1. |
Limberjack
03:37
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innocent
Lumberjack
Chopping wood
With his axe
Burn the leaves
Light a match
Firebug
Lumberjack
I have it, it is here despite the noise
Niusha
I have it, it is here despite the noise
Niusha
I have it, it is here despite the noise
Niusha
I have it, it is here despite the noise
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2. |
Overview
03:55
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I’m peering through the thinnest glass
at creatures in the distance
their images are from the past
they’ve traded beds for bridges
though I am hardly within reach
to ever make a difference
my mind is surely kin to each
and everyone that hears this
I cannot fear anything
I am made of everything
I miss my human counterparts
I miss my human body
emotional and riddled with disease
a collective memory
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3. |
Bad Math
04:14
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I received a box of teeth
from a good old friend
at a closing dentistry
after their final appointment
I must be givin' off a killer vibe, if you know what I mean
death is a curious thing
and there's something cool about stuff that gives you the creeps
I used to skate the park behind stockland, Nowra
before they tore it down to build something better
fuck it, there were too many tiny rocks, I always skinned my knees
we scanned for those suckers, like metal detectors
swept the concrete with rubber feet
oh hey my brother just had a baby
Bad Math
ye'know, somewhere in Gwynneville, there's a jar of his urine
that we had hidden, beneath a garden bed
I hope that years now it is found, and seen as a relic, maybe they'll clone him, maybe they'll leave it
Alice will learn to breath
a different kind of air
and I'll perish in time
oh I've only seen your picture,
but I already love you,
you're my family,
I'm your uncle
your tiny fingers will break if I squeeze too hard, oh that's frightening
what kind of god would be so cruel
Bad Math
Bad Math
oh I've only seen your picture,
but I already love you,
you're my family,
I'm your uncle
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4. |
Laces
05:06
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I left the front door open
the cat escaped without it’s collar
my friends won’t hear him coming
oh to be born with fangs
and an understanding
that death is a gift we give ourselves
turned pale from the nicotine
the body sways from the beer poured generously
white knuckles knock my front door, and I feel like a stranger
The lights on in the kitchen
tea is made and pills are taken
I check the clock that’s always broken
my pulse, no longer racing,
I shut my eyes and bend the knee
Laces tied, and the dog sighs, but I’m not leaving yet
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5. |
Sacrifice
06:49
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our baby girl
is teething
your breast becoming tender
from the feeding
she will raise the babes in cryostasis
and when she comes of age, will do her duty
this island in the darkness
known to us, all our lives*
built by the hands of martyrs
whom were left behind
with dragons heat we're breathing
an atmosphere designed
with sacred geometry,
by artificial kind
just beyond our quarters are the seedlings
to one day fill the valley they described
6 ft undferneath us, lay remains of our ancestors
whose nutrients are keeping us alive
with dragons teeth we're chasing
a frontier that's sublime
the future of our species
is owed to fewer minds
than those who are still sleeping
we'll meet when we arrive
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6. |
Urn
01:51
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I don't shower for days at a time
but when I do it's for an hour
I pull back the covers and pretend for a while
that there's safety in secrecy
the gaps too wide, I've made up my mind
I'm leaving
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7. |
Duke
02:08
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Don’t you worry
the nukes are comin,
they’re here to solve the overpopulation
It’s a wonder, how we got this far
(considering we’re made from stars)
Rest assured that
your stocks and savings
will feed somebody elses cravings
maybe, one day, we’ll stop hating
and start hangin’ out in foreign bars
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8. |
Absolute
03:31
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Love doesn't wait, when we're practicing patience
as the taste hits the palette, we put it all in our mouths
the flavour will change us if we don't spit it out
clinging to logic and the reach of our brains
won't let the magic make home of a house
take it or leave it, we all share a doubt
but when a moment has stained us, we can't wash it out
in love we could not have known how to stand our ground
if our heads weren't so heavy with a thorning crown
now I know what you meant by getting better internet
though we can't predict the speed, it's a connection that you wanted, and the video games were just vessels to be haunted
by the silent agreement that we're drifting on a planet
informed by a spirit talking through a pattern
with an absolute truth, relatively scattered
sometimes transparent in the people we love
I know this now, because I've seen it myself
in love
we could not have known how to make a sound
if our ears were not ringing from the barking hound
Love doesn't wait, when we're practicing patience
the flavour will change us if we don't spit it out,
the flavour will change us if we don't spit it out
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9. |
Faint Glow
03:42
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Sippin on the red wine
yes I love it, my friends say I do it all the time
It ain't easy taking care of your body
when all these unhealthy ideas of how we live
are growing, growing
it makes me sick to think
the human race is broken
convinced that we did it to ourselves
by doing it to somebody else
we forgot how to love
learned how to learn how to make love
I'm talking from a treehouse
where my things are all laid out
all the scenery
nobody else can climb inside my body
I may as well be dead
gotta get my forklift
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10. |
VIdeo Easy
02:43
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I feel like a diamond in the rough
forged way back when
earth lay in sin
like a pearl from the deep
some pretty thing would wear
Like the most shiny thing
at which everyone stares
all this because
you glanced at me
There I was, as a figure of speech
just a jerk you would meet
at the back of the blockbuster line
oh too afraid to ask what you’re hirin’
this evenin’, and if you would mind
mind watchin’ a movie with me sometime
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11. |
Alter Fault
03:12
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12. |
Come Down
05:38
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Can we put it to bed?
hide the money underneath the mattress
can't we forget
where forgiving is dependent?
can we put it to bed?
tuck it in with a kiss on the forehead?
take a photo, that's cute, I wanna share it
I only want to capture this moment,
I only want to capture this moment
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