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Breathe In
03:13
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Rapture
04:40
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Spiral down to the bottom
Deep I go into the blue abyss
I can see the story of my life
As death comes to give me a kiss
I swim with the fishes
I live out my wishes
On the bottom of the sea
How long will I stay down
Till I give up and drown
On the bottom of the sea
Feeling stoned intoxicated
In this rapture of the deep
I can hear a mermaid singing
As I drift off to sleep
I can't get no air
I say myself a little prayer
Farewell, farewell
In this state of narcosis
I can only think of you
You are standing on the shore
Waving a fond adieu
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3. |
Jericho
03:24
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Once upon a time
We had hope
We had hope we’d make it to the end
But that’s not the way
Not the way it went
We fell apart and we could not mend
It is the end of us
The end of us
It is the end of the show
It is the end of us
The end of us
Tumbling down like Jericho
Bye-bye
Once upon a time
We were in love
We were in love like no tomorrow
But then we screwed it up
We tore it down
And now there's nothing, nothing but sorrow
We tore it down
Tore it down
Aidos amigo
We tore it down
Tore it down
These walls of Jericho
Once upon a time
The whole wide world
The whole wide world was in our hands
But this world we had
We blew it up
Now we’re stranded in the badlands
Once upon a time
We made a vow
We made a vow
We said we would not break
But break we did
And we fell through
To the bottom of an icy lake
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He's as mean and keen
As a cackle-edge scythe
With a temperament brazen and blithe
He makes an edit
To the final cut
And if you don’t watch it
He will kick your butt
He’s the good, the bad, and the beautiful
He’ll be the first to tell you
That he’s the good, the bad, and the beautiful
His love is all around
He's got a twinkle
In his dreamy eyes
It's a look you love and despise
If things take a turn
For the worse
He will laugh and say "That's your curse"
"Don't you wish you could be like me
Be like me and be set free"
He stands atop
The empire state
He stand atop a world of hate
"Gather 'round
And hear my song
This is where you all belong"
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Didn’t know nothing when I was young
But that would change in time
I came to understand this not through wisdom
But by reaching for a higher clime
Here there is no one that does no see you
You must change your life
Bask in the divinity of broken beauty
You must change your life
Glow like a lamp
Burst like a star
Rise up to the blue sky blue
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
Let everything happen to you
Let everything happen to you
Didn’t know nothing when I was young
‘Cause not much had happened yet
And that what was going on in dark the underneath
Would pose an existential threat
Have this love for what is humble
You must change your life
Win the confidence of what seems poor
You must change your life
Didn’t know nothing when I was young
But, hey, that’s really just an excuse
I preferred the comfort of my gauzy oblivion
To my real-time world of abuse
Find the reasons that compel you
You must change your life
Become the witness to your own impulse
You must change your life
Lift yourself up beyond sky
Let yourself fly
It’s a revolution of the mind
Let yourself fly
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6. |
Hell and High Water
05:37
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I can laugh and I can cry
I can ask myself why, why, why
I can live a life that's as real as it gets
Pick myself up when I'm blown to bits
I can be good as good as can be
But will that be better
Better for me
It is both hell and high water
And I am going down, down, down
It is both hell and high water
And I am going to drown, drown, drown
I can walk and I can run
Do all I can under the sun
I can love and I can hate
I can be early and I can be late
I can pretend that my life is good
But all my pretending won't do me much good
I got stuck and I could not move
Locked myself out of my own inner groove
The key broke off in the ignition
Right there and then was the last transmission
Fa-bah
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7. |
The Bends
04:28
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There is a man
With a look in his eye
It is a hollow look
The look of an empty soul
There is a man
And he don’t care about nothing
He just wants what he wants
And what he wants is control
He won’t be happy
Till he gets it
But it’s in the getting it
That he goes in a black hole
What depths can you go down
Till you hit the bottom
Till you reach the end of the ends
You come up too sudden
Your lungs might explode
And you get the bends
There is a man
With a blankness in his stare
And he is nodding yes
Or maybe he is just weirdly unwell
Hard to say
One way or the other
He is skilled at the show and never tell
He’ll do his schtick
And he’ll mug for the cameras
And he’ll tell us all
To go to straight to fucking hell
Don’t show remorse
Don’t show defeat
Raise up your fists
And be proud to be a cheat
There is a man
With twist in his smile
He may be smug
But he is also all-knowing
If you listen to him
Your dreams will come true
No really, honest
He’s not just buffaloing
Just don’t look too close
Or you may just see
His bald spot showing
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8. |
As Deep As It Goes
04:34
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I'm way down here
At the bottom of a bottomless pit
And there ain't no light coming in
The best that I can hope for
Is the least I can expect
No chance in hell for a win
I'm down deep in this
As deep as it goes
Down, down, down, down
I'm down deep in this
As deep as it goes
Down, down, down, down
I can feel the heat
Of hell's great black mouth
And it is sucking, sucking me in
What did I do
To deserve this fate
Must've done the most egregious sin
Down, down, down
Down I go
Down, down, down
Down below
Everyone fucks up
Some worse than others
But some are downright rotten
We always the pay price
In the end
There's a place for the misbegotten
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9. |
Here She Comes
04:46
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White light, white light
Burning up this good earth
And it hits me with a laser’s edge
All wrapped into my self-worth
Here she comes
Riding along on a wave of light
Here she comes
Turning the world upside-down
Good times, good times
Yeah I was really living them out
But then it all slipped away like a butterfly
And Apollo turned into a lout
Bad touch, bad touch
I sliced my finger on a scythe
Pulling apart like chicken wings
Twisting and writhe
Here she comes
And there she goes
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10. |
Down in the Ground
04:37
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Feel my body stuck in the mud
Feel the slime seep in my blood
Sinking down to my waist
The ground is as thick as paste
Down in the ground where the dead men go
Down in the ground where the weeds all grow
Down in the ground where the rivers flow
Down in the ground where they laid me low
Something strange sticks to my toes
With a smell lingers in my nose
It tastes just like lime and salt
As I slip between a jagged fault
Down among the dirt and the stones
Down among the dead men's bones
The earth it opens and drags me down
Down below the dirty ground
Every night I dream this dream
Wish I knew what it could mean
I'm going down, down in the ground
Down among roots and decay
I'm going down, down in the ground
There's no light to point the way
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11. |
Breathe Out
05:23
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Floating 'round the atmosphere
Like a feather in a light breeze
I barely exist here
Still I do just as I please
Drawing in and drawing out
I am out and about
Breathe again, yeah
I can breathe again
I am coming up for air
So you had better beware
I am all but unknown to you
I am practically clear
You would never know even me
I'm not really here
Look up and then look down
I may be somewhere around
Listen to the sound that my breath makes
Listen to the in and the outtakes
Do you feel a certain pressure at night
Like something big pushing down on you
What do you think that it could be
Is it just this old wandering Jew
Oh I whisper in your ear
All the words you long to hear
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12. |
Take You Down
06:27
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Let me take you down
Take you down
But this ain’t no Strawberry Fields
Everything is real
Everything to get hung-up about
Living is hard with eyes open
Understanding all you see
It’s hard to be someone
It’s impossible
It matters all too much to me
Let me take you down
Let me take you down
Let me take you down
Take you down
Let me take you down from my high tree
Everything is real
I mean it must be high or low
Always I know you think it’s me
But I don’t know if this is all a dream
I think you know I mean a yes
Or not
Or we can disagree
Let me take you down
Take you down
No you don’t wanna go there
No you don’t wanna go there
No you don’t wanna go there
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"It was hell," recalls former child.
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