1. |
Midnight Raid
01:29
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Oh, my citizens, you're never going to see my face
Oh, my citizens, you're never going to take my place
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2. |
The Meadow
02:29
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The meadow's got a lot to do today
Working for the corporations
Paying for the roads and redistricting
The doctors losing…
The meadow learned to show up everywhere
In everyone's photo-memories
Praying for the sins of the community
Singing: "change will only come when nothing gets done"
(Oh yeah!)
The meadow comes around, yeah the meadow comes-to
The un-electability of the square room
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3. |
Spaces for People
04:17
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Downtown, he's building another building
With concrete, and lobbies without ceilings
Which floor? The elevators alternate, you know?
In spaces for everyone and for no one
You say, everything is what it is
Not me, everything is what it could be
Downtown, he's printing another printing
Of a floor-plan, to barricade the city
The silence, between each train connects you
Into spaces for everyone and for no one
You say, everything is what it is
Not me, everything is what it could be
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4. |
The Cave
04:06
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The traffic engineers
walking home from work
are making inroads intersect
They work in dark rooms
underneath their desks
where the mayor grooms his silhouette
The calm collected
and blown across the floor
and the sewers flow back to the shore
The cave connects you
to the underside
where traffic helicopters can't fly
The cave connects you
to the other side
where traffic news comes back alive
The traffic engineers
come collect their raise
as the old folks can't help…
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5. |
Plaza Meditation
05:14
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Plaza meditation
No one sees it
Sunken in silence
Suddenly appears
Plaza meditation
Up above us
Deals are being broken
Lightening cracks below
Did you hear that?
(The melody ghosting)
Wrapped in whisper
Suddenly appears
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7. |
Houston Tenneco
03:34
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Hit the switch my friend, it's my first time back
Tenneco and gold
She's a Houston girl, don't give her too much slack
Turn it up my friend, it's a song I know
Tiny golden swirls
Every time I hear those proportions on the radio
They build ‘em tall my friend, you're an in inch too small
But the tallest one of ‘em all
is in the same kinda place, just a war or two away
I want you back my friend you're in a bad, bad place
Where modern laws do no good
And the first five verses of the song have been erased
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8. |
Suicide Ramps
03:22
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The model shows a perfect city
The blueprint sold, but no one bought it
Don't turn your head, just burn through the intersection
Don't turn your head, just look straight ahead
And learn how to not care less, how to not care
It looked good on paper, looked good on alcohol
But it's just no right
Yeah, but it just might work!
Suicide ramps, that's what we call them
For the times in life, when we just might need ‘em
What a funny way to merge two lanes together
What a funny way to get you there faster
Let's merge the left two lanes! Merge the two to-
gether everybody, share in the secret
No one wants you to live or die
They just want to watch you try
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9. |
The Sears Tower
01:45
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I guess that it's all the same
The you can't remember my name
As things are moving faster each day
Slowly you never change
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10. |
Mean Time
03:36
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The loop is closing around the bull
The mailmen zip through postal codes
The gerrymandered elect unshapely men
Who comb their hairs across each others' heads
The transit system is hiding underground
Too afraid to make a sound
The planes above us tip-toe cloud to cloud
And the evening newsman can't be found
Dun-de-dun-dun-day (I wake up every day)
With nothing left to say
The committeemen agree
That's what they said last week
And the mayor hasn't made a sound
Since he choked on coffee grounds
And a silence fills the sky
In the mean time
In the mean time
Yeah-yeah
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