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Elephant Man
03:51
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And the seas rose, stars froze
Sky glows deathly
Eyes closed
And the white snow fell gently
To the lake, through the rain
While the rays of summer poured warmly down
And the old man died
Leaving space for a child
Who lit up her mother's eyes
Called him home
Saying love
Draws all things to its side
Show the light girls the turning of the bright world
Tell them I bade them all goodbye smiling with laughing eyes
Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler
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Maker
03:35
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Get ready to meet your maker everybody's got to meet their maker
Let's go look out below
Everybody's gotta raise a savior are you ready for the big creator
Oh no just let it go
Everybody gonna see you later kinda doubt it but maybe later
Oh no I don't know
Going down
Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler
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It doesn't matter if you're right
It doesn't matter if you're wrong
It doesn't matter if you have the whole world fooled
Into thinking you're the one
It doesn't matter what you have
It doesn't matter what you've done
It's just a load of ego-driven crap
To make you feel like you're someone.
The only thing that matters is who you helped or hurt today
If you closed your eyes to pain
If you looked or turned away
If you took or if you gave
If you shined a light into the night
Or helped to dig the grave
There was a particle of you in the first drop of rain that fell
That's just scientific law but it really doesn't help
It's just something that we know
That tells us everything is close
But it really doesn't matter all these theories we propose
The only thing that matters is who you helped or hurt today
If you closed your eyes to pain
If you looked or turned away
If you took or if you gave
If you shined a light into the night
Or helped to dig the grave
Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler except:
Cherish Alexander: Bass and Acoustic guitar
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A sad old man with a fat cat and a hat to cover his bald patch
Nothing to come back to here
Is his ego finally cauterized?
Maybe, I wouldn't be surprised, he looks hurtin
Sings about himself in the third person
Reads borrowed books barely drives
Sedentary rarely flies
Microwaves his hurried meals
Flirts with the girls but never seals the deal
Lose the one and you go on
Anything can be done
But if somehow you hear me sing these words a distant ringing in your ears
A psychic line that still occurs in the silence of the night
That thing we had we said could never die
If it's still there then call me I am here waiting
Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler
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Awake
06:53
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River has a hole in his heart
Bowie died
And the country is tearing itself apart
And you want to stop feeling
Bask in indifference
And just stop caring
To lock your doors
Wire your windows
To sit surrounded by your futile arsenal
To bathe in the anger; taste revenge
Sight the rifle on a random victim
To blame the other
Close the borders
To give the orders
To just give in
But I have awoken now and can never fall back to sleep
I want to light secret fires in the hill above my town
Drink to oblivion and watch the houses burn down
Indulge dark temptations
Live like mine is the last generation
Deny that I love
But I have awoken now and can never fall back to sleep
Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler except
Bob Lee; Drums
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All these things became possible so we thought they were good
All these things became available so we figured that we should
And a theoretical jaguar stalking the wild
Is not as urgent as my coffee in the morning when I'm tired.
All these things felt so decadent they were so hard to quit
And they were so damn convenient no one really even tripped
And something that's never happened is so hard to predict
Said the turkey to the farmer on the day he was picked
And if it appears like there was no reason or rhyme
Well it all seemed like a good idea at the time
If there's anyone left to be sorry to I extend my regrets
My heart-felt apologies however insufficient
Everyone felt so innocent as they murdered away
They went to the gallows with a smile and a wave
And if you're feeling a little angry and you're wondering "why?"
It all seemed like a good idea at the time
Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler
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Heaventree
05:22
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit
And the daybreak that we are swirling twirling through the loop
I have rung the bells of heaven I have breathed the battered rose
Touch me soft eyes soft soft hands I'm lonely touch me touch me soon
And I fear those big words that make us so unhappy
And I fear those big words that make us so unhappy
Darkness came and darkness blazed away and I stayed a man in a room
Nothing changed and nothing stayed the same and it all will fade away soon
The sparklelighted cubed horizon nestled in the palms
And the ravens bicker bitter with themselves up on the walls
And one psychopath's in prison and another rules the world
Take me far away take me away back right where I belong
And I've cast every thought away that made me so unhappy
Yeah I've cast every thought away that made me so unhappy
Darkness came and darkness blazed away and I stayed a man in a room
Nothing changed and nothing stayed the same and a cow jumped over the moon
Music and instruments by Chain Rochester
Words, vocals and keyboards by Paul Roessler
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A quiet night on the mooncam
Another visit to the morgue
A crowded place but it's okay
There's always room for one more
And Calaban has been busy
He is hands on
No matter how much it's never enough
But God is all and all is one
All the colors of the spectrum
All the dollars in the bank
Examine your risk assessment
You worry about all the wrong things
A quiet night on the mooncam
The silence of the stars
Saturn and Cassiopea
Ganymede and Mars
Making plans with a deathwish
Dodging in the nick of time
Everytime someone saves your life
You spit right in their eye
You can embrace surrender
So we are taught by the wise
But let us do what people do
They satisfy their desires
A quiet night on the mooncam
The silence of the stars
Saturn and Cassiopea
Ganymede and Mars
Calaban has been busy
He is so hands on
No matter how much it's never enough
But God is all and all is one
Lyrics by Paul Roessler Music by Paul Roessler and Paul Boutin
Drums Joe Berardi
Bass Nathan York
Guitars Paul Boutin
Piano and vocals Paul Roessler
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There's a voice inside my head
A little voice that's not my friend
I used to listen to that bullshit
And the remedy was just to tell it to shut up
Haven't you laughed at me enough?
It's a voice that tells me "no."
Tells me what I cannot love.
I can't remember it being right.
And the remedy was just to tell it to shut up
Haven't you laughed at me enough?
Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler
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They
02:58
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They
They shook them free your girlish chains
Like black clouds drop their sheets of rain
They woke up one day free
To become something that was yet to be
And it hurt so fucking bad
Until it was just something that they had killed
A cold absence of migraine flashes
Celebrating glasses of champagne spilled
And now I can go walk underneath the canopy
Listen to the grass as it grows up over me
Cuz people like you will do it better than me
They saw the limits of our creations
They saw the borders of the bankrupt nations
Walls and horizons that would trap a soul in amber
Until they smashed the tyrant and abandoned her
They set the churches to crack and rust
And left us all just gasping in the dust
Dancing lightly over rainbow oceans
Coloring the sky new with their angel paint brushes
And now I can go walk underneath the canopy
Listen to the grass as it grows up over me
Cuz people like you will do it better than me
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Mine, all mine, got mine, she's mine
Our small treasures are never forever
But better like weather they change
Fade Away, gone like rain
They leave, retreat but your heart still beats
Altered but you still breathe
A shallow shadow but complete
Found and lost and buried deep
Growing up through the cracks in the street
Gone never mine
Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler
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No Time
03:14
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Nothing's short and nothing's long, nothing's right and nothing's wrong
Nothing starts and nothing ends, nothing breaks and nothing mends.
Nothing's far and nothing's near, All you've lost is still right here
Nothing lives and nothing dies, no hellos and no goodbyes
And crawling cross the face of earth
You count back days from death to birth
But you've got no time
Hanging up there on your cross
But everything just freeze and stops
When you've got no time
Nothing moves no water runs, everything is all at once, alive
When you've got no time
Nothing change the sun don't sink the world just sits there like a sphinx
But trapped inside the river's rush
You think and think bout nothing much
All your perfect enemies you wait to bring them to their knees
But you've got no time.
In the final throes of our disease
Goaded by the whips of need we finally see
That there is no time
And when you lay you down to rest freed from the clock inside your chest everything shines.
'Cause there is no time.
But just beyond the eyes of man there's movement we don't understand
Outside of time.
Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler except:
Drums by Joe Berardi
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13. |
The Late Show
06:00
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Come and live in the Late Show
Fall asleep to the test tone
Fall in love like a railroad
Run away down the back roads
Got my start on the Late Show
Half a pack left of Marlboros
Black and White like a rainbow
Watched the Gemini launch go
Oh Life, look at it in the cold light
Lie back, drink the stars in the whole night
Time flies like a rock through a window
What does anyone know?
I saw her first on the late show
Heard her voice on the radio
She was someone you might know
If you jumped out of windows
If you fall like an angel
If you turn like a table
It's no worse than a soldier
Hurts no worse than a widow
Come, open the oceans in your eyes
Change into water, into air
The rain is frozen into hail
But the rain doesn't fail
Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler
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Paul Roessler is a musician, composer and producer who lives in Los Angeles
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