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Unfair Weather
02:09
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I bought it on the never-never
I went out in unfair weather
Ticking boxes, boxing clever
Under heavy manners, lighter than a feather
It goes off and on; it’s here, it’s gone
I was hell bent on fake leather
Don’t call it a jumper, you know it’s a sweater
Stop saying cheers (no one says that here)
Started out laughing, ended in tears.
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Gray Blue Green
02:33
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When I wake up early in the morning
I can’t recall what I should forget
It may come back to me later on
Maybe, but not yet
When you get so low, down looks like up
When you get so high, there’s no dark, there’s just light
When you’re in-between, lost in the gray blue green
Return to the dream.
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Dead Letter Rays
02:41
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It was a bad hand right from the start
A bent joker and the Queen of Hearts
It wasn’t on the cards
Or written in the stars
But you can’t win ‘em all
In fact you might lose it all
It’s just how it is
Don’t pay attention, there won’t be a quiz
Red letter days
Blue skies turn gray
And rain falls straight onto your face
But you can’t erase the tears that you taste
Riding clowns at the rodeo
Drinking like Edgar Allan Poe
Somebody’s gotta do it
I don’t care if you can see right through it
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Parachute Powerline
02:08
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It was a short part of a long time
It was a bolt of light out of a dark sky
Cherubs were singing
Bells were ringing out
Let’s hear it for the path of least resistance
You could see the future fading out in the distance
Cherubs were singing
Bells were ringing out
It was a short part of a long time
It was a parachute hanging from a powerline
Cherubs were singing
Bells were ringing out.
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TV/Radio
02:40
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To the witty, willing and wild
To the booster who just got back from Carolina
To the man in a wig talking about China
You’ve gotta lose it if you want to find it
It’s on the TV, it’s on the radio
Living above a bodega
I was snorting the remains of Mr. Alan Vega
They were throwing dice, I was throwing shade
You don’t have to make it up if you‘ve got it made.
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Tamed a Wild Beast
02:44
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If you moved a mountain
If you tamed a wild beast
If you walk on water or swim in the streets
Keep it to yourself
If you dream in color
Rolled around on the village green
If you’ve ever been there, if you know what I mean
Keep it yourself
If you turned a corner
If you rose above
If you ever wondered why you hate love
Keep it to yourself.
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Triple Rainbow
02:28
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Wherever you’re going
We’ll be under the same sky
Whatever fruit you’re growing
You’re still the apple of my eye
The sun will send a rainbow
To lighten up the sky
‘Cause after all dear
You were born to fly
Whenever it’s snowing
If a flake lands in your eye
Or if the wind’s blowing
And you’re high as a kite
The sun will send a rainbow
To lighten up the sky
‘Cause after all dear
You were born to fly.
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Fast Parade
02:53
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Forget your endless summer
Marching to your own drummer
It’s like a total bummer and a fast parade
A rolling roller coast, an unholy only holy host again
Turn off the television
I’m seeing single vision
I’m wracked with indecision
But then again maybe not
With or without you
For worse or better
Driving along the coast
Are those rocks or is it heather?
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World's Last Payphone
02:52
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Do you see blue and black or gold and white?
Don’t say it couldn’t be ‘cause it might
Tonight of a thousand nights, strung out like a string of lights
Under dead satellites
I’m calling from the world’s last payphone
I’ve gone back in time, please remain on the line
I had the inside track on an outside chance
I had the worst ideas and the best-laid plans
Tonight of a thousand nights, strung out like a string of lights
Under dead satellites.
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Green on Red
02:32
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Greed on red, red on white
Cellophane across the sky
Sugar cane growing high
Chicken foot, snake eyes
Anything that’s born can also die
Sometimes the truth is made of lies
I’m standing on a bridge to nowhere
And if it caves in, well I don’t care
And if I should fall through the fearful, fetid air
Forget the truth, tell me the dare
I made a hat of a Texas map
I made a bed of a railroad track
‘Cause I’m never going back.
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Run & Duck for Cover
03:31
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Vision getting clearer
Far off things somehow nearer
Seven years for a cracked mirror
That’s what I’ve heard
Don’t worry about what you can’t control
The parts are greater than the sum of the whole
You can run and duck for cover, you can try to trade this for that or the other
But you’re left with yourself
Time as an abstract
Snaps back like elastic
There’s a great past in plastics
Or so I’ve heard.
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Sun + Moon = Disguise
02:24
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I got down when the jig was up
I had an unsteady walk and a run of bad luck
And now she’s so far away
She said she didn’t plan to leave, she just forgot to stay
The sun in morning and the moon at night
They’re part of my disguise
I got out while the getting was good
Things didn’t go as planned (like I knew they would)
And now she’s so far away
She said she didn’t plan to leave, she just forgot to stay.
The sun in morning and the moon at night
They’re part of my disguise
I was hiding in plain sight, between the dark and light
The sun in morning and the moon at night
They’re part of my disguise.
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