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C'Mon
00:06
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Put your hands together doo-waa-skippity!
For the love of magic, c'mon!!
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Noise Maker
02:04
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Oh it's rad.
Everybody have some fun.
I'm a noise maker, oh yeah
Oh yeah, noise maker
I'm a noise maker, oh yeah
Oh yeah, noise maker
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Destroy the balloons in this sterile room
Colors are just begging me
To feel something now
Pressing all the buttons to do barrel rolls
To simulate ejection
I’ll go out loud
A different me
Can’t I just fake it?
A different me
All this for a heart
Well I got a decent brain
Hold my hand for the decision
Hold my hand, let’s incision and pray
There are no complications now
Now go
A different me
Can’t I just fake it?
A different me
All this for a heart
Well I got a decent brain
Cramming fast food for thought at an open heart surgery
You’ll learn a lot and I hope you get to see my face
A different me
Can’t I just fake it?
A different me
All this for a heart
Well I got a decent brain
Hold my hand for the surgery
Hold my hand and count to three
And pray there are no complications
I wouldn’t be the same if I wasn’t me
I wouldn’t be insane with a knife in me
And I don’t need no complications
I’ll go out cold and scared, bitter and confused
Regretful of regretting all damaged, unamused
Hold my hand for the decision
Hold my hand, let’s incision and pray
There are no complications
I wouldn’t be the same if I wasn’t me
I wouldn’t be insane with a knife in me
And I don’t need no complications
And if I die let’s do this right
Jump up on the casket and party all night and go
Go, now go
Fast food
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4. |
When You're Coming Down
02:44
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You’re a deal gone wrong
Your alter ego is dead
Your bite has no teeth
And the monsters all stare
Your paranoia is bright
The medics say Hi
Every cliche is great
But the timing is off
When you're coming down
When you're coming down
When you're coming down
When you're coming down
Food is a joke
The room is too hot
Nerve endings blow up
You feel like you’re home
There’s a smell on the stairs
You move in morse code
With salt in your kiss
You’re a dead dial tone
When you're coming down
When you're coming down
When you're coming down
When you're coming down
The party is now
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Bones of my Ancestors
03:08
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The bones of my ancestors drag me down slowly
Placing bets on my death
During their lives they gave me plenty
Though my life was their greatest regret
The moon it shines with great disappointment
I waited waiting for the sun
Give me hope not darkness, not demons
Cause I don’t have the strength left to run
Read me stories of epic heroes and villains
Lost with no imagination
Where do I begin
With a body weak and thin
How do I do so much with so little
Take your time going through my possessions
I just want my heart
And when I figure out my life’s bold ambition
I’ll escape from the cold and the dark
I was born to be someone to doubt my destiny
On a cold January they screamed lover not a fighter
And I don’t think I can take it anymore
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Animal Urges
03:17
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Look over your shoulder at how the west was won
Stomachs are anxious and the waves they come
And we try
Try to understand
How our mind forgets the importance of hands
How animals deceive the laws of the lands
And we try
Try to understand
Fate
I can’t be the only one afraid
Animal urge stands tall knocking down your door
Everything I say and do, feel I want my own
Animal urge is all we’re begging to be
Absent energy entertains the ears
The sun is setting bringing back your fears
We try
Try to understand
Fate
I can’t be the only one afraid
Animal urge stands tall knocking down the door
Everything I say and do, feel I want my own
Yet animal urge is all I’m begging to be
It’s all I’m trying to know
It's all I’m scared to believe is inside me
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7. |
The Alleyways
02:54
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Instrumental
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8. |
Out on the Dance Floor
03:29
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And the surveillance says
I really lost my mind somewhere out on the dance floor
And I don't want it back
My hands were up in the air
A clear sign that I just don't care
I don't want to find peace of mind
When I'm on my feet and ready to grind
On everything and everyone
For a while my profile fit those in exile
I didn't think I had a place to belong
But when I want to fit right in
With a shuffle and a grin
I'll be a maniac causing your heart attack
Come along with me
I see it in your eyes
You're ready to go
You're ready to try
Everything
It doesn't matter what you want
It doesn't matter who you know
I bring no regrets to tomorrow
I lead and you'll follow
Come on, I'll be waiting for you
Out on the dance floor
I’ll be, I’ll be waiting
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Fear of Failure
03:01
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No, you don’t want to see the truth
It’s all fat and dingy
You’d rather see it and for that I commend you
So carve it out of my spine
Because I am feeling so dangerous
So dangerously low
Crossbones in cross hairs
I wonder how much this cross
Can truly bare it’s getting rather heavy
Darling am I insane?
Cause the fear of failure
Is running wild and running over me
Yeah, I know it hardly seems fair
Yet you’ve only had your whole life to prepare
For the biggest deal you built up inside your head
Still the pervert in me wants a chemical reaction
To peel your skin off to my satisfaction
My dreams can’t be all the same
All the same about you
Step into the light
To be the one that calls my name
If I can’t be the one that you want
I will be the one that you blame
Baby, baby I love the fear of failure
To get what you’ve never had
Do what’s never been done, oh yeah
So don’t delay the hands of fate at play
Working hard
Working hard to carry you home
Though bones will break I will not fall
I have the strength to do it all
You’ll have the strength to carry me to my grave
When I die please laugh
At my sarcastic epitaph
If I can’t be the one that you want
I will be the one you ignore
Baby, baby I love the fear of failure
Baby, baby I love the fear of failure
My baby, baby I love the fear of failure
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For just once I’d like to get into a fight
Your fists of fury against my heart of dynamite
I count your breath
I’d love to watch your tick tock stare
Meet me at midnight
When the beauty’s in the air
Everyday I’m wild and I am free
Everyday I cage a piece of me
Every day Every day
This is what you came here for
You and I were made excited
In slow motion and with lightning
Back and forth our bodies jerking
As art forms we’re always working
Why can’t it always be this easy?
Why can’t it seem unreal?
Forget about science
It always made us laugh
All the words won’t promise anything will last
To be alive is wonder
I wonder if that’s insane
On the streets tonight
We’ll make chaos with our brains
Everyday I’m wild and I am free
Everyday I cage a piece of me
Every day Every day
This is what you came here for
You and I were made excited
In slow motion and with lightning
Back and forth our bodies jerking
As art forms we’re always working
Why can’t it always be this easy?
Why can’t it seem unreal?
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She's on Arrival
02:31
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Laying downtown
Head embraced
And I feel tired
Face is a ghost
And I know
That I did something dumb
Is she on arrival
She’s on arrival
I see myself on concrete slabs
Lagging in your eyes
I’m low on blood
Low on cash
High on the surprise
Is she on arrival
She’s on arrival
The medics on the scene
Are a picturesque blur of blood and fur
Begging me to grow up to a world
Where I control self control
Meet my dream
She is pure survival
Meet my dream
She will carry me home
Is she on arrival
She’s on arrival
She will carry me home
Is she on arrival
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12. |
You Got the Tubes
02:48
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You got the tubes
Removed from you
And now we can play with you
Just like we used to
So wrap them up well
Another story to tell
And now we can play with you
Just like we used to
I can’t imagine what it’s like
To say doctor, doctor dear
Please play with my life
Hooray you did not die
Heaven was denied
And all our cries were satisfied
Cause you got the tubes
To hell with ringing bells to visit you
Did you feel our attempts to evacuate you
From your dingy hospital tomb
From everyone’s living room
All our cries were amplified
Cause you got the tubes
When I saw you in the hospital room
I had no reaction cause I was fine there once
The sterile smell of the soap it made me
Reconnect the lost thoughts of your death or survival
I was a juror at your trial
Furious cause it seemed rehearsed
Like the driving route of the company hearse
That’ll never run out of clients
I admire your defiance
Cause I didn’t get unglued
As much as you needed to prove
That you could be reassembled
To try and find your peace
I knew you could be reassembled
To try to find your peace
You got the tubes removed from you
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One High Five Long Beach, California
Alternative Punkrock
Long Beach, CA
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