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Cherry Blossom Venus
03:49
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This place is cursed my love,
It's poisoned and unkind,
There's only death and garbage on the shore,
And they can kill each other off
And rob each other blind,
But I don't want to stay here anymore.
I'm leaving for the Cherry Blossom Venus.
It's up there in a distant galaxy.
I'm leaving for the Cherry Blossom Venus,
And I am taking you with me.
I'll find the secret airbase
And jack the hyperdrive,
And make the engine scream across the dawn.
Congratulations, human race,
You know how to survive.
You truly are the strongest of the strong.
I'm leaving for the Cherry Blossom Venus
Before the fire boils out the sea.
I'm going to live on Cherry Blossom Venus,
And I am taking you with me.
We're leaving for the Cherry Blossom Venus.
It's only just a few short centuries.
We're going to live on Cherry Blossom Venus,
Because I'm taking you with me.
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Labyrinth
03:18
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No one drank at the wedding.
Even the faithful refused.
Nobody asked where we're heading,
Guessing the oldest excuse.
Locked in a funny prediction,
Threatened with envy and scorn,
We left for our benediction,
Not knowing how to return.
Where is the door
That leads to stairs?
Where are the stairs
That lead to the door?
Treacherous daylight is breaking,
Sunday's a grey stone face.
Into the labyrinth take me,
Into my old hiding place.
Bottomless eyes and a smart mouth,
Careful here not to fall,
You can't get lost in your own house,
You can just feel at the walls.
But, where is the door
That leads to stairs?
Where are the stairs
That lead to the door?
Don't lose the thread of your love.
Don't lose your thread.
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First Sky
03:49
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Oh, love, come back to bed,
It's too cold this late for spring.
Don't you leave, no, not yet.
Don't you know anything?
Is this your first time?
Is it true what you said about the stars?
Is it true that they're alive
And their living fire
Burns in you?
Is it true?
In a thought I have seen
Spiral arms, shining rings.
And they spin, and they spin,
And begin everything.
In that strange first sky.
Is it true what you said about the stars?
Is it true that they're alive
And their living fire
Burns in you?
Is it true?
Is it true what you said about death?
Is it true that it's just a dream?
Just the sunlight in the morning dew?
Is it true?
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Sadness of the Will
03:40
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I can't find a way around you.
And every secret that I learn just makes it worse,
And every mystery becomes another curse,
And I can't reason you away.
You are a tragedy unparalleled,
You are a joke,
You exist
In the sadness of the will.
In the great magnetic ocean
We were shipwrecked, when our whale broke his fins.
You and I, we are the never-ending twins.
It was probably a glitch.
We are a tragedy unparalleled,
We are a joke,
We exist
In the sadness of the will.
And when a dream escapes your mind
It leaves a new impression.
It cannot process any thoughts
It tries to reconnect.
It is the consciousness, unraveled and unchecked.
It cannot save you from the shit,
It only drains the wounds.
It drains your rotting wounds.
I got washed up on an island,
And our living room dissolved into the rain,
And our child was anemic and insane.
She was taken by the tide.
She is a tragedy unparalleled,
She is a joke,
She exists
In the sadness of the will.
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Sally Harmony
03:51
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When the Japs signed the surrender
And they called off the Marines,
The Supreme Allied Commander
Flushed it down a latrine.
And the shoreline burned for miles
From the sudden doppler shift,
And the Navy lost the files
In the continental drift.
Tell us what you know,
Sally Harmony,
And the truth will be your best defense.
You don't need to fear the world,
Though it's cruel and cold,
It never really did make any sense.
Here comes the sergeant with the message.
"Did the Russians test that bomb?"
"No, they said it was a safety drill.
Another false alarm."
"There is no question they are savages,
But at least they're well rehearsed
For our mutually assured
Everlasting peace on earth."
I'm living in a missile silo.
Keeping secrets makes me bored.
My political asylum
Has become a mental ward.
So won't you fire up the satellites
For the tribal power grind,
For the rocket swinging contest
And the freedom of mankind.
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Mongoose
03:22
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When my mongoose returns
I will let her lead me
Through the sunlit jungles
Of my heart.
Is it truth or is it lies?
Look into her eyes.
She knows the universe,
She is my soul.
Aum.
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Extinction
04:42
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And so the emptiness was silent,
And in a word there was a burning,
And in another word - a cleaving,
And in the third word - a dividing.
And then the stars began to flood the breach.
They spilled themselves into the universe.
The deathless shadow followed after,
And it was starving from the loneliness.
I wait,
Feathers to the wind,
I wait.
Extinction.
And then the waters separated,
And some were kept above the barricades,
Above the fury of the motion,
Behind the seventh from the far edge.
The ones below were claimed by animals
To be the blood around the islands,
To be the mobilis in mobili,
To change the numbers of the elements.
I left my love inside the submarine,
And overhead the sky was rolling,
And underneath the sea was frozen,
And in my heart there was a dying star,
And in the engine room - a demon.
She always tasted like a memory,
She always slept into the afternoon.
At least she wouldn't have to die alone.
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Another Life
04:42
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A caged man thinks of freedom,
A poor man thinks of gold,
A dying man of some old chance
For death to miss the call.
Of you I think so sweetly
In colors, oh so bright,
But you are living
in another life.
Remember when I knew you
Before we ever met?
And I was on a reel-to-reel,
And you were on cassette.
I think I put you on that tape
Sometime in '95,
When we were living
In another life.
The clouds are in ribbons,
The Sun is in the west,
The ocean and the swaying grass,
The moon and all the rest.
And everything is perfect
And everything is right,
But maybe there will be
Another life.
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