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Midnight Run
03:59
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if we have had enough we don't have to tow their line
what matters most is us and how we want to spend our time
we could start again it doesn't matter where we are
in a new town we can be anyone we want
we could leave tonight we could make a midnight run
we'd be far away before anybody knows we're gone
but keep it to yourself don't spread it like a forest fire
keep it on the down low i'll reach you on the calling wire
i don't want their jokes i don't want them judging me
and if we were to stay we could never find the time to leave
if they found us out would they punish you or me this time
i don't wanna live anywhere they say ideas are crimes
but keep that to yourself don't spread it like a forest fire
keep it on the down low i'll reach you on the calling wire
anywhere we are we could build a house of love
no matter what we've got with each other we will have enough
we could swear an oath we could make a lifelong pact
to keep each other close and i don't need a god for that
i won't keep it to myself i will spread it like a forest fire
tell everybody else i will tell them 'til my blood runs dry
i won't keep it to myself i will spread it like a forest fire
tell everybody else i will tell them 'til my blood runs dry yeah
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2. |
Hue And Cry
03:54
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So it'll start with a story in a paper
Not of much significance
Maybe read it later
Then all the cover up stuff begins
With the person in the middle
trying to keep themselves hidden
See a super injunction
Only serves the function
Of whipping the media into a frenzy or something
Then a real danger of innocent lives
Getting tarred and feathered
By misinformed minds
So it'll turn out the story of another celeb
Caught doing someone
They shouldn't in bed
Maybe success has gone to their head
Or maybe we should look at ourselves instead
But I know a bit about the way the world works
So I think that I can change it but I'm nervous
Can I steer myself on a true course for it
Or is it rarer than rocking horse shit
So...
You must make a sound
Make it known says I
You must drag them down
You must hue and cry
We could all take up arms
A witch hunt says I
Across cities and farms
Hear us hue and cry
Just cause they're famous don't mean we own them
Like new red button controls only control them
Highlighting all their latest mistakes
As if we could do any better if we were in their place
So most of the tabloids are mired in dirt
Phone taps and kickbacks a bung in your shirt
With ninety odd pages to tell us what's up
It's full of bullshit and I've had enough
I wanted to read about Westminster
Not who's banging the Olsen sisters
Or the latest affair slash drunken fumble
Or what bunch of losers are jetting into the jungle
But i used to know about the way the world works
And I wanna try and change it with a purpose
But there's always someone wants to be first
And half cocked we all end up worse
So...
You must make a sound
Make it known says I
You must drag them down
You must hue and cry
We could all take up arms
A witch hunt says I
Across cities and farms
Hear us hue and cry
You see I thought I really knew the way the world works
And I only just heard of the birthers
Who said that a certificate was worthless
And caused another media circus
So...
You must make a sound
Make it known says I
You must drag them down
You must hue and cry
We could all take up arms
A witch hunt says I
Across cities and farms
Hear us hue and cry
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3. |
Religion Vs. Science
03:44
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Hi I'm religion I'm old n I'm wise
I have all the answers that you crave inside
I can even offer you a nice surprise
Like how about a heaven and an afterlife
I can give the world to you a paradise
I can make complexities like eyes
I can make a beetle with a spray device
And I can make you people believe my lies
But wait now and listen
There are some conditions
I rule and You must never doubt my position
Not once or ever
Cause I control the weather
So I can make it rain from now until forever
Oh no I'm not a bully
It's just that your below me
And we can't have the plebs in control now can we
You see I know what's best
So you're at my behest
And pay attention please
Cause there is gonna be a test
It's one of faith and the faith that you place
In me and my ability to lead your race
Turn your leaders to preachers
Who hold my belief that
I can still do it if I can't keep the peace
Ill develop some factions
They may be reactions to how you are following
Some of my instructions
There will be no asking of questions
Except when you ask me for things in the form of a prayer
And there is where I'll leave you on your own now
Hi I'm science, I'm fairly new
And I don't have all the answers for you
Well not yet, but there's reasonable doubt
That if I work hard I can try and find them out
I also have texts that are made up by you
Within them I also have flexible rules
I try my best not to tell you what to do
It's about working out what you know is true
I never have anger or scorn for you
But even in me are things you shouldn't do
H bombs poison carbon pollutes
But I leave the judgement to you
It's not all bad there's fun you can have
Like putting little sweets in a pop bottle bang
Plus I keep your house warm keep the lights on
Keep your food cold so go and stick the kettle on
The planet we're on is fascinating
I almost don't know where to begin
If you get drunk enough you can feel the earth spin
Although that might be an inner ear thing
Oh yeah did I mention there's also drugs
And some of it is really crazy stuff
And if it don't make sense it may do in time
Just have a bit of water and you'll be just fine
But on the whole I'm a whole lot deeper
I can make your food bills a whole lot cheaper
I can see children now past eighteen
Where they would've died before without vaccines
As the best of me gets stronger
People will live for longer and prosper
Beyond your years there'll still be tears
I can't yet take away all of your fears
So so press on says science
There may be unintended consequence
But without knowledge
We're left in darkness
With only our limited sense to guide us
What if I get closer and closer
To knowing it all but never go over
For knowing it all there's none to discover
No little facts still left to uncover
Then nothing to do but get lazy and fat
And no longer will people even care about facts
The mind will react
And I'll get attacked
As if it was science that caused your collapse
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4. |
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If I had a lot of money I'd buy a big house and swimming pool and I'd invite you too
If I had a lot of money I would not buy a car unless it came with a chauffeur too
If I had a lot of money I'd pay a lot of tax
If I had a lot of money I'd pay for everything in cash
If I had a lot of money I'd retire now and never look back
Oh we could've had some fun
We could stay 'til the job is done
We could party 'til the morning come
Oh we could've had some fun
If I had a lot of power I'd know that with it comes a great responsibility
If I had a lot of power I'd make the BNP stand for Be Nice to People only
If I had a lot of power I'd have a lot to lend
If I had a lot of power I'd make everyday the weekend
If I had a lot of power I'd still find a way to mess it all up in the end
Oh we could've had some fun
We could stay 'til the job is done
We could party 'til the morning come
Oh we could've had some fun
If I had a lot of time more than I could ever need or ever use
If I had a lot of time I could give some back to people who do not
If I had a lot of time I'd sow a lot of seeds
If I had a lot of time I'd smoke a lot of weed
If I had a lot of time I still wouldn't see everything I'd wanted to see
Oh we could've had some fun
We could stay 'til the job is done
We could party 'til the morning come
Oh we could've had some fun
But I have a lot of friends so there's always a sofa to sleep on
And cause I have a lot of friends there will always be a shoulder for me to lean on
Now some of these friends they make a lot of noise
And all of these friends both the girls and the boys
They all can depend on this single truth
That's that we all are we all are
Oh we're all gonna have some fun
We're gonna stay 'til the job is done
And we will party 'til we see the sun
Oh we're gonna have some fun
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5. |
Maybe I Maybe You
04:30
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Everybody's gonna have their own problems
You and we were just the same
I didn't think it'd really work out this way
People said we were good together
All our friends were happy for us
I only wish we'd have ended a better way
Maybe I
Made you cry
For all those times
When I felt so messed up I did not know what to do
I didn't like to see you angry
Though I could've done more for you
Now you can as you please
What was mine was once yours forever
Could've been spectacular
I guess now its six and two threes
Maybe I
Made you cry
For all those times
When I felt so messed up I did not know what to do
And maybe you
Hurt me too
But it's what we do
From here that counts to whether we make up or not
Sittin on the ash of emotion
Glory days are truly gone
Never knew really how much was at stake
Maybe I
Made you cry
For all those times
When I felt so messed up I did not know what to do
And maybe you
Hurt me too
But it's what we do
From here that counts to whether we make up or not
Will we make up or not
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6. |
The Time Machine
04:52
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I would like to discover
A new way to be
A world like no other
Where we can be free
I fail to recall how
it got so messed up
Was it on purpose
Or just my dumb luck
Why'd we have to keep secrets
Keep a chain round the past
Why'd we have to discover
The biggest lies last
Why do I still remember
How we burned and crashed
And I left it too late, to reciprocate
But I'd still take you back
And I have a theory
Yeah I have a view
I have some pet hates
And I know you do too
Like thinking too deeply
About the future of us
Or treating you cheaply
Shoulda made more of a fuss
But why'd we have to spread rumours
About our hates and our fears
Kind of thing will destroy us
Eats away at the years
Why did we ever fight so
Why'd we go on attack
And I want to escape, but it may be too late
Why can't we just go back
I could build a machine
So we could all start again
And I could stay or could leave
But I guess that all would depend
On if you would have me
In one time or not
I'd ask if you missed me
Or if you forgot
So why'd we have to keep jumping
Through our space and time
Why'd we have to revisit
All of your faults and mine
Can I not just tell you
All the lessons I learned
And it's only because, I want you to love
That I won't return
I won't return
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7. |
To Dust
05:35
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Suicide bombers that the news transmits
None of this'll matter when the meteor hits
Garden parties and fancy hats
The browns kill the whites and the whites kill the blacks
Propaganda and racist prose
None of this'll matter once Yellowstone blows
The race for oil or the race for life
Will be inconsequential when ET arrives
Down here is where I'll live and die
People watch the passers by
Shake a hand or make a fist
It doesn't get realer that's this
Take stock of all the ups and downs
Play you all my stupid sounds
Work and rest and make a date
To love and hate and propagate
Tracing ourselves in the family tree
Won't mean much come world war three
YouTube hits and Facebook friends
One day the bacteria will take over again
Holy war and holy verse
Wont save us when the weather gets worse
I wish we'd take a longer view
To keep our species pushing through
Down here is where I'll live and die
People watch the passers by
Shake a hand or make a fist
It doesn't get realer that's this
Take stock of all the ups and downs
Play you all my stupid sounds
Work and rest and make a date
To love and hate and procreate
I know I'm not alone, no I'm not alone
And oh, if I only could, wouldn't it be nice
To live in an atheist paradise
Cause down here is where it all goes on
The earth to which we all belong
We'll fight over a scrap of land
Or scrap of text I don't understand
This earth is where I call my home
And millions more have come and gone
And I will be just one of them
Almost too much to comprehend
There could be more out there in space
But far away in a distant place
For now we have this ball of stone
Upon which our whole world revolves
It all will be consumed by rot
So use the time that you have got
Be sad to go but if I must
Cause all of us return to dust
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Neil By Mouth Stevenage, UK
My name Neil
I play music
I drink tea
I poor English skills
But not all three
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