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Beat The Traffic
04:30
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People, we’re all just people,
and we fit like a puzzle,
all squeezed into a bubble,
Puppets, we’re all just puppets,
wearing strings of destruction,
uniforms of corruption,
When you try something for the first time,
you get a little scared,
You’re looking for a sign but your gods aint there,
looking around at all the other people in the queue,
looking at your things and seeing who’s got the least to lose,
You can sit around and pray for the magic,
or you can go ahead and beat the traffic
go ahead and beat the traffic,
Make it, I don’t know if we’ll make it,
but it’s getting harder to fake it,
oh I’m just a puppet,
We pushed that car along the road for the last 2 miles,
we ran out of diesel just as we went out of style,
all the road behind us burned away like a fuse,
staring death in the face feels just like when you try,
something for the first time and you get a little scared,
You’re looking for a sign but your gods aint there,
looking around at all the other people in the queue,
looking at your things and seeing who’s got the least to lose,
You can sit around and pray for the magic,
or you can go ahead and beat the traffic
go ahead and beat the traffic,
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2. |
Diesel Dreams
05:10
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Now I’m alone I feel like a ghost,
and I just move around like a smoke,
the first time that I opened my eyes,
I was lost beneath a poisonous sky,
Diesel dreams, diesel dreams
Diesel dreams, diesel dreams
I try to make some sense of it all,
but I’m a little hazy since the fall,
a shadow at the end of the day,
a shadow on the ground that just stayed,
And if the end has just begun,
just let the waters come,
Diesel dreams, in a petrol paradise,
there’s a scream, and it’s trapped on the inside,
Diesel dreams, in a petrol paradise,
there’s a scream, and it’s trapped on the inside,
It’s in the deep space in my soul,
it comes on in streams, it’s bone to bone,
I think that I should cut off my wings,
because beauty is a dangerous thing,
Diesel dreams, diesel dreams
Diesel dreams, diesel dreams
Diesel dreams, in a petrol paradise,
there’s a scream, and it’s trapped on the inside,
Diesel dreams, in a petrol paradise,
there’s a scream, and it’s trapped on the inside,
And if the end has just begun,
and none of this can be undone,
diesel dreams, diesel dreams
diesel dreams, diesel dreams.
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3. |
Signal
04:39
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Sometimes I don’t feel myself,
but I can’t feel anything else,
It’s like I’m trapped inside a cage,
and everything has gone to stay,
I don’t know what we’ve become,
everybody’s so far spun,
Who knows how we’re better off?
It’s all just stolen or bought,
Just another darkened sky,
and all the birds are scared to fly,
I just want to make it high,
We can get a signal, to bounce off a satellite,
it’s saying come alive, be alive, stay alive,
we’ll get a message, across to the zodiac,
to ask the starman, when is he coming back?
Just name the place and, I will meet you there,
we’ll have a party, it’s 5 o’clock everywhere
they might catch us, and wrap us up in chains,
we could be losers, prisoners, or renegades,
Got my brain hooked up to wires,
and my heart is on the line,
there are so many skeletons,
you’ve just got to let them in,
Just another darkened sky,
and all the birds are scared to fly,
I just want to make it high,
We can get a signal, bounce off a satellite,
it’s saying come alive, be alive, stay alive,
we’ll get a message, across to the zodiac,
to ask the starman, when is he coming back?
Just name the place and, I will meet you there,
we’ll have a party, it’s 5 o’clock everywhere
they might catch us, and wrap us up in chains,
we could be losers, prisoners, or renegades,
And in the fires of the earth,
mother nature’s giving birth,
could be a blessing or a curse,
Just another darkened sky,
and all the birds are scared to fly,
I just want to make it high,
We can get a signal, bounce off a satellite,
it’s saying come alive, be alive, stay alive,
we’ll get a message, across to the zodiac,
to ask the starman, when is he coming back?
Just name the place and, I will meet you there,
we’ll have a party, it’s 5 o’clock everywhere
they might catch us, and wrap us up in chains,
we could be losers, prisoners, or renegades,
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4. |
Open The Box
05:28
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Here, I’m washed up on the shore,
I don’t know what I want but I want more,
The sand is pressed against my jaw,
got to find a way up of the floor,
I can’t seem to understand,
how to get from boy to man,
I’m getting closer, It’s getting colder,
I hope this weather, aint forever,
I’m running inside, there’s a landslide,
and it’s coming for me,
I can feel it shaking, and I’m waking,
from the sweetest dream,
If there’s a tomorrow, then I’ll borrow, some time,
to open the box under my bed,
I’m gonna find, your heart,
Lit a fire, then you appeared,
you only came when the coast was clear,
you had a crescent moon tattoo,
I don’t remember your eyes being blue,
Well you turned my heart to stone,
and left me all alone,
no one could hear me calling, no one saw me fallin,
I guess I was foolish, and you just proved it,
I’m running inside, there’s a landslide,
and it’s coming for me,
I can feel it shaking, and I’m waking,
from the sweetest dream,
If there’s a tomorrow, then I’ll borrow, some time,
to open the box under my bed,
I’m gonna find, your heart,
I’m running inside, there’s a landslide,
and it’s coming for me,
I can feel it shaking, and I’m waking,
from the sweetest dream,
If there’s a tomorrow, then I’ll borrow, some time,
to open the box under my bed,
I’m gonna find, your heart,
You’re heart, you’re heart,
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5. |
Don't Turn Off The Rain
05:29
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I woke up underneath a canopy of red,
this whole place glowing like a thousand cigarettes,
I dragged myself along a desert floor,
up out of the crater of a meteor,
Across the plain towards the river side,
came all this way to find it running dry,
I met another who said he’d walked forever,
Got on his knees and put his hands together, he said
Don’t turn off the rain,
Don’t turn off the rain,
Don’t turn off the rain,
cos we need water in that river again,
I lay myself down in the river bed,
I’ve got some spirits to wake, got some old skin to shed,
We could do nothing, but just wait for it to start,
then the sky began clapping to the beating of my heart,
We were surrounded by falling embers,
burning white, and settling like snow in December,
and we took cover in a boat that was broken,
filled with antiquated innocence from before we were stolen,
Don’t turn off the rain,
Don’t turn off the rain,
Don’t turn off the rain,
cos we need water in that river again,
Caught out in the open and we were blinded by science,
In the company of the goats and the dogs at the funeral pyres,
Carrying the weight of everything new on our shoulders,
that was just something that we’d have to get over,
have to get over, have to get over, have to get over,
Don’t turn off the rain,
Don’t turn off the rain,
Don’t turn off the rain,
Don’t turn off the rain (cos we need water in that river again,)
Don’t turn off the rain
Don’t turn off the rain
Don’t turn off the rain,
cos we need water in that river again,
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Crystal Balloon Bristol, UK
NOW DISBANDED - Crystal Balloon is an alternative rock band from Bristol/Chepstow UK.
''There’s not too
many bands that manage to capture such a good-vibe feeling within the Alt Indie Rock genre'' - A&R Factory
''stirring power pop excellence'' - Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales
''strongly American influenced melodic rock'' - Geoffrey Head, behind the scenes Gloucestershire.
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