Cutouts

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In a beautiful world
We are melting
And go running
Nailed down
Somewhere lurking
Form a line
Falling over
Zip tied

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Foreign spies
Foreign spies

In a beautiful world
Paved with gold
But who's counting
Way up there?
And they’re grabbing
Kitchen knives
Every time our
Backs are turned

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Foreign spies
Foreign spies
Foreign spies
Foreign spies
Foreign spies

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It's a beautiful world

Written By: The Smile

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We overflow in a hurricane
We overflow in a hurricane
We can feel no pain
It's so close that we disappear
Through this narrow gap
The narrow gap that you leave us in

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We can slide through this narrow gap
The narrow gap that you leave us in
And we feel you near
But so close that you disappear

While holding on to the sides
Like a wind blows its emptiness
Yes is not a real yes
Not a real yes

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Emptiness has many forms
The only thing is to listen
It has many forms
And loneliness is a way to drown

While holding on to the sides
While a wind blows emptiness
Yes is not a real yes
Not a real yes

Written By: The Smile

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Zero-sum, moot point
A cut-out trying to fill the void
A shit grin, a performance
A tipping point, loose banister
The physical lines of forced thought
That's a lot to burn for no reason
A gas leak, I'm falling through the ice
A vacant lot to buy, vacant lot to buy
A clipped tongue, acting dumb
Somewhere in the past in a re-run

Thinking all the ways
The system will provide
Windows 95
Windows 95

So overconfident
Confident, confident
They're so overconfident
Confident, confident
That's another red flag, red flag
That’s another red flag, red flag

The masterclass, the TED Talk
That's a lot to burn for no reason

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They're thinking all the ways
The system will provide
Windows 95
Windows 95

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Listen close, listen carefully
You will hear that the birds
Are in the wrong place

Fortunately there
The system will provide
Windows 95
Windows 95

They're so overconfident
Confident, confident
They're so overconfident
Confident, confident
That's another red flag, red flag
That's another red flag, red flag

Written By: The Smile

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You can change your mind
Let your colours fly
And start lashing out

You can change your mind
I won't be surprised
Let them colours fly

Circumstances change
Let them colours fly

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You can change your mind
Mother starts to cry

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And because we can't escape
You're gonna say goodnight
You're gonna say goodnight
Good night

Written By: The Smile

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Through the glass
Look at you
Just eyes and mouth
Only saying words
And then turning them 'round
No matter what the situation
Telling yourself this is nowhere

You appear now and then you disappear
Letting it slide, letting it slide

Soon to complete the transformation
And beginning all this all over again

Always changing the definition
Fear always passing through
No-one to worry about
And nowhere to be
Just a shadow of light in my dark
Someone I knew so well before

Soon to complete your transformation
Then beginning all this all over

Through the glass
Look at you
Just eyes and mouth
Tapping on any window

Written By: The Smile

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I'm not the killer
Don't get me started
I'm not the villain
Choose someone else
You don't get to

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Nothing is triggered
Nothing is solid
Don't pull me backwards
You don't get to

And your force means nothing
And your force means nothing
And your force means nothing
And your force means nothing

You don't get to
Don't get me started

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You don't get me
You don't get me
You don't get me
You don't get me
You don't get me
Don't get me

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And your force means nothing
And your force means nothing
And your force means nothing

And you don't get me

Written By: The Smile

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We are just baggage with no label
You will find us in the rubble
While you people tiptoe, tiptoe
Far away from the windows

All of you appeasers and enablers
Eating scraps from the swill
As quietly as insects
A toxic repetition

You are just being clever
Pulling out all the feathers
Burning all of the labels
Knowing we couldn't see

Written By: The Smile

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A black hole at the center of the galaxy
Being pulled, being pulled
Being pulled down

Nice and easy
As a naught, as a nil, as a no
One more step 'til finally you just
Freeze

You're gonna give us the slip tonight
Out through the keyhole
Open like you're the hole in the ozone

You're gonna give us the slip tonight
Plaster partitions, blackbird says nothing
You're gonna laugh, you're gonna sing
And you're gonna bring the world
Down 'round your ears
While the temperature grows ugly

While you threaten to press the button
Let's pretend, let's pretend, let's pretend
One more step 'til finally you just
Freeze

Staring into infinity
As if, as if you cannot see

You're gonna give us the slip tonight
Out through the keyhole
'Cause you want shit for free

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I don't know it was just, just a question

Somehow it's, it's not like you imagined

One more step 'til finally you just
Freeze

Written By: The Smile

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You're not so tough
Your need to be loved
You roast in the desert
A scorched earth
Your mind's come loose
The monster's back
Towards a mirage
No words

You're not so tough
A whip, no crack
A sudden switch
The constant threat
That you'll torch the place
That plants are snakes
With clip on face
No words

You join the dots and you colour in
A road that's paved with good intentions

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Good intentions
With good intentions

You're not so tough
And the jaw like force
Clings to joyless bones
Devoured by ants
The slim pickings
From click monkeys
By their ropes we hang
No words

You join the dots and you colour in
A road that's paved with good intentions

No words can ex−
No words can ex−
No words can express it
No words can ex−
No words can ex−
No words can express it

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And now you wanna bleed me dry
Now you wanna bleed me dry
No words

Written By: The Smile

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Swaying side to side
Jaws are open wide
Hid under my hat

Just to wind you up
Just to piss you off
Floating on their backs

You're falling on your ass
Falling through the glass
And everybody's laughing
Bodies laughing

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They snort and then they hoot
They're lapping up the soup
Slipping in the mud

You're falling on your ass
Falling through the glass
And everybody's laughing
Bodies laughing

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'Cause we can't control it
We can't control it
We can't control it anymore
We can't control it
We can't control it
We can't control it anymore
Control it anymore

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Dogs a-barking
Cymbals crashing
Tongues a lashing
Slow convulsions
And everybody's laughing
Bodies laughing

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'Cause we can't control it
We can't control it
We can't control it anymore
We can't control it
We can't control it
We can't control it anymore
Control it anymore

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You're falling on your ass
Falling through the glass
And everybody's laughing
Bodies laughing

Chain reacting
Happy slapping

Written By: The Smile