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I'll Never Sleep Again

by Birds & Batteries

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Heart of Gold 03:49
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Jungles (Oceans) 02:27
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I'll Never Sleep Again 03:33
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I'm not tired I'm alive And I'm wondrin' How to stay that way 'Cause I was young once I could be young again I'll cast out in a small boat With a wooden fin And I'll never sleep again I'll stay up all night Just to stay alive I could take a late walk Through sunken countrysides Past the old docks Past the harbor lights Under rusty fishing boats Rock through the night I'll never sleep again No, I'll never sleep again
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A Passenger 02:34
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When I'm haunted By the ghost of me I think I see him in our towns and cities And in our jungles In a war of vines The world against itself We could drag a steam boat right through the trees and never sleep again Oh… Here comes the mud And it's filling our houses A rooftop is a vessel And a man is just a passenger A room is a vessel now And a man is just a vessel
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Ocarina 03:07
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A song will help us reconstruct the time we had The ocarina, it's never let me down And when the world goes under water, swamps will rise Stay with me We feel the water in our sinking shoes It's under water now, and into the night we go with everyone Give me a song to remember the world by Play it on The Ocarina And late at night we used to sneak around the aquarium The shark tank gives a half-light, and you're next to me The sadness of polar bears and the ecstasy Of breaking and entering, oceanography Ocarina Ocarina You're like a summer, a never-ending summer when the best days are long You're like a summer, a never-ending summer when the best days are long There was a summer that came before the fall
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After A Flood 03:19
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Take off your shoes and lay them next to mine They've carried you far enough I'll get you yours and then I'll get me mine We've been walking through the mud one at a time Take all the leaves and bring them in the house And in the hall so we can see Soaked through, they'll stick to the hardwood floor I think they belong with you and me Take off your shoes and lay them next to mine They've carried you far enough Down in the mines you have strived alone We're gonna shine the diamond in the rough
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Star Clusters 03:46
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Stars cannot harbor their substance forever But must return a portion of it to the medium from which they formed Stars cannot harbor their substance forever but must return a portion of it to the space around them Stars that were born together stay together for a while in associations known as star clusters Out there in the open Where the big things happen slowly I can feel it coming towards me I'm like a skater in a crack the whip
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Turnstyles 04:32
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Graduation was bleak, and I was drunk enough to speak So I offered you a haircut: your mohawk was looking sad enough You said you liked it that way We shrugged it off, we said ok I'm finding out, every time, that I shine a brand new dime Or when I go through the turnstiles and the tokens cycle back again The tokens cycle back again They carry cakes in boxes, those slippery old foxes Sliding under fences and running into rainy intersections And dodging yellow traffic, the drivers blinded by red flashes And I'm thinking about your haircut, wishing I had some tattoos Maybe then you'd let me cut your hair while whistling the blues I've covered up all the bases and I've left all stones well turned And I've built expensive bridges just to let them all get burned And now the bandits and the farmers will have to wait their turn You're mine for the taking, and the tokens cycle back again The tokens cycle back again
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The Squeaky Wheel 03:54
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The squeaky wheel gets the oil The squeaky wheel gets the oil Make a sound while you toil The squeaky wheel gets the oil And when you're down on your luck—and rusty Well nobody's gonna give a fuck—just let me know You just have to let me know The squeaky wheel says so And when you're down on your knees And you're aiming to please Make a sound for me baby The squeaky wheel… Yes make a sound just for me Make a sound and then you'l see It's the only way I know How to give you my sympathy The squeaky wheel gets the oil The squeaky wheel gets the oil To the victor, the spoils The squeaky wheel gets the oil And when you're down in the hush Of a jungle, green and lush You can hear the mating call The squeaky wheel gets it all
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Soft Surveillance 05:04
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n the lakes and in the canyons All the states wrapped into one All those shapes like origami Colorado, Oregon All the wash could be remembered The soft surveillance of laundry loads And every mile that passes under The lowest highways and country roads And all the fires of industry The things we had forgotten Well they're coming back to me Running down the dunes Blazing trails through Appalachia All the trucks of Tokyo And all my blue jeans are dying Telecasts from Mexico New glory days are here again They bring me back to something That I felt once in a dream Running down the dunes And tumbling towards the sea In the lakes and in the canyons Years of footage down the drain—and a curse of metal Sinking down to the bottom Where it lives forever in our hearts
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Humanization 07:20
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Humanization, oh yeah, humanization Humanization, that's what we need Now tell me a story about a nation With numbers and families, you better round down Walking home on a map Just walking home on a map Satellites could track our footsteps Pixels and grains of sand Soon enough the stuff of life will be precisely contained Every leaf Its every gesture Sealed and filed away There is a code Coincidence holds the truth inside itself Atlantic blue and digital pictures We'll bring us back somehow Deep in the hall of records The documents and documenters Press record It will all be stored Sealed and filed away
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Mythology (The Great Director) 08:27
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In the land of the landslides, flash floods and valleys of stars People are drinking in alleys and kissing in bars We wear suits sewn with gold lace, brass straps and nylon guitars And it's good to be a mariachi, we work hard Five wives and a hundred lifetimes And a Mexico-goldrush-execution Federales will always win But the bandits will choose to get shot with their hats on You fought in the second world war and you quake at the memory Of one one-armed salute As you wade on to certain death Using celluloid to capture flesh The great director Your father and you Well you're the best of friends, and Humphrey Bogart too Old collaborators Drinking whiskey with cast and crew Discovering women who become icons There's monkeys in your hotel room They've strewn shit about but you keep them around You've got eyes that light up around horses And you lead the hunt every time You have proven yourself as a boxer But you always wanted to be a great painter As long as you've got a song in your heart All your cameras could fall apart As long as you've got a song in your heart

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released August 27, 2007

Written and produced by Mike Sempert

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