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Babylon
03:00
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they say the end is coming
there would never be a use running
his story ends in a mushroom cloud
maybe we should take a look around
and see how all our comfort brings sorrow
wasting every day on tomorrow
making ourselves slaves as we borrow
and all to save ourselves from our boredom
under your mud brick pyramid's shadow
down the Euphrates in the green zone
nobody in this world is alone
not even in the very gates of Moscow.
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2. |
Waterslide
02:30
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3. |
Between Us
04:23
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When we move around this tiny town we all know each other.
When we move around this tiny town we all know each other.
I catch you in the street
you won't look me in the face
When last night at my place under the sheets I was well known.
I sold my soul just to know what the taste of your flesh is
maybe tomorrow they'll fish our bodies out of the rapids.
Let's walk 'till morn
under the sound of the curfew horn.
Long before I was born they put up these borders between us.
Some other foolish war.
Put up these borders between us.
I know this dance.
First I say "No!" then you take off my pants.
There's power in a glance.
There's dark power in his hands.
And I give my soul for peanuts.
It's all between us.
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4. |
The Empress
03:20
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You look so fine in traditional dress.
There is nothing traditional about this.
In these days things change so fast.
We're trying to build something that might last here.
Pushing west for the fortunes we chase.
I have seen the eagle in the waste.
The Empress sits while her Minister plots
how to squeeze the blood from every single rock.
Now we've gone past a future we can keep.
Not even weeds are growing from the soil.
Toil is all our children shall reap as we fall asleep.
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5. |
Song for Karl
05:14
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All the bills are piling up on my table top.
Oh when will it stop?
I can't live my life on a loan.
I know my blood will surely flow.
Dressed in a fest of fluorescent tape
This red ape knows best
as he sets his eyes further west.
Under clouds of nuclear rain
Who can say what came from a single brain?
Changing lands and changing names
Won't erase the lines the next ones try to trace.
When I can return to that land
it will show what my blood already knows.
I hear rolling from the graves, Oh Karl!
each time they say your name.
I could think about it all day.
But I know we won't think our problems away.
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6. |
Gore St.
02:34
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7. |
Queen St.
01:44
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Me and some friends head back to my place
after drinking at the bar
and there wasn't a car on the streets as far as I could see.
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8. |
Page of Cups
04:00
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I was born and raised on crumbs
In such a humble place as the one
Where I come from the pace it never grows
It only slows
and it snows
and it blows
it shows to me.
I suppose it's time I chose to leave.
Walking forth with measured steps.
Be careful not to spill a drop.
How will you ever fill your cup
If you never lift the cover up?
This crown of flowers will rot someday
It's cruel how youth gets in your way.
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9. |
The Sun Inside
04:40
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fusing at the center
losing no momentum
when you're near to me
what seems like our division in just our unity.
the smallest seems the smallest
as to where you stand and see.
When we get all warped together
there's no telling you from me
'cause you see this strange attraction
is the flow of energy.
Anything I could give to you is just what you gave to me.
There's a sun
There's a sun
There's a sun inside the earth.
And I'm talking to you, God, through these two black holes
And there ain't no telling how far down it goes.
Nothing's really matter.
Nothing really matters
when you're near to me.
The nature of relationship is in duality.
There's a sun
There's a sun
There's a sun inside the earth.
And I'm talking to you, God, through these two black holes
And there ain't no telling how far down it goes.
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10. |
The Fool
04:54
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Riding on the dark beast I pedal
Concrete is the modern meadow
All alone beside of myself
All paths are my path.
No one remains numberless
As we walk to meet The World.
Yes even God plays The Fool
Hiding inside each one of us.
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