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One rainy day, inside the boredom has her mind
There must be villains to disarm there on the other side
That lucifer's been down her neck all yesterday
For now she mustn't get away or she'd be satisfied
Such a textbook to be heading for
That sandy-coloured planet tonight
This is for when he lets you down
Always under, no big wonder
Don't get away, don't get away
Token bitch and none the richer
You never ever had it so good
The op-eds taking lead to point her to the fray
And when the wine is going flat there's one more thing to mourn
The frontiers have brought her luxury complaints
It's easy wearing minor scars when most are never born
And what better way to mope than on
That sandy-coloured planet tonight
This is where he will get you down
Always under, no big wonder
Don't get away, don't get away
Token bitch and none the richer
Sand is the colour of your town
Her mind as shallow as the dunes
On sandy-coloured planets alike
This is for when they let you down
Always under, no big wonder
Don't get away, don't get away
Stay a bitch and none the richer
You never ever had it so good
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Mayfly
03:08
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What a lovely summer morn
What a day to get being born
Little did I know that I would
spend my years to come by tiny hours
Still I'm lucky to be born
On such a lovely summer morn
And then by noon she crossed my flight
Around the meadow by the resting of the willow
We could dwell inside the grove
Shading from the sun above
Can I see you here again tonight?
She was hours ahead of me
Told me of the things that be
We flew toward the sun
We settled down to watch the evening come
I'm so lucky being alive
With such a lovely lady fly
And then the evening crossed our flight
So she told me to be waiting by the willow
She'd be back within a while
And she left me with a smile
Saying we would fly together through the night
But then the sun turned out its light
And I'm left there waiting, weeping like the willow
For this hour yesterday
She was greeted with her day
She won't be back again to see the night
She has died and so will I
By the untimely morning light
One life is not enough for a mayfly
But it was a lovely morn
Yes, it was a lovely morn...
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3. |
Plastic Sea of Mirth
03:07
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There's a hole in the forest
Where everybody hides
There's a hole, let's be honest
You go there when you cry
When the least of your mornings
Will preserve your nightly ride
You can let on all that you're worth
In our plastic sea of mirth
There's a core in each story
That everybody knows
No one cares for its origins
Lest it may seem to blow
If the sun yields no paper
By the way it sets to burn
Nothing ever will bring you worth
In our plastic sea of mirth
These first rays of the sunrise
Bring everybody down
It don't gel with the story
That love is all around
When the harshest of mornings
Steals away your nightly bride
Rest assured to be a casualty
You go with the times
You belong in the rhymes
When the summer urges smiling
On the ones whose brains are frying
Plastic fuses shut your sea of mirth
There's a brand on the sidewalk
It shares with what you lost
And she wished you the best
On the job you then forgot
Looking forward to show her
There's strength in being a jerk
In a flash you'll be on you own
In your plastic sea of mirth
There's a hole in the forest
That nobody can find
There's a hole in your conciense
From which I try to hide
When the tunes cut their assets
Due from working overtime
This alone has never brought me worth
You go with the times
You belong in the rhymes
Teach me how to nail the salad
Feed my urge for writing ballads
Drain the plastic from your sea of mirth
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4. |
Kitchen Stomp
03:46
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Sitting in my kitchen, never really care what you do
By sitting in my kitchen and never caring for what you do
You cannot really call me out unless I call for your too
Come into my kitchen, help yourself a piece of my pie
Come into my kitchen, help yourself a piece of my pie
If I don't get in yours, it's alright, I don't care for why
Do ya get a lotta booty for cramming that opinion in?
Do ya get a lotta booty for cramming that opinion in?
Well, you'd get with the fool if she'll put her ends to your will
Giant halls and golden pots
D'you really think I want the lot?
If your kitchen's really worth
Put your money where your mouth is
The pot is boiling quite alright
If I don't put out now will you hold a gun to my head?
Your god's alright for now
But what about tomorrow?
He'll shine by your rules
Upon all the fools you loathe and accuse
If your hard-hearted honey never giveth in to your loss
If your hard-hearted honey never giveth in to your loss
Set her up for you rally, make sure there's a bent for your cause
Sitting in my kitchen doesn't make me better than you
Staying in my kitchen doesn't make me better than you
But keeping out of yours, not trying to call you out on it do
Giant halls and golden pots
D'you reall think I want the lot
If your kitchen's really worth
Put your money where your mouth is
The pot is smouldering quite alright
Do help yourself but don't hold a gun to my head
Your god's alright for now
But what about tomorrow?
He'll shine by your rules
Upon all the fools you loathe and accuse
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5. |
Narcissia
06:28
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Narcissia, Narcissia
Do you align with your talking?
Narcissia, Narcissia
That you deny their hawking?
She got snaps for each mood, she got flicks for each wound, Narcissia
She got plenty tonight, she got wet sheets in sight, Narcissia
She got off on the writings on the wall alright
She got prisms and lights to shed rainbows on fights, Narcissia
She will tell you the truth 'bout the toil of her youth, Narcissia
Now she feeds on the writings on her wall alright
Her's a life on a flowerbed
And assured to be giving head
For to be seen, to be held as another dream
Now she's rooting on the violet
Gathering power on her amulet
Who would say no to the being of her beauty?
Narcissia, Narcissia
Who you assign your ambition
Narcissia, Narcissia
Will put you down given permission
She does good and she knows, on her job she saves souls, Narcissia
She lets on all her deeds, put forth all that she reads, Narcissia
She gets on by your answering her call, alright
She's content with her lot, being a matress with a slot, Narcissia
She's a flowery guise, calling you to admire, Narcissia
And she leans on your writings on her wall tonight
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Ultrasonic Tumbleweed
03:48
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Leaves hang low around the alleyway
Reminding by their tints how long the stay
Long enough to know for sure
What I added to the score
Set aside the blooming flower stalks of yore
What I should have read before we met
Might have changed her daily TV set
Just one night to understand
The calculus of hand in hand
A thousand nights worth of a certain brand
Tumbleweed, waking hours
Making reasons to remain
Swept away all the same
Rolling quietly in the rain
Tumbleweed, give no rest
Give no break, bother me
I'm tired of being free
Waiting quietly in vain
I could build a shell that's vast enough
To acommodate the rest of my life
I'm not like the other trees
For the others don't like me
Given up on making sense of what I see
Beware the door, sweet babe, it's never far away
It may shut out all love but also any pain
I might not ever give you much
I might not even dare to touch
I might be satisfied altering your day
Or your night, if you let me
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Saturnalia
02:44
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8. |
Campfire Tale
02:50
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And we gathered around the hearth of summer eve
To share tales around the fire
We would drink to the shape of things to come and weave
A mist 'round the local shire
And she flew in by the window
As the light beams called her in
She's the sweetest tale I've ever seen
Would she wind up in my dream?
Once a fairily envisioned lady of the woods
A dance through the common fire
Once a thought, would she ever go from where she stood
To where the cold would bring her nigher
Come the morning, come the light
She belonged to another tribe
She's the sweetest tale I've ever heard
Though she never spoke one word
Like a moth to candle light
She was lured into the night
She's the sweetest tale I'll ever tell
Though it didn't end up well
The sweetest tales are never saved
For the ones who dare only wait
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The Good Professor
06:47
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Now he's done with the paper
Proving that luck is the downfall of freebirds
Now seeing to his alm check
From the tribune pays his lunch at the faculty
First they seized the red alliance
Then the merchant trading science
Then the kosher band of brothers
And nobody was left to
call out when they came to me
Now clutched in his hand
Keys to the vault storing wildlife and matters
Wild acres are blooming
By his wand till he's done and retired
First they seized the red alliance
Then the merchant trading science
Then the kosher band of brothers
And nobody was left to
call out when they came to me
Only men of high forseeing
Drag their missions off from the scene
Silently one straining his seed
One dollar for your truth
One million for the warding men of no redemption
Only relying on good intention
of the professor's longed for invention
Only those who can forsee
What he is querying live on the scene
Led by the high-end moral of greed
One dollar for your truth
One million for to silent the oath of the professor
Violent the breach of his oppressor
Loud is the preacher, wild is the dreamer's vow
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Braille Music
04:01
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Heightened are your able sense
Grasping the scenery although
No sharper than your way of tracing
When the nature conspires
Withholds the beauty
I'll sing in braille tonight
Heightened are your fire arms
Facing the undecipherable
Those who utter what you're to know
Should put out the fire
And keep silent
And sing in braille tonight
Sharpened are the rules you crave
Not to miss out on anything
Quit your singing, quit your talking
Quit your writing letters
Just for the chosen
And sing in braille tonight
Widened are your social sense
Maybe we could bring out the cold
Of impressions to the gifted
Bring it down to level
Below our failure
And sing in braille tonight
Narrowed are your common sense
Of all the things you understand
Though it's worth if you'd be flattered
So the ones in favour
Won't mind their own
While singing in braille tonight
And if you're to make some sense
Leave to the audience to cheer
If you listen, if you see it
You would be there with them
Although I'm sorry
Won't sing in braille tonight
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11. |
Bootleggers and Baptists
08:15
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Safe in the cradle and handed your lunch
Living off loot of the diligent bunch
A whimpering pundit, you call for amends by the fed
Entitled the luxury of being red
Crying for justice, it's easy to do
When safe in the womb that'll keep you from doom
A thousand mothers with raving historical score
Each one a dependant and desperate whore
Praising the guns you never have to hold
Content with leaving them out in the cold
Clutched in the hands of the zealots that barter your faith
Dead sure they'll never be pointing your way
Meanwhile they let you on
Oh, how they let you on
That the peace you crave is prospering under a different throne
Then you wonder and you cry
Why the baptists heed the bootlegger call
Why the violence, why the hate
You're the reason, you're the bait
A flash in the gutter on your own street
A flash disarming the hands that greet
You scream at the blood but don't know where it's coming from
And seek for a cure in benevolent law
Put lids on all things that you don't want to see
Put gag on all those who you don't want to hear
You gamble the ballot, hope for trigger bans that you crave
So don't you complain when your words are empaled
You're so proud to make a fuss
Proud when somebody hails your cuss
You're an idle leech appealing to mobs that deal your bread
Then you wonder and you cry
Why the baptists heed the bootlegger call
Why the violence, why the hate
You're the reason, you're the bait
And still you writhe upon
The wars and famine going on
But the sums you add derive from the same panopticon
Borderline guards, deficit overlords
Withdrawing the hands that have started the war
In pride and not give in to that they failed their creed
You blindly hang onto your faith in their deed
Scorning the brownshirts in fear to be caught
With seeing in the mirror your common onslaught
Of divine intervention, poetic hegelian stance
An equity Shangri-la at your command
A lord that provides you with all that you need
Could later as well seize all of your yield
Exchanging your goods for the blood of the undertow
Exchanging the millions of lives for your goal
Confusing the freedom with means to gain
With leverage over a public domain
Granting the baptizing vultures access to your soul
And granting their waste of you hard-earned gold
Then you wonder and you cry
Why the baptists heed the bootlegger call
Why the violence, why the hate
You're the reason, you're the bait
Don't you cry now, it's your want
You're the baptist in the bootlegger ward
You're the violence, you're the hate
You're the reason, you're the state
It's your country, it's your land
You're the baptist holding the bootlegger hand
May you suffer under law
Of your ideals, of your awe
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Fred Rand Örebro, Sweden
Fred Rand is a one-man folk rock project featuring multi-instrumentalist Fredrik Andersson. The debut 'This machine kills no one' was recorded and digitally released in 2015 and the sophomore 'Archipelago' a couple of years later.
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