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trouble comes, the mail arrives
I pick apart a broken watch
I'm on call with astronauts
here's an acrobatic lot
Telemundo is for free
but not something that you could see
everybody falls asleep when oxygen dies

hundred horses, hundred wines
that's a secret, that's a lie
here's a planetoid connection
that they caught and tried to hide
paranoid's a boring game
jealousy is just the same
hit me with the hammer when the light turns green

plaintiff's here, jury's gone
down at the Dairy Mart
absolutely no exception
specially for you
made inventions, broke conventions
raised a glass to new pretensions
meta-meta-meta-and the novel is dead

no more talk of mathmagicians
numbers can't be ever tricked
I propose a superstition
always mumbling, never sick
a way to increase your sales
never question, never fail
I was born in Vermont
she was born in Vermont
and we'll all die in Vermont hallelujah the hills

here we are where we thought we began
lost and high and burnt out with no back up plan
and it’s such a disgrace to leave all these kids weeping in the van

so we’re traversing North Dakota
using only cartoon commerce maps to navigate
but there’s always an unlabeled tape
lying in an unmarked box
in an ill-kept archive
and can you guess who that tape is keeping alive?

the first thing to know is that you can never go back there
the second thing to know is that I’m the one who sent you the dream
in the basement of your house oh sunny Jean
where you writhed and you coughed up and you screamed

call the cops
put the gurus in charge
cuz here comes an instructing hand
to place upon your lack of plans
and lead you to the tapes in the garage
can you guess which false prophet is still at large?

you fell in love with the woman sent here to kill you
and now you’ll kill the people that sent her to you
she’s the sweetest assassin in the states
has a tattoo of the motto of The Fates

you were brought here by design and now you’ll live until you die
you were brought here by design and now you’ll live until you die
you were brought here by design but don’t take that as a sign
you were brought here by design and now you’ll live until you die

you’ll spend the next year always looking over your shoulder
and combing through the paper for some elusive clue
you press rewind, and then you press play, then you pause
it’s time to hear what you thought you lost

You scribbled down these words for me:
“take your place in the garden”
I took it up with bourbon to decipher in the top of a tree
With boredom comes no more burden
But a price is paid regardless
Nostalgia held hostage in the wings, you know it’s just for the show
If you ever
Care to collapse
If you ever come to
You should know
You should know
What I did in LA
Where I lived in Dallas
Why I left New York
& What occurred in Boise
So if you ever care to collapse
And if you ever come to

So keep it all under your hat
Or other appropriate expressions
Cuz winter’s like a boxing match
Televised but turned down low
I’ve got my finger on your position
Your voice, your keys, and direction
Cuz any old psychic can tell you everything is a sign
So If you ever
Care to collapse
If you ever come to
You should know
You should know
What I did in LA
Where I lived in Dallas
Why I left New York
& What occurred in Boise
I feel like something ghostly
If you were here so would you
So would you

Well I used to be a ghost
But I’m no longer a ghost
There’s a way I was told
Now I know it was true
Now I want what I had
So I’ll take it from you
On my game and off the clock
What kind of mess turns you on?
Well, I used to be a ghost

You know I can’t recall my name (trap door looming in the morning sky)
I guess I threw it all away (split like heaven in the royal night)
I got lost (hit the lights) in the woods (far away)
Sat in capital thrones
I got shot (here’s a torch) by the dunes (c’mon man)
Walked the streets like a drone
In my prime but nodding off
What kind of wreck do you recall?
You know I can’t recall my name

I’m coming back not without injuries
I’ll make my repairs up on your roof
You lost hope when you read my obituary
I’m here to tell you the papers were faked
They threw some mannequin in a lake
If you moved on well you made a mistake

I used to be a ghost
But I’m no longer a ghost

Hey alright, we're cherry picking days till we die
we're building shapes unknown to the eye
we're breathing life into the meteor skies
and I can't even sing

hey alright, can you believe we escaped alive?
Here honey, get into this disguise
they're gonna try and tell us doors have closed
but I say fuck that noise

i'm doing ok I guess
I'll walk with a limp but I'll try to hide it
i'll show up to your party with bandages on
covering every part of my head but my eyes
you'll see me
don't worry
you'll see me
don't worry

Hey alright, I figured out how to sleep through the night
I told you no more revenge but I might
We’ll reinstate some classic spells from the zone
Now let’s destroy this poem

Cuz there's a lotta people saying
that I got no skin in the game
but they're wrong

i'm halting the mass production
of lonely feelings on my factory floor
i've divvied the sweetest memories
into separate piles by atlantic shores
I drank my way to the top
and then I smoked myself through the door
trying to reach you again
i'm the mountain that wanted more

too wasted to hear the sirens
the far out whinings of some fucked up kid
i'm a beacon for true conspiracy
up front heresy, i'm ok
but I could only be me
but my ways left less to adore
I did the best that I could
i'm the mountain that wanted more

at first I thought I was ocean
at first I thought I was trees
at first I thought I was engine
but something happened to me
I didn't end up a mansion
i'm not some oak heavy door
I couldn't live with a human
i'm the mountain that wanted more

Trisha went to Washington and lit up like a Christmas Tree
Adrian got busted but he‘s always been a friend to me
well i‘m fine, but i‘m not ok
Sarah saw a shooting star but kindly gave her wish away
we‘re running hot with fate

Alice wasn‘t kidding when she said she saw a UFO
Elliot was ripping up his letters out in the snow
well i‘m fine, but i‘m not ok
Nathan‘s finally floating and it happened in the USA
we‘re running hot with fate

Dori’s finally being who she always knew he was inside
It’s hard here without Jay but his memory stays by her side
well i‘m fine, but i‘m not ok
if you think you’re at you’re limit just remember what some folks survive
we‘re running hot with fate

Jamie’s back in rehab & this time he says it ain’t no joke
Zadie said she’d leave him if he ever goes back to dope
well i‘m fine, but i‘m not ok
Met a fortune teller who told me it would turn out this way
we‘re running hot with fate

I’m running hot with it
And you’re avoiding it
We’re both arguing which one attracted it

Can u carve a new world
From some old clay?
I keep waking up surprised I get another day

Is this free will
Or is it destiny?
It doesn’t matter who the fuck’s in charge of me

we‘re running hot with fate
[hot fate! Hot fate!]

(I don’t believe in it / but I’m running hot with it)

hot fate