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Horizon 2050
03:17
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I still drive my car: Mercedes SLK (uh!)
I don't cry anymore, but I certainly don't fly any less
don't mind my hands getting dirty
and I don't mind your children's feet are getting wet
so I still drive that car, black leather seats, the windows down
how many other politicians and celebrities
know that 50% of Earth's animal and plant species
which we rely on for survival
face extinction
due to the destructive activities of
industrial capitalism!
yeah, that's right, fellow citizens, I said it
aren’t I brave to just come out here in front of you all
to rally us behind this cause
but I still drive my car
‘a silver beauty,’ I can hear you say
dear constituents, I promise thee
from this podium, I promise thee
if you call my office, leave a message, for your leader, me
I'll call back
I'll grab that phone
I'll park that car, I'll be that man
I'll grab that phone
I'll park that car
I'll call back
I'll grab that phone
I'll park that car
I'll be that man
I'll call back
I'll call back
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Perfume, Paradise
01:39
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perfume
paradise
inadequate
trash
perfume!
paradise!
inadequate!
trash!
I wanna dive right into your life
see what's on the inside of your eyelids
I get a special high
when I care for you
perfume?
paradise?
inadequate
trash?
no! no!!
immaculate
crash!
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3. |
No Land Beyond
02:18
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quicken the heart
blacken the tongue
foam at the mouth
collapse the lung
quicken the heart, eyes on the inside
blacken the tongue, foam at the mouth
collapse the lung
the summer welcomes a prowler
I had a dream and now that dream has gone away from me
I have an inkling of what is to come
love the way it feels (but not forever)
emerge again on the other side
face first in the flowers
I had a dream and now that dream has gone away from me
I have a feeling and it seems to want to stay with me
no land beyond!
no land beyond!
no land beyond!
and so it goes
I don't suppose these should be thoughts that I chose
but the iron hand throws the train off the tracks
and the endless spiral is defined by a lack
what chips at the paint?
what drips so viscose?
a solitary weight pinning me down in my woes
a phrase I cannot speak
a word I cannot spell
a name I can’t recall
but a face I remember all too well
I had a dream and now that dream has gone away from me
perhaps in the stillness of the dream
we have already begun the work
such a pretty planet
such an ugly world
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life-like!
it's like I can almost touch it through the screen
life-like!
joyfully reunited with my friends and family
and they look so
life-like!
could have another refill of this festive beverage, please?
and it’s all
life-like!
I lift my glass and smile at the little picture gallery
na na na na na na!
life-like!
it’s like I can almost taste it in the pixels
notes of isolation, a touch of bittersweet
and on the tongue a sense of virtual ennui
life-like!
feel some derealization towards the faces in my vertical magazine
life-like!
now put your hands, now put your hands together
for our balcony scene, yeah yeah!
now it's like porcelain when I touch my sheets
and if I press my face against the window I can almost see
that it's like poison when you touch my cheek
and if I press my face against the window I can almost see
the other human living beside me
and they’re so
life-like!
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A Simple Task
03:10
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talk like a lawyer
live like a parasite
I don't hate myself
but I know someone who might
talk like a lawyer
live like a parasite
I don't hate myself
but I know someone who might
I just want a simple task
something to hold tight
I just need a simple task
something to do right
a life in parentheses
has left you unsatisfied
and you don't love yourself
but I know someone who might
you just want a simple task
something to hold tight
you just need a simple task
to keep you up at night
take from the horn of plenty
and take and take and take
dry your eyes with fine linen
and make the same mistakes
you take from the horn of plenty
and take and take and take
dry your eyes with
silk and fine linen
talk like a lawyer
live like a parasite
I don't hate myself
but I know someone who might
I just need a simple task
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