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I got up
Sold my shit
Told my boss I fucking quit
Kissed my family
Left my friends
Live my life before it ends
I got away
I got up
I got out
I got away
“Rock and roll,
LSD,”
don’t forget:
“fucking in the streets”
just like John Sinclair said
Revolutions start in your head
So get away
I got up
I got out
I got away
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2. |
Through Waterfalls
03:05
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02
Through Waterfalls
作曲：Alpine Decline
作词：Alpine Decline
Then I felt a drop, something wet on my face, touched a finger to my tongue, a coppery taste… no good.
Then I watched in horror as the rings of Saturn fell apart before my eyes in kaleidoscopic patterns… no good.
I watched it all through waterfalls.
Since that day, something I never mention, I’ve been staring at the world from a parallel dimension… but good.
Rip in the lens, like a tear in the screen, put a prism between me and the light that lit the scene… but good.
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3. |
No Turning Around
04:14
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03
No Turning Around
作曲：Alpine Decline
作词：Alpine Decline
Ruby, climb on up the stairs to me. I found a door, or maybe a window, through which we can flee our world and fly away. I found a door (or maybe a window) through which there is
No turning around. Cross the threshold and whatever follows our minds are pure and we’ll be there together if it’s real... and I believe it’s real.
Truly, I thought it was right. Open a door, or climb through a window, see that which lies beyond, or lies inside. Open a door (or climb through a window)... before you go, you should know:
No turning around. Cross the threshold and whatever follows our minds are pure and we’ll be there together if it’s real... and I believe it’s real.
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4. |
Flight Instructions
03:49
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04
Flight Instructions
作曲：Alpine Decline
作词：Alpine Decline
When the ground leaves your feet
Don’t be scared,
Try to breath.
If you see a flight of stairs
You must climb to the top,
You can’t turn away.
Wicked beasts will cross your path.
You must ask,
“Why are you here?”
Write these words on paper cards.
When the time comes to read them
You will know.
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5. |
Losing Control
02:45
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05
Losing Control
作曲：Alpine Decline
作词：Alpine Decline
Look at Mary... she’s losing control.
It’s kind of scary to see her go.
Then I saw her head swell like a balloon.
Then I watched her head fill the room.
So come back Mary... back under control.
It was kind of scary, but it’s over now.
Then I felt my head swell like a balloon.
Then I felt my head fill the room.
Then I felt my head drift to the moon.
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6. |
Get Out of the Way
02:45
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06
Get Out of the Way
作曲：Alpine Decline
作词：Alpine Decline
Get out of the way,
Remove yourself.
Do it for the truth.
Do it for your health.
Out in the desert light,
Blindfolded tight,
To lose yourself.
You got out of the way,
Released in the sea
An ocean of stars
Wash over me.
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07
Inside My Head
作曲：Alpine Decline
作词：Alpine Decline
Oh my baby, I hear you lately inside my head.
Like a laser to a receiver inside my head.
And though I kept my promises, I took too long to come back.
I prayed for safety, and stepped first bravely… I went ahead.
All visions fade dear, but you still wait here inside my head.
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8. |
Cowards
03:10
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08
Cowards
作曲：Alpine Decline
作词：Alpine Decline
I don’t want them to say that we were cowards.
I don’t want them to feel we were afraid.
We’d so much to lose, but what else could we choose than to fight unto the burning gates of hell?
I don’t want them to say these words were hollow.
I don’t want them to feel they were untrue.
We’d so much to prove, what else could we do than to fight up to the burning gates of hell?
Cross this world with you,
Holding on to
The vow that we’ll see this promise through.
I don’t want them to blame us for their sorrows.
I don’t want them to feel we let ‘em down.
God we’re such desperate fools, treating our words like jewels,
And we fight unto the burning gates of hell.
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9. |
Life in Prism
01:28
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09
Life in Prism
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10. |
Gems
02:31
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10
Gems
作曲：Alpine Decline
作词：Alpine Decline
Look at you talking down to someone higher than you.
From deepest underground, you better pray you’re fireproof.
I see it all just like a scene inside a precious gem:
What she did to me, I did to you, and now you did it to them.
Like a scene in a precious gem,
Ruby red diadem,
Nothing will touch us ever again.
You say your heart is like a chest full of precious stones:
Some you give to me, some I gave to you, some are just on loan.
I say my heart is like a fish in a paper bag,
Struggle to break free, struggle to breathe, big flop where I land.
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All your promises fall way too short
And all your apologies are way too long
You forgot to say what you think about me
You forgot to say the remedy
So now, how am I supposed to be the same way?
Strange how this chemistry just dissolves away
All my boundaries, my point of view
I forgot to be what I called myself
I forgot it, and then I lost it
So now, how am I supposed to be the same way?
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12. |
Too Long Away
03:38
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12
Too Long Away
作曲：Alpine Decline
作词：Alpine Decline
Today the sun feels warm and I accept that all these dreams are too heavy.
Today I rest from struggling to reconcile my heart and my body.
Too long away from you.
Too long away from you.
Is my memory disintegrating, baby, or does it still come through to you like flickering light cross the TV screen when you close your eyes?
Turning from the Milky Way I gazed into the darkness beyond us.
Distances expanded and I saw that we could never get close again.
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