Everything Starts…EP
1. Casino Clouds
2. Ghost By Your Side
3. American Swimming Lesson
4. Heart Shaped Box
5. The Praxter
1. Casino Clouds
1. Casino Clouds
you left tuesday and by wednesday you were so alone
is this your nightmare man?
the millions of punch drunks and the cannibal king is taking control
now that you’re burning in space
you try to remember her face and the crown of your heart
now you’re fighting for the manacle girls and boys
like a kettle of keys
one of which might unlock all of these…
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if these are the black gates of hell!
then I’m sorry for the life I’ve waisted so
I forgot to fall in love
I forgot to call on the keystone clan
I never got to be a man at all
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your crocodile tears,
your manikin angel cage of fire is killing him so
now you’re searching for life up in these cold casino clouds
with your panicking eyes I am not alone
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now these are the angry jaws of death!
now this is the calm while Father Grim is smiling so
I never got to fully say
I never got to really explain myself
I forgot got to sing
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I got us here, I saw the sign, now breathe in the air, and you’ll be fine
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now I will never fall in love
now I will never really explain myself
but honey I will sing
2. Ghost by Your Side
remember I told you in life and death
we’d bury our secrets when they tear us apart
but love means going this far
even when the ending is the start
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if you dive into the ocean then I
will be the wave around you tonight
and if you’re sinking then oh it’s alright
cause I will be the ghost who is at your side
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remember your demons will surface and fight
but I will be a good phantom
and keep on romancing this cold little devil’s tribe
and hold them away
while you are escaping into the light
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so tell me where you’ve gone by now
I’m getting no reception on my heart radio
now meet me where the angels collide
and I will be the ghost who is at your side
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now I’m changing, I am changing
now I’m changing for you, now
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when you dive into the ocean alive
oh I will be the ghost at your side
and if you fall into the devil’s tribe
oh I will be the ghost at your side
and when anywhere the angels collide
oh I will be the ghost at your side
now dive into the blinding light….
3. American Swimming Lesson
black scene leather kid, real Ameri-kid
shove off or move my mountain
calm your bitter bears and I’ll thank you
for punching a hole and sinking my balloon
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nag my conscience, inferior conscience
like I’m a lunatic waiting to scream
henpecked by heroes with kingdoms of none
we’re baking like mice in the sun
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you are following
you are following
you were hoping to find something to shine
but you are out of your mind
to be so in love with this capitol world
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searching, you go searching for fawna
with absinthe in your coffee
and a gun in your hand
you should not be hunting for ghosts in this land
I say…. I say…. my God, I say
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you are following
you are following
you were hoping to find something to shine
but you are out of your mind
to be so in love with this capitol world
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skeletons in your head, open your mind, you’ll find…
swing high, swing low
you are following
you are following
you were hoping to find something to shine
but you are out of your mind
to be so in love
5. The Praxter
Wait!
Now calling all my foes to wait for the back of my hand
This cannot stand forever
The Weaver of Revenge
I am beelzabub’s replevin
Heckled and haunted adue
I’m nothing to you
Safe!
So safe and calm and cozy
Tucked in your blankets with gold
The pale and cold forgotten
The knife grinder is hunched to unfold
Your friends were sold for heaven
The sucker is you
One, you are beautiful and
Two, you are wonderful but
Three, you’ve got praxter’s in every pocket
Shut up!
Go on and on forever
My head is gonna roll down this hill
Through silk and hoards of greiling
Savagely born in the shawg
The bells have lost their meaning
Somewhere a whore gets her wings
And sings “my darling, my darling”
Heckled and hauntingly used
I’m falling for you….
Fall into circles of my love
Tripp’n on love
