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You see the nation’s gaping maw
each time it yawns
away the latest outrage
Home is a sarlacc pit
Brutes aping men
making beasts out of men
women, children caged
by maps
by debt
by comfort
by razor wire
by ‘the way things are’
You can’t unsee it
Your eyes are hot and you’re poured out
burning for want of more than indignation
But, always, you cool
and the gleaming screens
remind you
how good it is
to be young and dying in
The Occident Supreme™.
All ivory and brushed aluminum.
Preening. Posing. Grinning.
Denuding the earth.
Still. Everywhere,
Between Mammon’s temples and the shelter of the overpass.
Between present and prelude.
Between us and other.
Between the last gang of souls and the next.
Between my coursing blood and yours.
There is no frontier.
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James Crow
02:54
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I’ve been seeing the world through a dead man’s eyes
And when I laid me down, laid me down
I dared not rise
But then I noticed that I’d been watching myself from the car outside
And so to bring me round
I took me down a long dark ride
James Crow
Come and tell me what you know
James Crow
You’re a devil in a daydream
James Crow
Can you walk it for me, slow?
Singing “Take it all back now!”
James Crow
Come and tell me what you know
James Crow
You’re a devil in a daydream
James Crow
Will you break it to me slow?
Singing “Take it all back now!”
You’ve been selling the world on a dead man’s lies
The kind that won’t decay or fade away
Or pass in time
I play the scientific
I can’t be tamed
You pray to a religion that can’t be named
But all I really want is to crawl back in my body and be
Free
James Crow
Come and tell me what you know
James Crow
You’re a devil in a daydream
James Crow
Can you walk it for me, slow?
Singing “Take it all back now!”
James Crow
Come and tell me what you know
James Crow
You’re a devil in a daydream
James Crow
Will you break it to me slow?
Singing “Take it all back now!”
Is there a fever worse than faith?
When you know what you’ve lost
Cause it’s gone from the beginning
And I can feel it in the way that you are when you’re on
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Nobody's Favourite
04:12
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Come numb
Come dumb
Come young
Come rain
Come sun
Come sunken-eyed and half-aware
Just point the magnet at me, man
Let’s get some money
We can make it fair
I could be the call to change your life
Cause you’ve been on the run since ’95
You’re nobody’s favourite one
You’re nobody’s favourite
Say something cool
Say something cool, but keep it
Textual
Well, that’s a mood.
So, what’s the move?
She’s standing next to you
(Ok)
Holy water
Holy water or a shot of ginger ale
I’ve been drinking from wishing wells
Hoping it’ll change my lot
(But it’s not)
You’re nobody’s favourite one
You’re nobody’s favourite
I had a dream this was all lit up
But the luster’s fading
I had a dream this was all I want
But the lust is waning
I had a dream this was all there was
You’re nobody’s favourite one
You’re nobody’s favourite
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Dreams of Empire
02:26
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You’ve got a way of talking
I’ve got a way of holding in
Back to the start again
Things I should say more often
Get bottled up to pour like gin
Back to the start again
And when you see me
Am I a shadow in your night?
When I look into your eyes
Why do they burn so big and bright?
Oh, dreams of empire
Up from the solid South and
In from the wide Missouri plains
Back to the start again
Borne high on dusky backs and
Laid low in everlasting shame
Back to the start again
And when you see me
Am I the specter on your glass?
Why do you turn your gaze away?
Am I the visage of your past?
Oh, dreams of empire
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Mate
04:23
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I told a stranger everything about you
I tried to stop it but I just can't hold it in
It's like there's something lurking in my body
I don't believe I'll ever get it out again
I think I've fallen in love on you
I think it's tearing me up, mon dieu
She's my mate
She's my lady
She's my mate
She's my baby
I think I've fallen
I think I've fallen on you
So there's a party and I said I'd make it
But I don't ever want to leave this room again
When I could lay here with my best friend naked
Why would I wander through a lonely world with them?
Plant me like a seed or roll me in your river
Hold me in your arms
I long to be delivered
Climb me like a tree or drown me like a lover
Show me the terrain you want me to discover
She's my mate
She's my lady
She's my mate
She's my baby
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Something simple
Trickles in through
Data on demand
Sacred texts and
Jealous exes
Throbbing in your hand
A meditation on the vainest thought you know
Fear and loathing
Beer and clothing
Shoot it up your veins
Hallelujah
What’s it to you?
Give that man the reins
A revelation from the palest god you know
You think you’ve made it but you’re lost, boys
You never run out of ways to take it from us
That doesn’t scare me at all
You’re just a number they call
Wall or border
Law and order
In a kevlar vest
Sound and picture
How’d it miss you?
Strapped across your chest
A recitation of the darkest deeds you own
Heavy mist and
Revving pistons
On your way back home
Murder disco
Monte Cristo
We’re serving payback cold
A visitation on the calmest street you know well
You think you’ve made it but you’re lost, boys
You never run out of ways to take it from us
That doesn’t scare me at all
You’re just a number they call
You think you’ve made it but you’re lost, boys
You never run out of ways to stay above us
That doesn’t scare me at all
Good dogs will run when they’re called
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These are the nights when I’m a man outrun
When I’m gnawing at my skin
Things I would die if I could have undone
Seem to start each day again
Is there a song to set the captive free
Or to dull her waking pain?
Am I somebody that I should be?
Can you make it plain?
Please, it’s a long way out if you go it on your own
Please, know you won’t get out if you’re going
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