The Horrible Fanfare / Landslide / Exoskeleton Songtext / Lyric

The Horrible Fanfare



Ashes of ancients

The nations repainted

The chain gang chatelaine

Changing the station

The theme song playing

The anthem of normal

The horrible fanfare

The horns get distorted

On a public annoucement

The towns are impounded

Where the order resounded

Cowards towered around it

Powerline buzzards

Surveilling the night

Talons in flight

The fake horizons ignite






Banality lives

Where hysteria kills

Civilian jungles

With malaria pills

Animals bleed

To buy a star from the night

Avenue kids

Wear a scar like a stripe

Send up a signal

To the heavenly rescue

When the poison's coming

From the person you're next to

Let the voltage of thought

Pull the plug from the wound

'Cause if the soul is a sympton

The condition is you



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Landslide



We know it's a letter bomb hand-me-down

This thought is a perjury blindfold

When she crawls from the Himalayan rain

Where the birds of prey and weapons on fire

She's ridin' a landslide down to me

Cuttin' the shackles off of me

Shakin' the dead birds from the trees

She's takin' the only air I breathe



Iron lungs and a plate glass sermon

Don't call it death on the installment plan

She's pulling the armour on my back

Waving the coals over the tracks

Taking the knife out from the stack

She's bringing the blood that I have back



She's coming to see it's all a sin

Coming to see the sun again

Coming to wash it off again

Coming to see herself again

Coming to see herself again

Coming to wash it off again



Exoskeleton



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