1. |
Whale
05:51
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2. |
I Took It With Me
04:30
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I will try to hide my shame, veil it under my clothes
but it moves my lips and it breaks my legs
Giving me away as I go
I took it with me, I took it with me
I burned, obeyed, and I became a slave
I took it with me, I took it with me,
and I didn't try hard and I didn't resist and I
Failed, failed, failed
Took education, how to learn nothing
no-one said anything wise to me
I'll spite them lying down, only way that I know how
slink back to my cave, sob "sit and spin!" and I failed, failed, failed.
I took it with me, I took it with me
I took it like a bitch and asked for more
I took it with me, I took it with me
and I didn't get far and I didn't break through and I failed failed failed
I unlearned my old language, tried to learn to spit
I sowed offence and reaped embarrassment
Then came a schism, pure hedonism
and I fed my corpse and I bathed in filth and I failed, failed, failed
I took it with me, I took it with me,
I ate it all! Flesh, skin, bone and eyes!
I took it with me, I took it with me
And it burned me and I
fell asleep
and I failed, failed failed.
Enchanting creature, lived for love and joy
still clung on to hope of happiness
so glad to see me
Just never leave me and I'll choke you with affection until we're both dead
So I hack, hack, hacked at her jugular,
I'll grab those loving arms and rip them off
How'd they taste shoved sideways down your throat?
My ammuntion's love you left behind with me
I took it with me, I took it with me,
I took it and I never give it up
I took it with me, I took it with me and I stalled and I scowled and I self-destruced and failed, failed, failed
I take it with me, yeah, it's still growing!
Filling with what should be left behind!
I take it with me, I take it with me,
and I'll jump off cliffs and eat poison shit and I'll
fail
fail
fail
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3. |
Kaiju
06:09
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They're only kids
Never earned a thing, just keep em hid
This is no egg planning genocides while we're fed
How were you blind to the omens?
the sirens screaming dayglow down your throat?
Well, I'm so glad you knew better, that you kept your ornaments warm
Teeth cut through fog
All too suddenly, it's on top of us
Town burns to glass
can we live to build on this ash?
It's you who created this monster
It's you who fed him on atomic rays
Yet still you hold your opinions
stick your fingers in your ears and sing
La la la, I'm not listening! La la la, I'm not listening!
No-one could have forseen this!
just cause I'm factually incorrect doesn't mean I'm backing down
I don't give a fuck about your sacred rites as long as I get money in the bank tonight
everyone's free to get blood on their hands and lizards are free to fuck Japan
Ready the gun and pray twice as hard
send the women and the children to the country farms
What could it cost to bribe the guard to shut off this alarm?
Whose father's sin?
What do we deserve for being born?
Eternal queen? Learn humility at her feet
I'm told "submit to your elders"
I know the protestant work ethic thrives
and I heard you lauding your kindness as you pissed down the pyramid sides
Flames vomit down!
Mouth of evil!
Halitosis of hell!
Is this our death?
How'd a blighted world burn so dark?
It's you who created this monster
It's you who fed him on atomic rays
and even though your house is on fire
You don't stop
I just wanna live without the leeches sucking on my neck and telling me to rent this iron lung for life
now the horizon is steamrolling us the monster wakes
None of us learned how to stop a flood and we've got kids here drowning in Gamera blood
The dinosaurs need more trees to feed, but the forests are made of polythene
All of you lords in the institute who told me "look, it's just a man in a suit!"
Well, I couldn't find and zips or eye-holes
La la la, I'm not listening
La la la, I'm not listening
I am right and you are wrong!
Just cause I've lost everything you had doesn't mean I'm giving in!
It doesn't really matter if a continent sinks, I've paid astronauts to teach me how to swim
I've got mercenaries polishing guns to kill and an afterlife built from dollar bills
I don't really care for human rights, I'm insured and I can shut my eyes SO tight!
Everyone's free to get blood on their hands
Monsters are free to crush Japan
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4. |
Petrichor
05:21
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5. |
The Fast Car
01:40
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6. |
New Year
05:44
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You tell yourself you're moving with the cycle and you wait for dawn
The river flows
Your pale and broken body meets the waterfall
Sit down
Breathe another year, with your hands on my eyes,
Breathe another year
It's cold as death, your frosty brittle fingers point and criticise.
You hate so kind!
You're screaming in our faces and it keeps us warm
Bound tight, live another year
Dream a world safe and blind
Live another year
What have you done?
Another four seasons, did you learn to thrive?
You're looking nice (I need you now)
Like any love could ever bridge the holes inside...
Dig down
Live another year
With my life in your hands, dream another year
Breathe another
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7. |
The Travellers
09:13
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8. |
Angry Man
03:52
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