LYRICS
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ASTERION
Watch a performance of this song.
Somebody told me
As if they know me
“Listen, you gotta beware.”
Somebody told me
It wasn’t holy
So, somebody sold me a prayer
‘Round every corner
What could be waiting?
Somebody told me, “Beware.”
Avoiding decision
Ever debating
‘Cause somebody told me, “Be scared.”
Asterion
Asterion, speaking of the stars
Asterion
Asterion, this harmony of ours
Lay your head down
Lay your head down
Lay your head down upon my lap
And listen to me sing
Let’s fall into the center
Of everything
Be quiet, be mindful and
Don’t you fight a thing
Let go of that silly piece of string
Part of the problem
Perpetuating
“Listen, you gotta beware.”
Self-evolution
Is the solution
Being the star of this affair
Asterion
Asterion, speaking of the stars
Asterion
Asterion, this harmony of ours
BACKWARDS MONEY
Not a single day goes by it doesn't burn
The surface of the earth
Not a single opportunity to learn
The wages of your worth
Backwards money in the door
Goes back to what we did
Before
Before
How to get from A to B the mystery
Of getting in the game
Being in the now while cashing out for history
How you ever gonna stake your claim?
Backwards money in the door
Goes back to what we did
Before
Before
If this is a game
I'm losing
I'm falling up the stairs
Like in my nightmares
And it's never happened to me
Before
Before
Backwards money keeps your feet from
Ever touching the floor
COLOURS
Can’t read the words through all
The colours in my head
Making out the story from
The things that you said
Lay it on my lightly,
I’m nervous and I’m strange
(Colours, colours)
Set the scene and set me up
For some brilliant change
(Colours, colours)
No one else knows how to give me
The show how you do
When you lure me into your
Shade and hue
Take me some place far from here
Some darkened back room
Or one of your islands with its
Traces of doom
What happens next is
A tick then a tock
And balls are in motion
For bombs going off
No one else knows how to give me
The show how you do
When you lure me into your
Shade and hue
Headaches from the movie
Motion sickness from the book
They could never reach me in the way you reach me
With your Goodbye Look
Colours, colours
Colours, colours
Colours, colours
Colours, colours
COMPANY
Haven't you ever wanted
To make somebody's dream come true?
Half my life all I've wanted
Is to someday sing a song with you
But will you ever know me?
And will I ever know you?
I have painted a picture
Where you are standing next to me
You are a central fixture
My heritage my company
But will I ever know you?
And will you ever know me?
I see it in my mind
How you will come to find
Room for me in your heart
Room for me in your life
I could be like a blister
The living trace of where you've been
Or I could be like a whisper
The cosmic goosebumps on your skin
Trying to remind you
That you have left a Cheshire grin
Showing up right when I need you
Then disappear again
But where am I to start
Combining world's apart?
The thread throughout my life
The pulse within my heart
EDGES
Watch the music video for this song - with ending 1/ with ending 2.
The anxious are the edges
That life has defined
The borders are drawn
Through this body and mind
Thick-skinned don’t notice
The edges thin-worn
What they’re busy undoing
While their doing’s being done
When you push it to the edges
Without checking for the pulse
When you push it to the edges
Without checking for the pulse
When you push him to the edges
And then ask him for the most
When you push her to the edges
And then ask her for the most
Edges only are expanded by
Permission of the host
Push it
Push, push it
Push it
Push, push, push it
Push it
Just as far as buddy wants
When you disregard the edges
You start dropping your croissants
The anxious are the edges
That life has defined
The borders are drawn
Through this body and mind
Thick-skinned don’t notice
The edges thin-worn
What they’re busy undoing
While their doing’s being done
When you push it to the edges
Without checking for the pulse
When you push it to the edges
Without checking for the pulse
When you push him to the edges
And then ask him for the most
When you push her to the edges
And then ask her for the most
Edges only are expanded by
Permission of the host
Push it
Push, push it
Push it
Push, push, push it
Push it
Just as far as buddy wants
When you disregard the edges
You start dropping your croissants
Push it
Edges only are expanded
Push, push, push it
Edges only are expanded by permission of the host
Push it
Edges only are expanded
Push it
Just as far as buddy wants
When you disregard the edges
You start dropping your croissants
Edges only are expanded by permission of the host
11:11 (ELEVEN ELEVEN)
Everything in moderation
On this lonely station
Bottom of the bottom line
Over being over-patient
It’s an over-under weaving motion
Like a magic potion
When you cut along that dotted line
Add it to the one adjacent
Over being over-patient
(One one dot dot one one)
Over being over-patient
EPCOTETTE
Someone’s got a lot to do
Painting every single room
In the house
Someone takes the far and wide
And she fits it all inside
The house
Do doot doo doodle doodle doo
She’s an asset to any crowd
Somethin’ in the dryer just a
A little bit to long so trust
It’s hers
Walls made out of paper cuts
Lighting made of “ifs and buts”
All hers
She’s an asset to any crowd
An asset to any crowd
But she won’t say a word out loud
Till she knows what she wants
Then it’s back to her own little world
Shrinkey dink it down to business
She will show you that’s all this is
Don’t forget the horitculture
Also on the miniature scale
She’s an asset to any crowd
An asset to any crowd
But she won’t say a word out loud
When she does it’s a sort of flash
And it suddenly all makes sense
When she knows what she wants
Till she knows what she wants
She’ll be here in her own little world
EXPRESSIONS
Trying to find expressions in a face that doesn't have them
Trying to find the answers from a source that doesn't grant them
The thing about intentions is you have to set them and then let them go
The thing about intentions is that over time they start to show
Wrinkle, wrinkle, wrinkle like a
Crinkle cut fry
Wrinkle wrinkle wrinkle wrinkle
Trying to use expressions when you can't recall the meaning
Trying to gather forces that are surely worth convening
Trying to find expressions...
The thing about intentions is you have to set them and then let them go
The thing about intentions is that over time they start to show
Wrinkle, wrinkle, wrinkle like a
Crinkle cut fry
Wrinkle wrinkle wrinkle wrinkle
Tippy toe, tippy toe, tippy toe toward attitude and answers
In tremolo tones and tomes to try
To find patterns
In the caverns
Of the Forty Winking Woods
Trying to chance encounter but it isn't gonna happen
Coming in out of towner while the demi-gods are nappin'
Trying to find expressions...
In a face that doesn't have them
And it isn't gonna happen
The thing about intentions is you have to set them and then let them go
The thing about intentions is that over time they start to show
Wrinkle, wrinkle, wrinkle like a
Crinkle cut fry
Wrinkle wrinkle wrinkle wrinkle
Wrinkle, wrinkle, wrinkle like a
Crinkle cut fry
Wrinkle wrinkle wrinkle wrinkle
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Staring quietly
Deeper into the bag
Considering what to reach in and get
Gently tumbling
The contents of the bag
And wondering if you've had the best yet
And you have to admit
There's ever less to choose from
But you're willing to bet
The best is still yet to come anyway
And you spend your spare time
Snacking on your options everyday
Oh, everyday
Stand up to stretch
Open your favourite door
The cool air hits you everywhere
Time passes by
Some things weren't made to last
The frosting from the cake is all that's there
And you have to admit
There's ever less to choose from
But you're willing to bet
The best is still yet to come anyway
And you spend your spare time
Snacking on your options everyday
Oh, everyday
Day day day, day day day, day day
FUTURE MOVING
What would it take to know that
Love is pushing forward
On my behalf when I am
Feeling like a coward?
I stop what I’m doing
I go back over all the positivity
A curse I’m avoiding,
Which has a crippling effect upon me
I can feel the future moving through me
I can feel the future moving through me
I can feel the future moving through me
I can feel the future moving through me
What would it take to know that
Love is pushing forward
On my behalf when I am
Feeling like a coward?
What would it take to know that
Love is pushing forward
On my behalf when I am
Feeling like a coward?
Failure, rejection
The higher self can only see the successes
Pretend in believing
In every “no” resounds a
Chorus of “yeses”
It progresses
I can feel the future moving through me
I can feel the future moving through me
I can feel the future moving through me
I can feel the future moving through me
What would it take to know that
Love is pushing forward
On my behalf when I am
Feeling like a coward?
IRON IN THE GROUND
Many people don't want ideas in their head
They'd rather sit around and drink wine until they are dead
And I don't blame them
"Please don't write a song that will get stuck in my head,
'Cause I don't wanna think about a word that you said
When you stop playing."
My buddy Louie had it right
When he said look inside your mind
'Cause inwardly you're endless
Try to comprehend this
You might like what you find
Many people don't want to think about stuff
Just want to be a palm person, and that is enough
To keep them going
"Please stop making art that I can't understand
If you don't got a genre then I can't like your band
And plus – it's boring."
My buddy Louie had it right
When he said look inside your mind
'Cause inwardly you're endless
Try to comprehend this
You might like what you find
You might like what you find
An iron in the ground
Buried in the dirt
An iron in the ground
Made it worth the effort
Buried in the dirt...
An iron in the ground
Made it worth the effort
An iron in the ground
Buried in the dirt
An iron in the ground
Made it worth the effort
But many people don't want ideas in their head
LIKE OXYGEN
It’s like oxygen, a need’s a need
Won’t last long without a puff
And like oxygen, it’s all or nothing
If you’re here at all, you know you’re all
And all’s enough
I need a
Spotlight
I need a
Highlighter pen
I need a
Amplifier where signal goes in
I need to
Make something unignorable out of the tiniest thing
I need to
Press any key to begin
Just begin
Find any place that it’s true
Thereby already win
All of this goes down
Down deep
Deep down
Down, down, down, down, down, down
Down within
I need a
Spotlight
I need a
Highlighter pen
I need a
Amplifier where signal goes in
I need to
Make something unignorable out of the tiniest thing
I need to
Press any key to begin
After a spin
Shoes that were once very new needing good breaking in
Find softened pleather now
Now right
Right now
Now, now, now, now, now, now, now
Comfort Inn
It’s like oxygen
Like oxygen
It’s like oxygen
(Oxygen)
A need’s a need
Won’t last long without a puff
It’s like oxygen, a need’s a need
Won’t last long without a puff
And like oxygen, it’s all or nothing
If you’re here at all, you know you’re all
It’s like oxygen
I am a
Spotlight
(Oxygen)
It’s all or nothing
I am a
Amplifier where signal goes in
And be sure I’m gonna
Make something unignorable out of the tiniest thing
I am a
(Oxygen)
Spotlight
I am a
Highlighter pen
I am a
Amplifier where signal goes in
And be sure I’m gonna
Make something unignorable out of the tiniest thing
Press any key to begin
ONE OF US
One of us is just around the corner
One of us is just around the block
One of us is running for the border
One of us is running from the clock.
One of us on the other side of tomorrow
All of us are here
We’ll find each other, we are here
There is only one of us, after all
One of us is just around the corner
One of us is just around the block
One of us is running for the border
One of us is running from the clock.
One
Of
Us
All at once, where an up is down (is, and isn’t)
All at once, you’re here
We find each other, we are here
There is only one of us, after all
After all
After all
One of us.
OUR FIRST DAY
When I first met you
Wasn’t it your first day on Earth?
Welcome home
Ooh, all the stories you told me then
Were like stories about somebody else
But you really knew how they felt
As if you’d been there yourself
When we plan and dream
It’s like a trip to Venus or Mars
Welcome home
Ooh, all the hopes that you shared from your heart
Weren’t just stories about somebody else
You really know how they felt
As if you’d been there yourself
It’s so very nice to meet you
As recycled tapes stop fluttering
Repeated scenes stop stuttering
It’s so very nice to meet you
This is our first day
It’s so very nice to meet you
As recycled tapes stop fluttering
Repeated scenes stop stuttering
Is this your first day here?
This is my first day here
This is our first day
If time’s the framework for show our brains work
You might want to follow your heart
‘Cause there’s a spiral, which “takes a while”
Yet happens at once from the start
And when you spin it while you’re in it
Particles fling and align
And every moment can be aglow with
Whatever, wherever, whenever, whoever,
However you are in heart and mind
And when we connect
Another circuit complete
Welcome home
Ooh, only moments ago till we meet
The future and the past? No big deal
Living in a gyroscope wheel
Because we know how we feel
It’s so very nice to meet you
As recycled tapes stop fluttering
Repeated scenes stop stuttering
Is this your first day here?
This is my first day here
This is our first day
It’s so very nice to meet you
As recycled tapes stop fluttering
Repeated scenes stop stuttering
Is this your first day here?
This is my first day here
This is our first day
REVELATION
Waking up from a century long nap
It was all I could do not to laugh
As I stepped in the shower
After the hour had passed
Observing the water begin
Trickling down this Human Grade Skin™
Like a guy in a novel
Who's having a revelation
I'm alive
This time I've arrived
When you get there you think it looks great
The rooms are quite large and they're closing the gate
To keep out the riff raff" they say "on your behalf"
But just wait
Every morning there is no such thing
Every evening there is no such thing
And for afternoon tea
Or a walk by the sea
NO SUCH THING
And that's why this is big
I'm alive
This time I've arrived
I'm alive, I'm alive
Like a guy in a novel I'm having a revelation
All those lifetimes you've spent by the pool
Of obsidian cosmos and galaxy drool
It's a common mistake
That you're bound to make but it's cool
'Cause one day you will roll on your side
And give up the deafening need to decide
And a pulsating "yes" will
Ooze forth from whence you still hide
And like me you'll sing
I'm alive
This time I've arrived
I've arrived
I've arrived
I've arrived
SHUT A MOUTH
There is nothing left to talk about
Nothing left to say, without a doubt
At least, nothing that we cannot live without
Right now we’re maybe gonna shut a mouth
If you want a mouth full of blood
All you gotta do is bite your tongue
(I don’t wanna talk about it)
Sounds like fun
(I don’t wanna talk about it)
And if you’re really not in the mood
For trying to hide, swallow your pride
(We can start to talk about it)
Open wide
(We can start to talk about it)
But there is nothing left to talk about
Nothing left to say, without a doubt
At least, nothing that we cannot live without
Right now we’re maybe gonna shut a mouth
Our turn, while you’re turning blue
That’s really not how this should go
(If you wanna talk about it)
Open wide
(If you wanna talk about it)
There in the scape of spoken or sung
Things that are said and left unsaid
Spin round in our head
Knot in the throat or tip of the tongue
Hearing each other but retroflecting
Own thoughts instead
Even if that’s not what was said
A stalemate, of a sort
On this old tennis court
So much for back and forth
But there is still so much to talk about
More we wanna say, without a doubt
More to hear we shouldn’t live without
Right now we’re maybe gonna shut a mouth
But there is still so much to talk about
More we wanna say, without a doubt
More to hear we shouldn’t live without
Right now we’re maybe gonna shut a…
SLIPPERY ROCKS
Rode a horse this summer
Felt the sun beat down upon my face
Not the first I've disappeared without a trace
Oh, when I was younger
Walked along with reservation
Toes in sand and deep in conversation
With the
Slippery rocks in the water
Tell me something I don't know
Please tell me something I don't know
Otherworldly wonders
Funnel down and on the path I find
What got buried in a capsule back in our time
And like all the others
Clicking sticks and joking through weekends
With the hope we were becoming more than friends
Asking
Slippery rocks in the water
Tell me something I don't know
Please tell me something I don't know
And I gather the rocks in my pocket
Just like drummers in a row
Pulse, tell me something I don't know
Oh, tell me the fun thing I didn't know
Were we something?
Or were we nothing?
I still don't know
STATIC
When you'd turn it up
I'd feel the sound
You'd found the sound, sound, sound
Why'd you turn it down
So low, so low
Low down, down, down?
I'm calling to request
A favourite song of mine
You haven't played it
In a long, long time
People say it's dull
People say it's bland
Too hard to sing along
To hard to understand
I'm calling to request
A favourite song of yours
You haven't played it
Since you held me in your arms
You don't want the world to know
Our secret telegram
If you aren't gonna say it
Then I guess I am
I am
When you'd turn it up
I'd feel the sound
You'd found the sound, sound, sound
Why'd you turn it down
So low, so low
Low down, down, down?
When you'd turn it up
I'd feel the sound
You'd found the sound, sound, sound
Why'd you turn it down
So low, so low
Low down, down, down?
Static makes it
Kinda hard to understand
What you are, and what I am
But try to understand
THEATER OF MIRRORS
I had to be right so I gave you the right to wrong me
I had to be wrong just to prove when you're right I could be a strong me
I had the habit of saying that things drove me crazy
But I was driving the crazy, turns out, and so you see
I don't give a damn about right and wrong anymore
Just wanna be friends
Just wanna hold hands
And go to the store
I don't give a damn about right and wrong anymore
I had the feeling the eyes of the world were watching
So it's a wonder there wasn't more serious botching
Does a chameleon change to the scene, or the other way around?
It doesn't matter, at least that's what studies have found
If it's a theater of mirrors, reflecting what you are
A theater of mirrors, oh-woah
If it's a theater of mirrors, reflecting what you are
A theater of mirrors, oh-woah
If it's a theater of mirrors, reflecting what you are
A theater of mirrors
Shoudn't it be
A fun, fun
Fun house?
I got the feeling that nothing can possibly phase me
If it's a theater of mirrors it's gonna amaze me
I don't give a damn about right and wrong anymore
Just wanna be friends
Just wanna hold hands
And go to the store
I don't give a damn about right and wrong anymore
WANTS TO WANT TO
Watch an early performance of this song.
I got a friend who wants to want to
Get out of bed and do the things that
Other people do
Like me and you
A friend who wants to want to
A friend who wants to want to want to
I got a friend who wants to want this
Gets out of bed and tries to care to
Open up his fist
To not resist
A friend who wants to want this
A friend who wants to want to want this
A friend who wants to want to
A friend who wants to want to want to
Wet wipe in your pocket for sticky situations
Eat your barbecue and deny the allegations.
Used to see it that way but flip side of the coin
Will for will means way for way…
Yeah, that’s the conversation.
I got a friend who wants to want me
To stop pretending one day loose ends
Will supposedly
Be more orderly
A friend who wants to want me
A friend who wants to want to want me.
A friend who wants to want this
A friend who wants to want to want this
A friend who wants to want to
A friend who wants to want to want to