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/dust/er lyrics.

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001: Stratosphere (1998)
002: 1975 (1999)
003: Contemporary Movement (2000)
004: Transmission, Flux 7" (1997)
005: Apex, Trance-Like 7" (1998)
006: Miscellaneous/Unreleased

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001: Stratosphere (1998)
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HEADING FOR THE DOOR:

Clear a path into the room
And pushing everything off of the table
Crashing on the floor
People start to scream

Glasses in the air
And a television through the window

Stumbling through the crowd
I was heading for the door
Remembering a cooler party

The angels started in song
There was something in their eyes
The time was standing still

TOPICAL SOLUTION:

The hands have been well-used
To turn it on or turn it up
Maybe some turn it off
When it gets too late

And the heat is tauntious [STILL not a word, Clay!]
The air is on fire
And the hands had become
Cautious

So rock out
Rock out
Rock out
Rock out

And all the kids fell out
And wrote a story
They should sell it to
The magazines

We all turn out
To be crazy
In the middle of the night
Dogs bark
And the wheels of the wagon
Turn on and turn out

In your hair I can see
The topical solution
And no one can shut up
For a minute

THE LANDING:

Drunk with hope
For the better things

The gears all froze
For the millennium

The same moon as
The wrong kiss

South, down, east, left, out

ECHO, BRAVO:

It's a lot
Like before
That was the way
It had to be

It's alright
Without you

We can make it on our own

CONSTELLATIONS:

Reoccurring
Constellations
Put it to rest

Terror again
Horror in town
No sleep 'til then

Turn down the lights
Don't fuck around
Won't this ever last?

INSIDE OUT:

Will I be able to speak
After a stiff drink?
Would it break my panic?
Would the sweat stop pouring out?

Slow and deliberate
With her words
She'll walk through
My heart

Those eyes light a fire
In my stomach
Fall apart
From the inside out

REED TO HILLSBOROUGH:

Light it up, breathe it in
You know they say we'll live again
Needle down, candles on

My favorite cup and a hi-fi stereo
Everything's not so bad

It's the way home should be
The way the windows frame the trees
And smoke fills the room

Colder now, than last year
You know they say we'll all be dead
Needle down, needle in

SHADOWS OF PLANES:

Shadows of planes
Flying overhead

Overhead projection

Night-crawlers in the sky

EARTH-MOON TRANSIT:

It's dark around me now
And cigarettes are fine
I wonder if you think
About me like I do
Of you at night

And who will write the hits
With Bowie back on Earth?

It's in the way
It's in the way

THE TWINS / ROMANTICA:

From the evening sky
A thousand shining diamonds hanging
Like the sparkle in the glasses on New Year's Eve
Sparkling

Romantica
What has happened to us?
What will happen to the vampire cult?

Better off at home tonight
Wouldn't be good company

Undress
Strand by strand
Calling out gently to the twins
The twins call out to the freaks
All the allure
So spellbound

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002: 1975 (1999)
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IRATO:

Let's prepare the ship
Press the ???
What could be higher?
???

Nothing to cry about
What could be ???

Oh...

MEMPHIS SOPHISTICATE:

I can't get it out
The way I'd like to put it down
The way I hear it in my head
When I cannot sleep
Or cannot awake

It's clouds
Across the sky
The moon can hide
Behind

You'll never hear it like I do
When the brakes give way
And the engine stalls
Dropping out
Fading out
Burning out

THE MOTION PICTURE:

(It's possible that there are lyrics to this song, but I'm not even going to try.)

AND THINGS (ARE MOSTLY GHOSTS)

Are you compelled
Enough to leave your seat?
Nothing like what makes
The good books good

Cannot help but believe in those curves
And make a habit of having that happen

Celebrity fever draws me to you
Clear crystal compound
From head to toe
Hold on to me
One hundred years
Into orbit

AUGUST RELATIVITY:

It will go on
So when our time is up
So how we ???
And when we ought to go
It's relativity

Relative...

WANT NO LIGHT TO SHINE:

Who is she?
Bearing your love?
Again

Save us...
Finish it...
Close to me...

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003: Contemporary Movement (2000)
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GET THE DUTCH:

Our accents come and go
With nerves and a healing heart
Escapism creeps into our recipes

They said we make friends just to have more projects
We make friends just to turn them into enemies

DIAMOND:

You know the way before you walk again
The time is nigh, diamonds in the sand
You have the key to anything you want
Or aim to find

Close up
Close up

Goes in flows out television light
Its now the time for secret hearts again
The sun is gone its changed days again
The darkness in your eye

???? to know you want it

Close up
Close up
Open up

ME AND THE BIRDS:

All the high-fashion freaks sway in sync with the rhythm
Back and forth
Back and forth

All the pill connoisseurs and the secret saboteurs got the fever for surveillance
And the night life

Me and the birds

TRAVELOGUE:

Go forth sorting dreams of truth friends
Should I, or should I not?
Scheme forward on this beaten path
Sit and play framing days
Thoughts and games
Slipping through the ranks with a long cold look

THE PHANTOM FACING ME:

I turn all the times
This is real life

My pedal's falling apart
Like they've always been

I think I'm slipping out
Walking in the darkness

With cloak out-stretched
The phantom facing me
But it won't be there
To ruin things

Just disappear

COOKING:

While people on the phone
And talking to each other

While people on the phone
And talking to each other

Dreams come back later in the day

UNRECOVERY:

Jack Enmipho, had the stuff
But he couldn't get up
So he decided to stay
He was reelin' south bound
With the walls turning 'round
Ready or not, here it comes

THE BREAKUP SUITE:

it's a ghost town
Dreaming in footprints
Can't leave a healthy well
So poison and escape
The soundtrack for then is a taxi for now
Cover up with the shadows, sleeping on the floor

Goddamn, I wish I was a little bit smarter
To be the future-bound, we'll try rewound
I wish I was a little bit smarter
I wish I was...

Can I be her true love?
A concentrator
And a circuit in your lullaby
A conferencing enemy

EVERYTHING YOU SEE (IS YOUR OWN):

Mouse mover
Suffering
The empire's dust

Reconstruct your little heart
Micro-tones and carousels
Tapping the lines
Bugging the veins

NOW IT'S COMING BACK:

Remember to feel your hand
And what it's like to say your name
And now it's coming back

The sense of things
In July
In my mother's house
We knew each other
And now time goes by so fast
Things change all the time
And everyone goes through to be so good

AUTO-MOBILE:

The lighting is modern and bright
Broken amplifiers echo songs out of tune
And the stars take their place
Whispering, "Come to me."

The audience finds their feet
Clap and scream
But what does it mean?

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004: Transmission, Flux 7" (1997)
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ORBITRON:

You know the clock is ticking down
And no one's in control

And though the orbit's all been planned
What happens when you punch it?

You're not the first to set foot here
Just another

And I know you're terrified
Like the rest of us

MY FRIENDS ARE COSMONAUTS:

Now if there was no birds
In the air
There would be nothing

My friends are cosmonauts
Covered in the mill-house

Now if there was no time
To waste on T.V.
MSR-16 on the floor

My friends are cosmonauts

CLOSER TO THE SPEED OF SOUND:

Don't, don't, don't
Come over tonight

Don't, don't, don't
Be over tonight

Don't, don't, don't
Look at me with your eyes

Don't, don't, don't
Sleep over tonight

Don't, don't, don't
Come at me with your light

Don't, don't, don't
Come over tonight

No, no, no, no
Leave at your ???

Don't, don't, don't
Come over tonight

STARS WILL FALL:

All we know
Is that stars will fall...

And holidays
Come and go...
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005: Apex, Trance-Like 7" (1998)
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FOUR HOURS:

It's the rarest of times
When we can spend the night
Now would you take me down
To the diamonds of the sea

And place the ring
When I sleep
Like a quiet dream

Now could you close your eyes
And kiss me
Four hours away
From your caress

Disappear
Disappear
Disappear
Disappear

LIGHT YEARS:

Luna-1 has missed the target
SL-3, and 4, and 5
Deploy your cosmonauts
Release your cosmonauts

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006: Miscellaneous/Unreleased
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UNTITLED #2 (Christmas, Dust)

Put another one on the turntable
Everything sounds better at night anyway

I'm still not in the mood
To fuck
Drink wine
Smoke weed

Send your prayers to Malibu
And I'm not in a fuck-jam mood

I AM THE KING:

I made you a movie
About war

And other things
I cannot see

Their stinging tears
My ringing ears

'Cause I'm the king
Of everything
I'm the king...

It must have been
New Year's Day
They danced
That way

He's still around
Computing
Or commuting

'Cause I'm the king
And everything
Belongs to me
So go on
Talking all your shit

'Cause I'm the king
And I own everything
I'm the king
And you're...


(More coming soon.)