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the Thunderbolt @ Six Flags / Great Adventure


Top Pocket Man

now for how long could you be top pocket man?
now for how long could you keep the glass shut tight around you
try and fill your lungs with the shards you walk through?
I won, I won!
(?...)
light up your gongs!
write all your wrongs!
I won, I won tickets back to where you came from
I won all the tools you tried to keep
now for how long could you drool before you sleep?
now for how long can you prove your talent works for those who miss the first cue when with the next clue they always find you?
now for how long
now for how long
now for how long
now for how long


The Guard Attacks

filing through the gates the doorman takes your chinese star
hiding in the stacks the guard attacks and nails you hard
chattering in these excited states
your uncertain age gives me the shakes
sell me your taste in the case that my heart can only kill me
make this go fast
I want it now, I want it now
excited states
sell me your taste in the case that my heart can only kill me
make this go fast
I want it now
there's damage to report
hiding in the stacks, the guard attacks
hiding in the stacks, the guard attacks
hiding in the stacks, the guard attacks
hiding in the stacks, the guard attacks


Unreal Is Here

yes, you will do now what can't be done
your unreal is here now
correct you can learn now what truth denies
your unreal is here now
there is nothing to not be amazed at
there are weeks upon years upon days that
things that can't happen happen to you
your unreal is here now
there is nothing to not be amazed at
there are weeks upon years upon days that
there are weeks upon years upon days
just take this with you
just take this with you
just take this with you
just take this with you
just take this with you
just take this with you


Pakistani Day Parade (NYC)


New Room

may light fall upon you and lead you to your home
may I not look on you and take you for my own
for what fell upon you all my dim views couldn't help
first light in a new room
if at first sight that I wake to doesn't feel right or doesn't feel new
feels just like today
then on that day what can I go buy that I can take to make this go by?
I waited so long to see it go by


Route 202, Bear Mountain, N.Y.


Tight Around The Jaws

you (erased the phase), you're halfway through
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and the good times you had, well they just weren't yours
we saw who dropped you off a block from the store
his drilling will stick
now you can predict the excuses you'll make and whose words they'll all take
rubs against the loss
tight around the jaws

"say goodbye to the team" said the separator with your hot little ears and your stomachache mouth
time to sell out what you bought into and come to second guess the smile she just gave you
"I'm here to tell you you were playing with dolls and making explosion sounds - everyone heard"
tight around the jaws
look and see how low we're getting over
overall, we will be lower

thank the separator
the best parts are coming later
overall, we will be lower
overall, we will be lower
overall, we will be lower
overall, we will be lower


Lions

got so thin from one decision
saw what goes down hasn't risen
after all this something good has got to happen
something good's got to happen
sleep with the lions
I'll stand respectfully in horror and wait
got so thin from one decision
I wait attentively and load up my plate
saw what goes down hasn't risen
I smile respectfully in horror and wait to hear who's next


the general post office annex construction ~1988


Our Boys Will Shine Tonight

wrap it around you
bad news found you
go on and
wrap it around you
bad news found you
go on and
our boys will shine tonight
go on, move along
you can't leave home without one on
be sure, be warm, be wrong

now that you've found new channels to go through, go on and block off the roads to what you once knew
go on
be (one), move along
you're safe from what you deserve
you paid to have my word
our boys will shine tonight
they will say your heart is not evil
they will say to smile
they will say your heart is not evil
wrap it around you
they will say to smile
wrap it around you
they will say your heart is not evil
wrap it around you


Memorize This Face

hung out on the gates
looked up through the grates
memorize this face
better days will haunt you
they will say who wants to own you
find the other ways to slip the light through
better days will haunt you
you let your model home surround you
find the other ways to push the air through
and break the seal
my touch won't feel
and time wounds all heels
if I told a lie I'd be the last to know


Cold Joys

pulled out alive
picking out the ones I didn't want to care for
no more collections of salted confections
this is where it stops
they're unleashed again
burning through your afternoons
the new joys await you
holding up the high sign
shouting out the punch line
burning through your afternoons
the cold joys await you

now that I need more, picked out all the ones I didn't want to care for
spilled out on this floor
and this is a move that I am not prepared for
what did I stare for?
I did not think I'd be here beating out the dust from a coat I manufactured
where did I learn to make it?
I salted my confections


Flight '96

if the glow from above could seep through, spilling out
what a find you would be to sleep through
to keep new
all the rust in my mouth spilling out:
"if the glow from above, spilling out, could seep through
now that I'm getting lost, what a find you would be to sleep through
to keep new"
if the glow from above could seep through


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Ever Overpsyched (words by Clay)

"what's up?" as he arrived smiling bright
ever up and ever overpsyched
on every single count he won
Scott tried to let him know that I'm no fun
I hung out to take the overflow
it didn't matter - he won
instead I learned from my sunburn - no misunderstanding
go motor, orangeman
it's over now
until you overbrown, you win


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You Must Be Stopped

so you must be stopped
annihilate the next 2 months
I can float unwatched and get stuck hanging from my thumbs
my team's starving in the stable
the experts were unable to get a clear view of your table
said you must be stopped
I get so mild about you
when you throw your block, I'm just about to oooo, yeah
and for all the bones you rattle, we'll complicate the battle
the experts were like cattle and did not think about you at all
all I wanna do is open my barrage
all I wanna do is open my barrage
starving in the stables, the experts still not able
and all I wanna do is open my barrage
'cause you must be stopped

fishing boat on Black Lake, NY

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