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The Long Takes
02:51
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Turn the world over to the ones with the sun in their eyes
Let them fall for her, for every crack in her blush-disguise
Fall forwards. We fall for words
It will take all of you to get over
I'm like a chauffeur for someone who may or may not be inside
I guess I'll know which, if I hear a knock on the black divide
and it opens, if it opens...
It will take all of you to get nowhere
Dissolving together, from inside to outside the car
We're close to the camera, while the taillights fade into the dark
They're in focus. They stay in focus
Remaining in the long takes...
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Lifterschalte
03:55
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I watch the shade drift over the day
I watch it come and take its place
The woods reclaim any path I've made
They grow back into place
At the Lifterschalte, you always show at the same hour
cutting through the fog
under the late sky, I will meet you every time
I need no weight, no static shape
when you come and take my place
They pass through me, a figure they don't see
only one will see me waiting
The tape is stuck in the deck
so lets hear side one again:
The Moonglows, The Chimes and The Pyramids
The Flamingos singing "Where or When"
Side two: "You, Me and the Sea," "I'm Spinning"
by The Del-Vikings...
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Take Their Coats
05:45
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They don't stop and turn as they swim away you have never been more awake
Walk up the path and sit down in the dark and you cannot see a thing
Anything for the ladies and gentlemen...
Take their coats
You want to go through the pockets of all of them,
but I know you won't
Feel your way back to the shore
Points of sound grow to a roar
and you cannot stay the same
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The Comic
06:22
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The comic hits again
He pulls you up on-stage, in front of your friends
and dresses you down to nothing
He takes you down with him
He does the bit again
He throws your words back at you, with a hiss
and dresses you down to nothing
in front of your friends
in front of your wife
Look into his blackout eyes....
Anyway....
He nodded off again
the get-out lights are up and on to him
He's all unwound and bent
Time to kick him out again
Anyway....
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I Need to be Told
05:41
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I came-to in costume
completely made up from head to toe
with no idea where the glare is coming from
and no idea what it is trying to show
night for day, or the other way
ground or second floor?
I guess I need to be told
I came-to in costume
completely made up from head to toed
with no idea where the guilt is coming from
and no idea if it is going to go
I can picture the living room
I can picture the back room
Picturing turns your blemishes to bloom
No center to this city now
daylight a no-show
the embarrassment of trees in the snow
No center to this city now
tell me where to go
Today I need to be told
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See Orange
03:22
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Going....sold
You don't have to watch the auction if you don't want
mirage-control
You don't have to swim for the fading island anyway...
Disgu(Disguised as smoke) Where did your voice go?
Going....you're sold
You don''t have to run when you the hear the orange gun go off
Your money is blown
from the open suitcase all over the runway
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Levitation Hoax
06:56
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I looked too close and found a flaw
in the photo of your "levity walk"
You were floating with blurry legs and arms
I saw the flash-cord hidden in your hand
in your command
held in the air before their eyes
backlit in a wax surprise
Birds behind your back
you're hovering over the pitch-black river
your rippling twin in the water there is unaware
He's caught up in your "levity walk"
shimmering under your spell
You were hanging in your dark room
where your apparitions are summoned to suit you
and your clockwork blurs to a whir to be believed
I see your face
I see your skin
made up for your "levity walk"
there is no way in...
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Water in a Circle
04:05
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The last thing I want to do is lie to you
You'll see that 80 bucks again
but it might not be soon
I came outside for a reason
I guess it was to forget why
I can run 'til you lose me in the sun
you're gonna stick around in time
The things I can't tell myself must be pretty bad
if I have to kick them out of the tenement I'm living at
Waking at a whisper
Moving water in a circle
If you're reading this, the secret service works
shots from the projection booth
who shot first?
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