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My Summer With Ghosts
05:12
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Back when the bombs hung
So closely over our heads
You were a wonder
In my summer with ghosts
When you were tangled
Under creepy downs
You were a wonder
In my summer with ghosts
Under the metro
In guarded fields of glass
I was a traitor
But only for a moment fast
You were a wonder
In my summer with ghosts
You were a wonder
In my summer with ghosts
In palaces of gold
In foreign lands
Where the cyclops sleeps out on
The desert sands
In palaces of gold
In foreign lands
Now that you have gone
I understand
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I know you told me
That animals are painless
But my heart is breaking
Deep in this jungle
Federation sanctioned
Now I've lost contact
So I've kept this diary
In hopes you find me
I know the queen will say that I was brave
But now this captain's living as a slave
In the crimson morning
I am awoken
And made to torture
I'm nearly broken
I can see the blue fields
And the skylines of my home
Where the raging bloodbeasts
With horns forever roam
I know the queen will say that I was brave
But now this captain's living as a slave
The pageants and parades will have to wait
The green and ghoul gorilla seals my fate
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Now all you magicians can't touch me
From dusting spells in smoke and in shade
Man I think you seen better days
Now all you magicians can't touch me
From dusting spells in smoke and in shade
Man I think you seen better days
Let science never turn us away
Let science never turn us away
Let science never turn us away
Where the greys they watch in the tropics
Let science never turn us away
Let science never turn us away
But I've made contact beyond the mirror room
Would Edgar Cayce turn us away
Should Edgar Cayce turn us away
Could Edgar Cayce turn us away
Imagine greys will turn us away
Imagine greys will turn us away
Imagine greys will turn us away
But I've made contact beyond the mirror room
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Jamie Conjures Demons
02:27
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And in the autumn season
Baby Jamie conjures demons
And in the autumn season
Baby Jamie conjures demons
But it something that you won't believe in
It's something that you won't believe in
But you know it's all the way
Baby Jamie conjures demons
And when our planets are circling our journey to Neptune
I built my own spaceship and it's called the Neptune too
And it's something that you won't believe in
It's something that you won't believe in
But you know it's all the way
Baby Jamie conjures demons
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Breather Bulls
04:55
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In the year
So long sailor
In the year
In the year
So long sailor
In the year
In the year of milky skies
The breather's dry their eyes
On Aurora's sleeve
Warriors thrill me later on
In hidden thunderdomes
To steadfast days
But we could see the sun
That's dropping in the sea evermore
And we could see the snow
But we're staying much to close to the shore
But their minds
Have treated you so unkind
In the year
So long sailor
In the year
In the year
So long sailor
In the year
A warning
The scheming breather bulls
They want to fly the wolves
This New Year's Eve
My whole life
Is waiting to begin
To ride on Neptune's fin
All these days
But we could see the sun
That's dropping in the sea evermore
And we could see the snow
But we're staying much to close to the shore
But their minds
Have treated you so unkind
In the year
So long sailor
In the year
In the year
Sail on sailor
In the year
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From the land beyond beyond
From the world past hope and fear
I bid you genie now appear
On seven ships we sail
To make it to the end of the world just as well
But we don't see that anyway
But I want more
Of these gifts that you've given to me
And I want more
Of these gifts that you given to me
And I want more
Of this world that you've given to me
Cause everything is happening you'll see
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7. |
Sparks Fly For Magnemite
04:27
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Ocean Stars
03:20
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I don't feel at all nostalgic
For a place that I call home
Never had but that's not tragic
Much more content to roam
The ocean, stars, the sun and seasons
Very rarely often change
The uniform of the familiar
Is never really rearranged
Cause everything that I have despised
Is keeping me in this disguise that binds me
All the nine to five and the Friday lives
Are leading me like lemmings to the sea
Even though I try to find it
I'll never wait around
Cause back in West Chicago
The travelers and ramblers
Want me to settle down
But I don't feel at all nostalgic
For a place that I call home
Never had but that's not tragic
Much more content to roam
And the life that you once knew
Is slowly taking a holiday
And the times that you said were few
Are only waiting for you
I don't feel at all nostalgic
For a place that I call home
Never had but that's not tragic
Much more content to roam
Cause me and you and you and I
We weathered this beautiful storm together
But I'll never wait around
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So tonight the moon is turning red
A locust spread and demons stalk this land
And even though the fire's in my sight
November waning all across the town
But that's okay my sweetheart
Cause I love you
I wanted to be the one in the end
And though my blood is spilling around you
I could be your friend
Til the end of the world
Now I see the lamb's blood on your door
But we both know that it can't save us now
The son of morning star is on the rise
And now I see the longing in your eyes
But that's okay my sweetheart
Cause I love you
I wanted to be the one in the end
And though my blood is spilling around you
I could be your friend
So don't even cry
The rats are coming the werewolves are here
Don't even cry
I wanted love I wanted something
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Chrome Submarine
03:39
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You know I'm only going away
But I won't be gone forever
You know I'm only going away
Maybe today
My submarine that's forged out of chrome
The ocean is my new home
My memory is turning to foam
In the deep green
Cause Poseidon's fury never gave me
A chance to say goodbye
But it's just as well
Cause it only make you cry
I'm skipping this world
Just this water cosmos
Like a reflecting slate
On this tidal wave
You know I just can't wait
Going all around the world
You know I'm only going away
But I won't be gone forever
You know I'm only going away
Maybe Saturday
My eagle always travels in mist
But that can't replace your soft kiss
My eagle always travels in mist
But forever
Cause these summer storms and whirlpools bring me
Up the banks of the Nile
But those pharaohs probably hate me after while
I'm packing my bags for another journey
You're always asking why?
When you say hello
I always say goodbye
Going all around the world
We all live in this chrome submarine
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The Warriors End Table
03:47
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Cause all warriors find it's completely sublime
It's the technique end table
And furniture mavens always find secret havens
When the tigers unable
But they claim reprieve
With gladiators up their sleeve
With gladiators up their sleeve
Cause all warriors find it's completely sublime
In the dining room legions
Where the Eskimo wizards conjure up wonder blizzards
And turn pandas to demons
While their magnets pull
The horns of Alexander's bull
The horns of Alexander's bull
From the land of secret lockets
And prophets with rockets
You find them
But you don't want to know
No you don't want to know
That all warriors find
Your intrusions unkind
Still you find them
But they don't want to know
No they don't want to know
Cause all warriors find
It's completely sublime
Slaying folio rangers
Where Formby attacks
And the finish is cracked
While evading the dangers
And their mangers blaze
The brilliance of the Magi's ways
The brilliance of the Magi's ways
From the land of secret lockets
And prophets with rockets
You find them
But you don't want to know
No you don't want to know
That all warriors find
Your intrusions sublime
In ancient design
But you don't want to know
No you don't want to know
Calling all warriors!
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Goodnight, Graceland
03:28
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Goodnight
Winkin, Blinkin and Nod will find you
Sleep in the arms of empires falling
The old, sweet Catahoula calling
In perfect rows of fertile crops
Forever more
Goodnight you're a loving son
Your life has just begun
So share your Grace with all the monsters
That you find when you were only swimming
Into all our new beginnings
In the clouds
So goodnight
The spacecraft here will soon be landing
For all good works that you've done
That linger all around the heaven
Cause now heaven is the place you call your home
But we
Don't ever want to live our life in shade
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Doleful Lions Chicago, Illinois
Doleful Lions are one the great lost bands of modern times, its not an under achiever thing rather more that they’ve been constantly overlooked in favour of ensembles, fads and fashions less musically astute and considerably less talented, always occupying their own little orbit shying away from the various bandwagons that have come passing them by - Mark Barton (The Sunday Experience) ... more
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My mid nineties band has reformed!
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