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Red Flags
02:18
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caught in the fray
when no path is safe stepping forward
and a leap of faith
only to jump to conclusions
maybe its safe but its looking like red flags
red flags, red flags
The future’s so faint
its just adding to the confusion
red flags
hey little snowflake
what good will it do looking backwards?
maybe its safe but its staking out red flags
red flags
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Fly on The Painting
02:12
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You while away in a world so enraptured
like no step is new, but hey I do it too.
You hesitate at the blank wall beside you,
never learned the time that it takes you.
Nevermind the lives in the paintings
push on through, you can do it too.
Ooh, you can do it too.
Miles away, a fly on the painting.
And through the screen door
a world of disaster.
Seeing things, the white wall beside you,
heart attack, the time that it takes you
looking back to the lies in the painting,
pushing through Its all because of you
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This is getting out of hand, I can see it rising up again yeah
This is getting out of hand, you’re hanging like an ampersand
And who will be the first to know, and who will be the last to show
And this is getting out of control, this is getting out of control
There is nothing wrong with me, I can see in varying degrees
And please can I just have my keys, and please can I just have my keys
And there is something wrong with me, I really just want just to leave
Yeah, this is getting out of control, this is getting out of control
You’re losing control kid and you can’t keep food down
And what’s with all those drugs you just did man you’re talking upside down
And you’ve got demons who possess you like a gunshot to the brain
Just one crash and they all scatter like they got hit by a train
I know they say to just snap out of it why can’t you be ok
In a world that doesn’t owe you shit you have to find a way to make it pay
This is getting out of hand I can see it rising up again
Yes this is getting out of hand I can see it coming up again
Who will be the first to go and who will be the last to know
And this is getting out of control this is getting out of control this is getting out of control this is getting out of control
You’re losing control kid in a different part of town
And what’s with all those things you just did that will run you to the ground
You’re letting all these things control you and their looking for a fight
If you throw stones the glass will shatter like some demons in the night
I know they say to just snap out of it why can’t you be ok
In a world that doesn’t owe you shit you have to find a way to make it pay
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Labyrinths of February
02:06
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You woke up in a Metaphor
in the Labyrinths of February
stuck alone on aisle 4
couldn’t see you anymore
glowing on my monitor
You whispered through a megaphone
from the Labyrinths of February
singing of your broken hope
as seen through a kaleidoscope
With a silhouette like Terpsichore
through the fabric of February
I couldn’t find you anywhere
no matter how hard I would stare
but its all about the clothes you wear
And maybe you’re just not aware
and asleep in a different dream than me
tossing through the empty sheets
ready to admit defeat
And I can’t let it come to that
I’m walking the fairy tale streets
closing all the broken doors
cuz those were what the past was for
And I hope that I find you before
you cut down the forest for the trees
and settle for a guarantee
trade yourself for tragedy
As snowflakes fall onto the floor
in the Labyrinths of February
still searching for you everywhere
I know that we could be a pair
so maybe you could meet me there
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1913
01:57
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When you were with me, that harmony
colored with voices of epiphany
but that’s not to be, as you can see
I’m stuck here alone in my fantasy
and it might as well be 1913, Alfred Jarry,
Maldoror on the beach and the sharks in the sea
And isn’t it sad at the Marienbad
I remember so clear just how it should be
just you and me 1913
And so my dear, if you could hear
blue guitar playing our rites to the spring,
Antonin Artaud, Arthur Rimbaud,
1913, Paul Valery,
Kandinsky, Kokoschka, Miro, mise en scene
1913, Florida Keys,
you’d sing beyond the genius of the sea
And ain’t it so sad
At the Marienbad
I remember so clear just how it should be
Just you and me 1913
And isn’t it sad
At the marienbad
I can’t remember so clear just how it should be
Just you and me 1913
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Ice Friends
04:02
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The elevator is stuck on 4
and we can’t keep these wolves from the door
and since they left us, we’re stuck alone
all of their faces have turned to stone
ooh ooh
If they came a-knocking, what’s it to me
stuck on the side of this apogee
can’t even help a friend in need
And they don’t ever call this phone
the weeds are getting overgrown
our ice friends left us all alone
abandoned in the catacombs
ooh ooh
A ghost could learn a thing or two
from how they change your black to blue
its easy though, to misconstrue
But I can’t see through all this black
my ice friends shot me in the back
they couldn’t cut me any slack
our ice friends never coming back
ooh ooh
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Let It Die
03:00
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Half moon rise reminds me of your smile
The saddest of all goodbyes was what I saw in that smile
And it threw me off, could not figure what the cause
You had it once and for all, oh how you cut me off
And let it die, and leave me asking
I thought I was on your side how could you let it
And cut it off at the coin of a toss
How you just let it fall all at such great a cost
How could you let it die, and leave me asking why
We only have one light, so why can’t you be in mine
How could you let it die and leave me asking
I thought I was on your side, how could you let it
How could you let it die and leave me asking
I thought I was on your side, how could you let it
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Treasure Lake
02:18
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I was hoping these blues would blast away
I was hoping you might just come on down my way
In a blizzard looking for a snowflake
Couldn’t take apart a puzzle’s pieces so great
And I could tell just by the tempest’s face
I could tell that I had been replaced
And I was wondering why you washed away
And the heavy heart I woke up with today
So I took a dive in Treasure Lake
I was hoping that I might find a figure 8
And I will love you as you wash away
I will love you as you wash away
I will love you as you wash away
I will love you as you wash away
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Hey Snowflake
04:29
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Hey there now snowflake, what’s with you?
Been looking all over to miss you
Been biding my time to finally meet you
So I can finally say, ‘hey snowflake’
Ooh, hey snowflake
Ooh, hey snowflake
Ooh, hey snowflake
Ooh, hey snowflake
Hey there now snowflake, I can’t find you
Hurry before I become see through
and trapped in a daze of your invisible haze
when all I want to say is
Ooh, hey snowflake
Ooh, hey snowflake
Ooh, hey snowflake
Ooh, hey snowflake
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Mad River
03:07
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Mad river wash ashore
Turn the clock back to the place it was before
On another sunny morning
Its so sad when it’s the now that you must ignore
I can’t remember anymore
I can’t recall just what your face looked like before
I can’t remember anymore
You were a dream
The pain of your heart that was busting at the seams
But I could not compete
I always thought that you had something really neat
But you could not take it anymore
And I can’t recall just how you tuned your old guitar
And you could not keep it anymore
I can’t recall just what your face looked like before
I can’t remember anymore
I can’t recall just what your face looked like before
I can’t remember anymore
I can’t recall just what your face looked like before
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Smoke Signals
04:14
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Where you’re from the purple sky was painted night
and faded slowly into morning white
the sun rose softly the miracle of everything
the bower grass the birds would slowly start to sing
when you were young your spirit was a wild wind
wound up by the everything that’s nothing
and you were loud unchained and unaffected
from the crowd to which you were connected
Swimming soundly through fishes out of water
Soon you could tell the nothing that is everything
And you reached hell before they even taught you it
But love abounds it’s the energy you enter
Eat and laugh said the shaman to his idols
The world is full of happy surprises
And when the night comes the nothing that is come to pass
round the energy you enter
the earth becomes lighter than a feather
and you’re connected to the energy you enter
And when the night comes it doesn’t all just go to black
When the light comes you know that’s when you’re coming back
And when the night comes it doesn’t all just go to black
And when the light comes you know that’s when you’re coming back
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Sleeping Out Loud
02:35
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Stand by, stand by,
the strangest dreams will await you,
stand by and keep with the hope
that I, that I, await the world that awakes you
denied, you wake up alone
Stand by, stand by
awake the words that await you,
they give you hope
Goodbye, goodbye, to all the sadness beneath you,
you won’t be alone
I can hear you when you sleep out loud
I will know you when you sleep out loud
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Halcyon Daze
02:31
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Stuck in the slipstream
for I don’t know how many astral weeks
Lost at sea behind
a cache of beautiful holograms
But I can see
Even stuck in my fortress of amplitude
Your halcyon face on the mountaintop sing
Ooh ooh
And my dreams
What are they but sinister galleries
Armed to the teeth
And filled with such desperate facsimiles?
But I can see through the halcyon daze of my solitude
Your beautiful amplifier eyes start to sing
Ooh ooh
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