1. |
Desert of Reality
03:39
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(Verse)
Sixty miles an hour,
Tried forgetting her name
Spiderweb of freeways
Cobwebs in my brain
There’s a half-life to relationships,
That never went far
Freedom of illusion,
Now I’m caged in this car
Desert of Reality
The truth exists just hard to see
In the Desert of Reality
The truth exists just hard to see
(Chorus)
I’m like a fire,
That’s been left outside
I leap at the walls,
Tear like rust barbed wire
(Verse)
If Joan of Arc cured broken hearts
Devouring their sins
Let's light that spark,
Let her fires begin
Could there be salvation,
Or some meaning in this?
I nearly lost my mind,
I nearly lost my head
Desert of Reality
The truth exists just hard to see
In the Desert of Reality
The truth exists just hard to see
(Chorus)
I’m like a fire,
That’s been left outside
I leap at the walls,
Tear like rust barbed wire
(Verse)
Once upon a time she said,
“Let them eat cake instead!”
Shortly thereafter,
Well, she lost her head
She just smiled as she lit
One last cigarette to share
With the voices in her head
And the serpents in her hair
Desert of Reality
The truth exists just hard to see
In the Desert of Reality
The truth exists just hard to see
(Chorus)
I’m like a fire,
That’s been left outside
I leap at the walls,
Tear like rust barbed wire
(Outro)
I nearly lost my mind,
I nearly lost my head
I will not lose my mind,
And I will not lose my head
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2. |
Paint by Numbers
03:16
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Deep in Country
All Alone
A crippling fear
This mission’s blown
She hears the numbers
Every night
And hopes for answers
‘til its light
The poacher’s tune
Preludes broadcast
Of secret codes
Revealed in numbers
(Chorus)
God and Queen and Country too
They do not care at all ‘bout you
Only what you’ll do for them
And keep their secrets very tight
(Verse)
In Secret Code
Your cover’s blown
No Escape
Your on your own
Somewhere in the
Darkest night
Perhaps she’ll live
To see daylight
For time and Space
Might well be bent
But numbers, they
Cannot be broken
(Chorus)
God and Queen and Country too
They do not care at all ‘bout you
Only what you’ll do for them
And keep their secrets very tight
(Verse)
On a lonely farm
Near Avalon
An Ex-Spy lives
He’s all alone
Without a word
He lets her in
He knows the sort of
Mess she’s in
For time and Space
Might well be bent
But numbers, they
Cannot be broken
(Chorus)
God and Queen and Country too
They do not care at all ‘bout you
Only what you’ll do for them
And keep their secrets very tight
(Outro)
Sometimes in the
Darkest nights
Find a way
To see daylight
Sometimes home
is where you’re at
Sometimes home
is where you’re at
Life cannot be
Paint by Numbers
Life cannot be
Paint by Numbers
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3. |
Too Much Light
03:56
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(Verse)
Too much light
In this bar
I can see
Too far
A bar should be
A darker place
Where clouds of smoke
Obscure the details
I see her
She’s with him
But I can see
Right through them
In a darker place
You might not see
The way, the way
She looks at me
Love and Lust
They start the same
The half-life that is
Where the change is
Love grows stronger
Lust tails off
Sounds nice and easy
That it’s not
Look in her eyes
You’ll see its not
(Chorus)
There's too much light
In this Bar
I can see too far
A bar should be a darker place
Where clouds of smoke
obscure the details
Too much light
In this Bar
I can see too far
(Bridge)
I once was dosed
With LSD
By an old hippie
On New Years’ Eve
As I walked home
From Charlie B’s
Each snowflake
Seemed so beautiful
To me
(Verse)
Little voice
Inside my head
Says I should soon
Be home in bed
But I’ll stay here
I’ve got the time
Yeah I’ll be here
‘til Closing time
Jackie went to school
To finger paint
I went so,
I’d talk real great
Our K-Bones keep
That rhythm tight
Like Supersonic Dynamite
(Chorus)
There's too much light
In this Bar
I can see too far
A bar should be a darker place
Where clouds of smoke
obscure the details
Too much light
In this Bar
I can see too far
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4. |
Smash Together
07:35
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(Verse)
Now and then I still recall
Your mouth tasted of alcohol
We fumbled kissing in the dark
Teasing our arc of electric spark
So young that we didn't know
That love and lust are mostly art
Met you at a house party
Still don't know how you got there
You grew up in the circus tents
Traveling around in an old Airstream
Your family spun through time and space
Always flying with consummate grace
(Chorus)
Smash together pull apart
We crashed together than fell apart
Smash together pull apart
We crashed together than fell apart
(Verse)
Halfpipe on a summer night
Spray painted names by rust twilight
Smeared them riding in the dark
Laid together side by side
Holding hands and tracing stars
We fumbled kissing in the dark
Said goodbye as night turned to day
Watched your family drive away
Next year when the circus came
Your family never returned again
I hoped for some twist of fate
Maybe you'd arrive but just late
(Chorus)
Smash together pull apart
We crashed together than fell apart
Smash together pull apart
We crashed together than fell apart
(Verse)
Now and then I still recall
Your mouth tasted of alcohol
We fumbled kissing in the dark
Teasing our arc of electric spark
So young that we didn't know
That love and lust are mostly art
A rose glass of introspection
Through the lens of retrospection
See you flying through time and space
Always with a confident grace
I wonder if we met today
Would we just fumble anyway
Would we just fumble in dark
Would we just fumble in dark
Smashed together pull apart
We crashed together than fell apart
Smashed together pull apart
We crashed together than fell apart
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5. |
Lost in This Place
03:34
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(Verse)
Once in a while;
She destroys a good thing
When the plot starts to thicken
She tears out a page
But love is much more;
Than some Rochambeau game
Just as Scissors cut paper
He returns that page
(Chorus)
Once in a While
Every Couple of Days
I get lost in your eyes
I get lost in this place
Once in a while
…
I get lost in our space
(Verse)
Love’s not just
A word that we say
Now it’s not even words spilled
Typeset on a page
Love fills the silence
On the loneliest nights
It’s the comfort of knowing
Your never alone
(Chorus)
Once in a While
Every Couple of Days
I get lost in your eyes
I get lost in this place
Once in a while
…
I get lost in our space
(Verse)
Love stories unfold
They are rarely foretold
So let’s rip out our chapter
On anger and fear
Love fills the silence
On the loneliest nights
It’s the comfort of knowing
Your never alone
(Chorus)
Once in a While
Every Couple of Days
I get lost in your eyes
I get lost in this place
Once in a while
…
I get lost in our space
(Outro)
It's the comfort of knowing
Your never alone
The comfort of knowing
Now your never alone . . . .
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6. |
La Femme Nakita
04:06
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(Verse)
Born in a blackout
Turn all the lights out
Best run for cover
As fear fills the air
Deep in a shelter
Below the chaos
A baby cries,
As she breaths her first air
Born in a black out
Turn all the lights out
Our little Nakita
Nakita Marie
An all clear warning
Comes in the morning
Through dust and chaos
Our 'Kita Marie
(Chorus)
The Guns, they go
Rat-tat-tat
The bombs go
Boom-boom-boom
The earth it just
Shake-shake-shakes
Yes, it
Shake-shake-shakes
(Verse)
Born in a black out
Turn all the lights out
Our little Nakita
Nakita Marie
An all clear warning
Comes in the morning
Through dust and chaos
Our 'Kita Marie
(Chorus)
The Guns, they go
Rat-tat-tat
The bombs go
Boom-boom-boom
The earth it just
Shake-shake-shakes
Yes, it
Shake-shake-shakes
(Bridge)
No end to this violence
Eternal wars that can't be won
Shock and awe just causes fear
And that fear just breeds more hate
No band of brothers
Can win our perma-wars
Only mothers and daughters
Can stop mans’ senseless wars
(Chorus)
The Guns, they go
Rat-tat-tat
The bombs go
Boom-boom-boom
The earth it just
Shake-shake-shakes
Yes, it
Shake-shake-shakes
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7. |
Queen of the Salton Sea
03:55
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(Verse)
I saw a rogue wave crashing
In my rearview mirror
Black hole of destruction
Closer than it appears
I gotta let my Baby
Get me out of here
I ask for forgiveness
As we disappear
Halfway to Vegas
Ponch and John appear
Flashing red and blue
In my rearview mirror
I ask my Baby
Get me out of here
They fade to surreal
Then they disappear
(Chorus)
You can’t outrun chaos
When the truth it exists
Outrun Karma
When the truth still persists
Outrun run chaos
The truth it exists
You can’t outrun Karma
When the truth it persists
(Verse 2)
I saw a rogue wave crashing
In my rearview mirror
Black hole of destruction
Closer than it appears
I gotta let my Baby
Get me out of here
I ask for forgiveness
As we disappear
On the darkest night
Bonneville Salt Flats
I plead with my baby
To bend time and space
She shivers; she shakes
But it’s never enough
We tried to outrun Karma
But the truth persists
(Bridge)
In the cleansing waters of the
Salton Sea
An old man floated by and
Spoke to me
About a tether that binds
Time and space
The paradox of possibilities
If one slips out of place
I felt a wave of redemption
Flow over me
The salty tears of redemption
Wash all over me
(Chorus)
You can’t outrun chaos
When the truth it exists
Outrun Karma
When the truth still persists
Outrun run chaos
When the truth it exists
You can’t outrun Karma
When the truth it persists
(Outro)
She’s the Queen of the Salton Sea
She tried to outrun Karma
That won’t drive away me
‘Cause the truth
The truth it persists and
Love, love will resist
I said and love, love
Love still exists
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8. |
Persistence of Memory
03:22
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(Verse)
The pills that she took
Pushed the memories aside
But as they were off
She couldn't leave them behind
Maybe a kind,
Or cruel trick of the mind
That memories fade
And decline over time
As memories fade
Only emotions remain
Raw and sublime
And defiant of time
(Chorus)
Persistence of memory
But it's slipping with time
The details remembered
They fade over time
(Verse)
The pictures he took
And cached somewhere online
Technology changed
And left him orphaned behind
Maybe a kind,
Or cruel trick of the times
Data degrades
And links rot over time
As memories fade
Only emotions remain
Raw and sublime
And defiant of time
(Bridge)
In liminal spaces
And subliminal states
The delicate edge between
Been and might be
Savor the memories
And learn from the past
Let grace replace anger
Close the door on the past
(Chorus)
Persistence of memory
But it's slipping with time
The details remembered
They fade over time
(Outro)
As memories fade
Only emotions remain
Raw and sublime,
And defiant of time
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9. |
Jason's Song #1
03:07
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(Verse)
Still think about you
Now and then;
What once was
and might of been
The Love we shared
now fades away
Love can’t bloom
In shades of grey
Not supposed
To be this way
I think about you
Night and day
I hate it that
I loved you so,
Pathetic that I need to know
(Pre-Chorus)
Just one thing
I’d like to know
Did he come first;
Before I let you go
(Chorus)
Think about you everywhere
Think about the love we shared
How you let that slip away
Afraid you got the best of me
I’ll take that back,
I’ll take that back
(Verse)
This little world
I call my life
Your leaving caused
An awful blight
Remembered feelings
Close to past
Fading memories
Start to pass
A broken hearts
A tarnished thing
Mine still keeps
True time for me
A rhythmic beat
That ticks away
And with each pulse
You fade away
(Chorus)
Still think about you everywhere
Think about the love we shared
How you let that slip away
Afraid you got the best of me
I’ll take that back,
I’ll take that back
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10. |
Silent Garden of My Mind
04:37
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(Verse)
Excuse this voice
I've got a cough
I've lived rough
Since we broke off
Ten years
It went by so fast
Got to take more pictures
And make it last
In the half-life of
our memories
nothing was just what it seems
Except in dreams, their fading fast
As details fade, abstract remains
Still remember when
You fell apart
The nuns, they could not
Still your heart
The quiet wild fury
in your eyes
As the tranquilizers
Stilled your mind
In the half-life of
our memories
nothing was just what it seems
Except in dreams, their fading fast
As details fade, abstract remains
(Chorus)
Time and time and time again
I think about what might have been
In the silent garden of my mind
Try to leave my past behind
(Bridge)
Dawn breaks at the moment,
when nothing else moves
In an instant of silence
Light dances for you
At edge of the moment,
The edge of the dark
Faster than silence
We think with our hearts
(Verse)
Hyena shows up
For a Madrigal dinner
Disguised as a maiden
The guest list arrives
Princess escapes
She half-horse but a lady
Gallops and dances
Breaks into full-stride
As this full moon shines down
On this Spanish oasis
Our hearts beat in rhythm
The earth seems to sigh
(Chorus)
Time and time and time again
I think about what might have been
In the silent garden of my mind
Try to leave my past behind
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The Plagiarists Boise, Idaho
The Plagiarists started as an evolving group of friends. The current line-up gelled in the Fall of 2019, just as we fell for the blank slate of writing and recording. We hope you enjoy our music and that these tunes fill your heart with a little joy and set your mind adrift to wander! ... more
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