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1. _ Between Rupture and Rapture
In the veins of the ultraviolet light,
the phosphorus is starting a fire
Shooting up in the iodine;
Its turning on
(rupture) rupture the wall around my heart
I feel so lost,
I've been shaking. You can't save me
(forget what the doctor said)
Every bird in mid-flight is calling out your name
before it hits the window and it sings the rapture
Without a second opinion
The chemicals saturate
To counteract the code
Through the double-helix we are twisting
(too scared to let this go)
Someone call the head nurse
She's coming to the capitol
To wrap us up and throw us in the dirt, with a dream that |
2. _ Asleep in the Chapel
Three chalk outlines sleep in the dirty street
And in our beds, under the sheets
They're the halo of guilt hanging around your neck
Next to the rosary you count falling asleep
And we're praying
These are the symptoms
Of letting go of all our hope
Since we can't compete with martyred saints
We'll douse ourselves in gasoline and hang our bodies from the lamposts
So that our shadows turn into bright lights
'White lights, white heat'
We'll make as we're blacking out in the center lane
(We swerve)
To the beat
(Spill)
All the ink
No revisions
Do you hear the church bells ringing?
Wake up!! Wake up in an outline and try to speak
With the shattered voice of the lives we lead
(Have we slept too long)
Between the bullet holes in a stained glass window state?
And we're praying
These are the symptoms
Of letting go of all our hope
(When we repent)
And we're praying
(We fall on the page)
(Read in the margins)
We are the symptoms
Of letting go of all our hope
Someday we'll be complete like modern saints
Baptize our kids in gasoline
And hang our doubts up in cathedrals
So that they turn to faith in the colored sun
'Red rain, red rain'
We'll make as we're blacking out in the center lane
(We swerve)
To the beat
(Spill)
All the ink
(No revisions)
Do you hear the church bells ringing?
They ring for you
(We woke up this morning to a sky with no air in it
And the street is filled with a thousand burning crosses
And what we thought was the sunrise, just passing headlights)
Still the choir girls sing
'Oh lord, can you save us, save us?
Oh, lord, sing hallelujah.
Oh lord, can you save us, save us?
Oh, lord, sing hallelujah.'
They are the symptoms
Of letting go of all our hope
We're falling asleep with open eyes
Falling asleep inside the chapel
Falling asleep in chalk outlines
Falling asleep as the headlights pass us by
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3. _ Division Street
Lights out on Division St.
and all the hate that rises through the cracks in the pavement,
as the temperature falls.
(giving it's way through the cracks)
Lights out on Division St.
i'll repeat it.
Goodbye to the memories,
(the memory will not fade)
the night has worn down,
it's not enough to put this sound,
i'll part up before i wake up.
(on Division St.)
This is serious,
This is serious,
Yes, this is serious..
I'm having a heart attack parade.
Lights out on Division St.
I held you tight like an empty bottle...
but the glass broke and the pieces fell down in your name.
Hello?
Hello?
Is anybody there?
the house turned black,
it sat in silence.
(no idea what's being said)
la la la, listen to the sound.
go on and on,
as if you spoke to someone else.
Lights out on Division St.
i'll repeat it.
Goodbye to the memories,
(the memory will not fade)
the night has worn down,
it's not enough to put this sound,
i'll part up before i wake up.
(on Division St.)
This is serious,
This is serious,
Yes, this is serious.
I'm having a heart attack parade.
dance between the scissor's blades
without getting caught
I drew an X on your city's name
LIGHTS OUT. BLACK OUT. BLOW OUT THE CANDLE AGAIN.
spin the room around
FALL DOWN. PASS OUT. GET UP AGAIN. KEEP REPEATING.
between the footsteps I hear crickets in the trees
a silent army marching with me through a swarm of bees
a needle dragged across a record slowing down
along Division St. the lights were dying out
(frozen houses stretched on for miles and miles)
TURN THE WINDOWS BLACK
lights out on division street
repeating (repeat it)
lights out on division street
repeating, (turn the windows black)
lights out. lights out. lights out.
turn the windows black
la la la la la la
listen to yourself.
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4. _ Marches and Maneuvers
This is a war we live.
and the sides are drawn, sides are drawn.
We're all wrapped up in fatigues
and they wear us out, wear us out.
There is a storm at sea.
If we fly a white flag
under a black and blue sky
will the red sun rise?
(The taste of your kerosene lips burn me up)
The glare from your enemy sights make me go blind.
Blinds divide the sunlight into thin strips,
the size of a blade,
in this trench that we dig for ourselves.
Fourscore and fade.
Glare with the enemy hear of the bodies in the bed. There's no retreat.
This is a war we live in.
Now we're up in arms, up in arms,
with our heads pressed against the wall
(and it's wearing thin, wearing thin).
These are the screams we swallow.
If we fly a white flag
under a black and blue sky
will the red sun rise?
(The taste of your kerosene lips burn me up)
(The glare from your enemy sights make me go blind)
This is our war.
Administer the pill (Keep fighting!)
before the cell divides (Keep marching!)
and we'll both go down like toy soldiers.
This is our war.
Threats and picket lines are forming around our beds
and the landmines in our chests will all go off in time.
If we trip each other into this,
do you think we'll find a way out?
we've synthesized a compound to treat this conscience, its:
one part loss, one part no sleep,
one part the gunshot we heard,
one part the screams mistaken for laughter,
one part everything after,
one part love,
one part stepping out of the driving rain.
One part parting ways
in the cold apartment, dont look back
just keep running down the stairs.
Do you hear the footsteps?
Can you hear voices in the traffic?
Communiques in the attic?
They say after time, all this will heal,
we will rebuild and these broken arm will mend
themselves in our embrace.
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5. _ This Song Brought To You By A Falling Bomb
Do you hear the jet plane yawning mile across the sky?
Do you hear the garbage truck back down the boulevard, setting off the car alarms as it passes by?
Do you hear the static of one thousand detuned radios?
Shut the window, love. Keep the world outside.
I don't want to think about anyone but the footsteps are getting louder, drowning out the rain,
as it knocks on the windowsill. I'm not answering the phone -- let it ring.
Lately I've been feeling like a falling bomb.
The ground is getting closer and the sky is falling down
This song is brought to you by a falling bomb.
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6. _ War All The Time
war all of the time
in the shadow of the new york skyline
we grew up to fast
falling apart
like the ashes of american flags
and were blowing in the wind
we dont know, where to learn
so we kiss like little kids
we used to be there
sob filled days
weve been falling, for so long
now your eyes are the sign on the edge of town
that offer or welcome when you are leaving
war all of the time
in the shadow of the new york skyline
we grew up to fast
falling apart
like the ashes of american finds
the pieces fall
its like the last day to rain
and the focite our trees are to late
so where to the people they long to wait back
to the fabric
war all of the time
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7. _ For The Workforce, Drowning
Falling from the top floor your lungs fill like parachutes windows go rushing by.
The people inside they're dressed for the funeral in black and white.
These ties strangle our necks hanging in the closet filed in the cubicle without a name just numbers on the resume stored in the mainframe marked for delete.
Please take these hands throw them in the river wash away the things they never held.
Please take these hands throw me in the river but dont let me drown before the workday ends.
NINE TO FIVE
And we're up to our necks drowning in the seconds ingesting your morning commute lost in the dead Subway-sleep.
Now we lie wide awake in our parents beds tossing and turning tomorrow we'll get up drive to work single file with everyday just like the last: waiting for the life to start.
It's always just ahead of the curve...
Please take these hands throw them in the river wash away the things they never held.
Please take these hands throw me in the river but dont let me drown before the workday ends.
Just keep making copies of copies of copies.
When will it end...
It will never end until it gets so bad that the ink fills in our fingerprints and the silhouetteof your own face becomes the black cloud of war.
Even in our dreams we're so afriad the weight will offset who we are.
All those breaths that you took have now been cancelled in your lungs.
Last night my teeth fell out like ivory typewriter keys and all the momuments and skyscrapers burned down and filled the sea.
Save our ship the anchor is part of the desk.
We can't cut free water is flooding the decks.
The memo's sent through the currents computer spark like flares..
I can see them but they don't touch me.
Touch me please someone teach me how to swim.
Please don't let me drown.
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