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Alone Together
03:58
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We are alone together
Woke up in mourning
Found out I'd been married
Suddenly unable to untether
Sat at its table
Studied its face
Got up and wandered around to
Learn the layout of the place
We are alone together
The last thing that I wanted
Was to go chasing my regret around
So I tethered it to my drunkenness
And tied another one on
There is no tragedy to unite us
Just those little deaths we face when we meet
Then get back on our feet
There is one word I would use
To describe us, and
One thing we can hold to remind us
We are alone together
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Cruel Trick
04:34
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If I were loyal to you
You wouldn't know what to do
If you were loyal to me
You wouldn't be free
Free to turn on a dime
While spending every last one
Free to turn your means to ends
Your lovers to friends
Every fence that you're swinging for has got to mend
And it's a cruel cruel trick
In a dirty dirty game
When you love someone so much
You got a reputation
That precedes your name
But you will never be known
Until you have been reduced to touch
So I have come to be reduced
If you were loyal to me
You wouldn't know who to be
If I were loyal to you
It wouldn't be true
When you touch me
My secrets
They come racing to the fore
I have
So much to say
But I'm too busy being yours
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Take my body out from the equation
So there isn't any doubt that I am God
And turn me upside down and see what drains right out
Caught up in the illusion, caught up in your dream
Touch the ground coz you found out that the ground was there
For you to touch
You can not turn it off so fast
You can not find a way to make it last
Let the world pass by
You know it's gonna keep on spinning
And he who sets the rules decides on who is winning
The ants, they march along,
And we're just as real as them
But the fattest of queens can not fathom the truth
The signs are all there but she has no proof
You can not turn it off so fast
You can not find a way to make it last
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The machines wouldn't leave us alone
We had forgotten how to be without them
Took them in and became their home
Cannot remember if we'd ever known
Grew into a living city
The prototype of new creation
Anywhere I want to be
Everyone is always with me
Everything is always on me
Everybody's thoughts inside me
Evidence has clearly shown
We are addicted to the energy
The safest thing we've ever known
The allure of fire without the blackness of coal
The pleasures of the fucking without the burden of a baby
The spirit of the dance with your feet up
The urges of the appetite no worry for the belly
You were sold magic, not freedom
Still it was easy to believe them
Eyes down, heads bowed
Hold it with reverence
Eyes
Down
Head
Bowed
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Got one foot in the door
Got one foot in your mouth
One part of you's going nowhere
The other part's going south
Oh
You did not do this to me
You did not break my machine
You know I've been wrong before
But I have never been so sure
You did not do this to me
You have got one foot in the door
And you have got one foot in my mouth
Most of me is within
But part of me is living without
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6. |
Masquerade
03:42
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What am I gonna do
When the lights turn on
I don't you anymore
I don't know what I need
There are all kinds of people who'd line up
To be with you
So why am I turning away?
Why does a man break free?
Sometimes a master plan
Masquerades as a shot in the dark
Sometimes a shot in the dark
Is the only thing we have
Sometimes we try too hard
Trying to do what's best
And sometimes a masquerade is
All that's left
Is it all that's...?
What am I gonna do
When the lights go out?
I known my way around
But I don't know what's really there
When I woke up this morning
I felt all the weight of the system
A thousand pounds of expectations
Two tons of better times
Saltation
Dancing like dust in the wind
Saltation
Out of control in the wild
You're the best thing I ever had
Now I'm just going through motions
Blood runs thicker than water, maybe
But blood never made any oceans
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I'm drinking your words
All my bets are hedged
Everything you've said
I am willing
All your friends are dead
You're no good to them
But I am thrilling
I'm drinking your words
Cuz I don't really mind it
You've stored an enormous cache of
Well-intentioned lies
And I know where you'd find it
I've plied you enough from these stores of mine
I am yours to have
Take me while you can
I am giving
Over and again
Over and again
Over and over and over again until the sentences are spilling out
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Suicide is fashion now
You've got Cobain's note on your shirt
You wear it to your dealer's house
And change it before you get to work
Irony is wisdom now
That's the thing you wear on your sleeve
If you can't find something you're wild about, child
Save your money, go buy something you really believe
If I took the tongue out your mouth
Tell me what would you sing about
If I stole the spine out your back
Tell me what you'd do about that
You could have answers
But you chose the facts
You've got me convinced
Of your religion
I am convinced
That your religion is just shared indignance
But what's the difference
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9. |
My Flesh Is Weak
03:07
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I know my flesh is weakness
I know my flesh is weak
So I'm old now
With my soul spilling out my skin
And the thread of my story
Was a patch on a hole
I'm a sail that never caught the wind
I know my flesh is weakness
I know my flesh is weak
I know my flesh is weak
Because your touch gives strength to me
When we were younger
Everything seemed possible
Everything seemed probably
But time turned our bodies against us
Draped our skin right off our bones
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10. |
The Planet Is Dying
04:51
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The meaning of music
No signal at all
The planet is dying
But you've got a car
Daddy is coming
To take it away
The planet is dying
And you have a say
The senator's sons
The fortunate ones
Now it is you
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11. |
Walking Alone
03:40
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When I walk out that door
It's all gonna change
It won't be all sky
And it won't be all rain
In the murky black depths
When you cast out your net
You don't have a choice
You just see what you get
When you were out there walking alone
You should've known
And you couldn't help but make it your home
That's how it goes, you should've known
When you were out there walking alone
You should've known it wouldn't be easy
Should've known it wouldn't be fair
When you were out there walking alone
I was floating out in the air
When the air is thick with possibility
It's possible I don't know what I want
What I want, it changes all the time
So time will tell me everything this time
I've got this odd memory
Can't tell where I've been
If I saw myself now
I wouldn't recognize him
When I see my reflection
It's only perception
Cast down from the depths
Beyond recollection
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Bijou Noir Los Angeles, California
Alt-pop singer-songwriter.
Moody electro productions, big
choruses.
Bijou Noir is a genre-defying mix of intelligent pop, post-punk, new wave, electronic, and indie rock, with a strong lyrical center.
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