1. |
Celeste
06:10
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[Verse 1]
She controls the world with a click of her pen
Plastic and ink and a push of a spring and it ends
She calls it liberation but nobody wins
Just a signature and she washes her hands of him
[Pre-Chorus]
So that’s when he left his mark
With a flint and a wheel and a spark
[Chorus]
Maybe he slept through winter till May
While she made sure the rent was paid
Maybe she slept with his college roommate by accident that day
Maybe brown haired girls only write novels on trains
When they run out of things to say
[Verse 2]
So she navigates the world through a self-righteous lens
Indignant and wondering how he still has friends
She dreamed of revolution but nobody wins
And orders from courts don’t discourage certain men
[Pre-Chorus]
That’s when he left his mark
With a flint and a wheel and a spark
[Chorus]
Maybe he only did it to chase
The cobwebs from the corners away
Maybe he cut the word 'whore' in her car by accident that day
Maybe brown haired girls only write novels on trains
When they run out of things to say
[Bridge]
He won’t give her any time to feel shame
'Cause she’ll just get on a bus and run away
Maybe it’s good that women never change
Six of one, half a dozen of the other, they’re all the same
[Pre-Chorus]
That’s when he left his mark
With a flint and a wheel and a spark
So that’s when he left his mark
With a flint and a wheel and a spark
[Verse 4]
Maybe pinewood burns away
Any trace of DNA
Maybe the cervical cancer spread out in her cheating brain
Maybe brown haired girls only write novels on trains
When they run out of things to say
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2. |
Viagra
03:19
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[Verse 1]
There's a handhold, paper cup, and dirty water
That leads you on your way to the boon
It's the room around the things you do
Makes if you drink it up to you
[Verse 2]
There's a leftover piece of folklore at the bottom
That informs all the teachers in the room
Handed down to kids in their tweens
As the only proper version to consume
[Verse 3]
Viagra makes its way into the water
It ends up as a fluid in the womb
It's the only explanation for what biology
Says we're wired for from birth to the tomb
[Chorus]
And who in his right mind
Imagines himself wise
And who has perfect hindsight
While he's making bedroom eyes
[Verse 4]
In the end we want to laugh
But we've been beaten
And only distance grows fonder with time
But the video proof
Of the time you were a willing victim
Makes it hard to toe the line
[Chorus]
And who in his right mind
Imagines himself wise
And who has perfect hindsight
While he's making bedroom eyes
While he's making bedroom eyes
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3. |
Lunar Lupanar
05:15
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[Verse 1]
Slowly leaping through the air
Toward the lunar lupanar
Dimly luminiferous lunarian
Sinking lower, lower straight down
Today we'll be happy to wait
[Verse 2]
Through the Sea of Tranquillity
Through the dust and ice of years
Turning inward, burning, beginning again
Out above a lonely blue sphere
Today we'll be happy to wait
Today we'll be happy to wait
[Chorus]
The best she can do
Is an obscene gesture or two
No one understands
In a dead dialect made with her hands
Men will chase her through the sky
She speaks the wrong and right
At the same time
Today we'll be happy to wait
Today we'll be happy to wait
[Pre-Chorus]
It's just getting in the way
The recycled frames that leave us in one place
May we just say the moon has blocked the sun
And put us all in the shade
This dark eclipse that moved across my newsfeed today
[Verse 3]
Cosmonaut steeped aloft
North and south are turning upside down
Deeply dive through stratos and atmos
Two gods beneath the ios mate
Today we'll be happy to wait
Today we'll be happy to wait
[Chorus]
The best she can do
Is an obscene gesture or two
No one understands
In a dead dialect made with her hands
Men will chase her through the sky
She speaks the wrong and right
At the same time
Today we'll be happy to wait
Today we'll be happy to wait
[Pre-Chorus]
It's just getting in the way
The recycled frames that leave us in one place
May we just say the moon has blocked the sun
And put us all in the shade
This dark eclipse that moved across my newsfeed today
[Chorus]
The best she can do
Is an obscene gesture or two
No one understands
In a dead dialect made with her hands
Men will chase her through the sky
She speaks the wrong and right
At the same time
Today we'll be happy to wait
Today we'll be happy to wait
Today we'll be happy to wait
Today we'll be happy to wait
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4. |
Die in My Sleep
03:32
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[Verse 1]
Hell and you are alike in these ways
Dark and glossy, younger than me
Superstitions and mistakes
You're a dinosaur in borrowed clothes
A mascot I've been letting jerk my chain
I would drop you but bad habits
Keep me holding onto secrets
That offend the weeping Jesus on the tree
Maybe I should die in my sleep
[Chorus]
Next time someone tells me I'm so great
Tells me I can have what comes my way
I'll make a list and shove it in his face
[Verse 2]
Hell and you are alike in these ways
Awkward closet grandma's boys committing serial rapes
Where someone else is in control, swallow me, there's no escape
It was easy when your donkey show was only animation of a
Virgin birth mythology
Maybe I should die in my sleep
[Chorus]
Next time someone tells me I'm so great
Tells me I can have what comes my way
I'll make a list and
Next time someone tells me I'm too late
Tells me my best years have passed away
I'll make a list and shove it in his face
[Chorus]
Next time someone tells me I'm so great
Tells me I can have what comes my way
I'll make a list and
Next time someone tells me I'm too late
Tells me my best years have passed away
I'll make a list and shove it in his face
[Verse 3]
Hell I'd beat
Between God and me I can't compete
When even things you've locked away inside reek of dishonesty
When I infringe on secrets you keep
Maybe I should die in my sleep
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5. |
Clairvoyant
04:28
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[Verse 1]
Words are gone
There’s tension on the surface only for so long…silence again
Noises gone
Concentric circles reach me only for so long…silence again
[Verse 2]
Just buzz words and on
My skin I’ll hear it only for so long…silence again
When rhetoric is gone
This apprehension lasts only for so long…silence again
[Bridge]
We tried to walk away, but this noose brings us back
And justifies the initial act
[Pre-Chorus]
In turn, every wave that I create returns
In turn, every wave that I create returns
[Verse 3]
When our clothes are gone
The words you whisper reach me only for so long…silence again
When you are gone
The space you leave will be filled before too long
[Bridge]
Keeping this at bay is like trying to hold the waves back
And trying to hold the waves back, I fill in every crack
By filling every crack
By filling every crack
Crack
[Pre-Chorus]
In turn, every wave that I create returns
In turn, every wave that I create returns
[Chorus]
And the problem with being right all the time
Is the shit I have to stomach every time you change your mind
[Bridge]
We tried to walk away but this haiku brings us back
We study it for permission, and it only mirrors what we lack
We tried to walk away, and this fairy tale brings us back
And like our faces it only cracks
[Pre-Chorus]
In turn, every wave that I create returns
In turn, every wave that I create returns
[Chorus]
And the problem with being right all the time
Is you think you’re doing god’s work every time you change your mind
The problem with being right all the time
You pretend you’re wearing brand new clothes, and we pretend we’re blind
And that’s the problem with being right all the time
But if the emperor can be naked, so can I
If the emperor can be naked, so can I
If the emperor can be naked, so can I
(So can I, so can I, so can I, so can I)
[Outro]
(So can I, so can I, so can I, so can I)
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6. |
The Old Bones
03:15
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Verse 1]
Copper coins and silver linings
Peak through key holes awed and wide eyed
We'll forget our names and feel no shame
But angels all have muddy wings
Tether them to trees
Then beg for mercy
On the streets of Santa Fe
[Chorus]
And the old bones rolled
We never said do everything you're told
You grow or you decay
But things don't ever stay the same
The old bones rolled
[Verse 2]
The magic of the lonely few
Call it science, call it voodoo
Go ahead and sleep the weeks away
Or go to mass with guns
And call upon your silent god
If you dance or if you don't
You still get rain
[Chorus]
And the old bones rolled
We never said do everything you're told
You grow or you decay
But things don't ever stay the same
The old bones rolled
[Chorus]
And the old bones rolled
We never said do everything you're told
You grow or you decay
But things don't ever stay the same
The old bones rolled
The old bones rolled
The old bones rolled
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7. |
Halfway Home
04:29
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[Verse 1]
Are you home
Or are you chasing something better than I'll ever be on my own
Are we friends
Or are we only something inconvenient when it ends
[Chorus]
I'll stay up with you all night, making sure that you're all right
You won't even think to wonder why, to wonder why
But I'm not mad and I won't fight
It wouldn't set any of this shit right, but it's all right
We left heaven by the road, broken down and useless
They never told us it would only carry even the most faithful halfway home
[Verse 2]
We don't talk
Reminders on the bathroom sink
Reminders written on the wall in chalk
Are you mad?
I'm just sick to death of being everybody's fucking dad
[Bridge]
You're entitled to my time, God forbid I cross your line
Take whatever you want, I'll be fine, I'll be fine
But I won't rescue you tonight
It wouldn't set any of this shit right, but it's all right
I will leave you by the road, broken down and useless
On an old forgotten stretch of 1st Avenue
And I'll go on alone
[Chorus]
I will meet you by the road, broken down and useless
Like an old man with his dreams behind him
Maybe we can make it halfway home
We left heaven by the road
We left heaven by the road
You left me by the road
You left me by the road
We left heaven by the road, broken down and useless
They never told us it would only carry even the most faithful halfway home
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8. |
The Superhero Wins
05:31
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[Verse 1]
Maybe tonight, in the fading light
We'll freeze this one small moment when we got it right
Maybe tonight, the red and blue flashing lights will have us in their sight
[Pre-Chorus]
My hands began to ache and swell
Waving you down
Praying to an empty well, where spectres shake hands and plummet down
Back into the lost ground
When the world gets smaller, we pull even farther away
[Verse 2]
Maybe tonight, in the fading light
The aperture will represent our faces right
Maybe tonight, the pale green light will find my rearview line of sight
[Pre-Chorus]
My heart began to ache and swell
Coming around
Mood dependent and unwell but only hoping for a sound
Back into the lost ground
Back into the lost ground
Back into the lost ground
Back into the lost ground
When the world gets smaller, when the world gets smaller, we pull even farther
[Chorus]
If you knew the end
Would you read through and start at the beginning again?
Maybe this time
[Pre-Chorus]
My feet began to ache and swell
Chasing you down
Wash them in the dying well, then wade out through genetic streams
Back into the lost ground
Back into the lost ground
Back into the lost ground
Back into the lost ground
When the world gets smaller, when the world gets smaller, we pull even farther
[Chorus]
If you knew the end
Would you read through and start at the beginning again?
Maybe this time
[Chorus]
If you knew the end
Would you read through and start at the beginning again?
Maybe this time
The superhero wins
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Tin Foil Top Hat Seattle, Washington
Based in Seattle, Tin Foil Top Hat is an alt rock group forged from disparate styles and a wide range of
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