Ninetynine Lyrics: self-titled album

(Below is what I think the band is singing in the songs. I encountered varying degrees of difficulty in deciphering the lyrics. In many spots, I really have no clue, and would appreciate any suggestions you might have.)

 

Super-Eight

this one is gonna happen, i'm gonna make a movie
the pictures and stills gonna pass right through me
it's gonna happen, there is nothing to it
the pictures and stills will be better than the music

cultivate cultivate cultivate hesitate
in my eyes you opened up my mind
immitate annotate hesitate cultivate
in my eyes you always were divine

what makes this happen, gonna listen to the moment
i'm gonna make a movie about this moment
the pictures and stills gonna pass right through me
better than the music, better than you see me

immitate immitate cultivate hesitate
in my time you opened up my mind
immitate hesitate hesitate immitate
in my time i opened up to you

that will be su-super-super real
?? my secret for you
welcome to the dark welcome to the moment
cuz if you couldn't guess more impatient
(super-super real, super-super real
super-super real, super real)

immitate hesitate cultivate hesitate
in my time you opened up my mind
immitate hesitate hesitate immitate
in my time i opened up to you

and everything about it will be super-super real
better than the music, it reminds you to feel

 

I am Not American

i am not american
i am not as highly strung
as you
and what you wear
they'll wear too
and what you say
we'll say it's cool

i am not american
i am not as highly strung
as you
and what you wear
is wedged up to
and what you say
we'll argue through

and today i'm gonna let you know
in my way this ?? doesn't matter so ??
it's okay not to feel that way
or be the same and although
we come back to
what you say
we'll argue through

 

Breakfast Youth

if it's not how will you remember
in a daze without a sentence
if it's gone for another moment
calling you with the hip solution

so you ask me
just as well ???
i know one thing
deja deja ??
breakfast youth

every word is almost spoken
center my circle down
does it bother you?

your eyes ??
your eyes ??

if it's not how will you remember
in a daze without a sentence
if it's gone for another moment
calling you with the hip solution

so you ask me
just as well, does it well
i know one thing
deja deja
breakfast youth

every word is almost spoken
center my circle down
does it bother you

your eyes ??
your eyes ??

all my ways i would hesitate

 

Tim Tam

don't make a sound
don't make it loud
i'm afraid so
so scared

don't make a sound
dont make it loud
i'm afraid so
so scared

 

Eraser

when you're at war
they aint gonna talk
they aint gonna say a thing
drivin' too fast
this aint gonna last
lookin' at rationing

answer the telephone
it could be anyone
it's easy to criticize the things that you can't deny
holding on holidays
wasted at your ways
think this is paradise just then you're paralyzed

now when you're at war
aint gonna talk
aint gonna say a thing
drivin' to fast
this aint gonna last
lookin' at rationing

answer the telephone
it could be anyone
it's easy to criticize the things that you can't deny
holding on holidays
wasted at your ways
think this is paradise just when you're paralyzed

and i hope you know your way home and
i hope you know what's goin' on

 

Chapter Ninetynine

morbid fascination, mental calculation
your mind's a sieve is it?, your life's a bitch is it?
talkin' so big waste of static television (???)
i know you're being stupid, it's not convoluded

and dare you try with every right
this makes the best
can you rest ??

in the sense of stupid, something convoluded
i know you know, silly how could you not ??
morbid fascination, mental calculation
am i the bitch that runs right through yr head ???

and dare you try with every right
this makes the best
can you rest ??
this makes the best

morbid fascination, mental calculation

 

Popemobile

i wonder how it would feel
to be riding in a popemobile
being a religious ass
never ever go to mass
it must be so fantastic
to be so fuckin' catholic
visits all the spots
all the fabled haunts
it is such a farce with all those bodyguards
and for all the world's redemptions
i suppose that sex is out of the question?

i wonder how it would feel
to be riding in a popemobile
the mafia's right-hand man
fashion tips from milan
it must be so fantastic
even though the glass is plastic
with all the ?? ??????????????
such a farce with all those bodyguards
and for all the world's redemptions
i suppose that sex is out of the question?

 

Subtraction

completely such get a clue
jasper is good sentil (????)
but when it's time obstruction
to process destruction

having to work it out
having to work it out
what is it all about

i'm running back from school
i'm subject to division
the meaning so far ??
repeated use
presumptious

having to work it out
having to work it out
what is it all about

 

Timer

i'm gonna cling to my old way
i'm gonna speak without talking
the world is still the same
clock another day

everyone else speaks like you do
having to cash in a ???
and the world still the same
clock another day

are you still there, are you still there

comin' around to the old haunts
comin' around to the old haunts
and the world is still the same
clock another day

 

Rate

all the boys from school
oh the worst is true
but your comeback will be here to re-invent you
and how does it rate
how long will it take

i'll cry if you don't let go

how are you doin'?
i hope you'll be fine
let me hold it near ??
takes forever inside
my ???????????????
you can grin away

oh the flight is cruel
all the boys from school
but your comeback will be here to re-invent you
how does it rate
how long will it take

i'll cry if you don't let go

how are you doin'?
i hope you'll be fine
let me hold it near ??
takes forever inside
my ???????????????
you can grin away

and how does it rate
how long will it take

 

What Happened to That Lady

(instrumental)

 

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