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You can look for a meaning
In the arrangement of stars
And the light they burned so long ago
You can summon vibrations
From all the sticks and the stones
For all the good that it might do you
But if you want to make God laugh, just tell him your plans
Don't you know that there's no way you could understand
Cos if everything you build is made of sand
Don't you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans
You can dream of a lifetime
With a hope for control
Holding strings you can pull freely
But don't you break for an instant
From your love for the world
Holding out for something better
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Look to the East
03:31
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look to the east when the dawn comes
a spirit released as the sky hums
if you count on repeats of the motion
you're never alone
when you're pulled into view, into orbit
you can start it anew like a portrait
the painter is you, grey and scarlet
with all that you are, and you're longing for now
you awaken, silver light is shining down on you
with a phantom of a puncher's chance to start anew
the sky is clearing and the wind is right now at your back
for the moment no one is promised has to come to you at last
look to the west as the night falls
it's all for the best is what they call
accepting defeat when it's wise to
beat a hasty retreat
when you're down on a knee and exalting
your vision is true as it darkens
you know what you need, you can feel it
and you can resolve what you're longing for now
morning phantom of the things still yet to be
if I could feel you coming closer to me
how we vanish into ether, how we're here but we're not all the same
but you can't let every heartbreak move you even farther away
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Green
04:02
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Visions of a silver horizon
But you can never quite get there
Everything you do try to move you closer
Receding into empty air
In the roots below the ground
In the wind is howling sound
One more turn to meet the sky
The moment is a sense of vibration
A current flowing through everything
Every waking thought that emerges from you
Blinds you to the flowering
It's standing on the edge of a memory
That vanishes as soon as it's named
Everything you do to try
In the roots below the ground
In the wind is howling sound
One more turn to meet the sky
I never knew what a vision life could be
Dreams that we hold always vanish to the sea
I'll be alright when I keep from holding on
To waking dreams and the moment that's gone
Visions of a silver horizon
But you can never quite get there
Everything you do try to move you closer
Receding into empty air
It feels like a dream of expansion
That vanishes from memory awake
Everything you do try to hold it tighter
Receding every move you make
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Matrix Sign
06:06
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If you can take away
all the dreams of your yesterday
and look for a light
the glow of the matrix sign
A vision in green and white
Like an angel in the headlights
The curve goes around
The life that you found
All the time you spent believing
All the time it went away
When life contracts you don't know why
The spirit calls you by-and-by
The places you go no one knows
And all your hopes are up in smoke
To fade in like a photograph
The echo of the aftermath
By the light of the matrix sign
Are the dreams that you left behind
The fool on a throne
Volition your own
You've taken a one-way flight
To a view of a nightlight
Epoxied in place
The look on your face
You know what it means
To fall in between
You know what it means
To fall in between
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Steel
03:52
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In the darkness we will make our way
Past the ruins of the old highway
To the meeting place we hope to find
If any one of us should fall behind
The devastation of our old landscape
Is the secret to our planned escape
The tangled briars made from steel beams
Should help us keep from ever being seen
Reason left too long ago
And madness came to stay
If we hope to live our lives
There can only be one way
Air raid sirens break the silent dawn
It gives me comfort that they're not yet gone
The shockwave ripples with concussive force
It will take more than that to change our course
If we never reach the meeting place
Tell my darling that I saw her face
And by her side is what my heaven means
Whatever's waiting past the steel screen
We can't hope to stay
Don't look back again
There can be one way
Onward through the day
On the precipice of breaking free
The kamikaze's flying over me
It tears the sky up with a shrieking sound
But it's nothing til it hits the ground
Glass is shattering and melted steel
Inferno blazing up what we concealed
To the memory of those who've gone
I know I'll see you where our hearts live on
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Invisible Highways
04:17
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traveling on invisible highways
through the light of the waning moon
hurtling through the desolation
racing the daybreak, soon
eyes fixed on the event horizon
from which there can be no return
pushed on by all the phantom forces
the shadow road burns on
to keep an open heart despite your isolation
to something heaven sent
to the open sky you know a new day rises
right around the bend
another falling star to trace across the night sky
if you could reach that far
eyes fixed on the event horizon
from which there can be no return
pushed on by all the phantom forces
the shadow road burns on
eyes fixed on the event horizon
the shadow road burns on
riding towards the light, you wouldn't want for grasping
fleeing from the night, a little farther now
moving through the night as lifetimes slide behind you
reaching towards the light, a little brighter now
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Golden Hour
03:48
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Things are about to change
When the night falls
In the golden hour
Soon the moon calls
Time slows down
And the light is warm
The air is still
As the darkness forms
The stars break through
And the sun escapes
As twilight falls
On the landscape
In the golden hour
The day surrenders
Things are about to change
The moment's splendor
Golden hour
Memory's power in the frame
Soon the moon calls
Things are about to change
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Silver Moon
04:51
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I see your face
My saving grace
Just a moment's respite in a whirlwind
Years burn by into memory
And embers glow in the night
No one ever could tell me
To change the course of my life
Release from all the past
Don't fear for what will pass
Look at everything around you
At atomic scale in every fine detail
I see your face
The sun's embrace
Shafts of light are shadowed by the trees' boughs
When darkness falls
Throughout it all
Your presence is the calm within the maelstrom
I see your face
My saving grace
Just a moment's respite in a whirlwind
For whom we've lost
The rivers crossed
-- Let's cross
The stars above
Know to be loved
Is the only answer to the question
Keep holding on
To what we've found
No matter what the cost, we're in the swim now
For whom we've lost
The rivers crossed
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The Science of Ghosts
03:19
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In the Valley
05:00
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I can feel the sun beating down on me
I can feel it burn in the valley around me
In the dark of a summer night
In the heat of the bare sunlight
I can hear the gathering sound
I can feel the sky close all around
You can take away all the people who know me
Can you hope to stay in a world where nothing stays the same
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Midnight Lands Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Power duo brothers-in-arms featuring guitar sounds that reach for faraway places and recall shoegaze legends Swervedriver.
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J. Robbins from Jawbox 2019 solo album, great songwriting and production. Huge fan
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