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Oh
03:46
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Oh, you’re shocked, uh ha
Looked better to you. You’re taught. Whoa oh
Your luminous! And you’ve lost the art
You’re mulling it over, and it’s dying
Got your justice, ha ha ha ha
Do you cross
Do it too late. Filling in your loss. Oh oh.
And i do.
Friend I knew
Sad true face
A wedding
i’ve abandoned
She looks away
Your roads divide
I remember, you’ve been timeless. Whoa oh
In the air. Luminous, ah ha. Tease her all day
You're Shocked
Ahhhh
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Tiny Game
(version recorded in London, 1994)
Crudest
Fall into your heart
See direct
Fall, falling apart
Who is
Fall, up in your tower
History
Fall
Gone, the other way
Here’s the other way
Gallows to God send
Please go. You wanted all time
Why is dark
Water. Water
Don’t go
Believe her
Bemused all the time
Always
All day light
All the time, I am the living
All the time, I am in your dreams
All the time, I am the envy
All the time, I only look like
All of, all of, all of the time —so!
All, always
Please touch me now
All, always
Pieces of her rage
All, all ways
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Bloody Harmonies
04:35
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Escape Velocity
05:05
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Screen Dream
06:21
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kiss it color it destroy
Why is it dark?
No more blessed hark the day
Then realize the teal cold rays
Gripping drama help us to find
Etched upon the great steel design
You will wait for the roar
From the comfort of the raw earth
Invite you in for breakfast
your tears are hot
you go in listening
You will wait for the roar
In the comfort of the raw earth
Allude the dark the years will dance
And I come when they dye into one
Evening hid me from the sun
All the colors hurt
_________
The lyric came from a dream I had about Lisa Orth who had a physical screen that she would pass through people's torsos to cure them from illness.
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Song without Words
04:46
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Song without Words
by Char Easter
Recorded at Mute records in London UK in 1994
Passing the space of mud beliefs
In quiet recounting
Allegiances a moth
to behold in stable garbling
So come on and feel the danger
And fixed allegiances
To be a crowded beast
With lots of odds and ends
And vision stops to blemish white
So come on and feel the danger
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Patience
04:07
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Shut Up
03:52
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Shut up
(First section of lyrics are unknown)
The sky is red, the light is blue
What's stopping you? What's stopping you?
Now you see it; cut cut cut
Out the window. Shut him up
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Common Language Seattle, Washington
Common Language was an ethereal goth band from Seattle. Name is based on the Adrienne Rich poem "Dream of a Common Language." Formed 1989 by Char Easter (vocals, bass), Gretchen Wenner (guitar), and Mary Lake (guitar), "If Sonic Youth and Cocteau Twins borrowed Big Black's drum machine they might come out with a sloppier-sounding version of Common Language"--UW Daily. Signed w Blast First 1991. ... more
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