[Full album lyrics]
The Earth! The Heavens! The Sapient Stars!
The streetsides covered in sharp lines
Some rich man’s having his golden hour
We lay in the shadows of a billboard
That hung its head in shame.
The sneakthief has just been elected
But a pickpocket is powerless to the naked
Watch the guards shadowban the nameless
Somebody just escaped
I wish I could do the same
But all i have is
The earth, the heavens, the sapient stars
The earth, the heavens, the sapient stars
The earth, the heavens, the sapient stars
The earth, the heavens, the sapient stars
Secret Blue Trinket
They must have dropped me on my head aye
Feel like there’s something they’re not telling me
I’m putting fuzzy cuffs on clock hands
Blue never sounded so fun
Where two kinda feels like one
The wolf is a rabbit and we cuddle
Blue never sounded so fun
Truth is, I’m dying to outrun it
But I’ll need your breath
And all of your attention
Can we connect
Connect
Connect?
Uncanny valley with the ghosts
Feel like there’s something they’re not telling me
Give me some credit for the feng shui
Emulating human touch
Where two kinda feels like one
The wolf is a rabbit and we cuddle
Clean up before the flood
The difference is ever so subtle
But I’ll need your breath
And all of your attention
Can we connect
Connect
Connect?
Crush me in your hands
And tell me all your secrets
You freak, i‘ll see your mind undress
But I’ll need your breath
And all of your attention
Can we connect
Connect
Connect?
Sorry, the Theatre is Closed
Have you noticed the arteries of your city gushing viscous both ways?
Wait, they’re about to stand still in this alarming harmony
Watch a skyscraper of a handshake crush the outstretched hand, palms up
Watch a palladian handshake pulverise a clasp of prayer to fine powder
Now watch who sniffs the powder
Now watch who gets high
Now watch who pales heck to a frenzied paper mache of meaning
And who hammers posters rich in slogans to any skull that has the real estate,
Who pierces tongues with soundbites,
Dripping a generation in brand loyalty to the state of shock
Look again
See a trillion windows in as many pockets
See a view so particular you fall asleep stunned by it
See the spokes in a yuppies head that spin the speed of sound
See the monks chit-chat through tin-cans considering crypto
See a spider monkey strapped to a torture device, reading a feed of locker room comments on an ipad, listening to the nails of a curmudgeon scratching the chalkboard of his worst classroom memory, the smell of Dior Sauvage dry-humping his pineal gland
Until we hold lemonade stands accountable for the birth of capitalism
Until we hold ‘I don’t know’ accountable for the birth of imagination
Until we amplify the curbside warcry perpetually pregnant with revolution
Until someone suggests a better tactic than one million Mangiones
Better armed
With Tesla fucking bicycles
Until the pipelining psychopomp of memes abstracts itself into oblivion
To join conservative art and other oxymorons
Until we rake pearls from the footpath while someone sings ‘Mondays are the best’
Until we close the theatre with a sign saying ‘I’m sorry, the dress rehearsal was a disaster!’
Until orange jumpsuits become the garish costumes of a period drama
Until we put those executive orders through a paper shredder while the author still holds them
Until we strip naked the heck and absolve its sensitive flesh
Until we strip naked the heck and absolve its sensitive flesh
Falling at the Speed of Paper
Two eyes on a thin screen
Fingers on a lynch dream
Sorting through the bastard’s empty threats
Voyeuristic hatchlings
Boy I’m here, look at me
Course I’m getting fine with seeing red
In the whites of your eyes
I detect a lie
Drive me through your rain
Rack your wicked mind
Somethings blinking red
Echoing what’s next
Rack your perfect mind
If you’re there, blink twice
Oh my darling
Don’t it feel like falling at the speed of paper?
All these worries make your favourite stories someday later
Down the line
Got my scissors for the silk streams (casino of feelings)
Wondering where to place my guilty bet
Finally you look at me, just as if to capture me
Guess I’ll place it all on seeing red
In the depths of your mood
There is something true
Waiting for a brew
Cheap tiramisu
Have you racked up a debt?
Paying off all your debts?
Do you hate taking sides?
Are you taking a side?
Oh my darling
Don’t it feel like falling at the speed of paper?
All these worries make your favourite stories someday later
Down the line
Does Your Mind Think Faster Than You?
You come around like you left your straighteners burning
Did you swallow that last thought cause it’s like ‘self serving’?
Does your mind think faster than you?
Does your mind think faster than you?
Do tell the names of the strangers that took your certain
Kept alive by our ever shrinking purses
But it’s time, look alive!
Fucking round has never been so urgent
Write them off in cursive
I think you’ve earned it
Does your mind think faster than you?
Does your mind think faster than you?
You built a tower made of pure vacillation
Then you called out from the penthouse to the pavement
You said ‘I’m terrified, it’s my right!’ with a smile that was courage adjacent
Was it vivacious?
This part is my favourite
Does your mind think faster than you?
Does your mind think faster than you?
Does your mind think faster than you?
Does your mind think faster than you?
A Monolith, An Egg
second chances don’t exist
a quiet room just taught me this
I tick the rocket fuel off my shopping list
then I write some words on the air
Decorate the sky, because it’s mine
and put you everywhere.
I take the a4 to the moon
With some felt tip pens
Where I will wait for you
Where I will wait for you
You were mad enough to stay an egg
I’m here enough to keep you intact
Long as I stand I’ll love you to death
Now a labyrinth, but one we know
Now the bedside lamp as the oceans glow
Come watch every fragile life unfold below
Does this feel like home?
Does this feel like home?
Does this feel like home?
Does this feel like home?
And when it's cold out, and we’re sober, and our past lives tick over, that’s when it comes falling out.
through hail and high water
I’m gonna get you out!
Does this feel like home?
Does this feel like home?
Does this feel like home?
Does this feel like home?
Altar444
The floor just gave in
She must have had enough
The neighbours saw the whole thing
Should that make me blush?
Oh now I see the dirt
Tremble like the stars
Our house was built on worms
Look around
Everyone is watching someone
Woebegone!
Imagine if I cared
My basking sun
My salem laundry
I play dumb
Imagine if I cared
I’d love for you to come in
The altar is fresh as hell
There’s a swan adorning the sink
Yeah, my tap water is tears as well
You wouldn’t be the first
To shiver at chandeliers
Or speak in rapid smirks
Well I’m sorry, I’m deaf in my third ear
Everyone is watching someone
Woebegone!
Imagine if I cared
My basking sun
My salem laundry
I play dumb
Imagine if I cared
End