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Big Bad Cake
03:09
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Big Bad Cake
(Kerwell/Nelson/Taugner)
The factory is making
Packaged starvation
You give your dollar
Your food is nothing
Everybody wants some cake
Maria told them it's okay
But nobody sees what the chemical makes
You call it cuisine
I call it disease
The flower poison
The meal destroying
Everybody wants some cake
Maria told them it's okay
The icing is full of powdered hate
Didn't anybody teach how to be a man with an honest hand?
Didn't anybody teach how to see yourself in everyone else?
You fool a nation
You twist regulation
All profit driven
Ground toxic ridden
Everybody wants some cake
Maria told them it's okay
No one sees what the chemical makes
There is no food in the food
I can't believe you give me that
You can't even get an earth ant
To eat the margarine of fools
Why so unhealthy
Pharmacy makes money
You wonder why
Look in your pie
Everybody wants some cake
Maria told them it's okay
I can see she made a big mistake
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2. |
Reveille
03:30
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Reveille
(Kerwell/Nelson/Taugner)
Where do I go? With what I think?
Nowhere to go. It looks so bleak.
You're turning me on, turning me on.
Safety comes in your arms.
I couldn't believe it when I saw you were me.
Who would make all these rules?
They can't be mine, they can't be you.
They're bringing me down, make me frown.
Pick me up, off the ground.
You know it's hard when you're half asleep.
You heard me mention, baby, I want to see.
Coffee table, coffee book.
Crazy Barb, with her crazy hooks.
All the candy for the mind,
Made her mad, made her cry
No one will tell you this is a dream.
Would you believe them and end your scene?
I couldn't believe it when I saw you were me.
I couldn't see that you loved me, you are me.
Morning ends the night.
Morning ends the night.
Broken fences, broken fool.
Frantic Fran and her filthy fuel.
All the wires across the sky,
Shook her dizzy, lost her mind.
No one will tell you this is a dream.
Would you believe them or brew your tea?
I couldn't believe it when I saw you were me.
I couldn't see that you loved me, you are me.
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3. |
Rip It Up
03:21
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Rip it Up
(Kerwell/Nelson/Taugner)
52 percent,
Of the money spent.
Take a deep look ,
At the bankers book.
I just go on,
Like nothing is wrong.
But it feels tight,
It feels unright.
Now we rip it up.
Where do I go,
When feel so low?
Where do I run,
When know it's done?
Now we rip it up.
Oh baby, now I see,
Time to rip it up to be.
Oh baby, you can see,
Rip it up and toss all need.
I carry on,
From dusk to dawn.
Like a madman,
With a foolish plan.
I do perceive,
The common need.
I'd like to find,
The source of I.
Now we rip it up.
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The Emperor has a Jealous Need
(Kerwell/Nelson/Taugner)
Hop, skip around made another mistake,
I couldn't touch a shadow and I couldn't be late.
I don't foresee anything at all,
I was home when my lady called.
I will take your hand and touch your heart,
Give me a kiss, it's the place to start.
Everyone is happy when the sun is out,
Everyone is mad when the rain comes down.
Summer is here, and summer is there,
You wonder how time disappears.
Everything is made up, the world is a lie,
But you persist climbing to the sky.
I couldn't hear your Majesty,
The Emperor has a jealous need.
Everyone came out to a summer play,
Everyone likes to add their phrase.
The laughs and the cries and the shaking ground,
I will rise above the sound.
Shaking it down on a great day,
Coming around with your locket and lace.
I couldn't see the roof top, I wouldn't beware,
Smoke and dust choking up the air.
I couldn't hear your Majesty,
The Emperor has a jealous need.
I don't know what mean,
Or why you sent for me.
I don't know what you feel,
I'm laughing at the scene.
Sabers flash when the horse comes down,
Cannon ripping up the ground.
I don't see what you're trying to gain,
A hilltop, some lightning, ground soaked in rain.
Rode to the sound of the roaring guns,
I didn't want to go, it wouldn't be fun.
I don't foresee anything at all,
I was home when my lady called.
I couldn't hear your Majesty,
The artillery is starting to scream.
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5. |
The Disappearance
04:57
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The Disappearance
(Kerwell/Nelson/Taugner)
Silence, makes you start to know.
Choose it, how you start to grow.
Leave your sigh for the news.
See it, it isn't really you.
You disappear when you're getting clear.
It's really fine, that you're out of time.
OK, OK.
He takes you in to see another sign,
He takes you in, do you know why?
You should feel that it's okay,
I tell you now it's a better day.
I saw you walking down the track,
I don't know why, but you looked sad.
See for yourself it's beyond time,
There is no need to take another ride.
You disappear when you're getting clear.
It's really fine, that you're out of time.
OK, OK.
Hamlet, Apartment 2B.
The carpet rolls down the street.
Mind's eye, where are you coming from?
The clock cracked, it never could run.
Silence, makes you start to know.
Choose it, how you start to grow.
You disappear when you're getting clear.
It's really fine, that you're out of time.
OK, OK.
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6. |
You Are Not for Real
03:51
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You Are Not For Real
(Kerwell/Nelson/Taugner)
You can tell me what you want to see.
I might tell you where you want to be.
Hear my touch, feel the shining star.
You might laugh but that's what you are.
Oh, my baby...
You walk past with your heavy trunk,
Pulled on wheels with all of your junk.
I don't know why you have a tattered tent.
Let it be, you don't pay rent.
Oh, my baby, you are not for real.
Oh, my baby, you are not for real.
There you go, trying on your own,
Your ship lost and you think you're alone.
Who's that breathing on my telephone?
I hear you darling, coming up from home.
Nothing happens and nothing will attack,
Only your thighs wrapped around my back.
Oh, my baby, you are not for real.
Oh, my baby, you are not for real.
I can say anything that you like;
Shine your black boots, they're really out of sight.
One thing I would never, ever say,
How to make it, how to make this stay.
Oh, my baby, you are not for real.
Oh, my baby, you are not for real.
There you go, trying on your own.
Flagship is here, you're not alone.
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7. |
Take Your Face Away
03:10
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Take Your Face Away
(Kerwell/Nelson/Taugner)
We can take all the faces from you,
You can wash them down a drain.
We can take all the wishes from you,
You can leave them and be the same.
Maybe you've got a different point of view.
Maybe you've got better, better things to do.
Let's go down to the window washing,
I like to hear the dust when it screams.
We can watch all the costumes falling,
You can laugh at the diamond rings.
Maybe you could tell me just who you are,
Maybe tell me the truth about your car.
You sit there with the TV blaring,
All the lies falling out of its teeth.
It's your master, lying white noise,
It will keep you dead with its voice.
Something is feeding you stories to believe,
It's your own mind, loving to tease.
Who are you taking on your lunch date?
There is no one I care to take.
You should watch you, from the sidelines,
Who is speaking when everything is fake?
You don't need anything the world gives to you.
You don't need words that claim to be true.
Don't believe them when they say you're born.
Don't believe them when they say you're dead.
You can go your own way.
How do you hold the glory and the pride?
All the words they have, they collide.
Take your face away.
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8. |
Situation Sour
03:22
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Situation Sour
(Kerwell/Nelson/Taugner)
Wake in the morning hear a terror bomb blast,
Can't be sure who bought the map.
Guns are blazing on the frontier,
In the schoolyard, people fear.
Mailbox fire, crazy letter,
People kill for an elephant feather.
Turn on the news to make life frightening,
Give them credit for all the infighting.
Everything is falling down,
The pull of the world feels so wrong.
Pointing fingers, pointless power,
Situation going sour.
See,
What you believe.
He steels ice cream from the parlor,
He thought he saved himself a dollar.
What you take is what you lose,
What you want will kill you too.
Shiny car, shiny light,
Dig out your soul before the night.
Taste in the mouth is pretty sour,
Situation falls by the hour.
Everything is falling down,
The pull of the world feels so wrong.
Pointing fingers, pointless power,
Situation going sour.
See,
It's obscene.
Choose your gold.
Turn off your hold.
Change your mind.
Don't complain.
No one is to blame.
I see your might.
Machinery, diamond trickery,
Laughing actor on the screen.
Material, material.
Burry yourself, what a crazy girl.
Everything is falling down,
The pull of the world feels so wrong.
Pointing fingers, pointless power,
Situation going sour.
See.
Everything is falling down,
The pull of the world feels so wrong.
Pointing fingers, pointless power,
Situation going sour.
See.
You want to Be.
See.
You want to Be.
See.
You want to Be.
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9. |
Little Long Foot
07:25
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Little Long Foot
(Kerwell/Nelson/Taugner)
I don't know where you come from,
Or where you go.
I see you moving,
Coming through the snow.
Be now.
Be now.
My friend,
My honest friend.
You don't need to drive a car,
Happier than a movie star.
I think you're smiling,
Looking for dinner to eat.
It's all before you,
Everything you need.
Be now.
Be now.
Happy smile,
Long foot style.
You are moving through the night,
Through shadows in the moonlight.
Watch the sky,
A world unkind.
Some days are crazy.
Some days are mild.
You don't know the difference.
You're just here right now.
I don't think you make plans,
On what you're going to do.
You don't carry judgment,
You leave that for the fool.
Be now.
Be now.
Sit where you are,
No pennies in your jar.
You would laugh at the thought,
What you are can't be bought.
Watch the mind,
Racing lie.
Some days are crazy.
Some days are mild.
You don't know the difference.
You're just here right now.
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