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the Brain
03:47
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The Brain
You bled the brain alright
So let's soak it in tears tonight
Replace that youthful red
With dirty, wet pigeon feathers
Set your sights on violence
Strangulate the silence
Sometimes you sit alone
Other times you break into strangers' homes
The city shut off the water
The phone is dead
Your mother's dying of cancer
Your father's drunk in bed
Someone stole your stereo
Family portraits cold and stained
But it's staring at you just the same
All the folks you know
Bathe in a sacrificial glow
Picture them one by one
Rotting corpses in the Phoenix sun
The world is just kindling
For the burning in your heart
You tried to make it to your sister's place
But the Nova wouldn't start
Someone stole your stereo....
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Elegy
04:30
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Elegy (by the Jesus Lizard)
The pathetic sight of your sunken eyes
And the angular lines of your hips and your waist
The light and the dark of your vallied ribs
The skeletal draw of your temples and cheeks
Your breath but a wisp from your string thin lips
And the acrid stink of your face and mouth
Unsound unsure your shaky legs
Just when you're about to learn to smile again
I'm gonna be the one to teach you how to cry
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Vultures & Devils & Swine
When the sky, it has cleared
The black train's running weird
And the vultures descend on his shape
They pick at his brains
With their loving refrain
That's as pure as a prostitute's face
His family consumes his body's concern
They're vultures & devils & swine
His bones will be sold to the black market fold
And his blood will wash over their smiles
As they shed fancy tears
And they dance to his fears
His hand twitches just once in a while
For in death perceiving the sacrilege done,
He knows that his kingdom's been sold
It's been sold, all his love
His family sits sipping cocktails of greed
They're vultures & devils & swine
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The Sultan of Sultan's Fever Dream
Once on the train, the strangers' brains dissolve
Upon the lonely chance of a bitter romance
Meanwhile all sense is torn
So devoid of all feeling, the Sultan is sleeping
Cramped in his small quarters, with fever he's dreaming
"This is not the way to arrive at a festival"
So sweat it is beading, the shoreline's receding
While rainbows dive off the springboard of meaning
And knowledge is dancing
And honor lies gasping
The Sultan drips fear on the floor
While conductors hit the drink and have a think
A blind coyote fills the night with fallacy
He sleeps upon the midnight train
He dreams about his missing brain
Red streamers strain under the weight of the thunder
Gilded, immobile, a beast filled with trouble
The Sultan is groaning, drips fear on the floor
Two lovers appearing, they're kissing and licking
The Sultan is screaming, the point he is missing
"This is not the way to arrive at a festival"
Our Sultan of Sultan dreams fairies attacking
The couple that's fucking on the floor of his quarters
The lady, she's cumming, the Sultan is fading
The Sultan drips fear on the floor
Our Sultan of Sultan dreams fairies attacking
The couple that's fucking on the floor of his quarters
The gentleman caller, in passion does holler
"THIS IS THE WAY TO ARRIVE AT A FESTIVAL"
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5. |
Stay With Us
06:41
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Stay With Us
Stay with us
Sit down and have a drink with us
Then have another one before you change your mind
You can always close your eyes, pretend your blind
You're so much more
So much more than we were hoping for
To bring the party back before the lights go down
You can always close your mind, tune out the sound
Say you're not afraid for life
Don't you know we're gone inside a moment
And then the moments done
Overcome your fear of heights
Don't you know we're ghosts inside an orbit above everyone
So stay for now
Take a breath and find a way somehow
Then take another one before you say goodbye
You can forget your own pride... awhile
Don't think for now
There's no more trouble let yourself fade out
And then hang around and maybe hang for life
Stay till the end of time... for now
Say you're not afraid for life
Don't you know we're gone inside a moment
And then the moments done
Overcome your fear of heights
Don't you know we're ghosts inside an orbit way above everyone
Stay for your life
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6. |
Sylvia
04:03
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Sylvia
As I creep through the valley of death
Your laughter hangs on the wind
Nothing so broken your savior can't mend
Be my tour guide again
Hidden now, silver kin
Whispered blood
It lives again
Sylvia, grace my heart
Keep the rains years apart
When I'm weary and hanging my head
I juice the old radio
In weird heaven I know you are there
And I'll fly when I go
Hidden now
Your dying skin
Waiting to visit again
Sylvia, grace my heart
Fly away but don't stray far
Sylvia, grace my house
Twilight comes, we talk about endless bliss
Picture this: we all live and the gods give us everything that we needed
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7. |
A Star Can Be Your Home
03:56
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A Star Can Be Your Home
Your eyes they say your eyes won't leave the floor
It seems you should get away
You should head for the door
The stars they say the stars can be your home
They're not very far away
You could fly there alone
If you can find them
They can be your new home
In time they say in time you'll be the one
The first one to get away
The one to head towards the sun
You're right they know you're right to leave for sure
And if you disintegrate
You'll have had so much more
If you design it
You can step through the door
Come to know
They're too cold for your soul
Watch me hang
watch me hang in the sky alone
watch the pearls of wisdom fall
watch our silence stall
six pounds of blight
three kinds of fights
nine kinds of stars
our class of liars.
If you can find them
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8. |
Heavenly Bodies
04:12
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Heavenly Bodies
The heart relies on you
To keep from letting me through
But I would carry you, it's true
Deeply through wars.
When you slipped from my sight
Desire had clouded my night.
If fate wont sway your delight, then I
Must force its hand.
Struggling for sanity, waiting for amnesty fails.
Heavenly bodies can move certain men to set sail.
Now I am parked in your street as your bedroom light greets me,
Salvation is only as far as letting me in.
The heart relies on you
To keep from letting me through
But I would carry you, it's true
Deeply through wars.
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No,You Know
02:26
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No, You Know
Savor the worthy things
And trash all other ones
Then save up all other things
Judge them all at once
If you live by these rules
Then you'll always become what you wanted then
If you purge till you get down to bone
A fables a good defense
But then never at home
Don't favor a sore attempt
Don't cast the first stone
If you live by these ways
Then you'll always succumb to your own demand
If you silently build your own throne
No never wait for other hands
And never stay here too long
Don't beat about yourself
You've made decisions before
To learn how to love your own self
Just don't let you be the one no no
No, you know
Don't nestle far from your home
And never savor alone
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