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.​.​.​Winter

by Mercury

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1.
nothing quite like the rhythms got me going straight demonstrate the system in the shadow of a room do you feel alright bet you like it when i like you bet you feel it when i feel you downtown there's a payoff for the taking but i owe nothing like i owe myself i get lost on streets i walk every day do you know the way that you can get me home can you get me home just get me home you know that feels alright just get a tone and you're good to go all night if i get what you need you just may not leave it's so simple now watch it simply break itself can you feel your way through darkness shadows fall to burning light you can say what you want to if you don't say goodnight you caught the tail of the rhythm thats got me going yeah and it feels right i bet you like it when i like you bet you feel it when i feel you tell me its so simple now watch it simply break itself watch it simply break itself push and pull till its gone catch up and i'll take you along for the while shake yourself crazy yeah we can go in style cause neither one of us is going home yet if i get everything seems to slow down everything always seems to come down
2.
Straight into a prediction so she says I cannot hide trapped by condition it takes a lot to get inside hit bent to recover it takes a lot to forget but she knows it I can't bring myself to I can't bring myself to leave she takes it but I take it back I'm just fooling she she says she's got the motion says she's got it in her hands but she's just fooling me she don't hold a thing I bought it and I really paid for it please don't let me down I bought it and I really paid for it I wanted you to leave without leaving me
3.
Slow Dance 06:05
one two you're just being you three fortunately leaves us standing for a while chance ride on a tune that will break down and leave us where you left me will you forgive me i gave a name to no mans prize the day ends the weeks are coming down will you deceive me do you believe yourself now you've left no place to go can you believe me how do you deceive yourself this day ends the week are coming down caught in the motion and in like this luck shining down on me is burning down our history a truth i still don't understand the pang in victory is something i won't live to see and far more than i can comprehend i just cannot believe that i could fall so easily sometimes its more than i can bear i cannot believe that i get lost so easily when i'm not going anywhere when the world is falling tell me will you be falling or will you be leaving us behind or leaving us right where you left me your simple guarantee simply don't mean much to me if you're going i'll be taking this one down there are no guarantees so if you're sure please assure me cause i guess i'd like to know where i'm going
4.
525 05:26
listen good and hard my friend i won't tell you again there's someone at the door now baby just begging to come in i feel a chill well as this nightmare creeps up over me suffocating in my bed so you got a dream well tell me what you're on cause i just don't dream anymore i swear i just can't trust anyone you must have a way no evidence of solution a fine time to listen shut down listless on the floor i know but i can't be sorry i know that i can't worry about all this anymore there is no evidence of solution and i'll take no more you got something to say you got something i don't want to hear
5.
Once Off 05:36
simple man there's a plan to break you you shine like a star tonight i'm of the opinion that it's not simply the price we always resolve to excuse we always find it waiting for that someday soon a promise that dissolves in excuse so caught up in lies so far sometimes i just have to clear out my head with a quick kick gamble with the words i say risk it all on the chance she'll stay but she says that she don't need me at all simple man simple tone never finding your way home the price is left to someone the price will draw you into the price is absolute(3)ly and just the loss you wait for i guess you get what you pay for and i'm swinging low on the cash gotta hope that this will last through the tireless night cause it will not be alright cause i know that she don't need me now or ever again simple man there's a plan to break you a plan to wake you a plan to shake you and when she leaves i know she won't be back again and when she's gone i know i'll still be left a simple man so she leaves and i'm left just so simple
6.
take a seat hey do you want a drink i don't want to be alone she sits down glass is cold lips so warm she don't want to be alone take it down take it in forever have another suck me down take me in plain as darkness hands above her head she waits she don't want to be alone head spinning i long to be with her take a chance drink there's no more mister nice guy my head is reeling one more drink she's reeled in and she's falling down take me down
7.
so far under now so far down i gotta get it right i gotta get out i gotta get it right i have to get up i gotta get it right so now i wait again wait for this day to end right down we all get down and keep on going what you must think really don't mean much to me right now i just keep on rolling and keep on moving on it's so far down you can bet that i will take this to far down it's so far down so far i can't see the ground where are we now are we going the distance or simply headed out where are we now are you with me baby or you just simply headed out so fast it's lightning so bright this dream seems it could be unreal so wise and enlightening it dictates just how you should feel so right it just has to be real now i wait again i just want this day to end right now and i'll get down i'll keep on going what you must think really don't mean anything right now get your butt strolling i know where i'm going now it's so close now gotta catch it reach it just in time ever so close now gotta catch it reach it just in time it will alright then so fast it's lightning so bright this dream seems it could be unreal so wise and enlightening it dictates just how you should feel so right it just has to be real i've grown to tired to understand where we are where we stand and yet we're on our way i've grown to tired to understand where in this world i am but yet we're on our way i've grown so tired i feel so tired and yet we're on our way
8.
she has a long way to go three sights set on something i don't know she drinks the poison stuck in her throat and choking gotta breathe gotta need something every now and then we all need something every now and then we all fall down keep on walking talking like strangers in a crowded room and no easy ride want to take a ride into half my lie baby want to take a ride into half this life want to take a ride into half my life pave a way to get inside to the half left sitting in the bedroom and it's so far she won't even listen it feels just right once your inside it's so enticing once you're inside it's so inviting unlike the closed doors found waiting baby want to take a ride into half this lie slip away to get inside to get back to my room with you
9.
Line Of Two 15:47
i guess i should be going unless i'm stopped by your eyes tempted by the moment or is it just yesterdays lies not sure if to forgive you is just a means to this end or just a new beginning again i'm sure you'll take it slow and i'll take it like i always have listen to the moment cause later we can make amends it comes and goes and leaving down its better than just falling again simulate the motion assimilate the dream i know it can't be what it seems always end in motion always leaving everything moving on alone now like swimming through a sleepless dream sink into the moment you know you're all you'll ever need and if the thought of leaving now is just memory i guess you should be going again i'm sure you'll take it slow and i'll take it like i always do simply always moving no way to catch hold of you sink into the moment and now you're leaving my friend simulate the motion assimilate the dream i know it can't be what it seems always end in motion always leaving everything rationalize inertia into such justifiable content conditions the unconditioned forces that wet your pallet and drench another in biting discord as ravens as angels in harmonious distaste clutching grasping emptiness breathe until i'm home sink into regret cling to sheets of panic and sweat and never look through stained and tattered windows wipe them clean seal them tight bring me back to the never ending dreams of teddy bears subway fares wake up to the cold indifference and breathe deeply don't choke yourself on lingering questions that parley your existence bewildering body of lifeless ornate pleasure hidden treasure buried deep subterranean karma within yourself emptiness closes the gap never fills empty immortality dies with sullen branches of lifeless limbs and falling i catch the branch that once caught me redhanded black tongued i wake the child within prisons of expectations lost to boundless dreams of passion she longs to have warm sheets clear head clouded by cold days of wasted time longing wanting loving hating deceiving herself into believing she can still breathe while holding her head below the current of her infinite doubt pulling her with arms of unrelenting questions of her own ceremonial cravings of salvation from herself beyond circumstances behind situations that control and condemn her end her means is all is saturated contaminated with artificial solutions of artificial substance dripping down the dark wall dream-time barrier sleep never felt so far away so close to the edge of the world encompassing fate overwhelming destiny love always conquers hate but hate will always rise again and breathe its life into the cold bone chilling twilight 6 am the alarm bell rings

credits

released August 31, 1999

Jon Bower_Vocals, guitar, mc-303
Ali Wever_Bass guitar
Jimmy Shields_Guitar
Andrew Myers_Drums, monophonics (moog)
Josh Myers_Polyphonics (qs7, juno 60)

Additional Credits:
Viola played by K. Snyder
Photography by E. Fisher, A. Myers, B. Bower, and D. Pauls
Design by A. Myers

This recording was tracked and mixed by M. Busbee with J. Prato January and June of 99 @ Skyline Studios, Oakland

Originally released on Sign Language Records

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