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Radiation Dance
02:41
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Razorblade
03:58
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RAZORBLADE
So you’re tired of the rat race
The mundane, common place
The same old crowd
(Is much too loud)
And the same hangouts
Taking orders
That’s miles away
Forest lawn
Forest stay
(chorus)
There’s a chill in the air
(Razorblade)
Emotion, a fair exchange
(Razorblade)
Scenes like a landscape
Take my time
Turn it around
Leave me behind
Straggler in Iran
Waste my time
Change of heart
Change my mind
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A Summary
06:31
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A SUMMARY
I. Yesterday I saw a movie
Today we’re going to the city
To the city
A. Today I went to school
All the rooms were empty
II. Take a look at this
You just take a look
I believe in symptoms
Before I jump in
III. A good summary would be:
A. Try it out for a week
B. Take it to the house (for approval)
C. Reject both A and B
D. Give it some time to breath
IV. If I could learn tolerance
I could probably hold a job
A. If I could set the standard
It would probably last a month
V. Take a look at this
You just take a look
You don’t have to settle for too much
Just enough
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4. |
World War
04:30
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WORLD WAR
There are no more men
There’s no more money
It just started
Do you own time
Mating season
Thin red line
Read it in the New York Times
No matter what has happened
I’m on a holiday
Keep this in mind
Try to find a New York Times
For our times
Transparent comedy
Taking a train at half fare
Getting ready
Abandoned children
In a tavern, in a tavern
Dancers of the east
Dancers of the west
It’s the mating season
Focalize
Cosmorama, cosmoline
In this world
Some change occurred
Throw out the lifeline
Throw out the lifeline
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Hair
04:14
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HAIR
I’ve got my eyes open wife
Given up a lot of things
And when I get out of line
Who’ll be waiting there?
And even if we survive
Can we really survive?
Let one’s hair down
To a hair
There’s that quality
That that makes something
What it is
The basic nature
The quality of mercy
Attribute
Trait
Fall in love-passionate
Affection
For love-A favor or for pleasure
For the love of-for the sake of
In love feeling love, enamoured
Make love-as lovers’ do
No love lost between-no liking or affection
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I'll Be That
05:24
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I’LL BE THAT
If you control yourself
Maybe it’s up to me
I see there’s a time for you
It’s up to me
Like wasting my gas
I took a drive
I didn’t talk much
I’m learning fas
t
That you can be anything that
You want to be
You go home, you don’t work out
Just decide man, you think about it later
I’ll be that
You’ve seen patrolmen
Their long arm
I’ve been a doctor
Not in my thoughts
You can relate well
You can be happy
You can cut diamonds
They last forever
You can be anything that you want to be
A pigeon flys without effort
I know some girls who are witches
I’ll be that
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WEST LED THE DIAMOND KING
34 Try for a strike
38 One…a time
39 An Arabian capital
42 Destroy a car
44 Yearned
46 Begin’s lane
49 Swap
50 Surrender word
51 Suffix for sooth or gain
52 Kind of school
53 “Let…”
Beatles Hit
54 Survey
55 Hairdo
57 …De deux
58 Anger
59 Leo the…(durocher) pass
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Strike
06:15
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STRIKE
Got out early today
At the crack of dawn
Didn’t have a rough day
And I didn’t win the Pulitzer Prize
Thought about the big bill
Thought about his life
Thought about my life
And I cracked a joke about life
I couldn’t find the word
Seems like a thousand words
Couldn’t explain to Lynn
The bigger they are
They fall hard as a rock
A strike is, like…too violent
Savvy? Savvy?
Savvy? Strike!
Took a walk out the back way
Couldn’t believe the time change
The day was much darker
And I wasn’t prepared
Took a ride on the reading
It was much longer than I remembered
It seemed like a year
It’s hard to care
I couldn’t find the words
Seemed like a thousand words
Couldn’t explain violence
Taking a point of view
Something that comes to you
You’ll never be the same
Savvy? Savvy?
Savvy? Strike!
Can’t get out the word way
Can’t get by on my wits
Can’t imagine playing that song
I can’t play that song any better
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Vowels
06:21
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VOWELS
AEIOU
AEIKNOWYOU
Consonant
Opposed to dissonant
Congruity
What is right
Harmony
Between us
Friction
We’re alright
AEIOU
AEILOVEYOU
Vowel sounds…
All the same to me
Love sounds…
All the same to me
Love sounds all the same to me
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Observation
05:54
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OBSERVATION
Well you make a phone call
No one observes
Your just making plans
There and another
If I talk about truth
Want a face the truth
Make me choose up sides
Influenza
Build a patio
Just making plans
Just making ends meet
Be a paver
If I talk about you
Want a face the truth
Make me choose up sides
Influenza
You can test a man’s strength
In a Catholic school
No one observes
You’d be on your way
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Mikel Rouse New York, New York
Mikel Rouse is a New York-based composer, director, performer and recording artist hailed as “a composer many believe to be the best of his generation.” (NY Times 2002) His works include 25 records, 7 films (including Funding and Music For Minorities), and a trilogy of media operas: Failing Kansas, Dennis Cleveland and The End Of Cinematics. ... more
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