1. |
Keep Cool
04:03
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I have to wait while I’m on fire
waiting for a kiss to put me out
put me out with a wet kiss
thinking too much, staying up late
with a couple of punks laughing away
laugh till we start to cry
What if I lose my mind to find something beautiful?
Will every scene this side of town be the same go around?
Keep your cool you’re getting carried away
Keep your cool you’re getting carried away
Painted faces dripping smiles
for all the ones on the surface
they only stay on the surface
Luscious love and a two edged knife
teach em’ something and much more
they’ll have to learn much more
What if I lose my mind to find something wonderful?
Will the getting be good until I’m too heavy to walk?
Keep your cool you’re getting carried away
Keep your cool you’re getting carried away
You’re getting so carried away
What if I lose my life before something beautiful?
Keep your cool you’re getting carried away
Keep your cool you’re getting carried away
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2. |
Reprise
01:09
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3. |
All I Never Wanted
03:41
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There’s no mystery just blood and piss
take me hazy make me see the order of things
I used to think I was such a dream as a school kid
teach me, lose me in the faceless crowd, and kill my light
But when I feel the white heat of a heart
the blue flame of a thought
the magic door opens for me
and then I leave behind
All I never wanted
I’m leaving
All I never wanted
forgetting
All I never wanted
I’m either something or nothing
I’m either nothing or something
I’m either something or nothing at all
Someday when you die you’ll be born into this, born into this
where you realise you’re alive as a ghost of yourself
and nothing never ends
something always ends
then you put aside
All you never wanted
you’re leaving
All you never wanted
forgetting
All you never wanted
Let the lion lick your hands
and feel the jaws that could crush you
then break your idols down
let the lion lick your hands
I’m either something or nothing
I’m either nothing or something
I’m either something or nothing at all
All I never wanted
I’m leaving
All I never wanted
forgetting
All I never wanted
Let the lion lick your hands
and feel the jaws that could crush you
then kick yourself in the head
it never ends, it never ends, it never...
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4. |
Why Try
05:17
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No matter what goes down you just take the money and run
Shoot your shotgun in the air
Nobody moves nobody gets hurt
Every charge is true for all those who live inside a cell of themselves
I wanted to see you fry in the furnace of my burning heart
for making it start
but there’s just no use
for words we say in vain so why try? Why try?
words they sound so vain so why try? Why try?
Life was breathing down your neck and you wanted to end it
by choking yourself with all the trivialities
drowning you in a sea of untruth
Everything is true for all those who stay awake in spite of the night
Oh, but you don’t lose much sleep
beneath the silver and sparks of the stars
when poets are up writing for you
these words we say in vain so why try? Why try?
words they sound so vain so why try? Why try?
So wont you sleep in the furnace of my burning heart
where a poet is up
but a minute of my silence says more than
words we say in vain so why try? Why try?
words they sound so vain so why try? Why try?
Oh the words they sound so vain so why try? Why try?
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5. |
Big Bland Stand Out
03:21
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Pictures in magazines
If we’re not quite who we mean
then we could hold up our pretty faces and make like some clowns
Greater taste won’t ever tell
all the things that ain’t for sale
so what is the latest fashion?
we’re putting it down
Searching
for a fa fa feeling like a comet on a route
ma ma ma my what do we have here?
Just a big bland stand out
Looking
for that fa fa feeling like a comet on a route
ma ma ma my what do we have here?
Just a big bland stand out
In the land of la it could seem
that we’re at the center of the world
But we’re in a corner getting older
and everywhere is this
Oh the answer’s a slippery fish
What is this called?
Oh what is this called?
What is this called!?
Used to play the tambourine
to somebody else’s beat
but now it’s our own for better or worse
we’re making a sound
Searching
for a fa fa feeling like a comet on a route
ma ma ma my what do we have here?
Just a big bland stand out
Looking
for that fa fa feeling like a comet on a route
ma ma ma my what do we have here?
Just a big bland stand out
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6. |
Choicelessly Free
04:15
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Morning fog takes the street when you lay awake
today you are up early
just lying there
choicelessly free and destined for chance
Wonder how this is as you get up to part the curtains
There’s no use waltzing with fate
say to yourself, “her body moves to some odd rhythm”
“So let me follow her lead”
You say
You say this
As if you had something else to do
Nothing’s going on
but lady fate is always dressing up
say to yourself, “her body’s dressed in fool’s desires”
“So let me see her naked”
You say
You say this
As if she would undress for you.
“So let me be free and choiceless”
You say
You say this
As if you had something else to do.
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7. |
So Grateful
03:09
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Say I can so you can rise up
Our afflicted Siamese hearts
Got their own but we’re in this together
Wherever you are I’ve played my part
Oh we’ll give good advice to carry us up
Go and say anything
Don’t hold your tongue
Cause you sure could make me forget what’s real
You shuffle your face, I break, you deal
No you don’t hear me when you stare in the air and say it’s nothing at all
Tell me, why can’t we always be grateful even when we fall down?
Say you can so I can rise up
Our connected Siamese hearts
you know they beat red blood all through the blue winter
Stay wide eyed for the sunshine
Grateful even when we might lose it all
Don’t you know you can make me forget what’s real?
You shuffle your face, I break, you deal
No you don’t hear me when you stare in the air and say it’s nothing at all
Tell me, why can’t we always be grateful even when we fall down?
Grateful even when we might lose it all
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8. |
In The Garden
03:45
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A candle glows in your eyes like rubies neath the tide I’ll dive
Your lovely scent, a pretty sight, red rose wrapped in black nights of our flights
It’s just my way to fantasize, by fate or some odd design I’m inclined
In the city where we live we find starlit gardens of silence
I’ll meet you halfway in the garden
we’ll go back to flowers and truth
Oh that’s where we’ll stay in the garden
we’ll go back to flowers and truth
Lets move on, let us lace our hearts with trust when the devil’s whispering
With time we turn, turn into strangers to meet again
I’ll meet you halfway in the garden
we’ll go back to flowers and truth
Oh that’s where we’ll stay in the garden
we’ll go back to flowers and truth
Oh please say you remember the trace we left
In these times say you wont forget
No more keepsakes just cheap talk and peepshows
Are you with me or do I stand alone?
Your hungry, I’m thirsty
we don’t want the same thing
but loving is wanting
we’re looking for the same thing
I’m hungry, you’re thirsty
we don’t want the same thing
but loving is wanting
we’re looking for the same thing
I’ll meet you halfway in the garden
we’ll go back to flowers and truth
Oh that’s where we’ll stay in the garden
we’ll go back to flowers and truth
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9. |
How To Tame A Wild Horse
02:59
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Meanings are made on the run
they want to get on
All the time wasted trying
just to catch one
Lets go somewhere less ambitious
Better to ask forgiveness than for permission
so lets make it fun for ourselves on the rooftop
No we don’t need no one to tell us how it is
How to tame a wild horse and to ride it out
If there’s something missing we will shout it out
Funny how all the while we’ve been where we said
we’d be if we had it our way coming around the bend
Our cake could be so delicious
So far from reason is where we make it happen
just like it’s heaven for us
Oh as we look out and say
Wont you look at all them wild things go!
How to tame a wild horse and to ride it out
If there’s something missing we will shout it out
They don’t have to be seen or heard
for you to like them or want to be just like them
Don’t be jealous or overzealous
they’ll get frightened and run as fast as lightning
No we don’t need no one to tell us how it is
How to tame a wild horse and to ride it out
If there’s something missing we will shout it out
Yeah, if there’s something missing we will shout it out!
Come on and shout it
Go on and shout it out
Come on and shout it out
Yeah yeah go on and shout!
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10. |
Make You Make Believe
03:54
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Go pour your paint like rain
on the deserts and pools of life
Color till your chest explodes out rainbows
Give shape to time like clay
until you are the dust of yesterday
Until you’ve made up your mind you will let me make
Make you make believe
Make your make believe
Fast forward your de ja vu
and intuit your every move
Just think about all of the people you could have been
Saying and doing things over and over makes you
much better or worse
one exception to this rule could be you
Until you’ve made up your mind you will let me make
Make your make believe
Make you make believe
Make your make believe
Make you make believe
Why wont you believe me?
Saying and doing things over and over makes you
much better or worse
one exception to this rule could be you
So you're told, and so you're told
till one day you’re sold, you’re sold!
Until you’ve made up your mind you will let me make
Make your make believe
Make you make believe
Make your make believe
Make your make believe
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11. |
Man Made
04:54
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If a flood came would you drown in it or stay afloat by grace?
In a earthquake rumbling could you find a quick escape?
Your chances are slim
In a man made disaster
You’re living in a old town
with the houses of clay and plaster
Help you help yourselves and be prepared for the worst
So much intelligence but nothing’s ever learned
You’re knocked out your wits
In a man made disaster
You’re living in the new world
And it can go so much faster
If a flood came would you drown in it or stay afloat by grace?
In a earthquake rumbling could you find a quick, find a quick escape?
You’re knocked out your wits
You’re knocked out your wits
You’re knocked out your wits
You’re knocked out your wits
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