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Ton Up 'Till The Sun Up
04:10
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Ride all night with a grip on the gun
paint my face go to war with the sun
bake my brains in the noonday heat
back the fuck up
let the boy breathe
evil city and money a bad disease
greed built the skyline
protected it with police
now billionaires own the planet
and we do not own a thing
we rent our little apartments
and live inside our machines
now the whole worlds watching
apathy on the rise
and my own mind is similar
claustrophobic with lies
on a dead planet
this ego it weighs a ton
and I ride all night
No method except for this weaponized style
howl like a wild thing
sign of my kind
that magic respected in inner circles
give a fuck what you’ve been thinking
with your gentrified mind
no secrets to keep
secrets to speak
I got a serpent on the brainstem
sign of my fire
live from the city that burned twice
ghosts from a dark time howl on the turnpike
I hear em laughing in restaurants by the capital
thats where executives and politicians meet
I seen em linin up in prison cafeterias
behind these walls it is still 1853
and in the houses on the hill
its all summertime
we knew that summer that something just had to give
we watched em profit off the rising tides of violence
I was thinking bout you on the Leigh Street Bridge
and Helicopters all hover over the city now
must get expensive keeping everything in place
ain't nowhere safe
you can put that on my grave
you can put that on my canines
I keep em busy now
I keep it wild live
fury by design
serpent on the brain stem
sign of my fire
three a.m. find us tripping down the freeway
keep the style killer
keep the business in a briefcase
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2. |
Infinite Dunes
03:40
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Give me back those hills
give me back those open acres
trapped in the back of my mind
I’d kill for a minute there
give me back those dreams
those days when the could have beens
still floated like
origami airplanes riding that summertime heat
let me travel to the moon again
give me back those dunes
those sacred sandy deathtraps in the afternoon
track mud through eternity
someone get me to a doctor
things are not right here
must be a breakdown
some sorta nightmare
everything is gone
and you can never go home
and you can call it what you want
you can drive to the ocean
search through the night
pledge god your devotion
but all things go
and it is better that way
and though it may seen strange
and your heart might break
you cannot stay
Steal it from me
take what you want
sell it to me
what do you want
sell it to me
I was thinking last night
about the pain of God
about the burden of being
something so damn famous
something everybody wants
and probably all your old friends
don’t think that you’re around
cause all your new acquaintances
have got you runnin errands
for the bosses downtown
and at night when you sleep
you dream about dreams
you dream about how
the path is laid out
and what it all means
maybe walk through fire
maybe walk in the light
maybe meet yourself
at a fork in the road
in the middle of the night
but would you know your name
would you know your name…
Steal it from me
take what you want
sell it to me
what do you want
what do you want
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3. |
Slow Learner
02:55
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War is All Around You
Chaos Reigns inside You
Its The Same No Matter Where You Are
Cuttin’ Records with your Head on Fire
War is All Around You
Chaos Reigns inside You
Its The Same No Matter Where You Are
Cuttin’ Records with your Head on Fire
Everywhere you go Its all the Same
Dance for Money and Forget Your Name
Tell me your secrets
Take me Inside of your Home
Show Me some Confidence
Cut yourself Down to the Bone
You’ve Been on My Mind
For Thousands of Miles
Tell me your secrets
Take me Inside of your Home
Show Me some Confidence
Cut yourself Down to the Bone
You’ve Been on My Mind
For Thousands of Miles
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4. |
De Dood
01:58
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All hail the King of changing seasons
Thin Man with the Bad News on his mind
Ghost Man gonna dissipate out into the dust again
We all Know yea We All Know
All Hail the Champions of Yesterday
All Those before who Said the Same
They Lie there cold beneath the ground like any Ordinary
We All Know Yea We All Know
All Hail the King of Changing Seasons
Thin Man with The Bad News on His mind
Ghost Man Gonna Dissipate out Into the dust again
And all our crowns are on the ground
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5. |
Early Eve Of Your Rising
04:02
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Please Don’t Ever Doubt it My Love
The Day that You left was a kick in the teeth
All quick and Disfiguring
Felt like Waking Up
in a Strange Room
Groping the wall for a light switch you know must be there
coming around empty handed
to the slow but insistent conclusion
Its Too Fucking Early For This
and I’m barely here
Just give me some light
Oh I Need You
I Need You
I Need to at least find my keys
Its too late for my prophetic nonsense
too dark to see anything much either way
we’re already Knee Deep in violence
too late for appeasement
or protest or sharpening blades
just give me some Light
And Don’t Ever Doubt it My Love
Please Don’t Ever Doubt it my Love
The Day that you left left me out in the streets
all shifted and sobering
Felt Like Waking Up
Its all So Mesmerizing
Blind and Baffle My Eyes
all the Fire and Drama
It went by in an instant
and all the wild Phenomena
bound to capture my mind
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6. |
Old Mill Road
02:14
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Take Take me Down
Down Old Mill Road
Weigh Weigh me down
with Heart Shaped Stones
Break break me down
break break
break break
gotta hand it to ya
must be pretty fine
looking back and
just counting’ money
the stars are for ya
and sattelites
you got a gun and
you own a country
gotta hand it to ya
must be pretty fine
looking back and
just counting’ money
the stars are for ya
and sattelites
Take Take me Down
Down Old Mill Road
Weigh Weigh me down
with Heart Shaped Stones
Break break me down
break break
break break
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7. |
Emeute
02:28
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Greed took hold of their days
Fear had stolen their eyes
they refused to face
they refused to name it
so in the dark they lost their way
bargained away their time
they built the law
and they called it safe
and its safe to call it
safe to call it
Strike One for the City
Taken Down in the Fire and Rage
No God no Asylum
and All tomorrows are swallowed by a wave
The true gravity of tides and erosion
all things slide back to the sea
wild firestorm of power and illusion
short time here
ask anybody
Greed took hold of their days
Fear had stolen their eyes
they refused to face
they refused to name it
so in the dark they lost their way
bargained away their time
they built the law
and they called it safe
and its safe to call it
safe to call it
Strike One for the City
Taken Down in the Fire and Rage
No God no Asylum
and All tomorrows are swallowed by a wave
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8. |
Seegee's Dreams
03:50
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Sunlight through the barricades
casts their shadows to the ground
shifting patterns
maybe we might all be part of something
a sacrifice
a ceremony
Harder to see
the flames are brighter than they used to be
and everything we know is swinging upside down
lions and tigers eat their tamers on the mezzanines
a spectacle
a circus fire
Like waves from the ocean
we’re out on our own
these gods and their angels
are gone and will not guide you home
these darkening visions
they crash on my eye
like ships in the distance
like shadows of craft in the sky
Moonlight through the autumn leaves
seven circled all around
(a ceremony)
something ancient breaking through
beyond the wall of static
a sudden dawn
an anamnesia
the burning sky will paint a pattern of its manifesting
the hum of all your science oscillating round
a million hours through the dark of night just tending fires
illuminated
and all our crowns
and the drama of the stars and the satellites
the love and terror of my mind and its appetites
and all these powerful designs
built to shatter my eye
Like waves from the ocean
we’re out on our ow
these gods and their angels
are gone and will not guide you home
these darkening visions
they crash on my eye
like ships in the distance
like shadows of craft in the sky
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P.T. Burnem Richmond, Virginia
Al Shipley of the Baltimore City Paper called P.T. Burnem "A captivating performer, with an intense physicality matching his deep commanding voice and dark, dense production". His aggressive stage presence and articulate flow have captivated crowds as far away as Moscow, and as close as Joey's Basement. His latest record, "Ornithopter" is slated for release in Mid-February 2012. ... more
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