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Left and Right
03:15
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Red light, green light, I can only see yellow.
Moving forwards, backwards in reverse.
Left and right, sometimes I have to think about it.
Which is which is still up for debate.
Fast, slow, stop, go,
Say yes, say no.
Rolling 'round from side to side
Won't help you fall asleep tonight.
Up and down, that's how your life will seem
As long as you breath.
Come together and we'll fall apart.
Consternation is a pretty big word.
Yes, this little song is full of big truths.
Like you cut yourself on a band-aid wrapper
And got run over by an ambulance.
The irony is so ironic,
A gin and tonic, hold the gin.
Well it's hard to breath
When you don't believe.
Fast, slow, stop, go.
Say yes, say no.
Rolling 'round from side to side
Won't help you fall asleep tonight.
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Stammer On
03:49
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Every morning I'm a medicine man,
A Mahler fan, a million recent crimes.
I won't trade my whiskey for wine.
Early evening is my favorite time
To feel your mind inside of my design.
It won't be breath, I concede you're fine.
You can ramble, I can rid of us of pain
With some Lil' Wayne over some wobble bass.
I believe you can read my mind.
You are my weakness.
I will be your slave if you'll be mine.
Read my lips girl, I'll show you a sign.
Making martyrs out of millionaires
Is only fair if you receive a dime.
I can read your fine print just fine.
When I'm choosing to lose track of the time
Oh I will find your therapeutic glare.
Fred Astaire and Tony Blaire will dine.
You are my weakness.
I will be your slave if you'll be mine.
Read my lips girl, I'll show you a sign.
Really please, you can't be serious
If you'll be my cheese I'll be your rind.
Stammer on boy, you're wasting my time.
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Letters and Numbers
04:18
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First thing in the morning
Is the last thing I'll ever say, ever say.
Just like in the movies
I'll never be true to my heart at first.
Living in the moment
Isn't easy when nothing is going on.
The future is a tease
And I can never be sure when it has arrived.
Close up on the eyes.
It's not so hard to remember all the numbers,
They're true.
Forget about the letters.
You've got windows on your bunker.
They're not shatter-proof.
It's all over for the home team,
Too much, too soon.
Mark it off, take it easy.
You try to hard to lose.
They put something in the water
That will alter the state of your consciousness.
The too much information generation
Can never retain a thought.
360 horizons kind of make you despise
All those hills and trees.
Got voted off the island
'Cause you weren't sure you'd even like to survive.
Close up on the eyes.
Its not so hard to remember all the numbers,
They're true.
Forget about the letters.
You knew them all too well.
It's hard to think in silence,
You're in hell.
It's all you've got.
You're punching in and living in a dream.
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New Religion
04:33
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The mausoleum in the Colosseum
Has so many bones.
He was a trader, the gladiator
He has long since gone.
The taller the castle, the higher the wall.
But all that rises will someday fall.
I will not die (I cannot die)
But can I live?
I will not die (I ask you why).
Why do we live?
"What then, are the patterns of the cosmic Way which human beings have to recognize? The principle characteristic of the Tao is the cyclic nature of its ceaseless motion and change. 'Returning is the motion of the Tao', says Lao Tzu, and 'Going far means returning'. The idea is that all developments in nature, those in the physical world as well those of human situations, show cyclic patterns of coming and going, of expansion and contraction." (Capra, Fritjof. The Tao of Physics, p. 105.)
I had a vision, a new religion,
No one holds the throne.
He's just a creature, the holy preacher.
We all walk alone.
The taller the castle, the higher the wall.
But all that rises will someday fall.
I will not die (I cannot die)
But can I live?
I will not die (I ask you why).
Why do we live?
" When the oneness of the totality of things is not recognized, then ignorance as well as particularisation arises, and all phases of the defiled mind are thus developed ... All phenomena in the world are nothing but the illusory manifestation of the mind and have no reality on their own." (Ashvaghosha, The Awakening of Faith, pp. 79, 86.)
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I Won't Be Gone
05:40
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You won't be bothered.
I won't be smothered by your love.
There's something missing.
You taste indifference on my tongue
So feel my lungs,
They do not rise and fall for fun.
I will be underground for the winter.
You know it's long.
I won't be gone, I won't be.
I won't be gone, I won't be gone.
You can be my one
And I can be the sun.
I wanna be your,
I wanna be your gun.
You could be no one
And I could be so dumb.
I wanna be your,
I wanna be your gun.
You can't be serious.
I must be delirious when you're around.
It's not your business
But your soggy kisses could quench my thirst
So do your worst
I will not try and change your mind.
I will be underground for the winter.
You know it's long.
I won't be gone, I won't be.
I won't be gone, I won't be gone.
You could be my one
And I could be the sun.
I wanna be your
I wanna be your gun.
You could be no one
And I could be so dumb.
I wanna be your,
I wanna be your lion's share.
You're high enough to appreciate the noise.
I appreciate the noise.
Well it's hard enough to give up
Something you don't want to lose.
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SCIF Washington, D.C.
SCIF is Nate Belasco. I make electronic music. I live in DC.
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