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Midnight To Midnight
03:04
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V1
I caught just a glimpse as you
Left the planet
Lightning from the ground
So I spent half my life learning
Ways I could follow your lead
To borrow your speed
Now at last at last
I'm watching from space
But you're back down below
And you're wearing my face
And I'm laughing though
Nothing is funny in the dark
I just wanna make a spark
Chorus
We switch back like current
We're opposites thrust
In electrical
Dances of minus and plus
Our polarities split
And we can't set it right
You're day into day
And I'm midnight to midnight
You were born at the instant
I died on my first go around
And I've chased you through
Masquerade parties
And funeral trysts
But always just missed
Now at last at last
You hold court in a room
Where the clockface is frozen forever
At noon
And I'm kicking the door
Invitation in hand
But my name is spelled nowhere man
Quicksilver, quicksand
And I crash land
Chorus
We switch back like current
We're opposites thrust
In electrical
Dances of minus and plus
Our polarities split
And we can't set it right
You're day into day
And I'm midnight to midnight
The dirge and the midwife
The squid and shipwight
And the priest in the redlight
I'm midnight to midnight
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2. |
Marianne
03:34
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It's getting better in here
Jack is making friends with
all the others in here
Kelsey and Marie have learned
to stop interfering
With the dreams that Alyssa
Brings to me
It's almost normal in here
Ty divides his time with
Adrian and Guinevere
Since you last checked in with me
There's not much that I fear
There's just one thing
There's just one thing
It's Marianne
She don't get along with the rest of them
Poor Marianne
She always wants to be alone
It's awful busy in here
Still I think it's calmer than it was this time last year
I can keep a job as long as she stays clear
Just gotta keep her down
Gotta keep her down
But Marianne is cavalier
Paints her face in blood and shakes a gilded spear
Scares the other kids until they disappear
Can't keep her down
Just can't keep her down, no
It's Marianne
She don't get along with the rest of them
Poor Marianne
She always wants to be alone
ALL YOU KIDS GET OUT OF MY ROOM
GET OUT OF MY WAY
I'M COMING FOR YOU
AND ALL YOU KIDS BETTER RUN AND HIDE SOON
I'M COMING FROM OVER THE MOON
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3. |
Diagnosis: Dragon
04:36
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photograph me
like cassandra unbelieved
blowing past me
the hammer of the mind
broken mirrors
showing decades unredeemed
photograph me
it's sickness of time
diagnose me
sickle cell crescent moon
go and ghost me
I'll be haunting every frame
broken bodied
not a century too soon
diagnose me
dare to speak my name
find the illness
find the dragon inside
find the stillness
see it magnified
fight the illness
figjt the dragon within
fight the sickness
that's spinning underneath the skin
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5. |
Astral Projection
02:57
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if it's astral projection
if I'm after perfection
it's a need for dissection
it's enough that I'll mention
all i want is protection
all I want is a lesson
in the ways you can reckon
in your truest direction and
if I'm leaving my body
if the decade has got me
fleeing illuminati
like dog at's been shot see
then it's astral projection
then it's taking me hotly
I am just an inflection
there's a billion just like me
who needs the skin they were born with?
who needs an in to the sworn kith?
who needs all that world war two horseshit?
not me, so I leave myself forthwith
blue sky but not blue like you know it
true lies but not truly where I'm going
if it's astral projection
if I'm after perfection
just close your eyes and I'll show it - show it
I'm burning / I'm burning
Like magnesium in the open air
I'm burning / I'm burning
Like magnesium
I'm helium I swear
I'm a medium
I'm a deviant
No more tedium
I cross the proscenium
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6. |
Guillotine Van
04:07
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who's that comin' round the block
who's our hero in the war
got his targets set on lock
what's the song the kids adore
Everybody loves the guillotine man
comin' round in the guillotine van
give it up for the guillotine man
give it up for the guillotine van
heads will roll
heads will roll
bless my soul
heads will roll
the spirit of seventeen eighty nine
the risen rage of robespierre
these wheels'll make you feel just fine
so let's go find a billionaire
the guillotine is on the road
we're comin to your town
drink up all the spilling gold
there's enough to go around
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7. |
Cryofreeze
04:18
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just like that, you've left the hospital
or maybe not just like that
was it slow like the snow melt
was it sudden as a seizure
was it a wish you wished
you felt
just like that, you split my head
it was hard to breathe, hard to think
but I'd have laid there on the gurney
till the whole of medicine collapsed
My skull loving every injury
you dealt
So cryofreeze me
I will wait in ice
Yeah cryofeeze me
Till the end of time
I kissed your eyes when they were open
I kissed your eyes when they were closed
Can you see that way that winter
Makes a body feel so fragile
makes the blood just slow down
and surrender
so just like that you made me mortal
or maybe not just like that
was I always a bit too old
was it always a bit too cold
in the ward where you said
you'd wait forever
You're crying in my deep dream
Centuries gone by
Yes, wake me warmly
In some faraway July
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8. |
Generation Z
02:21
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who will stab me the eyes?
who will feed my spine to an angry skunk?
who will invent new surgeries to dismember me in zero gravity?
who will make cannibalism great again?
who will I turn to when I have too many mouths?
who will comfort me with sulphuric acid and maraschino cherries?
who will replace my children with arson?
who will rewrite the alphabet so that my esophagus falls out?
who will smolder me like a catfish steak forgotten on a campfire?
who will make good on the promise of the neutron bomb?
who will turn my hopes and dreams into bleeding cacti?
who will forgive me for allowing the century to go this far?
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9. |
Heart Markets
03:13
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Invest in the heart
Far from the market
And live in your starship
Invest in the heart
And crash out the dollar
And crash out the hardship
And there is no currency but now
And ours is the fluency of how
The noise of the muscle inside
Not traded and not commodified
Invest in the heart
Invest in the beacon
Of worlds without reason
Invest in the heart
Immune to recession
Become the secession
And there is no currency but you
Where numbers are far off and dripping with dew
The circular noise from the ground
The wheel overturned and the table spun round
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10. |
The American Way
01:50
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all lyrics originated from various pages of the December 2019 American Way in-flight magazine
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The American Way
Protect your eyes
A mountain for everyone
Beachfront living at its finest
Just the right amount of elasticity
We want to think of jewelry
I love that I'm part of a team
Terminal renovations
Drink responsibly
Aliens did not make this
There's an art to relaxation
More is always better
Make it personal
Get the whole picture
Annihilation tastes good
I'm a very obsessed person
No politics
Cold is coming
It felt like the end of something
The cost of real estate is very high
It's very romantic
You want to grow your business
Into the jungle
Managers started descending
History is like a secret handshake
What's in a name?
Magnetic interchangeable
Everyone deserves an upgrade
The best eyeglasses in America
Hike on the hanging bridges
A dance like no other
Remarkable transplant care
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