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1. |
Grayscale Rainbows
04:13
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Escape down
Grayscale rainbows
At the end
I find
What we left behind
If unicorns were real
I could tell you
How I feel
Ooh my friend
Then you woke up
What the thunder
Needs
If unicorns were real
I could tell you
How I feel
Wonder under the mane
The rainbow horn
Sketching it out I feel it
Rushing outlined
It's presence
Defined
It's exciting
It's inviting
I wanna tell you
All about it
If unicorns were real
I could tell you
How I feel
I wanna be alone
The storm stops
A lot is lost
I just need another cause
Say I've been coming down
The whole time
Dust in my eyes
Pass along by
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2. |
Suck Seed
03:48
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When you first met me
I was playing
Short stop for the Lord
And I'm not gonna undress you
I'm not gonna go overboard
I've learned from my mistakes
I lifted up the veil
I'm living under a rock now
And I succeed I don't fail
I suck
Seed
I suck
I succeed
Like a bird like a urn
Like a no one
Like a thing you
Wouldn't be
Like a place that is
Being burned down
Inside of me
I'm not the guy
I'm not girl
I'm not the winner
At the end
I'm in the middle
I'm underground
I'm not your
Best friend
I suck
Seed
At being
A guy in need
I'm not the guy
Not the guy...
Don't choose me
Or abuse me
Aye
Just a thing
You put on top of another
Thing
Hiding behind the sky
I fall down
I cry, I ask why
I suck
Seed
At being
A thing with things in
Harm's way
All the day I heard you say
I got my mouth in front of me
And my hands
Well my hands are behind me
Cuz I succeed
At not being the
Thing you need
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3. |
On the Inside
03:38
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V1:
Listen to the earth and air
Open to time
Sittin in the window chair
I don't mind
It's undefined
I was goin with the flow
Now I don't know
Yeah I don't know
CHORUS:
I'm on the inside
I'm only half right
I'm on the inside
Again
Waiting for the light to dim
A new ideal
Tomorrow is a phantom limb
I can feel
But it's not real
Thinking I was someone else
A pseudonym
For what's within
See it sitting on the shelf
The deadly sin
Pick it up again
CHORUS
CHORUS
Looking in the only place
It would never be
Always thinking of your face
Under a canopy
Of banana trees
Goin there and back again
A new ideal
Gonna break the seal
Tomorrow is a phantom limb
I can feel
But it's not real
CHORUS
V1
CHORUS
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4. |
Art Party
03:53
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Sad days and Thursdays
Are my days off
I don't think I love you
More than I piss you off
Like this it goes
Baby in the end
We will know
But before then you just gotta
Sit down and watch the show
Hey hey hey you gotta sit down
Sometimes and watch the show
I said now
I wo-wowow-won't go
When I'm feeling weird
And I know I just need to sit
And talk to your plants again
Well, you don't know
You don't learn that dance, hun
We could, we shake
And we could, we could rake
But nobody wants to
Eat that salad
Sometimes you gotta
Unwind but no no no
Because you gotta rewind
And it's time to unreel
Reality and I don't think
I can do it myself
Would you do it with me?
Would you do it with me?
'Cause oh, sometimes you gotta
Sit and watch the show
I said oh
Things get mixed up, you know?
I said sometimes you gotta
Sit down and watch the show
Sometimes you think you know
But you don't
It goes like this, yeah
Sit down
Sit down with me
Put on your nightgown
And frown with me
We can call it an Art Party
We can invite the neighbors
And your friends
I don't think I want to make a Facebook event
But I think everyone will come again
Yeah yeah yeah
We call it the show
You know yeah yeah yeah
We call it the show
Sometimes that's
All you know
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5. |
When You Woke Up Today
05:13
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Creases of language
The body can write
I read it before you said it
You wrote it last night
Oooh it's leaded
That's why it rings
Before we were wedding
We used to swing on swings
My eyes are foretelling
I tell you why
Oh oh oh
That's the way we try
Creases told me
Before you said it was true
Oh you know the body can write
That's what the body can do
When you woke up today
Did you promise
To stay that way?
Oh I read it
Last night
When you're asleep
Your body wriggles and writhes
I say ah ah ah
Of all the things you say
Why did you say them
Anyway?
You say 'em anyway
Yeah yeah hey hey hey
Yeah yeah yeah hey hey hey
When you woke up today
Did you think that you
Would always be
That way?
Ah hey!
Oh when you woke up today
Oh what did you think
You would say?
Oh Wanna be all right
Would it be just ok
Oh when you woke up
Today
Day hey hey
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6. |
Don't Eat Me
03:41
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You gotta choose
You can't lose
It's not a cruise
It's a destination
Two paths diverged in the wood
And would you choose
The left or the right
Well I mean
I ran into the wilderness
Talking with the animals
I said "hey" and "thank you"
Please don't eat me
Not for me and not for fun
And not just to prove you're some kind of freak
Please don't eat me
I asked you
Would you please
Don't eat me
The other side of the week
Inside the month
It's kinda like a leap year
Strung together
All those leap days
They got nothing on me
They got nothing
But a grasshopper leg to eat
And I asked them once again
I said, I said
Here's how I say it, I said
Please
Ah, don't eat me
Don't eat me
I don't tase very good
And I don't feel much better
It would be a drag
If I had to put myself in a body bag
With the parts that you didn't eat
Please would you be kind to me
Please would you be kind
Kinder
When you remind her
Please
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7. |
Back to Your Place
03:17
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There's just a little moonlight
Left in the glass
All night I've been thinking of your...
Your mind
And your face
Baby, let's go back to your place
Ooh I spent all day
Down at the track
Sometimes I don't know why
These guys keep coming back
Can't you motherfuckers
See your houred race?
Oh baby
Let's go back to your place
Go back
I can ask you
To go
Anyway hey hey hey
Well, baby, it's just a question but
Maybe it's also an answer
Ooh let's go
Back to your place
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8. |
Short and Sweet
01:52
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9. |
Invisible Questions
03:36
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Invisible whispers
In your diary
Invisible questions
You never ask me
Oh no oh oh no
Outlined in chalk
They found the invisible man's mark
He left his sign
A logo perhaps
Like a hobo diagram
Explaining why and how
The world could be better
Not just for one but for all
This is a special place
You can't erase
Inside the feeling
Divide the consequences
Inside the feeling
I participate
When you want we can decide
To join us
You don't have to join us now
But we could take some time
We could take our minds
Inside or outside
In your mind or mine
I try I unwind
I die it's unkind
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10. |
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Oh love
Is the better part of a hard time
And oh I can't think of anyone
I'd rather not be beside
You tonight
Well it feels half...
Friday night's enough for you
And oh love
It's half more than
Decided decay ay!
Better be why yeah
You better beware
I got haim
Nineh own of, of a man
And I got out of the mer
And a yard
What we became
And oh love
It's the better part of a hard time
Oh I can't decide
What
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11. |
I Decide
02:38
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Trip the deja vu diary
Until I realized
I had no memory
Uh uh oh, I decide
CHORUS:
Should I lay it all out
Like Herman Hesse
Or obfuscate
My confession?
I decided perhaps
I could change the way I feel
Like those people
Who don't like me
Navigate the waters
Of the psyche
I decide to backtrack
Maybe I'll find my keys
Maybe I'll find the love of my life
Maybe I'll find a cool diner
Maybe I'll find a note on a napkin
CHORUS
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12. |
Two Can Play
03:38
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Two can play at that game
In fact it's kind of nice
I don't know all the rules
But I like to roll the dice
What number is that?
When I was just an egg
I thought everywhere
Things would
Be the same
And that's all right
And that's all right
Cuz two can play at that game
In fact it's pretty nice
I don't know all the rules
But I like to roll the dice
Yeah I like to roll the dice
Like to roll the dice when I go...
Two can play at that game
In fact it's pretty nice
You don't know all the rules
Even though I told you twice
I say I'm just trying
I'd love to get out
Cuz two can play at that game
Two can play at that game
In fact it's kinda nice
Don't have to tell me twice
Don't have to tell me twice
You don't have to use that voice
I think it's kind of just all right
Oh maybe it's all just
A bunch of noise
Two can play at that game
In fact it's kind of nice
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13. |
Dagger
05:25
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She had a dagger
Dangling off her eye
I was up for anything that night
Anything that night
She had a boyfriend
Hanging on her arm
She said are you up for anything tonight
And I just kinda shrugged
Ha ha ha
I guess it's all a game
I guess it's just Thursday night
I guess it's all the same
I ain't gonna put up a fight
No not quite
I stepped out on the porch and got
I got high
I thought while a while
She had eyes with reason
And hanging off her chin
Was the symbol of the season
I guess that's why I said
I guess that's why I said
I guess that's why
I stepped out on the veranda
It was only Thursday night
I pulled out my eyebrows
And then I got high
I guess that's why
I won't put up a fight
It's only Thursday night
What they say at
I guess time is relative
And I've heard that the world is round
And some people don't even know
How to tell what time it is
Oh you know it
It's just you outgrow it
I-I-I-I...
Ah
Then we left
The hostess fell asleep
I walked home
And then I had this dream
If you don't remember
You can drive it along
It was moments before I knew that
I devolved
I only thought of the dagger
I forgot about her arm
I keep telling myself tomorrow's Friday
And some people say I'm not wrong
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14. |
Lost in a Book
04:07
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Elation
Is this
Distress, Elation
Is this the best?
I, I
Came here before
I, I
Came here before
Is your
Wondrous friend here
Again?
Bark at the door
Feel the finger
In the cracks of the floor
The stone lifts up, it lifts up
Inside
The chamber
Inside
The anger
Distress, I leave you
Now
Your friend is here to show me
How
The cloak of the Darkness
Descends on the morn
They wonder, they wander
Why
The greatest thing that I could tell you
Was written long ago
Lost in a book
Why bring it up now?
Distress, Elation
Elation, Distress
Is this the elastic
That I like The best?
Who's that girl
Wandering upwards?
Levitate me
Now
The best
You can hope for
Is distress
Dissipation
And to the means
To the greens
We're not just
Fiends we are
Friends
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Lemon Thunder Seattle, Washington
All of these songs began with an improvised single take. We recorded many hours worth of weirdo songs, chose the best, and
assembled a Frankenstein's monster of live and dead recording techniques by mutating the arrangements, and enhancing them with cybernetic overdubs. The composition process torn asunder, this is the music of Lemon Thunder.
-- Brandon MacInnis and Jesse Reklaw
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