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Opposable Thumbs
04:10
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Feel the sharp tongue
Across my face
Isolation
Oblivious to the rain
The kids all knew it
Swept into a raging storm
They see right through it
Enthusiastically conform
Fabric skeletons, afraid of change, afraid of age, afraid
They cursed the winds that blew away the sands of time
Conquer the dark, the darkness that takes them home
Crooked but on the tracks
A cold summer’s rainwater
Washes us away
Opposable thumbs of
Ill will is all I see
A cold summer’s rainwater
Washes us away
Opposable thumbs of
Ill will is all I see
Walking the crowded street
Immersed in concrete
Hawking our merchandise
Commodify the sunrise
Pacify
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Strange Life
04:08
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I take one step forward
You shove me two steps back
I’m under no illusions
I know I’m going off the tracks
Ache for life
Wait for the night
I wanna feel alive
This gentle darkness takes me home
The strangest life I’ve ever known
This gentle darkness takes me home
The strangest life I’ve ever known
When the town is asleep
That’s when we hit the street
Where the willows weep
That’s where we meet
You bring the cigarettes
I bring the cassettes
We’ll never sleep again
Cause tonight never ends
Cause we ache for life
Some real kinda life
This strange life
O
The strangest life
O
This gentle darkness takes me home
The strangest life I’ve ever known
This gentle darkness takes me home
The strangest life I’ve ever known
The strangest life I’ve ever known
The strangest life I’ve ever known
The strangest life I’ve ever known
The strangest life I’ve ever
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I take one step forward
You shove me two steps back
I’m under no illusions
I know I’m going off the tracks
Ache for life
Wait for the night
I wanna feel alive
This gentle darkness takes me home
The strangest life I’ve ever known
This gentle darkness takes me home
The strangest life I’ve ever known
When the town is asleep
That’s when we hit the street
Where the willows weep
That’s where we meet
You bring the cigarettes
I bring the cassettes
We’ll never sleep again
Cause tonight never ends
Cause we ache for life
Some real kinda life
This strange life
O
The strangest life
O
This gentle darkness takes me home
The strangest life I’ve ever known
This gentle darkness takes me home
The strangest life I’ve ever known
The strangest life I’ve ever known
The strangest life I’ve ever known
The strangest life I’ve ever known
The strangest life I’ve ever
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Future They Promised
03:03
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Walking fast down memory lane
Sink into my coat in the pouring rain
I hear the distant call of the lunch time horn
The workers walk out in the storm
You lie behind a veil of mistrust
Where is the future that you promised us?
Stranger shadows join the walk
Petrified in molten rock
We came across a rundown bar and lingered for too long
I put my trust in you but I was wrong
Suspended in automation
Yet still I feel no alleviation
You took a hunk out of my arm, continued down the road
A dusty, musty, crooked path I never really knowed
You lie behind a veil of mistrust
Where is the future that you promised us?
Suspended in automation
Yet still I feel no alleviation
You lie behind a veil of mistrust
Where is the future that you promised us?
You lie behind a veil of mistrust
Where is the future that they promised us?
You lie behind a veil of mistrust
Where is the future that they promised?
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I take one step forward
You shove me two steps back
I’m under no illusions
I know I’m going off the tracks
Ache for life
Wait for the night
I wanna feel alive
This gentle darkness takes me home
The strangest life I’ve ever known
This gentle darkness takes me home
The strangest life I’ve ever known
When the town is asleep
That’s when we hit the street
Where the willows weep
That’s where we meet
You bring the cigarettes
I bring the cassettes
We’ll never sleep again
Cause tonight never ends
Cause we ache for life
Some real kinda life
This strange life
O
The strangest life
O
This gentle darkness takes me home
The strangest life I’ve ever known
This gentle darkness takes me home
The strangest life I’ve ever known
The strangest life I’ve ever known
The strangest life I’ve ever known
The strangest life I’ve ever known
The strangest life I’ve ever
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