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Sweet Children
02:37
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If you fall down I’ll be right there to pick you up
keep you smilin fill your pocket with a little luck
call out my name I’ll be rollin down your block
too fast for brakes don’t have to fake it
got what it takes go head and make it
make it better than it ever was before
sweet children of the night
your neon eyes sparkle
a little brighter when the sun has finally disappeared
oh what a sight
(now wait a minute)
ya gotcha comic book money
proceed with abandon
embrace disaster like it was going out of style
a hundred miles an hour baby that’s the way you drive
too fast for brakes don’t have to fake it
got what it takes go head and make it
make it better than it ever was before
sweet children of the night
your neon eyes sparkle
brighter when the sun has finally disappeared
oh what a sight
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2. |
New Moon
04:03
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seven hours and 32 minutes til we blow this coast
mmm, I hope to never see land again
I’m steppin out, I can feel the clouds at my feet
and all the fiberglass feathers of this
beautiful hollow bone piece of the sky
feel me now catch me with your eyes
hold you close racing past cars on fire
can’t stop until the moneys all spent and gone
hey hey hey
oooh I’m gonna spend my life
dreaming of disaster
dancin with the billionaire’s wife
there’s a new moon in the sky
won’tcha take a look? go on tell me now
how everybody’s on their own way home
you got the motivation baby I’m all wrapped up
and ready to go ooo like a fatty
got the secret numbers punched into your phone
I hear you sigh save me from the tide
if we’re going under let it be side by side
and throw my name against the water
you’re gonna hold me down
I’m gonna spend my life
dreaming in distortion
dancin with the billionaire’s wife
always on the next flight out
headin for the Aegean light
dreamin of Seychelles eyes
of the billionaire’s wife
just hold me down flying
towards the moonless night
dreamin of disaster
making all the wrongs seems right
you know she’s just too wise
to fill my throat with honeyed lies
dreaming of the seashell eyes
of the billionaire’s wife
you cant hold me down
I’m gonna spend my life
dreaming in distortion
dancin with a billionaire’s wife
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3. |
Beautiful Girls
02:57
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she’s pretty sweet, yeah
she could be somebody’s somebody
she really got it all describing the original beat
when she threw down her drink and got up on her feet
you should’ve seen her shake
it’d take the state of California GDP to make her teeter
and she hasn’t wasted time since she was 17
so I dove headfirst into the sound
I couldn’t hardly see surrounded by the shiny teeth of the
beautiful girls all the beautiful girls
it was criminal like no mirage-a-trois that I ever saw
it was the lion’s cage, the golden age and I’m a shooting star
just as soon as she jumped up on her feet
she made the Mona Lisa look like some grumpy old bish
from 17th century Italy (yes she did, and made it look easy)
I’m no Baryshnikov but I shrugged it off
and I dove headfirst into the heat a perfect opportunity
and now I’m at the table
toast! bon apetit!
with all the beautiful girls with all the beautiful girls
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4. |
What's Inside your Head
03:10
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let’s roll on out and take it to the stars
the top is up
we see the past above us
imagine the future is where we are
now thats somethin we could both believe
if we get into the feeling that it’s
been a long long time
since it all began and here we are
don’t ya know it
we gotta stand straight and tall
cuz we’re beautiful
and life is golden only what we make of it so
let’s make it work out
I can see it on your face
what’s inside your head is what’s inside of mine
we’re movin now you realize we are
glitter in the distance imagine light to a future star
now is that somethin you can squeeze
inside of believin that it’s been a longer time
since it all began than we know
but here we are so
we gotta stand straight and tall
cuz we’re beautiful
and life is golden only what we make of it so
let’s make it work out
I can see it on your face
what’s inside your head is what’s inside of mine
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5. |
Live Forever
04:44
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come with me baby let’s go inside
where the real and the deep never hide
there will be something want you to see
once you peel your self up off the sheets
I will love you all night long
gonna keep it honest and strong & baby
never gonna be lost again
cuz I found you
we’re gonna jump in the river
while the water is high
swim like creation to the otherside
we’re gonna climb up the mountain
til we touch the sky
yeah we’re gonna live forever until we die
unfold your mind let me tickle your heart
could we be together and still be apart
while the universe wheels about us
in the heavens above
into infinity yeah that’s what I’m thinkin of
nothin never changes or ever stays the same
I know your mother and father
played those hmm pillow games
but feelings but feelings they will come and they go
reach out let me touch your soul come on now
we’re gonna jump in the river
while the water is high
swim like creation to the otherside
we’re gonna climb up the mountain
til we touch the sky
yeah we’re gonna live forever
we’re gonna drink up the water
til the river is dry
run like the devil to the otherside
we’re gonna jump off the mountain
to the top of the sky
yeah we’re gonna live forever until we die
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6. |
You Can't Take it Back
03:34
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she whispers hello when she calls me
on the phone in the morn when she calls
says the time of the rendezvous and
what the muscles doin
paper soft in the street
try not to let
my curious eye get the best of me
can’t take it back once it gone wrong
no you cant take it back once its gone wrong
solo
she nods in her hat nonchalant
looking down she waves
says the time to pay is now
can’t take it back once it gone wrong
no you cant take it back once its gone wrong
beautiful took only a moment to see
what it meant to be uniquely strange and beautiful
spray paint the clouds with sound the sky with ground until we found the safest way to bring you down
so you think that you know and it’s all clear
bright as day let me hear what you have to say
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7. |
Little Feather
02:59
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well I won’t say my business my past indiscretions
are something I regularly discuss
I used to think that I kept it all tight and completely
oblique to protect all the innocents
now I’m facing a brighter day
and I know what happens when I turn away
I lose the light and I lose my way
I turn around and I hear you say
we should think about leaving this planet
before it gets blown apart
you and me could be little feathers
floatin round in the dark
baby when you hear them talking
trying to sound so smart
tell them to shut their mouth
little feather
they don't know what they say
aw baby let me get the dictionary
so I can understand
before I learned your language
back when I began
I was more of a karma comma
from absurdistan
adventure was its own reward
when is information more dangerous
when it comes from them or when it comes from us
I’m feelin all terminal
I might not make it to the seven count
the ref shouts man down crowds up hands pound
the mattress as I wake up in an old three piece
hand me down nightmare family approved
DNA assumed to be correct
sometimes the rain comes too hard to restrain
all the laundry hanging on the line
and it blows off the clips and it finally slips
and it streams down the gutter like neon signs
all the pages of the past
showin a horizon never fade from view
imagine going forward without turning back
show me a future that looks like you
we should think about leaving this planet
before it gets blown apart
you and me could be little feathers
floatin round each others heart
baby when you hear them talking
trying to sound so smart
tell them to shut their mouth
little feather
they don't know what they say
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8. |
Stars
04:07
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never lost a battle just by givin it up
lettin all the losers take a drink from your cup
tell your ghetto people that you’re more than pocket change
weather in the mornin like a desert mirage
hidin in the corner of your neighbors garage
waitin for the cops to finally show their face
send the senate a postcard
through a needle in the schoolyard
watch the monkeys take wing
listen to the junkyard hyenas sing
that’s not funeral lemonade
fairly typical situation get in the car and drive til I
can’t see the stars over your house no more
blacklight in the bathroom making the glow
I didn’t know my teeth were so blue
feel everything become brand new
did you forget what you were supposed to do
guess I forgot it’s alright everybody say 1 2
I want to
feel it’s only a sign that everything you once knew
it’s only a matter of time before it splits into
dust and beauty delusions of grandeur
nothings left of the past and future
but it’s more than you used to know
never lost a battle just by givin it up
lettin all the losers take a drink from your cup
tell your ghetto people that you’re more than pocket change
weather in the mornin like a desert mirage
hidin in the corner of your neighbors garage
waitin for the cops to finally show their face
fairly typical situation my imaginations all over the places
dust and beauty that’s what the future is
everybody say 1 2 I want to
feel it’s only a sign that everything you once knew
only a matter of time before it splits into
dust and beauty that’s what the future is
dust and beauty that’s what the future is
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9. |
Hot Spot
03:39
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can’t sleep I can’t keep the flame burnin so high
it’s automatic & I just cant deny
the more it flicker flicker fire the more it gains in size
it’s out the pocket and materializin’
on the gain stage shadow frequency it’s alive
who you gonna call when your monster is drivin’
now you can’t tell me everybody ain’t excited
it’s easier when your needle’s a diamond
throw off the chains & the ties that blind
get on the hot spot that is in your mind
throw the money in a pile and sit on top
it’s automatic and I just can’t stop
nanana
another million years backwards all you feel is tired
there’s a strange one in the house tonight
every second that ticks make your sun burn brighter
the mornins always gotta turn up a fight
there’s only 57 seconds on that doomsday clock
it’s like a tickle in my brain that I just cant stop
once the button is pushed in the mercury stew
somebody finally gonna tell the truth
throw off the chains & the ties that blind
get on the hot spot that is in your mind
throw the money in a pile and sit on top
it’s automatic and I just can’t stop
nanana
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10. |
Déjà Vu
03:32
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damn…is this somethin new, do you feel it too?
like a dream just remembered
strange and so familiar
there’s nothin stoppin us from seein
what we’re doing who we’re being
now i’m feelin like the ceiling’s fallen down
and in between us
ooh oh yeah we know
what direction it’s comin from
only got the sense of recognition once its gone
oh yeah we know
what direction it’s comin from
if you thought that choice was freedom
then you forgot the time
do you remember the muscle bamboo
jungle pow of the hotel shampoo
swimmin pool in the room
never ending coup of deja vu
is it all brand new or were you
about to say the best is yet to come?
so…said the soul
it’s more than bread that feeds us after all
o forgotten song, slave to the past beyond the glass summer nights slippin fast neon lights
drippin from the ceiling fallen down and in between us
ooh oh yeah we know
what direction it’s comin from
but we havent got the notion where its goin oh
oh yeah we know
what direction it’s comin from
if you thought that choice was freedom
then you forgot the time
do you remember the muscle bamboo
jungle pow of the hotel shampoo
swimmin pool in the room
never ending coup of deja vu
is it all brand new or were you
about to say the best is yet to come?
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11. |
Talk is Cheap
02:52
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is every word you want to scream stuck in your mouth
take off that tourniquet and let it all out
there’s nothing more to the weight of the world
worth worrying about
you can confess to me you can confess to me
you’re beautiful and paralyzed
treasures buried deep
lazy foreign lullabies knock me out
talk is cheap
does anybody? does anybody? does anybody care?
about the critical condition or the chemical illusion
or the mystic premonition the tactic of confusion
just listen…can your hear it? can you hear that sound?
there’s nothin new child nothin new child
nothin new under the sun
it’s been going on forever
you’re falling fast shooting star
with your smooth disease
you cant escape der komissar
soon enough so hand me the keys
beautiful poliza I’m down on my knees
lazy foreign alibis lock me up
talk is cheap
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12. |
Empress of Borneo
03:51
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pretty vacant girls, lonely, looking out the window
with promises of misfit acts on their lips
glass all smeared and hazy from their phony fingerprints
remember little Caesar stabbed his friend in the back
for cheap rewards and a dose of oh Hannah
while the morning train full of ghosts in suits
slid past us in miserable silence
how you gonna steal the thunder
of a man who’s already six feet underground?
why you tryin to pull apart the jigsaw puzzle
with a clawtooth hammer and a philly tear
with your sideways smile like the Empress of Borneo
kiss me little dynamite and clap your hands together
make it all disappear in a cloud of smoke
nothing but a pile of buildings
where we used to stash the gold
don’t know how to leave you alone
now I got you in my bones never gonna let you go
you turn and slowly walk away
hands are full, your bags are fake
Jimmy Choo from Malaysia
why you tryin to pull apart this jigsaw puzzle
with a clawtooth hammer and a philly tear
with yer sinister smile like the Empress of Borneo
kill me just a little bit more clap your hands together
make it all disappear in a cloud of smoke
shake your head and tell me how the story’s
supposed to go
don’t know how to leave you alone
now I got you in my bones
never gonna let you go
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Bruce Hughes Austin
Bruce Hughes - Austin, Texas native - bassist, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer, making records and music that moves.
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