1. |
Caffeinery
04:45
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Listen.
Here's how this will go down.
We do not tell a soul
'bout the stuff that we found.
And feel the thousand stolen minutes
Of sleepless nights
and needless limits
This time
Here's how it's gonna be.
We will stick to the subject.
We will bury the key..
And see how much
we're really good for.
With cylinders firing
and feet on the floor
You're the fatal beauty in disguise.
Perfection with disruptions.
You seem to be the single reason why
I go there again and again and again-
You keep me awake.
You keep me awake.
But I can't stay awake forever
I can't stay awake
I can't stay awake
But I must stay awake forever.
Listen: Yeah, I've said this before
We're so far from the credits
I just know that there's more
But there's way too many random failures
And roses to smell
And you know me too damn well.
You keep me awake.
You keep me awake.
But I can't stay awake forever
You keep me awake.
For as long as it takes
I'll never get a wake up call
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2. |
1953 (Again)
05:49
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Feels like 1953 Again
Feels like 1953
Surprising, realizing
What is still alive…
Every time you blink I think
The wheels are turning
Then I see it's just another
Disconcerting
Thing about you
In this day and age, I can't believe you feel that way
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There was a time, there was a plan
So I was led to understand
Now I find to my chagrin
None of it was worth a damn
Feels like 1953 Again
Feels like 1953
With me re-organizing
What is still alive
Feels like 1953 Again
Feels like 1953
I'm dying realizing
What is still alive
You only know what you see from your car
All I know it seems to me you haven't driven very far
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There was a time within my mind
All of you was all the time
Now I find to my chagrin,
None of it was worth a dime
Feels like 1953 Again
Feels like 1953
With me triangulating
What is still alive
Feels like 1953 Again
Feels like 1953
I'm dying realizing
What is still alive
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3. |
Unmentionables
04:06
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I can see it rather clearly now in retrospect
You know what they say
Can't remember a time when you would look me in the eye
And I could look away
Darling
You make me fumble
You make me fumble
I stammer and stumble
In your presence, dear
You make me fumble
Darling
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I just have a thing about those little gestures
They seem to be so dazzling
I can see how all the sweetness and sweet nothings
are causing my unraveling.
Darling
You liberate me
Discombobulate me
I fail completely
In your presence, dear
You liberate me
How'd you remake me
So completely?
Darling
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Darling
You make me fumble
You make me fumble
I stammer and stumble
In your presence, dear
You make me fumble
Darling
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Sweetness
Nothing compares
Nothing but another one will do
My oh my
Time flies
Just another rival for your afflictions
Sweetness
Nothing compares
Your crazy predilection's on the loose again
Stardust
Makes you tumble
There must be a reason out there somewhere
There must be a reason out there somewhere
You know you know you know you don't know
You know you know you know you don't know
Sweetness
Nothing compares
The way you dance around is almost genius
Bye Bye
Cherry pie
Nothing short of losing it
will stop you going down that rabbit hole
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5. |
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What I need is a fresh set of eyes
To bring this pie down out of the sky.
I'll hold it together while you tear it apart
But I'll throw in the towel if we have to restart
Maybe it's a matter of another all-nighter
I'm losing my mind
I'm losing my mind
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I'm familiar with the science and I'm all about the art
So why in god's name do we have to restart?
I've got a bad
feeling about this
Nothing ever works
Whatever you do
I've got a feeling
It will never work
Nothing ever works
It takes forever
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Thought I needed a little perspective
But I tried it your way and it was rejected
I didn't want to see it but you showed me the door.
Call me on the carpet I won't take it to heart,
But I'll hit the roof if we have to restart
Another Day
Another Time
Nothing ever works
Whatever you do
I've got a feeling
Nothing ever works
Nothing ever works
It takes forever
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6. |
Catastrophe In Blue
05:41
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Looking now
Looking down
Look away
Listen to me now
Are you angry or are you mad?
You’re all the rage
And just like you
We all give in to blue
Think now
How are things
Working out?
We don't have a clue
Am I crazy or are you glue?
I stick to you.
And just like you
I’m always giving in to blue
Listening
Listen to
Déjà vu
Only one is true
Luscious and shambolic
You fetching rage-o-holic
Negligence becomes you
We can always chalk it up to blue
Can you tell
Living well
Or living hell?
Does either ring a bell?
That’s life behind the 8-ball
It’s nothing new.
It’s not just me, it’s not just you
It’s a debacle built for two.
Easing out
Breaking down
Run away
Really tempting fate.
Tenacity, Intensity
I’ve seen a few
This isn’t all about you
It’s a debacle built for two.
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7. |
To Undo Others
04:51
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8. |
Charm Offensive
07:40
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A hundred different ways to say it-
they can't even think of one
Praise as faint as angel hair-
not much there to hang your hat on
slow burn.
Slo-o-o-o-ow burn
slow burn.
Slo-o-o-o-ow burn
Taken at face value
thinly veiled and badly made up
Even so-called compliments
backhanded if you think about it
slow burn.
Slo-o-o-o-ow burn When ya gonna go when ya gonna blow?
You're a slow burn.
Slo-o-o-o-ow burn When ya gonna go when ya gonna blow?
slow burn.
burn When ya gonna go when ya gonna blow?
slow burn.
burn When ya gonna go when ya gonna blow?
Sitting in the basement
building model airplanes
Happy as a clam
Living on cream cheese and
cherry-lime rickey and
having his druthers.
He didn't see the typos on the wall
He barely even knew there was a wall …... at all.
Sitting on an airplane
Living in the moment
Higher than a kite
A sip of green eyed ginger ale
turned up on the same flight
She rang his bell
and he acted like he wasn't home.
She rang his bell
She gave him an earful and he was gone.
He knew it in his bones, but she said it anyway:
Why can't you be charming?
Why can't you be more like him?
Living on cloud ninety nine
She was pretty top shelf
Standing next to her
he was beside himself
But he knew it in his bones
she'd take a powder one day
So he undertook to
blow his good thing away
He didn't see it coming but he watched her go away.
And now too broke to pay attention
with no room to change your mind
Your dreamboat's sailed evaporating
and your queen has left the building
Could have had a piece of something
Now you have a great big nothing
No one to blame
but yourself.
There's no one to blame
but your self.
Slow burn
slow burn
slow burn
Slo-o-o-o-o-o-w
burn
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object_zero Brooklyn, New York
Object_Zero has been the the songwriting and recording project of animator & designer Doug Johnson since 1983. Post-punk, art rock, shoegaze, catchy hooks you can dance to, and a healthy dose of noise. The Venn diagram center of New Order, My Bloody Valentine, and St. Vincent. ... more
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