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Mountain Town
03:08
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Disintegration
We’re going piece by piece
This used to be a mountain town
Now it’s just the sea
We’ll travel by boat
Get stuck out in the fog
We don’t know where we’re going, nowhere
It doesn’t matter at allDisintegration
We’re going piece by piece
This used to be a mountain town
Now it’s just the sea
It’s just a line of demarcation
It’s just a matter of degrees
We’ll change with the seasons
And we will bend in the breeze
We’ll change with the seasons
And we will bend in the breeze
You run aground and I’ll swim under
Subduction zones where we will meet
We heard a sound that’s just like thunder
Shifting plates beneath our feet
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Pink Flag
02:08
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Half undressed on the beach
And we’ve got nowhere to be
Pink Flag’s in my head and
I’m floating into the sea
Your eyes on the water
but all you see is the deep
I think I died a second
before I fell asleep
You take it all, and you take it all away.
The summer sun is set in sky to blow away
The water’s rough and filled with muck but you jump in
The summer sun is set in sky
Half undressed on the beach
and we’ve got nowhere to be
Pink Flag’s in the air and
it’s floating into the sea
Your eyes on the water
but all you see is the deep
I think I died a second
before I fell asleep
You take it all, and you take it all away.
The summer sun is set in sky to blow away
The water’s rough and filled with muck but you jump in
The summer sun is set in sky to blow away
and you take it all away
and you take it all away
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Rapid Reality
03:30
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We had moments
We had minutes
Conversations left to finish
Second guesses
Bad impressions
Poorly-made public addresses
Time flies
in my direction
You told the papers, when you were questions
I just don’t get it
you were confessing
Why break the rules, when we just want to bend them
Then it all comes back to me
on the pages of Rapid Reality
like a slow-moving storm across a screen
Zooming headlights
Crystal castles
No other cars can get passed us
I paid my dues and I paid my rent
I joined the society of sediment
Then it all comes back to me
on the pages of Rapid Reality
like a book we read in zero gravity
Yeah it all comes back to me
on the pages of Rapid Reality
like a slow-moving storm across the screen
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Marine Layer
04:24
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Winding the day away on the 5
You said you’ve never seen such a sight
By the time we get there, it’s covered in fog
and we’re stuck in a marine layer of our love
Dolphins are causing a traffic jam
swimming through a blue you can’t understand
By the time we get there, it’s covered in fog
and we’re stuck in a marine layer of our love
You’ve taken by the palm trees,
the rustling of the Santa Ana breeze
Wildfires scorch the sea and burn free into oblivion
You’ve been taken by the mountains,
the dancing of the fountains,
seeing stars in bathroom stalls
at the outdoor mall
We’re laying under mysterious skies
I can hear an airplane flying by
By the time we look up, it’s covered in fog
and we’re stuck in a marine layer of our love
You’ve been taken by ocean
the Pacific in slow motion
We’re in a state of geographic extremes
You’ve been taken by the wide road,
cloverleafing as the sun goes down,
following paths past famous homes
to the edge of town
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Hi Desert
03:41
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Southern California
I’ll see you in the morning, last night
You knew where I wanted to be
You knew it would turn out just right
Boats by the side of the road
They are homegrown
You spend too much time on the telephone
And those smothering lines, I’m doing just fine
Just be grateful for what you own
Low classic moon
Hi desert night
We laughed ourselves to bed until we just got it right
Experimenter’s puzzle
It was shaped like a funnel
You were about to give up
Until you realized it was just luck
The din of the cellophane stops
Unraveling plots
I was sighted, but seeing dots
And those smothering lines, I’m doing just fine
Just be grateful for what you’ve got
Low classic moon
Hi desert night
We laughed ourselves to bed until we just got it right
Palm treetops
On wavering stalks
We couldn’t believe our eyes, so we called it outta sight
Famous for his credits, we followed him around all through the night
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Dust USA
02:27
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Unsuccessful attempts
it depends where it ends
Dotted lines dividing the year
In the convex mirror
the road disappears
follow directions you whispered in my ear
Stay close to the maps
there’s no need to unpack
Cause we’re not staying here
In this doomed atmosphere
Petroglyphs
on worn down cliffs
If we don’t stop we won’t know what we missed
Southwest bliss
on monoliths
Service roads going off the grid
Debate the finer lines in your head
You can’t make sense of what you just said
And it’ll all turn to dust
It’s enough to bury both of us
It’s enough to bury both of us
It’s enough to bury both of us
It’s enough to bury both of us
It’s enough
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Shackleton
06:44
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Stay silent as a filmstrip
screened in outer space
Watch out for the clip man
the slow crush will keep us in place
Stay steady as a flagpole
planted on the moon
No wind to interrupt us
from our impending doom
You sold your songs
And now they’re featured in a biopic about Shackelton
They were too long
A stretched out throng
Now they will begin the show
A theme song to the ice floes
The affairs were all muddled
and the ventures didn’t take
Heading south for comfort
your last chance to vindicate
Antarctic exploration
misguided and misplaced
The truest unbeliever
told you it’s not a race
You sold your songs
And now they’re featured in a biopic about Shackelton
The tundra’s drawn
like shades at dawn
He becomes a champion
A name to build an age upon
But it’s gone
Yeah it’s gone
You were looking for a secret handshake
But all you got was a wave
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Stampede
03:27
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There's a stampede coming, and it's headed right for you
Stampede coming, it's going to turn you black and blue
You think that you can take it head on, but you were wrong wrong wrong
You think that you can take it head on, but you were wrong wrong wrong
There's a stampede coming, you can see it in the dust
It's bigger and faster and stronger than you, and that's some damage you can trust
You tried to move on through
You tried to shoot them too
You tried and you tried but the stampede will conquer you
Tying up the country
With rail and metal tacks
You can move the goods and services
But you can't keep ‘em off tracks
One mass and they'll all pass
Even when your railroad days are through
It's just the necessary friction, of the machine
It's just the necessary friction, of the machine
It's just the necessary friction, of the machine
It's just the necessary friction, of the machine
It's just the necessary friction, of the machine
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Go 45
05:08
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Your winter boots
carry more than just one life
You’re kicking their design
snorting cold air to get high
Your American mind
severed from this place and time
It’s the finest we could find
and they’ve given you the sign
go on and try
Why don’t you?
Come on now, we’re gonna make it up somehow
You missed the boat
it was a beacon in the night
this ship’s frozen on thin ice
a parcel of your paradise
new American minds
behind Midwestern venetian blinds
save a seat at the cineplex for me
I can only go 45 on these streets
go on and try
Why don’t you?
Come on now, we’re gonna make it up somehow
couldn’t you see that?
now didn’t you know?
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