One BeatI’m a bubble in a sound wave
A sonic push for energy
Exploding like the sun
A flash of clean light hope
All you scientists can hold your breath
Shall I decide to show myself? Oh oh
If you think like Thomas Edison
Could you invent a world for me
Now all that’s on the surface
Are bloody arms and oil fields
Could I turn this place upside down
And shake you and your fossils out? Oh oh
Should I come outside and run your cars
Should I run your rockets to the stars
Could you invent a world for me
I need to hear a symphony
If I’m to run the future
You’ve got to let the old world go Oh oh
Your word for me is fusion
But is real change an illusion
Could I turn this place all upside down
And shake you and your fossils out
If I’m to run the future
You’ve got to let the old world go
Could you invent a world for me
I need to hear a symphony Oh oh
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Faraway
7:30 am nurse the baby on the
couch
then the phone rings
"Turn on the T.V."
watch the world explode in flames
and don’t leave the house
And the sky overhead
is silent, waiting
Clear blue holds its breath
And the heart is hit
in a city far away
but it feels so close
Don't breathe the air today
Don't speak of why you're afraid
(Standing here on a one way road
and I fall down,
no other direction for this to go
so we fall down)
WHY CAN'T I GET ALONG WITH YOU?
And the president hides
while working men rush in
To give their lives
I look to the sky
and ask it not to rain
On my family tonight
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Oh!
If you’re tired of the big so
so
Get yourself into some self control
Play the game by putting on the brakes
Slow down and make less mistakes
Nobody lingers like your hands on my heart
Nobody figures like you figured me out
I would be lying if I didn't say to you
No one comes close don't worry you got it!
(There's fire if you want it let me know,
I'm sick and I'm tired of letting go)
The way I feel when you call my name
Makes me go crazy to sane
The way I feel when you’re close to me
Finally not drifting out to sea
Come on now I wish you would
I’m the one who makes you feel good
Never mind those things they say
They don’t know it but I’m here to stay
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The Remainder
One and one and one is two
All this and more you said was true
And if you’d left me ground to stand on
I’d run so far away from you
What do you do with a remainder?
You round it up or round it down
And if you’re scared by what you’re left with
Destroy the answer that you’ve found
You were the one
When the day had begun
The sun was shining on us
Blinding me such
That I couldn’t see
There was a hole beneath me
And then you watched me fall
With no expression at all
There is an absolute zero
But you won’t find it on your own
Only someone else can show you nothing
And leave you with a gaping hole
You were the one
When the storm rolled in
The sky was grey like your heart
With no color at all
I don’t know you like this
You’re as reckless as wind
And I couldn’t predict
Just the way this would end
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Light Rail
Coyote
Let’s meet in
the city where
the rivers cross, bridges there
Let’s float down into the stream
of Rich and Poor Pioneers
A kid from a western town
wants to be seen, and go out
Let’s borrow my parent’s car
Let’s stay out all night up there
and Burnside will be our street
Where the kids and the hookers meet
Diners and strip club junk
Bookstores and punk rock clubs
I’m as green as this blade
in the grass that bends
in the wind that blows
on the long weekends
where I cross the bridge
to the water fountains
and drink in the hope
that the city brings
(Water, Building and Sin
Big Oregon city draws you in
A promise fulfilled or not
Just hang on until the summer, it’s hot)
We’ll make our home water-tight
Work all day, play all night
And hope we’re not washed away
By deceit or tragedy
And Joan of Arc rules Northeast
Where the poor and the hipsters meet
The grid that divides us all
The River makes final call
Out at the edge of town
Where airfield runs water down
Coyote crosses old tracks
And hops on the Light-Rail Max
And if you wanna be a friend of mine
Cross the river to the east side
Find me on the eve of suicide
Tell me the city is no place to hide
Take me out into a sunny day
Through the grotto or the promenade
You came to me in the nick of time
Thankful for the things I left behind
Oh dirty river, come let me in
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