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If We Got Drunk
04:21
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If we got drunk tonight
We could sit at a table wasting time
And wave
Our hands as if we’re grabbing alien signs
From space
And put them here together on a line
And make
A fancy show for people never seen before
If we got drunk at least
We’d set apart the humans from the beasts
And then
We could agree upon the things to pick
And build
A little toy world mixing up our bins
And stay
And settle in, oblivious, giggling all the time
We’d make dirty jokes
Have provoking thoughts
We’d be ridiculous
Theatre of the Absurd
If we got drunk ‘till late
We couldn’t drive a car and go back home
And so
We ought to take a walk around the town
At night
And talk about the notes that make that sound
So great
Inside our head, delirious, blame it on the wine
Overconfident
In our discontent
So we could scream aloud
Swearing at the clouds
And we’d end up speaking of the parallax of stars
Trying to figure out how far they are
Then we’d get home
The dawn on the sea
Then we’d get home
The birds in the trees
If we got drunk
Tomorrow we’d be hung-over
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Have You Seen My Friend?
04:31
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One night
In an empty car park
Sharing the last ciggy
Feeling rather sleepy
We were
Talking about nothing
Piling up the quibbles
Running out of topics
Culprit
Can be my opinion
Can be your sarcasm
The size of the Grand Canyon
Have you seen my friend?
Did I mistreat him?
Left him on a shelf
Thinking for himself
I thought that you were my friend
Time spent
Messages no more sent
We never said we’re brothers
We don’t need each other
Have you seen my friend?
This might be the bends?
I don’t have a clue
Is this sentence true?
I thought that you were my friend
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Aztlán
02:15
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(instrumental)
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We Can't Explain
04:11
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Since the day we moved
Things have become so very strange
There are too many rooms
Sometimes I think I’m in a maze
And so I call your name
You say “I’m here” but you don’t sound the same
Whispers from behind a half-closed door and
Strangers walking in the corridors
Like ghosts
Do you remember when
We went back to your childhood home
We walked in hand in hand
And all the past was dead and gone
The trees replaced the stone
The windows frozen in a silent call
Tender was the springtime in your eyes and
Soothing was your presence by my side
Like shine
And at the border of the night
You come from the garden looking my way
You say: “oh dear, you look so tired
You shouldn’t be troubled it’s a new day
You built your house and this is it
It’s bottom up science we can’t explain
You built your love and this is me
It’s bottom up science we can’t explain”
“Let’s have a walk down in the fields
The air is so clean, the morning’s our shield
No time for worries and regrets
We’re not in control let’s keep what we get
“You built your house and this is it
It’s bottom up science we can’t explain
You built your love and this is me
It’s bottom up science we can’t explain”
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Tranquility Base
03:49
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I can stay another day
In outer space
I can tell you that it’s fine
You can ask me to behave
In outer space
Copy that, I will comply
You can show me what to do
In outer space
Time to wake up time to eat
You can tell me that it’s you
Familiar face
Time to move and warm my feet
You cannot guess what I think
In outer space
You cannot describe my dreams
You cannot revive the past
Inside this place
Time is fleeting as it seems
I will find my seat beside
This window pane
Let’s agree to disagree
Let me comfortably lie
And fall asleep
Like a pebble by the sea
The Ego’s landed
It had wings, I brought it down
And I flew it manually
Tranquility Base here
The Ego’s down
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Paolo Sala Genova, Italy
I am a reclusive, obsessive, slightly misanthropic writer of pop tunes for extinct
species.
Check out my work in progress here:
soundcloud.com/tatash
and my band, here:
senpaiband.bandcamp.com
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