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She had to leave Ohio
Find a strength she’d never known
She had to shed her skin
What she was was too far away from what she was within
You pay the price / To be yourself
When you’re not the one / The world expected
But we are each a universe
Where every drifting moon / Deserves a spinning Earth
Everything you are, we are, too.
She followed her dreams to New York
A thousand feet in the air she found love
He said “You should never feel alone. You had the light in you all along.
“Do not live life as a shadow… I know…
“You pay the price / To be yourself
When you’re not the one / The world expected
“But you and I make a universe
Where every drifting moon / Finds a spinning Earth
Everything you are, I am, too.”
In the clouds and in his arms
She let go of right and wrong
Tore away her shirt; threw away her tie
Turned her shadow into a sword
You pay the price / To be yourself
When you’re not the one / The world expected
But you and I make a universe
Where every drifting moon / Finds a spinning earth
Everything you are
Is a universe
Where every drifting moon / Finds a spinning Earth
Everything you are, we are, too.
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All The Rage
05:06
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She spent 27 years in an inland town
And she dared herself to rage every time she stopped looking down
And then the ad in the paper said “Dreams come true!
“Just get downtown and see you know who…
“If you know how to rage, then we want you!”
She bought an audition dress at Main Floor in the Redlands mall
And she nearly died when the salesgirl said
“You know, that dress, it kinda makes you look…tall.”
And then she got up this morning and waited in the queue,
Then they said, “Sit here until we call for you.
“There’s dreamers in front, who queued up, too, to be…”
All the rage and out tonight.
All that rage in black and white
In the public eye and out of sight
To be all the rage.
Someone said, “Never mind her, just get yourself downtown.”
When her sister said “Give it up, baby, it’ll never work out.”
So now she’s in a folding chair against a fake fake wall
as the sun goes down outside a windowless hall,
and she can’t lose her shit ’cause her name’s been called…
She blew them away in that downtown room
And now we see her everywhere like a Sun God…
And her hometown paper gave her the whole home page
Now she gets a table where she used to dance a cage
And she’s never alone, now that she’s
All the rage. And out tonight.
All that rage in black and white
In the public eye and out of sight
She’s all the rage…
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Melody Chaos
04:24
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So there you have it, we wrote our ticket out
We’re headed anywhere we want to choose
We never really planned it, just never had doubts
We were going somewhere – never gonna lose
Yeah, the stakes are high
But our vision’s clear
And neither of us is pure, but our moment’s here
It’s ok to embrace uncertainty
A quiet life we may never see
But for now this noise makes a symphony
In the middle of chaos, you’re my melody
So here I’m landing, took the red eye out
I see the causeway that leads to you
St Mary, guide me down from the clouds
Harmony, carry me through
So there you have it, we wrote our ticket out
We’re headed anywhere we want to choose
It’s ok to embrace uncertainty
A quiet life we may never see
But for now all this noise makes a symphony
...let this noise make a symphony
In the middle of chaos, you’re my melody
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3. “I could’ve saved him.” (x4)
14. You wouldn’t know he was an Oscar winner.
10. When asked if he had ever sold Hoffman drugs
5. He said “If I was with him, it wouldn’t have happened.”
7. He said he had known the 46-year-old “Capote” star for about a year.
3. “I could’ve saved him.” (x4)
8. Hoffman injected
18. He claims he last saw Hoffman — high — in October.
11. “When we got together, we talked about books.
4. “If I knew he was in town, I would’ve said, ‘Hey, let’s make an AA meeting.’
3. “I could’ve saved him.” (x4)
6. “Not under my guard.”
17. The star’s final, four-month struggle against drugs.
12. And art.
9. 73 bags of heroin found in a Greenwich Village apartment.
15. He loved his kids. (x4)
3. “I could’ve saved him.” (x4)
13. “He was a normal guy.
2. “He was my friend.
16. “I offer my condolences to his family.
1. “I didn’t kill him — and I could’ve saved him.”
3. “I could’ve saved him,” jazz musician and admitted junkie Robert Vineberg said, wearing a gray prison jumpsuit and hunching pensively at a red table in a Rikers Island jail visiting area.
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Turnaround, Annie
04:16
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she didn’t feel suspicious - or paranoid
she didn’t see the distance - into the void
she learned to play with all the memories - like toys
she said it made it easier to drown the noise
she worked for years - to create confusion
as she waited for life to reveal itself as an illusion
along the way she learned not to search for conclusions
as we drove the roads around my house
she wasn’t gonna stop until she broke down
all those angry hours
she said, “don’t tell me when to turn around...
“i’ll tell you when we turn around
“just keep driving to the moon
“don’t you dare turn around
6am underneath the subway tracks
she said if that train was a plane I’d jump right on its back
then she rolled her eyes and taught me how to fade to black
as we drove the roads around my house
she wasn’t gonna stop until she broke down
all those angry hours
she said, “don’t tell me when to turn around...
“i’ll tell you when we turn around
“just keep driving to the moon
“don’t you dare turn around
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Roadside Justice
03:39
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In front of the firing line
You’ll look up at the blue sky
And we’ll trace the route to each other’s eyes
In the wake that’s left behind
As the sounds of the gun shots die
You’ll leave this world with your head held high
Don’t look for justice at the side of the road
Don’t trust the crowd
We are on our own
You will live in the memory of birds
The wind will carry your words
Your dreams will serve as my alibi
Truth is a lonely place
Lonely as a human race
Don’t look for justice at the side of the road
Don’t trust the crowd
We are on our own
In the wake that’s left behind
As the sounds of the war drums die
We leave this world with our heads held high
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Particle Theory
04:16
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you & i let's float away
lighter than air
lighter than light
you can't break down what you can't divide
you can't destroy what you can't collide
let's float away
you & i let's drift away
we are the clouds
that make a perfect sky
you can't break down what you can't divide
you can't destroy what you can't collide
let's float away
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in stereophonic splendor."
- disquiet
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