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Future Humans
03:10
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We are not bound by tribe or name or line or nationality
Or an ambassador to past lives or embattled history
We are the future humans, super in our movement, of our possibilities
We are love manifested, corrected and directed to our possibilities, in love
Open your eyes and realize just exactly where you stand
Look forward fearless what appears is who we are and what we can
We are the future humans, forward in our movement, to our possibilities
We are love manifested, corrected and directed to our possibilities, in love
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2. |
Signs and Wonders
02:38
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Oh, my heart strings
Tearing me apart, things
Are not what they seem
We say things that we don’t mean
We don’t mean
My how I’m tired
But in me burns a fire
That’s so hot that I don’t know
What to do, but I know that
I must prove
Prove
Wondrous things, wondrous things
From my heart and my head
From my writes and my reads
From my sights and my saids
From my saids
Signs and wonders
Sisters and brothers
We can sow, we can reap
Death comes to us in our sleep
In our sleep
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3. |
Freaks
04:14
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You know I’m not a simple man
But I see the things that people do
And I don’t understand
The reasons why they think they do it
I see the world turned up side down
I see the people in it
Making moves, running all around
And never know the reasons why they do
Sing and speak
Find your inner freak
You are a human being
Forget the rules
Obedience is for the fools
You make the version of you that you always wanted to
I’m most at peace among the strange
You can be alive and never live
If you never change
Living like a cog in a machine
Living like you know that you don’t know
Any time or place that you may go
When I die I want to be known
Not by how much cash I had but how much I have loved
Sing and speak
Find your inner freak
You are a human being
Forget the rules
Obedience is for the fools
You make the version of you that you always wanted to
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4. |
Don't Quit Your Day Job
02:48
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You
You’re such a tease
You’re so at ease
You just aim to please
And you
You’re so outrageous
So Instagram famous
I’m down on my knees
And you
You’re looking for action
You’re making it happen
You make me want it
Don’t
Quit your day job
And just get off
On your dreams
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5. |
Running Around
04:34
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There’s something wrong with me
And I don’t know how to fix it
I don’t know where to start
And I don’t know where to stop
Anxiety is
For people with imaginations
The people who impose
Are the people who implode
And I feel like sometimes
I’m just running around
And the world keeps on spinning
Ever turning
Never learning
Just repeating
The same mistakes
Again
There’s always next time
There’s always never again
There’s always thanks that was fun
Now get out of my sight
And I feel like sometimes
I’m just running around
And the world keeps on spinning
Ever turning
Never learning
Just repeating
The same mistakes
Again
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Dune
03:10
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Lo, this vaunted waking life
So self aware, so drenched in glowing light
All the time, from every single side
All at once me mine and I
Sometimes I feel a thirst
Sometimes I feel so much at once that I could burst
I’m so alive, my eyes open too wide
I’m blinded by the light
My how bored am I
With this underwhelming overblown
I just want to stop the world
Get off and go and start my own
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7. |
Open for Business
02:15
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8. |
The Flood
03:41
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You wanna take
You wanna break
You want everything to be easy
But it ain’t
Order is upended
By the flood
By the flood
The flood comes crashing in
All cars and your cares
The flood’ll come and wash it away
All your kings and their crowns with their walls
The flood is coming today
Everybody knows
The flood is here to stay
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
The flood is coming
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
The flood is coming
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9. |
In The Woods
06:17
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For all that you are
And everything that you see
For all the memories you make
And the ones that you can’t shake
And what you want to be
Is this really the way
That you want it all to go
With the people marching in the street
And mistakes doomed to repeat
And blood sprinkled in snow
Because we all got fooled
We got sold a bill of goods
In these broken towns we stayed
They left and all got paid
Now we’re all in the woods
Because everybody knows
But everyone plays dumb
Got your games you play
But then you look the other way
Looking out for number one
Where did it go wrong?
We were just so unprepared
We’re running out of steam
As this American Dream
Becomes a nightmare
Because we all got fooled
We got sold a bill of goods
In these broken towns we stayed
They left and all got paid
Now we’re all in the woods
Lo and behold
I was thinking
Of what I become
I was thinking
Of Kingdom Come
Things are never going back to the way they were
Things are never going back to the way they were
Read the tea leaves and the writing
That’s upon the wall
But nothing at all
Compares to fall
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I live in a town
Where ambition is currency
Everyone is an advertisement for themselves
What a time to be alive
What a time to be ambivalent
Still when I look at it all I just have to laugh
There’s a restlessness that lingers on the inside
And an emptiness that hangs unseen in plain sight
I caught a glimpse
Into the eyes of America
It looked right back
And this is what it said
It said we’ve all gone fucking mad
‘Cause I don’t know what’s real
I’m a stranger in my own home
You gotta give up on the past and the ghosts that haunt this place
To make good on the future you gotta look the present in the face
Look out now, I know it looks like there’s nothing to live for
But you’ll forgive the drought with a deluge at the door
Tired and uninspired, but inside I know burns a fire
Bound by chains of love on prisoners of war
Bound by chains of love on prisoners of war
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