wanted to take it with me when I have to leave
I wanted to make it all a part of me
I wanted to take it with me when I have to leave
Read the Mandarins,
Eat a clementine,
Lose your fucking mind,
Blackberry bushes in bloom,
Fruit grown wild on beds of your decay
Birch tree canopy covers up the sky from me
In the morning I listen to you sing,
It puts the heavens underneath my feet
All the continents divide,
break up and float into the sky
and I remain contained by this body
When the hand comes for me I will not bring with me any need
When the hand takes hold to leave I will give to it my full release
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11. |
The Magic Point
01:45
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In an emerald city, in a bitter broken dream,
In an emerald city, in a bitter broken dream,
decaying by a second hand sea,
a neon apocalypse became the death of me
Driver North on LSD
Where 41 hooks into the dream
That’s where I’ll leave what’s left of me
In an emerald city, in a bitter broken dream,
In an emerald city, in a bitter broken dream,
decaying by a second hand sea,
a neon apocalypse became the death of me
Driver North on LSD
Where 41 hooks into the dream
That’s where I’ll leave what’s left of me
In an emerald city, in a bitter broken dream,
In an emerald city, in a bitter broken dream,
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Blood & thunder
South wind coming up Western
Sunrise on Gold Coast
Moon over Boundary
Blood & thunder
South wind coming up Western
Simple as heaven,
Your love is all I need
Seat 36 D,
A stranger with a face that reminds me
of who I used to be and
What I used to need?
Maybe I still want it, maybe that’s still me
Blood & thunder
South wind coming up Western
Sunrise on Gold Coast
Moon over Boundary
Blood & Thunder
South wind coming up Western
Simple as heaven,
Your love is all I need
I’d rather have a great wide open up in front of me
Then a big nothing fill my heart with its need
When you give in and quit
there’s a power to be found in it
Blood & Thunder
South wind coming up Western
Simple as heaven,
Your love is all I need
It’s as simple as heaven
Your love is all I need
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Goodbye and good riddance
Goodbye and good riddance
To old leather boots
That fit both our feet
Your San Diego address
Ripped up and thrown into the trash
Ripped up and thrown into the trash
Goodbye and good riddance
Goodbye and good riddance
To living room rugs
The floors under our feet
The pictures that hung on the walls
Boxed up and given to thrift stores
Boxed up and given to thrift stores
Goodbye and good riddance
Goodbye and good riddance
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14. |
Old Friend (Stay Alive)
02:17
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Say goodbye while you still can
Fight against the hopelessness
Keep rising up until the pain is gone
Don’t make any promises
Old friend, I’m losing my mind
Watching the days turn into years
Watching the years burn dry
Please stay alive
Please stay alive
Please stay alive
Please survive
Build a world inside a shell
I’m feeling just as hollowed out
I don’t belong
Anywhere I go
Always the outsider
Old friend, I’m losing my mind
Watching the days turn into years
Watching the years burn dry
Please stay alive
Please stay alive
Please stay alive
Please survive
Please survive
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