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Dark Star
04:16
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Red Moon crashes, turning my life to ashes
Another Dark Star flashes into the night
Into another dream, I set myself up in between
The Sun and Winter Moon are calling me home
Red sands dissolve the hourglass
So I should go home
My orbit decays, reflections of the days
Another red shift fades me into the night
Into another life, I settle in between
The clouds of delusion and decay
Red sand is spreading everywhere
And so I should go
Into another dream, I set myself up in between
The Sun and Winter Moon are calling me home
Into another life, I settle in between
The clouds of delusion and decay
Red sand is filling up my life
And I should go home
My turn, is it my turn? Is it my turn to go?
Your turn, is it your turn? Is it your turn to go?
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Tomorrows
03:14
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Make believe: Is the future such a terrible thing?
All I see are the maybes and the hopefully nots
A fantasy to be played out for eternity
And in between a computer and my humanity
How do I know if my life is really here?
How can I make you believe?
Make believe that the future is all that I need
A mystery to be solved by anyone else
My memory is fading and I'm down on one knee
Amnesty for the choices that I made in a dream
How do you know if your life is really there?
And how can you make me believe?
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Do you like floating around?
Inside of your little tin can?
Can you see into the future
Or is it just the past?
You float above everything
Passing your judgement on
All of the people who
Are living beneath you
But is there anything
That you can do alone?
You wound’t be there
If not for us
Mission Control is alarmed
They don’t understand your demands
What do you have to do
To take a walk outside?
You float above everything
Passing your judgement on
All of the people who
Are living beneath you
But is there anything
That you can do alone?
You wound’t be there
If not for us
Please put your helmet on
Take all your protein pills
Look out for meteors
And other satellites
But most of all
Look out for the Moon
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A butterfly that leaves his mark
will never understand a thing
The flowers in between the leaf and tree
Remove the need to make believe
The honey tree is not to be believed
The bears will come and stick it to the bees
The flowers underneath that naughty honeytree
Attract the wild side of every living thing
Why do I believe what simply isn’t true?
Why do I believe in all the silly things you do?
A kangaroo that’s standing in the way
of progress and the turning of the day
The sky above will shower him with love
The land below will wait and see
The funnel cake you used to bribe his way
Has gone to waste, melted and decayed
The sky is blue that slowly turns to grey
The land is waiting for the play
A manatee that swims above
Must also find a way to swim below
The kelp is nice this time of year
But don’t tell him it’s also called seaweed
Why do I believe what simply isn’t true?
Why do I believe in all the things you say and do?
Why do I believe in simple things?
I don’t know why I fell for that
Why do I believe in simple things?
I can’t believe I fell for that
Why do I believe in simple things?
Why do I believe in simple things?
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Aurora Borealis
06:11
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Aurora Borealis underneath my skin
On a bus that's North of Dallas
On our way to West Berlin
I wonder if you'll come and see my show?
Another faulty atlas turns me all around
Inside a wooden palace buried underground
I found this ticket, oh, so long ago
I don't believe that this road will ever end
These bucket seats might be my only friends
Maybe there's another king that I should behead
The kingdom is on fire and the Queen is in her bed
The peasantry has overruled the land
The trains run underground
And mostly are on time
The minstrels playing in the cars
Are looking for a dime
There are no rules that I can understand
There are a million songs to fill my life today
There are a million suns that I can burn away
I don't believe that this road will ever end
These bucket seats might be my only friends
The trees are hiding rumors that the dogs have gone to war
I wonder if it started because the pigs demanded more
But a pretty dress and lipstick won't deceive
Chaos is the noise where songs and stories begin
On that bus just North of Dallas
On the way to West Berlin
I wonder, will you try and make believe?
There are a million suns that I can burn away
There are a million songs to fill my life today
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Sidereal Navigation
04:01
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Why do they deceive? And why do I believe?
I know about their lies, but still I fall in line
A green machine- a desert sky to take away the open plains
A summer night to shed a light on me
And this memory will drift into the clouds
A distant sound- a shadow running through the winter trees
And a mist that tries to navigate your dreams
This kind of thing is happening all the time
Purple skies and swirly things will complicate your mind
If you try to disappear, you won't be hard to find
The stars align, or so you think you need them to achieve
The greater life you were meant to lead
But what about the forest for the trees?
An astral sign- animals and legends to deceive
You don't need to follow their designs
It's all a bunch of phony power lines
Why do I deceive? And why do you believe?
You know about my lies, but still you fall in line
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Lost
04:36
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Why did I surrender all the stages of my life?
How can I remember all the faces I have lost?
So many voices fill the void and flood my memory
So many names have faded into the sea
I try to navigate these windows of my past
The shadows come and go- the images don't last
Sometimes I wonder if theses memories are real
Sometimes the haze is gone and the light reveals who I am
I wonder why the city lights no longer call me home
The streets are unfamiliar- all my paths are overgrown
So many faces pass before my weary eyes
So many noises, so many empty sighs
I try to piece together the pictures of my past
The puzzle falls apart and shatters the glass
Sometimes I wonder if these stories are real
Sometimes I wonder what the pictures reveal about me
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Drifting Under
04:02
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I feel like I am tripping away, tilting off into the night
My eyes are floating above me, glancing to the left and the right
My heart beats ticking away, pounding the bass into the ground
My hands are twitching all around me, hoping to find a sound
I feel as if I'm floating away, drifting off into the dark
I'm not sure if it's something I said that set me off on a lark
My choices dissipate tragically as I'm lowered into the ground
I can feel my skin as it tingles lightly as I ride this merry-go-round
My feet are pushing me off in space- I need to look around
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Why do I believe?
Why do you deceive?
Cell Theory, Industry Drone
Fantasy Galaxy Zone
Why do I believe?
Why do you deceive?
Cell Theory, Industry Drone
Fantasy Galaxy Zone
Why do you believe?
Why do I deceive?
Why do you believe?
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42
03:08
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Move a little to your left
Don’t take the time to rest
I’ll give you more than you can handle
There isn’t any time
Don’t stop to read the signs
The Answer is more of a gamble
Oversimplify if you want to be denied the Answer
The Question in the air was never really there, beware
Move a little to your right
This is gonna take all night
It’s easier if you trust me
You’re running out of space
It’s written all over your face
Don’t try to be the hero
Oversimplify if you want to be denied the Answer
The Question in the air was never really there
Beware of the Answer
Please step inside of my mind
And step outside of your head
It’s time to find some answers
We’re running out of time
And we need another ride
This is bigger than we thought it would be
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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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