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Quarantine
03:15
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Tangled in a knot
Strangled by the thought
If you wanted to get off of this ride, ‘fraid not
It’s a helicopter missing a blade
It’ll crash soon enough
Now that we’re all inside — Quarantine!
Living inside of our minds — Quarantine!
It’s the devil’s playground
It’s the devil’s playground
Angled, every shot
Digital is all that we got
And hiding behind every screen, pictures of what we’ve lost
Numbers are a dangerous game
And honey it’s a lot
It’s a lot
Now that we’re all inside — Quarantine!
Living inside of our minds — Quarantine!
It’s the devil’s playground
It’s the devil’s playground
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Seasick
03:31
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All these trees, freshly laid with branches splayed
Counting rings, the circle plays an endless wax and wane
No one there to hear my timid, whimpered timber call
Axe in hand, I wonder were they ever there at all?
My body falls
Strangers, all of the people fading into dreams
Specters, masked in fractured unreality
Figures haunting every street I walk upon
Cross over, avert my eyes until they’re finally gone
Were they ever there?
My body falls
Time slides, a silver bead inside a child’s game
Slip and glide into the hole and roll back out again
Seasick from the motion blurring night and day
Stagger, lurch and whirl, pitch, careen and sway
Dance it all away
My body falls
Were they ever there?
Dance it all away
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3. |
Fools
03:47
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We know how to fool ourselves better than anybody else
And I can do it just as well as you
We know how to make a mess, and make amends more or less
And still be friends, I guess
We know how to make a mess
We know how to fall down, and how to get back up
We know how to live in dreams, in fits and screams
Still never going mad...yet
We know how to fool ourselves
We know to deal with shit, by forgetting it exists
We know how to twist and jerk and rearrange our feelings til they work
We know how to deal with shit
We know how to numb the pain that comes with love
We know how to wish away and cover up the things we are scared of
Cuz we know how to fool ourselves
We are only fools ourselves, just like everybody else
We are only humans haunting earth
Until we kill the whole thing off
Cuz we know how to fool ourselves
We know how to fool ourselves
We know how to fool
We know how to fool ourselves
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4. |
Fire
03:39
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I watched the sun burn up my pillow
I didn’t know it could roll so slow
Hang like the cherry from your fingers out the window
Playing with fire
Judgement Day, hanging like a tightrope
Hounds to the left, halos to the right
Making bets, taking names
I’m hiding in the corner
Hope they don’t remember mine
I once was lost, but now I’m nowhere
I once was blind, but now I’m blinder
I guess sometimes I could be a little kinder
I watched the flames burn down my castle
I didn’t know it could go so fast
Fall like the cherry from your fingers to the pillow
Playing with fire
Judgment Day, hanging like a tightrope
Hounds to the left, halos to the right
Making bets, taking names
I’m hiding in the backroom
Hope they don’t remember mine
I once was lost, but now I’m nowhere
I once was blind, but now I’m blinder
I guess sometimes I could be a little kinder
So pick your fights and win your battles
We haven’t much road left to travel
Isn’t it scary?
It isn’t scary
Unless you’re scared of it
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5. |
Frankie
03:39
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Go away for awhile
Go hide and don’t make a sound
I’ll count for you, child
I’ll tell you when you can come out
Find peace in your slumber
In dreams filled with wonder
Cascade with the water
Unafraid of the monsters
No one can tell if you’re smiling
No one can tell if you’re frowning
No one can tell if you’re angry
No one can tell you anything about how you should feel
Set sail for the sky now
Swim high in purplish clouds
We’ll meet in the Milky Way
Visit the planets and make our escape
Sing, darling with Saturn’s rings
Sling stars 'cross the galaxy
Strum Lyra’s shiny strings
Bend backwards and touch her wings
No one can tell if you’re smiling
No one can tell if you’re frowning
No one can tell if you’re angry
No one can tell you anything about how you should feel
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RIKKI RAKKI Richmond, Virginia
Hazy-jangly, stargazey rock&roll from Richmond, VA.
Rikki Rakki is Erika Blatnik (vox/guitar), Matt Luger (guitar/keys), Andy Brown (bass), and Jay Kole (drums).
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