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Woody Creek
03:36
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Woody Creek
Cold wind calls through the open door
When nobody wants you anymore
And the dues paid in full have wiped you clean
Don’t have a dime for the dream machine
Live by the sword and die by the pen
Seen this time and time again
Live by the phone and die by the gun
All your weapons of mass destruction
Screens light up as a lover dies
Orphan dawn to the tweet filled night
We own the gods in whom we trust
We’ve all got one forty characters in us
Live by the feed and die onscreen
‘Til they delete your history
Live by the phone and die by the gun
All your weapons of mass destruction
Live by the sword and die by the pen
Seen this time and time again
Live by the phone and die by the gun
All your weapons of mass destruction
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2. |
West End Extra
03:22
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West End Extra
I was a fighter pilot
Before that I was in advertising
I was the playboy mansion
Before that I was a plane crash junkie
I was a war-room gamer
Before that I was an organ donor
I was a blown out subway
Before that I was a fast food giant
I was a mass grave digger
Before that I was just trigger happy
I was a drive-by drive thru
Before that I was just no one’s baby
I was a double decker
Before that I was a West End extra
I was a voice in the wilderness
Maybe somebody should have listened
I was the new headquarters
Before that I was a headless body
I was an Atlas rocket
Before that I was a deer in the forest
I was a DC-10 death
Before that I was a corporate lawyer
I was the megatonnage
Before that I was the lotus flower
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3. |
Elevator Shaft
03:03
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Elevator Shaft
Pull back the grill
Look down the elevator shaft
Make out the corpse of the dead bellboy
Spraddled down there in the half dark
I was alone before you
I’ll be alone before you remember
I was alone despite you
I’ll be alone before I’m without you
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4. |
Graham Greene
04:25
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Graham Greene
When the Aztec Jesus comes back
Through the streets of Atlantis
When the Aztec Jesus comes back
Through the streets of Atlantis
You'll find I'm well versed in the black art
Of being your lover
When the moon is full right above us
In the blue of the morning
When the moon is full right above us
In the blue of the morning
You'll find me sorry
But I won't be the one
The one who's got the worry
You've been reading Graham Greene
And I've been reading comics
You've been reading Graham Greene
And I've been reading comics
You find me wanting
But I just find that I'm...
Wanting more tobacco
Feet of gold and head of clay
Your beautiful body
Feet of gold and head of clay
Your beautiful body
I watch you dressing
And think of all the ways
I could get arrested
When the Aztec Jesus comes back
Through the streets of Atlantis
When the Aztec Jesus comes back
Through the streets of Atlantis
You'll find I'm well versed in the black art
Of being your lover
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5. |
The Fantail
02:09
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The Fantail
I am before you were
I hold the number cup
Contains the moving air
Beneath each beating wing
Each turn and glide to bring
Each note of song unborn
The fantail to your lawn
The night I’ll scoop you up
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6. |
Firecatching
03:29
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Firecatching
You’re fighting a war with both hands tied behind you
Decisions made long ago
If the soul is a flame can it burn all the hatred from me?
Can it leave me your name before you go?
But you won’t be there in the night when they come
For the Firecatching
You’ll be on the road safe and gone
And you won’t see me ever again
But you know
Someday I’ll leave my mark on your door
Mark on your door
Mark on your door
Then you’ll know
You’re living mistakes that I made as your attorney
In a court of fear and fatal flaws
If your love has a spark can it light one last fire for me?
Can you leave me warmth inside these walls?
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7. |
Tell A Lie
04:28
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Tell a Lie
I’ve been waiting
I’ve been waiting for the start of life
I’ve been waiting
I’ve been waiting for the end of life
Tell a lie
Tell you I’ve heard of you
Tell a lie
Tell you how good you are
I’ve been laughing
I’ve been laughing my ass off tonight
You’ve been crying
You’ve been crying like a girl tonight
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8. |
Chance
04:01
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Chance
Put the air miles between us
Pull down the cone of silence
Take the heat out of the crisis
Draw a line under your violence
We can’t leave it anymore to chance
Your psychic’s losing her powers
Your past lives are days and hours
They don’t underwrite your intentions
They really don’t rate a mention
We can’t leave it anymore to chance
Chance will take us
Chance will break us
So I’ll take a vow of surety
To wash away your mask of purity
Take my boots off in the corner
I love her too much to warn her
We can’t leave it anymore to chance
Chance will take us
Chance will break us
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9. |
Mid-Flight Man
03:40
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Mid-flight Man
For the hometown crowd if you're from here
Check the stands from the ropes and you're not there
And that's why I'm a mid- flight man
And that's why I'm a mid -flight man
In a love that's lost as you found it
Fall off, you can't get back on it
And that's why I'm a mid- flight man
And that's why I'm a mid- flight man
When the canvas lies below like the canyon floor
I'll take 'I liked you once' if you can't love me anymore
Meet you my girl on the boardwalk in summer
Be the one that you can't remember
And that's why I'm a mid- flight man
And that's why I'm a mid- flight man
Are we done here now?
Are we done here?
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Charcoal Burners Dunedin, New Zealand
With your skeleton crew in the cockpit pornographic zombie flight attendants serving cyanide in first class and I'm someone in economy's sole baggage I'm the body they're bringing home and heads will roll in the bowling alleys of the town when the news gets out might as well just overshoot the airport set her down in ten million parts take as many of the rebels with us - Relate (Colours) ... more
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