1. |
Totems
04:05
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Well you're breaking down again
and these masks are wearing thin
As without
so within
So reveal your secret skin
Yes you're breaking down again
and isn't solitude your friend?
Totems end
and begin
and never say where they've been
But when you're looking thru the stars
how I wonder what you are
From the stranger on the plain
to the dream transistor game
Of the diamonds in your mind
and that pale effusive sign
rising tempting
you to find
totems too worn to unwind
So you're breaking down again
and the colors that we'll rend
are even thicker
than the thin
will reveal your secret skin
But when you're looking thru the stars
how I wonder what you are
From the stranger on the plain
to the dream transistor game
Yes you're looking thru the stars
and how I wonder what you are
From the stranger on the plain
to the dream transistor game
the dream transistor game
the dream transistor game
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2. |
Nothing
03:18
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Hey Jasmine
that's no disguise
and the wonder
whistling by
like some absent-minded
winter smile
doesn't it make you feel like a stranger?
O Jasmine
I'm spinning out
and these feelings
that we doubt
come on slow
but with sudden rise
and suddenly I'm a stranger
But there's nothing for you to hide
with the ground beneath your feet
and there's nothing
in your eyes right now
that won't always be
Hey Jasmine
begin again
because you came
and then you went
with your simple
sunday morning song
and suddenly you're a stranger
But there's nothing for you to hide
with the ground beneath your feet
and there's nothing
in your eyes right now
that won't always be
But there's nothing for you to hide
with the ground beneath your feet
and there's nothing
in your eyes right now
that won't always be
that won't always be
No that won't
always be
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3. |
Come Down
03:40
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Hey hey
Come on down
With your ruby lips
And your neon sound
And though the lilac dream
It seems to weep so suddenly
Your emerald toes still leave the ground
Hey hey
Life's a crowd
With it's broken eyes
And it's shining mouths
And though the streets they seem
To grey and sigh so subtly
Why don't you try and come around?
‘Cause the bells are ringing
Thru my dreams
And I'm curious if it's the same for you?
A silver-screen dream
Running thru my head
Come on don't you feel the same way too?
Hey hey
What you've found
In the Metro stations
And the clouds
And tangled up it seems to fade to blue so easily
Your augured dreams gently resound
So hey hey
Come on down
With your ruby lips
And your neon sound
And though the lilac dream it seems to weep so suddenly
Your emerald toes still leave the ground
‘Cause the bells are ringing
Thru my dreams
And I'm curious if it's the same for you?
A silver-screen dream
Running thru my head
Come on don't you feel the same way too?
‘Cause the bells are ringing
Thru my dreams
And I'm curious if it's the same for you?
A silver-screen dream
Running thru my head
Come on don't you feel the same way too?
If you’re dancing
Somewhere beyond the doubt
Then you're shining
Shining
Shining out
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4. |
On Decline
04:43
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These memories
they get the best of me
and I realize
I'm not here
right now
So you hit the road
with a different load
then it would reveal
itself to be
in the end
Still you're trying to get it right
Trying to make things
go the way that you thought
that they should when you
woke up alone with the
dream on your lips and the fear
on decline
Between you and me
all of what we see
isn't meant to save our lives
anymore
So we hit the skies
with our restless sighs
then I realize
I'm smaller then
I'd thought
Still you're trying to get it right
Trying to make things
go the way that you thought
that they should when you
woke up alone with the
dream on your lips and the fear
on decline
On decline
On decline
On decline...
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5. |
Begin Again
04:47
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If there's nothing behind the seams
of what the come down used to be
and these whispers aren't as dark as
they once were.
But there's nothing in between
the profane and this divinity
and these inklings scribble truth
as if it were absurd
When all of those lies
are just curtains for pride
then it's really no shame
so there's nothing to blame
Well there's something coming clean
betwixt the highway and obscurity
and the language spoke has begun to slowly burn
Unabashed dancing queen connecting with infinity
realign what seems a million yards of hurt
When the dreams open wide
from the curtains that hide
and the mystery plain
brings it all home again
So begin again
Begin again
Well who's to say what's not a dream
with the fog obstructing what is seen
and anyway it's all just tangled and obscured
Evanescent emerald sea
the city's pulse the nightmare scene
transmit these feelings beyond the realm of words
When the dreams lick the sides
of the curtains that hide
and when it all goes up in flame
still this golden dream still remains...
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6. |
Everything is Permitted
04:55
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Broken whispers and screams
walking backwards again
still pushing beyond
the curses on the side of the road
This city's obscene
but then again
I'm not sure what
that really means
Of these haunted halls
and hallowed electric dreams
or incantations on the brow
And so it goes
like a dove
on high
Or the skies
aflame and alive
What's your will?
and where does it lie?
And by the way
how do you fly?
O.....
Storied faces pass by
sidewalk canvas
at the foot of a queen
Approaching glorious lights
pulling memories
to forget later on
It's permitted that's right
still the return can't be denied
There's been a mist on your eyes
but gold is everywhere
it's just a matter of sight
O.....
And so it goes
like a dove
on high
Or the skies
aflame and alive
What's your will?
and where does it lie?
And by the way
how do you fly?
O.....
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7. |
Sphere
04:56
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Well the word on the streets on your style
is that you picked it up on your way back
from the places you used to hide
And the myth on the lips of your smile
is that your E.S.P. is aimed at me
thru the lonely night
But if you're feeling kinda down
and you need me to try to disappear for awhile
Just look for me around
the places that you found your style
But then out of the black comes desire
and the pressure from the diamonds in your eyes
leads into the blue design
all carrying on inside this sphere of time
Ah the fingers of dawn do transpire
and this midnight train keeps driving me away
further from your side
And these pearls on the waves of desire
are just mirrors for this ever rising star
of gas and fire
But if you're feeling upside down
and you need me to try to cut you free
for awhile
But with your ear down to the ground
you will hear a lonely melody
from the places you used to hide
But then out of the black comes desire
and the pressure from the diamonds in your eyes
leads into the blue design
all carrying on inside this sphere of time
Yes out of the black comes desire
and the pressure from the diamonds in your eyes
leads into the blue design
all carrying on inside this sphere of time
All carrying on inside this sphere of time...
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8. |
We
04:47
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Well you've got your dreams
and I've got mine
but there's no claim upon the emerald sea
outside of time
What a beautiful feeling
what a golden sign
and there's nothing
we can't do outside of time
This gypsy spirit's gonna vibrate far and wide
thru pain and pleasure onto the other side
The full moon's reflecting
energy and rhyme
and is there creation and light
outside of time?
So what were your dreams
have become mine
these unseen influences
keep these energies alive
This gypsy spirit's gonna vibrate far and wide
thru pain and pleasure onto the other side
This gypsy spirit's gonna vibrate far and wide
thru pain and pleasure onto the other side
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9. |
Hunger
03:52
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This body and this need
this hunger and these howling eyes
they know nothing
will be the same again
These feelings and this fold
this dawning and these silent cries
they're just passing by
so mind what you say
Well the world isn't stopping
but you just might make it thru
the night
and this cycling signal hum
is just blood meal for insight
This golden moment
and the fallen bough
the instant and the precious sigh
are just blowing forward
so mind what you rend
Well the world isn't stopping
but you just might make it thru
the night
and this cycling signal hum
is just blood meal for insight
No the world isn't stopping
but you'll surely make it thru
the night
and this cycling signal hum
is just blood meal for insight
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10. |
Wild Strawberries
03:22
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Yellow flowers at dusk
secrets out on display
On these telephone wires
over castle spires:
"say what you need to say"
But wild strawberries
and crumbled cavalries
bear silent tongues aloft
Ancient conceits
and veiled honesty's
murder thought
Liquid history moves on
but reason seems to fade
on these computer screens
and empty magazines
perpetually displayed
But wild strawberries
and crumbled cavalries
bear silent tongues aloft
Ancient conceits
and veiled honesty's
murder thought
So here's a kiss from a thousand leagues
and bullet from the heart
when there's nothing left to say or feel
well that's where we need to start
But wild strawberries
and crumbled cavalries
bear silent tongues aloft
Ancient conceits
and veiled honesty's
murder thought
murder thought
murder thought...
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Max Davies
Songwriter, guitarist and producer. Max Davies has been featured in: Artforum; Guitar World & Guitarist magazines; Centre Pompidou, the American College Dance Festival, Naropa University, and on numerous albums and films. He has worked with Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, Lydia Lunch, CA Conrad, Toni Oswald, Clark Coolidge, Cecilia Vicuna, Eleni Sikelianos Gregory Alan Isakov, and more. ... more
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