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Down The Pipe
06:49
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I'm looking down on the grids
Looking down on the game
How the building walls hide
All the zombies inside with their eyes glazed
I arise eyes ablaze
Others said they thought it best
Best if I work on my own
So yes, I spend a lot of time alone
In a blue Nomex jumpsuit
White noise of the engine drone
This design is my own
Built to carry two souls
Rise in the night
You can see by my flashlight beam
Can't deny it's my flying machine
So put that in the hat
that you wore when you called it
a loser's pipe dream
Cause I'm taking you down the pipe with me
I'm taking you down the pipe with me
Arms reaching in every side
Everyone wants to take your seat
Beat them back, throw the latch
Sorry there's just no spare air
Hold on as I turn the key
As I'm taking you down the pipe with me
I'm taking you down the pipe with me
I'm looking down on the flames from suborbital space
As I try not to think of what's gone
Just the future
And I see the future in your face
As I'm taking you down the pipe with me
Though we may not be alive to see
I'm taking you down the pipe with me
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2. |
Charred Mess
06:11
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Charred mess, charred mess
Start with nothing, end with less
Charred mess, charred mess
Start with nothing, end with less
Less than you, I must confess
It's been so hard
I'm only charred mess
Lying blackened on the ground
How do the flames keep burning
when the fire's gone out?
Please explain the contradiction
Just an artifact of fiction struck me down
Charred mess, charred mess
Start with nothing, end with less
Charred mess, charred mess
Start with nothing, end with less
Less than you, I must confess
It's been so hard
I'm only charred mess
Lying blackened on the ground
How do the flames keep burning
when the fire's gone out?
Please explain the contradiction
Just an artifact of fiction struck me down
I can't feel my way out of you
I can't feel my way out of you
I can't feel my way out of you
I can't feel
Hook your heart into my chest
Restore this life
Restore this charred mess
Lying blackened on the ground
How do the flames keep burning
when the fire's gone out?
Please explain the contradiction
Just an artifact of fiction struck me down
Didn't understand you
Oh you never made it clear
Couldn't I admit that what I wanted was never here?
Charred mess, draw breath
Charred mess, draw breath
Charred mess, draw breath
Charred mess, draw breath
Charred mess, draw breath
Charred mess, draw breath
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3. |
Great Circle
05:02
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Been so long, hard to tell
Where was I?
Had to be something there before I fell
You as well slipped a thread
Something bent, something shifted in your head
Try to mesh, interlock
Something odd, something off the mark by one degree
But you still look to me
You entangle me
You entangle me
In a great circle, in a great circle
In a great circle, radiate
Reflections in your wake
Ripple and fade
In a great circle, radiate purple
In a great circle, resonate, resonate
In a great circle, radiate purple
Pilot hole drilling down through the crust
I have found samples for analysis
Why do I analyze? Here we lie
Tremble in paralysis
It was me, it was you, it was you, it was me
Decide what you decide and I'll agree
You entangle me
You entangle me
In a great circle, in a great circle
In a great circle, radiate
Reflections in your wake
Ripple and fade
In a great circle, radiate purple
In a great circle, resonate, resonate
In a great circle, radiate purple
In a great circle, radiate purple
In a great circle, resonate, resonate
In a great circle, radiate purple
I will see you again, upside down, halfway through
I can do anything, you can go anywhere
No turning back from you
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4. |
Animal Prime
06:33
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Marked by an animal's brain
You're the territory the animal reigns
Marked by the marks on your face
You can sand them down but you can't erase
You can't what you think
Still I think you could say
Tell me now, blind and mighty
Was I worth all the pain?
Take my innocence, try me
While my power's waxing I'm watching yours wane
Marked an animal's bite
Will you take the fall for this animal's rights?
Marked by the marks on your neck
Say you hurt yourself, like no one can tell
Well I can tell
Yes I can tell
You can't what you think
Still I think you could say
Tell me now, blind and mighty
Was I worth all the pain?
Take my innocence, try me
While my power's waxing I'm watching yours wane
This is what I told you would happen
I told what would happen, and you ignored my warning
I told you what would happen, and it happened
I told you what would happen, and it happened
I told you what would happen, and it happened
Pig, dog, albatross
Swollen leech
Get it off
Tell me now, blind and mighty
Was I worth all your pain?
Take my innocence, try me
While my power's waxing I'm watching yours wane
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5. |
Paint on the Air
05:44
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Tell us all with your pride
Your astounding accolades in physics
Pray they never find
All that early research that you plagiarized
Paint on the air
Illustrate every lie
Dazzling, oh, with the details
So pretty from the outside
Why are you melting under the rain?
You were the image I made of paint
I made of paint
I breathe in these fumes
They've been shown to cause disease in humans
I know you like them too
See their image override these ruins
Paint on the air
Illustrate every lie
Swirling, oh, with the patterns
So pretty in the strange light
Why are you melting under the rain?
You were the image I made of paint
I made of paint
Paint on the air
Illustrate every lie
Dazzling, oh, with the details
So pretty from the outside
Why are you melting under the rain?
You were the image I made of paint
I made of paint
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6. |
I Cancel Out
03:37
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You set me up to upset you
but I am nothing doing
I'm not your Rome
I'm not your road to ruin
You set me over to one side
I wasn't on the packing list
The extra part that never fits
The extra part that never fits
The extra part
I cancel out just to reduce the difference
I cancel out
I cancel out just to reduce the difference
I cancel out
Reflecting in a double life
A double chance for error
Pull back the plunger
Bulge out your vein of terror
And if your pupils dilate wide
when I'm injected in your eye
Take in the light and try to see the other side
Take in the light and try to see the other side
See another
I cancel out just to reduce the difference
I cancel out
I cancel out just to reduce the difference
I cancel out
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