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Future Boy
02:41
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You up there on the screen
I'd be your future boy
My big eyed bird in the movies
I'd be your future boy
Cause if that is what you need
A cinematic boy like me
To come along and set you free
Don't fear
Superboy is here
It feels good to me
As the wisdom runs
A boy should know his limitations
I've talked myself through less
Can I be your future pest
Cause if that is what you need
A sycophantic boy like me
To tell you things you really don't need
Oh joy
I'm your boy
It feels good to me
Don't fear
Superboy is here
It feels good to me
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Ascend
03:36
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Sitting on the floor
She dreams of her disaster
Outside the city moans
Unaware of the coming storm
She closes her eyes
And goes faraway
She’d like to ascend
But she knows this is how the world ends
The world is cruel
But she’s got echoes of a better time
With the sun on her face
And her feet on the waterline
She closes her eyes
And goes to that place
She tries to pretend
But she knows this is how the world ends
How did it come to this?
How did it get this far?
Maybe with a mother’s kiss
The lights wouldn’t be so dark
She closes her eyes
And knows not today
She’d like to ascend
But she knows this is how the world ends
The world ends
Sitting on the floor
She dreams of her disaster
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In Retrograde
02:04
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I know it's crazy
the way that I feel
only a ghost of myself
every now and then we all fall apart
every now and then we all fall short
and why can't I move on
don't leave me here
thinking that it's all my fault
every fight we ever fought
everything I ever thought was real was not
I'm moving
I’m moving along in retrograde
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I could feel it in the air
Climbing up the walls
Smell the cigarettes
Filtered through the alcohol
Never felt so good
Can't describe the high of moving at the speed of light
Up above the Earth
Waving as the world goes by
Never felt so high
Never knew I could feel so alive
We can't turn back
Come too far
Out of the black
All the stars are out tonight and we're
Hanging from the satellites
There's a beauty in the innocence beneath the skin
Bulletproof
Raise the roof
Now the show begins
Never want to stop
Whatever it is that we've got
We can't turn back
Come too far
Out of the black
All the stars are out tonight and we're
Hanging from the satellites
Hanging from the satellites
I hear them coming now
They're here to shut us down
And in my dreams we play on and on
Until all the stars are gone
We can't turn back
Come too far
Out of the black
All the stars are out tonight and we're
Hanging from the satellites
Hanging from the satellites
Hanging from the satellites
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Stick on Stars
03:12
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Every wall is painted black
Stick on stars react
And light up your face
As we quietly collapse
What if we just jumped right now
And leave it all behind
Maybe we would hit the ground
Maybe we would fly
Silhouettic Milky Way
We make our great escape
And leave the world outside
Until it slowly burns away
What if we just jumped right now
And leave it all behind
Maybe we would hit the ground
Maybe we would fly
Can we make it to the sun?
Can we stay awake all night long?
Can we find a way to hold on?
Hold on
We live
We die
Who cares tonight
Nothing is impossible
What if we just jumped right now
And leave it all behind
Maybe we would hit the ground
Maybe we would fly
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Pain in Pretty Things
03:52
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God knows I didn't need anything
I just wanted to be with you
Sometimes I felt like an acrobat
Swinging round and out of view
And you should know
I'm letting go
Strike another match
Toss it on the bridge
Watch it burn and laugh at it
I can't believe my eyes
The panic and the sting
So much pain in pretty things
You thought that you were exceptional
For a second so did I
This kind of love is not rational
Out of body, Out of mind
And you should know
I've let you go
Strike another match
Toss it on the bridge
Watch it burn and laugh at it
I can't believe my eyes
The panic and the sting
So much pain in pretty things
When you lie awake at night
Do you try not to sleep
Cause when you dream you see me?
Strike another match
Toss it on the bridge
Watch it burn and laugh at it
I can't believe my eyes
The panic and the sting
So much pain in pretty things
So much pain in pretty things
So much pain in pretty things
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Ghost of California
03:31
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So you and I could live forever-after here tonight
It’s cold outside
The ghost of California on my mind
And when the world comes to an end
Was I the man I could have been
Or was I just irrelevant
Like a day without you
And when your eyes
Reflected underneath the Christmas lights
I could have died and that would be the best day of my life
And when the world comes to an end
Was I the man I could have been
Or was I just irrelevant
Like a day without you
Without you
Without you
And when the world comes to an end
Was I the man I could have been
Or was I just irrelevant
Like a day without you
So you and I could live forever-after here tonight
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Big World Pop Star
03:56
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I watch the world explode
Outside of my window
Everything is spinning around me
I want to lose control
Do you know what I mean?
I come apart at the seams
I want to live like a big world pop star
I want to hang like the man on the moon
I want to live like a big world pop star
Just like you
I try to catch my breath
But I just lose my head
Sometimes I feel like I’m in a movie
That just never ends
Do you know what I mean?
Replay the same old scene
I want to live like a big world pop star
I want to hang like the man on the moon
I want to live like a big world pop star
Just like you
Do you know what I mean?
I can’t wake up from this dream
I want to live like a big world pop star
I want to hang like the man on the moon
I want to live like a big world pop star
Just like you
Just like you
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9. |
A Little Extraordinary
03:57
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You don’t have to say you’re sorry
I already know
I just hope that you are happy out there
And I’d be lying if I said
I didn’t think of you sometimes
We could begin again
We could live again
All we wanted to be
A little extraordinary
Tell me where you think we went wrong
I would love to know
Are we only sentimental machines?
The universe is littered with a million stories
Just like ours
We could begin again
We could live again
All we wanted to be
A little extraordinary
Have we suffered enough?
Have we suffered enough?
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
We could begin again
We could live again
All we wanted to be
A little extraordinary
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Last Kiss on Earth
05:05
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You were like a razorblade
The way your eyes could cut through me
And I would happily bleed out
For the whole wide world to see
And maybe we're better off apart
Maybe I'm lying
Maybe after all that we've been through
The least that we deserve
The last kiss on earth
Claustrophobic in my skin
I was always stretching out
You could always drawl me in
Your intentions upside down
And maybe we're better off apart
Maybe I'm lying
Maybe after all that we've been through
The least that we deserve
The last kiss on earth
The last kiss on earth
And if the sun burns out without a sound
Put your lips against my mouth
Hold your breath dear
No one's left here
And maybe we're better off apart
Maybe I'm lying
Maybe after all that we've been through
The least that we deserve
The last kiss on earth
The last kiss on earth
The last kiss on earth....
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Comfortably Numb
05:51
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Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone home?
Come on now
I hear you're feeling down
I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again
Relax
I need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you say
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb
I have become comfortably numb
Okay
Just a little pinprick
There is no more pain
But you may feel a little sick
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good
That'll keep you going for the show
Come on it's time to go
There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you say
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb
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Bittersweet Machines Greensboro, North Carolina
Bittersweet Machines is Matt Mocharnuk
2022 - Edge of the Nocturne Sea
2020 - Disco
Volante
2019 - The Stars & Ground
2018 - No Bad Horizon
2016 - Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips
2014 - Momentary Lights
2012 - Solituda
Bonus:
-Stripped of Starlight [acoustic]
-The Wendy Birds: Everybody OK? [rarities]
-And Diamond Stars Shine Glitter Bright [EP]
-Seraphina [single]
-Stumbling with Grace [single]
... more
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