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Creep
04:44
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Creep
I might be in your closet
I might be under the bed
Is the shadow you see really real
Or is it all in your head?
Tuck you feet under the blanket
Pull it over your head
You think that I can’t get you
Just like waiting instead
I’ll be waiting for you
I’ll be waiting for you
You feel my hair on your fingers
You see my face on the wall
Come down put your feet on the floor
Nothing can save you at all
Seeking refuge with the night-light
The bulb flickers and dies
You want to scream for mommy and daddy
But they can’t see with their eyes
I’ll be waiting for you
I’ll be waiting for you
And then I’ll creep
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LaDiDa
03:10
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LaDiDa
Spent my life in the factory
Churning out mistakes
And I don’t have to work that hard
Ambition is all it takes
And you know that I’ll never say never
Even though I’ll never again
Don’t care if the sky is falling as long as it falls on my side
Let it all land where it may as long as it lands on my side
LaDiDa
All the saints and the sinners
They clamor at my door
Though I keep on ignoring them
But they keep wanting more
Throw a coin deep in the wishing well
I’ll collect them on my way out
Don’t care if the sky is falling as long as it falls on my side
Let it all land where it may as long as it lands on my side
LaDiDa
You might think I’m crazy
Well I try
I try
Not to think about what you are thinking
Well I try
I try
And you know that I’ll never say never
Even though I’ll never again
Don’t care if the sky is falling as long as it falls on my side
Let it all land where it may as long as it lands on my side
LaDiDa
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Ears to Hear
04:06
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Ears to Hear
Staring blankly at the page
Culling answers from a bygone age
Relying less on thought and more on what you feel
And the portrayal on the stage
Illumination blocked by shade
A canopy of denial in this world you made
Protecting all you felt but never really known
You could have gone but still you stayed
Will you heed the light?
Will you try to make it right?
It’s getting hard to break on through
Complicated by being at the end of you
It’s time to flip the script
And merge all that you are
Sift through the lies and what is true
Will you heed the light?
Will you try to make it right?
Will you cave in to the fear?
Do you have the ears to hear?
So now it’s written, so now it’s done
No recourse for what you’ve become
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
Will you move on or stay the same
More than likely you’ll find someone to blame
Will you heed the light?
Will you try to make it right?
Will you cave in to the fear?
Do you have the ears to hear?
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Upon Reflection
05:01
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Upon Reflection
A pale reflection of a memory about that time comes to me
Moves right through me
A simple tale so often told by those I know and came before me
It doesn’t warm me
All around the sky is storming
Came upon us without warning
Are we really out of time
Time to take a new direction
In the end, upon reflection
Were we at the end of the line?
I Know I’m not the only one who’s made it to this crossroad
I feel alone
A ghostly vision wraps itself around me; I take my solace in that I’m lost
It’s comforts cost
All around the sky is storming
Came upon us without warning
Are we really out of time
Time to take a new direction
In the end upon reflection
Were we at the end of the line?
Where do I go from here?
Staring forward, looking back, my present vision is so black
How do I forget my fears?
The scars are old but they still bleed, and from the wound has grown the seed
How can I keep what I hold dear?
It seem it’s all like desert sand, falling through my clutching hands
Where do I go from here?
All around the sky is storming
Came upon us without warning
Are we really out of time
Time to take a new direction
In the end upon reflection
Were we at the end of the line?
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Words
03:36
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Words
I listen for a long time about all thing things you said, about how it was gonna’ be
But over the years I realized you never, ever said the truth to me
What I though I left behind now I find that you had slithered back again
What you touch don’t turn to gold, it just folds and withers away and dies and bends
When you say those words
Means nothing
When you say those words
means nothing
And you know that papa was a rolling stone, never found the home that was there for him
Spent all his love and hung his hat down at the track, but he could never win
Spent all his time and all his dimes looking the space to roam
When it comes to the inevitable will you be surprised to find yourself all alone?
And you say those words
Means nothing
And you say those words
means nothing
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Echoes on the Waves
03:42
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Echoes on the Waves
We’ve spent a fortnight on the sea
The storm has blown us from course decreed
Adrift and lost we are
Far from Harmozia
I doubt we’ll see the shores of our home
Once more
Just when we thought we’d neared the end
Our eyes fill with the site of land
Unknown to our minds
This pristine shoreline
Ne’er looking back we sail on
To our home
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From Abnegation to Observation
Just an average guy from nowhere
Not too much in my head
But I’ve noticed some thing around me
That keep me up in bed
I’ve been so blind
When I should have seen all the signs
What’s mine isn’t mine
I think I’m going out of my head
There’s cameras on the corner
And phone taps on the line
There’s tazers and there’s roadblocks
When you speak your mind
I’ve been so blind
When I should have seen all the signs
What’s mine isn’t mine
I think I’m going out of my head
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Another day, started grey, anyway, you know I must have been paranoid
(Poison in the water, cloning all your food, tap you with a tazer when you speak your mind)
Maybe something that I ate, maybe it’s that bug going round
(Enforcing eugenics, dumbing down the public, keeping you under thumb)
(HEY! EVERYTHING’S OK)
It’s about time that I struck these thought far from my fevered brow
(War on terror, war on drugs, war on the people treated like they were thugs)
After all nothings really changed, at least nothing that I can see
(They tell you, “Never mind it’s all in your head”.)
It can never happen here…
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Everything I see is hard to believe
But, then again, I know it’s real
Tried to bury my head in the sand
Didn’t change the way that I feel
I keep standing by
We keep standing by
Hoping it will go away
Voices cry out
Voices cry out
From the past, to remake our today
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I
See the words in silent screams
The breaking of the dreams
The pantomimed comfort of the figureheads
As they look down
From high ground
I
See the blowing winds of change
Deftly turned away
By the greed and the depravity they assemble
Can’t indict when might makes right
They feed us the remains of the blood of our campaigns
Washed down by the bitter drink of lies
Clothed us in the shame
Bathed in their disdain
Till every shred of ethics surely dies
This is not the way
I
See the promise of intent grow crooked, frail and bent
As the balustrade that once was there for shelter now constrains
Birthright detained
I
See what once was held as just trodden in the dust
By the jack booted, single-minded thugs of the dignified
In suit and tie
They’re suitably contrite when passions do ignite
But never do they ever try to stop
They seem to take delight in the horror of our plight
As they separate the chaff among their crop
This is not the way
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