1. |
Death 999
03:25
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After twenty-something years of constant self-reflection
I've concluded that I'm more or less an alright guy
Now that that's been settled, it's time to move on
Do what I'm gonna do
What I'm gonna do
A coward dies a thousand times
And I'm on death 999
I might as well start living like a hero
Might as well start living like a hero
I've had unrequited loves and unfulfilled wishes
Some rats that snitched on me and never got stitches
Some times I should've walked, times I should've sprinted
Some fights I should've fought and some fights I wish I didn't
Some times I acted reckless, some times I acted timid
Some things I should've done but should never have admitted
Some things I should've started, some things I should've finished
Some things I should've started, some things I couldn't
A coward dies a thousand times
And I'm on death 999
I might as well start living like a hero
Might as well start living like a hero
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2. |
Opportunities
03:36
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3. |
The Commuter
03:21
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Where is everyone
Where did everybody go
It's time to go to work
Time to be alone
There isn't much that lovers can do
The whole world's against you anyway
What's the weather today
Getting on the highway
Think that I'm gonna pass this guy
He's driving like he's lost
And doesn't know if he should turn around
Oh what a feeling, oh what a feeling
Oh what a feeling I haven't felt in a while
I've always been honest and I never cheated
I guess I thought my life would have a little bit more than this
A little bit more than this
Where is everyone
Where did everybody go
I'm on my way to work
Another day alone
What a strange group on animals
Here on I-295
Keeping their distance from each other
Trying to make good time
There isn't much that lovers can do
The whole world's against you anyway
What's the weather today
There isn't much that lovers can do
The whole world's against you anyway
What's the weather today
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4. |
Driving in the Dark
04:41
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At the end of the summer
When the nights just start to get cold
In the dark all the houses look so haunted
And everything is overgrown
Little light in the window
While the big machine is asleep
In the car you and I can disappear
While the world loses all it’s specificity
Yeah I lost myself again
Driving in the dark
Where anything and everything lies ahead
Yeah I lost myself
And something tells me this is how it’s supposed to be
All of the time
The old factory buildings
And the new McMansion homes
There’s a story there but I was too young to care
Driving round the holes in the roads
Cause I was waiting all day
'Til the hour got late
And you and I could disappear
Oh, just to imagine living anywhere but here
And I lost myself again
Driving in the dark
Where anything and everything lies ahead
Yeah I lost myself
And something tells me this is how it’s supposed to be
All of the time
So when the sun comes out
It’s an apocalypse
Everything that could have been
Gives into what exists
So when the sun comes out
I’m getting plugged back in
Everything that could’ve been
And in the same White Mountains
I thought that love could conquer death
By the light of day it’s the historic place
Where they founded the IMF
So little light in the window
While the big machine is asleep
Make the world disappear
Show me what we’re living for
And hold my focus here
Hold my focus here
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5. |
Negative Oil
03:17
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I just have fun
I just celebrate
Drinking everybody’s milkshakes
I get a green face
I put that in the bank
Drinking some else’s milkshake
Things are looking bad
That’s what people say
Maybe bad is good
I could see it that way
People talk crazy
They don’t know how to play
They’re preaching moderation
I think that’s insane
I just have fun
I accelerate
Drinking everybody’s milkshakes
Pedal to the metal
Yeah I do this every day
Sometimes you take it easy
I think that’s a mistake
I don’t know if you want it enough
It’s important that you always keep up
It seems like you don’t want it enough
Auughhh fuck that shit
Negative oil
I understand why Saturn did what he did
Every fire’s gonna try to stay lit
I burned the past, burned the heavens, burned the present
You’re a fool to think I’m leaving any air for the kids
I’ve been digging graves, I’ve been digging deep
When I’m done with it, the shovel tastes sweet
I’ve been digging graves, I’ve been digging deep
When I’m done with it, the shovel tastes sweet
Keep up with me
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6. |
Information Superhighway
02:41
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Street racing on the information superhighway
I'm here to lose it all or hit it big
You've gotta be aware of your surroundings
We'd run you off the road if you blink
I'm gonna make a name for myself in these streets
Gonna make a name for myself in these streets
Gonna make a name for myself in these streets
One of these days
When grievances go public
I always get in on the IPO
I'm holding all the right positions
Watching the numbers grow
I'll reverse the conversation
It's easy when you just don't care
In the great hall of the vampire castle
Stealing silverware
I'm gonna make a name for myself in these streets
Gonna make a name for myself in these streets
One of these days
Watching the numbers grow, watching the numbers grow
Watching the numbers grow, watching the numbers grow
Watching the numbers grow, watching the numbers grow
Watching the numbers grow, watching the numbers grow
Watching the numbers grow, watching the numbers grow
Watching the numbers grow, watching the numbers grow
Watching the numbers grow, watching the
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7. |
Maybe Maybe Not
03:02
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Well maybe there’s a table
And maybe there’s a chair
And maybe I’ve been hoping
That you’d take a seat there
And maybe there’s a pomegranate
Over on the shelf
And maybe I’m at attentive to your bodily health
And maybe I’ve been thinking
In ways I wouldn’t speak
And maybe I dream up stories
When I’m falling asleep
Yeah maybe maybe
Maybe maybe
Maybe, maybe not
Well if I had to someday
You know that I could walk it all back
A quantum intention
Safe from attack
Well I don’t wanna play the coward
My whole life long
But you know what you’re worth
And I know what I’m worth
So we’re smart enough to let nobody else come first
So there’s something illicit about loyalty
Was I looking at you
Were you looking at me
If no one else is looking
Do you wanna try to leave
So maybe there’s a party
And maybe you’ll be there
Maybe you’ll be going
Maybe going nowhere
And maybe if you finish all your work on time
Then maybe, maybe you just might drop by
And maybe you’ve been thinking
In ways you wouldn’t speak
And maybe you dream up stories
When you’re falling asleep
Yeah maybe maybe
Maybe maybe
Maybe, maybe not
Well if you had to
If you had to
None of it's gotta be true
Oh oh oh, none of it's gotta be true
None of it's got —
Well I don’t wanna play the coward
My whole life long
But you know what you’re worth
And I know what I’m worth
So we’re smart enough to let nobody else come first
So there’s something illicit about loyalty
Was I looking at you
Were you looking at me
If no one else is looking
Do you wanna try to leave
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Spent an extra minute in the car
Thinking over where things were and where they are
All the things I wouldn't have changed
If I could've said a few things
That I couldn't say
You know it's all traffic light protocol red
You know it's all traffic light protocol red
And of course I wish I could've loved you more
But nobody knows who anybody's working for
The cops are in our pockets all the time
So I couldn't say a few things
That I would've said
You know it's all traffic light protocol red
You know it's all traffic light protocol red
So if you still remember who we were
Then show me what you saw
Why you're living on another clock
Going around and around and around
If you still remember who we were
I'll show you what I saw
Why I'm living on another clock
Going around and around and around
So I spent an extra minute in the car
Thinking over where things were and where they are
A lot of happy lives I would've led
If I could've changed a few things
That I couldn't change
Y'know
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9. |
Complicated Man
02:28
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I never wanted to be a complicated man
There's just a lot of things that I gotta take into account
One day we won't be busy, we'll be as loving as we can
But today still calls for some calculated moves
Cause there's people I can't talk to
Places I can't leave
I wish I could be honest with you
But no one else can see
Cause if I sound too crazy
It's over before it starts
It's a lot
It's a lot
I never wanted to be a complicated man
There's just a lot of things that I gotta take into account
One day we won't be busy, we'll be as loving as we can
But today still calls for some calculated moves
Cause you know that you'll go further
If you act like you're the shit
And what's another racket in a world like this
But if you sound too crazy
It's over before it starts
It's a lot
It's a lot
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10. |
Ghosts and Dead Ends
03:31
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They're putting jackets on the horses
And the steering wheel's cold
And maybe I've spent one too many winters
Driving up and down this road
First it's the changing of the seasons
Then it's the changing of the years
Then it's that thought that tracks you down again
What the hell am I doing here
I don't know how it's happened again
All that I see are the ghosts and dead ends
That I was running from before
Wondering where the future went
You tell me I'm the one who got away
And technically that's true
But I can tell that you've really moved on
When all that I did was move
I'd like to call it intuition
But superstition fits the bill
Seems like every time I look over my shoulder
The shadow gets bigger still
So if I've left you feeling broken
Then think about me what you will
I know I can't run forever and one of these days
The past is gonna have its fill
And surely enough it's happened again
All that I see are the ghosts and dead ends
That I was running from before
Wondering where the future went
You tell me I'm the one who got away
And technically that's true
But I can tell that you've really moved on
When all that I do is move
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11. |
Like Magic
04:55
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Instead of telling me you love me
And you want to be together
Just text me you're bored
Cause either way I'll spring right up
I'll be right there with you
And I'll always want more
But if you tell me that you want me then I'll want you too
And I'm a whole lot more consistent than you
You love is a breeze
You only feel it as it leaves
But for a moment I'm caught like a leaf
Like magic
Necessarily fleeting
But I understand, I understand why people say forever
Knowing fully well that life is brief
And then a year goes by like vapor
And the world is something crazier
When you text me that you're bored
And I'm stricken by a feeling
That I've only known as you
And it's just like before
The things that you're saying
Do you mean them
Have you changed
Are we playing
The same old game
Am I the fool yet again
Your love is a breeze
Sometimes it seems like it could take me
Will it take me this time
And just for a moment I'm caught like a leaf
Like magic
Temporarily
But I understand, I understand why people say forever
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What are you doing playing house
You should be getting down to business
Business
Sex, mergers, and acquisitions
Sex, mergers, and acquisitions
Sex, mergers, and acquisitions
Sex, mergers, and acquisitions
Sex, mergers, and acquisitions
You've never needed someone else
You've always had so much potential
Potential
Let's raise a glass to your health
Where do you see yourself in five years
Five years
Sex, mergers, and acquisitions
Sex, mergers, and acquisitions
At the end of the day there's two terrible options
Forget what you're worth, or lose love to caution
I know what I'd do, but I've got nothing to lose
Nothing to lose
At the end of the day there's two terrible options
Forget what you're worth, or lose love to caution
I know what I'd do, but I've got nothing to lose
Nothing to lose
At the end of the day there's two terrible options
Forget what you're worth, or lose love to caution
I know what I'd do, but I've got nothing to lose
Nothing to lose
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13. |
American Fatigue
03:47
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I don't want to go to work every again
Don't want a morning commute
Don't want a weekend
Don't want to worry about miles per hour
Don't want to fret about where and when
I've got a head on my shoulders and a couple of friends
We want to busy ourselves with the odds and ends of the world
I don't want to write any more songs about cars
Don't want to think about the road
When I hear guitars
Don't want a hollywood rendezvous
A meet cute over meat substitutes
The airport scene or the hot pursuit
I just want to chill
Why are there people like Frank
Evil reverberates through time
Echoes of sorrows today will weigh on whoever survives
When it all gets too much, you hit the bars
And pass out in a field, staring at stars
Your whole life
It's just a song about cars
I don't want to go to work every again
Don't want a morning commute
Don't want a weekend
I don't want to worry about miles per hour
Don't want to fret about where and when
I've got a head on my shoulders and a couple of friends
We want to busy ourselves with the odds and ends of the world
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14. |
We Called It
03:51
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There is nobody here to listen to what I am saying
The recording apparatus is the only witness
I hope that someone will, at some time in the future
Listen to this recording with great respect
I always thought that when it finally happened
I'd watch the world end with you
What a terrible time to realize
We're part of the world too
Cause the market's crashing
I want to feel romantic but you're not here
An avalanche is blowing down the door
But you don't even love me anymore
You don't even love me anymore
We called it
You know we called it a long time ago
Things were getting worse so we thought that we should vote
But the death drive was running unopposed
You know we called it a long time
Got some shitty jobs and held our noses
When the iceberg hit
We went overboard the same boat
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Fall asleep in a self-driving car
Wake up at home and there's blood on the fender
Sometimes life gives you answers
And other times you end up going on benders
Oh, you could get to the bottom of it all
But I don't really want to go that low
I'd rather lean back and smoke something tonight
Lean back and smoke something tonight
I said Jesus take the wheel and he said
Which one, there's an awful lot of wheels
And I said I don't know
Maybe all of them
Cause I don't really have the answers
Mostly I just end up going on benders
And we could get to the bottom of it all
But I don't really want to go that low
I'd rather lean back and smoke something tonight
Lean back and smoke something tonight
I don't really want to fight tonight
I'm never really in the mood for fighting
Sometimes life gives you answers
Sometimes it tells you it's time for and bender
And when we get to the bottom of it all
It's gonna take us way down low
I'd rather lean back and smoke something tonight
Lean back and smoke something tonight
Lean back and smoke something tonight
Lean back and smoke something tonight
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Alessandro Takeshi Tokyo, Japan
Alessandro Takeshi is an experimental singer-songwriter and music producer, as well as keyboard player and vocalist in the band The Stations, based in Tokyo. His avant-garde debut, To and Fro, and pop-oriented followup, Songs About Cars, cemented Takeshi as a versatile artist, deeply expressive whether penning pop tunes or turning them inside-out. He has performed across the US and Japan ... more
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