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We Rise
03:56
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WE RISE
Here we are in the middle of a room and our stars are burning bright
Whoa-oh -- will you breathe with me tonight?
In the morning we may wake to more doom and gloom but we'll be spoiling for a fight
Oh -- can I breath with you tonight?
In my dreams we rise
in my dreams we rise
Here we are in the middle of a scene and our eyes are wide and bright
Oh -- will you breathe with me tonight?
When the sun comes up with an urgent scream we'll have regained once lost sight
Whoa-oh -- can I breathe with you tonight?
In my dreams we rise
In my dreams we rise
Ooh we rise
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2. |
Modern Tragedy
02:38
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MODERN TRAGEDY
Hey! We don't need an alibi
or some talking head to say we're livin' clean
It seems that everyone's just getting by
while pretending they're in some exotic scene
Whoa-oh -- the fuzz
it's all because
we're done imagining some cruel reality
Ooh-ooh -- we say
we'll work the day
and we'll bless the evening with some modern tragedy
So this party's on again
I've given up on ever finding out
where the owner of this place keeps all the change
Some lonely priestess has begus to shout
and she's telling us that we can turn the page
Whoa-oh -- the boss
he knows the cost
but we're blinded by the color and the pageantry
Ooh-ooh -- we say
we'll work the day
and we'll bless the evening with some modern tragedy
So this party's on again
Why must I think so hard about it?
We'll get to revolution when we can
I think I'll take another drink and try to stand again
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3. |
Kings for a Day
03:14
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KINGS FOR A DAY
The danger in "crash and burn" is obscured
by the turning of fortunes won and lost
And criminal minds
praying for dogs
are racing to bury the eyes of us all
Who's counting on you and I for a taste
of reality's bookish naivete?
It's only last year
waking from shock
we walked all alone and were kings for a day
And it's high time you and I took a break from all these
written warnings 'cause it's not our mistake
It's just the animals and lies
that keep on breaking us down
I feel like a stranger in this town
watching vandals trade their honor for a crown
The life of a whiny brat is replayed
on this stage, it's our national refrain
And can we erase
locking our knees
we stay in one motion and sing through our shame
Who's waiting on us for a deft response?
Or a bitter retort from a two-act play?
It's only last year
waking from shock
we walked all alone and were kings for a day
And it's high time you and I took a break from all these
written warnings 'cause it's not our mistake
It's just the animals and lies
that keep on breaking us down
I feel like a stranger in this town
watching vandals trade their honor for a crown
And down and out we
set the table and we
stomp and shout at
all the tales that ring true
to daytime pirates who are ironing their consciences
and asking for a one night band
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We're All Innocent
03:27
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WE'RE ALL INNOCENT
Thus it went with a lack of decorum
the whole thing is, this can't be the forum
for upending all the boxes stacked against the wall
Framed a picture of the ice parade for my hall
The truth won't set anyone free
'cause no one's listening
Anyhow, we're all innocent
We're all innocent
We're innocent
Can't we steep in the nuance of boredom?
Drop a drink, and stand in the pourin' rain
It's caught a red hand but displays no need for shame
Saw the last act of this play -- all hail the human stain
The truth won't set anyone free
if no one's listening
Anyhow, we're all innocent
We're all innocent
We're innocent
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SONG FOR THE ANONYMOUS #!
Can't have trouble
calling his friends
'cause we're the only ones who got tickets to the end
Road sick lovers
get out of the eye
The storm is coming over you -- you can step aside
Step aside!
Fast man over
slow man down
evil trenches dug before winter was in the ground
Castin' pennies is not what it seems
the ripple in the water for someone else's dreams
Oh their dreams!
Dead men talkin'
mothers freeze
I feel the words of enemies drippin' through the trees
New math comin'
don't deny
There's something waiting 'round the bend we can try
Oh let's try!
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SONG FOR THE ANONYMOUS #2
In our season
Tom, the night came down
For no reason
Then our eyes were ground to dust
Ask we must, though it seems we're sleepin'
Skies unopen
Rivers soon may cease to flow
Something's broken
but who the hell are we to know or trust?
Still ask we must about the crop your reapin'
The conversation's mainly out of tune
Speeches disappear into the June air
And though we amble on, we'll choke through dirt our song
We're singin' for the pilots in the room
Over diamonds
Over fields of fallen stones
Who can find them?
The collectors of our bones and rust
Ask we must if there is something burnin'
Night was callin'
From the place where Faulkner laid
Words were fallin'
oe'r the bed I had once made and mussed
Ask to us if there's something we've been learnin'
The conversation's mainly out of tune
Speeches disappear into the June air
And though we amble on, we'll choke through dirt our song
We're singin' for the pilots in the room
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7. |
Sequences (Codes)
03:14
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SEQUENCES (CODES)
Queen of Tides you'll guide me now
I can see the stars, the crowd
Punish us
we're just dust
our communique was interrupted
our lines busted
but our cups still carry wine
With a song we're on first watch
for a sign of breach of trust
Talk to me
deal in three
I'll make no compromise
Neither posin' nor disclosin'
a sequence in disguise
God of Eyes your size is wrong
Should be wide and not so long
Punish us
we're just dust
our communique was interrupted
our lines busted
but our cups still carry wine
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8. |
After the Flood
04:14
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AFTER THE FLOOD
No more priceless words
No more things you heard
It's not enough to listen
Thinking of our hearts we'll miss them
No more careless laughter
Drums beat ever faster
Think we're in some grand position
We'll be left with casts and stitches
Before the Flood (there was nothing)
everything seemed dead
Thicker than blood (now we're standing)
knee deep in red
No more things to buy
I saw your smile behind a sigh
Bury some long forgotten bones
We fight with love and sticks and poems
Before the Flood (we were nothing)
We were okay
But now we're blood (brothers and sisters)
The sky is gold and gray above
Ooh I can't see a willow tree that used to be up
by the great divide between us
What compares to water anyway?
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SONG FOR THE ANONYMOUS #3 (BLACK FLAGS)
The sun comes up on a desolate town
Don't know, but what was lost is found
Marching in from the east and the west
Black flags draped in front of our chests
The sun comes up on this town
Don't know, but what's lost is found
We're comin' on
Here we come, here we come, here we come!
Marching in -- east and west
Black flags draped in front of our chests
We're comin' on
Here we come, here we come, here we come!
And it's on
There's no one in front
we just run
yeah we run
'cause we're done cavin' in
yeah we're done
The sun comes up on our new found town
Don't know but what was lost is found
(We're comin' on -- here we come, here we come, here we come!)
The puppet man thinks he's pullin' the strings
He wont know what to do with all these things when we've won
And we've won, we've won, we've won
Well it's on
There's no one in front
we just run
yeah we run
'cause we're done cavin' in
yeah we're done
You know
There's no one in front
we just run
yeah we run
'cause we're done with this
Yeah we're done
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10. |
High Noon
04:10
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HIGH NOON
So you say that you're shackled by your unfortunate repose
To live a straight life without enemies is what you have chose
They offer a fight and you hand them a rose
Once when a fire raged you gave some lost sinner your cape
and took off in the night to return to your usual shape
The nape of your neck is accustomed to waiting
But out in the street
there are people to meet
The sky is cerulean blue
Once we were workers now were all lurkers it;s seeming
we'd rather be farming instead we are starving for meaning
Tell me once more how you're boiling and steaming
Because I'm not seeing the fruit you call "seething" devoured
It just hangs on the vine like some hard and immovable flower
Calling all heroes this is the hour
'Cause out in the street
there are people to meet
The postman is silently dancing
Once when a storm neared we boarded our windows and fled
We turned out the lights to listen to what was being said
Let's turn them on for a battle instead
For high noon is raging o'er foes who are staging a duel
They've pegged us for cowards, we've stupidly marked them for fools
Let's start trying to look mean and stop trying to look coo
'Cause out in the street
there are people to meet
The peanut vendor is smiling
Lately I'm thinking that we should be drinking a lot
of the waters and spirits that make the eyes bulge and see spots
Maybe then we can see what we've sold and we've bought
The wounds of a shepherd are shining in serpentine fire
We laugh at his homelessness -- scoff, though he may be for hire
Calling all heroes to sing like a choir
'Cause out in the street
there are people to meet
we'll turn up the heat
our hands and our feet
will pound all deceit
into the concrete
our words indiscreet
we'll shout and we'll bleat
to a steady drumbeat
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11. |
Wake Up, New York!
03:39
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WAKE UP, NEW YORK!
I need my uniform
just give it back I think that it will fit again
There's no emotional confusion, indecision
I'm an ardent man
We're not the one's who need to think
You keep your whiskey shot
I've got a lot invested in this new brigade
It's no illusionary, visionary thing
we've just the world to save
We've got this island on the brink
You think you've seen it all
but you've never been outside
your meager head
I'm seeing red
We'll be storming through
every street and avenue
Tuesday we've got it made
it's you and I who've played our final rondezvous
Don't bite a thing they cook
they're all just crooks
there's propaganda in that stew
We're not the one's who need to think
Regards to the peace corps
I've got no more time to waste in fractious dialogue
Someday you'll listen up
oh listen up!
Invaders, use a casual nod
We've got this island on the brink
You think you've seen it all
but you've never been outside
the people's lawn
you best be gone
We'll be storming through
every street and avenue
Wake up New York!
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SONG FOR THE ANONYMOUS #4
A land, a prison built by it's own citizens
And all my friends were there
They were love -- without a care
I cried on
Within those four walls were strong arms beckoning
Steam from the vents below
told us of an April snow
Birds were gone
But then we faced those four walls hammering
Up above, a patch of light
told us of the coming fight
It was on
And as our lovers cried
and as our brothers died
we sang our fearless song through the night to the dawn
Oh the long tones
I saw a prison built by it's own denizens
And I met my family there
Once were lost without a care
But now they fight with rage and daring
Nothing but the clothes they're wearing
Now we're cracked our souls lay bare
and are gone
And as birds rip seams in the sky
Upward turned faces scan and cry
Barriers breached we rise, we rise
we rise
Ooh we rise
Ooh we rise
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