1. |
Plastic Carnation
03:42
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A symbol of true love forever to stay
Send her fake flowers that never decay
Shiny white satin, a veil for the bride
Polyester paradise for heaven's eyes
Planet of plastic
A cheap imitation
of all that we want but can't afford
Change we were saving
but spent in attempt to have more
Petroleum products from dinosaur bones
Tiny toy dinos in children's homes
A reincarnation of those once alive
Break the chain, you are death immortalized
Planet of plastic
A cheap imitation
of all that we want but can't afford
Change we were saving
but spent in attempt to have more
Send her fake flowers to prove your love is true
Unlike a flower, will never renew
Imitation carnation in its final incarnation
Just like love, it is born but never dies.
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2. |
Solitaire for Two
02:31
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The heart goes to the head
with a mop and a pail of water
to clean up what was left behind
in the corners of an empty mind.
What do you see when your head's in the sand?
How do you feel if you don't understand?
"I want a world where things make sense,"
the head says to the heart,
"but people seem to take offense
when I'm trying to be smart."
The head goes to the heart
with an ax and a suit of armor,
in hopes that it will gain control
by destruction of a lonely soul.
Intellect wins by defining the game,
but changing the rules is to lose, all the same.
"Who cares if we are right or wrong?"
the heart says to the mind,
"What matters is we get along,
so don't be smart, be kind."
The head beats the heart
every time they play a game of checkers.
The heart complains it isn't fair,
so both resort to solitaire.
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3. |
Just a Love Song
01:52
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There were things that I wanted you to know
Feelings that I agonized to show
I've worn a mask for so long now
It's hard to find a way to tell you...
I say it in a song because cliche
set to music is acceptably okay
And so before you here I sing
'Though it may not mean a thing...
I just had to say
that I love you.
And should you confess
That you only mean to play
Then I, saving face, will simply laugh and say...
Well, it was just a love song, anyway...
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4. |
Unravel
04:04
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Sheep of a sweater
They flock together
Nowhere to turn to
Black sheep, black sheep
You are so different
No one will listen
How will you reach them
Black sheep, black sheep?
You couldn't love them
So you rose above them
They look to you now
Black sheep, black sheep
Insire, enlighten,
Take care not to frighten
They are a flock of
Simple human
Baa baa, fleece as white as snow
Unravel
Unravel
Darn this sweater.
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5. |
Stillness
02:15
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Finding in your heart a restful state
Is trying to still a marble on a plate:
With steady hands and focus, try you might,
And yet the marble rolls from left to right.
Every small adjustment, each correction,
Sends it rolling in the opposite direction.
When you at last concede that you're unable
And, defeated, set the plate down on the table,
You discover what it means to meditate:
The plate and marble's stillness are innate.
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6. |
Temporary Muse
02:58
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New lover
Are you just a temporary muse
Not forever
Just another temporary useful inspiration?
Is that all you will be for me?
New lover
Will you stay a while or a lifetime?
Stay forever
If not then let this while be a trifle invitation
And I'll do all I can do for you.
Wandering into my dreams like a catalyst
I wonder if I were to leave, would I missed
Or will you find a new love to replace all of this?
New lover
Are you just a temporary muse
Not forever
Just another temporary useful inspiration?
Is that all you will be for me?
New lover
Stay with me a while or a lifetime
Stay forever
If not then let this while be a trifle invitation
And I'll do all I can do for you.
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7. |
Paper Wind
02:16
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You set out to seek the truth
And thus become more wise
A fool you were to play the sleuth
For all there was were lies
When you give up you cosmic search
And decide that you belong to Earth
Leave behind the unknown
Don't be afraid to come home
Unfaltering, you followed
the shining light of your guiding star
But you found it doesn't guide you
Only tells you where you are
You set out to foreign lands
To see what's to be seen
And now at last you understand
That all there was has been
When you give up your hero's quest
And settle for just happiness
Leave behind the unknown
That's when you should come home
Around the world you wandered
Till you wound up back at the start
Only finding all you wanted
Was always in your heart
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8. |
Love is Gray
03:12
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I was confused and amazed and surprised
When you somehow opened my eyes to brilliant hues,
Redder reds, bluer blues
Where once was black and white
How, because of you,
I must undo
All that I knew,
For you redefined
All that my mind
Thought to be true.
Then came the day you decided to go.
And my heart faintly whispered,
Please, no...
not yet -
It's too soon to be done -
We had hardly begun -
But what can be done? ...
Now, what can I say?
Words are cliche,
They get in the way.
I cannot express
My heart in distress.
All colors are gray.
But perhaps, I dramatize the despair that I feel,
For in truth, nobody ever could steal
These memories from me -
I will forever see
The rainbow that you revealed.
The colors are real,
And not just a dream.
And yet, deep inside me a warm little flame still burns
That you'll someday return.
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9. |
Astray Cat
02:50
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Astray cat
Cat who's led astray
Why do you stray from place to place?
Astray cat
Waver from the way
Never more shall we meet face to face
Running ever, seeking pleasure
When and where you will
Satisfaction in your action
What you want you kill
Astray cat
Drifting day to day
Carve out a path just to erase
Astray cat
Cat who's led astray
In my life then gone without a trace
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A hundred dandelion seeds
Unleashed into the wild
A hundred dandelion seeds
The prayer of a child
A hundred dandelion seeds
Flew before they fell
Where a hundred dandelion seeds
Will go no one can tell
A story sleeping, waiting to begin
Fate is at the mercy of the wind
Hopes relinquished, given unto chance
Swept away in sweet entropic dance
With no wings to flap or flutter
Navigating with no rudder
A hundred dandelion seeds
Unleashed into the wild
A hundred dandelion seeds
The prayer of a child
A hundred dandelion seeds
Flew before they fell
A single dandelion seed
Found a wishing well
With no rainfall from the sky
The wishing well was dry
But at the bottom patiently
Lies the dandelion seed
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A Stray Catalyst San Diego, California
A Stray Catalyst is a collaborative musical Gesamtkunstwerk project led by Saki.
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