Ninetynine Lyrics

Receiving the Sounds of Science Fiction: 5 song mini-CD from Dark Beloved Cloud

(note: lyrics below are what I think the band is singing in the song)

 

Receiving the Sounds of Science Fiction

i am a long way in thought
everything is electric
with high volts
do you remember
when that was our place
i thought
everything was electric
with high volts
do you remember
could you forget
well i guess that make things/those(?) happen
all this time
and knowing it makes you happy
always reminded of science fiction
i can meet you, if i can meet you
as i would treat those words that happen
and knowing, it makes you happy
always reminded of science fiction

 

Highway Delights

got so lost in here
i think i've been here before
and i'll keep goin' 'round, goin' 'round

you look so lost baby,
i think you've been here before
and you'll keep comin' 'round, comin' 'round

my feet are aching, my stomach's aching
but i can see for miles and miles
her feet are aching, her head is aching
but you can see for miles and miles

she said i don't mind this ride at all
i don't mind what i might find
so let's keep goin' 'round, goin' 'round

he said i don't mind this ride at all
i don't mind what i might find
so let's keep goin' 'round, goin' 'round

got so lost in here
i think i've been here before
and i'll keep goin' 'round, goin' 'round

you look so lost baby,
i think you've been here before
and you'll keep comin' 'round, comin' 'round

i don't mind this ride at all,
i don't mind what i might find
so let's keep goin' 'round, goin' 'round

it's too late babe, it's too late babe
it's too late baby
to go around, to go around at all
it's too late babe, it's too late baby
to go around, to go around at all

don't want to, and who would want to
and who would want to, and who would want to
anyways anyways anyways anyways
who would want to, and who would want to
anyways anyways anyways at all

 

San Pedro de Atacama
(this song was a tough one to decipher; I'm pretty sure I got a some of it wrong!)

crying out your name
as i fall to my knees on the sand
and the desert rocks
splinter to my loss(?)

i'm gonna go, i'm gonna stay
i'm gonna fade away for the longest time

and on this road i crossed all swirled with dust
on the atacama's resting me to its hole

i'm gonna go, i'm gonna stay
i'm gonna fade away for the longest time

and on days without a king
and he's glaring right back at me

i'm gonna go, i'm gonna stay
i'm gonna fade away for the longest time

and when i have a son
crested to my skull

i'm gonna go, i'm gonna stay
i'm gonna fade away for the longest time

so i go to a place i know
and i will not return from the sand
hot desert wind, sun across my skin
it sticks to my lips, soothin' my screams

let me break these holds and answer me

i'm gonna go, i'm gonna stay
i'm gonna fade away for the longest time

with the last remaining sun, and release me

 

Worlds of Space Worlds of Population Worlds of Robots
(a lot of the lyrics on this song sound like they could be many different things, so... )

where does it get you?
this pattern's consuming
your worlds of space
are breaking through the night

civilized mess
it's covered in your place
your worlds of robots
better than i

i never, i never ask you
over, to over-explain
whenever i ever ask you
it's always, it's always the same
that's plain

where does it get you?
this pattern's consuming
your worlds of robots
are breaking through the night

a civilized mess
don't go by yourself
in your worlds of space
always too defined
what could never be me

that picture of ill health
you bring it to yourself
and to believe you
those abstact words are fraught
with that forbidden thought

i never, i never ask you
over, to over-explain
whenever i ever ask you
it's always, it's always the same
that's plain

that circumstance
give it a strength in this
don't go by yourself
you were always too defined
what could never be you
that picture of ill health
you bring it to yourself
and to believe you
those abstract words are fraught
with that forbidden thought

i never, i never ask you
over, to over-explain
whenever i ever ask you
it's always, it's always the same

 

Tigerlady

(instrumental)

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