Young The Giant - Mind Over Matter Album Lyrics

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Slow Dive


[Instrumental]

 

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People
In the middle
Life's a riddle
Not a game of dice
Not for a man who rolls with us

Days turn
Faster than a minute
How was I to know this?
Would you even notice me?
Cause they're imposters
We threw away the time

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I'm just a messenger man
It's the last time around
One of these days I wish you were
A hologram
If we're just passengeres then
I wish it was the first time around
One of these days I wish you were
AH oooooh

All the people in
White stockings talk with pride
They'll be lifting up the flags high
Which will I decide?
Cause they're imposters
I'm making up

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I'm just a messenger man
It's the last time around
One of these days I wish you were
A hologram
If we're just passengeres then
I wish it was the first time around
One of these days I wish you were
Ah oooooh

Collide
A stain in the light of your eyes
I'll see you another time
Come on baby roll the dice
I'm feeling like it's gonna break
This time will stars align?
I'm thinking that it's all the same

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I'm just a messenger man
It's the last time around
One of these days I wish you were
A hologram
If we're just passengeres then
I wish it was the first time around
One of these days I wish you were
Ah oooooh

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It's About Time

All the kids are throwing sticks:
Politics
Nights on the wire!
Everybody wants to get by
'Ts a test of the times!
A test of my rights
It's on pretty lady

Born to be angry
Grip of the vice
Click on the trigger, girl;
Sip wine on ice!

It's about time
Best to rewind
You better blow
Pistols, pistols...

Lights low
Go on baby go
It's a bad time
I'm on a tight rope!

Don't go-o!
It's about time, It's about time!

Everybody come on
Lights on
The beaches
Everybody come on; delight!

Close the front door
I don't wanna go
Like I'm on the 'Truman Show!'

Best to let go
You don't wanna know
You better blow!

Lights low
Go on baby go
It's a bad time
I'm on a tight rope!

Don't go-o!
It's about time, It's about...

All the years of paradise
Paradigms
Paralyze
Us
"You're crazy!"

All the cards you've organized
Shuffled twice in front of my eyes
Everybody has
Needs, wants, a cold gun!

Lights low
Go on baby go
It's a bad time
I'm on a tight rope!

Don't go-o!
It's about time, It's about...PISTOLS

 

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Crystallized

Crawl back to life,
It's been far too long
Crystallized
Round interstellar Moons
Seed of light into your atmosphere
What's your World like?
Is the house we've built still here?
Girl you know

When the beat of my drum
Meets the beat of your heart
You know I couldn't love any other - any other
This is where I come from
This is where I belong,
With the beat of your drum
Not any other

Fall through the sky
Little specks below
Magnify - the further down I go
I feel it in my bones
Can you feel too?
Is this the world I know?
Is the house we've built still here?
Is the human race sincere?

When the beat of my drum
Meets the beat of your heart
You know I couldn't love any other - any other
This is where I come from
This is where I belong,
With the beat of your drum
Not any other

Feel the force of time
Weighing down my mind
Tears you cry, screaming at the sky
Come outside,
The rays are shinning bright

Not any other
Feels like home
Where I belong
Oh oh

When the beat of my drum
Meets the beat of your heart
You know I couldn't love any other - any other
This is where I come from
This is where I belong,
With the beat of your drum
Not any other

 

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Mind Over Matter

Mind over matter
Does it matter to any of us?
Don't change the subject
I'm heavy on your love
I missed that train, New York city - it rains!
Fly to east L.A. in big jet planes
You know you're on my mind

And if the world don't break
I'll be shakin' it
'Cause I'm a young man after all
And when the seasons change
Will you stand by me?
'Cause I'm a young man built to fall

Mind over matter,
I'm in tatters thinkin' about her
Taste my disaster
It's heavy on my tongue
All the lights aglow
Tokyo - snows
Go to watch the show
Curtain's closed!
I'm watching you this time

And if the world don't break
I'll be shakin' it
'Cause I'm a young man after all
And when the seasons change
Will you stand by me?
'Cause I'm a young man built to fall
I missed that train
New York city - it rains!
Fly to east L.A. in big jet planes
You know you're on my mind
All the lights aglow
Tokyo - sno-ooows
Go to watch the show - curtain's closed
I'm watching you this time

Mind over matter
Mind over matter,
You know you're on my mind!

And if the world don't break
I'll be shakin' it
'Cause I'm a young man after all
And when the seasons change
I missed that train, will you stand by me!
(Fly to east L.A.)
'Cause I'm a young man built to fall
And if the world don't break!
All the lights aglow
(Tokyo - sno-ooows
Go to watch the show - curtain's closed)
And when the seasons change, will you stand by me?
'Cause I'm a young man built to fall

 

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Daydreamer

It's a full moon at midnight
Running fast out of time
It's a feeling you can't describe
Floating past the pale skylight

And you look reflective
But you're so disconnected
Just think about it
What's really on your mind

For you I would steal time
Suspicious, suspicious

You're a daydreamer oh oh
And it's the same thing over and over
We're running for our lives
In a slip dream
You wake up someday
and you realize
you were dreaming all the lies
you forget you forget

It's so affected
That color corrected night
But you're falling fast
In plastic skies
And you look reflective
So disconnected
It's not real life
Open your eyes and breathe
Everything's in its right place
When nothing go can stay
Just tell you know my face

You're a daydreamer oh oh
And it's the same thing over and over
We're running for our lives
In a slip dream
You wake up someday
and you realize
you were dreaming all the lies
you forget

When the moonlight's high
You couldn't describe
Our losing skies
We jut might die
But we feel so alive

 

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Firelight

I've been waiting many hours
By the silent moon
In the wild, the jungle flower
Your toxic perfume

Tell my friends I'm gone, it's true
I've past on now
To the eyes of a dark, lost blue

I don't believe you
I'm in a parachute
Falling in deep
Sleep
Out of control
Can you feel it?
Is this the end of the road?
Falling in deep
Lost in a dream

And the rains begin to shower
Cover me in blue
In the wild the watchman's tower
Your perfect monsoon

Tell my friends I'm gone, it's true
Tell my son I've gone away with you

I don't believe you
I'm in a parachute
Falling in deep
Sleep
Out of control
Can you feel it?
Is this the end of the road?
Trick up your sleeve
Breathe

I don't believe
Is this the end of the sea
Staring at me?
I could be free
In a dream

Lay down by the fire light
For all I know it's the last time
Tell my son
Oh

 

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Camera

It's a mystery night
Like a sawed-off shot gun
In the morning light it comes to anyone
All the strings that follow you
And the things they're tied to
My love's behind you colored by the snow
The shine is gone

I used to know what made you wet
Now I'm searching for it
Cause it's a mystery all the same
Not to get you back

On holiday
With a broken camera
And all I say
Is "I could be happier"
I could be happier

It's a mystery night
And I thought we had fun
But in the morning light
Your cars already gone
Do the things I wanna do
Not the ones I'm supposed to
Why can't I get close to
The man I saw in me
When I was young

On holiday
With a broken camera
And all I say
Is "I could be happier"
And all I say
Is "I could be happier"

All up the way
I'm free of all the shadows that follow me
Of all the branches up to break
With all my faith
Destiny and fate
Cause I never wanna go there tonight
The cameras, cameras
I never wanna open my eyes
The cameras, the cameras

No cameras
No cameras

Cause I never wanna go there tonight
I never wanna open up my eyes

 

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In My Home

Hey Hey Hey!

Yeah we sleep in cars
Oh so far from home
Watch the sun go down
On the open road
I've been searching for this
Part of my life

Then the sun will rise
We'll be driving slow
Watch the kids fly by
On their telephones
I've been racing all my life
And now I'm free

Well, I know I was born for this
Every night I dreamt of it
In my hooome
(hey Hey Hey!)
In my hoo-oh-ome

Fast the moon approaches
And with hungry eyes
We'll be lighting torches
We'll be mesmerized
I've been yearning for this
Cover of night

When the stars come out
You are stereo
Where we going dear
I know

Well, I know I was born for this
Every night I dreamt of it
In my hooome
In my hoo-oh-ome

We are not lost
We're just searching
We are always, always searching for
Home
(Hey hey hey!)

We'll be going dear
Bright lights
I don't know, I fear
I'm paralyzed
I'm paralyzed

In my hoo-oo-ome
In my hoo-oh-ome
And we are not lost
We're just searching
We are always, always searching for
(Hey hey hey!)
Home

 

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Eros

Why won't you call me?
Just give me your mouth
Won't you be straight with me
I can be older
Just give me the chance
I will win it all

Can you control the Sienna
To take her look

Relax your lips
Long blonde hair
I don't know if
You're even there
(Put out the fire)
I never let go
(Put out the fire)
I let the flames grow

Don't call it quits
Cold hard stare
I won't go if
You're standing there
(Put out the fire)
I never let go
(Put out the fire)
I let the flames

I'm really sorry
But I will win unintentionally
You can be sober
I want to dance
And I'm not dancing alone

Can you control the Sienna
Would you patrol its yellow lights

Relax your lips
Long blonde hair
I don't know if
You're even there
(Put out the fire)
I never let go
(Put out the fire)
I let the flames grow

Don't call it quits
Cold hard stare
I won't go if
You're standing there
(Put out the fire)
I never let go
(Put out the fire)
I let the flames

Nobody waits
Nobody calls anymore
Talking is dead with these conversations
Tired nations
Nobody cares
Too many thoughts at the door
It's all in your head
Cause these days I'm awaken
I've been shaken
Here I am
Here I am
I been played
Here I am
(Let go)

 

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Teachers

Teachers
They try to
Reach us
They said it too you know
But now you're grown up
And it's time
You were tested
This city made you gold and only when you're
Done
Do you miss the friends?
The names you crossed off

And I know it's hard to be sane
Temptation is so friendly
I need this release now
I find I can't stop dreaming

I'm awake
In a parking lot
Where all the friends
The names are crossed off

Won't you ask me
Are you in love with the city?
All the stars
Whiskey bars
And I'm on my back I'm waiting
I guess you could say that I'm praying
Will I remember
Where I misplaced you?

And I know it's hard to be sane
Temptation is so friendly
(You come back
To see it
The fever
You feel it!)
I need this release now
I find I can't stop dreaming

I'm awake
In a car
Hollywood
Boulevard
Is this who you are?

Oh!
Run now!
Run now!

I need this release now
I find I can't stop dreaming!

 

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Waves

Here it goes
Chemical is on its way
And my box is packed
Or should I stay? (it's coming)
We can analyze, philosophize
But who's to say
All we know is
We're here today

Look in my eyes
This is just the reason why I stay
I know there are things we shouldn't say
Blame it on the reason why I came
Maybe cause I couldn't feel the
Pain

Fight the fear
Taste the grip
Feel the slip
Shake the soul
Feel the waves
In and out, and in and out, and in and out

Look in my eyes
This is just the reason why I stay
I know there are things we shouldn't say
Blame it on the reason why I came
Maybe cause I couldn't feel the
Pain

Feel the weight wash away
All the mistakes I've made
Living in time on my own
Tearing the soul from bone
Letting the tide suck me in
And chemicals burst in
These are my only friends
Giving me waves until the end
Ooooooh

 

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Paralysis

Paralyzed, on the floor again.
Lately I've been fiending.

Cause it's over, I'm stupid.
Living a lie on my own, so alone.
You're calling consistently
but I'm paralyzed on the floor far from you.

And lately I've been thinking
I'm not feeling anything at all.
Will I survive in the dead of night?
And now the lights are fading faster.
Save me from my disaster, my disaster.

Lay the lights down low
God only knows I give up to the fire.
You didn't always come up from the water.
I only thought you were crying from laughter.
Saving myself from the mouth of a monster.
Paralyzed on the floor again.
Baby I've been fiending.

And lately I've been thinking
I'm not feeling anything at all.
Will I survive in the dead of night?
And now the lights are fading faster.
Save me from my disaster, my disaster.

Paralyzed on the floor.

And lately I've been feeling
I'm not feeling anything at all.
Will I survive in the dead of night?
And now the lights are fading faster.
Save me from my disaster, my disaster.

God only knows I give up to the fire.
You didn't always come up from the water.
I only thought you were crying from laughter.
Saving myself from the mouth of a monster. [x2]