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Iris
04:29
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Light came through
when I fell for you
Dark corridors
and in the end
the light behind you
Iris
you let it through
You’re the light
that I try to hold
A beacon in a dark street
A snowflake
I try to keep
intact
forever
falling
And even if you go
don’t shut the door
You’re my Iris
forevermore
Don’t shut the door
Don’t shut the door
Don’t shut the door
Don’t shut the door
The light behind you
Iris
you let it through
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How much does your dough weigh
in the ending ever after
Infallible profit
instead of
streets with laughter
Are you cashing in
in finance transactions
Are you making dimes
in healthcare and banking
Insert your heart
and try to make a trade
The flowing blood
Instalment Credit Transaction
You build your home
with bones
You little boy
Is there an internal rate
for your holiday mansion
Is there a force majeure
in the rest ever after
Where does your interest lie
in helping the fractured
Just move them away
to the ending ever after
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3. |
Humanoid
03:38
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Extra-terrestrial cereal
for the humanoid
from another grain
for spaceboy
The spaceship is waiting
Waiting to take me home
At half past three
I’ll be gone
Heading home
I’ll be gone
Extra-terrestrial
sunshine
moonlight
bus rides
Who brought an alien
to a dogfight
a stoplight
a party
The alien hides
behind the shades
and the black long coat
and the dark hair
He’s well cut
but far from home
Beside the spaceship
the queue is long
It’s been taking humans
one by one
for far too long
It’s been taking humans
one by one
for far too long
The alien gets away
and just drives on
Listening to alien songs
from spaceship 1
For a little while
he holds his breath
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4. |
1984
04:12
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Karate kicks
in bookshop queues
Crying children
on pay-per-view
The working class is undead
and we’re the isolated youth
Such unholy theft
Holding the sensitive
under arrest
And have you gone soft
my boy
painting flowers on the wall
1983
will never come again
Subway wrestlers
coming for you
to take down
the isolated youth
Oh 1983
it missed me
Oh, I see a tear in your eye
greeted by the cat’s smile
The mice cry
There’s no place
for loving fools
like you and me
in the underground seats
1983
speak of the devil
Dark resemblance
and are we
dolls or dogs
Can you choose
The choir sings
and she screams
The choir sings
and she screams
The choir sings
and she screams
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Ferris Wheel
05:07
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One more time
for the children in the back
Even if I lose everything
Even when I fall
One more time
for the children in the back
Ready to lose
Ready to lose
Ready to lose
I’m spinning for you
my friends
a ferris wheel
Starting again
and I’ll do so ’til the end
until it all
starts again
One more time
for the bleeding boys
Even if I lose it all
Even when I fall
One more time
before the heart attack
The machine keeps spinning
The machine keeps spinning
The machine keeps spinning
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