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Skybot
02:19
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“Skybot”
Warning, you are at liberty
Danger, nothing’s happening
Wanted, attempted honesty
At large, in for questioning
Think it over now you can’t be sure
You may be right maybe you know better
Caution, false security
Speaking out, confidentially
Quiet, is someone listening?
Pilot, are you answering?
Think it over now you can’t be sure
You may be right maybe you know better
Think it over now you can’t be sure
You may be right maybe you know better
Finding, there’s nothing more to see
Lying, right underneath your feet
Spotlight, might be following
Silence, why are you running?
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2. |
Panic
01:35
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“Panic”
I looked at my watch
It was half past you
Time is running out
Between me and you
I see in your eyes
My how you despise
Can’t look past your lies
Into starry skies
Panic
Panic
Now look in my eyes
See through my disguise
Love you realize
Now are you surprised
I don’t want to be
Your true enemy
Got the same disease
But we disagree
Panic
Panic
I looked at my watch
It was half past you
Time is running out
Between me and you
I see in your eyes
My how you despise
Can’t look past your lies
Three two one goodbye
Panic
Panic panic panic
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3. |
Mirror
02:23
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“Mirror”
I want what you want
You want what I want
I’ve got what you’ve got
You’ve got me now what
Yes dear diary
All things being equal
You can’t walk away
When it’s time to face the
Mirror, mirror, are you hearing?
Mirror, mirror, no hard feelings
I know what you know
You know what I know
I go where you go
You know what I do
Yes dear diary
All things being equal
You can’t walk away
When it’s time to face the
Mirror, mirror, are you hearing?
Mirror, mirror, no hard feelings
I watch what you watch
You’re done when I’m not
I had what you lost
You win I’m all out
Yes dear diary
All things being equal
You can’t walk away
When it’s time to face the
Mirror, mirror, are you hearing?
Mirror, mirror, no hard feelings
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4. |
What Goes Up
02:19
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“What Goes Up”
When learning how to fly
Don’t look to the ground
An arrow in the sky
May fall into your eye
Have to tip your wing
Into the mighty wind
If this brings you down
Will you look up again?
What goes up may not come down
What goes off just spins around
Nothing to be gained
Nothing to be lost
Step into the rain
Uncover the drain
What flows up could make you drown
Kick and float to run aground
Plant the tree on hands and knees
The seed inside grows both ways
Then you pull the weeds
As they make you sneeze
Rake the falling leaves
Blowing in the breeze
What grows up from the underground
Is it what you never found?
If you need to re-believe
Climb the tree, ask it please
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5. |
Boomerang
01:47
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“Boomerang”
On your mark
False start
Live with the error
Hey, not so far
Asking for care
While people starve
Burn up your block
To keep it hot
Your monthly check
Already spent
Table for two
Plenty for all
Bad news tonight
Where has it gone?
One coin to play
This tilted game
Cross do not walk
Close mouth and talk
Private drinking clubs
Keep the public trust
Thorns on a rose
Swept under rug
Steal from the reich
What you don’t like
Hear the alarm
Lost in the storm
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6. |
Mad Reactor
02:01
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“Mad Reactor”
Turn the knob
Way past on
The pink exhaust
A poison fog
This toxic generation is drinking sewer water
A race of jolly rogers the faces growing older
Switch the light
To ultra bright
Not even banks
Can heat the night
Because human life is cheaper than electric power
A leaky cooling tower is shocking every outlet
Interrupting this transmission
This is not a test
Run for your lives
Stay where you are
The mad reactor
Has lost its temper
Turn the knob
It won’t shut down
Psycho kilowatts
Times overload
The circuit-breaking defect is fission boiling over
Neutrons come to conquer like banging nails through paper
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Breaking
02:45
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“Breaking”
Manhole miner, street shoe shiner
Forklift loader, grease gun soldier
Checkout counter, bracket mounter
Switchboard switcher, flatcar hitcher
Furnace feeder, drainpipe cleaner
Iron bender, engine mender
Latex sprayer, house bricklayer
Wire connector, trash collector
Breaking, and remaking
Tearing, and repairing
Test strip scanner, cold soup canner
Post stamp licker, concrete mixer
Plastic molder, paper folder
Breaking, and remaking
Tearing, and repairing
Roadway paver, tin can saver
Candy wrapper, bottle capper
Rodent killer, sidewalk driller
Breaking, and remaking
Tearing, and repairing
Scraping, and reshaping
Tracing, and erasing
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8. |
Mercy
02:20
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“Mercy”
Money pays where justice fails
Don’t try to deny it, buy it
Courtroom cash to pay the bail
Cash to keep it quiet, quiet
Corporation checkbook cries
And buys the mercy of the court
Lawyer spins a web of words
Round an unsuspecting jury
Witness passes cross exam
With his incorrected answers
Under-table manners count
Upon the mercy of the court
Happy hunting watchdog man
Guards the vaults of special interests
Iron nightstick in his hand
Keeps away the eyes suspicious
Under-table manners count
Upon the mercy of the court
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Paydirt
02:07
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“Paydirt”
Cotton candy cows on a stick
Alligator clowns wrestling
Bicycle monkey on a wire
Siamese giants spitting fire
See small man in lion’s mouth
Catch the snake boy’s cannon shot
Tightrope dancing elephants
High-dive lady sawed in half
Take a spin the wheel shoot the duck
Watch the trapeze twins go flying off
Pull the tiger’s tail win the slots
Feed the human hippopotamus
Ride the cyclone round it goes
Where it stops nobody knows
Funhouse tickets going fast
Get your first now while they last
Hurry hurry hurry, step right up
Hurry hurry hurry, try your luck
Hurry hurry hurry, you can’t go wrong
Hurry hurry hurry, it’s what you want
Throw your poker chips bait and switch
Hook line and sinker now go fish
800-pound gorilla in the mist
Meets raging bull in the labyrinth
Pick a card the king of earth
Bet your life for what it’s worth
Ace of hearts worn up his sleeve
Stuffed bear takes on Hercules
Hurry hurry hurry, step right up
Hurry hurry hurry, try your luck
Hurry hurry hurry, you can’t go wrong
Hurry hurry hurry, it’s what you want
Hurry hurry hurry, step right up
Hurry hurry hurry, try your luck
Hurry hurry hurry, you can’t go wrong
Hurry hurry hurry, it’s what you want
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10. |
S. Fiction
02:36
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“S. Fiction”
When the stork brought you around
Mom gave you a magic wand
Found yourself in wonderland
With a looking glass in hand
Broke the mirror in your room
Stayed inside for seven years
Stepped upon a sidewalk crack
Thought you broke your mother’s back
Cross your fingers, throw the dice, hold rabbit’s foot
Dial a prayer, cut the cards, knock on wood
Spilled a shaker full of salt
Through a handful in your eye
Crossed the path of three black cats
Ran away from vampire bats
Horoscopic fortune teller cast a spell
Tossed your fortune down into the wishing well
Took the psychic man’s advise
Walked on water turned to ice
Make-believing sacrifice
Better luck in afterlife
Crystal Ball is crystal clear
Says you won’t live out the year
Climbed up to a mountaintop
Heard the signal to jump off
Cross your heart and hope to die, it kills the pain
Stick a needle in your eye, blinded faith
Took the psychic man’s advise
Walked on water turned to ice
Make-believing sacrifice
Better luck in afterlife
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Eggplant
01:52
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“Eggplant”
A simple thought so ill-pronounced
Will bend the pattern deeply found
All is backwards in the mirror
Seeing what’s behind you
Protect a view so incomplete
The forceful side will learn defeat
Standing clear but out of place
The cautious side will be disgraced
I am a flawed machine
I don’t know what I mean
Why do I even try?
I can’t seem to get it right
With half a mind and beat-down heart
In deep together, world’s apart
Bite the hand that feeds the dog
Putting foot down in mouth
Throwing down glove, hat’s in the ring
Can’t raise the bar, hit ceiling
Fall in line can’t keep straight face
Trapped inside an open cage
I am a flawed machine
I don’t know what I mean
Why do I even try
I can’t seem to get it right
Careful
Don’t come
Too close
To me
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12. |
Clockwise
02:53
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“Clockwise”
Work bees in a hive
Gears of enterprise
Dying to survive
Check in your name at the gate
Company claims an inmate
Instant coffee break
Won’t keep you awake
Feeding the copy machine
More of the same routine
May I take your order
And make it my habit
Personal profile
Got lost in a file
Now you’re too busy to tell
Answering telephone bells
Clock in, line up, shut down, fade out
Talk the way you’re told
Sell what you’ve been sold
Marking the calendar day
White collar turning to gray
Clock in, line up, shut down, fade out
Clock in, line up, shut down, fade out
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13. |
Bridge Out
02:32
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“Bridge Out”
The road you’re on you can’t get off
Bridge out now how will you get across?
You might have to take the long way around
When there is no easy way out
In what direction are now lost
Can’t wait to get there fast enough
You look for signs as they pass you by
Racing through the yellow lights
Now you’ve come so far
What’s the hurry up to see how close you are?
Are you breaking through the atmosphere?
Or always on the going there
In a race with everybody else
You get ahead of yourself
Looking for what you should watch out
Lost in the rush to get what you want
Are you bound to what makes you free?
Gone before you’re there to see
Now you’ve come so far
What’s the hurry up to see how close you are?
Now you’ve come so far
What’s the hurry up to see how close you are?
The road you’re on you can’t get off
Bridge out now how will you get across?
You might have to take the long way around
When there is no easy way out
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14. |
Rock
02:20
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“Rock”
I’m on a rock in the water
All alone, there’s no lifeguard
I’m on a rock, miles of water
Holding on as if it matters
Got this sinking feeling
Had it times before
Hope I’m only dreaming
Of the ocean floor
I’m on a rock getting tired
And the waves are getting higher
I’m in a rock under water
Losing hold, grabbing tighter
Now I’m floating freely
Nowhere near the shore
Have to practice breathing
And sleeping through the storms
This swim could be nice
Except for all the ice
A new stone would suffice
A little paradise
I’m on a rock treading water
I might survive, could retire
I’m on a rock in the water
With wooden rafts and ocean liners
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15. |
Gamma Ray
02:15
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“Gamma Ray”
One strange spaceman dropped to earth
Landed on a cactus point
Lone coyote, miles of dirt
Blinked his eyes and he was gone
Woke up on a busy street
Backfire sirens screamed so loud
Scratch voice barking in deceit
Plugged his ears and he was gone
He wandered at his will
For perfection he would run
Did he know that he had come?
To the place where things succumb
His short lesson had begun
Walked into a battle line
Asked the men to stop their crime
Shrapnel fired in reply
Closed his mouth and he was gone
In outer space where he was from
Only matched wits with the sun
Never lived in confusion
Next time back he’d think again
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16. |
Thank You
01:30
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“Thank You”
I see you
But you don’t see me
You don’t see me
I hear you
But you don’t hear me
You don’t hear me
You don’t hear me, sorry
I dare you
But you don’t dare me
You don’t dare me
I scare you
But you don’t scare me
You don’t scare me
You don’t scare me, sorry
I know you
But you don’t know me
You don’t know me
I owe you
But you don’t owe me
You don’t owe me
You don’t owe me, I’m not sorry
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