1 - LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE

It's only when your poison spins into the life you'd hoped to live
and suddenly you wake up in a shaken panic now
You had set me up like a lamb to slaughter
Garbo as a farmer's daughter
Unbelievable, the gospel according to who?
I lay right down.

All your sad and lost apostles
hum my name and flare their nostrils
Choking on the bones you tossed to them
now I'm not one to sit and spin
because living well's the best revenge
Baby, I am calling you on that

Don't turn your talking points on me.
History will set me free
The future is ours and you don't even rate a footnote now!
So who's chasing you? Where did you go?
You disappear mid-sentence
In a judgement crisis I see my in and go for it
You weakened shill.

All your sad and lost apostles
hum my name and flare their nostrils
Choking on the bones you tossed to them
now I'm not one to sit and spin
because living well is the best revenge
and baby, I am calling you on that
You savour your dying breath
I forgive but I don't forget
You work it out, let's hear that argument again
Camera three... GO NOW!

All your sad and lost apostles
hum my name and flare their nostrils
Choking on the bones you tossed to them
now I'm not one to sit and spin
because living well is the best revenge
and baby, I am calling you on that
Baby, I am calling you on that
Baby, I am calling you on that


2 - MAN-SIZED WREATH

Turn on the TV, what do I see?
A pageantry of empty gestures
all lined up for me - wow!
I'd have thought by now
we would be ready to proceed
But a tearful hymn to tug the heart
And a man-sized wreath - oww!

Throw it on the fire
Throw it in the air
Kick it out on the dance floor
like you just don't care, oh
Give me some

Wave the palms, steal the alms,
a fist in the air
A motorcade of benign strength shows
the people that you care - owww!
Nature abhors a vacuum,
but what's between your ears?
Your judgement clouded
with fearful thoughts
headlights and a deer - oww!

Throw it on the fire
Throw it in the air
Kick it out on the dance floor
like you just don't care

Look at what I found
Everybody look around
Everybody looking like they just don't care
Give me some

Well I'm not deceived by pomp
and odious conceit
But a tearful hymn to tug the heart
And a man-sized wreath-oww!

Throw it on the fire
Throw it in the air
Kick it out on the dance floor
like you just don't care

Look at what I found
Everybody look around
Everybody looking like they just don't care

Throw it on the fire
Throw it in the air
Kick it out on the dance floor
like you just don't care
Give me some
Give me some
Give me some


3 - SUPERNATURAL SUPERSERIOUS

Everybody here
Comes from somewhere
that they would just as soon forget
A disguise
At the summer camp where you volunteered
No one saw your face, no one saw your fear
if that apparition had just appeared
Took you up and away
from this base and sheer
Humiliation
Of your teenage station
Nobody cares
no one remembers
and nobody cares

yeah you cried and you cried
he's alive he's alive
yeah you cried and you cried
and you cried and you cried

if you call out "safe"
then I'll stop right away
if the premise buckles
and the ropes start to chafe
The details smart
but the story's the same
You don't have to explain
You don't have to explain

Humiliation
Of your teenage station

yeah you cried and you cried
he's alive he's alive
yeah you cried and you cried
and you cried and you cried

realized your fantasies
are dressed up in travesties
Enjoy yourself with no regrets

Everybody here
comes from somewhere
that they would just as soon forget
and disguise

yeah you cried and you cried
he's alive he's alive
yeah you cried and you cried
and you cried and you cried
now there's nothing
dark and there's nothing weird
don't be afraid i will hold you near
from the seance where you first betrayed
an open heart on a darkened stage

a celebration
of your teenage station

this
inexperience, sweet, delirious
supernatural, superserious
inexperience, sweet, delirious
supernatural, superserious
wow


4 - HOLLOW MAN

I've been lost inside my head
Echoes fall off me
I took the prize last night
for complicated mess
for saying things I didn't mean
and don't believe

Believe in me
Believe in nothing
Corner me
And make me something
I've become the hollow man
have I become the hollow man I see?

I see this echoing
You had placed your trust in me
I went upside down
I emptied out the room in thirty seconds left
I can't believe you held your ground

Believe in me
Believe in nothing
Corner me
And make me something
I've become the hollow man
have I become the hollow man I see?

I'm overwhelmed
I'm on repeat
I'm emptied out
I'm incomplete
You trusted me
I want to show you
I don't want to be the hollow man

Believe in me
Believe in nothing
Corner me
And make me something
I've become the hollow man
have I become the hollow man I see?


5 - HOUSTON

If the storm doesn't kill me
the government will
gotta get that out of my head
It's a new day today and the coffee is strong
I finally got some rest

So a man's put to task and challenges
I was taught to hold my head high
Collect what is mine,
Make the best of what today has

Houston is filled with promise
Laredo's a beautiful place
and Galveston sings like that song that I loved
Its meaning has not been erased

And so there are claims forgiven
And so there are things that are gone

Houston is filled with promise
Laredo is a beautiful place
and Galveston sings like that song that I loved
Its meaning has not been erased

And some things, they fall to the wayside
Their memory is yet to be stilled
Belief has not failed me
And so I am put to the test


6 - ACCELERATE

Sinking fast, the weight chained to my feet
No time to argue with belief
I'm not alone, a thousand others dropping
Faster than me
What put me here?
Nothing to hold on to
Nowhere to brake

Where is the ripcord, the trap door, the key?
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me?
No time to question the choices I make
I've got to fall in another direction

The last thing I remember
is climbing up the stairs
I threw the window open, challenging despair
I don't know what I need
I needed time
I needed to escape
I saw the future turned upside-down
and hesitated

Where is the ripcord, the trap door, the key?
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me?
No time to question the choices I make
I've got to fall in another direction
Accelerate.

The vista I see now is changing
Uncertainty is suffocating
hope has never felt so grating, lit up down
and pounding pulse
make it go, make it slow down,
and go.

Where is the ripcord, the trap door, the key?
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me?
No time to question the choices I make
I've got to fall in another direction.

The city sputters like it's ready to explode
Accelerate to make it slow, make it go
Accelerate to make it slow, make it go
Accelerate, I'm incomplete
I'm incomplete
I'm incomplete.


7 - UNTIL THE DAY IS DONE

The battle's been lost, the war is not won
An addled republic, a bitter refund
The business first flat earthers licking their wounds
The verdict is dire, the country's in ruins

Providence blinked, facing the sun
Where are we left to carry on
Until the day is done
Until the day is done

As we've written our stories to entertain
These notions of glory and bull market gain
The teleprompt flutters, the power surge brings
An easy speed message falls into routine

Providence blinked, facing the sun
Where are we left to carry on
Until the day is done
Until the day is done

A voice whispers "Son,
The blessed vision comes."
What have I done
What have I done

So hold tight your babies and your guns
Forgive us our trespasses, father and son

Providence blinked, facing the sun
Where are we left to carry on
Until the day is done
Until the day is done
Until the day is done
Until the day is done
Until the day is done
Until the day is done


8 - MR. RICHARDS

Mr. Richards, your position
Is a messenger pigeon
Left behind you when the camp moved on.
We thought that you would listen
but the words had never crystallized
Into a truth that you might own, hey hey.

Mr. Richards, your decision.
Pay attention, pay attention.

Mr. Richards, you're forgiven
for a narrow lack of vision
But the fires are still raging on.
The public's got opinions
and these consequences border on
The compound that you raised
Will sell it see, hey hey.

Mr. Richards, your decision.
Pay attention, pay attention.

So listen, your intention;
Sign the papers, stamp the ribbon.
You're mistaken if you think we'll just forget.

You can thump your chest and rattle,
Stand in front of your piano,
But we know what's going on.
Yes we know what's going on.
We're the children of the choir, hey
and we know what's going on.

Mr. Richards, your conviction
Had us cheering in the kitchen,
Now the jury's eating pigeon pie.
So tell me how is prison?
Have they taught you how to listen?
We've begun to bridge the schism.
Pay attention, pay attention.

Mr. Richards, your decision.
Pay attention, pay attention.

You can thump your chest and rattle,
Stand in front of your piano
But we know what's going on.
Yes we know what's going on.
We're the children of the choir, hey
From the compound fire, hey
And we know what's going on.
Yes we know what's going on.


9 - SING FOR THE SUBMARINE

It feels in dreams
That everything is there for you
The city breathes and pulses
It's for you electron blue

I knew that you could see right through it
So this is where I give in to the machine
Lift up your voice feel gravity's pull
Drown out the siren's ring (or silent dream)

Oh...

It's all here where I keep it
It's all in the submarine
It's all a lot less frightening
than you would have had it be
But that's the good news my darling
It is what it's going to be
So sing, sing for the submarine

I tried to explain how it all begins
How its all destroyed and built again
I knew that you could not believe me
But now you're here and it's different
How the light shines in your eyes
In every second or situ
It's then that I realised
That the world as we know it
The High speed train
We'll pick it all up and start again

It's all here where I keep it
It's all in the submarine
It's all a lot less frightening
than you would have had it be
But that's the good news my darling
It is what it's going to be
So sing, sing for the submarine

The city did not collapse in a shudder
The rain it never came
At least my confessions made you laugh
I know it's a little crazed
But these dreams...
they seem so real to me

It's all here where I keep it
It's all in the submarine
It's all a lot less frightening
than you would have had it be
But that's the good news my darling
It is what it's going to be
So sing, sing for the submarine

So this is where you trust me
And this where it begins
It's all a lot less frightening
Your tear you let it in
Tyrel and his mechanical owl
A moth disguised as a leaf...
Don't tell me what tomorrow brings
Climb into the hidden machine and
sing sing sing sing sing sing
sing sing for the submarine


10 - HORSE TO WATER

I could have kept my head down
I might have kept my mouth shut
I should have held my own,
You lead a horse to water and
you watch him drown.

You're only as big as your battles.
Rattle my cage with your shadow.
I'm a bantamweight with a mouthful of feathers,
Don't you know that what comes around goes around?

I'm not that easy,
I am not your horse to water.
I hold my breath I come around, round, round.

Don't darken my doorstep again,
You're mixing up lemonade gin-gin,
You're mixing up lose with win/win,
lead a horse to water and
you watch him drown.
You're stumble on glass top table,
divas chewing chalk on cable
humvee up a beanstalk fable
I don't call this entertainment
'cause Humpty's falling down.

I'm not that easy,
I am not your horse to water.
I hold my breath I come around, round, round.

Pick a fight launch a buzzy bar brawl
Friday night cufk or fight a pub crawl
bantamweight with a mouthful of feathers,
Don't you know that what comes around goes around?

I'm not that easy,
I am not your horse to water.
I hold my breath I come around, round, round.

It's not that easy
I am not your horse to water
I hold my breath, I come around, round, round
you're going down, down, down
This run around, round, round
Is bound to pound the daylights out of you!


11 - I'M GONNA DJ

death is pretty final
i'm collecting vinyl
i'm gona dj at the end of the world
'cause if heaven does exist
with a kickin' playlist
i don't wanna miss it at the end of the world

hey steady steady
hey steady steady
i don't wanna go until i'm good and ready

it's on my mind
and it's in my mind
and it's what i found
and it's what i find
it's on my mind
and it's in my mind
and it's what i found
oh my oh my

but "i'll spin my way right through it"
claims enthusiast Jack Pruitt
as the moths circle the moon
as you're circle the room

music will provide the light
you cannot resist
you cannot resist
you cannot resist

and the weblogs that get tangled
as you willie and you wangle
in your walk-up in Seattle
where you fought the nascent battle
and you threw the thread and throttle
let us raise another bottle
raise another bottle
raise another bottle

becuase death is pretty final
i'm collecting vinyl
i'm gona dj at the end of the world

hey steady steady
hey steady steady
i don't wanna go until i'm good and ready
it's on my mind
it's in my mind
it's what i found
and it's what i find

'cause it's on my mind
it's in my mind
it's what i found
oh my oh my

hey steady steady
hey steady steady
i don't wanna go until i'm good and ready
hey steady steady
hey steady steady
i don't wanna go until i'm good and ready

music will provide the light
you cannot resist
you cannot resist
you cannot resist, yeah