1. |
Marriage Of Convenience
03:44
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This is what we saw, luck of the draw.
This is what we learned, a card that has been turned
This is what we found, it just goes around
This is all we comprehend, a beginning and an end
Even here, some light will shine, off and on most of the time
History compressed a million times Are shadows hidden, do they hide?
Martyrs damned retroactive, fate was an aftereffect
Walk on eggs like mourners, painting ourselves into each others corners
I have been down to the deepest depths
I have been up to my neck in it
I have been pushed aside
I must be heard above the silence
Marriage of convenience, body and me waiting, waiting to be free
Like ice expansive when it's cold, sweat it out, in the heat
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2. |
Tracks
03:29
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On a day like this, I could be happy
just to walk along the tracks
The cold steel sings it's lies of never coming back
On a day like this, I walk a fine line between the future and the past
I've no choice, but at least a chance
The day's imploding into night. suck the colors a fixed fight
bleaching the bones of our lies, still as valid as before
Here where the trains pass it's been taken care of
No one's day is spoiled, no squeaky wheel unoiled
I hear it coming, there's no time
but I've already found the crack
The deed is done, the trap I threw
Someone's day is spoiled,
maybe you
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3. |
27 Crosses
03:41
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12 billion light years
4 billion living
One more born every minute
wanting, wanting everything
needing, needing everything
Get on our knees, on our knees and pray
27 crosses
One less in this hell
one more in that one
One lesson learned too late
touching, touching everything
touching, touching everything
Get on our knees, on our knees and pray
27 crosses
Enter, the ritual's in full swing
Savage dance,
Vulture choir,
Random number,
We embrace, and we fall. ..
Laughing
This is for mother, this is for father
This is for everything I wanted
This is for sister, this is for brother
This is for everything I counted
Who is this for?
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4. |
Playing On The Dark Keys
03:56
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Your toast vinegared wine,
rotting on the vine.
Moving oh so fast,
cancerous time
Your temples screaming targets,
any stranger might
take it all away
Playing on the dark keys
No one heard the melody
Playing on the dark keys
You want to play
You have to bleed
You bit flesh fiercely,
tasted only tin
Not blood,
the well deserved fruits of sin
Passion extruded
with too much ease
And love is just another
sick venereal disease
Life is internal bleeding
the tease is the end
Like glass more dangerous,
When broken
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5. |
The Telltale Heart
03:50
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She doesn't dream anymore
But sometimes, when she closes her eyes,
She sees it so close she could reach out and touch it
She doesn't pray anymore
But sometimes, when she closes her eyes
She sees it so close she can almost believe it
Don't make a move
Don't even start
You know that these things just tear us apart
Every night alone in the dark
Trying to silence the beat
Of the Telltale Heart
She doesn't dream anymore
But sometimes, when she closes her eyes,
She sees it so close she could reach out and touch it
She doesn't pray anymore
But sometimes, when she closes her eyes
She sees it so close she can almost believe it
Don't make a move
Don't even start
You know that these things just tear us apart
Every night alone in the dark
Trying to silence the beat
Of the Telltale Heart
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6. |
Mexico
03:38
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You tried to make me understand
But there's really no need to explain
Sometimes it seems it's all in vain
I guess
You tried to see 'round the corner
Now you've seen what you had feared
There's nothing there that isn't here
I guess
Then you drifted away
There was nothing to say
Between the cracks of right and wrong
The sweetest flower never blooms
Lies crumbled in familiar rooms
Stillborn
Between the coming and the gone
There's still a trace that lingers on
The cracking of another dawn
You're dancing
On and on
Then you drifted away
There was nothing to say
When you drift away
You tried to make me understand
But there's really no need to explain
Sometimes it seems it's all in vain
I guess
You tried to see 'round the corner
Now you've seen what you had feared
There's nothing there that isn't here
I guess
Then you drifted away
There was nothing to say
When you go to Mexico
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7. |
Love Amongst The Ruins
04:26
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Once I was in a state like that
Like an explorer off the edge of a world so flat
If one day's just the same as another,
Then what's the point of trying to find the open door?
What have we become?
So far from what we want
Love amongst the ruins, love amongst the ruins
Once I saw how the ending would be,
no reason to even turn another leaf
Now I've seen how it always will be
Perhaps it seems hopeless to you, but it set me free
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When you fell you're on the edge,
and you know you're going to fall
Well you just can't help yourself,
although you've been here before
So you try to stay away,
nothing ventured, nothing lost
But you know that in the end,
you are going to pay the cost
Hold on, hold out
Be strong, don't make that mistake
Don't listen to your heart
Don't listen to your heart
That's what got you here in the first place
Why are you crying all the time? Well you only live just once
Maybe you should loosen up, what are you some kind of monk?
Of course it can hurt you know, no one ever said it won't
Which to you think is the worse, to have or to be on hold?
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9. |
While I Am Alive
03:34
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While I am alive I want to feel the winds that blow
Riding them to four corners and then just letting go
While I am alive I want know the truth and fear
To reach out in the dark of night and know that you are near
While I am alive, to walk among the fields
Before all we know is trampled under heel
While I am alive, to see the sun with my eyes
To look up at the stars at night and wonder why
While I am alive
While I am alive I smash the windows of the world
Headlong into battle, all of our flags are unfurled
While I am alive I want to sail the seven seas
Letting fate be damned do exactly as we please
While I am alive, to know the truest love
That there is no doubt, when push has come to shove
While I am alive, my back against the wall
No need for a net, it is only a fall
While I am alive
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10. |
Judgement Day
03:37
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I think I've heard this song before but I can't turn away
Feel the gray line coming down, you never know from day to day
Make yourself an angel, make yourself a church
For God's sake make you self something
I think we both know what it's worth
But this is not the judgement day
Looking out across the rooftops, constellations crash like cars
There are things that happen to you, only you know what they are
I thought I saw a star or something, a wise man, a gift
Just like you it fell beside me, I guess that meant I had won
But this is not the judgement day
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She was a blur in a passing window
A random moment locked on hold
A picture postcard, so picture perfect
She was a defect in the cog
Long summer nights underneath the street lights
Amidst the buzzing of the wires
But I'm just dreaming and dreams don't happen
Although she always said they might
Sometimes I sit and I feel her near me
A well run desert and the snow
I reach out and I touch the darkness
With all the light, I wonder why she had to go?
The friends and family that she collected
They don't remember her now
A public place and a forced exposure
Sometimes I think she did it all, or wanted to
But I knew her, I know I felt her
or I wouldn't feel this way
I felt her, I must have known her
or I wouldn't have known how
The girl, the girl who
The girl who knew too much
They've come and taken her, taken her away
Throwing her secrets out all the windows
Deaf ears grab them as they fall
Just like a sphinx without a mystery
Maybe there's nothing there at all
If I knew then what I think I know now
I still could not have changed a thing
If I know now what I think I know now
Well, I'll see you in the end
The girl, the girl who
The girl who knew too much
They've come and taken her, taken her away
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12. |
Static
04:52
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Sometimes it comes between the lines
Sometimes you feel two worlds collide
Sometimes it seems so right and then
Sometimes they only lead you on again
But if I should die tonight
I would die happy
And if I should die tonight
It would be alright
If I could just hear are song,
hear our song just one more time
Once on a time, there was a tune
Once on a time, I thought it might get through
Once on a time, a right and wrong
Once on a time, a reason to go on
But if I should die tonight
I would die happy
And if I should die tonight
It would be alright
If I could just hear are song,
hear our song just one more time
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13. |
Open Letter
06:03
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Above the Trans-Atlantic hiss I can hear her now
Within her silent room she is in a crowd
She says "there's something about him, I just don't know how"
Above the sighs and laughs of friends I can hear her now
She says "I made him breakfast", I hear her cigarette
Sounds melodramatic only because it is
She says "there's something about him, I just don't know how"
Over the sighs and laughs of friends I can hear her now
She says "It's just not fair, I have done nothing wrong"
She says "There's some mistake, I have done nothing wrong"
Above the Trans-Atlantic hiss I can hear her now
Above the sighs and laughs of friends I can hear her now
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14. |
Interiors
03:28
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Gray clouds pass by my window
Out, outside
I'm always on the inside
Always on the inside
Strange sounds, my wall filters
Out, outside
I'm always on the inside
Always on the inside
Inside of me is me
Inside of you is you
Outside of me is you
And I'm outside you too
Perfect logic,
internally
In, inside
I'm always on the outside
Always outside of you
Happy places
Inside, outside
My mind conjures
Inside, outside
Happy faces
Inside, outside
May well be
Inside, outside
Inside of me is me
Inside of you is you
Outside of me is you
And I'm outside you too
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15. |
Satin Hearts
05:54
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16. |
Heredity
03:16
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Hang your pictures on the wall
Where the nails choose to fall
On the wall, on the wall
Crucify the hands of time
All your numbers turn prime
Without rhyme, without rhyme
Dream color, think black and white
Pointillistic, never tight
Die of fright, die of fright
Revert to nature out of tune
Under a galvanized moon
Oh so soon, oh so soon
And I don't know if I should laugh or cry
I don't if I should live or die
I don't know if I should laugh or cry
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother to try
Hang your pictures on the wall
Where the nails choose to fall
On the wall, on the wall
Crucify the hands of time
All your numbers turn prime
Without rhyme, without rhyme
And I don't know if I should laugh or cry
I don't if I should live or die
I don't know if I should laugh or cry
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother to try
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17. |
Curiosity
04:19
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She couldn't stand the thought of gray
Always chased all my clouds away
She couldn't seem to face the end
Was always turning to a friend
And she says
You know the reason I feel this dread
You can never tell what you'll find up ahead
You might wind up dead
If I was a cat i'd already be
(Curiosity)
I didn't understand it's true
But what the hell was I supposed to do?
I must remember tell my heart
Not to finish what I can't start
And she says
You know the reason I feel this dread
You can never tell what you'll find up ahead
You might wind up dead
If I was a cat i'd already be
(Curiosity)
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18. |
Blitz
03:26
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The air was made of rubber, a concession to the lull
Summer nights, never so warm, we danced insectival
And we've go all the time in the world
And that's no time at all
How can it be so empty, when I feel so full?
The tie that binds is futile, a fleeting glance at worth
Coursing our own veins as caffeine, we are too tired to sleep
And we've go all the time in the world
And that's no time at all
How can it be so empty, when I feel so full?
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19. |
The Bright Side
03:09
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Sun will fade out, fade out someday
If you don't believe
All that you have done gone for naught
If you don't believe
Angels in hell, devil in you
If you don't believe
The world has come up with some things that I can't conceive
But I believe it all
And I will never fall
Sun will fade out, fade out someday
If you don't believe
All that you have done gone for naught
If you don't believe
Angels in hell, devil in you
If you don't believe
The world has come up with some things that I can't conceive
But I believe it all
And I will never fall
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20. |
Possession
03:40
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We are such easy marks, adhered by virtue as we are
Too closely defined, like a skin stretched
Tight across ideals, the tribal drum
A sounding board, for someone
And the night is dark and cold
But the moon shines like hell
You say it's love
I say possession
I've go someone inside of me
I can lose myself for hours at a time
You rubbed me the wrong way, tension staggered me
So much polarity, opposites attract they say
Well, it's hard to progress, when you know it all
Let's throw is up against the wall
And the night is dark and cold
But the moon shines like hell
You say it's love
I say possession
I've go someone inside of me
I can lose myself for hours at a time
Someone's dancing on our grave
Oblivious to what they gave
Our pleasure comes from above but heaven's here on earth
They dry their eyes, try to hide their mirth
And the night is dark and cold
But the moon shines like hell
You say it's love
I say possession
I've go someone inside of me
I can lose myself for hours at a time
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21. |
Secret Hearts
04:59
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Mnemonic Devices Huntington Beach, California
Mnemonic Devices began in 1977 w/ Kevin King & Linnea Ahms, 1st recordings in 1981.
Ann DeJarnett,
vocals, violin, Daniel Teeter, keys, guitar, Michael Jorgensen, drums, King guitar, keys & Ahms, bass. (Songs 20-21)
Jeff Kaa joined lineup that recorded “Playing On The Dark Keys” EP (songs 1-4). One other session recorded by this lineup (songs 13-19).
Kaa replaced by Jeff Garcia. Songs (5-12)
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