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Ether Rider
03:07
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I've got a Nikon Camera embedded in my forehead
I take secret pictures of the scandals in the woodshed
I upload the raw files to a server in Bulgaria
Some Russian codes the pixels into music that I'm streamin' at 'cha
How can I be in love with your day?
When it all comes rainin' down on me
And the people who run your world
try and make me pay
So I hide out in the ether
Beamin' all forbidden knowledge
Straight into your right hemisphere
The kids hear the music and their brains decode the pictures
They get sudden urges to throw off the common strictures
They start new religions and invent complex philosophies
Of gender morphing mutants building post-human technologies
They're way beyond eros, they're way beyond reason
They're teasing out meaning from nebula and pathogens
The media loves 'em, the parents berate them
The government jails 'em it's just the way it's always been
So how can I be in love with your day?
When it all comes rainin' down on me
And the people who run my brain
try and make me stay
So I hide out in the ether
Beamin' all forbidden feeling
Straight into the wrong hemisphere
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2. |
The Night Visitor
03:37
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She comes late at night
When I'm weakened by sleep
She condenses from smoke like the breath of a cold night
As she slips through the sheets
To press cooly beside me
Her touch burns like ice
As she freezes my soul
She condenses my pain
To a Crystal of cold glass
As she presses on me
Chilling fear as it rises inside me
Skin to skin we entwine
till I can't find my breath
Then she whispers white noise
like the wind through the wild night
As we twist in the sheets
And she melts into nothing
Slipped away
And I'm crumpled there on the floor
She comes late at night
When I'm weakened by sleep
She condenses from smoke like the breath of a cold night
As she slips through the sheets
To press cooly beside me
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3. |
A Brief Moment in Time
04:10
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An edge of calm dangled over the town after the shelling stopped.
The front had moved north...
He was sitting in the back of the bar, glaring at a blank sheet of paper,
wondering if she'd turn up, if she were even still alive.
Then a back door creaked and he saw her slink out from the kitchen,
grab two shots from the bar
and drop down on the bench across from him.
she glanced warily around the room, tossed back her first shot,
then leaned close to him and said
"I've come down from the war in the mountains to tell you
How I want my world to be"
CHORUS:
"I don't wanna be bound by the past dear,
Let's try something fresh now
No god, no country, no master
It's all in our hands now"
"I don't wanna be lead to disaster
It's time to take charge now
Now God, no country, no master
It's all in our hands now"
He waved some of the smoke away so he could try and see her better
and she peered at him through squinting eyes and said
"You sit here and you drink and you talk and you write,
but you don't chafe against the texture of what really goes on out there
I've been lied to by communists
and beaten by fascists till I'm sick of all
their tired ideologies
Right now all I want's a warm bath, some cool sheets
and the touch of someone I care about, or at least don't loathe"
Then she tossed back her 2nd shot,
put her hand on his, and leaned oh so close to him and said
"I've come down from the war in the mountains to tell you
How I want our world to be"
CHORUS
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Dangerous
01:41
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She loves him cause he's crazy and so out of control
He's so dangerous
She says creative chaos is her major life goal
She's so dangerous
She kicks a limo door in while he nibbles her ear
He picks a broker's pocket while she's shifting his gear
And then they hop on a bus and act obscene in the rear
They're so dangerous
They've caused a fuss, they ditch the bus they've got half a plan
They give the stolen wallet to a homeless old man
And then he touches her cheek with such a delicate hand
He's so dangerous
She takes him to a dive bar where the Aryans go
She's so dangerous
He makes fun of the skinheads then they gotta lay low
He's so dangerous
They hide behind a warehouse tag the walls and drink beer
They make love on the train tracks as the whistle draws near
And in the light of that engine everything seems so clear
they're so dangerous
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5. |
Irradiance
04:09
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They've turned the corner and they're gonna resist
They've turned the corner and they're gonna resist
They've turned the corner and they're gonna resist
There's no better time than now
Ann makes small figures from nail clippings she's hoarded
Seals them up in resin safe for all time
They bring down lightening then she's struck by the fire
No one can get away she hopes it brings a better day now
She's turned the corner now she's gonna exist
They've turned the corner now they're gonna resist
Zed lurks in shadows tripping thugs as they run by
A notch cut in his soul for each fall
Bumps into Ann and then he's caught in her fire
No one can get away she touches him he's swept away now
He's turned the corner now he's gonna exist
They've turned the corner and they're gonna resist
They've turned the corner and they're gonna resist
Now the hard part's trying to find a new way
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6. |
Possessed
03:54
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It happens over and over again, you know it
Happens every time, yes it do
It happens over and over again
Until the next time it feels fine
It happens every morning, you know it
Happens in the middle of the Night
So I've been told
It happens over and over again
Until the next time it feels fine
You've got your body
You've got the thoughts in your mind
But when everything's been taken and
You're shackled and forsaken then you know
You've got nothing but time
They'll take your body
And then they'll try and take your mind
Drowning in disaster all you wish
is they'd take faster but for now
You've got nothing but time
It hurts your head while they're screaming
It grabs you deep inside
The middle of the night
So I've been told
It captures every emotion you own
Until the next time it feels
Absolutely fine
If fills your head while you're sleeping
If sleep comes at all
The nightmares bray snort and whine
Yes they do
And it happens over and over again
Until the next time it feels fine
You've got your body
You've got the thoughts in your mind
But when everything's been taken and
You're shackled and forsaken then you know
You've got nothing but time
They'll rape your body
And then they'll try and rape your mind
Drowning in disaster all you wish
is they'd rape faster but for now
You've got nothing but time
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The Spiderwoman said you've gotta
Join my ten-in-one or we're through
She sneered, what are you afraid of
Don't you know we're all just misfits like you
CHORUS:
It may not be the best plan
If I'm not careful
This thing could get out of hand
But what else can I do when I've been
Kicked out left out all the time
Come join our sideshow
There's so much you don't know
We'll teach you our secrets
You'll feel like a shining star
We'll give you belonging
The meaning you're longing for
Come join our sideshow
Let's see who you really are
You know you wanna know
The Spiderwoman said we're bugging out
So either come with or blow
So I looked around her trailer
and wondered where all my porno would go
CHORUS
The Spiderwoman turned away, coughed up
Some blood then trembled and sighed
Turned back to me and said
I know I'll be ok with you by my side
CHORUS
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8. |
Contagion
03:39
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Let me hold you close now
As visions ooze through all the seams
This is how our story ends now
She infected me with dreams
Caught in this delightful sickness
Stuck by some other's schemes
I'm so shivery and delirious
She injected me with dreams
and I feel so feverish
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9. |
ICU
02:30
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I see moss on cracked concrete
the fractured grid all askew
Broken glass on wet highways
as blood trickles through dew
I've watched as all the lost hours
slipped away, waved adieu
leaving behind all these loose stories
scratched in that surface
I'm tired of viewing
When I look in the mirror of morning
you know it's true
I see you
Yeah I see you
Ah, you
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