Thank you! We really did almost drive ourselves crazy there working on that album, and it really means an immense amount to hear that people like it.Originally Posted by poinoup
Yes, I could put the lyrics up here... we did mix the vocals a little low, which was intentional, but I probably should have made it more audible... One sec. This is from memory, but should be correct
weirdly... I just went online to check a lyric vs my memory, and it seems the album is no longer on Spotify, which makes no sense to me. So I guess it's nowhere online now, and someone on Amazon is trying to sell a CD copy for 45 bucks... if they actually sell that, they'll have made more money from my music than I ever have.
UNDER THE SKIN:
We'll cut you down to size
We'll cut you, cut you down to size.
We're gonna take you under the skin (you aren't watching)
Did they creep up from behind, did they take you by surprise
from behind, from behind, did they cut you down to size?
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Let's end this well
we might as well
HELLO CASHMERE:
So when you go and break your lease and leave us waiting
The lines of gold surround your seas in desperation
But how long, now you're older
Enough to share the blame
I'm released by your excuse
still I'd feel safer in a cage
You know your home was always at my place
A room of static around the edges
Repeat in silence, 'avoid the windows'
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A little bit of restraint
it goes a long long way
It feels as fake
still it goes a long long way
I would feel safer in a cage.
THE BODY POLITIC:
and we stop to the sound of your starting gun
stuck in motion on the threshold of some un-winnable race
I bet you flinch
I'm sure you blame somebody else
Cuz you're the same in some way, you're the same in so many ways
You're entitled to think that
and all our difference aside
We share that frame of reference so you've got nothing to hide
Our silence is good for you
This frame of reference is good for two
Our logic is bulletproof
We could be so good for you
We should add up
You could be good for us too
We should add us up
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I know you so well I get scared around you
Cuz we're the same in some way
We're the same in so many ways
And if we're atheists in foxholes we better hang on for survival
You'll never know what hit you
24/05:
You want a second opinion
Well the water's fine once you jump on in
You get sick of the ocean
and if you're trying to sink you gotta think not to swim
you could learn it from me
just like I learned it from you back in school
who you gonna believe?
You or me
Well it's up to you
You could have had it so good
and then it went out of style like you said it would
You never know what you want
You never know where you are when the lights are low
aaaaaand if it rubs you wrong it rubs off on you
whatever rubs you wrong
Just like it always was
Just like it was when I wasn't awake
I'm on your... I'm on your side
Here's the keys to the city
But you better watch what you're wishing for
Because it's not like it seems
all these dreams are rotten to the core
You could have had it so good
You would have folded your hand if you'd understood
And if you're turning to me
I've got a surprise or two left in store for you
Just like it always was
Just like it was when I wasn't awake
I'm on your side
It's not like it was when I wasn't awake
You're shaking hands I'm saving face
REQUITE:
Just keep insisting that you're winning
Show no sign of fear
For all your kicking you're so quick to running
Soon you're running out of here
I'm a magnet, I'll attract this, I will bring this to my door
You fool me once, and shame on you
Now I never leave my home
At least they'll want us back after all you've done
At least they'll want us back, I know they'll want us back, they've got to want us back after all you've done
It felt so good to have a home
where we belong
CONSTITUERIT:
Just put your stethoscope to safe
and press your face against this cold divider
There's a line that separates the bad looks in the mirror
We're both so great and we just talk about it
but it's not enough
Don't let me let you hype it up if it lets you down
CODE:
I've been waiting longer than you know
I've been pacing
sleeping in my clothes
Just when the engines hum to carry you away
I'll think of what to say
Just when the angels run to carry you away
I'll break it to you easy, and it'll keep you awake
It should keep you awake
It keeps me awake, it keeps me watching
I know what to say when words get in the way
And the sentiment is overdue but it still holds true today
At least it'll mean the same thing or something
Somewhere, some way, in another home, in some different place
You'll be counting mistakes
I'll be waiting, waiting for the day I'll waste another day
While it keeps you awake
And it should keep you awake
Cuz it keeps me awake
The more you sleep the more I rise
The more I think the more I compromise
Dot another "I"
and It'll keep you awake
it keeps me awake
I know what to say when words get in the way
And the sentiment is overdue but it still holds true today
At least it'll mean the same thing and no one can complain
At least it'll mean the same thing or something
Before you speak, before you try, before you even dot another "i"
I will correct you
because I love you
SIGNATURE:
and I thought about the waiver you signed but never should
watch that pound of flesh goes overdraft and six more pints of blood is not enough
And I thought you were misguided
I watched you place your trust in the ones that left you waiting around for your chains to rust
is it long enough
and how's it lining up
Don't let me let you hype it up if it lets you down
I thought i'd burn you out
If I thought I'd burn you out
Before you had enough
Don't let me let you hype it up if it lets you down
ENTROPY:
And I'm not sure why I'm staying
I'm sure you can relate
So I'm calm collect and well equipped to wipe that smirk right off your face
My eye's too quick to catch
all the sickness in your smile
I wear my habitat and let the details pass me by
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A little bit of restraint
It goes a long long way
it feels as fake, but still it goes a long long way
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It was an accident, it was unfortunate
but you should be ashamed by your indifference
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I can't be bothered by the rain, I can't be bothered by anything
And it might seem real to me
It might seem real, we'll see
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I bet you know yourself well
I bet you wear yourself so well
You wear yourself so well
But I don't need so I don't ask
And I won't wear that side of me
Lie to me so I won't ask
And I won't wear a side of me
I don't need so I won't ask
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It was an accident, it was unfortunate
And you should be ashamed but you're indifferent
I USED TO WORK HERE:
all the "vocals" in this were ripped from youtube clips
PERSISTENCE:
You've got some time before you follow through
Then you'll know just what you're supposed to do
and why you have to choose between the son of god
and a human being
it makes you laugh, and I don't know why
I get reduced to this
you'll get used to it
we've got time
Before all your hopes get run down by your progress
and all your dreams get killed off by persistence
we've got time before
follow through
we've got time
I'm with you, alone with you
GRACE IN YOUR STEP:
I was writing this down to meet you
Take that any way you want to I don't mind
Even if it only finds you half way, fine
Soon we will remember everything in time that we'll forget
I bet
We'll see it burn down in your eyes
Like burning buildings in your eyes
You could wear it like a war wound
you could so why don't you
There's a grace in my step and I'm so full of shit
You could bust my tooth right through my lip
I'd keep on smiling
I'd wear the threads I tore from all the clothes we've worn
tangled and conformed till you're part of it
let you rue the day you let that slip away and you let that mean the same thing
that I'd forgotten
Just place these bets on me and my sorry company
Our enemies won't see us where we're going
You could let it mean the same thing I'd forgotten
Let it mean the same thing I'd forgot
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We will creep up from behind.
We will take you by surprise
we will cut you down to size
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