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Rachel The Vampire Pt. 1
02:06
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Rachel I’m frankly amazed
That you so plain and innocently phrased
That demons at school are following you around, around
Oh Rachel you’re joking I hope
Cause how can such a normal person cope
With such spooky things that you claim to bring about, about
Oh Rachel it’s quite a surprise
That you don’t seem to recognize
The danger you’re in, I don’t think you’ll win this round, this round
Don’t let ghosts and ghouls drag you through the mud
Don’t tell your teachers your thirst for blood.
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Your Local Mall
02:06
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We bum around the shopping mall that lost its Sears last October
We’re driving the cinema that in two years’ time will be a Honda dealership
We sneak into a movie we don’t care about, they fired the kid who checks the tickets
Now we’re alone in the dark, this film came out seven weeks ago
Play that game, look right back, and all that I want is to hold your hand (x4)
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You've Seen A Ghost
02:58
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Let’s go somewhere quiet
Where only you can hear this
Well I’m consumed by spirits
Each and every night (night)
You look like you have seen a ghost
You need a loving hand the most
You look like you have seen the dead
Shambling around in your head
Should I be afraid?
We got to here from choices made
Don’t second-guess yourself
You shouldn’t be afraid
Oh all their bones are showing
Their bones are in the open
Poltergeists pursue me
Each and every night (night)
So now I can’t fall asleep cause these lonely spirits say they want to switch sides
I can’t do anything with this information, only to mope and just bide my time
You look like you have seen a ghost
You need a tender hand the most
You look like you have seen the dead
In your reflection instead
Should I be afraid?
We got to here from choices made
Don’t second-guess yourself
You shouldn’t be afraid of these ghosts
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You Know What's Right
03:32
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Look in your crystal ball, tell me the future
You have all the answers forevermore
Of equal importance is what’s the question?
Don’t be so cryptic just because you’re bored
So there’s that crazy talk again
As if you can’t see it all
Cause when we reflect on past events
Even as I recall you are omniscient
You know what’s right (x4)
Why are we here at all, what is the question
That’s branded upon your unconscious mind?
Uncertainty leaves me so uncertain
All this tautology’s wearing me out
So there’s that crazy talk again
It’s not making sense at all
Cause when you reveal your secret plans
Your grand strategy will be so efficient
You know what’s right (x4)
You know what’s right (x4)
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Once more we fight and bicker all day
Once more all hell was safely contained
I’ve yet to adequately explain
How any shred of patience remains
If you object for no reason
Then you object just the same
If you object in all seasons
It’s why I push you away
Your transformation now is mundane
Your fuming harpy’s always the same
I’ve yet to adequately explain
What justified my efforts to stay
If you object for no reason
Then you object just the same
If you object in all seasons
It’s why I push you away
If you object for no reason
Then it can only cause pain
If you consider it treason
Then make some effort to change
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6. |
Rewound Moments
04:21
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I gotta say, darlin’
It looks like we’re slowing down… again
The time is running out
The past, the future, the present are blending in
The never, the always, the maybe becoming one
And all
The possibilities
The ones where you are doing fine
The ones where you said all the right things
Are crashing it seems into the present day
The grains of sand they drift at last away
The hourglass turns, the ocean churns
So take it with a grain of salt we tried to halt time’s forward progress
Nevertheless
I don’t mind the time that we lose if it’s with you
We do all our aging in a day in the wormhole we fell through
And even though the world has gone through twenty more years when we felt two
I’ll cherish all the time that we have made just as long as it’s with you
I can see conceptually
The air it feels so different here
It’s now the past, how fast we tried to stop time’s backwards progress
Nevertheless
I don’t mind the time that we lose if it’s with you
We do all our aging in a day in the wormhole we fell through
And even though the world has gone through twenty more years when we felt two
I’ll cherish every rewound moment
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She Stares At Airplanes
03:25
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She stares at airplanes
She wonders where they’re going
And where they come from and who’s inside them, yeah
She stares at airplanes
She wonders their destination
Their motivation for transportation so high above the clouds
And I wish I could stare with her
And I will one day stare with her
And I wish I could stare with her
And I will one day stare with her
She checks the skyline
She reads the vapor bylines
The ghostly whispers of who has come and gone
She says it’s high time
She makes a contribution
Says ‘you don’t know, I’m gonna go make something of myself’
And I wish I could go with her
And I will one day go with her
And I wish I could go with her
And I will one day go with her
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8. |
Strangers In Love
02:23
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Started out alright, strangers in love
Started as a sign, sign from above
Started feeling wrong, wrong from the heart
When he started ripping strangers apart
In the parking lots of bars and pubs
‘Cause the silver bullets only made him stronger
The status of the moon was immaterial
Even when it’s waning or when it’s full
Night is when he changed, punches and epithets
Night is when he always loses his cool
Let’s pick up at the end, end of the love
She’s learned to never heed the signs from above
They only end in blood, only in sadness
End in transformations, end in arrest
He said that he’s been cursed, not like the other guys
She said take a number and get in line
So maybe she will learn, learn from the past again
Now this time around it will sink in when
Strangers fall in love, sometimes they drift apart
Sometimes there’s a monster deep in their heart
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9. |
Beauty (feat. Beast)
04:06
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I kept it to a dull roar
Which did me no good anymore
She’s locked up in a dungeon
The dungeon of his loveless mind
These castle walls, twenty stories tall
Hold secrets of owners’ past
Who turned into things fierce and wild
To say the least
This is beauty and a beast, oh yeah
Legends tell how a romance will rise
I’ll see with my own two eyes
The stars are in alignment
Above the dark and moonless night
His prisoner is reliant
Upon his grim capricious might
And if you explore
Prepare for what you mind find
There’s beauties and fearsome beasts
That slowly lost their minds
To say the least
This is beauty and a beast, oh yeah
Legends tell how a romance will rise
I’ll see with my own two eyes
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Gather ‘round all your sisters and your brothers
We came here to initiate another
We can’t pretend that we have never seen it
We can’t pretend that we cannot believe it
Something’s different, I think I’ve been cursed
Please confirm all the stars are in alignment
Perfect now for the new blood’s reassignment
By one by one our family’s steady growing
And soon enough our wicked magick’s showing
Something’s different, I think I’ve been hexed
Rise before the sun has risen
Greet the day with talismans
Maybe with our sacrifices
Mother Earth will one day live again
Our infernal cult always gets results
Satisfied indeed, guaranteed to please
If spells and incantations could not provide another explanation
We must face the truth, the world is not designed for me or for you
Rise, rise
Rise before the sun has risen
Greet the day with talismans
Surely with our sacrifices
Mother Earth will one day live again
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Up from the ground I’m gonna bring it to life then I’ll shuffle it back to the living
Something is wrong with the variables it’s a body too large for its heart
So maybe I should just accept that I’m an inadequate necromancer
Take a new direction, stare at my reflection, rip it apart
Oh honestly this shouldn’t affect me so much, it’s the last in a long string of failures
The brevity’s not the part’s that’s getting me down it’s the pattern that it represents
Oh maybe I would have more luck if I became fundamentally different
Gotta trust the process, sever all your losses, give it a chance
Oh some things are better off dead
And some things are worse when you’re pulling on the thread
The data tends to disagree
If only all this science stuff came easily
Technically you could never call it alive, it had only the dimmest cognition
Nevertheless I wrote it off as a loss for the time and the body parts
It’s easy just to take a torch to the lab, left burned beyond recognition
Gotta trust the process, sever all your losses, that’s what I meant
Without a heart you’re just stumbling
Without a heart you’re just a machine
Oh some things are better off dead
And some things are worse when you’re pulling on the thread
The data tends to disagree
If only all this science stuff came so easily
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Rachel I’m frightened
The world is not a safe place anymore
The ghosts and ghouls they want to pull the rug out
Rachel it’s wild how
A child out there will grow up to save us all
Until that time we need to find a safe place
Run, for your life
Yours has promise more than mine
Hold the light, keep it warm, keep it bright
And we can’t share this moment
Deep inside I know why
And we’ll never share this moment again
I’m spending a lifetime to try
You say your shadow is afraid
You stole away the fire
You stole away the days, so now
It’s hard to see the light in your eyes
The shadows are only inside
And we’ll never share this moment again
I’m spending a lifetime to try
‘Cause it’s hard to see the light in your eyes
When I’m staring you down from the sky
And we’ll never share this moment again
I’m spending a lifetime to try
‘Cause it’s hard to see the light in your eyes
When I’m staring you down from the sky
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13. |
Rachel The Vampire Pt. 2
03:15
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Rachel the vampire sits in her room
Wishing immortal meant something more cool
She hates her parents who turned her this way
They don’t have high school to deal with all day
None of the popular kids in the hall
Dare to acknowledge her presence at all
Secretly they fear her bloodsucking ways
This is one hell of a growing-up phase
Rachel the vampire don’t lose your nerve
Maybe this new life is what you deserve
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