1. |
Intro
00:49
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2. |
Dance Floor Epiphany
04:06
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I adorn myself in my outfit
I carefully apply my makeup
I manage to
Get someone to
Drive me to the dance
I stand against the wall
I should not be here
I’m feeling so queer
So alone
So alone
I drink and watch the light show
Look at all the people I don’t care to know
I wonder why we subdivide
The way we do
But then I see
All of this behavior
I should not be here
I’m feeling so queer
So alone
So alone
All I want is someone who will look with me into the sun and promise me the heat won’t scare them
All I want is to learn everything until my mind burns and my partner makes me learn something else
Then I see your eyes
Put your hand in mine
Hold me close to you
There’s a world that’s made for just us two
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3. |
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Scream inside your heart
Scream inside your heart
Scream inside your heart
Scream inside your heart
Last night my grandpa died
And we're all dead inside
Illegal cops patrol the streets
While Cheeto Jesus tweets
Black lives in jeopardy
Justice is a travesty
Disguised operatives are setting fires
Marchers draw supremacists' ire
We're on a roller coaster
That's flying off the tracks
Theme park inquisition
Torquemada's rainbow rack
We're on a roller coaster
And it's rattling apart
Gather all your courage
Please scream inside your heart
Scream inside your heart
Scream inside your heart
Scream inside your heart
Scream inside your heart
Anti-maskers chanting "I can't breathe"
As black mothers have to grieve
People getting stabbed for wearing masks
Economy grinding on "heroes'" backs
Legislators say "Take a loan"
"Maybe sell that second home"
Politicians so out of touch
Guess some things don't change that much
We're on a roller coaster
That's flying off the tracks
Theme park inquisition
Torquemada's rainbow rack
We're on a roller coaster
And it's rattling apart
Gather all your courage
Please scream inside your heart
Scream inside your heart
Scream inside your heart
Scream inside your heart
Scream inside your heart
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4. |
Riot Cop
06:05
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Television white noise
Plays on the curves of her body
When she breathes out
He breathes in
He says he’ll never leave
As he drowns in her eyes
This time he knows
That it’s the truth
He’s got a grocery list and
She’s got a teacher conference
He teases her
They share a kiss
He goes to work with his best friends
She goes to work on her best friends
They both agree
The world has to change
Hit me harder
Break through shield and bone
Crack my armor
Rage with stick and stone
Clack of stone on helmet
Crunch of truncheon on skull
Whitened knuckle tightens
Shotgun symphony sounds
Jack boots and concrete drums
Pound out the oldest rhythm
For a second or a thousand years
The crowd falls still
Arthurian mists of tear gas
Distort the field of battle
He pushes with his shield
She pushes with her heart
Hit me harder
Break through shield and bone
Crack my armor
Rage with stick and stone
Clack of stone on helmet
Crunch of truncheon on skull
Whitened knuckle tightens
Shotgun symphony sounds
A woman screams like a valkyrie
Does she have a weapon? Maybe
He can’t see
He can’t see
His truncheon hits her temple
So perfectly
Then he sees her face
The love he killed
Hit me harder
Break through shield and bone
Crack my armor
Rage with stick and stone
Clack of stone on helmet
Crunch of truncheon on skull
Whitened knuckle tightens
Shotgun symphony sounds
He turns the key to their house
And his daughter comes running
She throws her arms around his neck
And holds him tight
And she says
Daddy I love you
I love you daddy
And as he holds her
He thinks
God how I love her
And as he holds her
All he can taste is bile
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5. |
Side Scroller
03:39
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Let's
Play a game
Tonight
How 'bout a side scroller
You start by sliding the cartridge in
Then grab the controller
When the view moves along with you
You're in a side scroller
Sometimes platforming and sometimes not
You work the controller
Sometimes part human and part robot
You're in a side scroller
Enter a cavern to find
It is markedly different from
The terrain from whence you've just come
You've triggered a boss fight
Here's hoping you've recently saved
Or you'll do it all over again
Leaping and dodging his strikes
Maybe there's a spot you can hide
That the boss cannot fit inside
Defeat him, and run to the side
Suddenly you find a door
Where blank wall existed before
Let's
Play a game
Tonight
How 'bout a side scroller
You start by sliding the cartridge in
Then grab the controller
When the view moves along with you
You're in a side scroller
Sometimes platforming and sometimes not
You work the controller
Sometimes part human and part robot
You're in a side scroller
Enter a cavern to find
It is markedly different from
The terrain from whence you've just come
You've triggered a boss fight
Here's hoping you've recently saved
Or you'll do it all over again
Leaping and dodging his strikes
Maybe there's a spot you can hide
That the boss cannot fit inside
Defeat him, and run to the side
Suddenly you find a door
Where blank wall existed before
Let's
Play a game
Tonight
How 'bout a side scroller
You start by sliding the cartridge in
Then grab the controller
When the view moves along with you
You're in a side scroller
Sometimes platforming and sometimes not
You work the controller
Sometimes part human and part robot
You're in a side scroller
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6. |
Superspreader!
01:32
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Superspreader you have been infected and you know it
You go to parties and get drunk and really show it
You get real close so you can tell us you're immune
You cough and sneeze, touch every item in the room
Superspreader you feel sick, you go to the bar
Tell people you're a doctor, baby you're a star
Tell everybody that the news is telling lies
You can't taste anything but you're kissing all the guys
Superspreader Superspreader Superspreader Superspreader
Superspreader Superspreader Superspreader Superspreader
Superspreader organize the biggest event you can
Make fun of safety, tell us all that you're the man
Hire thoughtless has-beens who were reviled when they were famous
Feel proud as you cash the checks of the dying and the foolish
Superspreader lie about the virus every day
Lie so often your fans will believe everything you say
Have constant rallies, put all your supporters at risk
You'll lose the election but you think you're getting rich
Superspreader Superspreader Superspreader Superspreader
Superspreader Superspreader Superspreader
Look in the mirror, you’re a murderer
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7. |
Someday
05:08
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I’m in a cube without windows or doors
Comfortable I guess, but nothing much more
I’m in an insect hive squirming with life
Grey paper walls surround me all the time
I miss you
I miss all of you
I miss you
I miss everything
A small number of screens become my eyes
Sometimes I fall into dreams just to get by
My waking self has a tiny choice as to what I can see
A thousand examples of other people’s dreams
I miss you
I miss all of you
I miss you
I miss everything
Last night I dreamt that we all exploded into the stars
Like the most beautiful glitter
A rainbow made of colors that I’d never seen before
Because someday
Someday we’ll be there
Dancing in the darkness together
We’ll tear the night apart
Dancing together
Someday we’ll be there
Dancing in the darkness together
It breaks my heart
We’ll tear the night apart
Someday
Someday we’ll be there
Dancing in the darkness together
We’ll tear the night apart
We’ll tear the night apart
(Someday
We’ll tear the night apart
Someday
I’ll be inside your arms)
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8. |
Blue Valkyrie
03:02
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Rarely have I seen such bravery…
Been playing for 53 hours
Feels like I'm gaining magic powers
She's too perfect, can't take it any longer
I feel stronger, always conquer
My mind is wandering in wonder
Her daggers fly like storming rain
Like lightning in my brain
I wish her armor kept me safe the way her arms would
The way she moves teaches me bad
And good and bad and good and bad and good
Her name is Thyra
Blue Valkyrie, Blue Valkyrie
Her eyes are fire
Blue Valkyrie, Blue Valkyrie
I got a pocket full of silver love notes
The air is full of smoke and Hall and Oates
I can move you with a thumb and secret spells
That fill the air with equal parts of beauty
And terror and fire and sex and hell
Her name is Thyra
Blue Valkyrie, Blue Valkyrie
Her eyes are fire
Blue Valkyrie, Blue Valkyrie
Her name is Thyra
Blue Valkyrie, Blue Valkyrie
Her eyes are fire
Blue Valkyrie, Blue Valkyrie
Blue Valkyrie will need food badly
Blue Valkyrie will love you madly
She will love you as you put the quarter in
Soul collectors also live in sin
I shot the food
I shot the food
I want you close
I shot the food
Blue Valkyrie
Blue Valkyrie
I shot you close
Blue Valkyrie
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9. |
Straight On 'Til Morning
04:30
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Firing up the boosters
Releasing docking clamps
We're firing up the engines
It's time to leave
And we
Burst into the sky
Leave this planet far behind
Out into inky blackness of space
The starlight reflects
In my eyes
For the first time
They're opened
Wide
3-2-1 Blast-off!
Start a new life
We've passed the outer rim
I feel my old life slipping
Away
Looking into the dawn
Of a new chapter
It's so, so quiet
Deflecting asteroids
I PASS THROUGH THE TAIL OF A COMET
I don't know what lies ahead
But the challenge is exciting
3-2-1 Blast-off!
We're leaving high orbit
As I pass
The rim
Light
Pierces
My eyes
The suns
Rise
A new
Horizon
As I make my descent
Light
Glints
Off
The wings
Of
The ship
That's carried me
Across
Several
Galaxies
Here
A New Dawn
A New Light
A New Life
This New Planet
This New Day
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10. |
No Kill I
06:55
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Shuttlecraft to the planet
Janus six was the name
Bones didn't trust transporters
atoms rearranged
Vanderberg takes trophies while
mining pergium
The reactor has broken
Stopped the water pump
ooh
Pain, pain
No kill I
Pain, pain
No kill I
Pain l, pain,
no kill I
Pain, pain, no kill i
48 more hours
And the place explodes
Could there be a link with
Silicon nodes
Silicon-based, the lifeforms
Burrowing through the walls
Leaving corrosive slime and
Silicon balls
ooh
Pain, pain
No kill I
Pain, pain
No kill I
Pain l, pain,
no kill I
Pain, pain, no kill i
This is the only one they are able to see
at least it seems to be
Spock puts himself in its place
and advises to Kirk
That they should let it be
Solo
Evacuate the mine before the pump fails
passages must be searched
They find a cave full of nodes,
and the walls disappear
When the creature emerged
Pain, pain
No kill I
Pain, pain
No kill I
Pain l, pain,
no kill I
Pain, pain, no kill i
ooh
Spock melds his mind with Horta
Feeling such blinding pain
Disengages the mind meld
Fog fills his brain
The Horta has carved "No Kill I"
Deeply into the rock
Again against better judgment
mind melds with spock
Pain, pain
No kill I
Pain, pain
No kill I
Pain l, pain,
no kill I
Pain, pain, no kill i
ooh
Horta protects her nursery
water pump is restored
miners return to mining, but
Hurt nodes no more
Horta thinks that the humans'
Appearance is very queer
But even she admits Spock
Has attractive ears
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11. |
We Can't Breathe
02:44
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You can’t be black and feel safe
(That’s how it is)
You can’t be brown and feel safe
(That’s how it is)
You can’t be queer and feel safe
(That’s how it is)
You can’t be female and feel safe
(That’s how it is)
You can’t be black and feel safe
(That’s how it is)
You can’t be brown and feel safe
(That’s how it is)
You can’t be queer and feel safe
(That’s how it is)
You can’t be female and feel safe
(That’s how it is)
Why is it, in this country, that the people with all the power and the money are the only ones who are allowed to feel scared?
Power protects the powerful
Protect the unprotected!
Why is it, in this country, that the people with all the power and the money are the only ones who are allowed to feel scared?
Power protects the powerful
Protect the unprotected!
What the hell is wrong with you?
Cops are detaining us without legal reason
Cops are beating us without provocation
We’re getting shot without access to the law
It’s not a few bad apples
The system is rotten
Cops are detaining us without legal reason
Cops are beating us without provocation
We’re getting shot without access to the law
It’s not a few bad apples
The system is rotten
Why is it, in this country, that the people with all the power and the money are the only ones who are allowed to feel scared?
Power protects the powerful
Protect the unprotected!
Why is it, in this country, that the people with all the power and the money are the only ones who are allowed to feel scared?
Power protects the powerful
Protect the unprotected!
What is wrong with you?
What is wrong with you?
What is wrong with you?
What is wrong with you?
What is wrong with you?
What is wrong with you?
What is wrong with you?
Your children can’t breathe
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12. |
Dancing Alone Together
04:06
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Dancing Alone Together
We dance
Alone, we can't dance together
We dance,
again, like we did on Friday nights
We dance,
Alone, it won't last forever
Watching
The same DJ set with spinning lights (on Twitch tonight?)
Here as the DJ spins
It feels like old times
Greeting the chat admins
Drinking our own wines
We have to go on, the best that we can
And love one another
We're dancing together, here in our hearts
These heights we can wuther
We sing
Alone, we can't sing together
We sing, again like we did beneath stage lights
We sing,
Alone, it won't last forever
Playing
A set like we did on Friday night
We game,
Alone, we can't game together
We game,
Again, like we did on Monday nights
We game,
Alone, it won't last forever
Slaying,
Some orcs, and annoying Lawful Good knights
We have to go on, the best that we can
And love one another
We're dancing together, here in our hearts
These heights we can wuther
!Guitar solo!
We'll dance
Together again, some Someday
We'll dance
Together again, just like before
We have to go on, the best that we can
And love one another
We're dancing together, here in our hearts
These heights we can wuther
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13. |
Fecking Covid
04:26
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William's father had died in this place
Same day he buried his mother
Will he gets rutted here on this special day
But he can't this year
No he can't this year
Fecking Covid has closed all the pubs
Brendan was rotting in Castlerea Prison
When they let him out he left behind dreams and rats
His missus had waited, and when they were sated
He can't get a pint
Not a whiskey or two
Fecking Covid has closed all the pubs
So hoist 'em lads
And lasses too
The virus might keep us alone
But a whiskey and a pint
Is your god given right
It can't stop you from drinking at home
Fergal went roving round Monaghan one night
When he noticed he was outside the town
He found a door in the Hill of the Stone
Inside there was music
And whiskey and stout
Which was good, cause he'd closed all the pubs
When out he came
No one knew his name
So they moved him into St Davnet's
They let him out this year
He's in need of good cheer
But he can't get a pint
And he can't get a dram
Fecking Covid has closed all the pubs
So hoist 'em lads
And lasses too
The virus might keep us alone
But a whiskey and pint
Is your god given right
It can't stop you from drinking at home
Tonight at the edge of the wood I saw
The fetch of my own true self
As I approached, he fled on legs the wrong way round
Now my hair and beard has all gone white
Fecking Covid has closed all the pubs
The faerie ring
It seems to sing
The stones look like a mansion
My gran she said
No one can dance like the dead
I might as well get dancing
Fecking Covid has closed all the pubs
So hoist 'em lads
And lasses too
The virus might keep us alone
But a whiskey and a pint
Is your god given right
It can't stop us from drinking at home
So hoist 'em lads
And lasses too
The virus might keep us alone
But a whiskey and a pint
Is your god given right
It can't stop us from drinking at home
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14. |
You Are Not Alone
04:32
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You might be
Exhausted from it all
I’m sure you’re
In need of something new
We’re going to give you a song
I hope it’s helpful to you
Don’t forget
How weak you are
The strongest among us
Are as weak as you
Never forget
Your strength lies
Within your capacity to care for others
Remember
Every time you fail
We’re with you
When you try again
You’re going to
Surprise some people this time
You’re going to
Make people realize
Every time you think you aren’t as capable as you have proved to be
That is the enemy
Kill it
Fight it
With everything you have
You are not alone
Don’t forget
You deserve love
You’re loved by the people
You respect the most
And don’t forget
We are with you ’til the end
The ghosts of
Your better angels will shout down
The demons of your fear and exhaustion
We are here to help you
So is everyone who loves you
If you quiet your mind
You’ll hear a chorus of love
You’ll never fight alone
You’ll never fight alone
Every day you see a danger and a fear that steals your energy away
That is the enemy
Remember
We love you
You’ll never fight alone
You are not alone
Don’t forget
You deserve love
You’re loved by the people
You respect the most
And don’t forget
We are with you ’til the end
The ghosts of
Your better angels will shout down
The demons of your fear and exhaustion
We are here to help you
So is everyone who loves you
If you quiet your mind
You’ll hear a chorus of love
You’ll never fight alone
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15. |
Outro
00:29
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Sloar+Mordor Wisconsin
Once upon a time in the late 1980s, at Shell Lake Jazz Camp, a trumpet player and a bassist decided they liked making music
together.
Then they lost touch for 25 years.
Thanks to the magic of the internet, they found each other again and are once again making music together.
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