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The Sunbathing Dog
06:20
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I was walking as a pair'ádogs
the best right in the shortest lot
didn't stop for a lace
That tripped me places
promising nothing
and pulling favors took a grudge
and traded for cases
of notes on how graces went places
one pup chewed em all
then went to Memphis
other stood about
And ran in a circling doubt
round and around
and in between a chase scene
its head or tail
the sunbathing dog
tripped I hurt my toes on a friend
Way too much spent trying to figure
what's going on all over again
got away with a burning fever
found my self at the goodwill store
selling off a guitar that craved for a soul
told them it was played
at Folsom by johnny
I got $19.68 and a Sirius bowl
bought some time from
a crossroad stranger
he said use it well I said I will
alrighty then I'll see you later
I said what but he just turned to vapor
round and around
and in between a chase scene
its head or tail
the sunbathing dog
I'm thinking now perhaps it began
with James who spoke with an Irish accent
set me up with a sunward direction
Said I'll see you when I do at the crescent
basking in the ray of rays
forget about the difficult dog days
there's no entrance to be earned
just lay it all down and be on your way
nothing matters too much at all
on the run in impossible time
don't let it slow to a crawl
gotta keep it moving on the line
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Mountain Penguin
08:06
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They say you've lost the page
which line is ever the wonder
I'm going over the edge-es
feeling so sunk under
I've been called brother
in the fair weather
then watched the saints bail
when it comes the dream sail
[yeah | mountain penguin
Take a look on the wrong time
yeah | mountain penguin
Sliding in a mood sanguine ]
I'd have kept my name
if it painted me Jude
things spare no change
when everyone points and shoots
I hear an electric bleat
crossing me at 4th street
don't matter the danger
always a no timer
[yeah | mountain penguin
I'm coming through
yeah | mountain penguin
headed where I'm bound to ]
Just you picture me
at the popcount culture
homebound to be
at the 180 shutter
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Blue Umbrella
07:18
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we should've come ago or ahead
think us inside being between
upon a roof with a sunshone flare
in a city we've never been
floating blue
all the many people crowded in the air
They're so happy floating
blue umbrellas in hand
all the way up here we are getting
just to watch and stand
a fantastical scene alone in a dream
and we wait on a
blue umbrella to float
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The Slip
03:37
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The Funincular
05:59
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yeah, the city librarian
snaps pictures of all that moves
On the top floor of vitruvius station
By the foothills of the point of view
I made it to the top floor 53
one time at a time ungodly
but she framed me up and shot me
and asks "do you wanna see
she says I've been here
a few times before
I say anne I haven't
got the time at all
oh tell me I'm getting through
The monkey grab on to
the funicular for the point of view
and the earless man he grabbed my elbows
I wonder how I didn't see
him at a pillar or in the shadows
must've been the lack of sleep
took me to the exit elevator
lifting me half off the ground
he asks me why i'm always carrying
my head with me all around
I try my best to explain
that its just the way I've always been
but he breaks up all my sentences
with cinema novo scenes
He says I've been here
a few times before
but this ride is mine
once and for all
oh tell me I'm getting through
The monkey grab on to
the funicular for the point of view
And anne, she waltzes over and asks
if cardoso was his thing
he says yeah I was pals with lucio
till i traded my prints for dreams
were the times any good she asks
he says not if you like to laugh
I feigned interest as he started rambling
they forgot me and I just took my chance
I thought I've been here
a few times before
but I just might make
the beeline for the door
oh tell me I'm getting through
The monkey grab on to
the funicular for the point of view
up to the point of view
there's no sense or rhyme
to the going about the ways
Of impossible time
up to the point of view
there's no me or you
to the going about the ways
Of impossible time
up to the point of view
there's no sense or rhyme
to the going about the ways
Of impossible time
up to the point of view
there's no me or you
to the going about the ways
Of impossible time
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The Blue Avenue
09:14
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if the weather of your mind
is making a sun shine
Conductor says to the painter
won't you take me with you?
we're already here he replies
You just gotta open your eyes
it's a matter of your
shade and hue
I'd give a laugh in a yelp
but I stay my hand
unlike the gambler
Striking a deal
at the pew
things come and fall
in pieces after all
Along the blue avenue
if the weather of your mind
is hiding a moon beam
won't you fly
further than the clouds still
us a merry roving band
we ride a cresting rage
on a lifecar for two
Up a wave so high
and cruel
things fall strangely
where we should be strangers
in the blue avenue
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7. |
Johnny The Dream
11:55
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a lack of care
a lack of instruction
it's the same side
depends on who's coining
I've cast my lie
been down and out
and over the
cursed whys
I think a thought car
racing on down
the jungle trails
in old Phuket
motorcycles with son and dad
Nows a time ticking free
burnt away through family
boy hates him now in Cantonese
the churches forget him in times of need
a huddle of friends
and a cling to a dream
of fish and chips
and English tea
he said i'll see you when
I am free
there's no more reason
now to go see
the house
where the 25th track
and a tambourine
played for a friend from spring
It was johnny the dream
it was johnny the dream
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Are Singapore
ARE is an independent art rock band based in Singapore created by Mark Chua and Lam Li
Shuen.
The duo brings experimental arrangements, art rock and free improvisation to their releases and happenings.
They have performed and recorded in Iceland, Japan, Australia and Singapore.
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