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WHAT ARE THEY SAYING ABOUT THE AMPERSANDS?

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Astronomical Clock

TIME TRAVEL

Do you believe in time travel?
Do you believe we exist through time

It is impossible

What if I misstep and I've never born?
Another lonely dimension

one where I don't exist

And if this can't help you, I don't know what will

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We're collecting dark matter

To convert the holes into traps

Then we'll tunnel around

Forget the paradox in all that we've found

Traveling through wormholes,

Well that's not for me to say

And if this can't help you, I don't know what will

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Energy for radiation

It's a beautiful combination

Bend it, kick it, nothing is found

And the wheel effects of hanging around

Don't believe in the new high

We're all in holograms

And if this can't help you, I don't know what will

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It's All Been a Wash
Sunny Afternoon

I DON'T MIND

So you talk to me

As if I haven't left the room

You know I never really cared

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Those words you whisper too

Flooding all the shadows we despair

I felt the anger hanging by a thread

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It's okay, I've got rain to wash away

I don't mind, the sunny days are all I know

Is it you or is it me I justify?

I don't mind, the sunny days are all I know

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Try and smile now

When it's much too late because I know

Know about the things you've done

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So forget those words

Those words that slapped me across the face

They hurt the most when they're not heard

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It's okay, I've got rain to wash away

I don't mind, the sunny days are all I know

Is it you or is it me I justify?

I don't mind, the sunny days are all I know

 

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Dark Fortress

DARKNESS AND DECAY

Hard for me to find a peaceful place in my mind

Hard for me to start but if I fall apart

Maybe it'll be okay

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There's no graceful death for every wasted breath

Can't believe I've stayed both fearless and afraid

Of darkness and decay

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If you could bestow

How the future would grow

With the devil I know and the angel of status quo

It's not like we're so Gaugin on Van Gogh

The master, painting the master, painting

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How can I break free, it sounds so familiar to me

Yosarian and Boo in a funny deja vu

On evacuation day

 

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Camping

HAPPY CAMPER

Falling, all I do is falling

Slipping on the sidewalk

Tripping over footsteps
 

Crawling, answer every call

But I can only stall

My inevitable fall-down
 

Training wheels are only training

Doggy-paddle potty

Baby steps and first words

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Wonder, view it all with wonder

Wonder if I'll ever be a happy camper

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I resign to pull back blind

I am fine, never you mind

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Eiffel Tower

EIFFEL

Eiffel, you are wonder personified

It's so amazing this can coincide

Eiffel, you are perfect symmetry

I wonder what if you shift polarity

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Now I can't believe this incredible something

This awkward and dumb thing

This beautiful silence and staring

This mending and tearing

This splitting and pairing

Is this?

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Eiffel you are what this chance became

Tried to check out, fell flat, eyes went lame

Would you see the Mona Lisa

And remember anything about the frame?

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Now I can't believe this incredible something

This awkward and dumb thing

This splitting and pairing

This mending and tearing

Is this?

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Beautiful Smile

IT MAKES ME SMILE

If you're someone that I love

It's just a little late, a little late

And I try to hold it back 

And hope it goes away, please go away

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It's really been a chore

To stand aside for you, for you

But it seems as if my life's

Been leading up to this

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It hurts more than you know

To watch you sit so near 

When I can't care

I get the sense my world disintegrated me

Into this

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Don't you want to be forgiven

Don't want you to be with me?

Don't you want to be forbidden

Don't you want to hold me near 

But I know that won't be

 

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SNORE

Bed Cover Fabric

Green with envy, how you can be

Still so sound asleep

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Jealous arms will hold you until

You are mine to keep

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Snore

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Softer falling morning calling

I will hold you still

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Slow your breathing, dream of sleeping

Quiet wish fulfilled

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Snore

 

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Japanese Calendar

STRANGE MONTH

This is consuming me, it's consuming me

Yeah it really is

It's all I think about, all I think about

Yeah it makes me ill

Maybe another time on another time

On another plane

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Free world, darling you're a free girl

And everything you do

You know you want to do

It's not like I'm in charge of you

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I feel so empty now, feel so empty now

Oh, disruptive void

Maybe I ought to go and I ought to know

That I bother you

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Free world, darling you're a free girl

And everything you do

You know you want to do

It's not like I'm in charge of you

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So many circumstances

The circumstances, they don't relate

I'm feeling better now, feeling better now,

Man but what a month

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Free world, darling you're a free girl

And everything you do

You know you want to do

It's not like I'm in charge of you

 

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GHOST (THERE IS A GIRL)

Car

Time has stopped its carnal flow

Seized by hands around its throat

There is a girl, there is a girl, there is a girl

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Logic, cease your reign on me

Thought and reason set me free

There is a girl, there is a girl, there is a girl

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And my fortune lets me come inside my

Extra special all-important ride

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Shadows fleeing from their fates

When her smile illuminates

There is a girl, there is a girl, there is a girl

(A goal, a guess, a gift, a ghost)

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And the breeze that once had made me shiver

Lifts me up with arms as soft as clouds

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Kids in the Museum

SONYASAURUS

Sonya made it out, she could have been a boy

Got caught up in a mild melancholy state

Sonya made a mess, and someone cleaned it up

We'll tease her all about it when she's a little older

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Time to rest, it's almost naptime

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Sonya walked to class and all the neighbors clapped

And stood there in amazement she made it there and back

Sonya got an A and put it on the fridge

You got a golden star shining in the sun

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Time to eat, it's almost dinner time

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Never wanted more once you crawled through that door

I love the Sonyasaurus

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Sonya went outside, she's playing in the park

She's running all around you, didn't she just learn to walk?

Sonya made a friend and took him to the dance

She got a limousine to take them there and back

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Time to go, it's almost time to leave

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Never wanted more once you crawled through that door

I love the Sonyasaurus

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Snow

WINTERSPRING

Winterspring, my six-moon grey

All canary flown away

And left is only coal, the bitter coal

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Winterspring, why you insist

Telling me you don't exist

When I can feel the cold, persistent cold

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I was climbing up, you were falling down

Mental photograph pulling me around

You decide to keep, I will throw away

Whiteout snow in March brings a brand new day

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Winterspring I bought you then

Followed you through sword and pen

Pretended it was gold and never told

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I, too dumb to go, you, too scared to stop (fly)

Mental photograph, shiny purple top (high)

I will throw away, you decide to keep

Whiteout snow in March

I am still asleep (follows us like sheep)

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Winterspring

 

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Sunset

LATE

It's getting very late

The sun is shining

I'm getting very tired

From all your whining

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You're going down, down, down, down

Down, down, down, down again

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You're going round, round, round, round, 

Round, round, round, round again

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I don't care what you say about me

It's only fools who believe you

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DREAMS AND DOING ERRANDS

Public Transportation

The imagery of blindness appears before my sun

The cold and desperate longing

Of a real man for his gun

There's too much work to rest here

And it all remains undone

Your strange and twisted reason

You're having too much fun

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Lock me out with talk about revolution

Take me in, let's write ourselves a constitution

Let us sing and dance and pray and frolic

In the rusty rain

The daydream stops tomorrow

We're getting off this train

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Excitement of a young boy
When he thinks his dreams are real

A cat before a hurricane, a bear before a meal

So try to fly away boy 

You're too young to catch my heel

Join the captain's love parade 

I'll teach you how to feel 

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Lock me out with talk about revolution

Take me in, let's write ourselves a constitution

Let us sing and dance and pray and frolic

In the rusty rain

The daydream stops tomorrow

We're getting off this train

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