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IMPERIAL PHASE Your golden teenage was your imperial phase, when the world was yours to take and take. Surfing the zeitgeist was quite nice, there up on the wave, but you had to know, it had to break. Don’t let the sun set on your golden state. Don’t let them tell you the turning tide won’t obey. Don’t let them see your faults or the fears that make you quake. Don’t let go of your hold. It’s just like S.E. Hinton said, stay gold. They took your lookbook and ripped up every page. They said your bling ring, it had to fade. The time for détente is long gone. They’re set to invade. But they don’t know, you’re gathering strength. Don’t let the sun set on your golden state. Don’t let them tell you the turning tide won’t obey. Don’t let them see your faults or the fears that make you quake. Don’t let go of your hold. It’s just like S.E. Hinton said, stay gold.
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A Sea Of Upturned Faces
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A SEA OF UPTURNED FACES She don’t wait for permission. She makes up her own games. From a town with so little vision, baby, she ripped the script to pieces and tore away to the hills of California (uh-huh), where destiny awaits (she knows). The camera adores her (she thinks). She’s just a shot away. She wasn’t born into money, but the riches of her mind took her halfway to heaven in a Bentley, baby. Transcendent and resplendent, her dream car climbed through the hills of California (uh-huh), where destiny awaits (she knows). The camera adores her (she thinks). She’s just a shot away from the lights. You should see her brighter side, incandescent in the moonlight. Cue her next line and she may finally hit the heights and awake the world with starshine. It’s easy to get forgotten. It’s easy to exceed your stay. But she hasn’t reached the bottom, baby. With hands like wounded sparrows, she explains to a sea of upturned faces and the bullhorn down below. She’ll leave lasting traces, everyone will know, everyone will know, everyone will know.
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Destiny No Longer Awaits
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DESTINY NO LONGER AWAITS Destiny no longer awaits. She grew tired of you playing it safe and the way you always hesitate at her bedroom door. Destiny no longer awaits. You live your life like it’s a video game. And the love you only simulate leaves her wanting more. Now you’re getting what you’re settling for as you’re sinking to the basement floor of your parent’s house. You’re getting what you’re settling for as you’re slipping to the molten core of her heart, and you’re cooling it off. Destiny no longer awaits. You were sleeping when she tiptoed away. So pour yourself a glass of sour grapes and mourn amour, ever more. Moan, moan, moan, now you’re all alone and you’re getting what you’re settling for as you’re sinking through the sagging foam of your parent’s coach. Now you’re getting what you’re settling for as you’re searching for the lost remote to her heart. But she’s already off. Destiny no longer awaits.
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THE GIRL WHO STOLE THE WORLD She slips from the scene as the sirens approach and cop lights collide against shadows and the smoke swirling overhead. No one’s princess doesn’t need no prince kiss, ’cause she already stole his whole world. Alone, all alone, is she best on her own, unburdened by alibis, gone before he knows ancient history? No one’s princess doesn’t need no prince kiss, ’cause she already stole his whole world. She’s getting away with more than her take. She’ll leave a hole in his heart. She’ll leave a hole where he once built a wall. He steps from the wreckage of her first attack. Now what would he give to get that moment back to relive again? No one’s princess doesn’t need no prince kiss, ’cause she already stole his whole world. She’s getting away with more than her take. She’ll leave a hole in his heart. She’ll leave a hole in his heart. She’ll leave a hole where he once built a wall.
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Magnetic Mind
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MAGNETIC MIND Every thought still turns to you. My magnetic mind pulls the past close behind, leaving you stuck in my memory, proving you will always be my truth. Every thought still turns to you. My magnetic mind turns the world, shifts the tide, leading you to my vicinity, proving you will always be my truth. Every thought still turns to you, turns to you, turns to you. Every thought turns to you.
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Closer
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CLOSER She is just a reverie and love a distant chance, rolling through your memory like a time-lapse avalanche. And so it goes, until all you know is the hope that grows and you let light in, and you let light in. Time pulls you closer to her heart. Wander lonely like a cloud and wonder what it means. You’d rather hear her call your name than drown in poetry. And so it goes, until all you know is the love you’ve shown and you let light in, and you let light in. Time pulls you closer to her heart.
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Mystery Chord
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MYSTERY CHORD Domino, the notes descend. Let me know how this one ends. Rising up through your blood to your lungs lifting with air, flow the words to convince you we were always meant to be here. It begins where I end. Only you can reach out and catch me in mid-air. Only you can quell doubt and swallow up the fear. Throw the decades of mistakes and false starts on their ear. It begins where I end. Only you. The universe is not averse to the thought that you’re thinking. Everyone would love to see you in love. The universe is not averse to the song that you’re singing. Everyone would love to see you in love. Everyone would love to see you in love, in love.
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You Will Know Love
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YOU WILL KNOW LOVE You will know love. You will finally find the one. You’ll turn around and you’ll be overcome. You’re so down now, you never want to leave the house. I’m here to drag you out and lift you up and turn your head around. Just when you think you’ll throw your hands up in the air, she’ll appear and make it all so crystal clear, why you’ve waited all these years, so alone, so alone. You will know love. You will finally find the one. You’ll turn around and you’ll be overcome, like a hammer to your skull. Just when you think you’ll throw your hands up in the air, she’ll appear and make it all so crystal clear, why you’ve waited all these years and wept through all those tears, so alone, so alone. Sooner than later, you’re gonna know better than to ever doubt. Sooner than later, you’re gonna know better when she smiles. Sooner than later, you’re gonna know better than to ever doubt. Sooner than later, you’re gonna know better when she smiles. Love, love, love has been here all along.
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Tintype
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TINTYPE Strange how streets converge to take you back. The more you leave, the more you double-track. Medicine on Sundays for all the things you lack. Strange how streets converge to take you back. They don’t make faces like hers no more. The light it traces every weight she bore. By some strange graces she turned her back on their bruising phrases and their heart attacks. Tintype quits the static in your head. She owns no real estate inside your bed. Unconvinced she was alive till she was nearly dead. Tintype quits the static in your head. They don’t make faces like hers no more. The light it traces every weight she bore. By some strange graces she turned her back on their bruising phrases and their heart attacks. Impossibly young, impossibly young. They don’t make faces like hers no more. The light it traces every weight she bore. By some strange graces she turned her back on their bruising phrases and their heart attacks. Impossibly young. Strange how streets converge to take you back. The more you leave, the more you double-track.
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Worry To Faith
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WORRY TO FAITH Meet me where worry turns into faith, and we’ll wait for authorities to come. You fit the description of one who’s gone missing, a stranger who looks just like anyone of us. You can fight it, but the feeling won’t shake. You can hide, but time only takes all you have and all you want, when all you need is already gone. It’s already gone. Distant shadows turn in the light, the flash of approaching betrayal. There’s only one answer to give when they ask you, a kiss in an instant to telegraph truth. You can fight it, but the feeling won’t shake. You can hide, but time only takes all you have and all you want, when all you need is already gone. It’s already gone. You will not remember, so write it now. “Blah, blah, blah, blah something,” he said. Another year older, a few moments wiser. It slipped from your eyes, now there’s nothing left to give. You can fight it, but the feeling won’t shake. You can hide, but time only takes all you have and all you want, when all you need is already gone. It’s already gone.
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Plastic Ants Cincinnati, Ohio
Inflight entertainment by singer-guitarist-songwriter Robert Cherry, bassist-producer John Curley, keyboardist-singer- songwriter Guy Vanasse, drummer-singer Joe Klug, guitarist Robbie Reider and cellist Shira Beder. In a world carved out by Plastic Ants you're only as tall as the height of your hopes. And things, well, they're looking up. ... more
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