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Tie A Knot
01:58
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It eludes me
And I stumble and
I don’t know where I am
It stops me
And I fall and
I want to start again
I’ll chase the rabbit down the hole
And wonder where I am
I’ll stop the Hatter where he is
And start the chase again
An insignificant piece of string is where it all began
And here I sit upon a throne and fail to understand
If only I could tie a knot
I’d break the mighty back
A broken bone, a piece of stone
A Queen of heart’s attack
Don’t stop me
Don’t break me
Don’t trail the great I Am
Don’t face me
Don’t fake me
Don’t try to understand
I chased the rabbit and now I know
It ends where I began
The Hatter, he trapped me
He taught me who I am
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Pass It On
03:39
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I have a hunger
I have a need
I want to give you something
But I can’t remember what it is
A cell divides and dies
A cell dies and divides
I need to take something from you
I need to share something with you
If I pass it on to you
Will you pass it on again?
Can you taste it in the air?
Can you sense it on the horizon?
A change is coming
A chance is better than nothing
A change that is worse for the bearers
The landscape is changed
The world is falling backwards
The fires are burning out
Everything is nothing
And I am everything
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A Traveller
03:03
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A traveler by day now
A whisper at the night
I come to you for wisdom
You give me the most terrible sight
(Scissors cuts Paper
Paper covers Rock)
I’m Solid as a promise
You are Cold Inside a broken heart
I’ll Empty into the abyss
I end when you begin at the start
(Rock crushes Lizard
Lizard poisons Spock
Spock smashes Scissors
Scissors decapitates Lizard)
I’ll take away your poison
And drink it down right on the spot
I’ll cover up your reason
And crush it there right on those rocks
(Lizard eats Paper
Paper disproves Spock
Spock vaporizes rock)
(and as it always has)
You give me faulty reasons
You give me practical
I’ll fall under your power
I’ll break under your bleeding heart
(Rock crushes Scissors)
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Pause
02:36
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I run alone
That’s why i follow you
I will atone
The things I’ve done to you
I’ll give you back
The life I took from you
I will attack
My inner demons who
Give me pause
They take away my sanity
I feel their claws
They shred my humanity
I sit alone
An empty room I set on fire
A heart of stone
A state of grace i stole
To follow you
take a moment before you
Give me pause
And stop my life from breaking down again
And maybe i should fall
Through the gates of all your memories
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The Loop
03:31
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The shade of another high-rise shakes my view
The snow and the Sun and that tiny black hole tell me that it's time to renew
A fall and a circle change me into something new
A past and future broken before you withdrew
Fade in another Sunset, shades of blue
A voice and an echo reset and misconstrue
A face and a siren stop me from breaking through
If you could just change your password into something new
Again
The shade of another highlight breaks my view
The snow and the Sun and that little mistake I forgot you overthrew
A fall and a circle break me into something new
The past is the future broken. (look): A kangaroo
Fade in another Sunset, flames of blue
Your voice in an echo reset that's bleeding through
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Fuzzy
04:57
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come into frame
and Turn again
and take away
what I can see
you break apart my memories
and everything becomes hazy
come into frame
don’t turn again
don’t fade away
now I can see
I broke the frame
to live again
but I can’t see
if you’re with me
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Earthling
04:03
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A vagabond with no recourse to tread
And fear the hate that’s thrown upon his head
It’s not the way, but here it seams to be the system
To drift upon the seas and on the sand
To take away a treasure from this land
But hope decays and leaves him to his own devices
They take away a life that’s free because they don’t believe that there are any more answers
They chase a way of life that’s bleak and force feed everyone they see because they have no answers
Another life falls to its knees, a victim of a force that feeds on fear and anger and disease
A vagabond with no recourse to tread
And fear the hate that’s thrown upon his head
It’s not the way, but here it seams to be the system
To drift upon the seas and on the sand
To take away a treasure from this land
But hope decays and leaves him to his own devices
And maybe he should find another way
To change the world before it can decay
It’s not the way, but maybe he should find another way.
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Arctikc
05:57
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As above so below another sunrise furies snow
Another sunrise takes below a freezing life that is left alone
Why do i feel alive when the rest of you don’t know how to survive
I break the bluff, I’ve done enough, I cannot shed this monotone
I walk alone to toe the line, a memory now I redefine, the snow will blind and undermine me, a madness now, the Earth designs, I watch the world as it declines, another nation will divide, though it burns my eyes, the Sun still shines, I reach out for you, my divine.
There is nothing left for you to steal, and nothing left for you fear, a broken soul left in decline, another life you left maligned
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Strange Talking Animals Springfield Township, New Jersey
Born in raised in Madison, WI. Transplanted to Brooklyn, Jamaica, and finally Springfield. Versed in chamber pop and rock, psychedelic and prog, and expanding musical horizons to experience electronic and ambient musics and experiment with modular and chaotic synthesis.Overfed with science fiction and fantasy and actual science. And stay-at-home dadness. ... more
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