1. |
Master Astronaut
04:45
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Attuned to the way of the stars, as we know that you are,
you're a child of the sun and the moon in the sky.
All of the cosmos is your stage tonight.
Let's count backwards from ten and leave the sphere that we're in,
for better places, stranger faces; wherever our spaceship takes us,
and into the light.
I'm looking back at myself,
just minutes before,
suspended in time.
Looking back at myself, looking back at myself,
just minutes before,
suspended in time.
Looking back at myself...
All the people know that I'm the master astronaut.
Removed from that vestige of time, through the eye of the mind,
we've resigned from the laws of the poorly designed.
In some other words, I guess we've tasted light.
Call on the cat, call your friends, 'cause you've found out where it ends. You realize they recognize we have hardly the clout or size to
engage in this fight.
I'm looking back at myself,
just minutes before,
suspended in time.
Looking back at myself, looking back at myself,
just minutes before,
suspended in time.
Looking back at myself...
All the people know that I'm the master astronaut.
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2. |
The Invisible Hand
03:17
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I'm just a soldier with a gun.
Looking out for number one.
I can't fight it alone at all-
could you carry me home if I fall?
Pray to silence, excessive violence.
If all the other boys are convinced that we've already lost,
tell me, would you go on?
If you want it, you should take it and run with it.
A collection of fools will never run you down.
We can't help it if everything is ours to take.
It's just a matter of who's asleep and who's awake.
It's standing there right in front of you.
I think you know what we have to do.
If you listen to me we might live
and have something to tell our grandkids.
Your confusion with this illusion-
It's just another ploy of the man to get into our minds...
So don't try and hide.
If you want it, you should take it and run with it.
A collection of fools will never run you down.
We can't help it if everything is ours to take.
It's just a matter of who's asleep and who's awake.
Are you awake?
Or do you need time?
Time to get high?
Let's think about what we're doing here.
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3. |
Human Mind
03:27
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It's strange how I feel so deflated,
when you seem so elated
at the sight of the lights.
Shining from the sky...
from dinnerware that flies in the night,
its not right to assume
they've come just to scope out the room.
I believe we have cause for concern,
but their presence is hard to discern...
With something so simple as the human eye,
so futile as the human mind,
and you've got both.
In dreams I am standing here naked,
while they're working hard to take this
thing I call life.
I have to let them try.
Between you and I- I believe that it's all just a game
designed to keep things the same
and if I quit there's no prize to be earned...
but these lessons are hardest to learn...
With something so simple as the human eye,
so futile as the human mind,
and you've got both.
Calling out under starlight:
Won't you take me away from it all?
Far away would be real nice,
but just away would be alright.
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4. |
The Friendship Song
03:29
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If you were invited, you wouldn't even like it.
So don't purport to be so sure that you'd be delighted
to sit among the ranks of those who might have
answers on the inside-
answers about the outside.
If you weren't so frightened, then you'd be enlightened
about the many ways through which our bond could be tightened.
We'll be connected at the thought
of understanding what we've got
and what's too hot.
We're getting closer to what I want from a friendship.
If you can read my mind,
finish this sentence the way that I've decided it should end in my head.
That wasn't perfect, but it was close-
and close is good enough for me.
If reasons were cited, if wrongs had been righted,
then many of the victims may have never been spited
or sat among the ranks of those who sighted
answers on the inside-
answers about the outside.
You could have been something, but now you've got nothing.
You had all the cards, but still I thought you were bluffing.
We'll be dissected at the thought.
Well, let's abandon what we've got.
Because it's shot.
We're getting closer to what I want from a friendship.
If you can read my mind,
finish this sentence the way that I've decided it should end in my head.
That wasn't perfect, but it was close-
and close is good enough for me.
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5. |
World of Difference
03:09
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It's so incredible, so unbelievable.
I just can't put my finger on the thing you do
that makes me love you.
But why sit here wasting time
going over in my mind
how I'm feeling when I know that it's true?
I've been over and up and down,
but I still haven't found
another love that makes me feel the way you do.
And if it's alright, you can stay the whole night...
until the morning sunshine shines through.
Well there's loving you,
but then there's loving you the way I do.
It makes a world of difference when I'm alone with you.
There's loving you,
but then there's loving you the way I do.
It's something close to heaven when I'm alone with you.
It's so improbable, but it's conceivable
that sometimes we won't know exactly what to do
and we'll be confused.
But if we leave this thing behind,
I'm fairly certain that we'll find
that it was better than we ever even knew.
It's some force I can't explain-
from you I can't abstain.
Another love can't make me feel the way you do.
But if it's alright, you can stay the whole night...
until the morning sunshine shines through.
Well there's loving you,
but then there's loving you the way I do.
It makes a world of difference when I'm alone with you.
There's loving you,
but then there's loving you the way I do.
It's something close to heaven when I'm alone with you.
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6. |
Come Back Home
03:50
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Two weeks now-
it's just been night and day
and I couldn't find the time to say:
There was no other way
except the one I did pursue...
you...
Don't understand me when I'm speaking.
It's like my words just don't get through.
Sometimes your mind just drifts away,
but we're all still here and we're waiting on you.
We really wish you'd come back home before the party's over
and there's nothing to do but sleep.
Maybe in another time and place you could've had it all.
All night long
I've kept the hounds at bey,
I've been waiting by the telephone.
You didn't have the nerve to stay
and work this whole thing through...
you...
Don't understand me when I'm speaking.
It's like my words just don't get through.
Sometimes your mind just drifts away,
but we're all still here and we're waiting on you.
We really wish you'd come back home before the party's over
and there's nothing to do but sleep.
Maybe in another time and place you could've had it all.
I can only imagine where you've gone to...
Out in the cold.
Stuck in the rain.
There was a time when I might have chased you,
but I'm getting old
and shit's getting lame...
Oh... please!
Just tell us that you're alright...
We really wish you'd come back home before the party's over
and there's nothing to do but sleep.
Maybe in another time and place you could've had it all...
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7. |
Gardening Skills
03:24
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Girl, you and me, you know we had something,
and something's always better than nothing,
and nothing's all we ever had before.
But since it's alright with you, it's alright with me,
we can just both be free
if that's how this has to be.
Oh, I'd grow you a field of roses
to prove my gardening skills
and make you happy...
Girl, you and me, you know we had something,
and something's always better than nothing,
and nothing's all we ever had before.
But since it's alright with you, it's alright with me,
we can just both be free
if that's how this has to be.
Oh, I'd grow you a field of roses
to prove my gardening skills
and make you happy...
We got caught up with ourselves,
got caught up with everything...
I would have done anything... anything for you...
Girl, you and me, you know we had something,
and something's always better than nothing,
and nothing's all we ever had before.
But since it's alright with you, it's alright with me,
we can just both be free
if that's how this has to be.
Oh, I'd grow you a field of roses
to prove my gardening skills
and make you happy...
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