1. |
My Own Electric Ladyland
02:49
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When I awoke in a room, I had 24 at a time.
How can I tell you? They were all mine.
I know what I know because I’ve seen in the face
She said “I got you to remember your sins,
and you know I’m going to take off all my favorite things
I got you to remember the place”
Out of nowhere we’d untangled the taste
I know it’s only tentative, man
She said “I know it’s only tentative ,man
And, that body you know...that body is mine
What will you find?”
Well, you know what I’ll find out
if we count on my face
when I’m not yet of age,
when I’m not in your past tense,
a seminal man
Because the room is black
and it’s filled up with every woman that I’ve ever known,
every one I see including me is waiting for a goo-ray of hope
I’ve been patient,
but I grow impatient thinking about that body
I try to be patient but I just want to place it down onto the base and dig
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2. |
Do the Shadow
02:39
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I was just a kid when the wooly-bully said that I wasn’t right
“He’s a mistake" they said
"he’s only going to make it if we show him the light”
But they mis-spoke because the filament just broke
on every instrument the bullies tried
They said “the kid is light resistant,
and the local superstition says we’ve got to get him out of sight”
They cast me out, said “there can’t be any doubt about it,
Banish the baby”
I heard a sound coming off in the dark so I followed it, baby
When I found it,
Oh! How loud the sound was pounding on my banished little baby ears
I realized I was born a rocker
so I gave the door a knock and did the shadow
Come out of the light and do the shadow
I was just a kid when I found out where they hid we did the shadow
Come out of the light and do the shadow!
It was the crazies who raised me up
I grew up doing the shadow all the time
They hid me in their cloaks and spoke in codey jokes
You’ve got to run and hide to do the shadow
Come out of the light and do the shadow
Now every time I hear a sound come out of the dark I feel alright
Back at home the only thing they ever did was try to show me the light But I don’t want to see it and I wouldn’t want to be it
because it just wouldn’t be right
to let them fill you up with sleepers
and salute the creepy creepers who diluted every feeling in sight
There’s only one connection
if you want a good reflection to your pretty mind
You’ve got to run from the grey-face
Gotta find a safe place to hide
You must protect it
You’ve got to reject it if they ever try to show you the light
If you dream in color
Don’t you know you’re going to love to do the shadow
Come out of the light and do the shadow
If nobody’s quite like you, we insist that you be true and do the shadow Come out of the light and do the shadow
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3. |
Born To Lose
03:39
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Here’s what happens when they put you under the lamp:
I don’t believe in anybody since I heard the sound
Everything rings, everything moves the way it should
I don’t understand the things that I’m supposed to do
The postings on the page seem meaningless
"Feed your neck to a bear if you don’t need your head!”
Patty told Hatty every thing to do
“Find yourself a secret, something's wrong with you”
Then you’re covered in light.
“No good, born to lose”, that’s what they said
“Reach out close your eyes open your hand
Take a ticket, stick a cricket into your head
Better you, take two, do it again
You’re quickly getting sicker but we know what to do:
tell you little lies and you tell us their true
Keep the treatment secret because they won’t understand
Better you, take two, do it again”
Then you don’t know what to believe in, baby
But there’s nothing in your way when you become the sound
There’s nothing left to say
And you don’t know what you believe in
You know you’re covered in light
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4. |
Sound Was The Castle
01:21
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The littlest Shadow was using his hands
Sound was the castle
The quiet, the sand
Bring us the dreams that you don't understand
We have been waiting to see where you land
Mirrors around you
You know what they see
Nothing to long for and no one to be
Bring us a feeling that no one can flee
"Why?" was the question
The answer was free
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5. |
New Guitars
01:07
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I've been hoping and wishing
That someone would sweep me away
To a new land where I might wrap my hands
Around some new guitars, man
And play with some friends of mine
But they'd say
"Hey man, remember when they said you were
So fast, larger than the others?
You've been wandering, off in nowhere
Longer than what anyone asked for"
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6. |
Pure Terror
03:20
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We were zero to five
The year the bullies arrived
You know they came to neutralize every shadow alive
I was there with the gang the time the telephone rang
To say a sleeper bit the leader with his medicine fangs
We were zero to ten when they beat us again
Ran us out of the town
The shadows were down
Now we hide from the glow
Trashed our radio
When we heard the bullies on the air singing
"Pure Terror, on the TV
Pure Terror tonight
When you get the big bright fright in your sight
Pure Terror tonight"
We got letters from home, our friends were turned into stone
(Bullies) filled their bodies with light til the meters were blown
Then the kid came around to where the dances went down
He knew our favorite songs
He was singing along
So we put on our spikes, started planning our strike
Because we never met a shadow that we didn't like
We'll be zero to none before the fighting is done
And you hear the bullies on the air singing
"Pure Terror, on the TV
Pure Terror tonight
When you get the big bright fright in your sight
Pure Terror Tonight"
Pure Terror works on you slowly til you feel like you're burning alive
No more radio
Pure Terror makes you feel like you're burning alive
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7. |
It's Right There
01:03
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You're hiding from the mind that you own
It could never work
You hopeless little boy
Peak-a-boo!
It's right there
With your closet rods and feeding directions
You're a helpless little man
Freedom hooray
It's right there
It doesn't matter what distance you run
It's right there
You know you want to get it done
It's right there
You think about it all of the time
It's right there
You know that you got it if you need it
Because it's right there
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8. |
Light Show
01:29
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"Hey! Check out the Grey-Face
The Wooly Bully wash-up wasted one kid"
Wooly Bully wants to keep you easy
Feeding sleepers to your baby
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9. |
Puffy Cheek Town
02:19
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I know a place I can go
Where there's nothing left to see
Nightmares and fears
They come with ease
Be aware of the danger in the air
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10. |
Trans-America
02:36
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You could be anybody
Wrapped in a shadow
You could be anybody
Someone to kiss
I could be anybody
God knows I've got my shadow
How could you confuse me so very badly, baby?
I can't love just anybody
I care what they say about me
There's nothing so strange about me
I'm a different kind of lady
I've painted all my shadows white
Though I've forgotten yesterday
You say the same things they all say
That you can't love just anybody
You care what they say about me
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11. |
Out Of Sight
04:10
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Sudden Death
That's what you get
When there's no coo-coo feelings left
That's what you get
When you let the shadow thieves into your head
Keep your shadow in the ground
Because they'll know us by the sound
And the Wooly Bully hounds
Will balance us to put us down
We are the new young believers
We are the lucky shadows loyal dream receivers
They get smarter every day
And they'll trick you if they can
If you see them coming hide
From the lights in their eyes
First the Grey-face turns you blue
Then they split your mind in half
Which is them and which is you?
Who are you now?
Who are you?
We are the sons of Mother TV
We are the runaways who left nobody grieving
When I'm sitting in my room
And some square comes on the screen
In a soft light, telling me how flat my mind could be
"What do you do?"
Keep coo-coo
Hold your shadow closely too
There is only one of you
Keep coo-coo no matter what you do
We are the last living resisters
We are the oracle's intrepid seven sisters
And though we're losing as far as they know
We will die before we take their poison halo
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12. |
Killing A Shadow
02:44
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You were lost in the dark but we found you, Brother Dear
Your shadow was heavy with anger, pain, and fear
But we opened you up and filled your body with light
And your shadow flew off with the black ravens into the night
We filled your body with light
We killed your shadow with light
Your shadow flew off with the black ravens into the night
You were never alone with us, oh Brother Dear
But you ran to the poisonous world and left us all here
But we found you at last and you're back in our peaceful den
And we won't ever let your shadow come back here again
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