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Utopiate
03:28
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We are encoded at birth
to feel what we are told to feel
Proof of your existence is pain
Proof of your existence is pleasure
We are encoded at birth
to feel what we are told to feel
Violence in silence, we breathe
Soaked in their bitter apathy
Proof of your existence is pain
Proof of your existence is pleasure
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Long Way Down
03:16
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"I'm taking both sides
Man, I'm taking both sides
I can't afford to lose any friends over this"
Yeah, you've got somewhere to hide
For now, you're free
Man, when you take both sides
You're losing me
'cause it's a long way down from the underground
Maybe this time you could compromise
between your reputation and the truth
You want to take both sides
while you've got somewhere to hide
I bet that house of cards will soon catch fire
and burn
and burn
'cause it's a long way down from the underground
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3. |
Keep Away
04:27
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When your love comes home in a body bag
or the memories start to fade
When the man with the gun draws faster than you can
or the pages burn away
We'll play keep away from the sand man
til the bad dreams are all gone
Stay inside, stay alive
while the night just rolls along
We'll find safety in the moon light
with your hands still cold in mine
Everyone else can go to Hell
because I'm drawing a line in your dreams
around you
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4. |
(Would) You Want To
03:48
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[narrated by a television]
"You see in me the things that you are not
You see in me the things you haven't got
The life you want comes at a price that you can't pay
Would you really want to if you had your way?
Would you want to?
Pain fills me, yet I feel nothing at all
I'll teach you just the same, to build your wall
The life you want comes at a price that you can't pay
Would you really want to if you had your way?
Would you want to?"
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Groundhog Daze
04:09
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Are you running away
from all the things that they say
or are you running away from yourself?
I'm out of breath
running from irrelevance
like an avalanche bearing down
You can run, run, run til the sun comes up
It's hard times in the fast lane
because the weather never changes in cyberspace
It's hard times in the fast lane
when I'm spinning, I'm spinning, I'm spinning
I'm out of breath
running from irrelevance
like an avalanche bearing down
You can run, run, run til the sun comes up
Spinning, feel sick and I want to get off
right now
I'm out of breath
running from irrelevance
like an avalanche bearing down
You can run, run, run til the sun comes up
Spinning, feel sick and I want to get off
right now
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Landmine
02:22
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I've seen you coming around my bend
A long-lost and fair-weather friend
How long you gonna stay this time?
Stepping on my toes like a landmine
Fly away
These days, you're a shadow on my wall
The substance makes you barely there at all
How much do you need this time?
Stepping on my toes like a landmine
Fly away
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All Hallows
05:21
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Summertime in Augusta never seemed so blue
Blue as you, and me, and us
Hiding out in the bedroom
with nothing on and nothing to do
Nowhere to go and nothing to lose
Because Thanksgiving's just a lie
and Christmas always makes me cry
I just want to go somewhere
where every day is Halloween
Honestly, you'd never know it meant so much to me
More than I let on and more than I'd ever show
Thirty-one days in the month of my birth
Time that I've been given to walk on this earth with you
Oh, how the years fly by
and still I know that when I die
I just want to go somewhere
where every day is Halloween
The road rumbles under my feet
Kicking hard, pushing on
The black cape flaps in the wind
Skeleton mask, and Summer's almost gone
Skateboarding down Walton Way
carries me to a sunset from which I fear
we will never recover
Loved ones die
Months wilt away
Moments pass
I have no say
but this - this is forever
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Disastronaut
05:22
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...all we say can come true
Nightmares are dreams, too
Was there a world before all this?
Was it blue?
What was it like?
I'm starting to forget
Was the sky ever blue?
Nightmares are dreams, too
Waking in the light
Back seat view of time
with its brake line cut
Barreling toward nothing
All this time, all these ways
All we say can come true
Nightmares are dreams, too
Was the sky ever blue?
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