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Chance Encounters
03:24
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So sick of being lonely, do you want to get to know me
I’m a zero, I’m a weirdo, I’m a struggling super hero
But I’m a star in outer space
Ask any alien, they’ll say I’m the real deal
We found each other in our worst ways, everything was going, gone
All the drugs we took for breakfast couldn’t convince us nothing’s wrong
Do you ever feel like nothing’s real
Like the Truman Show or something way more miserable
If we tell each other secrets
Even the dark parts that don’t glow
Maybe life could feel a little less alone
We may never stand a chance, but we still gotta try
No one’s coming to save us from ourselves tonight
Chance encounters
I felt sinister on the sidewalk
Intrusive thoughts abound
I kind of felt like jumping into traffic downtown
It all blurs together and it barely makes sense
We were 16 once, we will never be again
How you listened, oh my god
What a spiritual awakening
How I listened, oh my god
To the genius you’re self-training
Maybe things can never be the same and that’s okay
If we tell each other secrets
Even the dark parts that don’t glow
Maybe life could feel a little less alone
We may never stand a chance, but we still gotta try
No one’s coming to save us from ourselves tonight
Chance encounters
Chalk it up to fate or whatever
Blame it on a higher power
For this chance encounter
Maybe the right stars have aligned and we’ve crossed into a parallel life
From this chance encounter
We may never stand a chance, but we still gotta try
No one’s coming to save us from ourselves tonight
Chance encounters
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2. |
Better Angels
03:42
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You got a secret
You tried to keep it
All your life
Ain’t helping no one
Living on the run
All this time
I know heaven ain’t a place
That you can go
All of your problems
I’m gonna solve 'em
One by one
Man on a mission
Drunk in the kitchen
'Til kingdom come
I know heaven ain’t a place that you can go
They say that heaven ain’t a place we’ll ever know
Better Angels
Better Angels
Better Angels sing
Talking in circles
Long-winded answers
Out of time
Put down your gun, son
Ain’t foolin’ no one
Not this time
I know heaven ain’t a place that you can go
They say that heaven ain’t a place we’ll ever know
Better Angels
Better Angels
Better Angels sing
Heavy hearts in a place like this
Where some things just don’t make sense
But we still got fight in our fists
We’re better angels, we’re better angels
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3. |
Romanticism
03:41
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We were talking about the future like poets and pillagers
First we take Manhattan, then Berlin
I will remember you well at the Chelsea Hotel
If we ever get lost, meet me at a Kreuzberg kiosk
You know your way around my dreams
I know my way around yours, it seems
Oh, she’s the only love of my only life
And I have never thought twice
For too long, we were dancers in the dark
Two separate parts
Mistaken stars and satellites
All that is and all that never was
Don’t mean shit to us now
Come tear your heart out with me
You hailed a cab down from the corner like it was the last century
We squeezed into the back seat and I felt your body on me
Staring out the window
Watching our lives blow by so God damn fast
I’ve spent so much time unsatisfied
Hiding in my miserable shell
Oh, I want to spend what’s left of the rest of my life
Lost somewhere inside your eyes
For too long, we were dancers in the dark
Two separate parts
All that is and all that never was
Don’t mean shit to us now
Come tear your heart out with me
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4. |
Other People's Money
03:15
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A Billionaire in space
Gonna save the human race
Marketing salvation as a service
On a whiter horse he'll ride
With Jesus by his side
Through the noise, I swear I heard 'em sayin’
“I’m the moon man…”
Ain’t it funny
Takin’ other people’s money
Ain’t no money in the truth
So they sell you back your youth
A gilded history that never happened
Lyin’ rags and MAGA flags
Secret police takin’ out ads
Rob you with a pen and keep on smilin’
Ain’t it funny
Takin’ other people’s money
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5. |
Gasoline & Matches
04:37
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Tell the kid in you that it’s okay.
You don’t have to have it all figured out
Beyond a shadow of a doubt
Put the work down till Monday.
The loudest people have nothing to say
Why chime in they’ll just take it the wrong way?
If there’s a pain in your chest
Take off your bullet proof vest
And let me in.
You’re burning everything to the ground
Quit fucking around
With gasoline and matches
And shit you can’t fix
Come down from your crucifix
Contentments been a cold case
You can’t close
How you long for it starring[11] out the window
On a plane or a train somewhere far away from home.
You’re burning everything to the ground
Quit fucking around
With gasoline and matches
And shit you can’t fix
Come down from your crucifix
In your backyard in the clear
Talking up a storm like we needed one here
Closest as friends when we were little kids
Can’t recreate it can only imitate it
You talk in the past tense
Like there’s nothing worth discussing
In the prison of the present
If there’s a pain in your chest
Take off your bullet proof vest
And let me in
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6. |
The Fool
03:40
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I only like the beginning of things
My fallen angel won't get their wings
I like guessing how I’m gonna die
Who's at my funeral and how they'll cry
I'll be drinking ‘til the sun explodes
Always telling me I told you so
All these promises I never keep
They’ve been keeping me from falling asleep
One day, I swear I'll call you
I’m a dreamer
I’m a believer
Self deceiver
I ain’t no keeper
(it's not so bad, boy / it's not so sad, boy)
I only like the beginning of things
I saw the ending, I read the last page
I’ll be bailing, I ain’t showing up
I’ll think about it, then I’ll fill my cup
I’m somebody that you’ll never know
I’ll be leaving you in Tokyo
'Round and 'round upon the wheel I go
Yeah, I’ll get back in the car alone
One day I'll call ya back
I’m a dreamer
I’m a believer
Self deceiver
I ain’t no keeper
(it's not so bad, boy / it's not so sad, boy)
I swear, one day, some day, I swear I'll call you back
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7. |
Nobody's Heroes
03:39
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Just can’t make this shit up
Gotta keep your head up
I know that it’s easier said than done
You can always reinvent yourself
You can be whoever you are.
We are nobody’s heroes
Cause we can only be ourselves.
The future always seemed far away
But we’ve entered it now
And it’s a fucking mess for crying out loud.
Like scraping lantern flies off the bottom of your shoe
You gotta do what you gotta do
Strange premonitions
20/20 hindsight
Tonight we set the world to rights
You wrote your manifesto on the back of a napkin
It said
We are nobody’s heroes
Cause we can only be ourselves.
Looking for your golf ball lost in the woods
Sometimes goodbye is goodbye for good.
Maybe we’re all a little misunderstood
Out here running for our lives.
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8. |
Breathe With Me
03:59
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I’ll go if you say so
Swim back to shore
I don’t know what we came for
I’m leaving that alone
Believe in me, for all I’ve done in between
Storm and shadow
Don’t let it go
Breathe with me
In calm ever after
Bring me back to shore
Don't pull me under
Dark shapes below
Voice is fading
The darkness grows
Our tears, our years, our promise
Gone by the board
No stars to steer by
We’re nevermore
Breathe with me
In calm ever after
Bring me back to shore
God knows we tried
We cried
We screamed into the sky
It’s not enough
It’s all fucked up
I’m bleeding a memory
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When she enters my dreams
I try and look my best
I straighten my tie
I button my vest
I’ve practiced my lines
I hope they impress
When she enters my dreams
And we meet ourselves in the eyes of one another
Seeing everything that we have ever felt
Been throwing rocks up at your window
For forever and a day
All I ever wanted was a chance at it all
I’ve spent so many years wishing I was anyone else
I never fit like a glove
I’m the book you want to read, but I’m always up on your shelf
Like a vision, you came in the middle of the night
And I fell in love before the morning arrived again
And we meet ourselves in the eyes of one another
Seeing everything that we have ever felt
Been throwing rocks up at your window
For forever and a day
All I ever wanted was a chance at it all
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10. |
Parade Day
03:12
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I miss you in the morning
I speak to you at night
I can’t wait forever
But I’m damned if I don’t try
Hold my arm
Take me there
I long for you
Do you long for me?
See your face in our child's
I smile for a while
Remember for a minute
In a deafening denial
Oh my God
It's happening
You’re gone, you’re gone
Hold your memory
Here’s 'til I see you again
At the end
Of time
Here’s 'til I see you again
At the end
My friend
Here’s 'til we’re singing again
Hear a voice in the silence
Lonely impulse of delight
Dreamed apparition
Faint shadow in the night
I’ll gently rise
And softly fall
So long, so long
Hold your memory
Here’s ‘til I see you again
At the end
Of time
Here’s til I see you again
At the end
My friend
Here’s ‘til we’re singing again
The tide comes for everyone
I can't understand
Go easy, hold steady now
Here’s 'til I see you again
At the end
Of time
Here’s 'til I see you again
At the end
My friend
Here’s 'til we’re singing again
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11. |
Everything I Ever Saw
03:24
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Born with a bad memory
What a fatal flaw
I wish I could remember
Everything I ever saw
I’d take the good with the bad
The happy with the sad
Every stranger’s face that’s walked on by
‘Cause at the end of our days, there are signs in our windows
Store closing, everything must go
I don’t want to relive, I just want to remember
Everything I ever saw
Born with a broken heart
All stitched up
But always coming apart
Sayonara, I don’t wanna
But I get that we both need some time to let ourselves grow
I don’t want to relive, I just want to remember
Everything I ever saw
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