1. |
Innocent
05:25
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I felt the fire
like many before
A deep desire
that fills your core
It’s only humans
who can un-know
It’s only human nature
to be attracted to the glow
I thought that you were innocent
Because the truth was not so clear
I thought that you were innocent
But that was what I wanted to hear
You took your friends and used them like a weapon
Hid behind their trust
I thought that you were innocent
But that was not enough
There ain’t no man
who holds the key
No golden path
for you to seek
It’s only human nature
to yearn and crave
But there are humans out there
who make the hungriest their prey
I thought that you were innocent
because the truth was not so clear
I thought that you were innocent
but that was what I wanted to hear
you took your friends and used them like a weapon
hid behind their trust
I thought that you were innocent
but that was not enough
Don’t try to fool me, fool me
Don’t try to fool me again
Don’t try to fool me
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2. |
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Komorebi
when the day is new
Moss and lichen
paint the forest blue
Sun and cedar
crackling underfoot
Small sounds reach you
when the weather’s good
Worms and seedlings
twist beneath the brush
Teenage feelings
make the roses blush
Dew drops, little polka dots
sticking to the frogs
White pine and columbine
friendly, muddy dogs
I feel free
I feel sun
I feel heat
I feel one
I feel you
I feel sweet
I feel love
I feel lush
I feel light
I feel full
I feel bright
I feel soft
I feel slight
I feel love
(I feel love
I feel love)
I feel free
I feel sun
I feel heat
I feel one
I feel you
I feel sweet
I feel love
I feel lush
I feel light
I feel full
I feel bright
I feel soft
I feel slight
I feel love
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3. |
400 Humans
04:00
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I said it before and now there’s nothing to say
When I open the door, all the birds fly away
I said it before and now the words are all gone
So file it away and go in lay in the lawn
Chew it up, spit it out
Build it up, burn it down
Sow the seed, till the ground
Feel us all spinning ‘round
It all trickles up
to 400 people
All trickles up
to 400 humans
All trickles up
to 400 people
Oh, how much fun that must be
I said it before, now there’s nothing to say
When I open the door all the birds fly away
I said it before and now the words are all gone
So file it away and go in lay in the lawn
Lay in the lawn, lay
How are you?
I don’t know
How are you?
I don’t know
How are you?
but-
How are you?
I don’t know
How are you?
I don’t know
I don’t know!
And the words are gone
And the words are gone
And the words are
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4. |
Hard
04:54
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You make it hard for me
when I don’t know what you want me to say
You make it hard for me
Analyze each pause and in-between
When you smile
and I smile right back
I get lost for a while
then something pulls me back
I wish I were stern
but that is not how I work
If there’s a light in your eyes
Then I’ll just push down the hurt
Oh,
no
No
wait
Oh I
I feel it bruising me, confusing me deep inside
Oh,
no
No
wait
Let me be free
Can’t just agree to disagree to disagree
Oh I
I feel it using me, bruising me deep inside
Oh I
I feel it using me, confusing me deep inside
You make it hard for me
Not how I want it to be
You make it hard for me
Not how I want it to be
And what are we gonna do, what are we gonna do now?
So what are we gonna do, what are we gonna do now?
Oh, I
Oh, I
Oh, I
I feel it using me, confusing me deep inside
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5. |
Shut It Down
04:23
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Big machines that gather our food
Bots that try to tell when we’re rude
Is this really the plan that we made
Razing the ground that we simulate
You make me want to shut it down, oh
Selling the worthless to much greater fools
Normalization of surveillance tools
Give it a price and now it has worth
Oh what a sociopath we have birthed
(You make me want to shut it down
oh, oh, o-o-o-oh—ooh)
You make me want to shut it down, oh
Oh, you make me want to shut it down
Oh-ooh
You make me want to shut it down (I don’t think this should exist, no)
and start anew (I don’t think this should exist, no)
and make something better
You make me want to shut it down (I don’t think this should exist, no)
and yes I will (I don’t think this should exist, no)
help it grow
oh-oh
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6. |
The Kids
04:26
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Here lies a generation born under the bus
Raised by early internet’s utopian dreams
Kids grew up and moved to go work in the valley
Writing endless code fit for a fascist regime
Life began to look just like the commercials
Their products were made by slaves and still we bought more
They were scanning and recording our physical bodies
while we changed them
Until we didn’t feel like they were ours anymore
Turn back
This isn’t something we need
While they bleed
Fuck that
Tell the old man take a seat
Your fairy tales are not for me
Daddy you’re fired
Pack up your desk
I want life to
be worth living
Grandpa, go home
You’ve left such a mess
with your cynical
backpedaling of progress
Hey, Bay street babies
with old wealth to burn
Go trade your Mercedes
and give what you earn
Shorting out markets
is fun for a while
til you see what we’re fighting
don’t care much for style
Turn back
This isn’t something we need
While they bleed
Fuck that
Tell the old man take a seat
Your fairy tales are not for me
Turn back
This isn’t something we need
While they bleed
Fuck that
Tell the old man take a seat
Your fairy tales are not for me
The kids
are wise
The kids,
our guys
The kids are wise
when they’re not mean and shallow
The kids are guys
just looking for a new pal-o
They feign surprise
when the adults can’t be trusted
They know inside
that what they’ve sold them is busted
The kids
The kids
The kids
The kids
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7. |
Webs
04:45
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This is not for your convenience
This was not designed for your needs
We’re mined for raw material to process
Free is just the planting of seeds
Throw it out
Big Brother, go off yourself now
Throw it out
Police, stop surveilling my town
In the best of worlds it’s all okay
But I doubt this world is one where that’s the case
(The fight was long and hard for democracy
Don’t let it slip away)
This is not just hypothetical
Webs are being spun, and they stick
George could see the future we were building
But we can make the choice to resist
Throw it out
Big Brother, go off yourself now
Throw it out
Police, stop surveilling my town
Throw it out
Hey Google, go off yourself now
Throw it out
Alexa, get out of my house
In the best of worlds it’s all okay
‘cause in the best of worlds they’re gone
They weave a tale and call it inescapable
as I watch others step through its holes
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8. |
Broken Tongue
05:00
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I never, oh
I never, oh
I never rose
before the sun
With shaggy head
and broken tongue
Not all is lost
to fear and time
An ancient light
begins to shine
Go and make the rubbings from the grave
Count the tiny seeds that we could save
See the lichens blooming in the cracks
End the day with full hearts and tired backs
Then life woke up
and brushed my face
Just red and sounds
in outer space
And deep inside
a primal breath
It urges me
pick up the thread
Go and make the rubbings from the grave
Count the tiny seeds that we could save
See the lichens blooming in the cracks
End the day with full hearts and tired backs
I never, oh
I never, oh
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9. |
Name Power
02:36
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Name power
Name power!
Their whims
Our lives
Unregulated
Fear and drives
Name power
Say
Who gets to play
Ahhhhh fuck!
Name power
Make noise
Name power
Say hi to the boys
Name power
Make noise
Name power
Say hi to the boys
Hi Jeff!
Hi Elon!
Hi Mark!
Hi Sundar!
Hi Tim!
Hi Bernard!
Hey Bill!
Hey Rupert!
Hey Donald!
Hi Xi!
Hi Vlad!
Hi Mohammed!
Hi Larry!
Hi Naireindra!
Hi Jerome!
Hi Justin!
Hi Jack!
Hi John!
Hi Arthur!
Hi James!
Hi Peter!
Hi Dara!
Hi Boris!
Hi Satya!
Hi Masayoshi!
…And the rest
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10. |
NOT OK
05:57
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She walks endlessly at night
holding on
Glass city tracks her face;
only bright spikes
There’s no harvest
from a ghost
Shattered windows
dot the coast
She was listening
to the warnings on the radio
Brushed away the sand
and stepped into a place she didn’t know
Fear of what tomorrow brings
couldn’t keep her frozen anymore
They scream
while justice sleeps
IT’S NOT OK
IT’S NOT OK
I’M NOT OK
One day her body will decay
melt away like every flake of snow
The offices and poisoned water
make it less slow
Creatures howl
in the night
Over traffic,
smoke and light
She was listening
to the warnings on the radio
Brushed away the sand
and stepped into a place she didn’t know
Fear of what tomorrow brings
couldn’t keep her frozen anymore
They scream
while justice sleeps
IT’S NOT OK
IT’S NOT OK
I’M NOT OK
It’s not personal but - IT’S NOT OK
I’m not imagining stuff - IT’S NOT OK
I’m tired of trying to act tough - I’M NOT OK
It’s not personal but
I’m not imagining stuff
I’m tired of trying to act tough
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11. |
Just Some Guy (Bonus)
03:42
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She once thought
Get a grip, ego trip
Let the hot air turn to raindrops
She fell in love with photos of
Frowning gods on paper backdrops
Little coercions, creative diversions
Dreaming of their starry gazes
beaming out from endless faces
as they deify her name
She used to be just some guy
She used to be just some guy
Then one day something changed
Legends turned to fact within her
Hissy fits for typos in press kits
Lines began to get much thinner
Asking for favours in bitter flavours
of the friends who helped to raise her
Now she wants them all to praise her
Deify her name
She used to be just some guy
She used to be just some guy
And as her dreams come true
She floats off the ground out of reach
Head in the clouds
Far from the truth
(Repeat x 2)
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