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1. |
Oh God
03:36
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We’re hungry for wisdom
We’re hungry for love
We’re hungry for truth,
Light from above
Peace when we want it
Lovers and friends
And stay always honest
Have money to spend
We’re hungry for sex
Sleep and time off
Hungry for fat,
Sugar and salt,
Fools for attention
Pleasure and space
Fashion and riches
One life of grace
Jealousy sucks
Fidelity’s impossible
Nirvana is perfect
But nothing is pure
Half full or half empty
Depends on your taste
Passion and fantasy
More time to waste
Be and become
You are who you will be
But what is the question
When Time has no answer?
There’s polar attraction
And them versus us
Reaching the top
Destiny stops
Loving and striving
Building up walls
We learn from the elements
Then destiny calls
Experience drives us
But fictions survive
Comedy, tragedy
Truth where it lies
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2. |
Time’s Our Song
04:18
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Settled in a corner booth
Staring at the rain
Borrowed money borrowed time
Trying to catch a break
Settle up now or later
No more grieving while we wait
A roast of jokes
Songs of tonic
Thinking ’bout the time we waste
And dreaming of a life to make
us whole again
Breaks are bust and a cold wind blows
Miles from being good
Spools of dust
Fools for lust
Minds misunderstood
Singers in a church at night
Hollering at the moon
A lullaby from Paris
A torch song for the tortured
Thinking ‘bout the time we waste
And dreaming of a world to make us home again
Dream on dream
Dreams we travel bad
Cluster like the birds at night
And scream ourselves in half
Sidle up
Synthesize,
Time’s our song, and time’s our song
Thinking ‘bout the time we waste
And dreaming of a love to make us whole again
Time’s a song we have to sing
Dreaming of a love that makes us whole again
Makes us whole again
How much time is on you mind
memory in your case?
How much time is all your money?
How much to call me honey?
Hustled like a power grabber
Came out with the goods
Slips of paper
Call me later
Time’s a song we have to sing
And dreaming of a world to make us whole again
Married me a mother’s daughter.
Told her I’d be good
But she’s really daddy’s martyr
And I’m a social idiot
Tied me up in their fancy suits
I killed their dreams for good
A lullaby from hell
A torch lit for the tortured
Time’s a song We have to sing
And dreaming of a life to make us whole again
Time’s our song and
Time’s our song and
Time’s our song and
Time’s our song and
Time’s a song We have to sing
And dreaming of a love to make us whole again,
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3. |
Make You Laugh
03:22
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Stories that we told
Groping in the backseat
Trying to get over
One another’s phobias
I looked for words
Make you laugh
I told all the jokes I know
Trying to make you laugh
It was raining out
Roads were slick as lightning
Trying just to be so cool and intelligent,
Truth were told,
I can’t stand the test
I was out of compliments,
Trying to make you laugh
All the lies I told
To see how far we’d go
All the foolish moves
Trying to make you laugh
Smoking cigarettes
Drinking cans of warm beer
Laughing, thinking that I’d
Truly lost my mind
I’m more gone than you’d ever guess
I should send you an email
Sending my regrets
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4. |
Je ne sais pas
03:24
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Je suis dans la chambre de ma mère.
Je ne sais pas comment j’y suis arrivé.
Peut-être dans une ambulance,
Je ne sais pas,
Je ne sais pas.
Un véhicule quelconque certainement.
C’est moi qui y vis maintenant
Seul je ne serais pas arrivé.
Je ne sais pas,
Je ne sais pas.
Cet homme qui vient chaque semaine,
C’est grâce à lui peut-être,
Que je suis ici. Il dit que non.
Je ne sais pas,
Je ne sais pas.
Il me donne un peu d’argent
et enlève les feuilles de papier.
Tant de feuilles, tant d’argent.
On m’a aidé.
Je ne sais pas,
Je ne sais pas.
Oui, je travaille maintenant,
un peu comme autrefois,
Seulement je ne sais plus travailler.
Je ne sais pas,
Je ne sais pas.
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5. |
Modern Psychology
02:32
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One says yes
Two says no
Three says maybe
Four says So
Two has problems
Three won’t tell you
Four says One shouldn’t
Always be, so slow
First to know
Last to go
One goes that way
Two stays home
Three is selfish
Four is blue
All four think
they are
Faster than
Faster than fast
Practice modern
Psychology
Own electric
technology
Oh no
There’s another one
Oh no
Just like the other one
Learning lessons for their lives
Being better in their eyes
They look and act and talk so nice
Bred to be bred
Better in red
A grin more or less
Is the best you’ll get
Best you'll get
Practice modern
Psychology
Own the latest
technology
Oh no
There’s another one
Oh no
Just like the other
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6. |
These Are the Times
03:15
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Seems to me
There are times for
getting over it
Without trashing the room
Looks to me
There are ways
When you can say those things
And not burn from it all
These are the times
When you count the clock
The clicks in your head
Ticking your thoughts
These are the times
Seems to me
There are words that
say all those things
you can say without pain
Looks to me
There are accidents
greater than
Those that call out the names
Colder than ice
and the blackest night
the moonless nights
Heartless words
These are the times
Reasons for and answers for
Looking for the reasoned reason
Answers for the madness
Just so that you get even
These are the times
when you count the clock
The clicks in your head
Ticking your thoughts
These are the times
These are the times
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7. |
See-Through Dress
05:44
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The girl in the see-through dress
Made me such a mess
With her delicious look
I had to look again
Or was it just pretend
And I was dreaming
She came with whispering eyes
And asked to my surprise
If I’d been cast away
I told her I could swim
She said let’s go in
Let’s leave this place behind
Gonna pass the time away
Gonna pass the time away
Only dreaming
The lights they fell within
She hit me with a grin
And then we ricocheted
Like waves along the shore
I followed to the door
And then she tore it off
Oh dream, dream, walking away
To while away the time
Gonna pass the time away
Gonna pass the time away
Only dreaming
Night was well tucked in
We passed it with a grin
And then we slipped away
Drove on through the miles
From night to night we whiled along like castaways
Only dreaming …
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8. |
Lulalu
02:52
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Lulalu
Amazing us
With your eyes
Arranging us
All the way from
Here to the moon
Lulalu
Lulalu
Crazing us
With a hope that’s
Deranging us
To the center of
Every heart
Lulalu
Lulalu
Right up to the edge of the world
Sound and the light
Crash into us
You for the luck of
a name
Lulalu
Lulalu
Lulalu
Arranging us
With your eyes
Containing us
All the way from
Here to the moon
Lulalu
Lulalu
Crazing us
With a look that’s
deranging us
To the center of
Every heart
Lulalu
Lulalu
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9. |
Long Strayed Eyes
03:48
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Bring back those long strayed eyes
Bring back the time you would forgive me
Bring back the words I can’t forget
And the hope that once lay me before
Bring back your love
Bring back your love
Bring back those
Long strayed eyes
Days I often wonder
About the times I’ve wasted before
The nights I wander remotely
Mornings I never open the door
The hole in my heart
Tears me apart
Bring back those
Long strayed eyes
Bring back your love
Bring back your love
Bring back those
Long strayed eyes
My thoughts are haunted by pictures
Chances I had and ignored
Time cured you faster than it did me
The image holds me captive and remote
The look in your eye
The looks in your eyes
Bring back those long
Bring back those long
Bring back those
Long strayed eyes
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10. |
If to Be Like
03:58
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If to
Be like
What it
Feels like
To be
The you
You say
You are,
Can you
Be that
“Who”
You are
That is
What others see?
Not that
Anything
That matters
Is everything
That’s meant
Or matters
But who
You are
Might be
What seems
To others
The you
They know.
Which would
Be lucky
For you
And them
And those
Who assume
You are
Who
Or what
You say
And who
They hear
And who
They see
And what
You mean.
Each
On equal
Footing.
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Coriolis Sounds Montpellier, France
Coriolis Sounds records & events
since 2009
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