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Take all that you
Wanted from me
I need nothing
We are not the same
Take me to the leader
Of this theater
Put a bullet
In my brain
What are we here for?
If there's something more
Then why does every day
Feel the same?
So here we are
At the end of creation
Planning vacations
Trying to escape
From all this pain
(but we know nothing of it)
(we know nothing)
So what's worse
Is it dying of thirst?
Or not having a cure
For what is driving
You insane?
(no we know nothing)
(no we know nothing of it)
(yeah we know nothing of it)
(no we know nothing of it)
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RIGHT NOW
03:16
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How did everybody suddenly
Get so devoted to bullshit
Every day we try to swallow the ocean
It's getting harder to cope with
All the ignorance and
Do you remember back when everybody
Used to be human
Before we were branded and commodified
Categorized to monetize us
Reduce it all down to what can be sold
The elevator sales pitch black hole
Explain it to me like I'm five years old
Make me rich and powerful
I volunteered, the convenience is too hard to resist
I'm too entertained to remember what I miss
This is the feeling of right now
You want to quit but you don't know how
So if you're looking for a way out
Stay up and don't let the bastards get you down
But I've never been more connected
Another fake face with a smile
I find it's better if I just accept it
So I take my place with the hypocrites
Don't pretend I ever had a choice in that
When you live in two dimensions
Of course the world is flat
This is the feeling of right now
You want to quit but you don't know how
So if you're looking for a way out
Stay up and don't let the bastards get you down
Do you ever marvel at the arbitrary places
People plant their flags
Blind to all the ways in which their actions
Violate their moral claims
Well, I for one am tired of complying
While the algorithm hacks our brains
I promise you I'm never gonna buy it
If you promise me I'm not insane
I don't know
This is the feeling of right now
You want to quit but you don't know how
So if you're looking for a way out
Stay up and don't let the bastards get you down
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END OF EVERYTHING
04:49
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Stuck inside a daydream, looking
Out the window of a speeding train
Quickly closing in
To the end of everything
Every minute is a lifetime
And the scenery's just racing by
We shake our heads and smile
Buy the ticket take the ride
One day we'll stand knee deep in the ocean
Heads like the earth and hearts like fire
(Hand in hand)
We'll watch the highlights in slow motion
As the tidal wave gets higher and higher
You told me that it pains you to know
That one of us will plan the others funeral
But I say why can't we
Both face the storm
Picture us on the shore standing
As you hold out your hand
And then I follow you into the sea
One day we'll stand knee deep in the ocean
Heads like the earth and hearts like fire
(Hand in hand)
We'll watch the highlights in slow motion
As the tidal wave gets higher and higher
(At the end of everything)
When we have charted the ocean
Of love and devotion
Will there be hope then
Or will we be broken
Or will we get homesick
And ready to begin
Ready to begin again
When we have charted the ocean
Of love and devotion
Will there be hope then
Or will we be broken
Or will we get homesick
And ready to begin
Ready to begin again
One day we'll stand knee deep in the ocean
Heads like the earth and hearts like fire
(Hand in hand)
We'll watch the highlights in slow motion
As the tidal wave gets higher and higher
(At the end of everything)
One day we'll stand knee deep in the ocean
Heads like the earth and hearts like fire
(Hand in hand)
We'll watch the highlights in slow motion
As the tidal wave gets higher and higher
(At the end of everything)
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ALONE IN THE CITY
03:30
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I started writing a new symphony
From the sound of the cars
In the rain on the street
It used to be us then
But now it's just me
Tuning in, taking notes
From a broken TV
And the truth is that right now
I'm feeling caged
Against the conventional senses I rage
Making a statement on every page
But what does it prove?
Whose mind does that change?
I'm alone in the city
I'm alone in the city
I'm alone in the city
And nobodies coming for me
Days turn to weeks since
I've been checked out
Trying my best with
The weight of the doubt
That life is more than
Just a series of chains
That I put on myself
No one else to blame
And it feels like I'm stuck
In the state that i'm in
A drunken preacher
With no congregation
So I take my place
Among the autumn leaves
It's a failure to thrive
With a family to feed
I'm alone in the city
I'm alone in the city
I'm alone in the city
And nobodies coming for me
I'm alone in the city
And nobodies coming
And there's a man
On the corner
Screaming at me
Says that I am the problem
I guess I agree
So I reach in my pocket
To give him some change
And he pushes it back
Says, "it can't fix the pain"
"I'm alone in the city
I'm alone in the city
I'm alone in the city
And nobodies coming for me"
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INTO THE EARTH
05:07
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You were the first one to see me
The first to believe me
The first one to reach in and find out
There's something there
And I was so unprepared
And now our lives flash before us
A verse then a chorus
A bridge takes us somewhere else
Where do we go from there?
We are so unprepared
I just have one wish
It ends with the roses
There's only one way we're going
And I just hope I go first
So you can bury me under the garden
Feed me back into the earth
For what it's worth
They ask to intercede
And hold dominion over time
Make me listen to their words
Like they directed the divine
I sense the self righteousness
As we are forced to close our eyes
Protest now is just
Pearls before the swine
So much I don't know
But the cynicism ringing true
The sickness got me and
There'S nothing else that I can do
Instead of fantasy, fears or denial
You can just put me in the ground
And plant some flowers all around
So I can live
Inch by inch
Pushing up daisies
There's only one way we're going
And I just hope I go first
So you can bury me under the garden
Feed me back into the earth
For what it's worth
There's only one way we're going
And I just hope I go first
There's only one way we're going
Feed me back into the earth
Back into the earth
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THE OLD WAYS
01:54
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Thought you could save yourself
From the old ways
From the old ways
The road is paved in doubt
From the old ways
From the old ways
Thought you could change your mind
Takes a lifetime
It takes a lifetime
Thought you could save yourself
From the old ways
But they keep coming back again
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STAY IN LOVE
02:25
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It still feels like a dream
Just a kid with a girl
Who was out of his league
You took your chances
We could fight and we could dance
And that's what kept us both
From falling between
So if the volcano erupts
I'm gonna stay, stay, stay in love
I'm not gonna give up
I'm gonna stay, stay, stay in love
Stay in love
You got your game face
I feel the same way
I wouldn't change things
Even if I could
In the back seat of my car
The windows fog
I would beg you to go home
But you never would
So if the volcano erupts
I'm gonna stay, stay, stay in love
I'm not gonna give up
I'm gonna stay, stay, stay in love
Stay in love
If it's a cosmic joke
Then we laugh
Test, then we pass
That's the difference between
Taste and conviction
Facing the friction
So if the volcano erupts
I'm gonna stay, stay, stay in love
I'm not gonna give up
I'm gonna stay, stay, stay in love
Stay in love
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8. |
WHAT YOU RUN FROM
04:14
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Tired or just losing touch
Is this what happens when
When you know too much?
Always catching up on sleep
I stay awake trying
To name the feeling
When I was young and out of place
Misunderstood for giving them a taste
It always felt like my last stand
I wish I could have
Understood back then
That you will become
What you run from
You will become
What you run from
Seven states in seven days
Sleeping in parking lots
Just off the freeways
But every night is on a stage
I wish I could tell that kid
To be amazed
'Cause you will become
What you run from
What you run from
Will become you
You will become
What you run from
If you want the other door
Keep your eyes up
When the veil gets torn
You might have to start a war
Put your back up
And face the storm
Or you will become
What you run from
What you run from
Will become you
You will become
What you run from
You will become
What you run from
What you run from
Will become you
You will become
What you run from
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NEW NOISE
04:42
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Hard to put into words
Why it feels cursed
But something hurts
And everybody gets a turn
To realize what doesn't work
But if you heard
An overture
That lifted you
From where you were
Could you believe
In something new
Echoing through the avenues
Maybe the only cure is a chemical
Here's to hoping it works
And for a little more
Here's an overture
How we gonna get back
To the good times
How we gonna get back to
The place where we felt so alive
How we gonna get back to it
And when it gets too big
To try fix it on your own
In every crowded room you find
That you are all alone
All of them are swimming and
You're sinking like a stone
And every song you hear is
Just a version of the old
Maybe the only cure is a chemical
Here's to hoping it works
And for a little more
Here's an overture
How we gonna get back
To the good times
How we gonna get back to
The place where we felt so alive
How we gonna get back to it
Out in the crowd
There is just one pulse
It beats to the rhythm
Of the kick drum
Everyone shouting loud
In one voice
"here's to making new noise"
Maybe this is all there is
This is how we get back
To the good times
This is how we get back to
The place where we felt so alive
This is how we get back to it
"Here's to making new noise"
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LOST MAGIC
03:37
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When I was younger
We played our songs before
Those who were older but
We moved the audience more
Now that i'm grown up
Kids play their songs before me
And everything repeats
Remember the heroes
The ones we grew up with
How all of them failed us
And broke their promises
It killed us to find out
They were lying
Through their teeth
And everything repeats
It's happening to me
I had a crystal ball
That used to answer to every call
And bring me light from far beyond
That blinding distant shore
Over time it dissolved and
Now all of the magic's gone
Like sand between my fingers
Clutching fists and nothing more
I guess everything repeats
It's happening to me
Sometimes I marvel
At the wisdom of my kids
I hope they can hang on
A little longer than i did
The day is still coming
It'll slip through like a sieve
And their wisdom will deplete
Because everything repeats
I had a crystal ball
That used to answer to every call
And bring me light from far beyond
That blinding distant shore
Over time it dissolved and
Now all of the magic's gone
Like sand between my fingers
Clutching fists and nothing more
Because everything repeats
It's happening to me
Yeah everything repeats
It's happening to me
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11. |
HIGH MILEAGE
05:35
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Got high mileage
But I'm still smiling some
This engine's broke down
Now every part looks old
When it's still young
Walked our old neighborhood
And passed the place you stood
With those ultimatums
That saved me every time I lost my head
But you can't figure it out
Any more than I can now
We're both still stuck in the sound
Of the echos of our dreams
From back before we had
The means to stomp them out
Friends came and passed by
On an assembly line
We built them up then
Sent them off to market
Somewhere else
So what is it worth then
To build an argument
For what the truth is
When no one ever gets there in the end
All our friends still live there
In my head
And they can't figure it out
Any more than we can now
We're all still stuck in the sound
Of the echos of our dreams
From back before we had
The means to stomp them out
We're all still stuck in the sound
We're all still stuck in the sound
We're all still stuck in the sound
We're all still stuck in the sound
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The Classic Crime Seattle, Washington
A 4-piece band interested in making good songs for a long time.
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