1. |
Tame
03:17
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Read your lines.
You read your lines from across the stage.
Pick your life.
You pick your life, made it all the same.
Brutal eyes.
You brutalize, you're taking all the blame.
But still are here with you,
With nothing else to do,
But try to make you tame.
Tender eyes,
Tenderize my heart for you,
Drain my blood,
Drain my blood, take it all for you.
Crush our will,
You made us feel,
Defeat and shame.
But still are here with you,
With nothing else to do,
But try to make you tame.
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2. |
Forget You
02:39
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Don't stop, you know you can't help yourself,
One more breath and recover the guilt.
Another cigarette,
You can forget,
About your sanity.
Stays for a moment,
Makes you believe what you see is opportunity.
Relax and attempt to destroy yourself,
Beat your brain until you enjoy the pain,
Caught in the prime of your life with no reason to dream.
Jealousy will sour every friendship,
Every love from the old regime.
Turning into a meme.
It's not what we want to do,
It's just what we've got to do,
And if that's alright with you, it's alright with me.
Your friends aren't going to forget you,
Your friends aren't going to forget you,
'Cause, your friends have never met you.
I lost the will to breathe or think,
And lost my thoughts inside a drink,
I gave my last for all to see.
On the corner of a street,
I saw a monster in the window,
Plain to see.
Staring back at me.
Delay that thought for a minute,
Sixty seconds to sell you on something,
I never believed in,
I never trusted youth.
I'm glad you're doing something,
And I wish that I had done that something too.
Now I'm jealous of you.
It's not what we want to do,
It's just what we've got to do,
And if that's alright with you, it's alright with me.
Your friends aren't going to forget you,
Your friends aren't going to forget you,
'Cause your friends have never met you.
Your friends aren't going to forget you,
Your friends aren't going to forget you,
Your friends aren't going to forget you,
Your friends aren't going to forget you,
Your friends aren't going to forget you,
Your friends aren't going to forget you,
Your friends aren't going to forget you,
Your friends are all gonna forget you ever lived.
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3. |
Alright
02:42
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You're like a shot of vitamin
You fill the world with light
If I found the key to happiness I would give it all to you
If you'd just be here tonight
Like a speeding ambulance
I race through the lights
Abandon recklessly
Do anything you say
If you'd just be here
Just come here
Our fate holds the future
So tight it looks like night without the stars
It's already clear that I don't sleep when you're not here
For a broken melody
I stay up all night
And send you fragments that collect inside my drive
I don't feel like anything's alright
Hope it's just another plea
Desperate screaming to the sky
We find each other somewhere else that isn't here
I'd give anything anything
Our fate holds the future
So tight it looks like night without the stars
It's already clear that I don't sleep I'm always:
Cold lonely stone
Trappings and unwrappings
Dressings and undressings
Longing for release
Desperate for peace
Folding at the slightest touch
The rage of impulse burst is
Such a delight to be denied
The daylight is on our side
Another broken melody
Another homebound flight
Send you a postcard
And some flowers that you like
I don't feel like anything's alright
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4. |
Play For Keeps
03:00
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Coughing late at night,
I hope the neighbours don't complain.
Staying safe inside,
Staying just the same.
It's harder to wake up,
When you never go to sleep.
Afraid of dying young,
Afraid we play for keeps.
Everything you do,
Is slowly killing you.
Everything they do,
Is breaking your heart in two.
Every friend that passed away,
HEY! HEY!
Every stupid word,
You didn't mean to say,
Say it just to hurt.
You only learn from failure,
So you only make mistakes.
Press continue anyway,
So many hearts to break.
Everything you do,
Is slowly killing you.
Everything they do,
Is breaking your heart in two.
I'm so sick of writing.
I see every fault in bold.
Every cliché, every lie.
I miss not getting old.
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5. |
Waving Myself Goodbye
04:23
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Backing up your soul
Beaten up and old
Put it on the cloud
Don't speak of it aloud
Restoring your old heart
If yer finished press restart
Move on with your life
Continue like it never happened to you
And tens of times you try to change it
But the formula is fixed
There is only one result:
Insult your friends
Draw conclusions
Play pretend
Claim you're the victim
Make amends
I see you
Waving yourself goodbye
Waving yourself goodbye
A silent sheet of ice
Once bitten
Twice bitten
Seen so many bites
I'm bleeding out my love
Is it me you're frightened of?
Replicate this time
Repeat it in your mind
Our curse must run its course
Stress and mould in coffee cups
You can't throw away
In all my years I have
Accumulated fears
And little else I can truly call my own
I left my friends and family
And headed out across the sea
To be more than me
Still it's just the same mistakes
Heart about to break
I gave my fate in good faith
Watching as I'm
Waving myself goodbye
Waving myself goodbye
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6. |
Past Lives
02:45
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We used to get drunk by the castle,
I felt a fire burning in me.
We didn't know what we were doing,
We didn't know what we would grow up to be.
Not one of us poets,
Nobody knew they were caged.
Murphy and I drank a pint of poitín.
At fifteen you better act your age.
Fast forward life,
'Cause it's getting you nowhere,
And nowhere is somewhere that nobody wants you to be.
And so the killer was wasted,
His eyes rolling back in his head.
His brother said boys we'll be in trouble with the mother,
If anyone sees him, we're better off dead.
Someone shouted "scatter!",
Blue shirts up on the hill.
I swear that boy was barely alive,
But the will to survive,
Had him running like the wind.
Fast forward life,
'Cause it's getting you nowhere,
And nowhere is somewhere that nobody wants you to be.
Fast forward life,
'Cause it's getting you nowhere,
And nowhere is somewhere that nobody wants you to be.
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7. |
Tidal Wave
02:09
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The day is foreboding.
At night the city overrun,
The smoke is blocking out the sun.
Are they really corroding,
Structures built to hold us high,
Destroying lives while we stand idly by.
They kill our dreams while we cry,
No- Whoa whoa whoa oh.
It feels, it feels,
Completely fantastic.
And it's real it's real,
It's made out of plastic.
And it never goes away,
It never goes away.
Tidal wave,
Float away.
Echoes around you,
Sweet familiar grey and black.
No release, no turning back.
Plays on your conscience,
We take for granted what's to come,
The rising tides and suns.
But it feels, it feels,
Completely fantastic.
And it's real it's real,
But it's made out of plastic.
And it never goes away,
It never goes away.
Tidal wave,
Float away.
It never goes away
It never goes away
Tiiiiiiiiiiiiii-ah
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8. |
Laika
03:27
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This story always makes me cry,
A little dog out on the street,
Picked because she was so sweet,
Sent to try to learn to fly.
No lights, no windows, all alone.
Four nights of crying out in space,
A frightened animal erased,
A satellite in the unknown.
Was the pain too much to bear?
Was it cold out there?
Was it fear at every turn?
A whimper growing to a cry,
As you burned across the sky.
Now Laika haunts me in my sleep,
A childhood memory I keep,
A moment of sadness that lasted,
For 20 odd years
And a hundred odd days,
And it won't go away.
So it will always make me cry,
The greatest dog that ever lived,
The men she wanted to forgive,
The ones who sent her off to die.
Was the pain too much to bear?
Was it cold out there?
Was it fear at every turn?
A whimper growing to a cry,
As you burned across the sky.
Now it will always make me cry.
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9. |
Still Here
02:36
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I'm so glad that I'm alive and breathing,
Slowly repeating all the idle ideas,
That sometimes drift about my mind.
Why's it always feel so tight?
Twisting around my fingertips,
As though it loves me but it only wants my life.
And I'd really like to let you know,
I really wish it wasn't so,
It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do,
Was saying goodbye.
I have died a thousand times,
Curling up foetal in a lonely little flat,
Dreaming about our little crime.
I'm so glad that I'm alive,
Free to do anything including sit around,
And think about you all the time.
And I'd really like to let you know,
I really wish it wasn't so,
It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do.
Was saying goodbye to you.
I'm so glad that I'm alive,
I'm so glad that I'm alive,
I'm so glad that I'm alive,
I'm so glad I'm living here with you.
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10. |
Ticket
05:56
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When you refuse to coexist,
You purse your lips and tighten up your fists,
Slowly unlearning who you are.
They never noticed at your school,
The broken pieces of you,
All the pain you felt to get this far.
Your hearts still sticking around for you,
Coming up for air,
With a one way ticket to anywhere but here.
And you could wish upon a star,
But stars are busy buying houses,
You can never hope to own.
When you reach out for love or truth,
This world will slap your hand,
And feed you lies to make you feel alone.
Your hearts still sticking around for you,
Coming up for air,
With a one way ticket to anywhere but here.
And even though you weren't the only one,
You felt so isolated,
So left behind.
And even though you only hurt yourself,
I'll believe in you,
If you don't mind.
They let you die before you drink,
Before you're old enough to think,
They trade your innocence for gold.
You kill before you kiss a girl,
Shoot your gun at someone halfway round the world,
Your blood runs cold.
With your heart still sticking around for you,
Coming up for air,
With a one way ticket to anywhere but here.
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11. |
Close
01:30
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I hope you're happy for the rest of your life
I hope you get the things you wanted
I hope the future falls exactly as you hope for without me
I hope you visit all the places we never got to see
And I will be stuck in time
Frozen here on my own
I will be stuck in time
I will be left alone
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Crash Exhibition Haarlem, Netherlands
Crash Exhibition makes music for a world where nothing is “Alright”. Agonized but melodic vocals scream and croon their way through high-intensity songs grappling with subjects from crushing regrets, failing love, destructive capitalism, and numbing terror at a world growing closer to doom every day. ... more
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