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Vampire Teeth
03:30
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Flashback City, we were neighborhood age
You were never pretty, but you sure were strange
I werewolfed my hairdo, Travis dressed like a priest
Joe was in the bathroom, getting beaten without relief
You cried too, in your vampire teeth
You cried too, in your vampire teeth
I didn’t get your tears, I didn’t understand empathy
I didn’t have to tell you, this happens every week
You just knew in your vampire teeth
You just knew in your vampire teeth
In the night under the stars, it’s the truth that breaks your heart
Later, between the houses, we said goodnight
I touched your hand and you touched mine
And you withdrew in your vampire teeth
You withdrew in your vampire teeth
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Something Lila Said
03:36
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We went to the same location
We took the same train
Brought back two different cities
With the same name
Sure everything is dying
But baby not yet
So when your feet feel like dancin’
Take what you can get
We’re restless and ruthless
We burn through the grass
Nursing psychic needs
From the trembling past
Sure everything is dying
But not quite yet
So when your feet feel like dancin’
Take what you can get
Take what you can get
We speak of hell like experts
Like we know every flame
But we don’t know anything
I just remembered
Something Lila said
“I’m in a band with my friend
And she is dead”
The tune she was whistling
While burying bones
A song from the future
As yet unknown
Sure everything is dying
But baby not yet
So when your feet feel like dancin’
Take what you can get
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In the wild, under heaven
I crawl out of my bed
In the wild, under heaven
I run with pain in my legs
As everything burns
Right down to the end
In the wild, under heaven
I throw myself in
In the wild, under heaven
The water isn’t clean
In the wild, under heaven
It wants to swallow me
And take me to the bottom
The end of suffering
In the wild, under heaven
Floating quietly
In the wild, under heaven
I wonder where are you now?
I feel nothing in the ripples
I hear nothing, not a sound
In the wild, under heaven
I feel flames at my skin
In the wild, under heaven
I throw myself in
It’s not like I’ve forgotten
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All I See is Magic
03:23
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I’m getting high in the branches
I’m falling down, down to my knees
I don’t know what’s happened, but it’s a convincing dream
I’m gonna let this heavy body sink
Even in waters so tragic
Baby all I see is magic
All I see is magic
All I see is magic
Astronomy and mathematics
Let’s get innocent, let’s get clean
Even in waters so tragic
Baby all I see is magic
All I see is magic
All I see is magic
If it’s all a joke, we should be laughing
If it’s all a dream…
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Home in the Reeds
03:48
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I was born with two glass eyes and a foggy disposition
Can’t remember how we met, it wasn’t our decision
And now we find ourselves here
Time always slips the hook, and leaves us swimming
Under water, when you scream, no one hears you but the fishes
We can feel the steamboats pass, ravenous forbiddens
A couple on the deck, stupidly kissing
Someday they’ll find themselves here
Pulled down by their souvenirs
Hallways are rivers
Home in the reeds
I will surrender to the sea
Whoever holds their breath the longest wins
We’re waiting for the film to end
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Beachcombers
03:19
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This one goes out to the one I run from
Everything I love, I get sick of
My own skin, the rain
All the ways that I don’t change
What do you wanna be when you grow out of it?
What do you wanna be when you give up?
Shoot for the sky and hit well south of it
The danger isn’t all that dangerous
In the pharmacy, we get our drugs
A future that I wanted no part of
No such thing as pain
We just change the way we’re made
What do you wanna be when you grow out of it?
What do you wanna be when you give up?
Shoot for the sky and hit well south of it
Welcome to the club of most of us
The danger isn’t all that dangerous
This one goes out to the beachcomber
Sea shell in his hand instead of hers
What do you wanna be when you grow out of it?
What do you wanna be when you give up?
Shoot for the sky and hit well south of it
Welcome to the club of most of us
The danger isn’t all that dangerous
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Crown Jewel
02:54
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When it comes to freaks baby, you’re the crown jewel
Nobody twitches like you do
It’s hard to breathe in a climate so cruel
But you ignore the bad news
You bang on the drum ‘til the drum starts talking
And I end up walking in time
I don’t know nuthin’, I am just squawkin
I am just makin it rhyme
Baby is keeping me up at night
When it comes to freaks baby, you’re the crown jewel
Floating like a purple balloon
Across the breeze over power lines too
No one disappears me like you do
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Baby Don't Breathe
04:00
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Come the thunder, the danger’s not far now
Run for cover, before the truth comes out
Take a t-shirt from the lost and found
There’s a sickness in this house
Arms so heavy
Legs will not move fast
Here comes the past
We’re not ready
For what’s coming
Rapture
Baby don’t breathe
He’ll come back
What left of kisses? It’s the wounds that leave scars
We burned our bridges just to make it this far
Can’t see him in the mirror, we can only see ourselves
And that’s no help
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In the Summer Strange
04:00
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I meet myself sometimes in bars
Isn’t that fascinating?
Drinking blood ‘til I see stars
Always separating
It’s never easy, it’s always hard
Evacuating my brains
There’s a bomb inside my heart
That’s always detonating
Am I the only one that shakes
In the summer strange
I get the fear and it remains
In the summer strange
The quiet dark comes through the door
I just breathe it
I can’t outrun it anymore
I can’t beat it
Am I the only one that shakes
In the summer strange
I get the fear and it remains
In the summer strange
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Counting Down the Sun
03:38
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Where do you go when your brown eyes clothes and your breathing gets slow?
When the breeze hits your hair, I’ve left things undeclared and it feels cold
Desire
Desire
Oh, Desire
Out past the mark in the bloodless dark I heard some kind of commotion
It will be fine, it’s all in my mind, I try not to think of the ocean
Desire
Desire
Oh, Desire
You can see it in the eyes all color burns in time, brown apples in the orchard
The organ plays too fast, it’s gonna break the glass, counting down the sun is torture
Desire
Desire
Oh, Desire
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11. |
Little Life
03:36
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