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WA5QWR
03:06
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A voice in the static
Bouncing off a star
The frequencies tuned
A tower in the yard
I'm calling out to you
It's WA5OEQ
Do you read come in come in
Calling WA5QWR again
On a clear night
Our signals should be strong
But I'm not getting through
I don't know what's wrong
I'm calling out to you
It's WA5OEQ
Do you read come in come in
Calling WA5QWR again
Trying to reach you
Establish contact
Airwaves just might make up
For what we always lacked
Postcards from 20 countries
Tacked up on my wall
I can talk to Beijing and Paris
Can't get through to you at all
I'm calling out to you
It's WA5OEQ
Do you read come in come in
Calling WA5QWR again
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Electric The Mountain
03:20
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He doesn't answer questions
But he does question answers
Just a dusty download cowboy
In a skeleton choir
Electric
The Mountain
You'll get there
I'll find you
She flips off the world
And then she gets her beauty sleep
Neither calculus nor stars can be
All there is
Electric
The Mountain
You'll get there
I'll find you
Is there any west left
So much poison so little cure
And there's just no way to be certain
Just freeways
Electric
The Mountain
You'll get there
I'll find you
I forgot to save the world
I just gotta save the world
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300 Foxes
02:51
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Sam was so strong
His hair so long
He was superhuman
The legend the myth
Dismiss forthwith
When you hear what he's doing
300 foxes
150 torches
Burning down everything
First fox hard to find
Revenge in mind
Such a fiery plot
Hate their tails they bit and cried
Truth goes from maybe
To not
300 foxes
150 torches
Burning down everything
A far-fetched fable
Earns its label
By the mutiny of scrutiny
300 foxes
150 torches
Burning down everything
Burning down everything
Burning down everything
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4. |
Everyone's A Pain
03:37
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Leave me alone
Why don't you just go away
You're buggin' me to no end
And I got no patience today
At work and at home and in between
Each and every human being
Is a pain in the ass
Of course I include myself
And I wouldn't rule you out
And him and her they get on my nerves
They never shut their mouths
At work and at home and in between
Each and every human being
Is a pain in the ass
Everyone's a pain
In the ass
Regardless of rank
Race creed or class
Everyone's a pain in the ass
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5. |
Time Will Not Be Kind
03:11
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Time will not be kind
So I hope you'll try to be
And if you wouldn't mind
Let's make some history
Year after year it just gets worse
You keep traveling but never arrive
After all the shit they put you through
You're amaze you're still somehow alive
Are you still alive?
Time will not be kind
So I hope you'll try to be
And if you wouldn't mind
Let's make some history
The days are short but somehow long
They've done in every pharaoh and king
They start off bright then end in darkness
And the sun and the moon keep on spinning
Over your head
Time will not be kind
So I hope you'll try to be
And if you wouldn't mind
let's make some history
It goes on...and on...and on...
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6. |
Vistas
04:02
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(instrumental)
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7. |
LIfe Is Over
03:59
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Such a beautiful day
Such a beautiful day
Oh it's such a beautiful day
To find out my life is over
Such a terrible way
Such a terrible way
Oh it's such a terrible way
To find out you always loved me
We were talking and we were driving
The air was cool and the sun was out
And the mood was all October
Like everything gets on toward the end
Want a bite of the abstract apple
But have to find that fantastic tree
Every wish comes straight out of plagues
Got to see cathedrals before they burn
If we ever get where we're going
Will we have gone where we're supposed to get?
A day like today
Just makes you wonder
Then you pull up get out and go on
Such a beautiful day
To find out my life is over
Life is over
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8. |
Brother Somewhere
03:21
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All the decades piling up
Yards and tears and flowers
Blurry laughs of second hands
We missed it as it happened
Brother somewhere in the dark
Down the rabbit hole for sure
Sister somehow smokes to stop
Drowning in the system
Groaning grown and gone for now
Happy wheneverafter
Sky is canceled ocean's closed
It happened as we missed it
Brother somewhere in the dark
Down the rabbit hole for sure
Sister somehow smokes to stop
Drowning in the system
Light it up for us
Brother somewhere in the dark...
Light it up for us
This heavy light
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All I Got
03:13
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Why you wanna take all I got?
You can't handle all I got
I don't mind giving you all I got
I'm just saying it's all I got
Why you wanna take all I got?
You can't handle all I got
I don't mind giving you all I got
I'm just saying it's all I got
Please honey please I'll treat you like I should
Something tells me you're no Robin Hood
And when you have it all
I'll give you a call
And I expect
That there will be no answer
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Have A Weird Day
03:14
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Don't wanna be safe
Wanna be free
I wanna be you
You wanna be me
Don't know how it turned out this way
Guess it's just a game we play
Don't know what else to say but
Have a weird day
In and out of shape
Out and in phase
Can't even feel ourselves
In this heartbreaking maze
Don't know how it turned out this way
Guess it's just a game we play
Don't know what else to say but
Have a weird day
Expectations overturned
Calendars so crude
This is no place for space
Continuum discontinued
Don't know how it turned out this way...
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