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The window slams shut at about half past six
The wind has pushed it down
As I'm staring at the ground
And I’m aware that I’m not falling back asleep today
But the flyers blew away
Flying through a smog filled sky
And now the clocks are ticking fast
Water from a hose
Pouring down the road
Rest easy my friend
There’s an unlit match I left in the corner of the room
Picking up the match and
Lighting it to walk through the dark
And open up the door to the world outside
But the water level rose
Submerging a patch of grass that had plans to grow tall
And now the clocks are ticking fast
Birds sit on a wire
Chirping the most unpleasant tunes
I've heard millions of times before
And now the clocks are ticking fast
And the clocks are ticking fast
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The world that's never leaving my front door
Gather your things, we're movin' cross the floor
For sometimes I think I'd like to know
All the things I buried in the snow
The world that's never seething at the door
Gather your things, we're moving forward
For a thing that was never known, is never shown
Within the ground
We'll gather round'
Someday when we have forged a bond with
A world that's never shown
This is what I was worried for
This is what I was worried about
All that's come and gone
Through drought and seasonal lows
That decimate our crops
And it’s the world that's never leaving my front door
Gather around, but nevermore we'll gather around
Through victory, through sound
The door will never know what's on the other side
Even though it tries to hide
From the world outside
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Haegen
02:59
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I wanna get away from the madness
Of my everyday life
Take a trip somewhere far away
Take a look around
And you will see it
A mountainous village located on the western frontier of Alsace
Which at this point coincides with the western frontier of the Alemanish dialect area
Look across from the Vosges Mountains and you'll see it
A commune of the Bas-Rhin department is all you may think
But it's so much more
I think
I haven't done too much research
Take a look around
And you will see it
The ruined remains of a twelfth-century castle
One of the earliest surviving castles in the North Vosges region
And of a fourteenth-century smaller fortress
Pack your bags
Cause we're headed to
A mountainous village located on the western frontier of Alsace
Which at this point coincides with the western frontier of the Alemanish dialect area
Thanks Wikipedia, I've found my dream home
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Dear Dr. Richardson,
It's been too long since we have had a chat
I'm calling to inform you that the war has gone arwy
You must leave your bunker now
That you've built deep into the ground
And the world it's different now
Outside the streets are jammed with debris
And we need a hero now
It's up to you to build the machine
That'll save us all
And I'm phoning Dr. Richardson
And he doesn't want to talk to me
He says he's busy fixing his washing machine
And he wishes not to talk to me!
Dr. Richardson's a secretive guy
He has a tower 12 miles high
And I'm sure if he fell from there in the sky he could fly
Dr. Richardson will never die
He acts like it's nothing
But it's something
He's the smartest scientist I've ever known
I mean I haven't known a lot
Yet he tells me he's not a scientist he's just a pediatrician (I'm literally just a pediatrician)
Silly doc, always crackin' wise
And I'm phoning Dr. Richardson
And he seems to have blocked my number
He wants me to leave him alone, he’s got business to attend to
Dr. Richardson will fly through the sky
Dr. Richardson will never die!
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Expiration Date
01:14
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There was an expiration date on this bag of chips
Look right there it says March 25th
Expiration date
Expiration date
Expiration date
What happened when I bit into that old chip?
What if I collapse, what if I faint?
Why does this chip hold no restraint?
As the sodium falls on my tongue
Follow the expiration date
Expiration date
Expiration date
Expiration date
Wait I was wrong all along
It says March 28th
That's tomorrow
I'm ok!
It's still good for another day
I won't faint!
It's all in your head
It's all in your head
It's all in your head
It's all in your head
It's all in your head
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Neverending Nothingness
03:22
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You'd never know what it was not like
If life could talk to you
Someone's on the phone with his wife
Who's never talked to you
And I can tell that it's hard now
As you look in view and then turn around
And you're gone
Descend into the state of eternal nothingness
Descend into the state where all you can see
Is the neverending nothingness
Someone's walking by
Something new fills your eyes
Nothing is normal
When you don't truly know what's normal at all
As you're gone
And you're falling down
And you descend into the state of feeling overcome
By what you'll never know
Descend into the state of innocence
Descend into the state of
Neverending nothingness
I wouldn't know any better
But I don't know if I want to go back
To the state of neverending nothingness at all
To the state of neverending nothingness at all
See it now
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It’s always all the same
I wish not to play this game
And when you yell at me
I feel so deeply angry
But I know that when I press this key
I won’t have to hear you lecture me
And my accordion will drown out the noise
It’ll drown out the noise of your voice
I always hate our fights
You always seem uptight
But when I push this bass button
And then push a major button
And all the things you say are absorbed into the bellows
Stop taking my pillow
And you didn’t find it funny
But it wasn’t meant to make you laugh
And now you’ve packed your bags
But I don’t really care
I can drown out the sad with my accordion
And my accordion will drown out the noise
It’ll drown out the noise of your voice
It'll drown out the
Noise through the door frame
And shut the door
And she's never coming back
Nevermore
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8. |
Words And Whales
03:23
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Lost my trail
Chased my tail
I thought that when I buried the hatch
I wouldn't have to open it back
But I don't need a lot of things
Even if I think about a lot of instances
I wish can fix these instances
But words and whales are buried deep below
The overflow of the ocean floor
And it's colder there, and it's darker there
And I wanna live amongst the storm
Far from here
But I don't need a lot of things
Even if I want a lot of things
But I just want to see the ground above
Get a sense of life, but I
Don't have a ground above
Don't have a place to stand
Slipping from the sliding rock I found
Spinning from the mangled boats that drowned
If they could speak
Maybe we wouldn't have to feel so weak
But words and whales are buried deep below
The overflow of the ocean floor
And it's colder there, and it's darker there
And I wanna live amongst the storm
Far from here
I'm stuck, alone
I lost my trail again
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Have you had trusted in me
Then maybe you would see
What I’ve been hiding in my brain
Making me feel I’ve gone insane
Have you had trusted in me
Then maybe you would see
This was not part of my plan
I had a two-step plan
And I threw it out my window
I wrote a plan
And I stapled it to my head
I wanted you to read it
I wanted you to see
I wanted you to see all the things I’ve keep hidden deep within
But I don’t think you need me
Even though I need you
And had you trusted in me
And maybe you would see
But I think I’ll go
I think it’s easier for me
To write the words
I want to see me speak
And I know it’s early in the process
Of the three-step plan
Have you had trusted in me
Then maybe you would see
Have you had trusted in me
Have you had trusted in me
Have you had trusted in me
Have you had trusted in me
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10. |
I'm Happy
02:10
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I found a stone
And some pine tree needles
In the back of my my new shed
And I forged them to light a fire
To keep me warm through the night
But when I wake up in the night
I see that the fire spread and it burnt down my shed
But that's ok
I'm happy anyway
And I'm happy as I'm walking through town (And I'm happy)
And I'm even happy as I hear the crackling of flames through the shed (And I'm happy)
And I'm happy just to be happy! (And I'm happy)
I didn't need it
I didn't need a shed anyway
I'm happy with my signed picture of some famous guy I never met
And I'm happy as my shed's in flames
And I'm happy as I stare at my autographed photograph
I don't know who's in the picture though, still
And I'm happy just to be happy! (I'm happy as a clam) (watch as the fire spreads)
And I'm happy just to be happy! (I'm happy as a clam) (through the shed)
And I'm happy just to be happy! (I'm happy as a clam) (watch as the fire spreads)
And I'm happy (I'm happy as a clam) (through the shed)
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11. |
There is A Number
02:57
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There is a number and it's far from me
There is a number and it trusts in me
To alert you of the unknown degree
In the equation that no longer exists within reality
There is a number and it's me
There is a number and you'll see
How the number is existent in the plane of C
And maybe when you're staring down at me
Maybe you'd think it's easier to read
But the number hasn't changed, you've just gone insane
There is a number and it's me
There is a number and you can't even disagree with me
As you survey the room
As you see most are done, as you try to speed through
And you think it strange to be deranged
And you think it's strange to be stuck here with me
You feel strange to be
The last with a sheet
With one question left
On this 12-question test
With 5 minutes left to go
You don't even want to stop to consider
The idea that you'll complete this in time
You take a look around
And then take another look around
But I'm still here
And there is a number
Close to me
There is a number buried somewhere deep
In your brain
But you still feel you've gone deranged
But this number can be obtained
Maybe not inside reality
But within your brain
And you see
There was a number
It was me
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12. |
Here It Comes
04:08
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Hear it fly, as it's rolling and ringing by, through the sky
Hear it cry as its going on its way
And it appears I’ve got nothing left to say
For it's time it's time
For it's time it’s time
As we hear the voice come over the loudspeaker
And it says
"Here it comes"
"Here it comes"
"Here it comes"
And we were fearful at it's flight
As it descended into the night
And crossed the streets of town
Without making a sound
The street lights had gone dim
As the parade was passing by
The bright blue sky that had turned to night
As the sirens blared in announcement
As they said
"Here it comes"
"Here it comes"
"But there's still some time left to go"
"We don't know where we're truly going as of now"
As the streets are left in isolation
We're all part of the desolation
Of some machine that wouldn't answer any of our prayers
But was that where we truly got off?
What was the purpose of such thing?
To ensure a voice was heard?
But all it ever truly did
Was block out the truth we didn't want to hear
But now it's here
"Here it comes"
"Here it comes"
"Here it comes"
And that's all we ever wanted (here it comes)
And we'll never know what was (here it comes)
But let's not dwell on what could've been (here it comes)
Now we'll dwell on what's to come (here it comes)
"Here it comes"
"Here it comes"
"Here it comes"
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Last Night On the Moon
05:08
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She works late
Gets off the bus at 8
Unlocks the apartment door
She worked late
Looking up to the sky
Then right back at her phone to find the hope
That you'd be coming home
Looking up to the sky
"You have been signalling us
And you're spiraling through space
We've been trying to reach you to tell you what to do"
"Can I find myself out there?"
"You won't find yourself out there
Drifting far from any fear
That you might have
And we just ask of you to please re-enter the shuttle
As you're drifting now
As you're drifting now"
He was talking to you
And you weren't listening
Thinking of secret songs you might sing and no one else would hear
No one else was near
You could return or stay up there
But you knew you'd leave the moon
You could make one choice
And no decision after that would matter
And now Earth seems so far from here
And it's getting further by the second
The lights shrink smaller in the distance
As the stars grow closer
"And I'm about to sign off
Thanks for reading this message
In the hopes that it traveled
Far enough to reach you
As I drift away from here"
"I think I'll be fine up here
And I know you'll be fine down there
As I drift away"
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Over the Radio
02:37
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No number meets my expectations
There's too many limitations
Find the one who excelled, then
And play them in a game of chess
Over the radio
That's where they riped out my soul
Displayed it out for them all to see
And I'm not very happy
We have such little time left
The worlds are colliding together
But as I sit and ponder
It really ain't so bad
I will fly away to my planet
That I bought sometime in 09'
Over the radio
That's where they took my brain
And they inspected it over a heat ray
And they're giving it back in May
But it doesn't matter
I'll be fine anyway
I'm boarding my rocket
And I'm traveling through outer space
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Luke Hennisch Greenburgh, New York
I make music you may or may not listen to.
Business email: ekulestrecords@gmail.com
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