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Running Circles
03:24
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I've been waking up
and it's taking so long
I just want to stay home
I've felt fake as fuck
Really so far not
Coming into my own
I've been breaking us up
When I feel down
Now I'm so alone
I've been wasting luck
Pouring out into songs
When I could have grown
On you
Still running circles around you
I guess I'm caught up in a loop
I've been reading up on all the places I've been
But I didn't go
Getting baked as fuck
Out of my mind
Just burning down bones
What's the deal with us?
Too sad to stay
Too happy to go
Now my soul is such
It seems that time is stuck
and it's taking its toll
Still running circles around you
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2. |
Boogie Man
04:10
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When the boogie man comes
A bigger fish comes for him
Always a bigger one
In the bogs with the boogie men
When a boogie man runs
A faster one chases him
Nesting dolls all undone
Run down by the boogie man
Oh, it's the boogie man
When a boogie man dies
One hundred replace him
Until all that you find
Is a world full of boogie men
When the boogie man speaks
And you bother to listen
He'll come when you sleep
And he'll take you with him
All in your head, man
It's all in your head, man
It's all in your head
It's all in your head, man
All in your head, man
Well, I guess I'm alright then
Fear of the boogie men
Makes men into boogie men
The circles goes around me
And over again
Fear feeds the fear machine
In the minds of the boogie men
Oh, we're the boogie men
It's us
It's us
It's us
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3. |
Pull Me Out
04:26
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I was burning for you
Making my own light
In your atmosphere on a cold night
I am not the sun
I am not your friends
I was just an aurora to them
I'll know when I'm done
This is not the end
Just another cosmic event
Pull me out of the fire, and you're gone
Pull me out of the fire, and you're gone
Had a place on your pyre, I was wrong
Pull me out of the fire
Fire
I remember when I traced you in the dark
Every inch you traded skin for scars
The heat I held to melt our broken minds
Stuck in a moment when now is not the time
I would melt, you would freeze, I remember the feeling
When I lifted your feet and floated right through the ceiling
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4. |
21st Century
04:31
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Oh god, oh shit, oh fuck
We're using technology
All connected and so afraid
The system offers up its empty apologies
You're worth as much to it as you can pay
What?
Do what you're told
What?
Do what you're told
When they convince you that your neighbor's the the enemy
You'll play until you've learned to love the game
The system's sleepless dreams of total autonomy
Keep me awake and feeling out of phase
Turning tides of the twenty-first century
No one ever wants to feel this way
The system signed us up for total lobotomies
So everyone can finally be the same
It's the twenty-first century
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5. |
Man in a Zoo
03:33
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Saw a man in a zoo
Said he's running from you
Said he's running away
What the hell did we do
To send this man to a zoo
To live his life in a cage?
Saw a man in a suit
Said that he knows the truth
Said he'll show me the way
What the fuck did I do
To make this guy in a suit
Try to show me the way
To a cage?
They keep me safe
Keep me fed
Keep me cool when they can
What's to not understand?
I'm an animal, not a man
In a cage
Saw a man in a zoo
Maybe he knows the truth
Maybe it's better off this way
No rent, no bills
Just fucking off all the time
No cash, no rules
Fuck around all the time
In a cage
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6. |
Dark Powers
03:33
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I've been feeling outnumbered
Screaming out a whisper in a crowd
Trading forests for lumber
Silent falling when we're not around
And I looked in that mirror
And I looked in that mirror and I didn't look back
Gave my thoughts to my fears
And the months turned to years and I didn't look back
Dark forces taking me under
I can hear them knocking at my door
Dark forces working me over
In my dreams they're crying out for more
And they'll get it
More
And they'll get it
Won't you think of the children?
What to do when the kids don't get along?
What to do with the criminals?
What to do when the criminals get along?
And when I became everything
For a moment I was everything and nothing at all
I was chasing infinity
By the time I caught it, I was nothing at all
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7. |
Barriers
04:23
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What a beautiful day
Such a beautiful town
All these beautiful people
Just walking around
Somebody said they were nice
Somebody said they were rude
Somebody said they were scary
Won't someone tell me the truth?
Somebody's got to know how
To break down all these barriers
Not really sure right now
If I'm the disease or the carrier
What a time to be kind
What a time to be warm
To all the people alive
And those yet to be born
Somebody told me to pray
Somebody told me to buy
Somebody told me to work
But no one's telling me why
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8. |
Localized Aurora
10:11
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