1. |
Tales From Another Star
05:31
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From a distance admiration
Your best life never leaves the station
And when you’re laying in your dying bed
Damn so much is left unsaid
Tales from another star
Tales from another star
Tales from another star
Tales from another star
Tales from another star
Tales from another star
Strangers in the hotel crying
Cuz it’s raining & they feel like dying
So we may as well go collect shells
Get the beaches to ourselves
Tales from another star
Tales from another star
Tales from another star
Tales from another star
Tales from another star
Tales from another star
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2. |
Back At It
03:54
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All of this calming breathing
Won’t stop the news
Electric yellow lighting
Dive in the deepest blues
This body sinks like a stone
Like a stone
I won’t be your dancing skeleton
Let the dogs get at my bones
Skin slips off like gelatin
Back at it
Back at it
I’m in free fall
Taking a drive
I've arrived
I've arrived
Back at it
Back at it
I’m in free fall
Taking a dive
You don’t get out of here alive
Repeating affirmations
I’m like a parrot squawking
My family just won’t stop talking
It’s a curse so shut it down shut it down
Don’t be afraid of silence
This body moves on its own
And when we finally overthrow the man
See the seed was never sewn
Then they’re back cracking skulls again
Back at it
Back at it
I’m in free fall
Taking a drive
I've arrived
I've arrived
Back at it
Back at it
I’m in free fall
Taking a dive
Nobody gets out of here
Back at it
Back at it
I’m in free fall
Taking a drive
I've arrived
I've arrived
Back at it
Back at it
I’m in free fall
Taking a dive
You don’t get out of here alive
Back at it
Back at it
I’m in free fall
Taking a drive
I've arrived
I've arrived
Back at it
Back at it
I’m in free fall
Taking a dive
You don’t get out of here
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3. |
Lemon and Daisy
03:18
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Lemon and daisy
Color the tree
Spotlight in yellow
With flies in between
Neon lichen glow
Peripheral decay
Aloha, salutations
Vibration relay
Violet and lilac
Feathered fallen tree
Step up to below the
Highway shelter beam
Carbon blackout night
Reflections in july
Thoughts dissolve
Mind evolves
The cosmic butterfly
Wheel life color hues color the tree
Wheel life color hues color the tree
Lemon and daisy color the tree
Lemon and daisy color the tree
Lemon Anna in June
Lemon Anna in June
Lemon Anna in June
Lemon Anna in June color the tree
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4. |
Sea Level
05:16
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Every morning I wake up with me
It starts with a yawn and by dawn I’m out in the street
I shouldn’t take myself so seriously
Self so seriously
I put all my stock in the clock and a magic man healer
But most of you all would just call him a dealer
You can cover it up yes you can with your concealer
Cover it with your concealer
When they finally end this war
Won’t take a day for granted no more
Do you pay attention to
The beauty of the bruise’s blues?
I run from a man in the street he looks like the devil
Looks just like the devil
So I run and I hide but I slide down the bevel
Slide right down the bevel
Gotta get out of this freeze I was made for sea level
I was made for sea level
My friend Cal was on the couch
And he was passed out and he falls with a thud
He asked what’s the point in having teeth
If you don’t bite for blood?
You’re wasting your tooth and your youth
You stick in the mud
And he goes on and on and on
Drinking all the tequila
When they finally end this war
I’ll move to the orange groves for sure
Do you pay attention to
The beauty of the bruises blues?
I run from the man in the street he looks like the devil
Looks just like the devil
So I run and I hide but I slide down the bevel
Slide right down the bevel
Gotta get out of this freeze I was made for sea level
I was made for sea level
La la
la la la la
La la la la la la
La la
la la la la
La la la la la la
La la
la la la la
La la la la la la
Run from a man in the street goatee like the devil
Goatee like the devil
I walk into a wall and I glitch out of the level
Glitch out of the level
Sailors saw mermaids at sea
But is it a seal or several?
Is it a seal or several?
Is it a seal or several?
Is it a seal or several?
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5. |
Fields Of Cosmic Flowers
04:33
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Some people like stripes
Some people like dots
Some people just wear paisley
But me, I like all three
But most of all
The fields of cosmic flowers
I left this world too soon
I didn’t see the moon
Got caught in my own freedom
Free
Good love was never enough
I didn’t see
The fields of cosmic flowers
I never see
The forest for the flowers
Earth looks so small down there
What’s it gonna be?
What will it take for you to care?
I’m not the shark I thought I was
I’m not the satellite
Alone in flight
Pass the cosmic hours
In the flowers
In the flowers
He departed his dark globe
June 16 2006
Above the mountains and the snow
Melted to a rainbow
As if to invert the empty sky
The illusion shatters
It’s the tapestry that
Pervades all matter
(And one…the and, it’s always like…good note Mara, i think that’ll be really nice, it’ll be after…it’ll be after…are we all good?)
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6. |
Be The Turtle
03:28
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On the road
Picking up a package in Toronto
Hiding it in plain sight from the narcos
Hands are steady
Passport ready
Making free throws
With my eyes closed
On the run
Improvising stories and I'm having fun
Shooting at the joker
With a super soaker
First thing when I reach the city
Ditch the pinstripes
And bolo tie
Are you down to be the turtle?
High and dry
Slow and steady
Face the sun
Move when you're ready
You know how to save yourself
Puritans
Back when they were pillaging
The Native lands
Using their morality
To strong hand
Justified as civilizing
Careful with your good intentions
The asymptote
I think what we're reaching is
The asymptote
Never gonna touch it
But we're getting close
Always getting into trouble
Careful it might blow your mind!
Are you down to be the turtle?
High and dry
Slow and steady
Face the sun
Move when you're ready
You know how to save yourself
You know how to save yourself
You know how to save yourself
You know how to save yourself
Are you down to be the turtle?
High and dry
Slow and steady
Face the sun
Move when you're ready
You know how to save yourself
Are you down to be the turtle?
High and dry
Slow and steady
Face the sun
Move when you're ready
You know how to save yourself
You know how to save yourself
You know how to save yourself
You know how to save yourself
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7. |
Montage
00:37
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Let’s see how it goes
When you try to live up to the expectations of your crazy friends
When they’re clingy and they’re needy and emotionally unstable
And they drive you crazy til the bitter end
Pretty soon something’s gotta give or take
Boss keeps telling you you’re late late late
Buddy I care about you
Yes I do
But the thing you’ve gotta know is that I have my own life too
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8. |
Your Planet
04:24
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The king and the queen are tossing jewelry
The crowd tears itself apart
A few get table scraps and sugar cubes
If they got a head start
But sometimes we all enjoy the moonlight
I’m so glad you’re right at my side
We can drag the stars with a fine tooth comb
And you know
I’ll let you in my home
Let you in my home
I don’t want to leave your planet
I don’t want to leave your planet
Go back to my world
To steep in God’s black tea
Rain in the city
The tailor takes precaution with the velvet
But knows that he don’t need to baby it
Knows the ins and outs of the machinery
Which scraps to save
Which to throw out
And though we’re killing time
We can not bend it
Can not bruise eternity and
If it turns you were my red herring
Oh well
Still it tickles me
Still it tickles me
I don’t want to leave your planet
I don’t want to leave your planet
Go back to my world
To steep in God’s black tea
Rain in the city
I don’t want to leave your planet
I don’t want to leave your planet
Go back to my world
To boil in God’s black tea
Rain in the city
Lights out
Tears in the city
Lights out
Slime streams through the streets
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9. |
Jinx Yourself
04:38
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Weekend drive
West
West
Somewhere out of here
Free
In the guts of some old building
Is it outside or is it in?
Is it vacuum or is it wind?
It’s hard to say
Hard to say
The orange foil
The river boils and toils upon al dente earth
The birds are loud
Singing proud
Somewhere new
To brew
To stew
Steeping in hot pain
Hello?
In my spacesuit with no hood
Call on birthdays like I should
I’ll admit I thought life would
Always feel good
Always feel good!
The speckled sky
I am the guy stands sturdy across the mountain turbines
A sunburned face in my happy place
I’ve got no plan for a rainy day
Careful careful careful what you wish for
Know that only you can jinx yourself
Careful careful careful what you wish for
Know that only you can jinx yourself
Careful careful careful what you wish for
Know that only you can jinx yourself
Careful careful careful what you wish for
Know that only you can jinx yourself
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10. |
Perfect Bottles
03:12
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God don’t make no perfect bottles
Can’t have it any other way
It would be a crying shame
If every bottle was the same
The vine don’t grow no perfect pumpkins
Can’t have it any other way
It would be a crying shame
If every pumpkin was the same
The mint don’t print no perfect penny
Can’t have it any other way
It would be a crying shame
If every penny tastes the same
Take your hand off of that throttle
You can take it day by day
Take your hand off of that throttle
You can take it day by day
Take your hand off of that throttle
You can take it day by day
Take your hand off of that throttle
You can take it day by day
Dog don’t make no perfect goggles
Can’t have it any other way
It would be a crying shame
If every goggle was the same
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Paint On It Richmond, Virginia
Rock band with penchant for vocal harmonies, retrofuture synths, and psychedelic guitar explorations.
paintonitband@gmail.com
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