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1. |
Species
04:28
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Find goldmines
Digging up divine shrines
Cajoled fools
Tend to feed the brandlings and mold
Stalwart hearts
Heat us up when wars start
Cold things dwell
Waiting at the bottom of the well
Those who bleed
Together live
Forever on and on
Time rules blind
Paying us goons no mind
Wise old souls
Tend to hear the rattling I'm told
All is flux
Nothing stays as it was
Cold hearts dwell
Waiting at the bottom of the well
Those who bleed
Together live
Forever on and on
and on and on
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2. |
Unicenticorn
04:16
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There's not a place in this world that I would not roam
Tear at the edges of this microcosm
Wild waves of the sea turned oceans song
I feel it all around me
This racing hot pulse
Speed the rise
Of us
Release all distal fiction
Accede alive, alive, alive
Three hearts will beat as one
Just at the edge of the fires burning
Hot dreams come to life will sever you
Sow your pieces in the woven copulas
And now it’s all writhing
As one thing
Blood, sulfur, no aversion
to vertigo
We ride with an eels undulations
Over rodents with beetles
as chaperones
I feel it all around me
This racing hot pulse
Deify
Us
Release all distal fiction
Unseat the lies the lies the lies
Three hearts now beat as one
The rivers that pool around you are emollient
And the beasts are skulking
but they're much too tame
to behold us
We can't be broken
And saddled with wine casks or heartache and revulsion
Now that my heart beats
inside your chest
Now we’re all riding
As one thing
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3. |
0100101
04:10
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You will find me there without a sound
Where the moon flakes fall
on marble ground
Petrified in a thousand polar lights
Magnetized by a billion nanobytes
You will find me there moribund
A discarded ward of the setting sun
When the heart starts feeling alive
You feel it alone,
Cold metal, veins and bone
When the heart starts feeling alive
You feel it alone,
Hell, heaven, take your hold
‘Neath the violently effusive skin
Anatomic pools of reasoning
Come alive when feelings penetrate,
Confound, hesitate, can't break away
You will arrive at upper levels of cognition,
and control that no one has never known
You grip the crawling,
Veiny arms of truth
Come around, come around
And venerate this fusion
You grip the crawling,
You fell the godless
Dialectic coup, get a hold on you
When the heart starts feeling alive
You feel it alone
Cold metal, veins and bone
When the heart starts feeling alive
You feel it alone
Hell, heaven, take your hold
You will find me there without a life
Where the moonbeams fall on naked eyes
Petrified in a thousand golden arcs
Multiplied by a billion broken hearts
You will find me there without a sound
Cause the whirlwinds blow and blow around
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4. |
Spellcaster
04:58
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Broken hearts and memories
Pollinate a new dichotomy
Never forget, don't you ever
forget where you came from
Summon up inside of me
All the will to face eternity
Never look back
Don't you ever look back in negation
Why, oh why
Don't pull the wool on yourself
Situations will change in the blink of an eye
Why, oh why
No need in fooling yourself
We can make it ok, we'll make it alright
Lucid eyes are bound to see
Right away this change inside of me
Follow your heart
Don't you wallow in virtue and patience
When you’re born into the light
Cut away the ruses from your life
Never forget don't you ever
forget what you came for
Why, oh why
Don't pull the wool on yourself
Situations will change
in the blink of an eye
Why, oh why
No need in fooling yourself
We can make it ok, make it alright
Close your eyes and you will find
Radiation tattooed with lullabies
Feel its sweetness on your lips
But it’s not, no it’s not, not, not,
not what you think it is
Open eyes and you will see
Variations wrapped in uncertainty
They can spin you around and around and around
til your heart won't fake it
Tastes like candy
Is all around me
Involution of illusions
Soaring wildly
Tastes like candy
All around me
Defecation of elation
Pouring out me
Why you wanna feel
like it’s never been colder
Why you wanna feel
like an anchor in the ocean
Why you wanna feel like a
like a boat in the fog
Why you wanna kick it around and
around and around in your heart
‘til the glaciers soften
Who would try make it
Fools would try to make it alone
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5. |
The Anchor and the Sail
04:01
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You are the wave on this cold ocean
You are the weight holding me down
You are the wave on this cold ocean
You are the weight holding me down
Why don't you just take your time
and we’ll be here
Under the fisheye lens of the bubbling and raging sea
Why don't you just take your time
and we’ll be here
in the wake of the tidal wave that swept away my easy smile
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6. |
Automaton
04:56
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Today is the day when
Adjuncts are pulling out
Ignore all the warnings
Omens of further doubt
Aching for some way
To cool the boiling hearts
The fire is burning
But you won't put it out
And when you finally care
You won't know what to fear
Cause you won't find it
No, no, no, unaware
No, you can't fight it
with a prayer
Nobody wants it
Cause nobody cares
Nobody knows it
Cause nobody hears
And you will
find it erratically
crawling upon you
Pile up the wounded
Bury your head
And when you finally care
You won't know what to fear
Cause you won't find it in line
with this codling's stare
And when
your heartbeat slows
You won't know where to go
Cause you won't find it
on a globe
Ride high on your horses
As chariots trail
Rely on your compass
When all needles fail
I am from the future
but
you are not from the future like me
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7. |
Advance with the Mayor
02:57
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Show me the face of the being
who paces outside on the cobblestone
While the world waits,
and whispers of worry and fear
The days have been wasted
when plasticine faces
bowed down to your reverie
Cause it all comes back to you in the end
If you find a way to make your goal,
you will be right with yourself
When the fire feeds your vacant soul
you will be right with yourself
When finally abasements,
deliberate and callous
try to swallow you whole
By earth and ash and flesh and bone,
you will be right with yourself
If you came to see the mayor put your harness on
We will ride through the dreams of your jilted youth
It's so hard to be the mayor
when your gossamer mantle is shearing off
But it all comes back to you in the end
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8. |
The Silver Key
04:26
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I wait for hours lonely
Liver warts creeping at my face
And contemplate eroding
The fibrils weaving me in place
And when the night has opened
The darkness crawling through my veins
I slither through the doorway
Into a deepening of space
This mass is a part of me
An endless wave of realities
Watch out, stay ahead of me
Cause this whole world is just a fallacy
We
We don't want
We don't want to be alone
In vaults of halted motion
A wilted heart appears to quake
And mesmerizes me into the fay
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9. |
Unicorn Fantasy
03:21
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I remember soaring out
Into the flailing sun
Shadows meeting light
like black pawns upon the fair
Hallowed be thy golden mane
Two eyes so rubicund
Untiled roads lead us
musing on the way
Always wanting,
Far out and separated
Holding onto love
that's imitated
It's no wonder
I feel evaporated
To hear your voice
Fading
Worn away the notion to
Avoid delirium
Harrowing the valleys
and fields for debris
I don't even so much mind
Living inside a dream
Rubies and tokens to
catalyze the brain
Always wanting,
Far out and separated
Holding onto
eviscerated love
It's so hard to face it
It's too hard to erase it
On my bones
Waging war
down to the marrow
All my dreams
Run away
Down through
the gallows feasting,
below
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10. |
PG Sex Scene
04:11
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Bored enclosed in a house
made of toys
the record play play plays
your only intentions
Too much forever
and not enough patience
you cannot wait wait wait
for for elation
You get around it,
and you face it
You've got me up "and down"
and all around
Baby you’re on a lonely ride,
You can’t fight it,
I'm the right one
Surely you’re gonna open wide
You can't fight it I'm the right one
Papers rolled
and the flames are employed
but you will choke choke choke
on this inhalation
Looking me over
like I'm a four leaf clover
pick me up up up
and out of here
You get around it
and you face it
You've got me up "and down"
and all around
Baby, you’re on a lonely ride
You can’t fight it, I'm the right one
Surely, you’re gonna open wide
You can't fight it, I'm the right one
You get around it
and you face it
and you know it's gonna be inside
Don't fool around it
You won't make it
Simply osseous and adamantine
You feel around it, up, up
and down it baby
You get around it,
oscillating this thrall
You know it feels right
You know it feels right
You know it feels right
Baby, you’re on a lonely ride
You can’t fight it, I'm the right one
Surely, you’re gonna open wide
You can't fight, it I'm the right one
And silence as we wait
for your parts to mend
And the road
was really not a road at all
What sadness
in the wake of ignorance
And the rage
is quickly building to turbulence
What violence
as your heart's debilitated
And you know
that it's the end,
that it's the end
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11. |
Balloon Ride Fantasy
05:27
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You’re the first to bathe
and shadow me
Turn your head
and see you’re not awake
If you’re afraid, don't be, don't be
If you’re afraid, don't be, don't be
Floating on a shard of fantasy
It's a moonlight
Face of two the same
If you’re afraid, don't be, don't be
If you’re afraid, don't be, don't be
Over hills and mountains we fly
With candy-coated eyes
If you’re afraid, don't be, don't be
If you’re afraid, don't be, don't be
Take your heart
Dreaming of golden stars
Clearing a way for us
For us
Showing through
Rivers of green and blue
Only the pain ends soon
For us
Far above the shade of canopies
Through the ruseof this milky haze
If it’s a dream, don’t wake me, wake me
If it’s a dream, don’t wake me, wake me
Gaining on the trail of destiny
Look around
and you'll feel the same
If it’s a dream, don’t wake me, wake me
If it’s a dream, don’t wake me, wake me
Over hills and mountains we fly
With opalescent eyes
If you’re afraid, don't be, don't be
It's a balloon ride fantasy
Take your heart
Dreaming of golden stars
Clearing a way for us
For us
Showing through
Rivers of green and blue
Only the pain ends soon
For us
Do you believe in fantasy?
Do you believe in us?
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Balloon Ride Fantasy Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Balloon Ride Fantasy is a synth-pop/new wave band from Pittsburgh, PA. Their music is characterized by dreamy vocal harmonies, rich synth-heavy instrumentation, and catchy, danceable beats. Their lyrics explore imaginative futuristic dream worlds. The band has been praised for their unique sound and ability to transport listeners to otherworldly places. ... more
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