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Welcome To My Room
02:50
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Welcome to my room
It's very very messy
Please be careful where you step
You might die
Or something better
'Cause for every button
There's an equal and opposite button
For every button
There's an equal and opposite room
Can't leave unless you don't want to
Can't leave unless you want to
Welcome to my room
In this corner you will find the ideas
Opposite the problems
'Cause for every question
There's an equal and opposite fact
'Cause for every problem
There's an equal and opposite thought
Can't think unless you don't want to
Can't think unless you want to
Welcome to my room
It doesn't really matter
What is wrong and what is right
We can tell
With this procedure
'Cause for every input
There's an equal and opposite output
For every input
There's an equal and opposite room
Can't sing unless you don't want to
Can't sing unless you want to
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2. |
Pointless Journey
02:09
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All that you know oxidizes and turns to rust
I can't see my way out of this and escape seems futile
And the paper's due on Monday
I was new, I was mad
I was a cat in the wrong bag
On a pointless journey, worthless story
Nothing left to do
Messed with the best, now rest with the mess
You're a dog and a box living in a shoe
Sitting there with your teeth in your mouth you
Can't see the fortress for the trees
Shot your self in the foot, you shot it
Shot your self in the IT
Now, understand, I'm a
Very important man
(WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE THEY DIDN'T HAVE PIZZA)
When all that you know and love
Is bought up and replaced by jerks
It just goes to show it doesn't get any better
[SCARY PART]
I was a rich man
I pressed a button
Several copies appeared to me of the button (Adjacently)
I was a poor man
I pressed a button
But I was left with no more buttons
When the wave-function collapsed
[END SCARY PART]
It's a
Pointless journey
Worthless story
Nothing left to prove
You messed with the test, now test with the rest
You're a clog and a fox living in a flue
No one could get No one could get the thing they wanted
It was mounted on a spring
Try not to ask Try not to ask about my camera
It was damaged in the fall
Now, understand, I'm a
Very important man
(WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE WE DIDN'T HAVE CAMERAS)
And when all that you know and love
Is bought up and replaced by jerks
It just goes to show it's a pointless journey
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Inexplicably Hilarious
02:54
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Inexplicably hilarious
The day I realized that my hands, they were a vector for fingers
Inexplicably hilarious
The day I realized that my fingers were a vector for hands.
And it was just at that moment
I was kicked out of math class
Some people never had experience with hands
Inexplicably hilarious
The day I realized
That the words the man had said at the podium
When I was seated at a lecture were phrased in such a way as to be comical
And it was just at that moment
I was kicked out of Congress
For being a colossal nerd
Ostracized, I was ostracized
In the capitol, in the capitol
Ostracized, I was ostracized
When I ran into that column in the capitol
It was
Inexplicably hilarious HAAAAAAA
Inexplicably hilarious!
Inexplicably hilarious
The day I realized that my legs they were a vector for feet
Inexplicably hilarious
The day I realized that my feet they were a vector for shoes
And it was just at that moment
I was thrown out of English
For taking off my shoes
Then in a maze of twisty passages all alike
I found the exit when the government took my bike
I went up to the office of the man in charge
And asked what gives
He said that life is a series
Of small inconveniences
Followed by the biggest one of them all
Inexplicably hilarious
The day I realized that the world was just a form of a library
Where the robots were unhelpful and took your shoes
And stole your keys
And it was just at that moment
I was struck by how SIMPLE
The thing I ran into really was
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(I forgot to tell you) What with the paper cuts and
(I forgot to tell you) What with the noisy cats and
(I forgot to tell you) Can't turn the speakers off they
(I forgot to tell you) Come right back on again
I FELL IN LOVE WITH A POTTED PLANT
THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO
WHILE YOU WERE GONE (WHILE YOU WERE GONE [WHILE YOU WERE GONE])
(I forgot to tell you) The car won't leave me alone
(I forgot to tell you) I brought it in the house
(I forgot to tell you) No one to answer the phone
(I forgot to tell you) It's just that guy again!
I FELL IN LOVE WITH A POTTED PLANT
THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO
WHILE YOU WERE GONE (WHILE YOU WERE GONE [WHILE YOU WERE GONE]))))))
I was away for a long long time
Where I was they didn't have homework
Now I can't get my head around this!!
This place is out of control
Can't find a place to sit
Wish I could get me some food
(It's all on television.)
I could start my own country!
I could have my own house!
--->BUTT
I FELL IN LOVE WITH A POTTED PLANT
THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO
WHILE YOU WERE GONE (WHILE YOU WERE GONE [WHILE YOU WERE GONE])
I was away for a long long time
Where I was They didn't have haircuts
Now I can't get my hair around this
And I RESENT the remarks you made about my stupid haircut
And I RESENT the fact that you gave me this stupid haircut
And I RESENT that every time I turn around someone has moved my head
And I NEVER ascribed to malice that which
could be adequately explained by incompetence
No I NEVER ascribed to malice that which
could be adequately explained by incompetence
(I forgot to tell you) What with the paper cuts and
(I forgot to tell you) What with the noisy cats and
(I forgot to tell you) Can't turn the speakers off they
(I forgot to tell you) Come right back on again
I FELL IN LOVE WITH A POTTED PLANT
THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO
WHILE YOU WERE GONE (WHILE YOU WERE GONE [WHILE YOU WERE GONE])))
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Pseudonym
03:49
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Disregard what you thought you had heard
I was using a pseudonym
Events occuring in the rearview mirror may be
More important than the real ones
You thought you had the files but they only were the documents
The government men took away all your stuff
And every tiny sound you hear
Every voice from through a tube says
Disregard what you thought you had heard
I was using a pseudonym
Events occuring in the rearview mirror may be
More important than the real ones
Every face has a secret face
Every name has an internal name
Everything has an alias
Every man has his problems
A fool and his problems
Soon separated, concentrated
Coalesce into the new wave dance craze
Hot funk cool punk room full of junk
Got my woofers in the cabin and my tweeters in the trunk
Talkin' bout my pseudonym
Talkin' bout my acronyms
For every man there's an equal and opposite alter ego
Every man has a pseudonym
And I apologize
For any economic hardships that may have incurred
Whilst I was using my pseudonym
I apologize
For any legal entanglements that may have ensued
Whilst I was using a [SYNTHESIZERS.]
So disregard what you thought you had heard
I was using a pseudonym
Events occuring in the rear view mirror may be
More important than the real ones
Every face has a secret face
Every name has an internal name
Every man has an alias
Every man has his problems
Disregard what you thought you had heard [WRONG IDEAS DO NOT APPEAL TO ME]
Disregard what you thought you had heard [I REJECT EXTERNAL STIMULI]
Disregard [DISREGARD THE MAN ON THE SCREEN]
I was using a Pseudonym [DISREGARD THE GUY ON THE KEYBOARD]
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6. |
Bars & Tone
02:14
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Never twice the same colour
On phase-alternate lines I picked it up
Out of the blue
Out the window in the sky above my room
The tower where the signals nightly resumed
Emitted an eerie sort of hum
And even when I thought I was alone
There were the Bars and tone
(LIKE A DIPOLE SHOUTING DOWN A HOLE.)
Signals come and signals go
Some will change it to a different show
But late one night on a vacant channel
I found the answer to my problem
Truth in lines! Truth in numbers!
Fear of dots Fear of people
And even when we all are gone
The bars and tone go on
And everything I thought was really there
Was electric waves passing through the air
Like a dipole shouting down a hole
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7. |
Castle Thunder
03:29
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As I lay there with the car on my foot and a car in my head I was unable to tell
What the judge was saying to me, when the jury stood and shouted in unison
(IT SOUNDED JUST LIKE CASTLE THUNDER) As the undertow dragged me under
(IT SOUNDED JUST LIKE CASTLE THUNDER) As the bullet holes went through my guy
HOLD ON A MINUTE-- DON'T GET EXCITED
SLOW DOWN POINDEXTER, THIS IS GONNA TAKE SOME MATHS
As I sat there with a car in my car and a seat on my back I was unable to say
Thank you for killing my car, I didn't like it anyway,
Thank you, thank you for not watching the road
(IT SOUNDED JUST LIKE CASTLE THUNDER) Couldn't breathe, couldn't climb out from under
(IT SOUNDED JUST LIKE CASTLE THUNDER) As the microwaves barbecued my guy
HANG ON A MINUTE-- I HAVEN'T TESTIFIED
SLOW DOWN POINDEXTER, I'M GONNA NEED SOME PAPER.
Castle thunder came down from above
Castle thunder was the case
Castle thunder was the case they gave me
Castle thunder came down from above
Castle thunder was the face
Castle thunder was the face on the screen
(HIT BY) Uninsured motorist
(STRUCK BY) Uninsured motorist
(CRUSHED BY) Uninsured motorist
(KILLED BY) Uninsured motorist!
(IT SOUNDED JUST LIKE CASTLE THUNDER) AS THE BULLETHOLES DRAGGED ME UNDER
(IT SOUNDED JUST LIKE CASTLE THUNDER) AS THE LIGHT BULBS DAMAGED MY EYES
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I cannot do anything at all
Any time I try to use my feet
The horrid little man comes out to inform me
I must subscribe to use these feet
(NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS. UNLIMITED WALKING. $39.95)
There was once a time had an original thought
But I was not authorized to think
I tried to write it down but I had to register
My piece of paper was not mine
(THINKING AVAILABLE IN "PROFESSIONAL EDITION." $800 PER SEAT.)
And everything I thought I knew
Everything I thought was meaningful
Every friend I ever had was someone trying to sell me something
Problems weren't an issue after all
Every situation had occurred
Was no requirement to even do anything
There was no need for new ideas
(SUM OF ALL ACHIEVEMENTS-- $19.95. ONLY THROUGH THIS EXCLUSIVE MUSIC OFFER.)
[NES PART]
Monday came the Monday when I died
Shoddy manufacturing and
Just out of warranty and
You don't go to heaven
You don't go to hell
It turns out in the end it's just this guy
(YES, TURNS OUT THAT YOUR WORTH IN LIFE IS DIRECTLY DETERMINED BY HOW MUCH YOU PAID FOR YOUR SOCKS)
And everything I thought I knew
Everything I thought was meaningful
Every friend I ever had was someone trying to sell me something
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I can't call you
'Cause you speak into the part you listen to
A long way off and I can't get through, I'm in Australia
Water flows
The wrong way down my kitchen sink
And hot comes out of cold, I think
I'm in Australia
WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND IT IS CLEAR TO SEE
EVERYTHING'S REVERSED OPPOSITE OF WHAT IT SHOULD BE
TRY TO MAKE A LEFT TURN GO TO THE RIGHT
SLEEP IN THE DAY AND WORK IN THE NIGHT
CAT COMES IN CAT GOES OUT
ALWAYS ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE DOOR
TV PICTURE'S UPSIDE DOWN, RADIO WAVES DON'T WORK
Australia, land of magnets
Land where I left all my microphones
Don't make me go back there, ah no
I can't call you, when I try to dial a number it laughs at me
As I can't understand Japanese, I'm in Australia
When I tried to drive my car to get some food
I backed into my living room, I'm in Australia
Where everything is backwards (MIRRORED FROM LEFT TO RIGHT)
Where everything is broadcast on television
And no one is safe from rocks
Australia, land of magnets, has a north pole and a south
Australia, land of magnets, there's no sound
Still I cannot reach you
The quarter comes back, the profits accrue
Still I cannot reach you
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10. |
Computers Again
03:24
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Computers are at my window making irritating noise
Computers are in the way when I try to look at the ground
And every time I feel strongly about something
Computers are there to tell me
I was wrong
Computers are taking showers that are very very long
Computers are using all of the hot water up again
And when you ask them to perhaps be a bit more considerate they
pretend not to hear you and then give you jury duty
Get out of bed and fix this thing
It's out of ink and it's stolen my name
And every time I feel strongly 'bout something
Computers are there to tell me
I was wrong--
Wrong!
[COMPUTERS PART]
Computers are in the way when I try to lie on the couch
Computers are watching test patterns and radar weather maps
I try to object, it can't be done
Computers control all thoughts
Whether cars are bought or records played
It isn't up to you now
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