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You were right when you said
We’re growing old much too fast
And the memories we create
Are the only things that's ever gonna
Make
This
Last
So I’m high on a jet plane
Sunk down in my chair
Thinking about time passing
Thinking about
You
Momentary Coastal Fatigue
I examine my pain in a crowded bar
I woke up in the back of a bartenders car
You know I actually felt better
Down and out
But laughing
Now minds just numb and dull
And I’m photographing everything
Momentary Coastal Fatigue
I went surfing for days
Drove out to the mountains
Took a bus to the art museum
And hung out where we met by the fountain
Momentary Coastal Fatigue
I got drunk in the morning
At this great little dive bar
Slept on the beach all night
Locked out of the apartment at a quarter after five
Oh Baby
Where the hell’ve you been?
Momentary Coastal Fatigue
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2. |
Inspecting the City
03:56
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'72 to '84
I'm the mayor
You can't ignore
I love big pitchers of Manhattan
I love the city lights
When I'm driving
From Leveque I run the airwaves
Building the skyline
I'm so on top of it now...
I'm inspecting the city
Who can make the city grow
Sprinkle it with sun?
While you’re doing all this dreaming
Are you having any fun?
If that’s all that’s left between you and me and
Where that highway leads is no mystery
Just let me know when you want to go
Take me with you
I’m so on top of it now...
I’m inspecting the city
The city’s its own symphony
My greatest endeavor
In moments of your crisis
Remember nothing lasts forever
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3. |
Echowheel
02:57
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Echowheel is in my head
Like a thousand things
She said
Misstated
Written down
Reverberated
Right back to the history
Of my misery
Passed off
Like some kind of mystery
Turning my personal Hell
Into life
Echowheel
I hear you calling me
Dragging me down
Am I dragging you down
Echowheel
I hear you calling me
Am I turning you round
Am I dragging you down
Echowheel is in my mind
Just like all the things
We'd find
Misstated
Written down
Reverberated
Right back to the history
Of my misery
Passed off
Like some kind of mystery
Turning my personal Hell
Into life
Echowheel
I hear you calling me
Are you dragging me down
Am I dragging you down
Echowheel
I hear you calling me
Am I turning you round
Am I dragging you down
Echowheel
I hear you calling me
Dragging you down
Why you dragging me down
Echowheel
I hear you calling me
Dragging me down
Dragging you down
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4. |
Runaway
03:36
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Riding down the interstate
I dig your car
Forty ounce between your legs
Shaking up my heart...
Turn around and look at me
and light another smoke
Sweet are the innocent...
I love you...let's runaway
You taught me everything
You only know how to play
No one likes us anyway
and I hate my job
Sweet are the innocent...
I love you...let's runaway
I told you everything
What did you do?
You'd always smile...
You call me everyday
You're breaking up my heart
Sweet are the innocent...
I love you...let's runaway.
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5. |
Sleepwalk
04:13
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I've been led by the strangest voice
I sleepwalk through this crowd
Feels like the thousandth time I heard the news
Love had crushed your heart again
How many times do we fall for that
How many times do we just give in
And quit
Tell me, what am I supposed to do with you?
Now tell me, what am I supposed to do without you?
Here's my poker face
I'll never let you see me look like that again
I'll never let you see me like that again
It's like saying goodbye for the summer, on the last day of school
I can't stand losing you,
No
Now tell me, what am I supposed to do with you?
Please tell me, what am I supposed to do without you?
I've been led by the strangest voice
I sleepwalk through this town
I must have a thousand times or more
Love had crushed your heart again, yeah
I love
How you told me that it was beautiful
The way that love had crushed your heart, again
Please tell me, now what the hell am I supposed to do?
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6. |
Don't Get It
04:24
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Used to sit in the back of the class and laugh, it all came so easy
Looks like you might have to take it back
To the house where the crash goes boom.
You just don’t get it
You’re never gonna get it
Polaroid, gogo discoball
Space age cowboy, blue eyed soul
Choice vibrations, panicked dreams
Saturn’s rings, spinning in the breeze
Peak of a nation tuning in, off to the races and back again
The angry man refuses to bend, when the answer is just a kiss away
You just don’t get it
You’re never gonna get it
Now you spend your nighttime hanging out with the genuine roustabouts
Carpet bombs burning on the ground
It’s the front of the line and back again
Peak of a nation tuning in, off of their faces and back again
The angry man refuses to bend, when the answer is just a kiss away
You just don’t get it, you’re never gonna get it
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7. |
Driver 24
03:52
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It's getting worse and worse
There's a measure of bliss surviving this
Birth to all the small town
Hypnotic freaks
Dive bars they keep
I may be an old horse
But I'm keeping it together
As a matter of force
It switches back and forth
The way I feel
When we're together
My mood I mean
And the way it swings
I wish you'd take a break
Have a laugh on me
And just a little more faith
Go on your Kessel run
Go out and see the world
My fine young one
This has been confirmed
By men in basements
Drinking themselves to death
The road to happiness
Is paved by excess
Excess
Excess
I don't want to be your dark horse
And I don't want to steer you off course
Hold on to Driver 24
It's getting worse and worse
There's a measure of bliss
Surviving this kiss
Birth to all the small town
Hypnotic freaks
Dive bars they keep
I may be an old horse
But I'm keeping it together
As a matter of force
It switches back and forth
The way I feel
When we're together
My mood I mean
And the way it swings
When everything falls apart Dear
And violence is vampiric
Keep an eye on Driver 24
When I'm flying sideways in the miasma
And the tyrants crusade is coming at you
Keep an eye on Driver 24
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8. |
Leave Me Alone
02:45
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On a hundred islands in the sea
I see a thousand people
Just like me
A hundred unions in the snow
I see them walking
Falling in a row
We live always underground
It's going to be so quiet in here tonight
Take me away everyone
When it hurts though
I get these words wrong
Every time
And a hundred years ago
a sailor trod this ground I stood upon
Take me away everyone
When it hurts though
From my head to my toes
To the words in the book
I see a vision
That would bring me luck
From my head to my toes
From my knees to me eyes
Every time
You get these words wrong
I just smile
From my head to my toes
From my knees to my eyes
Every time I hear your lies
For these last few days
Leave me alone
For these last few days
Please leave me alone
Leave me alone
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9. |
Sunscream
03:22
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You stole my sunshine
and ever since you left
I've been waving at stars
Through heavy smoke screens
Like a sad sack lost
Walking home from a bar
Bust out like a thief in the datk
It hit me like a ton of bricks
Faster than a streak of lightning
Belleweather roundhouse scissor kicks
Out of the crib into the cream
His Queen is taking her time
She's not playing with that
Off to the dizzy ladder of love
She's flying high on her own lost wings
She gets high on her own lost way
Sunscream won't live in a vacuum
Velvet on her mile high crew
Sunscream like Sagarmatha
With her solid mists of blue
Sunscream won't live in a vacuum
Suns beats down her skin
Sunscream of Sagarmathe
Nine pound hammer, mandolin
Journey, to the edge of Sagarmatha
Everybody needs at least one Sunscream
She's not just another pretty plaything
To stand in your way
Or bring you to tears
Or blow you away
She's not just the wind on the water
She laughs with a voice of joy
She's babbling brooks
That lend a view while mountains are made
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10. |
Follow Along
04:20
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I've always been
Just around the bend
Speed through the night
Gonna show you the light
Not the sound that confides
It's not the crash of the sea
Not the sound of my tires
Follow along
Follow Me
Slow day in Autumn
Took a drive to heal
Pointed to the horizon
All is quiet and sweet
Eyes wide open
Strangers in this world
Everybodys got a secret
Everybodys got a problem
Follow Along
Follow Me
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11. |
Go
04:48
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Breakdown on the horizon
Shut down and free
Chase down the horizon
Save yourself, from yourself
Let Go
Run away from Ohio
Overseas
Save yourself
To the city
Set us free
I don't want to talk about it
Run away
Don't look back and smile at me
Not alright
Not ok
It's not too late to talk about it
Cross the sea to find nothing there
You don't want to talk about it
Save yourself
Let Go
Run away from Ohio
Overseas
Save Yourself
To the City
Gravitate to me
Breakdown the horizon
Push away
Gravitate to me
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12. |
Bad Passenger
04:04
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Well it all looks like roses for the weekend
Take a long ride through the flowers of my mind
It might be raining again
With my luck it's pouring my friend
There are always blue skies
On the other side
C'mon let's take a ride
Let's roll away
When it all feels like everything's running backwards
World standing firmly on your chest
Well it could happen to you
Cause it happened to me too
There are always blue skies
On the other side
Do you wanna take a ride?
I don't wanna be your decoy
I don't don't wanna be your old boy
I don't wanna be your bad passenger
Throwing my tapes out the window
Take a long ride through the flowers of my mind
Well it might be raining agin
But it's never boring my friend
There are always blue skies
On the other side
Let's go on and take a ride
Let's just roll away
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13. |
Be Here Now
04:03
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I'm no longer waiting
I don't really care
If it ever finds us
Or if it was even there
I don't really mind
Love to watch you go
Kinda love to watch ya go
Our Time
Is such a terrible thing to waste
Our life
Is not a terrible thing
Don't know how much longer
That I can pretend
That I don't remember
Or that I can't forget
I swear it never ends
Be here
Be here now
Let's get to the point
Someday coming soon
You will leave
and you will not be back
You can live in a shack
You can live in the Taj Mahol
You can live anywhere you want
You can have it all
Be here
Be here now
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The Secret Life of Houseplants Columbus, Ohio
Moody mood music for moody people, moody Houseplants and other moody wallflowers.
Paul Abbott-
Guitar/Vocals/Bass/Drums
Megan Palmer Vocals on Runaway.
with live accomplices as follows...
Paul Gault-Guitar
Jeff Clowdus-Drums
Adam Coate-Bass
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