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#5
02:31
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who is ready to end a life?
sink the car
burn the ships
let your thoughts turn violent
this is a heatwave
this is a boneyard
sink the car
burn the ships
let your thoughts turn violent
now waste away
waste away
in your summer holiday
down the hole on the road of the sun
possessed by that demon
what is this I've become?
if you remain a fool for this worthless shit gold
you will never grow up, you will just grow old
you will not die in the warmth of love
you will just go cold
this shining fury
this holy sound
this is the thought
that will bring you down
this is the soul
that will bring you down
just rip the filth from your life and say: 'this is the end!'
poison fangs will touch us
never again
never again!
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#3
01:40
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adjust your eyes to the holy frequency
and escape! escape! escape into ecstasy
the tides that come and come and come again
will never let your soul want for anything
let geometric patterns overcome my sight
let the little hands carry us into the night
release from your fist the final strand
only the world ends
sing of symmetry and start to believe
breathe through finger tips and receive
the beauty that comes when it comes and it comes in bends
when you break the hands of time you are truly listening
dissolve in immortality
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#15
02:30
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this is a rapture by gilded means
how's this ascension’s fuel efficiency
deadweight gods on cargo planes
weak child, deliverer
come forth, deliver us
a soft home for the inane
these four walls
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#17
02:34
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incompatible lifestyle choices
and seven fun things to do on the beach
for philosopher-kings who lie and deceive
but love you for who you truly are
down in your hole trying so hard
to be magical
but you’re so so scared
of saying your name in the dark
yes, you’re so scared
of being who we think you are
well if you’re so scared
is this love or politics?
it’s stones and it’s fucking sticks
don’t you want to meet hot singles in your area?
live large and ceremoniously decorate their labias
I refuse to be paralysed
like you slavers and beggars
so poorly unable to transcend
brownian motion of the physical life
I confess to what I want
so fuck you and the height of your horse
pour me a thimbleful of fire
set sail for collision course
oh, we’re all beautiful people
but believe me when I say we got problems
we built this ship to celebrate the wreck
don’t expect to brave the storm in it
but let’s wear high on our pretty heads
our pretty idiot crowns
better believe I’ll drink this whole ocean
before I fucking drown
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5. |
#8
01:46
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like a locked door could ever keep me out
surprised to see the shimmer in my eyes?
what do you think this black hole heart is for
how am I wronged if no one's ever right
you grip my spine and think I wouldn't be aware
but you can't see beyond these walls
time to derail this runaway
you've got no idea what you're heading for
the only way to escape the train tracks
is to become a train wreck
I'll show you precious sweet free love
as if we have a choice to not be animals
it's okay we both live this way
I refuse to let that beast be fed
your heart has a scheme
my brain has a plan
you want to fuck with me
this wolf has other tricks
up his sleeve come and see
lockjaw!
caught your leg in this trap again
bones cut and down those dirty lips descend
let's see if this battle we can't transcend
two can dance to this one, just follow my lead
this sickness in you, I will fix it
let my ghost enter you
let go
it's okay we both live this way
I'm gonna let that beast be fed
your heart has a scheme
my brain has a plan
let's just fuck until we forget
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6. |
#7
02:59
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a house of cards
a matchstick shack
a desolate ruin
built on the quickest of sand
hardly I survive
so hard just to survive
how can anyone
have any control over this life?
you stack whatever mud you find
and take whatever life will give
this is the house in which you live
your foundation’s shot
and your walls are full of rot
if this is all you have
well, you don’t have a lot
a house of cards
a matchstick shack
why not start from scratch
but if I lose this all
how will I defend
there’s the wolves at the door
and there’s cold harsh winds
this is all
all I’ve ever had
and it’s familiar
though I know it’s terribly sad
I see no end and I see no start
so how do I begin
there’ll be no wolves at your door
when you don’t have a door
there won’t be any wolves
when you do not have a door
wolves a the least of your problems
this can’t be how you want to live and die
in this cold-as-shit house in which you can not even stay dry
whatever ashes could make for fertile soil
and all this wood could be turned into coal
so light a flame in your heart
this is how you start
burn it like a fever
burn it like heathen lovers
burn it like the fool's gold
throw away all these useless things
and incinerate centuries of wasted wallowing
rip the blisters on your finger tips
and if there’s only one thing that you do
as you stand on the charred remains of what once was your domicile
believe in lightness
let the blessed wrecking ball into your life
let the blessed wrecking ball into your life
let the blessed wrecking ball into your life
let the blessed wrecking ball
let loose, summon the squad
take-down approach for the lovely lost and all
that we don't need is to lay low
what we need is violent iron to crash down
swaying high on the sound of our burnt-out hallelujah
if this is your life
call down the destroyer
let the wrecking ball in
don’t submit to these feelings
just embrace this
fists first, eyes bright
then release with full abandon
until all has become
the lightness of dust
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#4
02:52
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when you cut my eyelids you say you'll take it slow
well I've waited long enough, let's go
like a rabid dog that was cut loose from its leash
I can see my iris reflected in your teeth
if you're the first to cast that stone, I want to see you sweat
if you're slouching towards Bethlehem, I want to see you sweat
the mouths come with crosses, the mouths come and go
the hand provides you with the powder, the pill, the bottle
as the oily fish spit out their oily prey
if we're to rot on the beach at least
set fire to me
so I can see you sweat
and when our filthy bodies collapse
I want to see you sweat
rich fools are your heroes
it is cheaper to die
in order to survive
you'll do whatever you can
radiated men will eat the flesh of radiated men
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#2
01:59
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part your lips and let your tongue sing out like forever
what happens and happens and happens and happens is us
if you want to play, this is the only game in town
we are the waves and the collapse
death is no obstacle for those who have seen beyond the wall
dance! and drift away with me
if you fight for diamond rings, you're gonna lose everything
if you fight for diamond rings, you're gonna lose everything
shed
your diamond rings
break
down
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#6
02:17
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there was love
and there was your dagger
now there’s no health in us
there is no remedy for memory
there were hearts
and there was a stone
now here's the bottom of the lake
there is no remedy for gravity
there is no elegy for you & me
there is no us
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#9
02:02
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if your ghost drives a meat-covered skeleton
fire up those bones, let’s go
our ghosts drive stardust skeletons
so fire up those bones
is this the way out, we all want out
to rise above it like clouds
a secret pact, a handshake, a toast
an underground tunnel, leading us to
pure gold
a golden soul, a lover
a straight track
out from the country side
our phoenix rising from the ashes and the smoke
will leave something for the villagers
to contemplate, a new beat, a new sound
a warning shot for them to get down
mongrel drop-brows with broken wits
quit your idiot chants and listen to this
this new world will dance along without you
we pity you and your sad confusion
we regret that you have voting rights
but don’t let that stop you
from opening up to new ideas
let go of your senseless bigotry
try something new for a change
learn to love
you too can be
pure gold
a golden soul, a lover
a straight track
out from the country side
our phoenix rising from the ashes and the smoke
will leave something for the villages
to choke
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#14
02:08
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sabretooth preachers
are you ready to see what your heathen children will become
dancing their eyes out
make you so so proud
candles that were meant to point our way
will light the sky
at raves
here in our neon cesspools
we turn and turn and turn
solved those dog mathematics
and cast our heavy spells
wide eyes, insufflated
our bodies smashed around
clawing with great pleasure
sine waves get up and sine waves get down
and all this here in existence is but a song that is waiting to dissolve
debilitated? no, we’re still instilled with a deep will to outwit the dinosaurs
to say we’re lost? no, I wouldn’t say we’re lost at all
but adrift, oh yes, adrift along the the cosmic shore
our minds stuck in their motion
comforting daydream of a species that floats flash-frozen in the void
you suffocate by the tick of the clock
we learn to breathe by the sound of the beating drum
you suffocate by the tick of the clock
we learn to breathe by the sound of the beating drum
you suffocate by the tick of the clock
we learn to breathe by the sound of the beating drum
you suffocate by the tick of the clock
we learn to breathe by the sound of the beating drum
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#18
02:18
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sing an elegy for what washed away
life will cycle on in mountains
in salt-water marshes
yet whole islands of our arrogance
going, going, gone, done and said
no, not quite! no, not quite yet!
calamity, our necessary friend
disregard the throne
watch the clock
and check these locks
cast not forward your malcontent
be enraged about now
lace up lovingly
your leather boots
they want fresh water
and to see your enemies dead
vacate your homestead
get ready
vacate your homestead
get ready for combat
relativize all you want
on your door you will come
to hear the knocking of boots
you thought would not come
be ready
or become undone
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13. |
#13
02:49
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we’re all entangled
inside this chemical web
you take the substance
if only for a moment
to forget
(fuck yeah!)
we’re all entangled
inside this chemical web
you take the substance
if only for a moment
explore a tilted world
but the neurons refuse to release
serotonin to synapse
a construct’s collapse is imminent
with heart nor mind receptive
words go silent in the wind
the runner will not reach the call
the falcon can’t hear the falconer
but there’s a way
to fight the fall
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#19
02:05
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like letters spelt out in an insect's dream
it teaches me the meaning of holding on
of continuous interactive improvement
and how to undo my unease at the seams
push back the weight
them breaks are as ever, but break now evenly with me
bread and wine, intertwined
does it truly
seem so random
us lovers collide willingly
though surfaces, through our silent seas
this new life has that particular flavour
just when you think we’re sinking
a grasp, a glisten, a tug from the swamp
a burden released, a debt payed up front
it’s in the way we turn pages
it’s in the way we name the our ever repeating ages
all we know
all that matters
to collide and form new bonds
to tear apart
to turn our cheeks
to breathe life into matter and shatter
like a single bright star
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Tijger Salto Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Three-piece post-hardcore/punkband from
Amsterdam
Rob de Witte
/// Bass & Piano
Tim Mooij-Knip
/// Drums & Drums
Benjamin van Gaalen
/// Vocals & Synths
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