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No Future
03:34
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Not ready for a world underwater
No future for our sons and daughters
Not ready for summer at the South Pole
Ice melting faster, burning more coal
Not ready for the trees bending backwards
No nests for Sunday morning blackbirds
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Lotusland
04:16
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Rosie has a song in her heart, she wants to live her art
The angels are calling her name, but they don’t sound the same
Pavement cracking under her feet, can’t beat the Hadean heat
The stars turn off for the season, now what is her reason to stay?
Can’t drag me to Lotusland
Where mind and soul go to die, never saying goodbye
The dodger says it’s okay, there’s no other way
Hotels full of the mob, taking off from their jobs
Do they know they can’t leave, their future woes that they grieve?
With my arms on the floor, and a foot out the door
I hold my breath
With my head in the sand, and my face in my hand
I await death
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When the snowstorm comes your way
And it hasn’t been your day
There is not much that you can say
To make it instantly okay
But a little time and waiting
Can make this all so much less grating
So when the wind and cold start fading
It won’t feel so degrading
You know it will be alright
When the spotlight’s aimed at you
And you don’t know what to do
Trip over the laces of your shoes
You find it too often that you lose your way
In times not unlike these
You must rest and keep the peace
So you don’t feel like a swarm of bees
That targets everything it sees
When you’ve washed up on the shore
And you can’t take it anymore
You know you never liked the score
At 0-0, you’re getting bored
Of everything always being the same
Because it’s getting very lame
You need to play a different game
That’s really only different in name
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Dead Spiders
02:57
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I used to think it would never get better than this
I still feel it, but not in the same way
Your face left echoes in the mirror
And I don’t know where the sun goes
Dead spiders on the floor
Where you were before
Now you’re two feet out the door
I don’t know why
Dead spiders in the web
I can’t get out of bed
Feels like I’m almost dead
When you said goodbye
This world is a cruel and unjust place
Why should I spend another day?
Why bother blow the clouds away?
And I don’t know where the sun goes
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Take Me to Babylon
02:32
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Take me to Babylon
Where suburbanites ride their mastodons to work
In their cubicles of ice
Take me to Babylon
Where the city streets are paved with magma
And lemonade rains from citrus clouds
Good times in Babylon
Where we launch ourselves into the sun
Every day for fun
Good times in Babylon
Where the silken stars are eight yards off the ground
And you can touch them if you can reach
Goodbye, Babylon
The sun sets on the painted walls of
Every house and home
Goodbye, Babylon
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Someone Else
02:52
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I understand that I can be obnoxious
And I don’t always read the room
I may be trying to bring out the laughter
When your head is full of doom
I don’t plan well ahead
And sometimes I eat too much
My bedroom could be neater
It’s more like a rabbit’s hutch
And yet you draw closer
Each time that I’m around
Whenever you are drowning
I bring you back to ground
It’s only been a year or so
I hear no wedding bells
I have sweet dreams because I know
You’ll never leave for someone else
The tears, they keep rolling
Down your face like rain
I know I don’t always understand
Your real inner pain
You can be awfully quiet
When I’m chatting up a storm
Sometimes I think you’re listening
And other times you’re bored
And yet I draw closer
Each time that you’re around
Whenever I feel uneasy
You bring me back to ground
The cake is in the oven
No fire means no hell
You sleep safe and sound because
I’ll never leave for someone else
I love you
You’re sweet like lemons and you smile like the apple sun
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The Price
03:48
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Where did we fall apart
Skull to brain, hand to heart
Sun won’t set, moon won’t rise
Climate death in your eyes
Who knows whose bones lay under the ice
We’re gonna die, don’t need to tell me twice
A day of relaxation and rest would be nice
But all these decades later, we still pay the price
Haven’t we had enough
No more hate, give us love
Valhalla won’t redeem
Wake up from your fairy dream
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Winners and Losers
02:38
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It was 7pm, on a breezy autumn weekday
I was walking deep within my neighborhood
When suddenly I was approached by a man I did not know
A really good 60 or a really bad 45
I couldn’t quite place his age
He told me he used to be a poet
I said good for him, what rhymes with go away?
He told me life is not a game with winners and losers
And we have no reason to compete
Though I saw no fault in his argument
He sure seemed like a loser to me
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Crystallized in motion
Caught in the freeze frame
Mind set on relocation
Getting tired of the same
Don't mean to cause a commotion
Homesick in dreams
I've enjoyed this location
But I need a new scene
Memories made, failures fade
People I know, put on a show
I miss, going
Where I, know my
Place in all the chaos
Sailed across the ocean
Fell off the boat a few times
Could have been imagination
Could have happened in another life
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Ratman
03:00
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Mild-mannered man by day,
Ratman lurks in the shadows
Where few dare dwell
Made the most of circumstances
Placed against his will
They’re cheering his name
He’s number one
No one can kill Ratman
No one defeats Ratman
No one unseats Ratman
No one will beat Ratman
No one can stand up to the slayer of evil
Superhero, second to zero
Here to save the world
Suddenly snap goes his knee and he’s down
He’s on the ground and he’s not getting up
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Slay the King
03:17
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Slay the final king, up against the wall
Empire overgrown, every castle falls
What the nation fears, I don’t care at all
Slay the final king, every castle falls
Ronald Reagan is rotting in his tomb
Maggie Thatcher has the devil in her womb
The grand old elephant has never left the room
Millionaire preachers still telling all their doom
And though their corpses could not be cased in ice
All these decades later, we still pay the price
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