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Off on the Moons
05:01
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Left unlocked, you are here late
Have a drink and play this tape
Chalkboard shows you where we are
On the moons of a red star
Got here at dusk, and we did the song
Seconds in, already gone
Used the map we made last year
Left you a copy somewhere here
Off on the moons,
But we’ll call you soon
Thanks for the words you taught to say
Thanks for money paid each day
Couldn’t wait, we called your phone
Send a flash when you get goin’
Took the globe compass and the gloves,
Bottles of air to breath above,
Battery wires, and light bulbs too,
All the songs you used to do
Off on the moons,
But we’ll call you soon
Lost the way in heavy clouds,
We did not all make it out.
Straight into the silver sea,
Cities made of crawling trees.
Feel the ground, softer than before
Shining shore, houses with no doors
Found a place to go to sleep,
All the wings wraped round your feet
Off on the moons,
But we’ll call you soon
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2. |
Wreckage Room
04:46
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Did they tear the tavern down?
I’m searching since I’m back in town.
I saw the neon yesterday.
Buildings don’t just walk away
Yeah, you could drink anywhere
Brighter but I couldn’t care.
What I want’s those basement stairs
Just the taste of air down there.
I never got a picture of those golden lights
I swear that some of you were down there every night
Singing out of tune
Drinking in the Wreckage Room
Yeah, they used to do it wrong
They didn’t use to live so long
And that’s a couple lives ago,
I always felt ‘em in me though
A habit you can never kick,
A fate that you can never trick,
Losing every game of pool
Falling off of every stool
I never got a picture of those golden lights
But I swear that some of you were down there every night
Singing out of tune
Drinking in the Wreckage Room
Where did you spend the years,
What brings you back so late?
Under the power lines,
Off in the golden state.
Wanted to see the snow,
Work in the shop again.
Drink in the Wreckage Room.
So, have you seen my friends?
Here I found a sewer grate
Listen while the hour’s late
You can hear the Brewer shout
Hear ‘em roll the barrel out
Everybody screams destroy
The singer with a ruined voice
Feedback from the amplifiers
The smell of all the smoking wires
I never got a picture of those golden lights
I swear that some of you were down there every night
Singing out of tune
Drinking in the Wreckage Room
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3. |
Shore Signal
03:31
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Oh, what a world!
It’s one islands
You scan the shore,
It’s always silent
The boat was drifting
Wind was down
The channel came alive
And made a sound.
I picked up a signal from the shore.
Came this way to try to learn some more.
I reached the beach,
And saw the stranger.
Hello hello,
They didn’t answer.
But pointed to the tower,
The antenna rising high above
The trees
I picked up a signal from this shore
Landed here to try to learn some more.
Who was that voice,
What was that sound,
Is it alive?
I didn’t I know
How long I’d stay
When I arrived.
The air was thick,
The faces faded.
They closed the door
And barricaded.
Then I heard the story
of the flooding
and the storm
that changed the air.
I picked up a signal from this shore.
Now I’m not a stranger anymore.
So I do the job
A simple system
We call the names
In case they’re listening.
Hard to know if
Anyone can hear me
In the darkness of the waves.
I sent out a signal from this shore.
Tried to bring a stranger to our door.
Who was that voice,
What was that sound,
It still alive?
How could I know
How long I’d stay
When I arrived?
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4. |
Stranded in Your Shoes
02:55
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It took a year to break the door
Took a day to go.
Do we know what’s in the hills?
No we do not know.
Do you know how many hills
We will have to cross until
We are lost without a clue
And we’re stranded in our shoes?
I used to have a seat inside,
But I gave back the keys,
Scratched my name off of the wall,
Nothing left to see.
Do you know how many hills
We will have to cross until
We are lost without a clue
And we’re stranded in our shoes?
Years from now,
The ticket on the ground
Takes us back,
All the way back down.
Same address,
Just an empty lot.
Just your shoes,
Marking off the spot.
Do you know how many hills
We will have to cross until
We are lost without a clue
And we’re stranded in our shoes?
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5. |
Catacombs
02:35
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Found a rusty wheel from a street that’s sunken away
Got a chip of wall with a spray paint word, hey what does it say?
Heard a city’s lost, yeah but what if some of it’s true
If you got no plans gonna dig the ground, maybe we’ll break through
Way down in the catacombs,
You can smell the flowers grow
Looking for a rock to throw
Said we gotta roam
Gotta roam
Cause we’re goin
To the catacombs
There’s a golden beach and green field gathering dust
There’s a skeleton hiding from the cops, waiting for the bust
I am not a part, and I never pretended to be
Not a people’s voice, like they said back then, I just want to see
Way down in the catacombs,
You can smell the fireworks,
Underneath a barricade
Made of broken bones
You still home?
Cause we’re goin’
To the catacombs
Way down in the catacombs,
You can smell the flowers grow
Way down in the catacombs,
You can smell the fireworks,
Looking for a rock to throw
Said we gotta roam
Gotta roam
Cause we’re going
To the catacombs
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6. |
Candlewood
05:38
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Have you ever stopped by
Candlewood it’s called
Don’t bring anybody
Go there in the fall
In the age of poison,
What do people share?
Finally stopped asking
When I wandered there.
I made you a map,
See the red line,
Easy to find.
Of course it is safe,
See for yourself,
Look at my face.
You see this flame above my head,
Never leaves me lone?
Got it down in Candlewood,
That’s just where we’re goin’
You see my face is very faint,
But never fades away?
It’s been like that since Candlewood,
How it's gonna stay.
So, I reached a marker,
Carvings on the bark.
Some kind of theater
An entrance in the dark.
I couldn’t see the players,
Making all the noise,
Couldn’t make out language,
Couldn’t hear a voice
Hundreds of heads,
Crowding a cave
Facing a stage.
Light in the air
Some sort of door
Couldn’t say more
You see this flame above my head,
Never leaves me lone?
Got it down in Candlewood,
That’s just where we’re goin’
You see my face is very faint,
But never fades away?
It’s been like that since Candlewood,
How it's gonna stay.
No more California,
No Great Lakes for me.
Since I found that exit,
Hidden in the trees.
Gotta stay in motion,
Never stop this car.
Glad you need a ride now,
Glad you’re going far.
I was like you,
Angry and young,
Trying to run.
Look at the time,
This is our turn,
This is our sign.
You see this flame above my head,
Never leaves me lone?
I got it down in Candlewood,
That's just where we're goin'.
You see my face is very faint,
But never fades away?
It’s been like that since Candlewood,
How it's gonna stay.
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7. |
Trade a Year
04:49
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We heard some howling in the green,
Followed what none of us could see.
Sniffing at a crooked line,
Pulling in the dark.
Ears up, and deeper in the trees.
Jumping and pulling at the leash.
I don’t know, we heard it though,
And kept on going back.
And if there’s nothing here,
Still wouldn’t trade the year.
We’ll go that way again,
And start off at the end.
Morning the block is still asleep.
Stepped through the sawdust on the street.
Circle after circle we
Can live inside the turn.
We all can hear the sinking slow,
How the horizon’s getting low.
Going to a steady beat,
Always on repeat.
And if there’s nothing here,
Still wouldn’t trade the year.
We’ll go that way again,
And start off at the end.
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