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Angry Buddha
03:32
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Angry Buddha, I believe you,
I can feel the heat of your fury,
In your silence I can hear you,
In your mind I can see through the darkness.
Free me, free me,
I'm the mountain, I'm the shrine.
Free me, free me,
I'm the star blood, I'm the holy dream.
Angry Buddha, I desire,
And I can't abandon my mirror.
I can tell the light from the shadow,
But the light is just a reflection.
Angry Buddha, I am empty,
But my emptiness is filled with fire.
And my sky is braided with lightning,
And my will is never forgiven.
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In Blood
03:19
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In a half birth you were made one
By the first curse from the first tongue,
By the first breath from the first lung,
With the last cross in the chain done
In blood.
In blood I set your ways,
In blood I set your ways,
To run, to flood, to break,
To ebb, to flow, to change.
Now you breed flukes and you claim all,
You can burn books, you can fuck dolls,
You amass troops and you scratch walls,
And you cast hooks and you catch souls
In blood.
In blood I set your ways,
In blood I set your ways,
To run, to flood, to break,
To ebb, to flow, to change.
But the seed grows in a new grain
And the heart beats in a new vein
And the mind screams in a new brain
For a new dream, for a new chain
In blood.
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Agido
03:28
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Someone made a plan:
Bring this chaos to an order,
Bring this chaos to an order
Through the never-quenching flame.
“Hear me,” says a man,
“I am giving you an order.
I am giving you a border.
You will swear by my name.”
Break the curse, Agido,
Sing the Sun out of the clouds.
Break the curse, Agido,
Sing the Sun out of the clouds,
Break the curse, Agido,
Sing the Sun out of the clouds,
Sing the Sun!
Flashback to a dream:
Frozen breath and Ursa Major,
And a house full of strangers,
Voices echo in the tide:
“Can you tell me, my great commander,
Should I give you every nation
In a ruthless immolation
Just to keep you by my side?”
Break the curse, Agido,
Sing the Sun out of the clouds.
Break the curse, Agido,
Sing the Sun out of the clouds,
Break the curse, Agido,
Sing the Sun out of the clouds,
Sing the Sun!
Boot prints in the clay,
The transmitter’s gently humming.
There will be a morning coming
That the world has never seen.
"Hear me," she will say,
"There was never any order,
There was never any border,
This is how it’s always been."
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The Fire
03:30
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In a perfect world nothing would ever end,
And stars would not fall from the sky,
And time would be still without walls, or pills,
And everything sacred would only be worshipped and loved.
There is no reason to save you, no reason to save you,
There is no reason to save you, everything goes into the fire.
All that you are for the moment, all you are for the moment,
All that you are will be gone. Will I try to hold on,
Or will I just let you go?
I'm sick of the flood and I'm sick of keeping faith,
And I can't really tell if anything's working.
They're burning the maps to sell the ship for scraps,
But who's going to dive into the dark when it sinks?
There is no reason to save you, no reason to save you,
There is no reason to save you, everything goes into the fire.
All that you've done for the moment, all you've done for the moment,
All that you've done will be gone. Will I try to hold on,
Or will I just let it go?
One day I will build you a shining, brand new universe,
And so you can ride it with me all the way to the end.
I cannot let go because I am too will be lost,
And I can't hold on, 'cause the fire is burning my hands.
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Agni
02:44
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Hey, Agni, hey, Agni,
Shine, Agni, shine.
Shine Agni, forevermore.
Go, Agni, go Agni,
Find, Agni, find,
Find me the one I adore.
Never again will I fear the darkness.
Burn, Agni, burn, Agni.
Go, Agni, go.
I will await your return,
Go Agni, go, Agni,
I want to know -
Tell me for whom do you burn.
Never again will I fear the darkness,
Never again will I fear the darkness.
Mine is the fire, mine is the lightning,
Mine is the high of the highest
Unknown.
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Sabbath and Floyd
06:01
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I don't listen to this kind of music.
I listen to Sabbath, I listen to Floyd.
Sabbath and Floyd.
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Heavy Delay
04:12
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We dance into the furnace,
We wait in a helpless array to get over the bridge,
Denied a sense of completion,
Crowned with vain and omnipotent laurel of reason.
My child, you don't believe me,
But deep in the heart of your heart,
Deep in your heart
You will know
This is the truth.
We climb up to the hilltops
To sacrifice our only love to the voices of fear,
Controlled by infinite hunger,
Tyrannized and resurrected by heavy delay.
My child, you don't believe me,
But deep in the heart of your heart,
Deep in your heart
Now you will know
This is the truth:
You are immortal and brought into being
By thought from the mind of the All.
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Hyabusa
04:03
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Build me an angel of steel, mathematics and fire
Deep in the caverns of lab coats and nitrile gloves.
Wings of titanium, feathers of circuits and wires,
Give me the heavens and I will continue to love.
Blast off, Hyabusa, blast off.
We sail the eternal, the wind rises higher and higher,
Sweeping away all the miserable dust from your shelves.
Build me an angel of steel, mathematics and fire.
If God would not send them, then we'll have to make them ourselves.
Blast off, Hyabusa, blast off.
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