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Colossal Youth
03:38
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The enigma of a day arises before me
as i see these tall white buildings
and their shadows upon my veins
In the waiting room of death
Each second on the clock sounds like a boulder
falling down the cliff
Faces and places i used to know
Now ghosts of a past so holy
and I expect the day
light floods my room
and i can throw
the house out the window
You don't know me
and you'll never get to know me!
What i've been through
Colossal youth
A hundred years ago
An elevator full of statues
going down my leg
to my achilles heel
This moss growing beneath my eyelids
makes me see a forest
each time i dream
I roam like a ghost
from coast to coast
and i forgot my ID
in some beach somewhere
so i expect the day
light floods my room
and i can throw
the house out the window
You don't know me
and you'll never get to know me!
What i've been through
Colossal youth
A hundred years ago
The big clock stands tall
where no other building is at
I found a red couch
half buried in the sand
and sitting on it, i watch the days go by
I try to remain calm
as i stand in the eye of the hurricane
Fear eats the soul
and somedays
i just feel like running
Take me down to the bottom of the river
i give myself up to the tide of fate
even if only for today
Everyday it's the calm before the storm
this shack is bound to fall
Colossal Youth
a hundred years in the future
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2. |
Makeshift Tourist
05:13
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Straight out the womb
and into the fire
We came out of graves
with flowers for algernon
A train full of guitars
crashed straight into your eyeball
Dropped into the world
with no rhyme or reason
Someday, the angels will blow a trumpet
and this time it's gonna be me
The plane already crashed
but i'm still flying
I propel towards the future
like a soviet missile
Yeah, a point blank bullet
to the heart of the 3rd of May
I seen the end of the world
and i don't care anymore
I'm the makeshift tourist
i'll be here
only for a while
I'm not sure if there's an end
to it all
but nothing remains the same forever
I'm a ghost in the daylight
you can see me
but i'll be gone soon
so don't make a vow
don't make it
because i will break it
Nothing remains the same forever
Nothing remains the same forever
Monuments made out of playing cards
blown away by the wind
Pluck the golden string
of an indifferent universe
with the power of consciousness
You think it all matters so much
and you might be right
Fuck anybody that says otherwise
I say, if the universe is gray
i'm gonna paint that shit gold
imma put lipstick on it
and a wig too
We're the ones that hold the sword
and the magnifying glass
Why the fuck are you waiting
for somebody else
to measure the value of your existence?
A tombstone's worth nothing by itself
but it has a corpse beneath
with a whole story behind
I'm not sure if there's an end
to it all
but nothing remains the same forever
I'm a ghost in the daylight
You can see me
but i'll be gone soon
So don't make a vow
don't make it
because i'll break it
Nothing remains the same forever
Nothing remains the same forever
Well, Lemaitre's eyes shined
when general relativity was discovered
and then there was light
he said to himself
"there once was a day without a yesterday"
and he saw it as validation
for his beliefs
None of us are sooo sure
Well, my greatuncle scrobbled some gibberish
in the back of a matchbox
without really knowing what it was
He pretended it was arabic
then presented it to a muslim friend
and the friend said
the letters read:
"God is a mist of colors"
Well, none of us know what the fuck was that
I don't know if the universe cares
i've got reasons to believe it does
i've got reasons to believe it doesn't
but i'm just the makeshift tourist
I'm not here to decide any defintive truth
I'm a sightseer of mankind's timeline
A poor wayfaring stranger
travelling through this world below
Only thing i know is
Nothing remains the same forever
and if it doesn't
then the end don't last forever itself
The end is just a euphemism
for a new beginning
Nothing remains the same forever
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3. |
Catacombs Of My Past
03:08
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Sometimes i think that i'm alone when i'm really not
and sometimes
i'm actually alone
I don't know which is which anymore
but i got the ghosts
of all the people i've ever loved
on my back
and they sing
I'll never forget you
and i love you
beyond time and distance
Everywhere is nowhere to be found
and nowhere's where i'm at, baby
Although i've got my footprints
marked on my flesh
i'm still looking for the catacombs of my past
Trying to find where Bernal Volta died
I mistook a compass for a watch
and now i'm further away from the core
but the ghosts keep on singing
and i love them so
so until i find the answer
c'mon boys
keep on singing
I'll never forget you
and i love you
beyond time and space
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4. |
Vampire Samurai
02:35
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In the dead of the night
a sword shun so brightly
He leaves a trail of black feathers
wherever he goes
He's the vampire samurai
Wait long enough and he'll come around
with a smile from ear to ear
because he knows the time is nigh
No trumpets and no fireworks
he slides across the horizon
like a discreet ship in times of war
An agent of fate
Nobody knows
so the only thing we can do
is guess
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Hmmmmm
I've been down this road before
I dug the shape of those eyes in my face
All for the sake of a simple memory
That i left behind
Hmmmmm
This wandering life of mine
is only mine and no one else's
I've shed my skin so many times
that i've lost the count
Reincarnation highway
is gonna take me back home
Even if i don't know
if there's such a thing as home
Hmmmmm
I don't know the map very well
but i'm an expert at getting lost
All for the sake of a reason to live
Getting lost is life's essence
Hmmmmm
I came upon a tornado
I said "Hi" and we shook hands
He was glad... very glad
to find someone that didn't hide from him
Reincarnation highway
is gonna take me back home
Even if i don't know
if there's such a thing as home
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As i gaze upon the dawn
Something rises from within
I feel like i could
punch the grim reaper
I know that one day
i must die
but today
that doesn't matter
80 years or so
it'll be enough
I got infinity in a jar
and not even death
can take it away
from me
Today's the day
tomorrow, i don't know
This feeling might be gone soon
I gazed upon fate's eyes
and i spat on it's face
Fuck guilt
i wish i don't feel sorry
in the future
I believe it's all cycles
Nothing remains the same forever
so when you die,
more than a billion million years will pass
and we'll meet here again
saying the same words
And if i'm wrong
Today, i'm OK with that too
I got business on planet earth
Regardless of the indifference
of the cold, cold space
and i know
the sky doesn't care about it
but if it matters to me
it matters
and that's that
Tell the cosmos
i won't shut the fuck up
I'm gonna hide in death a while
just to come back someday
You won't get rid of me that easy, boy
Once brought into existence,
i cannot cease to exist
I'm the stone in your shoe
I'm the killer of the truth
I'm the rising sun that comes forth
in the middle of midnight
If tomorrow i'm a coward,
then that won't be me
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