1. |
My Lonesome Farewell
04:08
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As it always was and always will be
It’s down to me, yeah, down to me
I am my staunch defender
I got my own back
I stand up for me when I’m under attack
No one really wants me
That much is clear
But that’s OK
I’m about outta here
This is my lonesome farewell
See me fly
This is my lonesome farewell
Bye-bye
I tried to move a mountain
But I got crushed in a landslide
I tried to race around the world
But it was a long and bumpy ride
My family deserted me
They left me for dead
Never once showed compassion
Or give me a crumb of bread
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2. |
Under My Skin
04:43
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I can feel you in there
In this secret place
I can feel you in there
I can see your face
I can feel your heart beat
I can feel your pain
I can hear your thunder
And I can taste your rain
You're under my skin
And I can't sleep
You're under my skin
Down, down deep
You're under my skin
You make a lotta racket
You're always thrashing
Can't keep you still
Can't keep you from crashing
And I wanna get you out
Get you out of my soul
And I wanna get you out
Get out of my hole
Under my skin
I feel you creep
Under my skin
Down, down deep
You wanna get closer
I wanna push back
'Cause when I let you in
I feel under attack
You say that you love me
You say that a lot
You want me to love you
I do not
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3. |
Natural Selection
05:09
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There’s an ill wind blowing
Like a lion’s roar
The civilized world
Ain’t so civil no more
People are frightened
Right down to their boots
A lifetime of waste
Has yielded strange fruits
Say goodbye to the old
Say goodbye to the weak
They’re not good for much
All them mild and meek
Natural selection gonna sort us all out
Natural selection
I got a fever
It’s a hundred and three
I got it from the girl
Sitting on the train next to me
We’re gonna spread it
From mouth to mouth
From this land to your land
From north to south
There’s too many people
With too many needs
We squeeze out toxins
Like so many bad seeds
It’s in our water
It’s in the food we eat
It’s nature’s way of saying
Trick or treat
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4. |
World of Wonder
04:51
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I felt a sudden shift
It was a strange uplift
As if I were shot into outer space
I was thrown back in my seat
I felt both pressure and heat
And all the bones were crushed in my face
It came down, down like thunder
In a world of wonder
It came down, down like rain
In a world of pain
Suddenly I was high
A thousand miles in the sky
Looking down on that spinning blue orb
I could see lakes and valleys
I could see streets and alleys
A hella lot for me to try to absorb
I felt weightless and free
Out beyond Earth's gravity
I drifted further out
Picked me a random route
Beyond the stars of the milky way
I cut loose of my tether
I felt light as a feather
And I let go of my seat back and tray
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5. |
Trust
04:49
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You ask me what is love
It gives me pause
I have to think long and hard
But then it comes to me
Something I already knew
Something buried deep in my backyard
It is trust
Trust that I want
It is trust
Trust that I need
I have longed
To give myself over
To open up and bleed
Trust that I need
You ask me what is missing
It makes me wonder
Wonder what's never been mine
From deep inside me
A single thought comes through
The missing piece in my design
You ask me what I yearn for
And I scratch my head
What's at the bottom of that empty hole
It's not just love
It's not just compassion
I don't got trust down in my soul
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6. |
Absence
05:22
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Once upon a time you were right here
And then one day you were gone
Once upon a time we were oh so close
And then you were somewhere beyond
Where did you go, well I can't say
It's like you pulled down the curtain
Did you split or did you die
I guess I'll never know for certain
Absence makes the heart grow weaker
Absence makes the heart grow cold
Absence makes the whole world bleaker
Lo and behold
Once upon a time you were my light
But then that light went out
Once upon a time you were my water
But then we fell into a drought
How that happened, well I can't say
Was it something that I said
I did what what I could to revive us
But the patient was clearly dead
Do you remember how we used to fit
Just like two peas in a pie
Do you remember how we held each other close
And say our love would never die
Once upon a time we had it all
Never thought that it would end
Once upon a time we breathed the same air
There was nothing we couldn't transcend
But then one day you broke my heart
And I still bear the wound
I found myself on a distant world
Where I remain marooned
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7. |
Hope You're Happy Now
05:00
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Your wheels have been turning
With deception and lies
Nobody sees it
Not even the wise
You played off our fear,
You played off our hate
You played off our stupidity
That most feeble trait
You got what you wanted
Hope you're happy now
You got what you needed
Hope you're happy now
The world it can go to hell
You killed the sacred cow
You are the winner
Hope you're happy now
We saw what we wanted
Not down underneath
Now we will inherit
All that you bequeath
You played off our anger
You played off our greed
You played off our craving
That most human need
There ain't no past
There ain't no future
Nothing will last
"Let me be your shaman
Holy moly and wise
I will rid you
Of all that you despise
I will give you everything
Just gimme your souls
Sign right here
I'll take the controls"
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8. |
Turning Point
04:42
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Words come to me
As if in a dream
Words come to me
Like a twisted meme
What is the meaning
Will it come clear
I take it apart
And then I disappear
I have reached the turning point
And I’ve packed up my sack
I have reached the turning point
And there's no turning back
There is a light
It comes from afar
It beckons me
Like the evening star
I am drawn to it
Like a lip to a nipple
I worm my way in
Past participle
I’m out in the stars
Beyond all space and time
Nothing touches me
Ain’t it sublime
Don’t need no spacesuit
Don’t need no gravity
I will always remember you
And I hope you remember me
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9. |
Outside, Over There
04:37
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Every morning I'd look out my window
To see what I could see
I believed there was another time
And another place just waiting for me
All I had to do was get myself out there
Not live like some forever wannabe
It was outside, over there
I thought this can't be it
This can't be all
No, this can't be the whole story
What about the promise of a promised land
And all that guts and all that glory
I was looking for a perfect world
Where everything was hunky dory
Every night I'd dream the same dream
And awaken to the same nightmare
Used to get me so goddamn down
Spent all my time shouting, Unfair
Still I believed there was a another time
And another place
Outside, over there
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10. |
Our Day Is Done
05:00
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They came to us out of the blue
And they took us all by surprise
They took our houses and they took our jobs
They took all our supplies
They got us where were were weak
They hit us with all of their might
We were too distracted to see
Or bother to put up a fight
They came, they saw and they conquered us all
And they acted fairly benign
Almost like we were all friends
They said that they could help us out
We never got what that portends
They gave us ice cream and cake
And we grew fat and frail
They blew down our straw house
And stepped on our piggy tail
Our day is done
Our day is done
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11. |
In the Middle of Nowhere
05:15
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Where can you go
When there ain't nowhere to go
You’re going nowherebound
Who can you be
When there ain’t nothing to be
When your voice it don’t make a sound
What can you want
When you can’t get what you want
When all your dreams have run aground
Here I am in the middle of nowhere
All alone for eternity
Here I am in the middle of nowhere
Won’t you be nowhere with me
Won’t you be nowhere with me
Won’t you be nowhere with me
What can you do
When there ain't nothing to do
And no way to get things done
Who can you know
When there ain’t no one to know
When your friends amount to none
What can you say
When there ain't nothing to say
No stories you haven’t spun
What can you give
When you got nothing to give
When your heart is full of pain
What can you want
When your dreams are spent
When you life is down the drain
What can you build
When your strength is gone
And your body can't stand the strain
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12. |
French Exit
05:17
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I gotta say I’ve seen enough
Enough to last me forever
Yeah I can try to live the lie
But it’s a pointless endeavor
No it’s not a pretty picture
The colors they all look garish
This dream that I was living in
Has turned nightmarish
Don’t look now
I’m heading for the door
You won’t see me no more
Funny how people choose to live
Even when it causes them pain
They would rather go along with the status quo
Than to actually use their brain
It’s not for me to judge
What they do is what they do
But I don’t wanna be here when the curtain comes down
See ya ‘round my buckaroo
Glad you seem to be on top of the world
Wish that I could say the same
You go on believing what you wanna believe
But I’m not gonna play that game
I’m taking my stuff and I’m hitting the road
Where I’ll wind up I don’t know
I’m aiming for somewhere beyond the horizon
Yeah that’s where I’m gonna go
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The Revenants Boston, Massachusetts
"It was hell," recalls former child.
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