1. |
IF FOUND CALL
04:02
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High noon,
Asleep at the pagoda
With a scared goose
And trees all filled with ibis feathers
Some pupper, startled at your arrival, he
Just wanted somewhere to leave his leash for a while
I slightly cried for his cause
And all the dirt in his paws
But I bet he don't sleep with visions of armageddon
Just wants a stranger to meet
And ended up at your feet
And I think I see the appeal that he found so quickly
Wet boots
The people at the protest are
Turning blue
Wishing Bernie Sanders was there
I hid my face under a blanket, and
Hoped all of the heroes would come out of hiding
'Cause even vultures can fly
Once their wings have been dried
I bet they don't sleep with visions of armageddon
Just dine on sushi and fries
And Argentinian wine
Then wake up early for worms in the arboretum
It's uncommon
All the ways you love me
The PDA is rude and embarrassing, too
Stick and pokes are fading from her fingers, while
We adorn a mango upon Delicate Steve
Then caught the launch at the beach
Heard the sandpipers retreat
I bet they thought they'd awoken to armageddon
Then floated half of a lime
Stolen Peruvian wine
And all the makings of a poorly funded indie romance
So give me damaged careers
Drop a wrench in the gears
Laugh it off while the factory begins to crumble
We splash a masterpiece there
And I'll pretend not to care
That every mural will shine
And then die in the sun
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2. |
MADE.4.IT
04:40
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You were there when the wave did hit
At the second floor lift
Of the Hard Rock Casino
Where all of the chips floated up to the surface
Past all the prizes and apathetic employees
And then shorted out every slot machine
Where the retirees started to scream in their Sunday best
You and me stripped down in the street
Turned to salt in the sauna
Left nothing but a poem on the wall
It's your life
You were made for it
You were made for it
It wasn't made for anyone else
It's your life
You were made for it
You were made for it
It wasn't made for anyone else
Light a fire, you're the ambassador's son
So run, run, Rudolph
Run until the fun runs out
Find a way to be calm and behave
Get a job shoveling hay in Scandinavian summers, and then
Save your luck, delay the minute your times up
Walk a little slower every morning on your way back home
Pass a tune that you already knew
Hear it hummed by commuters and Hungarian holy men, well
It's your life
You were made for it
You were made for it
It wasn't made for anyone else
It's your life
You were made for it
You were made for it
It wasn't made for anyone else
Made for it
Made for it
But we could leave in a time machine
And be right where we needed to be
At any minute and then
Stow away with a dinosaur egg
From the golden age of reptilian mothers, who
Smashed their teeth into a million pieces
For the paleontologist pleased to discover
A crack in the egg, another minute away
'Til the museum awakes to a break from the inside out
It's your life
You were made for it
You were made for it
It wasn't made for anyone else
It's your life
You were made for it
You were made for it
It wasn't made for anyone else
Made for it
Made for it
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3. |
ORL
06:56
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The cops got the call
Like nails on a blackboard
I was asleep in the midst of a back rub
Holding it in til the dream woke you up quick
It was five in the morning when they finally escaped
To the latin bodega next to your old place
Where they hid in the women's room
Hid between rows full of plastic bags
Filled with sugar and sadness
Don't leave me alone tonight
Don't let me stay inside out of fear
When there's candles drying out faces of tears
By the thousands
Cuz they're with us in memory
They're with us in Paris and New York
They witnessed it once before
And that should be, well, more than enough
But we're told to be vigilant
Totally aware
Of the enemy's face, wherever it appears
So I'm keeping my cuffs up
Keepin' 'em arms length away
But then all that I see
When I look over my shoulder
Is strangers joining hands with each other
In harmony
Proud to be human
Proud to be one in the same
At the end of the day
Your tragedy tells you that you're the only one
But we're not the only ones left
You look at me as if we're the only ones
But just turn around, though, babe
See the crowd at the lake
They all ache like you
Say the same thing
Don't leave me alone tonight
Don't let me stay inside out of fear
When there's candles drying out faces of tears by the thousands
Cuz they're with us in memory
They're with us in Prague and the Ukraine
The colors that spring when it rains
Are brighter than any cloud full of hate could contain
[Don't leave me alone tonight]
They're with us in Paris and New York
The colors that spring when it rains
Are brighter than any cloud full of hate could contain
Don't leave me alone tonight
Don't let me stay inside out of fear
When there's candles drying out faces of tears
By the thousands
They're with us in memory
With us in memory
In the colors that spring
When it rains
When it rains
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4. |
CROSSING GUARD
03:37
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On your way to your education
Packed your immunization card
On your way to your education
Swapped CDs with the crossing guard
Hold my hand wait for that blinking color, then move
Holy my hand on your way to the institution
On our way we find information
All we want is a patient teacher
On our way misread information
All we need is a patient teacher
Hold your hand up
Don't fall for the sins of cynics
Dig the indents
Inscribed in Rosetta scribbles
Hold my hand wait for that blinking color, then move
Hold your head up and stare down the institution
I'm a fortune teller
I'm a dealer of art
I'm a figure skater
I'm a crossing guard
All the gears are broken
On what appears to be
Temporary machines
When the war is over
Meet me at the border
Where your bracelets buried
In a secret corner
I'm a gear that's broken
And together we'll be
Temporary machines
Temporary machines
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5. |
NEW BREED
04:32
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[Brian Eno found you in a park]
It was cool when the world was a pool
You could jump right in and get out whenever you wanted to
And always someone to hold your hand in the deep end
But we were wrong about the atomic bomb
And now an eagle's shitting on the White House lawn
In a blonde wig with Chinese fireworks every holiday weekend
Sticks a flag in your back, throws a black cat
Where you were sleepin
Here it comes,
Another daily dose of your unnatural remedy
Here it comes again
Sleep was a joke
You wet your beak with a rolled up doctor's note
Then went lookin' for more
Flat on the floor
Spanish radio in the static of my 404
And your head to the source
Stepped out between hurricane debris on the beach
To occupy the empty lifeguard seat
While you OD'd on a micro dose on your first date
And told me "I like pop, hip hop, and karaoke-ing yacht rock,
Any little moment I could lose in a tune
I could use to bust open the blues
Or punch through the static
It can be bougie and bad, or spooky, sad, and dramatic"
Here it comes
Another bogus dose of your unnatural remedy
Here it comes again
Here it comes
Another bogus dose of your unnatural remedy
Here it comes again
Sat up from the dream
Somewhere between click tracks and drum machines
That died in the 60's
But we're accidentally born
Like Spanish radio in the static of my 404
And then head to the source
Spiked and sparkling
New breed born on the spit of your theremin kiss
Left the lightning on
Scared or sacred
New breed born on the split of your paradigm shift
Found it frightening, ah
New breed born
New breed born
New breed born
New breed born
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6. |
HEAVEN CALLED BLUE
04:44
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How in Italian can I compliment your fashion sense
Well I read the propaganda piece about your pettiness
Then left the room
Left the country too
I detest all of that vague romantic shit
Cause it rained the morning of the solar eclipse
But then that afternoon we stood
In the shadow of the moon
Now I've heard tales of all those lava trails
Between your rocky mantle and your liquid core
But I still believe
This world is hollow underneath
I still believe
Nothing is beautiful up close, I know, so
Send me a wish to be made into something new
Send me a heaven called blue in the likeness
Of everything that we used to know
Before we'd grown
Up and into indifference
I hit shuffle, it was Simple Twist of Fate
Sleeping alone while the tarantula escaped to no applause
Now I can ease into that breathing machinery
And slowly become every new idea you're humming,
The cold repeating nothing,
The error in the glaze,
The ordinary kindness on the silence that remains on every face
How many part ones went unaccompanied?
Send me a wish to be made
Into something I knew
Send me a heaven that grew on your shoulders
Just enough to bare all we need
When days repeat
A thousand forms of impermanence
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7. |
QUIK/DOPA
05:01
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Quicksilver and dopamine
We plugged our noses and swallowed the rock
Quick trips on the elegance of effort
Patient for the panic to drop
One hand afloat upon the ether
Fascinated at your device
Who cares what monster is born
I'll be gone before it shakes to life
Quick trips on the elevator
Quietly panicking at the creeping machine
Lurched down a foot below the exit
And your face turned the color of cream
Punched every button with your fist
Until a tear appeared on your face
On your belly crawling like an alligator
Headed for the fire escape
You'll die tryin' to fake your death
Little healthy skeptic
Gonna set a little salt on my stache
Before the nearest exit
You'll die tryin' to fake your death
Little healthy skeptic
Gonna set a little salt on my stache
Before the nearest exit
Quicksilver and dopamine
Quicksilver and dopamine
Hard liquor is made to be
Blown in flames out of the roof of your mouth
I'm in range and trying to explain
Why the manager has started to shout
All night spinning like a satellite
Morse code, hip hop, and jazz
Earth born free range alien
Devouring every planet ya pass
You'll die tryin' to fake your death
Little healthy skeptic
Gonna set a little salt on my stache
Before the nearest exit
You'll die tryin' to fake your death
Little healthy skeptic
Gonna set a little salt on my stache
Before the nearest exit
Anybody can see that your
Pleasure can't be trusted no more
When ya smashed the limousine
Choked the driver out with the auxiliary cord
Anybody can see that your
Pleasure can't be trusted, no no no
When ya smashed the limousine
Choked Prince Charming out with the auxiliary cord
Quicksilver and dopamine
Quicksilver and dopamine
Quicksilver and dopamine
Quicksilver and dopamine
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8. |
+REPRISE
02:34
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Anybody can see
Anybody can see
Anybody can see
Anybody can see
Spiked and sparkling
New breed born on the spit of your theremin kiss
Left the lightning on
Scared or sacred
New breed born on the split of your paradigm shift
Found it frightening, ah
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