1. |
In an unknown language
03:55
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Speak to me
Speak to me
I've been waiting for so long
Don’t leave me adrift
In a sea of sorrow
Please, speak to me
In an awkward lapse of reason
I called out your name again
Don’t know where, don't know how or why
All I know is when, when I lost you
All in the unknown language
Speak to me, teach me
"My senses are that the scientific way of thinking, questioning
Some delicate mix of creative encouragement of new ideas
And the most rigorous and skeptical scrutiny of new and old ideas
I think that is the path to the future, not just for science but for all human institutions
We have to be willing to challenge because we are in desperate need of change"
Let me live in this moment
Even if I died tonight
Washed ashore in a bottle
You were the secret of fire
Give me shelter, give me knowledge
Of how to stay warm and dry
Let me live in this moment
Even if I die tonight!
Should I die in your arms?
Let me live!
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2. |
24 blackbirds
02:04
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Truth, beauty, life, decay
I hear truth
I see beauty everywhere
24 Blackbirds
Make a curtain for the sky
I hear truth
In the beauty of your words
24 Blackbirds
Making sugar out of lies
Making sugar out of lies
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3. |
No wake zone
02:46
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Your hands are shaking
My eyes are burning
I don't know which way to turn
Well let me hold you
In this no wake zone
Let the earth refuse to turn
Let me know you
And everything you hold dear
Let me hold you
Let me hold you
Let me hold you
Now that I've stopped shaking
And my eyes see clearly
I know which way to turn
I turn to you
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4. |
Apocalypto
06:02
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Most nights when I lay down to sleep, I have a dream
I dream of everything I could have been
A family stands around the waters I'm drowning in
It’s obvious that they're amazed I’m still breathing!
On rarest night I sometimes hear the rain falling
Like pennies from heaven
Most nights that I lay down I wish I wouldn't dream
It's just a cage somebody put us in
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5. |
Our progress
03:43
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One day they'll build a railroad
From the city to the sea
You'll see
One day they'll build a tower
From the earth to the stars
Mark my words
This will come to pass
There's nothing new
Under the sun
Mark my words
One day they'll build a tower
From the earth to the stars
It’s just the way it’s always been
And the way it will always be
The way it will always
The way it will always be
All in the name of progress
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6. |
The greater good
03:38
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Such an interesting conversation
The complexities of life
Never cease to astound me
How I miss the simpler times
Dancing with the lights off
Drowning in your smile
And studying your breathing
You told me it was all for the greater good
And I gave it my all, for the greater good
You could have told me anything at all
I would have eaten it up by the spoonful
How I miss the simpler times
Dancing with the lights off
Secrets from each other
The hiding of our crimes
Come what may
And in the end I'll say
Goodbye my friend, goodbye
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7. |
Girl in the garden
02:28
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You're like an empty bottle
Floating on the sea
Every wave helps you closer to the shore
Yet further away from me
There's a girl in the garden
Her skin is like the moon
And she dancing in my memory
To a faded ragged tune
A hand full of moments
That the wind blew away out of my hands
Doesn't matter where we're going
Because we're changing, rearranging, all of us
There's a girl in the garden
And her face is forlorn
She's been kissed by the dawn
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8. |
Manuscript
03:03
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Do you know
When this all began
I've tried to think back
To precisely where it all started
Any time I do
Every time, every time
I pull another zero
Every time, I pull another zero
I pull another zero
This manuscript is all we have
It's all we have
And you know it, you know it...
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9. |
A conversation with you
04:55
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What I wouldn't give
Just to see your face
What I wouldn't give
Just to hear your voice again
Another time, another place, maybe
Or maybe not, maybe never, maybe baby
What I wouldn't give
What I wouldn't give
I have heard it said
That life's a dream for the wise
But as we all know
The devils in the details
What would you give?
You know it's such a simple question
What would you give?
What I wouldn't give
For just one conversation
With you again
Oh god, I want to hear your voice again
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10. |
The plastic parade
03:15
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Anyone who’s ever known her
Knows that she can never see
The forest for the trees
Anyone who knows her deeper
Knows she's laying in the grass
Gazing up into the sky
Day dreaming through the night
& such a pretty sight
She will never be
A part
Of the plastic parade
You know as well as I do
Where you end, I begin
We've blurred the lines
There's no turning back now
To the plastic parade
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