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Plastic Eyes
04:44
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The American Scene is behind
All the future seers and their
Lost sons and daughters
We ride over the dead cities
Over elephant bones
Over the grass covered sea
And I see the writing on the walls
It tells me of laws nobody obeys any longer
They want to be free from definition
They want to be defined
They want to see
They want to be blind
Felt like a matchstick
Waiting to plunder
Burn all the plastic
They put us under
Felt like a matchstick
Waiting for thunder
Burn all their plastic eyes
This war! This war! This war! He said
Raising his eyes and ringing his hands
This war! This war! Nobody comes here anymore
I am all alone
Phaestos is dead, She is forgotten
And then he took a little flower and put it in my hand
Why me
Felt like a matchstick
Waiting to plunder
Burn all the plastic
They put us under
Felt like a matchstick
Waiting for thunder
Burn all their plastic eyes
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Hear the midnight screaming
Tell me what he’s dreaming
The cost of any war you’ve ever won
They paid to bring you over
And make you be a soldier
The rain is coming down over everyone
Our lives were lonely
You weren’t the only without future
White privilege wasted
You keep me waiting for now, Future
What could you be praying
And what do you need saying
For now you give it up for the little ones
Did you know your father
If he loved your Mother
Then how did they do wrong for everyone
Our lives were lonely
You weren’t the only without future
My privilege wasted
You keep me waiting for now, Future
Was always going to end up like this
Knowing what you’re like with a kiss
In doubt! In doubt! In doubt!
Thinking that you want what is his
Paying for a moment of bliss
In doubt! In doubt! In doubt!
White Cliffs of Dover
You brought me over
And now look what you’ve done
Blood on the tracks
And I’m leaving my friends behind
With what’s to come
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3. |
Peter Pan
04:50
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Peter Pan I want to know
Will the garden ever grow
Now the years are going by
Do you feel it when we try to get high?
Mary Mary say goodbye
Kiss the boys and make them cry
Do you feel overlooked?
No one really ever read the book
Dirty Dorris suck my feet
I’ve loved you since I was three
Walking down a sandy beach
I wanted you I was still being held by my Daddy
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It’s so rare to hear you say I don’t mind
You just say maybe I’ve done wrong, but never your kind
I was among the restless with nothing better to do
So instead of changing themselves they try to change you
But oh you know how to bring me down
Oh you know how to bring me down
All the people who don’t play only want something to say
And oh you know how to bring me down
And every dream I’ve ever had has come true
So this is a question and an answer too
Ashes to ashes and blood undone
May happiness fall on everyone
But oh you know how to bring me down
Every time I see you come around
All the players who don’t play always want something to say
And oh you know how to bring me down
The keeper is just the thief turned outside in
Rejoice in the fact that you don’t know everything
When words sound sweet together they call it a verse
And everything that’s ever been or ever will be is called universe
Think about it cause oh you know how to bring me down
How can you miss so much when you’ve been around
For such a long long time, it’s been such a long long time
And oh you know how to bring me down
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5. |
Better For Radio
02:20
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You say power to the people
But you keep your fingers crossed
And we dream away the time of day
Now the power has been lost
It was seven years of saying to the
Mirror that you know
But you don’t know what’s good for radio
I walked among the fallout
With the people that you meet
But none of them would call out
It was Positively 4th Street
Who cares what’s right or wrong
As long as you’re
Looking good in Soho
And you don’t know what’s good for Radio
Effortlessly trying way too hard
Smiling as you look down at the stars
Luck comes fast and leaves before you know it
And hungrily you lead the life of poet
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6. |
Into Your Blue
04:11
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What did I say to you?
Nothing mean nothing true
Julia sees her
Shadow in the car from the
Street light high above
It was you she was thinking of
In the sand as a baby
Now in a band singing maybe
The next word is gonna save me
While my zero keeps moving around
I get lost just to be found
And solid as a falling rock you say
I only want your love so I can throw it away
I only want your love so I can throw it away
The pearls on the beach still shimmer though
Like the memory of your future
Or the dreams of your past
Where our spirits dance high above romance
So breathe wisdom whispered in the
Dust of Summer brought on by a
Callistemon flock of hearts
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7. |
Garden Bed
02:14
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They say you’re suffering
The sweetest kind of illness of the brain
And there’s no way you’ll ever go insane
While I’m a loser
I feel it all and let it all hang out
And pay for it with all the things I doubt
But your head is buried in my Garden
It wasn’t me who put it there
Cause I didn’t make it but I like to be
Polite and beg your pardon
And each one’s a prayer
I shoot it out where I can never see
I like to make a fool out of me
To get the sting inside
I’ve wrestled with my eagle far too long
I’ll say I did it all for a song
But don’t you go thinking that I love you
I would like to mean it and for you to receive it
But I honestly believe that I’m above you
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Good For Radio
03:00
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You say power to the people
But you keep your fingers crossed
And we dream away the time of day
Now the power has been lost
It was seven years of saying to the
Mirror that you know
But you don’t know what’s good for radio
I walked among the fallout
With the people that you meet
But none of them would call out
It was Positively 4th Street
Who cares what’s right or wrong
As long as you’re
Looking good in Soho
And you don’t know what’s good for Radio
Effortlessly trying way too hard
Smiling as you look down at the stars
Luck comes fast and leaves before you know it
And hungrily you lead the life of poet
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9. |
Alice In Wonderland
02:32
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Lights flicker off and
Turn in your brain
While you see what
You’re dreaming of
You get carried away
But you can come and
Stay with me
While the heat burns off
I look into your eyes and
See why you made up
Something that was so untrue
You knew you could
Lie so long but you
Didn’t know who
You might be talking to
Oh Alice in your wonderland
It’s me I do
Oh Alice in your wonderland
It’s me I do
Dream pretty baby
Sleep while we creep
Through the house
On our tiptoes
The bird on the wire
Talks to people on
The corner but
It’s our place and
He knows
That I got you
To keep me lonely
And make me blue
Yeah I got you
To keep me lonely
And only you
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10. |
Different Streets
05:25
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When I said hello you passed me by
I didn’t stop to wonder why
Cause the peoples’ game is still the same
Too hard for me to lean to
So you let me in you kicked me out
You taught me how to scream and shout
You showed me what it’s all about
While I tried to ignore you
Every single day I pray that we walk in the same way
But on different streets long enough to meet again one day
And nobody needs to know what I do
With so many to call a friend and nobody left to talk to
Now you say I’m greedy you say I’m wrong
You say I’ve lived too well too long
But I just got here and I won’t fear what you don’t
Because when all is said and all is done
You walk beneath a setting Sun and everyone is everyone
And I can’t love if you won’t
Every single day I pray that we walk in the same way
But on different streets long enough to meet again one day
And nobody needs to know what I do
With so many to call a friend and nobody left to talk to
You ought to be here…
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11. |
Stop Making Sense
03:55
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There’s poetry
And philosophy
And these are the ways that people speak to truth
But they’re also the ways to receive it
If you just use one
Then you hold a gun
And you might kill your own freedom
In the name of your own freedom
So stop making sense…
You were born in strange times
Not what we had in mind
But if what’s inside your mind ever hurts
Remember what’s outside your mind could fill a universe
And stop making sense…
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