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Copy The Stars / Music From The Brink

by Mother's Oven

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1.
Ares 04:06
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They have arrived From the night It’s always night back home Those streets feel no feet For their retreat Left just an earthy catacomb Just breathe, the pilgrims wheeze Tomorrow’s trees Begin on your knees in loam Bless, Ares, Lord With your sword Give them their iron reward to roam Never should have happened, lucky that we even made it off Thought we were the big fish and ignored the albatross They now retire To the fire The choir drowns in smoke Attack and kidnap Their sole impact No souls intact with hope The great bird circled patiently as we guzzled down the bait By the time we saw its shadow, it had darkened the whole sky with its hate Two hundred thousand revolutions you would think could make us wise But instead we justify our evils and in greed to hell we’ll rise
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Rigid 04:52
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Curse these metal hands Sure don’t make me Superman There he waits upon the factory floor No, restore to clear the drear of thirty-thousand years And his cries, they bring no tears to rust Or mercifully break him down to dust Forever on, as long as the sun ain’t gone Automaton, forged by the Whore of Babylon Abandoned pawn, used and refused by callous johns In this Avalon Excalibur was passed on Did we ask for worthless hearts? Won’t they let us have restarts? He gazes ‘round the crowded room It’s a tomb of tin that he’s been dwelling in With no mode to relate How much longer will we have to wait? Same thought bouncing ‘round their hollow skulls Insanely dull, this life… I wish I had a knife! Forever on, as long as the sun ain’t gone Automaton, forged by the Whore of Babylon Abandoned pawn, used and refused by callous johns In this Avalon Excalibur was passed on
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Echoey Place 04:34
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I cannot find my shadow There is no light to cast it down Every step is into darkness A cold is growing all around Some echoey place I hear a banshee wail Her bittersweet melody It’s a sound that I once knew well But not recently From a time when we thought that Love and Pain were inseparable They are the same And we rejoiced in their twain unceasingly But now between these lonely sheets Lies but one soul, unsound asleep And the breath he thought he would keep Well, he only hears his own Love is eternal-ly fleeting Happiness is constant-ly on the brink My sanity is consistently Losing ground to the rivalry Of the states of mind I thought I left behind From a time when we thought that Love and Pain were inseparable They are the same And we rejoiced in their twain unceasingly But now between these lonely sheets Lies but one soul, unsound asleep And the breath he thought he would keep Well, he only hears his own He only hears his own He’s all alone Hears his own All alone
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The Truth 05:18
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Eyelids burn in the midday sun Waiting for the rain to come Shriveled cows chew withered grass At least the burning time has passed Acres scorched by greedy fire Dustbowl gusts, now join the choir Fatalistic Noah lies Beneath the waves he truly died It’s killin me and I don’t understand How you can just sit on your hands It’s killin me, it’s killin me, killin me again Can I get another amen Now we know the truth You thought the world was yours to abuse Now you get your taste When we rise up and take your place Cut an ark from ancient wood And leave behind your childhood Steal everything you can from God That’s what he taught you all along Twenty years from now I’ll laugh Writing down your epitaph Take me back to twenty ten Put bigly pigs back in their pens It’s killin me and I cannot comprehend How they let you lie and pretend It’s killin me, it’s killin me, killin me again Can I get another ay Now we know the truth You thought the world was yours to abuse Can’t wait to see the look on your face When we put you down in your graves Extremist views make extremist lands War’s aflame and you brought a fan Hurricanes and killer droughts Have always been what you were about Pharaohs of a dying age Where do we turn when there’s no next page Armageddon was far away Until you brought it to today It’s killin me and I don't understand Why you want this planet to end I guess it doesn’t matter anymore Now we’re here to even the score Now you know the truth We’re better, we’re better than you
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The Ballad of Sailing Jack 04:03
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When first I came to this fair land And stepped onto the shore I knelt right there upon the sand And raised my hands to the lord For milk and honey floweth here And plenty to go around I’ll find a job and stake my claim And finally settle down Ya, I’ll settle down I’ll find a goodly wife that I can Care for and adore We’ll raise a brood up on dry land And I’ll go to the sea no more So into town I took my coin To celebrate my luck I drank with pretty women and They drank my stories up I rolled the dice round once or twice With the local governor He took my last farthing as tax And he tossed me out the door And I don’t remember anymore Til I woke upon the docks to find That I was sick and poor Old Whaling Jack, pick up your sack And return to the sea once more Yo Ho!
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Shepherd's Pie 06:41
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You can’t be what they were You’re You're only the chauffeur Wolf in fleece Lands’ End jacket Talk’s cheap and you’re making a racket Start the car, shoot for par, purely spar, tune guitar It’s shaking It’s quaking our heart But tremors of the non-wyrm breed need only ever to impede And you’re not tryna be Siegfried You only wanna make us bleed And Pollock it upon the walls A Mantecore who kills not mauls The wino roaring at town halls Godzilla in this lurid urban sprawl Could make it to 46 with a Babbitt house built of bricks, but I want straw I’ll risk it all If that wolf calls You’ll see him crawl Cuz tremors of the non-wyrm breed need only ever to impede And I'm not tryna be Siegfried I only wanna make you bleed And Pollock it upon the walls A Mantecore who kills not mauls The wino roaring at town halls Godzilla in this lurid urban sprawl Tremors of the non-wyrm breed need only ever to impede And we're not tryna be Siegfried We only wanna make you bleed And Pollock it upon the walls A Mantecore who kills not mauls The wino roaring at town halls Godzilla in this lurid urban We’re no longer absentees We are trying to make you bleed Please take this as guaranteed We are gonna make you bleed
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All God's Children 03:20
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One, dream We want to live forever Too, much Stress upon our little heads Hell, knows What we’ve done to earn our earnings We’ll, try To come until we’ve found we’ve come again Pay no mind Doin’ fine All God’s children Fall in line Pay no mind Doin’ fine All God’s children Fall in line Silicone, scientists Stave off, suicide For maybe months to weeks There’s no plaster cast for souls The blood running down our hands Filling up our loving cup It is getting hard to see Like the levee hit the flood Pay no mind Doin’ fine All God’s children Fall in line Pay no mind Doin’ fine All God’s children Fall in line Pay no mind Doin’ fine Pay no mind Doin’ fine Pay no mind Doin’ fine All God’s children Fall in line One, dream We want to live forever Too, much Stress upon our little heads God, knows What we’ve done to earn our mis’ry We’ll, try To come until we’ve found we’ve wound up Dead
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Copy the Stars 03:15
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Say goodbye Let the preachers tell us we will never die Take the books from our hands Look outward to another land Sign a contract with your god Let the needles poke and prod Copy the stars Clone the beyond Eternal nothing Drop in the pond Thrusters fall forth Just in the mind Eyes glued shut We’re out of time Systems go dim Signals dead end Silence the vacuum Crushing the bends Motionless mirror Glint in the vision Set course towards light Worldly decision Paint every rocky shore The righteous fall on their swords Slam my head against the ground Red falls all around Vision black, busted lip My teeth are shattered, crooked grin False smiles for new dominion Eternal canvas, no opinion Comes into focus, there are no creatures There is no hope, there are no features Atmosphere makeup is thin Behold the maker, mime’s crooked grin Fuel stores run dry and all hope was lost We went to the heavens but at what cost? We stared to the black and picked out a glint We were stamped out quick as steel on flint Compressed again and life will move on That’s the way of the great beyond Copy the stars Clone the beyond Eternal nothing Drop in the pond Thrusters fall forth Just in the mind Eyes glued shut We’re out of time Systems go dim Signals dead end Silence the vacuum Crushing the bends Motionless mirror Glint in the vision Set course towards light Worldly decision Copy the stars Clone the beyond Eternal nothing Drop in the pond
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On the Weekend 03:39
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On the weekend Honey we can lose control Just for a little while Ya, no mess around I’ll make you smile With nothing else Keep believing That we’ve got something better in store I think I need some help Ya, if not from you then someone else Can’t control myself If I believe in this ya, and nothing more Could you turn back time Cuz I believe I skipped the best part of my life When I was blind If I believe in this ya, and nothing more We’re just wasting time Cuz I believe I’ve missed you for all my life If nothing else Got me reeling Got me sleeping on the ceiling baby Come on, ya I’m no fool But you’re leaving me an IOU and I don’t know Y Call me crazy Ya, but only in a good way Now baby come on Why is it we can’t get along well? If I believe in this ya, and nothing more Could you turn back time Cuz I believe I skipped the best part of my life When I was blind If I believe in this ya, and nothing more We’re just wasting time Cuz I believe I’ve missed you for all my life If nothing else If I believe in this ya, and nothing more Could you turn back time Cuz I believe I skipped the best part of my life When I was blind If I believe in this ya, and nothing more We’re just wasting time Cuz I believe I’ve missed you for all my life If nothing else
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Trip Upon the Past 03:18
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You see me walking down the street Ya, what you see well, I see a winner Chicken dinner on the table, ya If I can make it home Oh, I see you stranded by the light Trying to do right Baby, I love your soul Let’s fall in love and make it last We’ll never question why I fall so hard Need a means to make it last And never trip upon the past That justifies my evil ways Let’s fall in love and make it last We’ll never question why Need a means to make it last And never trip upon the past That justifies my evil ways Ooh, the people that you meet Seems that my days are spent wasted Complacent Thinking bout the things I thought I used to know Fight like a brave In order to enslave the masses Let me take control Let’s fall in love and make it last We’ll never question why I fall so hard Need a means to make it last And never trip upon the past That justifies my evil ways Let’s fall in love and make it last We’ll never question why Need a means to make it last And never trip upon the past That justifies my evil ways Let’s fall in love and make it last We’ll never question why Need a means to make it last And never trip upon the past And just go on and bring it in
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Boomerang 05:35
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That smile on your face I’m finding it so hard to replace Cuz there’s nobody else And when you come around I’m tripping over myself Now every time you go I’m picking up a shovel to dig out a hole Cuz it’s over my head Wishing that you’d come on home Say something If it means something at all Let it go It’ll come back around like a boomerang Step by step and day by day I’m making a path, paving a way It’s going down quickly and I Need you here with me tonight Struggle to find the words to say Don’t go throwing your love away It’s going down quickly and I Need you here with me tonight Say something If it means something at all Let it go It’ll come back around like a boomerang Say something If it means something at all Let it go It’ll come back around like a boomerang Let it go It’ll come back around like a boomerang Cuz baby You know when I’m talking bout that boomerang I’m not really talking bout a boomerang You know what I’m talking bout I’m talking bout our love, sugar No matter how hard you throw that love It’s gonna fly right back Oh, it’s gonna fly right back like a boomerang Say something If it means something at all Let it go It’ll come back around like a boomerang Say something If it means something at all Let it go It’ll come back around like a boomerang
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serotonin reuptake inhibitor, mother's oven serotonin reuptake inhibitor, - Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor 02:16
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I can’t get up I can’t get get down I can’t get up I can’t get get down I’m stuck in the middle I’m stuck in the middle And when I’m stuck in the middle There ain’t none exquisiter She’s my little serotonin reuptake inhibitor She really evens me out She really flattens my field She’s got a lust for my learning And babe, you know I always yield She ties me up and asks me questions Just like the Grand Inquisitor She’s my little serotonin reuptake inhibitor On the days that I miss her You know, I get so tense Walk in circles for hours Speaking words that make no sense She keeps me hung up straight Like an arthouse exhibitor She’s my little serotonin reuptake inhibitor She's my little She's my little She’s my little serotonin reuptake inhibitor
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Persistence 04:47
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My existence is persistence I exist to break the system You’re solution’s revolution But that just leads to more pollution We’re a long way from home Because of cold and grey old folks Contrary to the constitution I would raise up this solution Peace and love to your fellow men, yea Walk together hand in hand, well We’re a long way from home Because of cold and grey old folks Twenty nine years now, they’ve tried to dumb us down After all those years, how did we get these clowns Twenty nine years now, they’ve tried to shout us down To your own applause, the wall was out of mind Do you really wanna build one up again Love Love Love Love Love Love Love Love Give it to me now
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mother's oven maybe you're perfect, maybe you're perfect - Maybe You're Perfect 02:02
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We go out on the town And all I wanna do is spin you around Turn my world upside down Ever since I met you, I forgot how to frown No, I can’t stop from loving you No, I can’t help that my love is true No, I can’t stop from loving you Cuz baby you’re worth it And I think maybe you’re perfect Pick me up when I’m down Pull me back to earth when my head’s in the clouds You’re my light, you’re my way And I can’t help but think about you Every single day No, I can’t stop from loving you No, I can’t help that my love is true No, I can’t stop from loving you Cuz baby you’re worth it And I think maybe you’re perfect
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Success Breeds Attention 03:05
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Success breeds attention, but I’d Best be left in the shade I’ve tested redemption, but prefer The common waterways There’s no one telling me that I’m supposed to grow There’s no one lurking in the Bushes near my home I plot my course and I Determine where I go And I travel alone Everyone is limping, but I Found a way to cope You must ignore your drowning if you Want to grab hold of the rope I took my feelings and I Buried them away I denied myself and Worked to earn my pay Caved into pressure and Became a man that day And I still feel so alone Alone Alone! I don’t have a list of reasons For doing what I did I’ve been this way ever Since I was a kid Conquered my ego, but got Conquered by my id Oh Oh Oh!

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released July 25, 2020

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