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Planet C4DCB
04:29
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Eat that turd
Tables turned
Parallel universe
Stranded on planet C4DCB
Where there’s another word
For every little beacon
That will guide you back where you belong
Hang on
Hang on
And you carry
Yeah, you carry everything that you can never bear
You carry
Oh, you carry so much more than you can bear
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Restless
02:53
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You are here to sign a contract, welcome, boy, to a way to find yourself and wonder why we are here
and why there’s a different point of view on a road that’s paved with oat and wheat and rye
Your restless soul will never walk the path Saint Francis walked
Your restless heart is beating while your faith is understocked
Let’s take off our jackets and step off
’Cause we are on a mission to solve problems from above
Let’s hitch up our knickers and seek love
Yeah we are on a mission to solve problems from above
You are here to sign a contract, make yourself at home
We are here and while there’s a different point of view
to a way to find yourself wondering why
On a road that’s paved with oat and rye
You learn to settle down
You learn to settle down
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Tomorrow Again
02:39
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You called me one last time
Heard it before
You said I wasn’t right
Called me an asshole
I’ll hang up on you
Tomorrow again
Tomorrow again
I wouldn’t pretend
’Cause you called me now and you’ll call me again
It didn’t make sense then and it wouldn’t make sense now
If I were not around
You’d feel better
And you’d say I was right
For running away
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Try to Fail Again
04:50
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Your weather man tells lies
You don’t appreciate vegan recipes
And while you’re out there
You don’t really understand how people could live like that
Your bus is late again while you’re yelling at some guy
Who rides his bike on the wrong side of the road
Antennas in forests
Starting from the scratch
Opinionated loners will talk behind backs
It defies an easy explanation
Why Sheena has become a hip-hop groupie now
Time to fail again
It’s not the end
You’re prophecies failed again and you don’t know where to start
Your god ain’t proud today
The wi-fi works but you’re mad at the dog who ain’t a cat
It’s a dead end street
Time to fail again
It’s not the end
You would say you want to do better, it’s not enough
My advice is learn to lose and to fail again
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Aisles
03:22
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Haven’t found my inner peace
Haven’t found my happiness
Haven’t found my soulmate yet
Haven’t found god
Tell me where you buy those things
I’m right here at the supermarket
I went in every aisle but couldn’t find my soulmate, yet
Frozen pizzas in my cart
Life decisions in my head
Gonna ask for some advice
The cashier seems so sad
And she tells me that they ran out of gods, happiness and peace
It might take a while to fill up the shelves
Come back another time
So I go back home, order online in a different store with no delivery cost
Got a discount for another soulmate
I think I add some more
Waiting for my order
I stayed at home just for that
I think I missed the door bell, but the neighbor says
We ain’t got no online shop
You should get your happiness or gods from somewhere else
And he tells me now that there is no god, happiness or peace
It might take a while for me to understand, I should take my time
So I unwrap my frozen pizza and have it on the couch and watch TV
While I think of the cashier lady who seemed to be so sad
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Ramshackle Sweetheart
02:49
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A storm coming up, coming fast
I do try not to complain
Try not to become insane
Every single day you are struggling
Always hear some good advice
My favourite feelings: thirst and hunger
Headache, headache, headache rising
Throat’s getting dry in the pouring rain
Sun’s coming out, still feel the same
If you need help, be it night or day
Ramshackle sweetheart, I am on my way
Rain, showers, fog and storm
Black dog strolling by, hungry for bad thoughts only
Grumbling, naked
Be yourself
That’s what people keep on telling you
And you are forced to react and to scan your options in a world of open mics
Same old thing, the phantom power’s off and they can’t hear you even if they were willing to, oh boy
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Circles
06:06
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There has always been something wrong
It’s better without us now
There has always been something wrong
The world is better off without us now
There has always been something wrong
It’s better without us now
Yeah, there has always been something wrong
It’s better without us anyway
I try not to fall in love again and sometimes it works
I try not to fall in love again and sometimes it hurts
There has always been something wrong
It’s better without us now
There has always been something wrong
It’s better without us anyway
And there’s something that I kept away
Well darling, I made a big mistake
There has always been something wrong
It’s better without us anyway
I try not to fall in love again and sometimes it works
I try not to fall in love again and sometimes it really hurts
Some overwhelming beauty’s the reason why I’m fucking it up
Try not to fall in love again, sometimes it really hurts
Do the same thing wrong again
Running circles
Over and over again
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To My Friend
02:48
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You were sad
And my friend, you were better off when you’re not alone
You were drunk
You were mad
You were better
We used to be friends
And that’s all there is
Do not wanna end this
I still don’t wanna leave here
That’s all I’ve gotta say
We know someone’s gotta stop this
Someone’s gotta wake us
To my friend
My son
My mother
I apologize
You were wrong
You were right
Like my father
I am gonna fall
And that’s all there is to say
We know
that’s all
all there is to say
(it’s gotta stop, someone’s gotta stop us now)
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Turnstile
03:15
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You know I’m trying to get in there
Trying to find you
But the turnstile won’t let me in
Let me in again
Can’t get satisfied
It feels like I once knew how to get in
What to think and where to go – I forgot
And the turnstile lets them in
Yeah, everyone’s passing
But I’m not allowed
Can’t get in, won’t just let me in
Can’t get satisfied
It feels like I once knew how to get in
What to think and where to go – I forgot
Whatever I try, everything feels wrong again
Everything seems like I’ve done it before
And cannot get satisfied
That’s all
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Done
01:46
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We’re on our way back to our surprise
I wonder about the time
When we’ll get home I’m fixing us a tea
I’m sure it is warm at home
Farewell my fantasy, I’m done
We’re on our way back to our surprise
I wonder ’bout the time
When we’ll get home I’m fixing us a tea
I’m sure it is warm at home
Farewell my fantasy, I’m done
Half the light
I don’t have the time
Farewell my fantasy, I’m done
Half the light
I don’t have the time to explain why I’m done
We’re on our way back to our surprise
I wonder ’bout the time
When we’ll get home I’m fixing us a tea
I’m sure it is warm at home
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11. |
Minnesota Winter
04:21
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No matter how gentle your critique
There will always be a liberal who calls you a splitter
You drive a classic car, but I row in a Neolithic canoe
’Cause I am not a man, I am a boy
Tangled up with no concern
Being bored walking in a maze
I fear being disappointed
I’d say that’s a problem you’ll always have, you always get
When doing time travelling
It’s the vacuum of space-time continuum
I don’t think I’d last a Minnesota winter robbery snobbery
To the detriment of Mr. Jones
’Cause he and I we both still feel the aftermath and lunacy of last night
Honestly I don’t think it’s the flu
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Back on Track
03:02
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It’s like they said: everything must pass
Help me again, tell me this would last
But you know why, you cannot count me in
Feels like I’m back on my track again
Feels like, feels like, feels like I’m in your head
My mind, my mind, my mind is right again
Those words you said spinning in my head
Help me again, mind my mind
Feels like, feels like, feels like I’m in your head
My mind, my mind, my mind is right again
Feels like I’m back on track again, feels like I’m back again
Feels like I’m back on track again, I’m back again, my friend
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Palila Hamburg, Germany
Classic indie rock.
Palila recommends:
Be Okay To Not Be Okay
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Would is the solo project of Palila singer/guitarist Matthias Schwettmann and he describes it as the little, introverted brother of Palila, although the boundaries between the two are fluid.
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