1. |
Apophenia
02:33
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How could the street light
Blink on and off and
Spell out all your thoughts?
That thing you thought you heard me say:
I didn't say that thing
That is crazy
You're completely crazy
Pretty soon you'll be telling me that you've
Had enough and you're leaving me
Picture of a hunched old lady holding a dog and
Telling you what to do
Seemingly random arrangement of turbid material
Telling you what to do
It's only tea leaves
Stop being dramatic
Next thing you'll be saying that I've been
Hallucinating you all along
Everyone has got a feeling in the gut
You can't just tune it out
Don't look at me like that
It's only tea leaves
Stop being dramatic
Next thing you'll be saying that I've been
Hallucinating you all along
Everyone has got an alien in the gut
Someday it will emerge
Don't look at me like that
Middleburgh Police Department how may I direct your call?
Please speak more slowly I'm only getting every other word
Person I don't recognize motioning to roll down the window I'm
Only getting every other word
That is crazy
You're completely crazy
Pretty soon you'll be telling me that you've
Had enough and you're leaving me
Next thing you will say
I've been hallucinating you all along
Pretty soon you'll be telling me that you've
Had enough and you're leaving me
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2. |
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Lately I've taken to vacantly making repetitive movements
Mistakenly seen as improvements
Nearing perfection but wisely electing to shun my reflection
Preferring instead shoe inspection
Cheese and chalk do not talk
But their eyes synchronize with a secret rhythm
Which is a way one could say that
I love you for psychological reasons
Mumbling failure in jail my extremities flail and I wail
Though my arms and my legs to the chair are nailed
Under the table unwilling unable the torture's medieval
The dream is a fable with feeble wings
Why does the mouse share the house with the louse?
They won't say but they feel their feelings
Doesn't subtract from the fact that
I love you for psychological reasons
Reasons I can't really go into now
Reasons we should probably not get into right now
I'm ashamed to admit I'm afraid of assuming the blame
For my lame abnegation of braveness and fame
Brain in a jar in a car in reverse I'm rehearsing
The way I'll replay how to say how to be where you are
Flammable undiagrammable sentiments
Pass between animal beings
Hard to explain but it's plain that
I love you for psychological reasons
Why does the mouse share the house with the louse?
They won't say but they feel their feelings
Doesn't subtract from the fact that
I love you for psychological reasons
Reasons I can't really go into now
Reasons we should probably not get into right now
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3. |
To a Forest
02:10
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This stuff is complex
Never figured out the part that comes next
I'm out of my depth
Everything I reach for is out of my grasp
And nothing comes next
You figured on a change or a rest
Well, that's a good guess
Everything is shifting and shifting again
Something punched my mind in the face
Tracked me down under my pillow case
Now we're alone in this freaky place
Our consciousness has been
This stuff is complex
Never figured out the part that comes next
I’m out of my depth
Everything I reach for is out of my grasp
There are forces out to destroy us
I heard whispers, it was a warning
They'll knock us out and drag us to a forest
Yes, that's what I've been told
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4. |
I Am Alone
02:29
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Thank you for going back in time
And thwarting my assassin
And while we’re laughing about it
I know you didn’t really do that
This was a test and you failed
Before you fire I should inform you
One of us is a double
I took the trouble to swap ties
Somebody taps you on the shoulder
You don't know who is your friend
Let’s all just take a deep breath
And slowly lower our weapons to the floor
I am alone in the three part folding mirror
On the bathroom door
I am alone in the three part folding mirror
On the bathroom door
Everyone take off your disguises
I see you and your brother
Dressed as each other this time
So now it appears the double crossers
Have been too clever by half
The fox has been outfoxed again
The row of smug expressions
All arrayed around are wiped away so
Let’s all just take a deep breath
And slowly lower our weapons to the floor
I am alone in the three part folding mirror
On the bathroom door
I am alone in the three part folding mirror
On the bathroom door
I'm by myself in the three part folding mirror
On the bathroom door
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I always was the one to leave
I had no rehearsal
For this role reversal
Say nice things about Detroit
The way you left you were a big big jerk
There I was anticipating
Some kind of love
I'm still waiting
It's like it was just last week
I tell myself but it wasn't
Dressing up and making plans
I'm so bad at staying friends
Say something nice
Say it again
Say something nice
Say it again
I'd never known a libertine
But you sure were thirsty
Then it gets all murky
Say nice things about Detroit
Remember standing in the doorway
Private words and holding hands
Can't you pretend to pretend?
Say nice things about Detroit
The way you left you were a big big jerk
There I was anticipating
Some kind of love
I'm still waiting
Say something nice
Say it again
Say something nice
Say it again
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6. |
Trouble Awful Devil Evil
03:28
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Sweetly as I fall backwards in slow motion and sink into bliss
My unconscious face smiles for I am totally oblivious to all of the
Trouble awful devil evil
Trouble awful devil evil
Bat wings flapping just over my bed
Swooping whirling around overhead
The weight of my insensate body draws all the bedclothes down with it
Unknowing ecstatically lowering into a bottomless pit surrounded by
Trouble awful devil evil
Trouble awful devil evil
Bat wings flapping just over my bed
Swooping whirling around overhead
Shadows lengthen
Darkness spreads across a cold benighted land
Ten thousand years have passed and still I continue to descend
Arms folded ‘cross my chest, I dream of happiness without end, unaware of the
Trouble awful devil evil
Trouble awful devil evil
Bat wings flapping just over my bed
Swooping whirling around overhead
Trouble awful devil evil
Trouble awful devil evil
Trouble awful devil evil
Trouble awful devil evil
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7. |
ECNALUBMA
02:56
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Well it's a good thing that I brought a napkin
I knew that this would happen
Why does this always happen?
That a day of impulsive fun becomes an evening
Of injury, blood and grieving
Injury, blood and grieving
Make way make way and stand aside
The crowd takes up the cry
He comes he comes
Bow down bow down and lower your eyes
Before the litter borne by men in fancy uniforms
A chariot from which a siren warns
The regal flashing lights and royal horns
Behold the great one comes
You've got an electric knife
And I've got the need to spite my face
I've got a nose, I know what to do
Hand me that electric knife
Marry me and be my wife
Be by my side in the electric parade
Make way make way and stand aside
The crowd takes up the cry
He comes he comes
Bow down bow down and lower your eyes
Before the litter borne by men in fancy uniforms
A chariot from which a siren warns
The regal flashing lights and royal horns
Behold the great one comes
Help me out I can't seem to get this window open
Never mind now it's open
I think my hand is broken
Make way make way and stand aside
The crowd takes up the cry
He comes he comes
Bow down bow down and lower your eyes
Before the litter borne by men in fancy uniforms
A chariot from which a siren warns
The regal flashing lights and royal horns
Behold the great one comes
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8. |
Daylight
01:51
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9. |
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With no place in the processional
And no seat in the convention hall
I sold my mind to the Kremlin on the Fourth of July
I was wearing a Yoda mask
You were talking like Lou Ferrigno
A hat made of paper. A vest made of ugly
An intercom with just one button
"This bag is almost empty"
That was your sole communication
From unimproved roads on the Fourth of July
Fishing holes don't exist and country music with all those lists
Of things from yesterday you can no longer get
Let's talk about Patti Hearst, Skeletor and Charles Manson
Reagan closed the hospitals for the mentally ill
Train stations filled up with the mentally ill
And I'm singing into a tape recorder
Trapped in this thing that I can’t get away from
"This bag is almost empty"
That was your sole communication
From unimproved roads on the Fourth of July
With no place in the processional
And no seat in the convention hall
I sold my mind to the Kremlin on the Fourth of July
With no place in the processional
And no seat in the convention hall
I sold my mind to the Kremlin on the Fourth of July
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10. |
It Said Something
03:12
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It just said something
Nobody heard it but me
I wasn't recording
Anyway why would I be?
It said something new
That wouldn't come out of me
And I don't even dream about that kind of thing
That's not the insane part
The insane part is first of all it can't speak
Second of all the thing it said it's like it read my mind
It just read my mind
Now I have to lay down
Think things over
Everything up is down
It just said something
I was sleeping and then
I was awoken
I'll never sleep again
Excavate the book
Nobody needs to know why
Sell the delusion
Look it in the eye
Speak it in reverse so the babies can see
Dress them in silver
Set the monkeys free
That's not the insane part
The insane part is first of all it can't speak
Second of all the thing it said it's like it read my mind
It just said something
I was sleeping and then
I was awoken
I'll never sleep again
(It just said something) it just read my mind
Now I have to lay down
Think things over
Everything up is down
(It just said something) it just said something
I was sleeping and then (set the monkeys free)
I was awoken
I'll never sleep again
(It just said something) it just read my mind
Now I have to lay down (set the monkeys free)
Think things over everything up is down
(It just said something) it just said something
I was sleeping and then (set the monkeys free)
I was awoken
I'll never sleep again
It just said something
Set the monkeys free
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11. |
Impossibly New
02:06
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12. |
I’ll Be Haunting You
02:47
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Flipping this one final switch I'm effectively ensuring that I will be
Overcoming all resistance long after my remains have been
Vaporized with extreme prejudice and shot into outer space
I'll be haunting you
Need I remind you of the oath you swore in 1993
Don't act like you don't act like you know why you flinch at the image of these words
That are permanently skywritten in the ashes of my incinerated legacy
I'll be haunting you
I'll be haunting you
I'll be haunting you as you are staring into outer space
My absence has been weaponized the empty sockets where my eyes
Are swiveling to recognize and pin you down
I'm the ringing in your ears rewriting all your fears
And you're the only one who hears the sound
Telltale beating floor kicks on this unreleased remix
That rises like a phoenix from the ground
I'll be haunting you
I'll be haunting you
I'll be haunting you as you take in your outer spatial views
When you look up you'll remember me and then I'll be haunting you
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13. |
Got Getting Up So Down
01:41
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(Get up now)
Left sock, right sock
T-shirt, wrist watch
Bus pass, laptop
House key, cell phone
I got getting up so down
I can do it in my sleep
I got getting up so down
I can do it in my sleep (Get up now)
I got getting up so down
I can do it in my sleep (Good morning)
Dry mop, cough drop
Late tape drop-box
Two lane blacktop
Cash cow junk shop
I got getting up so down
I can do it in my sleep
I got getting up so down
I can do it in my sleep (Get up now)
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14. |
What Did I Do to You?
01:29
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Whatever happened to chopped off
Unloved, resentful appendages?
Will they be phoning us at 3 a.m.?
Whatever happened to them?
What is that distant scampering?
Have you secured the gates
And put out the lights?
Though my pounding heart nearly drowns it out
What is that scampering sound?
Someone's tampered with the storage unit lock
Someone's dragging something heavy down the block
Whatever happened to decency
To privacy, to false-bottom suitcases?
What is this angry world coming to?
What did I do to you?
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15. |
Shape Shifter
03:11
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I've got a big old problem
I've got a big old problem
I've got a big old problem
Shape shifters all around
Where did my world go?
One minute everything is
Home and friends and New York Times and lawn
Beware the blob they said
How was I to know they meant the
UPS delivery man
The koi in the tank and the anchorwoman?
I've got a big old problem
I've got a big old problem
I've got a big old problem
Shape shifters all around
Shape shifter, shape shifter
You gotta quit that
Shifting of shapes
I accepted what you were and then
Everything changed
And I don't want to live in any
place where the people are
shifting their shapes
They're such a liar
They said the planet wouldn't
Undulate and then burst into flames
What used to be my house
Is it that purple tentacle?
Or is that the TV repairman?
The clarinet? The vegetable stand?
I've got a big old problem
I've got a big old problem
I've got a big old problem
Shape shifters all around
Shape shifter, shape shifter
You gotta quit that
Shifting of shapes
I accepted what you were and then
Everything changed
And I don't want to live in any
place where the people are
shifting their shapes
I've got a big old problem
I've got a big old problem
I've got a big old problem
Shape shifters all around
If you're someone I used to know
I sure don't recognize you so
I'm only hanging round amorphous mounds
In the town where nothing familiar can be found
I've got a big old problem
I've got a big old problem
I've got a big old problem
Shape shifters all around (shape shifters all around)
Shape shifters all around (shape shifters all around)
Shape shifters all around (shape shifters all around)
Shape shifters all around
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16. |
Bills, Bills, Bills
03:16
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At first we started out real cool
Taking me places I ain't never been
But now you're getting comfortable
Ain't doing those things you did no more
Slowly making me pay for things
Your money should be handling
And then you ask to use my car (car)
Drive it all day and not fill up the tank
And you have the audacity
To even come and step to me
Ask to hold some money from me
Until you get your check next week
You trifling, good for nothing type of brother
Silly me, why don't I go and find another?
A baller, when times get hard and I need someone to help me out
Instead of a squirrel like you who don't know what a man's about
Can you pay my bills?
Can you pay my telephone bills?
Do you pay my automo' bills?
If you did then maybe we could chill
I don't think you do
So you and me are through
Can you pay my bills?
Can you pay my telephone bills?
Do you pay my automo' bills?
If you did then maybe we could chill
I don't think you do
So you and me are through
Now you've been maxing out my card
Gave me bad credit, buy me gifts with my own ends
Haven't paid the first bill
But instead you're running to the mall
Going on shopping sprees
Perpetrating, telling your friends that you be balling
And then you use my cellphone (phone)
Calling whoever that you think's at home
And then when the bill comes
All of a sudden you be acting dumb
Don't know where none of these calls come from
When your momma's number's here more than once
Trifling, good for nothing type of brother (trifling)
Silly me, why don't I go and find another?
A baller, a man who's there when I need someone to help me out
Instead of a squirrel like you who don't know what a man's about
Can you pay my bills?
Can you pay my telephone bills?
Do you pay my automo' bills?
If you did then maybe we could chill
I don't think you do
So you and me are through
You trifling, good for nothing type of brother (good for nothing)
Silly me, why don't I go and find another? (another)
You trifling, good for nothing type of brother
Silly me, why don't I go and find another?
You trifling, good for nothing type of brother (good for nothing)
Silly me, why don't I go and find another? (another)
You trifling, good for nothing type of brother (trifling)
Silly me
Can you pay my bills?
Can you pay my telephone bills?
Do you pay my automo' bills?
If you did then maybe we could chill
I don't think you do
So you and me are through
Can you pay my bills?
Can you pay my telephone bills?
Do you pay my automo' bills?
If you did then maybe we could chill
I don't think you do
So you and me are through
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17. |
Black Ops Alt
02:30
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Black ops
Black ops
A holiday for secret cops
Black ops
Black ops
Dropping presents from the helicopter
It's been a long year
We've been so far from home
Too many people here
Here come the drones
We take the best of it
And make a mess of it
Ripping up some lawn
And then we're gone
Black sites
Black sites
A thousand miles from day or night
Black sites
Black sites
The story will remain unwritten
Before we make you gone
You'd best be running on
Stick to the music, child
Don't get us riled
Hey, there's a spot we missed
I see a Communist
And there's another one
And his dumb son
Black ops
Black ops
Little vials filled with knock-out drops
Black ops
Black ops
Maybe leave you in your old gym locker
Black ops
Black ops
A thousand miles from day or night
Black ops
Black ops
A story told before rewriting
Hey there's a passport here
But it could disappear
Tarmac to landing pad
Don't look so sad
We fly to Amsterdam
And in a little bit
We'll sing our special song
And this is it
You'll be standing when the music stops
We're not worrying about the optics
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18. |
I Wasn't Listening
01:31
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I wasn't missing it
I wasn't listening
I turned away
When I heard them say
It's Dial-A-Song
I always had my doubts
So I just tuned it out
I didn't know
Why they had to crow
About Dial-A-Song
My mind is a desert
And it's the horizon line
My soul was destroyed
Now it fills the void
The songs on that telephone line
I could be guessing wrong
But I'm still hanging on
I'm still on the ropes
Stuck on my hopes
For Dial-A-Song
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