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Vital Signs
04:16
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Vital Signs
Hey, Is anybody out there
Gotta move out, make out, test for vital signs
Hey, would anybody care
Bodies shut out, they shout out, lovers need new crimes
Testing for vital signs, a sound in a wash of light
I'm testing for signs of life, a sound in a wash of light
Hey, is anybody out there
Hope it falls out, burns out, trails the quiet night
Hey, would anybody care
Words they shoot out, breathe out, up towards the air
I'm testing for vital signs, a sound in a wash of light
I'm testing for signs of life, a sound in a wash of light
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Hanged Men
03:20
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Hanged Men
We walk in a straight line
Hate in our strangers' eyes
Limp hands, they keep the time
Heads talk and read our minds
We are hanged men, we help ourselves
And we are good men, we feel it
We see it but we need it need it need it
We hurt ourselves, yet we are good men
Sex talk in empty rooms
Where all her flowers bloom
We're guilty, all too soon
Lays with me, speaks the truth
Shake hands and make your deals
Your heart I yearn to steal
The secrets that you keep
I'll tell you how to feel
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Rumblemaker
03:52
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Rumblemaker
Day in, day out
Enter, a shout
Leaving no doubt
Dying without
Get up, fall down
Spill blood, no sound
Leave me, full grown
Lead me, to drown
If I could change your mind
If I lead you, would you follow me down
One day you'll find, there was no one around
Would you follow me down
There was no one around
Speak up, so loud
Selfish, still proud
You're thinning the crowd
So right, yet wrong
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Interstellar Smoke Signals
You're telling me we've got to stick together
To keep this light we've got to light forever
The days the weeks the seconds to hours
My needs of flesh I never say never
You're telling me we've got to stick together
My needs of flesh I never say never
The days the weeks the seconds to hours
"I smell of sex," you say. no whatever
Yes I have it
A monster for me
Yes I have it
A monster you see
You're telling me we have to wait forever
All hope is lost, you're mine to devour
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Panic
03:57
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Panic
You've set yourself on fire again, I'll push you down
And as your body turns to ash, the screaming sound
They'll drag your memory outside and watch you drown
All these heads have rolled tonight, but I'm not around
Yet I will not, I will not
Panic
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Reft
05:30
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Reft
Left me, have my senses gone?
I forgot what it's like to feel this way
What could you do?
Tick and tock the time does crawl
You've left me here with no words left to say
To feel it, too
A tiny shell of what I was
Commitments serve to get lost in our ways
I now hate you
Count the bodies on the backs of
Dreams the fools did steal from me
On this door, you tapped
Some poor soul will find you soulless
Lifeless, to shrink with the fear
I now am trapped
Love can break your heart
And I won't leave 'til you come back
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Search Party
03:46
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Search Party
i hear the voices in my head
of all of those who i've left down
my good intentions strike me dead
when rescue come we won't wait long
right through the madness, right by my side
straight through the darkness, you've saved my life
right through the skyline, our fates unknown
at sea for days, my search party
i hear the crew cry mutiny
a few more steps i'm overboard
and someone shouts "it's destiny!"
i'll let the tide now plot it's course
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Wendigo
08:49
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Wendigo
A long, Cold november
and the winds those nights
No, I can't remember
Yes, I'm lying
Oh, how could I forgive her,
and those juvenile hands?
Could she be the one,
and be my everything?
We love, we live, we lie
Don't move underground
But lover we are out of food
Don't move underground
My everything,
Don't move underground
My earthling,
Don't move underground
That fateful December,
and her cries that night
Yes, I still remember something more,
I'm not lying
Oh, how could you forget her,
and her gamy taste
She was the one
She was my everything
My little earthling,
Oh my everything
We love, we live, we lie
Don't move underground
Well, this will hurt me more than you
Don't move underground
My everything,
Don't move underground
My earthling,
Don't move underground
oh I, yes I...
We will find you
We will find you
(I won't wait forever)
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Impulsion
04:07
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Impulsion
There no time to waste
Open this door and make haste
All I get are these distractions
Let them take me away
Baby lost control
We all have lost control
There's no regrets, there's no retractions
Let them take me away
Maybe you've hit the mark
There is no time to start
All I have are these regressions
Just leave me this way
We've got no hope to spare
Here is some lust, to take care
Beat it until your satisfaction
Just leave me this way
How can you skin a man
And kill him right where he stands
All I have is this depression
Let them take me away
Let them take me away
Let them take me away
All I want is your reaction
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The Headshrinker's Ritual
Pull your hands from me
Look for yourself, oh baby you're a charming girl
Your mouth is criminal
Yet, I'm the one who puts your body in the ground
Saving your grace,
Yes, I'm too kind
Your knife is dull
You're crying now, some devil you claim to be
Love subliminal
Sobs so softly, no one can hear you now
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The Common Men San Francisco, California
Now in San Francisco, Sacramento Post-Punk Vanguards The Common Men are no strangers to wild live shows and sonic experimentation.
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Dark, noisy, and bombastic... this album is killer from beginning to end. The musicianship is stellar, and I'm not a big fan of female vocalists, but Amy is one huge exception.
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