1. |
Superghost
03:40
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Oh Superghost!
Open your mouth
Swallow the road
We laughed as we drive and
Drive as you choke
Open the ground
Under us now
A moment suspended
Oesophagus
Tunnels of trees
Shadows of leaves
Your hand on my kneecap
Mine on the seat
Future debris
Isn’t that me?
Then gravity lurches
Our smiles get smudged together
Wipe it off
Little hands don’t hold
Ours path’s a maze of static
Waking up
Which way did you go?
But in the bright light of death
Come pull me through the fabric
I never wanted to be quite so vulnerable
If this summer, well hey!
I cannot feel the sunlight
Or all the dear sensations that I’ve come to love
And through the garden of this vague
Involuntary half-light
I disconnect but wonder
I don’t even know
If this is summer or hey!
If there is somehow to stay
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2. |
Shapes Appearing
04:44
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Shapes appearing I don’t know where to start
We said our sorries but it’s all too much
Shapes appearing coming from every door
To fill your head with gloomy
Eight frame movies
I was your car when you were sick
But you just drove us both off of another cliff
Shapes appearing I don’t know what they mean
Their faces seem familiar
Frames off-kilter
I was your car when we were real
But I just pushed my head into the steering wheel
Into the darkness left in there
Will we meet again?
I wish I knew we will
Tapes electric covet your every word
I heard the sounds repeating
Chambers beating
Cages full of creatures we used to be
We watched the breath escaping
Eyes dilating
Heavens you are so wonderful
But if we can’t do this now I guess we never will
Don’t let this pull you down with me
Please forget the person I thought I could be
Heavens you are so wonderful
But if we can’t do this now I guess we never will
Don’t let this pull you down with me
Please forget the person I thought I could be
Heavens you are so wonderful
But if we can’t do this now I guess we never will
Don’t let this pull you down with me
Please forget the person I thought I could be
Heavens you are so wonderful
But if we can’t do this now I guess we never will
Don’t let this pull you down with me
Please forget the person I thought I could be
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Over the rooftops I saw it pouring
Down from the mountains like nothing forming
Black avalanches will come
Drink up your wine and be grateful
Darkness will find us all
Out on the pavements out hearts are lifted
But from above you the map is shifted
Leaving your legs in a swamp
As your heart sinks you remember
Darkness will find us all
These correlations of hope and sadness
Pulled by the moon and its awful madness
Don’t think that it’s going to stop
Until the planet’s vacated
Darkness will find us all
Over the rooftops I saw it pouring
Down from the mountains like nothing forming
Black avalanches will come
Drink up your wine and be grateful
Darkness will find us all
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4. |
Forest of Bones
04:14
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The days pass by
In silence by your side
The plastic cups are piling up by you
Ride this locomotive forward
Through this blasted forest, we run
Lightning links the branches to us
Electricity in every operation
Oh this forest of bones
Ride this locomotive forward
Through this blasted forest, we run
Lightning links the branches to us
Electricity in every operation
Stop this missing come home
Find a garden
Plant a forest of bones
In the background
It will harden to stone
Are you hungry
Are you missing your sleep
Do you feel that?
Hear the surgeon’s gloves squeak?
Through the garden
Through the forest of bones
Fingers crawling
They won’t catch me, Oh No!
As you watch them
With their hands in my ribs
Do you wonder
Is it better like this?
The days pass by
The fireworks glow
Inside the glass of your window
But we won’t celebrate this year
I take my fingers from behind your ear
And step out there where friends converse
Hit glasses and assume the worst
As I appear inside the doorway
Their eyes hang so low
They know it’s “no”
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5. |
First Lull
02:57
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Stuart Stuart go
Leaping off the precipice like I don’t know
Distant winter’s glow
I thought I heard your voice come through the radio
Stuart Stuart no
Don’t wait up for me I’m never coming home
Out where mountains grow
I’ll be in the attic I’ll be made of snow
Standing up and walking across the floor
Becomes the hardest part of it all
Standing up and what it really means to really leave
I can’t be that strong
Suddenly the only thing that might occur to me
Is that I can run
Blurrily out into the street
Convincingly pretend to be free
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6. |
Magnets
04:12
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When’s it over?
When’s it over?
When’s it all over?
When’s it all over?
When's it over?
When’s it over?
いつ終わる？
いつ終わる？
When's it over?
When’s it over?
いつ終わる？
いつ終わる？
When's it over?
When’s it over?
いつ終わる？
いつ終わる？
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7. |
Meredith Bites the Earth
01:58
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If you’d seen the edges of the land
And stared across the blankness
You’d have seen it
Back towards the monster
As it fell
You could’ve been so proud of me
What?
Nothing
OK
If you’d seen it
I stayed out of the searchlights
Snuck around
The way that we would sneak between our gardens
But now I look for footprints of our friends
And watch the way the light bends
And the heat sinks
Well if you’d seen it
Meredith bites the Earth
Meredith bites the Earth
Meredith bites the Earth
Meredith bites the Earth
If you’d seen the edges of the land
And pulled the curtain back now
You’d have seen it
Me inside its ribcage
Mad as trains
I took its heart between my teeth and bit down hard
If you’d seen the edges of the land
And stared across the blankness
You’d have seen it
Back towards the monster
As it fell
Into the devil’s basin or something
OK
What?
If you’d seen it
Meredith bites the Earth
Meredith bites the Earth
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8. |
Fantoft
03:52
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Recalcitrant, I am pathetic in the next room
And though I try to speak the air remains unmoved
Our trilobites go dancing up in the pleiades
In parallel positions out antennae
All our lives get smudged together
Whether we like it or now
Big black hole up above
Pistons fire, pigments blush
All our lives in all directions
Running around like we’re god
This is me in the snow
After our engines blow
Watching flies dance above
This collection of dust
Lay your eggs in my cuts
Wipe your eyes then take off
But what if I just stood up
Shake these leave from my guts
Pull the landscape in half
Draw these curtains apart
But I just slip back under the floating grass
These constellations cover the ceiling
I wasn’t watching what you were seeing
I wasn’t watching what you weren’t doing and
I wasn’t watching what you weren’t being
I’ll never come back
I’ll never, it’s true
There’ll be no place to come back to
I promise you I’ll tear you limb from every limb you grew
Don’t worry, it’s true self destruction
I’ll never come back yeah
All our lives get smudged together
Whether we like it or not
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9. |
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If this is summer or hey!
If there is somehow to stay
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10. |
For the Lulls
06:05
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Stuart Stuart no
Last one out the fire escape is (I don’t know)
Stuart Stuart no
Don’t hold onto me, I am an aeronaut
Merry Christmas Emily
Flying Battle Lulls 500
Through the tapes and tapestries
Pitching up and yawing eastward
Eating every cloud and inhibition
I never dreamt I could be so bad
Merry Christmas Emily
First one to forget themselves
Am I the weight you’re carrying?
First one to forget themselves
For the lulls, for the lulls I tried
To keep my self from decomposing
Ramune Ramune no ice
I’ll see you all when this is over
Longitude
Sorritude
Stuart Stuart no
Last one out the fire escape is (I don’t know)
Stuart Stuart no
Don’t hold onto me, I am an aeronaut
Stuart Stuart no
Last one out the fire escape is (I don’t know)
Stuart Stuart no
Don’t hold onto me, I am an aeronaut
Stuart Stuart no
Last one out the fire escape is (I don’t know)
Stuart Stuart no
Don’t hold onto me, I am an aeronaut
Stuart Stuart no
Last one out the fire escape is (I don’t know)
Stuart Stuart no
Don’t hold onto me, I am an aeronaut
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Frozen roller coasters tangled in the sky
If I ignore them then I’ll be alright
Parts I can’t remember
Parts I can’t explain
But in my head it says
Let’s just pretend
That everything in this series of events started again
Could we just pick up our parts and keep going?
Let’s just pretend that something I did or said
Could make us feel happy again
Could we just forget this blip and start over?
Frozen roller coasters tangled in the sky
If I ignore them then I’ll be alright
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12. |
Tivoli
02:28
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The sparks come raining from the clouds
A chorus of electric mouths
With anguish caverning the ceiling
Of the sky that you keep mining
For similes and metaphor
For everything I left beyond
The chorus of this mountain mass
Of smashed up memories I take back
My mind is buried here with yours
My mind is buried here with yours
A girls performs a resurrection
Through a third dimension
In this cold attack the hand
That holds the pen
Instill a fear in Ben
‘Cause I am not afraid of death
It’s better than the vacuum in your head
Where you have built me up a fortress
And I’ve brought it crumbling to nothing
My mind is buried here with yours
My mind is buried here with yours
My mind is buried here with yours
My mind is buried here with yours
And as the crows collect your brains
Quietly implodes the crowntain
A monster falling inwards
To a single dot
And as the darkness vips away
To be replaced by something
And you could only know
How much just something means
If you’ve been with me always
If you’re with me all the way
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Merry Christmas Tokyo, Japan
Merry Christmas are a ten-legged festive wonder tank.
Yuki - Vocals, piano and hand bells
Ben - Vocals and
guitar
Joe-Joe - Bass, hand bells and vocals
Matt - Drums, melodica/pianica, hand bells and (megaphone) vocals
Barihi - Trombone and glockenspiel
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