1. |
The Dripping Tap
18:17
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The dripping tap won’t be turned off by the suits in charge of the world and our futures hanging on by a thread with our heads in the sand.
The dripping tap won’t be turned off by the gods up above us.
Big sky country.
That we never hear from in these times of our dying needs.
A familiar sound ignored.
The compartmentalised thoughts.
In the back corner of the drawer.
That drip, drip on the floor.
Don’t get drowned.
Heed that sound.
Left the tap on.
Swamping out of the sink.
Left the tap on.
Agua flowin’ in.
Left the tap on.
Blankets over my skin.
Left the tap on.
Wish I learnt how to swim.
Left the tap on.
Swamping out of the sink.
Left the tap on.
Agua flowin’ in.
Left the tap on.
Blankets over my skin.
Left the tap on.
Wish I learnt how to swim.
The dripping tap won’t be turned off by the suits in charge of the world and our futures hanging on by a thread with our heads in the sand.
Drip, drip from the tap don’t slip.
Drip, drip from the tap don’t slip on the drip.
Everybody’s on the same orbit.
When they get old and moronic.
Get complacent and get bored.
That drip, drip on the floor.
Don’t get drowned.
Heed that sound.
Left the tap on.
Swamping out of the sink.
Left the tap on.
Agua flowin’ in.
Left the tap on.
Blankets over my skin.
Left the tap on.
Wish I learnt how to swim.
The dripping tap won’t be turned off by the suits in charge of the world and our futures hanging on by a thread with our heads in the sand.
The dripping tap won’t be turned off by the gods up above us.
Big sky country.
That we never hear from in these times of our dying needs.
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2. |
Magenta Mountain
06:04
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Look past the dying trees, beyond waterless seas, atop the horizon, adjacent to the sun.
I give my word that it’s there - magenta mountain
What do you mean, you can’t see it?
My life must be a dream - a living fantasy
Disappeared in hot air - magenta mountain
I don’t believe you
Your eyes deceive you
Better check yourself in
The mirage is creeping outwards from your dream
Can’t you see you’ve gone insane?
I packed my bags and my swag for the road
Followed the bows of the ancient railroads
Need to rendezvous where clouds can’t misconstrue
I’m certain it is real - magenta mountain
You will say I’m crazy
I will go on my way ‘cos it’s what I need
I’d cross a thousand seas just to prove I’m not mad
Magenta mountain
Magenta mountain
It’s you again
Yeah
I thought I saw a statue blink and a bird with no head
Land on a golden thread
I rub my eyes
What am I saying?
There’s nothing there
Magenta mountain.
Magenta mountain.
It’s my sanctuary, that I wanna be chasing every chance I get.
Don’t wanna be left.
Never not making it there.
What was confusing is now seducing
Imagination is a powerful thing
I see a flash of purple stone closing in
Magenta mountain.
Magenta mountain.
It’s my sanctuary, that I wanna be chasing every chance I get.
Don’t wanna be left.
Never not making it there.
I am tectonic
I am megalithic
My spit runs mauve
I am the mountain of which you dream
I see you now behind the lens looking back at me
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo…
We fell through a dream across clouds of glue
Anamnesis crashing through
Magenta mountain
Magenta mountain
Magenta mountain
Magenta mountain
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3. |
Kepler-22b
03:12
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Nerdy kid at school with astral thoughts.
Wanted to be an astronaut so I could be alone in space.
Get away.
Dreamt of Kepler-22b.
That’s the place for me.
Didn’t get the grades to be a NASA astronaut.
Couldn’t knuckle down or focus on my schoolwork.
I became a ghetto engineer making shit out of glass to refract the light from distant stars.
Then I built a telescope.
So big.
Pointed it at Kepler-22b.
That’s the place for me.
Good for ya
Obsession is good for ya
Good for ya
Obsession is good for ya
Can you guess the first thing I seen on Kepler-22b?
A telescope pointing back at me.
On Kepler-22b.
A telescope pointing back at me.
On Kepler-22b.
A telescope pointing back at me.
Good for ya
Obsession is good for ya
Good for ya
Obsession is good for ya
Good for ya
Obsession is good for ya
Good for ya
Obsession is good for ya
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4. |
Gaia
05:11
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I
I am the one
I am the none
I am nobody
I am no one
I am god
I am you
I am me
I am Gaia
Giant body parasite
Gaia lives while others die
I
I am the two
I am you too
I am the stream
I am wind
I am rain
I am photon
I am wave
I am Gaia
Gaia sees
Gaia breathes
Gaia’s needs
Incomplete
Gaia bequeaths
Dirt is deceased
Gaia dies
No one sees
I am Gaia
Gaia
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5. |
Ambergris
04:27
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Breathing heavy candles
Cut a face from a smile
Preserve the torch; its imperative
So douse some fuel on the fire
Some dogs get whale eye
Got a nose for that sea spice
I wish that I had strength like that
Dominion over my chemistry
Didn’t you know?
The camel’s out of water
The dog sweat on the seat
Had me slippin’ like a creep
Haven’t you heard?
They worked out double standards
Apply only to me
Finally, it’s working
Ambergris
Sculpting confidence with chimney smoke
Record my weight in kidney stones
CFC’s gnaw at my intellect
Colour coding my lymph nodes
Anthropomorphise everything
Use my blowhole like a microphone
Every night I dream that you will see
The harpoon that I’ve grown to need
Apropos,
The camel’s out of water
The dog sweat on the seat
Had me slippin’ like a creep
Ergo,
I worked out double standards
Apply only to me
Finally, it’s working
Ambergris
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6. |
Sadie Sorceress
03:07
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Who’s this Sadie Sorceress?
Let me tell you bout this 80s lady named Sadie
She’s wild like a witch.
She’s more fly than quidditch.
Smoking winnies and drinking tinnies and glenfiddich.
She’s a roller blader skating.
Masquerading.
Squabble and gobble.
Eats blood and trouble.
Meddles in the metal in it.
She flies a handbag freak flag
Dragon scale knapsack
Fur a pelt of mastodon
Brings it on as carry on
Sharp like parmesan
Living non-partisan
Leviathan cardigan
Elegant artisan
Concealing her identity as an evil entity.
Anti-sanctity in a vastity quantity
Nightshade bringing death commander
Have a gander - oleander
Poisonous like buttercups
She’s dressing up to fuck shit up.
Hello love.
How are ya?
Sadie Sorceress. Sadie Sorceress. Sadie Sorceress.
Snapping necks with her broomstick getting tortuous.
The pagan shaman sorceress
Cackling.
Bat shit
Nonconformist.
Moles on her nose so enormous
The public they can’t ignore it.
Pitchforks banging on her door
They wanna throw her overboard to see if she floats or sinks into the floor.
There she goes bobbing on the surface as the peasants and servants start to yell “hooray, sell her to the circus”.
But she’s had enough of playing it down and playing it dumb.
She’s dropping bombs on this human scum.
Ain’t no thing as collateral damage in this supernatural planet with a habit of getting savage
Making sacrifices for the paradise of perdition, the trials and tribulations for the forbidden religion.
Sadie Sorceress. Sadie Sorceress. Sadie Sorceress.
Snapping necks with her broomstick getting tortuous.
The most dangerous, debaucherous, Sadie sorceress
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7. |
Evilest Man
07:38
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Evilest man
I have no choice but to ignore the voices in the newspaper
I feel so sad from what I see
Misinformation around me
I have no faith in what I read
The tabloids and the TV screen
I see it just as clear as the high definition images
Don’t wanna scare inaction into you, but what you read you will turn into
Pull up your socks or become a fox
Do you wanna be just like the evilest man?
Murdochian
How very long must his arms be to span the distance he can reach?
To make all our four corners square
We’re in his conservative lair
I wonder if he knows this song...
Probably read it before it was done
He probably hacked my phone
I’ll change the locks when I get home
Don’t wanna scare inaction into you, but what you read you will turn into
Pull up your socks or become a fox
Do you wanna be just like the evilest man?
Murdochian
I have no choice but to ignore the voices in the newspaper
I feel so sad from what I see
Misinformation around me
I have no faith in what I read
The tabloids and the TV screen
I see it just as clear as the high definition images
How very long must his arms be to span the distance he can reach?
To make all our four corners square
We’re in his conservative lair
I wonder if he knows this song...
Probably read it before it was done
He probably hacked my phone
I’ll change the locks when I get home
Evilest man. Evilest man. Evilest man...
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8. |
The Garden Goblin
02:56
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The garden goblin.
Isn’t this the place for you.
Here in the garden we’re safe for now.
Behind the tree the garden goblin’s looking at me.
At me.
At me.
What’s that expression upon his face?
Doesn’t it look like contempt.
Doesn’t he want to let the garden grow like me and you.
Grow.
What does he want us to comprehend?
This garden was never his place.
Doesn’t he want to let the garden grow like me and you.
Grow.
The garden goblin.
What doesn’t he want the world to know?
The garden goblin.
Why doesn’t he want to let it grow?
The garden goblin.
What doesn’t he want the world to know?
The garden goblin.
Why doesn’t he want to let it grow?
The garden goblin.
Grow. Grow. Grow.
The garden goblin.
Grow. Grow. Grow.
Couldn’t he be friendly like the gnome.
Wipe that smirk right off his face.
Doesn’t he want to let the garden grow like me and you.
Isn’t this the place for you.
Here in the garden we’re safe for now.
Behind the tree the garden goblin’s looking at me.
At me.
At me.
At me.
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9. |
Blame It On The Weather
02:31
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Go on then, blame it on the weather.
Go on then, blame it on the weather.
Go on then, blame it on the weather...
Gloomy days make you see the downside.
Like an arrow straight through the bullseye.
K-hole, spiral through space and time.
Stimuli, numb your mind.
Go on then, blame it on the weather.
Go on then, blame it on the weather.
Go on then, blame it on the weather...
Even if you like pain, life ain’t a sadists game.
The devil ain’t your friend - he’s savage.
That man on the corner of the street pulled the rug from under your feet.
You’re flying now so you’d better stick the landing otherwise you ain’t got a leg to stay standing.
Standing on
Stay standing.
Standing on.
Stay standing.
Standing on.
Stay standing.
All alone.
Oh no.
Go on then, blame it on the weather.
Go on then, blame it on the weather.
Go on then, blame it on the weather…
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10. |
Persistence
03:47
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Ohh baby I got persistence.
Keep pushing like the Ford motor pistons.
Ohh baby I got persistence.
I’m an automatic transmission.
Ohh baby I got persistence.
I hold the pole position.
Ohh baby I got persistence.
Yeah I go the distance.
No want for gas - I run on love.
So cut the brakes.
There’s no end of the road.
Unfading highway.
Pass no cars on the way.
So set to cruise.
Let’s getaway
Let’s drive
Drive, drive, drive
Let’s drive
Drive, drive, drive, drive
Ohh baby I got persistence.
Keep pushing like the Ford motor pistons.
Ohh baby I got persistence.
I’m an automatic transmission.
Ohh baby I got persistence.
I hold the pole position.
Ohh baby I got persistence.
Yeah I go the distance.
Ohh baby I got persistence.
Yeah I go the distance.
Ohh baby I got persistence.
Yeah I go the distance.
Yeh I go the distance
Yeh I go the distance
Yeh I go the distance
I think I went too fast.
You did.
I think the car might crash.
It will.
I’ll have to pull out the wings and feel the lift underfoot.
I’m shaking with fear.
Such a crazy idea.
Better give it a try.
See if this car can fly.
Let’s fly
Fly, fly, fly
Let’s fly
Fly, fly, fly, fly
I’m flying
I’m floating
I’m flying
I’m floating
Ohh baby I got persistence.
Keep pushing like the Ford motor pistons.
Ohh baby I got persistence.
I’m an automatic transmission.
Ohh baby I got persistence.
I hold the pole position.
Ohh baby I got persistence.
Yeah I go the distance.
Ohh baby I got persistence.
Yeah I go the distance.
Ohh baby I got persistence.
Yeah I go the distance.
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11. |
The Grim Reaper
03:05
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I’m the grim reaper
Chimney sweeper
Gate keeper
Running faster than a cheetah preying on the weaker
Got you in my point blank range as I take aim
I’m coming at ya like a hurricane
You’re a scavenger scratching around for scraps
Sipping on cactus
Lighting matches
Unburied hatchets
Waiting for the ultimatum to be handed down from above
Never moved a muscle
Never gave a fuck
If it’s bad for business and the visits from the hellhounds sniffing out stitches for the snitches
Then there’s gotta be more than justice in discussion for the ones causing the corruption
Are you having an existential crisis
Time is priceless
Can’t advise us
Analyse it
Break it down into small increments to repent
Rotting flesh odorous
The grim reaper cashes the cheque
Rotting flesh odorous
The grim reaper cashes the cheque
Heaven sent the silhouette of many wicked men
Fearless
Reckoning thinking they’re the most powerful they’ve ever been
I can’t begin to comprehend the arrogance dwindling inside the kranium
Grotesquely tortured the wretchedness
Whiplash in the fortress between ya legs
Body bags hanging on the hills hoist with a peg as the stench orbits the homestead
Rotting flesh odorous
The grim reaper cashes the cheque
Rotting flesh odorous
The grim reaper cashes the cheque
Rotting flesh odorous
The grim reaper cashes the cheque
Rotting flesh odorous
The grim reaper came to collect his debt
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12. |
Presumptuous
04:53
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So presumptuous
With tongue in cheek
So presumptuous
Belittle me
So presumptuous
Falling at your feet
So presumptuous
Don’t agree with your negativity
Eggshell landmine stepping stones
Kindred spirits at a crossroads
The world we built is on a tilt
Bottled up inside and filled with guilt
Maybe you’ve got a god complex
Missing in action, didn’t even notice
Sounds like negligence
Featherless, shaking in defence
So presumptuous
With tongue in cheek
So presumptuous
Belittle me
Sitting duck light bulb revelation
We’re losing momentum
Blasé, naive sheepishly brazen
You’re doing the bare minimum
So presumptuous
With tongue in cheek
So presumptuous
Belittle me
So presumptuous
Falling at your feet
So presumptuous
Letting go unwillingly
So presumptuous
With tongue in cheek
So presumptuous
Belittle me
So presumptuous
Falling at your feet
So presumptuous
What’s it gonna take for you to see that
Shrug your shoulders
No response
It’s become a known nuisance
You took for granted all our trust
And threw it all away
So presumptuous
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13. |
Predator X
03:45
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Predator X
Predator X
Predator X
Meet your maker - the gladiator
Predator X
An undertaker
Annihilator
Your death comes so slow
Attack from below
Predator X
Predator X
Predator X
The terminator
Turns to vapour
Predator X
Sleep forever one fathom under
See to the beyond
Draw the curtains closed
Predator X
Predator X
Predator X
Leviathan without a fin
Predator X
Beast from below
Water hero
Forever alone
Make you a new home
Predator X
Predator X
Predator X
The looming raptor
Smiling gator
Predator X
Freak of the deep
Scare company
Your death comes so slow
Attack from below
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14. |
Red Smoke
04:21
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Red smoke.
The wools been pulled
The dust won’t settle
Red smoke
The fools still rule
The screaming kettles
We’re numb to the norm
Every year it’s clear that it ain’t gonna disappear
It ain’t some passing storm we can hide from
Red smoke
The wools been pulled
The dust won’t settle
Red smoke
The fools still rule
The screaming kettles
Not the only ones stuck in a bubble of terror watching them make all the errors
Like a kid with a magnifying glass
Each summer is getting hotter than the one before
Red smoke
Go away heatwave
You’re all around - north to the south
Red smoke
Go away heatwave
You’re burning down
Our leaders are dumbfounded again
The answer
Plain as day
The answer
Plain as day
Drastic measures must be made before we incinerate
Red smoke.
The wools been pulled
The dust won’t settle
Red smoke
The fools still rule
The screaming kettles
Red smoke
Go away heatwave
You’re all around - north to the south
Red smoke
Go away heatwave
You’re burning down
Our leaders are dumbfounded again
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15. |
Candles
04:34
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Candles. Candles. Candles...
This little man is too hot to handle
Set the funeral on fire with the candles
Candles
Candles
Praying to the gods at the top of the mountain
You’d be better throwing all your pennies in a fountain
Candles
Candles
Your business is my business
Don’t ask for forgiveness
Because time is a vessel and our little boat is leaking
Candles. Candles. Candles...
This little man is too hot to handle
Set the funeral on fire with the candles
Candles
Candles
I know your hands are up but I really can’t stop
The sword is sharp so I wanna chop, chop, chop, chop
Candles
Candles
Luck here, matters when walking under ladders
Because time is an arrow and our little bow has no strings
This little man is too hot to handle
Set the funeral on fire with the candles
Candles
Candles
My little heart is cold as a morgue
Let the weight of it drop like an iceberg
Candles
Candles
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16. |
The Funeral
02:23
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The funeral. The funeral. The funeral…
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