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Decoder
03:22
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Turn it up and take a look at yourself
Like a ghost that's on the run from hell
You know you want it, you like his demon eyes
You're a Decoder, sortin' the truth from lies
Take Me Oh Decoder, Loop Me Round Your Rotor, wont you...Oh wont you loop me good
You drink it down into your luck machine
You pop a vein, still tryin' to capture the sheen
You see the lights, a thousand fish in the sea
We'll say goodnight and find a door for a key
-Camden Ray Chamberlain
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Cut in half the girl she dances with herself
Grips the hips, holds on for dear life
Light the way she says and put me on the shelf
Cut in two she lives by the knife
Touch me while I bleed and fall apart
Drugs to slow my heart
All the way inside my nightmare she is gone
Scared to touch the bruises she wears
I'm the watcher in the womb, say so long
Explain my numbness but she don't care
Break the skin with the tubes my limbs
dance the two step in opposite directions
Touch my black and blue and play the part
please jump-start my heart
-Camden Ray Chamberlain
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I think I've lost him this time
Mr. Fragile Little Mind
I took him out for a walk
Got loose when I stopped to have a talk
He's unruly and un-tame
He barely knows his own name
Puttin' signs all over town
He's quite a nuisance, but I do hope he is found
Comes home falling down drunk, point of blacking out
His synapse, they don't fire, words get lost in his mouth
I try to keep him locked up, but he's on the go-go-go
He's chasing birds in the park, cuz he wants to know
Come teach me how to fly
Instinct says the end is nigh
Come teach me how to fly
I'll take my chances in the sky
I think I might just need some rest
It'll work out for the best
His voice ran out of charm
Hung up, tryin' to sound the alarm
I feel lighter now he's gone
As I water the front lawn, pretty pictures in the dawn
Waddle on the way
My brain has finally flown away
In a walking coma, point of blacking out
My synapse, they don't fire
Words spew out of my mouth
I try to keep it locked down, but I gotta go-go-go
I'm chasing birds in the park cuz I just have to know
All hail him now, King of the Clouds
I wear the crown of the birds
-Camden Ray Chamberlain
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Broken Eardrums
03:22
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Call me Rubberman
I can stretch and I can bend
But I can't absorb a thing
Put me on your skin to cling
Broken eardrums in the morning
I'll take the pain, I'll start again
Broken eardrums in the evening
Man down, lights out
Text me while I sleep
Counting all your thoughts like sheep
Sunrise I will hit reply
Sing a data lullaby
Drill a hole in my skull
And hook me with a rope
Please just drill a hole in my skull
It's my last and only hope
-Camden Ray Chamberlain
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Taste Like A Hurricane
03:19
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Break off the shoe, then bring it down
Candy for tricks, a tongue on the bound
Smoke on the tips to ease the day
40 percent, it's dripping away
Taste like a hurricane, a gritty texture
A kiss to numb the pain, downtown alley fixture
Beat down the street, the night life show
Down wind the sail, keep south of the snow
Demons aside, it can't contain
Liberate the seal, give into the rain
The night life... the night life
-Camden Ray Chamberlain
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Make up your mind, drop the pill on my dime
Lead me out from life-long sleep, turn me on
Like Lazarus, I'm the heir, the highchair
Leaf-work clothes on we two
Spinal shunts on she too
Drop the act on la "do"
Dirty thrills, the "E" coup
Soma time, the way down, the way down from on high
The story goes with the beat, fast then slow
Might make you sick, lot like life, go down quick
Water, need some more water, need some more water, need some more water
-Camden Ray Chamberlain
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The Shadow
04:19
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A signal on the wire
I joined a broken choir
We're singing with the whales
As the evening fails
Breakdown, it's coming for you
It's a shadow, you're the shadow
A pain that wakes you up
You see the empty cup
Now crawling on all fours
Just tryin' to reach the door
Breakdown, it's coming for you
It's a shadow, you're the shadow
and now you're on the go!
Asleep on grimy tile
You been there for a while
I tried to raise the dead
But you were in my head
You've been cutting the mouth
Of the life-size poster
You can see the eyes move
If you get up closer
You've been pinned to the floor
Eating crumbs from cracks
Every hour gets shorter
As you cover tracks
-Camden Ray Chamberlain
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Now Is Our Time
04:03
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High, if we could get a little higher
We'd pull off the faces we've found
Believe in the day, a little liar
Leave the sweet when it falls on the ground
If you could be anything, what would you choose to be?
A bird on the wing or a King?
The ocean is deep and wide
No knowing what it might hide
No knowing what is to come
and we wont know the final sum of...
one plus one plus one plus one plus one plus
Now is our time
Calling out to love yeah
Now is our time
Calling out to love yeah
Now is our time
Calling out to love yeah
Now is our time, now is our time
Calling out to love
Low, if you feel like you're sinking even lower
Get out of the web that you weave
Turn down the notch and go slower
Don't be afraid of what you can't see
If you could be anything, what would you choose to be?
A deep-sea diver or a priest? Or You or Me?
The ocean is deep and wide
No knowing what it might hide
No knowing what is to come
and we wont know the final sum of...
one plus one plus one plus one plus one plus
Now is our time
Calling out to love yeah
Now is our time
Calling out to love yeah
Now is our time
Calling out to love yeah
Now is our time, now is our time
Calling out to love
-Camden Ray Chamberlain
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Leaking Out The Nose
04:11
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Everything and everyone
Will chew the dust before it's done
Everywhere you ever go
Could be the last you ever know
Believe in luck or hell or fate
Believe in god, believe in hate
But if you believe in nothing else,
try it once, escape yourself
Take me back to the old town
Where we lived in the manor brown
and my name was Naive, feed me liquor
Never sicker, laughing thicker
All the way down the high street flying
Wheels a shining in the night
But we could never bring back the old times
With our dead rhymes leaking out the nose, so
Just let go, lose your mind
Just let go and baby lose your mind come one and
Just let go, lose your mind
Just let go, come on and just let go, come on and...
Kill all the kindly old ones
Got the knack for sucking guns
So wont you lay on my bed of lava
Drop some acid while you drink your java
But don't sing too loud like your Mama
She's a crazy like your Papa
And they both need a solid tongue-tie
Cuz they both lie, leaking out the nose, so
Just let go, lose your mind
Just let go and baby lose your mind come one and
Just let go, lose your mind
Just let go, come on and just let go, come on and...
Everything and everyone
Will chew the dust before it's done
Everywhere you ever go
Could be the last you ever know
Believe in luck or hell or fate
Believe in god, believe in hate
But if you believe in nothing else,
try it once, escape yourself
-Camden Ray Chamberlain
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Full Of Awe
04:07
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Sell your shares in us
Jump aboard the bus
and drive us to the death dance
The final chance
Burn holes in the sky
To bleed the clouds dry
So they can suck the end up
So fill their guts
Dog days on a coast
Packed with bearded ghosts
In seas of blood and oil
They're collateral
Heat blots out the sun
Sleeping with the gun
Under jet, shiny cankers
Guard the tankers
Domino I am
Fall for Uncle Scam
So he can tax the brown lawn
We fell upon
Homesick in doldrums
Sucking plastic thumbs
In steel pens they've built for us
Go wave your chorus
Come sing Na Na Na Na
We're so Full Of Awe and
We're still alive today so
There must be a way
Sing until your voice is bloody
Till you're falling down
Break into the kingdom and
Destroy it with your sound
-Camden Ray Chamberlain
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The Past That Was
03:52
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Can you see it in the valley?
The last tree we could rally
A parasite, some laughing gas
Knocked on starving ass
We are feeding off each other
Just ate a piece of mother
Blues have turned to dusty brown
Red scent all around
The carousels in autumn
Show us how far we have fallen
A tiny hand, a memory
The light is stretching me
The past that was
Will never be
Goodbye my soft
my sweet, my tree
The past that was
Will never be
Our wicker ship
Is out to sea
And now the bodies burn in piles
we're still going out in style
A lock of hair, a memory
The past will never be
A smile, a fond farewell
To our home sweet home shell
I'm ready love for victory
A vacancy called liberty
Kiss me cracked lips, fall to bits
Climb aboard my wicker ship
The instant while we're still afloat
The siren song, the final note
Sail into the corrosive breeze
Till tentacles pull us down to sleep
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My Mountain City
03:49
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In my mountain city I found my last true love
and her name was embarrassing but pretty
my hands were sandpaper rough on her skin
like hot-tubs in winter, the sun creeping over the hills
on a cold day, the last of December
with no coat, but I'm not catching chills
You make this life so beautiful
You make this life beautiful
Shades of green come and find me
in summer, sweating out toxins
on rooftops with crumbling chimneys
the screams filter up from the boxing
on your skin, I burned my mark in
a "C" or a swirl that will not heal
with time, the scenery's barking mad
just goes to show that for me you are real
Arms are thin
They've been waiting 10 years for you
let go the future
you haven't got a thing to do
Legs are thin
in their skin, all 10 years for you
lay your skull down on me
seven four seven two
-Camden Ray Chamberlain & Vanessa Angulo Chamberlain
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Dive The Night Away
03:31
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Fell in your well
Water's dried up, I'm in hell
Fate let me burn
Your demon eyes shoot fire, they make the tides turn
Come on come on jump in, living aint no sin
Let's dive the night away, dive the night away
The sun comes
I'll be one
Inside you
My blood runs
Fall into bed, fall into bed
Shake off your skin
spread those wings, don't keep them in
Waves at the door
You've got me on my last breath, stuck on your shore
I'm wrapped in your sound
It's pulling me straight down
I'm laughing all the way
To the depths where we can play
Light is leaving me
I'm all I'm meant to be
I let go
-Camden Ray Chamberlain
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Home, past 2am
Did you wait up? I know you did
My head's a fog, a hazy blur
I hear your voice, but not the words
Can't compute
Sick inside my skull
Don't want to stay, too lazy to go
I missed the class on "talk to you"
mouth full of glue, eyes on my shoes
"Brick Wall Boy"
Save me, wont you come and save me
Save me from myself, my self-inflicted hell
Why wont you just leave me, leave before I hurt you
Hurt you cuz I need you, and I don't want to
Need you dear
Don't cry, even when I hate you, I love you cuz I hate you to love me like I want you to, even though I
Don't cry, even when I hate you, I love you cuz I hate you to love me like you want to my dear
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Rolling Stones cover.
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Heroes (bonus track)
03:34
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David Bowie cover
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