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Vanishing Point
03:29
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It could be a still life if you want it to be
It could be a still life if you want it to be
Take it all apart and put it back together your own way
The lines that divide also multiply in their own way
First the water’s rough and then it freezes
That’s how it appears as parts in pieces
It could be a still life if you want it to be
It could be a still life if you want it to be
Take it all apart and put it back together your own way
The eye of the mind hits the slope of the line in its own way
First the water’s rough and then it freezes
That’s how we see these parts as pieces
First the plane is flat, then it recedes away from us
To the vanishing point that we believe in
First the water’s rough and then it freezes
That’s how we see these parts as pieces
First the plane is flat, then it recedes away from us
To a vanishing point that we believe in
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2. |
Don't Wanna Go
02:10
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Natural Space
03:24
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Paved mountain is cut
they take it apart with white gloves
Haul it all the way
Across the state
on the back of a flatbed
Take it out of
a natural space,
out of a human head
Megalith on its way
To its slot in LA
Behold the sojourning rock
Beckoned by a cultural box
Take it on a trip
across the state
A tour of the Southland
Transformed its ugly fate
We will call it art when it lands
Megalith on its way
To its slot in LA
Levitation transcends
You’ve got powerful hands
You float it above their heads to see
if the people feel the reverie
It’s ideal for modern idolatry
Either way, either way, either way
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Institution
04:35
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We're setting off again
We're setting off again
We won't take no
We won't take no
We're setting off again
You painted a panorama with no resolution
The horizon line dissolved the heart of the movement
It was time to go, the opening would not close
Take your place in the institution
Your friends turned their heads, they’re pretending you’re dead
But that was your solution
You started a chain reaction with no resolution
The painter’s forms dissolved your former conclusions
With the lights down low, spiraling out below
You’re a goner at this institution
Heresy’s your big win. Now it’s time to begin
So that was your solution
Setting off you’re setting off again
Setting off you’re setting off again
You’re mounting a monument with no resolution
The cycloptic heads stare down the piling illusions
Will the smoke rub off, from a cold wrist watch?
You've got guts says the institution.
Who needs friends when you’re dead or when you’re curled up in bed
And that was your solution
Setting off you’re setting off again
Setting off you’re setting off again
You won’t take no to your invitation
You won’t take no to your exploration
Not when you’re setting, setting off again
You won’t take no to your invitation
You won’t take no to your exploration
You won’t take no to your invitation
You won’t take no to your exploration
You won’t take no, you won’t take no
You won’t take no
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The Sea
04:32
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We were walking
Down by the ocean
I was running
The stones across my fingers
I was thinking
About navigation
We were a stone's throw from the land
This pebble's speckled
with the light of the day
The salt is drying up
but won't go away
I was thinking about my collection
and I was thinking about all the things that stay
I want to throw it back
because the shine will never last
It's just one dull moment leading into the next
This destitution
was not cut out for me
My best friend
is all I really need
The sea, the sea, the sea
is receding from me
The sea, the sea, the sea
there's something chasing after me
I want to throw it back
because the shine will never last
It's just one dull moment leading into the next
First it crumbles
then it breaks
then all the rest fades away
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6. |
Chasing A Ghost
03:42
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Heyooooo
Let's go!
Heyooooo
We're pioneers!
We're moving faster, so the satellites won’t follow
And you're dizzy mapping, what you know isn't there
All the holes in your charts leave a hum ringing in your ears that won't let go
You know I did I did I told - you so - I know -
I know I did I told - you so - you so - I told you so
Well I can hear it burn
I can hear it burn
I can hear it burn
I can feel the heat on my face and with it the
Slow recessions
Lost dimensions
I'll admit that all along we're wrong
They’re all wrong
Melt away, mountains melt away
Melt away, melt away
Melt away, mountains melt away
We'll chase the ghost
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Backswing
02:34
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It starts with a backswing
Now it’s flying over the fence
You’re calm and collected
A man awake in a trance
You go your own way
No use in sticking around
A sphere goes up
But it’ll come back down
With a little luck
It hits the ground
It starts with a backswing
Now you’re flying over the fence
If you’ve come to collect me
I’ll be curled up inside of the tent
on a moon landing
take the samples when darkness descends
you once said demanding
the dust inside of my head
You go your own way
Flight of the silver ball
While it’s going up
We get pulled back down
And the radio pulse
can be felt all around
While it’s going up
We get pulled back down
When the news erupts
You’re nowhere to be found
Laika went up
So could anyone
They shot them up
So would anyone
You brought it up
So would anyone, anyone, anyone would
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Tiny Black Holes
04:46
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I can hear your voice
But I don't know where you are
Following the noise
That I captured in a jar
The signal's very strong
But the message is bizarre
The codex has been lost
So I won't get very far
The moon, has turned black and metallic
Settling for bruises, burned into its ground
Get out, of a gravity that foils you
With a broken telescope, you can follow in the cracks to the next star
Tiny black holes in your fancy theories
I'm jumping through and disappearing
Tiny black holes in your bathroom mirror
Taking up space but you never see 'em
Tiny black holes in electric city
Hit the last switch but nothing happens
Tiny black holes in the dusty island
Universe shrinks and but still we're leaving
Goodbye black holes
goodbye flat earth
goodbye dark sea
goodbye my good man
Buy black holes
buy more flat earth
buy more dark sea
and save the moon men
Good-bye
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