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My Understanding
02:27
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My understanding of the world as it is
Is of the world as I hope it can be
How strange it is to be anything at all
How embarrassing to be human being
The tragedy of crossing lines
We draw and called divine
Imagination aplenty
But will is lacking when you’re
Twenty two
I want to tear apart my membership card
To the American Distraction Regime
I don’t believe in things like evil or good
Only the wandering around in between
I wasn’t made for these times
I’m guilty of the crime
Of conscious self-edit
Insufficient line of credit
Holes in the knees of my jeans
My understanding of the world as it is
Is of the world as I hope it can be
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I feel the infinite touch
I see the unending everything
I taste the infinite taste
I hear the sweetest melody
On and on and on and on
Let it come and go
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Island
02:51
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If I could lay upon and island
And wash my cares away
Of all the little things
That never came my way
How many times do I wake up to
The sign it’ll all be over soon
Ask myself what have I done
What have I done with my life?
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I’ll never love the way I loved at 21
That doesn’t mean that I roll over and never have any fun
Oh what the hell
Ain’t it swell
To be
Careless and free
So I’ll take a chance on you
I’ll take a chance on you
What else can I do?
I’ll take a chance on you
I’ll take a chance on you
My generation is chained to a screen
An individualistic boredom guillotine
Forget what’s on
Let’s drop a bomb
And start again
We can be friends
So I’ll take a chance on you
I’ll take a chance on you
What else can I do?
I’ll take a chance on you
I’ll take a chance on you
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Say The Word
03:07
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Peel back the blinds and then you’ll see
1000 eyes staring at me
Connect the wires and we’ll become
The everything for everyone
They’re out to get me
They’re out to get me
They’ll make me one of them
They got the money
You want to the money
Just say the word and it ends
Take all the credit you deserve
Those were some very clever words
Enjoy all your integrity
In a life of poverty
You got your envy
So use your envy
We’re just trying to get ahead
It doesn’t matter
Nothing matters
Just say the word and it ends
Peel back the blinds and then you’ll see
1000 eyes staring at me
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O Elizabeth
03:32
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O Elizabeth
I feel alive again
O Elizabeth
I feel alive again
O Elizabeth
I want to try again
O Elizabeth
I want to try again
But the weight of it all
The passage of time
Delusions of self
The unholy crime
But your hand in mine
And you by my side
Is all that I
Need
O Elizabeth
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What's on the Other Side
04:39
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What’s on the other side?
What’s on the other side?
What’s on the other side of all the things we are
What’s on the other side?
What’s on the other side of the sun?
What’s on the other side of the moon?
What’s on the other side of the child who sleeps with hunger
And the child who eats with a silver spoon
What’s on the other side of the goodwill we have
That evaporates always too soon
What’s on the other side?
What’s on the other side of life?
What’s on the other side of death?
What’s on the other side of the memories we hold
On the moment of our final breath?
What’s on the other side of the down and out?
What’s on the other side of the up and in?
What’s on the other side of the walls they built between us
From the fear of the color of your skin?
What’s on the other side of the people we become
From the things that we hold within?
What’s on the other side?
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Last Curtain Call
03:33
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On the last
Curtain call
When the lights
Finally fall
Will you be
Waiting there?
Will you be
Will you be waiting for me
After the show?
When the tour
Goes and goes
And I’m out
On the road
Will you be
Waiting there?
Will you be
Will you be waiting for me
When I come home?
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