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Rain Wheel
03:09
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It was to come before
It was to walk away
It was to come before
It was to walk away
Unforgotten, underneath
Out of breath and everything
Stories turning into rocks on the break
Salty tasting erosion concave
Inhale howling
Whirlpool brave
Teeth click shatter
Arms to take
Written on it
Time to save
It was to come before
It was to walk away
It was to tell them something
It couldn't say
Tell it to me, tell it to me
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Underneath
03:16
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I remember the buildings
I remember the stink
Toads that laughed at me as a child are now becoming extinct
Extinct!
Chairs of doubt are always filled with the over-paid and under-skilled
Underneath
Dance of war
Awaken Jacob
Barrow his genetic makeup
And then what?
Chewed up armistice from voices and access
Chamberlain jellyfish try to surface
Underneath
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3. |
Beta
04:50
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4. |
Prophet Clown
03:44
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Contrary prophet clown
Source of an accidental sound
A suburban low lowlife mercenary was the only one around
Millennium twits, can I laugh at you now?
I'd profit from your arrogance if only I knew how
Just sit back and open wide
Wider, wider
This door opens from the inside
Deep inside her
Dogs of war are now in place
Man's best friend wears an armored face
Still waiting in the trees
With a brand new old disease
When chainsaws cut the center
It soon will cross the seas
Just sit back and open wide
Wider, wider
This door opens from the inside
Deep inside her
Boarded up and crumbled away
Even the basement mice won't stay
Decay is just a way to say
Everything was history yesterday
Decay is just a way to say
Everything was history yesterday
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Chain
02:55
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Chain of the living
Chain of the dead
By the chain we're shaped
By the chain we're lead
Will the legless politician still give a stump speech?
Will the pudding shape our policy when the pistol's out of reach?
We want to show the brilliant children the species can be redesigned
The time has come for the world to know the power of a modern Frankenstein
Chain of the living
Chain of the dead
Connected by hunger
Joined at the head
Our chains are always linked in time
And the chain keeps growing
The prey ate the hunter and the bad ate the good
The pen ate the paper and the sword understood
The paradox is an answer to a very simple question
Big fish had to learn about allergic reactions
And the chain keeps growing...
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6. |
Gravitys Rim
03:32
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A dorsal vein
The size of two fingers
Half above the surface lingers
Should he embrace your morals or your lover?
Covered in honey and sheathed in rubber
We are air
We are everywhere
Trapped inside the cookie jar
If he gets out, he won't get far
He needs your compass and you need his direction
Wake up darling for your morning inspection
Should he caress your significant other?
If he does it again, will you do his brother?
We are air
We are everywhere
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Calibrations
02:52
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A word on the lips
A lie in the making
Block his progress, catch his fall
Let his master make the call
Passed the age of taking sides
In the corners of your eyes it lies
If we would all turn green tomorrow
It wouldn't mean a thing
We'd soon divide amongst ourselves
According to the pitch we sing
The wheel is shrinking
Snake swallows its tail
Passed the age of taking sides
In the corners of your eyes it lies
Alchemist, lungs of gold
He should've stopped when he was told
If we would all turn green tomorrow
It wouldn't mean a thing
We'd soon divide amongst ourselves
According to the pitch we sing
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8. |
Ice Borers
02:13
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Voices in a freezing rain
Driving all the rats insane
Creature, sister, brother come around
Burrow deeper, tunnel underground
They can hear you
Draining vacuum rodent blades
They consume what penguin saves
Plunging, through the ice
Grouping, circling twice
Feeding, cut and slice
Poison, love-bite, dizzy, going numb
Moving southward, welcome here they come
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9. |
Code
02:10
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10. |
Obsidian
04:49
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You want to hear noise and you want to hear screams
When the laughter begins, will you know what it means?
We are obsidian
Returning through the glass again
We are obsidian
Feel the mirror twisting in
The seventh level is closer now
Character emissary on his way to mars
Some cheap card tricks and frippery and gigs in leather bars
Sit the plate in front of him
See if he smells the poison
Poison isn't possible
We just might have to brick him
Yes, feels like obsidian
I saw a shining from the dragon's den
All the sweat and all the heat couldn't make his life complete
You should choose your enemies as wisely as your friends
We are obsidian
We reflect the fifth of men
All they offered, all they'd do
Wouldn't get his image through
Unfolding situation on the outskirts of the city
Tree-dweller found the earthling cut in two but felt no pity
We're ready now, we're going in
Blackness shattered, a liquid din
We are obsidian
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11. |
The Happy Box
03:33
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It's happy in here
Thinking everywhere
Page by page
Coloring everyone
Lip on a maze
It's happy in here
Shy away through
Tangle up tripping
Feet go too
It's happy in here
Cover me outro
Up to the top
Tuck me in tightly in my box
It's happy in here
Shy away through
Tangle up tripping
Feet go too
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12. |
Parameter Seven
02:37
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Please release this troubled soul
Life in the city has taken its toll
Please release this troubled soul
And they just kept coming
He dreams of flowers from other worlds
Which could explain his trouble with girls
He said no, but they said yes
Brownies started to undress
Please release this troubled soul
Life in the city has taken its toll
Please release this troubled soul
Kindly state your preference, please
Take your pill, protect your knees
And never, ever, ever eat these
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13. |
Patterns
02:54
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Laughter by this definition
If you can predict an end in a room full of classes
Remove everything the light has shown
In the laughter a memory in motion is real
Can she ride to me?
Remove everything the light has shown
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14. |
Porker
03:39
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A parasite administration baffled by imagination
Bubble-head with a bubble brat gave up her name for a Cheshire Cat
Taught not to accept her human feature
Carve it and starve it into a new creature
He will not heal who cannot pay
Building a grand mediocrity
Blue cross before the oath they pray
A shrine to Hippocrates's hypocrisy
Monkeys with new haircuts in shirts that claim "no fear"
Slave labor in the garment world leaves more cash for beer
Diet pill and bulimic joy
Models shaped like Klein's pool boy
Taught not to accept her human feature
Carve it and starve it into a new creature
Darwinian appraiser
Female form eliminated
Asexual erasure fashion guides emaciated
Oh, I feel so fat
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15. |
Sandtrap
02:12
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16. |
Core
03:10
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Liquid dementia pulled and influenced
Your position on the list
Through the black highway
Vegas
At the core
The passing days veiled underneath
Taught to replicate and breed
Cut the hand
At the core
Tore the casing from the wall
The laughing way
The curtain hid us all
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Creeper
02:42
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Creeper in your cellar
Creeper in your bed
Time to come out of the hole
Time the creepers took control
Wealthy sinner, lonely saint
Creepers on the hunt for taint
Through the walls they come
So familiar to the numb
Creeper in your lover
Creeper in your head
Out of touch or out of place?
Did you see its smile?
Did you see its face?
Creepers wait outside your door
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18. |
Schlangenauge
02:16
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19. |
Fossilized
02:12
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Fossilized, flesh to stone
Forgotten face, a lonely home
One hit wonder
Two year careers
A fatal blunder
Scrapbook fears
Buried, fossilized
Dinosaur with a Vegas whore
Royalty's revolving door
Fossilized, flesh to stone
Forgotten face, a lonely home
Neanderthals, misunderstood
The ancestors of Hollywood
Guilty dreams of those he screwed
The rest will soon be interviewed
Once predictable, soon expendable
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20. |
Albatross
03:08
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Thanks a lot, lady
But my cheesepocket's full
I wish I knew what planet you're from
Maybe you'd seem less alien
Oh lovely, I'd whistle you a melody
But I haven't been able since I was three
Played in the yard under a tree
When a mean old robin came after me
Go ahead, laugh away
Just wait and see how robin makes you pay
Now you've gone and done it, boy
Honey, I'd sing you a melody
But my feathered friends won't let me be
Rising up
Floating down
My new wings make no sound
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21. |
A Perfect Lawn
01:44
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22. |
Goatweed
02:56
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Look at all the prefab shells
Burger joint and cheap motels
What exactly are weekends for?
When work is such a bore
All my weekends made for Michelob
All the pills that I take
Take me where the sun never shines
Where regicide is still a crime
I will eat my shit
And I will worship it
I will...
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23. |
Evasion
02:40
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24. |
H M P
03:22
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25. |
Smartass
02:52
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26. |
Chain (Alternate Master)
02:56
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Chain of the living
Chain of the dead
By the chain we're shaped
By the chain we're lead
Will the legless politician still give a stump speech?
Will the pudding shape our policy when the pistol's out of reach?
We want to show the brilliant children the species can be redesigned
The time has come for the world to know the power of a modern Frankenstein
Chain of the living
Chain of the dead
Connected by hunger
Joined at the head
Our chains are always linked in time
And the chain keeps growing
The prey ate the hunter and the bad ate the good
The pen ate the paper and the sword understood
The paradox is an answer to a very simple question
Big fish had to learn about allergic reactions
And the chain keeps growing...
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27. |
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