1. |
Panorama
03:41
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Well I want a panorama
Just so I can see it all
360 degrees around me
You could watch a year go by like a house-fly
Time's up on the wall
It's got so many eyes
And not one will sympathize
Oh I want a panorama
One look, wide-eyed and alive
360 and 5 degrees around the sun
Because there's so much to see
And it's racing behind me
But some how, I'm gonna break free
From the boundaries that separate the world from me
Well I could dissipate into the landscape
And fade in to black sand
All my big plans into sparrows and whip-por-wils
And the night jar
And the chimney swift
All carrying them out
Without me, yes I know they will carry them
Oh I want a panorama aaah
Cause we can only try not to always be alone
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2. |
A Million People
04:00
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You never seem to let go
Of everything you think you know
You never let go of what you know
I know it's hard to do
I know it's hard
But I wish you would
Cause there's a million people
Doin' what your doin'
And if you were my kin
At the table it would begin
And I'd try to talk to you
Maybe we could talk
And I wish we would
Cause there's a million people
Doin' what your doin'
And there's a million ways
That you could change
And I wish you would
Now it's time for you to let go
Of everything you used to know
It's not that hard to do
No it's not that hard
And I think we should
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3. |
Raincheck
04:46
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I'm gonna have to take a raincheck
Cause every time I do
It just gets me through
Another day, another delay
Don't it slow you down?
You put it off for tomorrow
You gonna have to take a raincheck
Well if I leave, I'm gonna regret it
Because I'll never know what might have been
And if I stay, another delay now
Oh no, no
We'll never know what hit us
And if I leave, I'm gonna regret it
But, if we stay strong, I know we could carry on
And like a stream, we keep on rolling along
And as we grow, we flow to the ocean
Down down down, let my love come falling down
Let it flow on down to the ocean
It seems the safest thing is to postpone
And we could play this game another day
When someone's calling you on the telephone
Oh no no,
Call me back tomorrow
It seems the safest thing is to postpone
If I was the only man left alive
I'd still be forced to decide
What to do.
What to do...
You got friends all over town
And when they see you there, they call out your name
I love to hear your name called out
Then I know we got friends in town
And you got a lot of love with in you
You got a lot of love, we're just hanging around
Don't you hold it back no longer
Down down down, let your love come falling down
Let it flow on down to the ocean
If I was the only man left alive
I'd still be forced to decide
What to do
What to do...
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4. |
Strange Kind of Mirror
04:36
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If you turn around, we go back
Like a train runs on a track
We used to put that record on
Long ago but not that long...
And now your singin' a song
That I knew when I was young
We can only see ourselves
In the people we love
And its a strange kind of mirror
Yeah its a strange kind of mirror
Well I live through you
And you live through me
I wouldn't know me
If I didn't know you
And we live what we see
We live vicariously
We can only see ourselves
We can only see ourselves
And it's a strange kind of mirror
Well we pull as we connect
We absorb as we reflect
And there is another side
And its not that hard to find...
But the more that I hate
The more I can't relate
There must be something in me
That I don't wanna see
And you remind me
You remind me
Of how bad I can be
And it's a strange kind of mirror
And to the people we discard
I know your workin' hard
But you don't talk like me
We sure as hell don't agree
And I can tell
That your angry
But that just makes me angry
But the more that I love
The more I'll rise above
There must be something in me
That I'm trying to see
And you remind me
You remind me
Of how good I could be
And it's a strange kind of mirror
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5. |
We're an Industry
04:27
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You and me we are an industry
You and me babe, we're an industry
You and me we are an industry
You and me, you and me
Well its hot at the center of the earth
That spot of pyre and liquid core
She causes natural disasters
And it's hot
At the center of the earth
Tectonic plates belong together
Ahh Ahh
Like all the continents we were held together
In the time of volcanoes
It's hot at the center of the earth
White noise and molten harmony
We cause natural disasters
And it's hot, at the center of the earth
Tectonic plates belong together
Ahh Ahh
Like all the continents we were held together
In the time of volcanoes
You and me we are an industry
You and me babe, we're an industry
You and me, we are an industry
You and me, you and me
Well its hot at the center of the earth
White noise and molten harmony
We cause natural disasters and its hot
At the center of the earth
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6. |
Another Inferno
04:48
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Sometimes I think that dying is just like driving
Down a dark highway
So far away from you
3AM all alone, no music on the radio
My only guide is the fading light
And all the trucks that moan and shudder
Like ghost ships
The wheels of the soul
They'll be dragged, by dark magnets, up mountains
Through the black and into the night
And sometime's we come upon the glow of another inferno
But they scatter like sparks into the suburbs
Aw and then, nothing again
It's when I'm driving
Down a dark highway
All alone, no radio
That I can't help, thinkin' about, fading out
No I can't help thinkin' about, fading out
No I can't help thinkin' about, fading out
Yeah, I can't help thinkin' about, fading out
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The machine and the vampire
Well they need fresh blood to keep alive
And just to keep goin'
Just to keep the grinding teeth oiled and rolling
Well it's clear now
That evil exists
And it casts a shadow on us all
The things I've done and the things I've seen
Well they changed me
"What doesn't kill you, won't always make you stronger
What doesn't kill you, won't always make you stronger
What doesn't kill you..."
Won't leave you alone
I had no choice but to point a gun at a man
And it cast a shadow over him
But in the city of sand
That man can explode and take you with him
Well it seems that good evil and exist
And they're separated by a name
While others might claim
That two are simply one and the same- oh no
Cause when the teeth touch your neck and break the skin,
They've sucked you in.
I once had a friend, but now he's gone
And I watched him leave in a flash
He walked through the door
I don't wanna tell you anymore
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8. |
The Villain (LP Version)
04:39
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Oh, city faces
They fade away from me
The mind erases
What the heart can't see
And I'm trading places
With the man across the street and I know
That those city faces
Will fade away from me
And now I am a man of constant sorrow
And I know...
That I've taken all the love I could borrow
And I've seen days of golden suns
But they changed
Now I believe in the villain,
I believe in the thief
Who steals what he is given
And keeps it underneath
I believe in the villain
I believe in the thief
Who steals what he is given
He holds it in his teeth
Now you've become an abstraction
You've become an idea
And when you represent something to someone
Your face will disappear
Yeah you're the core demographic
We're the hands, you're the feet
Now take us where we are going:
Where the heart can't see
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9. |
Some Hypnotic Flash
05:04
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Cold bones and ring tones
By some hypnotic flash
We are knocked out cold, our switches flipped
We all fall, starry and peaceful
And if the universe fell asleep
We'd never know the difference
But maybe something like an ice-age
Could preserve us, hold us
With electronic lullabyes
All things will sing
Let the centuries pass
And powerlines sway
Baby when we wake up
We'll be together
When we wake up, we'll walk
In the tall grass and remember
When the day comes we will wake up, we will be together
When it comes around, I know we're gonna feel right at home
And if you break through the town walls
Of some big stage production
Tell me where are you in the story?
If you ask me, I'd say the start
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