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Slow Asleep
01:06
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Instrumental
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2. |
Seaweed
03:10
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Always under, even in my dreams
Will there be a time where shoes will speak?
Washed and jostled under the sea
There is nothing more to be
Where did I go
What can I be
Nothing more than seaweed
Submit to the tide of the sea
For we are nothing but seaweed
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Run
03:02
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Bring it all onto ourselves and strap it all up
Put it on our shoulders and take it away
Trudge through the day and run away
Until the skin on my toes is flayed
And we'll run, and we'll run,
And we'll run, and we'll run,
'Til our knees cave in and we can't shoot our guns
And we'll run, and we'll run,
And we'll run
'Til our eyes burn out and we can't see the sun
Until we can't see the sun
Until our eyes burn out and we can't see the sun
Run until I'm sanded away and my lungs explode when my breath can't escape
Run until I'm sanded away and my lungs explode when my breath can't escape
Run away, run away
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Trees and People
06:40
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Subtle scratches
And fuzzy image
I can only see you in your
Rural glow
The sun aids your face
But ruins my camera
Making the image
Unavailable
You live in a world of my memory
Of a life I never had
I would love to live with trees and people
But to everyone, I'm mad
You live in a world of my memory
Of a life I never had
I would love to live with trees and people
But to everyone, I'm mad
You whisper tales softly
Through a tape
I can hear your throat
Your lips
Your eyes
If only I could see it here
And see your
Coffee stained existence, oh
You live in a world of my memory
Of a life I never had
I would love to live with trees and people
But to everyone, I'm mad
You live in a world of my memory
Of a life I never had
I would love to live with trees and people
But to everyone, I'm mad
You live in a world of my memory
Of a life I never had
I would love to live with trees and people
But to everyone, I'm mad
You live in a world of my memory
Of a life I never had
I would love to live with trees and people
But to everyone, I'm mad
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5. |
Turning Into a Leaf
01:19
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Instrumental
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Unwind Me
03:53
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He was always a good conversationalist
Always quick to catch on every cynical twitch
But he always noticed one little glitch:
No one picked up on his
He'd rather twiddle analog knobs
He knew he'd make not a single friend
He'd rather sit in his cabin
Than deal with these guys again
His music proved overtly brilliant
But no one will see his mind's shape
He was a wonderful hermit
Who chose to live through tape
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Control
03:54
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I am a cyborg of emotions anymore
Humans have become a thing of lore
I need to be plugged in to work
But I'm always in standby
Considering things that never are
I've been out here for years
Speaking into nothing but robots
Things that I have control over
I need to be plugged in to work
But I'm always in standby
Considering things that never are
I want to lose control
I am losing control
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8. |
Greasy Window
05:29
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She is the most beautiful thing in this world
Like the soft songs I make on my tapes
She made my field all shiny
She lives in a world of my memory
And yet I feel so embarassed and furious
Perhaps she was curious?
I live here in this cabin, door shut
With nothing but a greasy window to peer through
I would love to lay her voice
Onto vinyl
Onto tapes
If only it was possible
She was my greatest recording
That of which I will never hear
She is but a perfect human
And I just a simple robot
A cyborg
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ZoneHaus
03:17
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Fare thee well!
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Deterioration
05:13
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Don't leave me here to die
I want you here all of the time
..."Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie? Or are you gonna bite?"
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11. |
Cut Them
04:27
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She dangles out like a sick puppet
A sick, beautiful puppet
She walks and smokes
She's got you evoked
You can't be the puppeteer
You can't tell what you can't hear
You can't be the puppeteer
You can't tell what you can't hear
You can't have it
You won't have it
She dangles out like a sick puppet
A sick, beautiful puppet
She walks and smokes
She's got you evoked
You can't be the puppeteer
You can't tell what you can't hear
You can't be the puppeteer
You can't tell what you can't hear
She walks and smokes
She's got you evoked
You can't be the puppeteer
You can't tell what you can't hear
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12. |
Birds
05:10
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You can try to fly but please don't go
I won't smile when you're long gone at home
Please honor this last request, I
Pray you won't fly from this nest, for
I often find myself all alone.
You've flown far by now, in this I'm sure
I've repelled you miles from my core
I don't know why I'm so bad, I
Figured you'd just give me a try
But now I find myself all alone.
You've found your nest outside of these trees
I'm still here, but could you come back please?
I'm reaching my final breaths, I
Need a witness to my death, I
Really don't want to die all alone.
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Poor Ian
05:33
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Ian was a good boy, stayed home and out of the light
Ian was a school boy, all of his grades and marks were right
Ian always wondered about life outside
Sun shining down but he averts his eyes
Ian ran away and looked for the forest he knew
Trees or people, he was the one who outgrew
Ian found a quiet home in the woods
Twiddling knobs, it's all he knew he could
Ian met a woman who encaptured him at very first sight
Ian took a step and realized that his efforts were trite
Ian turned around and made one last tape
Ian died alone with no one around to say...
It's all going to be okay.
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