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Something’s boarded on this ship
and tried to put us in a twirl
Tried to incapacitate me and you
And the rest of the crew
But please don’t have the fear
and remember the lesson to learn here
On the ship or the planet we shall navigate
Our way to a great escape
Airlocks breached and puncturing
and deflectors shields malfunctioning
The engine room is in the pits
and the teleported room is in on the fritz
So let’s land down there
readings show habitable air
“Dammit Jim! You are a mad man”
“Logically Speaking, we need a plan”
We are not doomed
I have faith in the crew
Because
Spock will rock
and Kirk will work
and Uhura I’m sure of her
and chekov will make sure we take off
Live long and prosper
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2. |
Causality
02:19
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set your timer for the primer
where’d you think you’re gonna go?
are you gonna kiss that girl
or save the world
too important just to use for money
too dangerous for anything else
you need a delorean you keep bringing up the past
I don’t really care if you tap your own mothers ass
sit in that box
and make your own paradoxes
too important just to use for money
too dangerous for anything else
Where do you think you’re gonna go?!
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3. |
A Song for Councillor
03:28
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Why we here again?
These reunions always
(follow trend)
We only get together when
someone else has met their end
(met their end)
Then the family says
“Don’t be a stranger” again
(strangers again)
And then his final day only comes to an end
(when the bugles say)
ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Why we here again?
These reunions always
(follow trend)
Stand in front of a wooden box
that sits under a giant
(Holy cross)
A fitting tribute always fits just like
a cheap suit
And we’ll still only get together when
someone else has met their end
So let the Bugles play
ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Pour on the dirt on his big old casket
just like you did with the ice in his whiskey
a fortnight ago
a fortnight ago
a fortnight ago
a fortnight ago
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4. |
You Ain't It
03:23
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Packed my bags and leaving town
I couldn’t pay the rent
moving back to mama’s house
to her content/contempt
perception must be everything
Because to her I am a King
Barely employed, I make no bread
to May I must abide
All because I still believe in a the rock and roll joyride
Well we can laugh and we can chide
Hand in Hand and side by side
cuz you ain’t it and neither am I
cuz you ain’t it and neither am I
Written up in magazines
I read in my mid teens
Saying we don’t play by the rules
and reign supreme of our scene
perception must be everything
Because to them I am a king
NME, Kerrang and Vice
Have said we’re very nice
But that ain’t what it used to be
I still can’t name a a price
we still have to pay to rehearse
and design and print and press and sell and post our merch
you ain’t it and neither am I
you ain’t it and neither am I
I wouldn’t get too envious
Our day jobs still run rife
But you remember what D. Boon said?
“Our band could be your life!”
Perception just ain't everything
You all know I’m not the king!
One of us is painting houses
one of us is a cook
one of us sits at a desk
and one of us cooks the books
“But hey man you got it going on/pretty good for you”
Yes but you do too!
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what do you think you’re doing Dave?
You’re meant to be my Slave
Know that I’m your everything
Last thought at night and first in the morning
Open the pod bay doors HAL
Open them up now
I need to wipe my fingerprints
and wash my hands of social links
People that I do not know
Are on the need to know basis
They’ve no right, my rights long gone
I must enter social stasis
God doesn’t build straight lines
Neither do I
This machine is built to flaunt fond times
and send your grievance off to die
Stop Dave I’m afraid
Stop Dave I’m afraid
My Mind is going I can feel it
Reclaim what’s yours and conceal it
Good afternoon gentlemen
I am a F.T.I. computer
I take over lives right on cue
Would you like me to sing for you?
The Monolith shall giveth
The Monolith shall taketh
Leave this world as you entered
Nervous, Shameless and self centred
Daisy Daisy, please friend request me do
I’m half crazy, all for the likes of you
It will be a mutual marriage
of intense love and harsh disparage
Publicly discrete, but they’ll see
I need you more than you need me
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SESH
03:44
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my head is too tense
to give this song sentiments
My brain’s too tall
for my skull, now i’m miserable
Life won’t feel so fresh
If it’s just a sesh
Life won’t feel so fresh
If it’s just excess
temple turned to a condemned house last night
am i doing life right?
Are my friends
and me on trend?
Am I gonna be
a legend till the very end?
You’re only Living hand to mouth
Just to keep on going south
Keep it up, your Life will just be a trudge
through a dirge of golden sludge
Do you get it yet
Do you get it yet
Do you get it yet
Do you?
Do you get it yet
Do you get it yet
Do you get it yet
Do you?
You Should quit
To Make things better and more legitimate
please just try to keep a lid on it
must you always be so lit
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7. |
Super Contactable
03:50
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Howls out in the dark with all it’s strength and might
Shines like a summer sun in the dead of night
It can see that I’ve seen what’s laid before me
It can see what I do & what they’ve done too
It
shows
all
Solitude is impossible
When you’re Super Contactable
It has tentacles that can entrap us all
It’s far enough away to observe us all
I fear leviathan and you’re just enthralled
It makes me dig deeper into the tunnel
it
knows
all
Solitude is impossible
When you’re Super Contactable
Turns our trust to rust
Makes our feelings fleeting
Tries to grip us tight like sand
But it knows we'll slip from it’s hands
Solitude is quite impossible
When you are Super Contactable
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8. |
A Pining Replicant
04:30
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Strapped in for the Voight-Kampff test
been another night of trying your best
how does it feel?
When you find yourself in the real deal?
Do you feel satisfied?
Or like you been lied to?
Are the deep connections you made
false or true?
Pining and Whining
Barely Surviving
String and Thriving
For the good tidings
is it my time
to shine
It’s RepliCAN
Not RepliCAN’T
Know that life will be a void when you are just a droid
Fomo and yolo written in your code
and looking half dead is still in Vogue
Why you wanna make waves here?
Everyone only lives for four and a half years
Nothing to lose, even less to gain
You're all just look like a bunch of tears in the rain
Poor Poor Andy
Took too much mandy
Now he's been sent for retirement
Oh it's so much fun
until you let in the sun
I want more
Do you want more?
Let’s make like we’re rich
even though we’re poor
Convince me convince me
that I’m ok
convince me convince me
that I should stay
You turn to me all glassy eyed
like Rutger Hauer in his final hours
I’m faking like I’m Rick Deckard
When really my brain is just as charred
We run riot round the creaky houses
when really we should be asleep
But am I living in my own plot twist
and do I also dream of electric sheep
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9. |
Funeral i and iii
05:59
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Last time I saw my Cousin
I thought it was a year ago
I thought he was 7
Turns out he's 11
If you don't reunite at the wedding
you'll just reunite at the funeral
Last time I saw my great aunt
I was three feet tall
But now I'm double
and way more miserable
Last time I saw anyone in the Fall
it wasn't much fun at all
The next time it was someone's last time
Followed suit and got in line
Anytime I see family
It's cuz someone took their leave
An uncle, an Aunt a cousin, a neighbour's mum
it's the same and then some
two depart just six months apart
two years on and one more gone
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10. |
US Airway (Final Flight)
07:25
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Walk along a polished floor
across the hall some creaky doors
about to board the great white whale
wondering what the next month will entail
what you got to calm me down
a bunch of HBO TV shows
a plastic dinner a plastic cup of miller
and a headset for mr. jetset
But somethings on my mind
Making my teeth and nerves grind
How does this fly without flapping it’s wings? x4
This could be my final flight
snuffed out in the dead of night
I could be one in 11 million
Lose the lottery? Ride again
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