1. |
Exposure
03:07
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Paralyzed frozen faces are staring at the screen
Bodies feeling everything of all that they see
Let out the scream from deep inside
Through the eye into the mind
You can't look away
And you can't turn away
And you feel the pain
Tune into the undercurrent and feed your anger
Take in the images and replace what's in your eye
Did this happen to me
Or did i see it on my TV?
Cos these flashing images
And big bold letters
Are infecting me
You're dying of
Exposure
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2. |
Can't Wait
03:15
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I just can't wait, so I won't wait any longer
I'll surround myself with the things that don't mean
What they used to mean
I don't need your calendar
To prove that I'm wrong
I take what i feel with my two hands
And try to sell it on
We knew when we started
We were broken-hearted
Always inclined to
Loosen connections
...if it's gonna happen
it's already started...
I just can't wait, so I won't wait any longer
I'll surround myself with the things that don't mean
What they used to mean
And i'll remember my name
And i'll discover who I am
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3. |
Anyone
04:45
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I can be anyone else if you want me to
somebody better for yourself
I can be anyone else you can think of
someone for you to make yourself
I can be another one like you
You can be just like me
I can be another part of you
You can be just like me
I can be another part of you
You can be just like me
I'll wake up next to you cos I'm right on your laptop screen
I can be anything else if you want me to
something that's perfect for yourself
I can be the one who makes you feel safe from
these fears you use to break yourself
I can make you up to be who you want to be
removing everything yourself
I can be the one who makes you feel better now
healing the wound inside youself
I can be another one like you
You can be just like me
I can be another part of you
You can be just like me
I can be another one like you
You can be just like me
I'll wake up right next to you cos I'm right on your laptop screen
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I have so many voices
they are the parts of me
it's too hard to keep track of
what voice does the talking anymore
and so, everyone will have these voices
that they don't want to hear
they just keep talking without listening
too tired to talk back
just acknowledge and move on
I am exhausted by the effort it takes to sleep
don't forget you deserve this
and know that the web that gives us life
traps us for the spider
and oxygen burns us from the inside
time lost it's meaning too long ago
stuck in a moment with too many faces
breath in consuming life
breath out expel your death
emotional retreat
I can't tell if I am sad these days
count down the countless moments
count down till there's none left to give
count down the countless moments
count down till there's none left to give anymore
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5. |
New Maps for Tomorrow
03:39
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How do you grow a whole new worldview?
Will they burn artists?
What's the price of bread again?
Been rising?
Can't eat what I make
So just shrivel and die
Entering a pantheon of your own making
Embracing this retreat from sanity
Letting go the rot of ages
For freedom and for vanity
Rise up neglected passions
Seeping through my skin now
They wake me up erupting rashes
You used to believe
You believed in trying to believe
And every age will offer up its prophets
And every prophet leads you to a desert
He'll try to make you so alone and oh so right
But you still can't understand your failures
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6. |
Ghosts
03:46
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Existing in the shadows between
It's too hard to connect, too codependent
You only feel peace when everyone is asleep
Existing in the shadows between
I don't want to die but i don't know how to live
I have all the pieces but I can not make them fit
Work another job till your unemployed again
The rent costs extra cos you never pay on time
Feeling the shame from your sleep cycles
You're never awake when anybody wants you to
You're never awake to see anybody else
It's too hard to wake up and acknowledge another day
Existing in the shadows between
Too hard to connect, too codependent
You only feel peace when everyone is asleep
Existing in the shadows between
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7. |
Again and Again
04:41
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There's some things I will never sing about
You'll have to rip the words right from my mouth
You're gonna have to live in doubt
I know I'll never know the way to make it end
And everything I do is just a reason not to make more plans
And I am happier that way
Like water kissing smoke, we pass without a trace
We make the mistakes again, again and again
We make the same mistakes and then we move on
We walk in circles...
1990's in my blood, compelling me to burn
1990's in my blood, compelling me to return
Why are you the way that you are? Should've been so different
No, nothing's really changed - the same old argument
You're throwing out your things - our things of consequence
Begin to lose your head when you start to notice the pain
Here we go again and again, here we go again and again
Though we were born in sin we try again and again
The records of what happened are missing
Can't reconstruct so just forget
Save the receipt cause you might want it
And all the things that I have done
And all the things that still remain
I can't explain to you, it's just "the way that I am"
We're suffering symptoms of time but we can't change course
We make the same mistakes, we get the same results
We get the same results and then we move on
We walk in circles...
1990's in my blood, compelling me to burn
20th century in my bones, compelling me to return
Why are you the way that you are? Should've been so different
But nothing's really changed...
You're throwing out your things - all your things of consequence
Begin to lose your head wWhen you start to notice the pain
Here we go again and again, here we go again and again
Though we were born in sin We try again and again
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8. |
Time Adds Up
03:38
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Make use of things, make use of time
Time to fix everything or leave it all behind
Open up your suitcase, moving things around
Going from one point to another point
Keep the clock in mind, keep the end in sight
You're no better than yourself
No way to run from your senses
Nowhere to run everywhere's the same
No way to hide from a mirror
When your reflection is someone else
(Time adds up)
Push yourself hard, get nothing done
It's always the same, why bother for no reason
If you're a decent man, why can't you listen?
If you're a decent man, why can't you listen?
It's okay to need a story for yourself
Adjust the finer details and take another breath
You'll give yourself up, but it won't be enough
To erase what it meant, when it was so clear
(Time adds up)
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9. |
Different March
04:53
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Take on the world and put it on your shoulders
Hold up the sky and carry it's weight
The hero and the martyr fighting each other
He can't save who can't be saved
They fall down together
You can't find sweet release
You want what you want
And what you want will never be enough
Taking on more than you can handle
It all falls out of your hands
You're falling out of time
It's time to start a different march
You are the sky in your high tower
Looking through the glass Into the crowd below
Always knew it'd come to this
Your final judgement's here
Judge, jury, executioner
It's time for the verdict
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Nancy Babich Ithaca, New York
(Nancy Babich is a band. It's currently four people.)
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