Julian Casablancas - Tyranny Album Lyrics

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Take Me In Your Army

Somewhere to be, something to do
But you don't want it anymore
I was not ready for the podium yet
Just the stage

In all my dreams, I'm waiting for ya
And nothing has ever changed, except I can't touch you
The best part is when I feel you
You're just watchin' me
Me

[Chorus:]
Take me in your army
Take me in your army
Take me in your army
Take me in your army

This isn't for everybody
This is for nobody
It took a thousand years to build
It took me a day to destroy
The customer is obviously
Oblivious and wrong

[Chorus x2]

[Chorus x2]

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Crunch Punch

Survivors I have interviewed and also from all of the historical reading.
These are patterns. This has happened many times in history

Devil's evangelicals have
Opened my eyes
He is the creepiest
Guy in the sky
Rumors on the radio the DJ is wrong
He's just a creature who was playing this song

And I can't live on a phone forever
Please just tell them I'm gone good night until tomorrow
When I made it out somehow
Cannot pray for you more

Policemen get in the face
Officer down on the scene
(256? we have an officer down I repeat? calling all cars...)

Just repeat what is not true [?]
We want to tell him what to do
Can you rescue me
Everybody want some they can't see

Yes I want it for me
But I want it for you too

(Oh yeah DJ Terry)

Coming evangelical is bumping my eye
He is as creepiest in the sky
Everybody loves him and he kisses your hand
He likes to preaching and then he sings in a band
Okay please don't take the bait
Telling you down in the face
Don't miss the show okay?
Why can't I have time

I can't live on a phone forever
We live too far away from everything
I pray for some things to change
Your mother is a murderer, trust me I know
She'll get excited
Can't beat them it's so hard
I wanna beat them in my prime

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M.utally A.ssured D.estruction

Chasing all your dreams like any fool
Observing the absurd from a piano stool
And it's the first time you'll get the truth, that's for sure
Now the black beetles they come in waves

Feedin' all your nightmares to procure
Trusting in their words that they know more
And it's the first time you got it right, that's for sure
Black hole sucking us into oblivion

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Human Sadness

Put money in my hand
And I will do the things you want me to.

Vanity, overriding wisdom,
Usually common sense.

Should I delete it,
You said you'd read it
You promised you would never ruin it with sequels,

I wake for you, on and on

Beyond all ideas of right and wrong there is a field,
I will be meeting you there.

The moon's a skull, I think it's grinning
The room is full of people now I think it's spinning

Wanted you, didn't ask for nothing.
Wait for you, on and on

And I don't need your tie, I don't need to, tired of saying it.
We don't need more talk, don't empty out your canteen on the desert floor.
Ahhh, it's all my fault

Never wanna spell it out,
I just want to say that it is all my fault,
I could never spit it out,
I don't wanna fix your tie.

Never want to say we're sad,
Thankful that we got some chance,
I know you won't get back your time,
I wish that you could take it back.

Beyond all ideas of right and wrong there is a field,
I will be meeting you there.

He wanted it more than me, I suppose
I was in a rush to wait in a line.
Now I hear echoes of my old self,
This is not the way to be.
All at once,
I lost my way.

Is it not true, the things that we did?
Come here at once and look what they did
Come here shut down and tune in tonite,
Learn the words that they teach you without you realizing it
Come here sit down and watch some TV

Mine all mine, wait your turn,
Cross my cross, slice his hand,
Not your son, not your friend, not your enemy.

I rely on the little things to get me by,
Conscience says, "I'm okay",
You don't hear what they say.
"He's not my son, search his home"
Off to war,
It's time to go hide inside.

Soft skin,
Weak chin,
Just walk me thru it, tell me what to do I'll do

Hurry hurry, that's my baby
Ohh, do what you can.

All the time - he waits for me.
And now we talk from time to time,

Hits you on the head when nobody's there,
Then he says, "come here could you fix my tie?"

It's never gonna be,
To be is not the way to be.

Show me where to go, don't get angry so quickly,
F*ck depression.

Beyond all ideas of right and wrong there is a field,
I will be meeting you there

Understanding is more important than love,
If not money will always trump justice

All is lost,
I'll find my way.
So I say,
To be is not to be.
To be is not the way to be.

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Where No Eagles Fly

Please, come on babe, they'll end up all confused,
What's the point of telling people if they won't use it?

Fly on the wall, bird of prey in the mall
It's the eye in the sky, where no eagles fly

Meat,
Predators eat meat.
Predators eat meat.

Ceremony or a speech,
In a church or on a beach,
Predators eat.

The wolf will cry sheep as they take him away,
We plot in our sleep but follow orders all day

The rhythm is for you but the song is for me,
The meaning might be secret but the melody is free

Meat,
Predators eat meat.
Predators eat meat.

Let all my big dreams sink in,
No one to enjoy it with.
Oblivious... stay oblivious,
Why can you not be more like me?
Hiding in a nearby tree.

Business, business, I forget,
Pray for predators I guess
Uh-oh, uh-oh, here we go, all our future's thru that door

Future future's come to this, everybody cheats I guess
Let's go down to mexico, 'there's a couple guys I know'

All our future's come to this, i don't want my friends to know
All our future's come to this, i don't want our friends

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Father Electricity

They call my name, locks and keys
Lightening every drop
We're tricked again, lost at sea
When we finally gonna climb your tree, I know it's hard to see oh!

I wanna believe what you're saying
But I'm seeing the game that you're playing
Oh I kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-know
What I'm gonna d-d-d-d-d-do
Kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-know what I'm gonna d-d-d-d-d-do
Oh no I meant...

I'm at the wrong place at the wrong time
They're attracting all the wrong people to the wrong line

I do not want to see no mess
I wish I could live in retrospect

Five steps
Remember them well
Coming down, down the well
You drop 500 tons of hell

You are everything I see to
Every time I am in despair
Who is he by the wheel?
They fight for every meal?
Who makes the better deal?
You?

We'll find you dried out [?]
We'll find him dying [?]
Wait, wait
Don't, don't want it
Don't, don't want it

Oh man
What are we doing now?
All I know are instincts

You are everything I see to
Every time I am in despair
Lock the door and hide the keys
And wake the dog to bite the priest

Bonding of the electricity oh
I'll wait for you you you in the second life

Who is he by the wheel?
Who makes the better deal?
Who wants to have to feel?
Who?

You are everything I see
Every time I beg in despair
I will take what I can grab
But I, I don't want your money back

What else can I say?
What else can I sing?
What else can I say, tonight?

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Johan Von Bronx

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Business Dog

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Xerox

I won't fight
It's not the time or place
Stone age [?]
In the dark violence waits
Kids learn in a [?]
Will the sky open up
And destroy everyone I've loved
One way out you don't take it to heart
Until it tries tearing you apart

[Chorus:]
[?]
I guess the only way [?]
Everyone lies to me
And tries to sell me stuff
Well I guess it's just love
I love the beginning
The way [?]
I give you everything that you ever wanted
But you don't want it [?]

Very late at my [?]
City's turning to forests again
When the devil offers you a devil sip of his devil brew
In my day trained in a distant life
I won't think of it I won't cry
Summer days at the playground (please, please, please)
I can't wait to make it through all awkward days

[Chorus]

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Dare I Care

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Nintendo Blood

Her eyes were black and white and blue
I listen to your favorite songs backwards
Do you have a plan for [?] or surrender to
I've been dreaming for you

[Chorus:]
In prison [?]
Asleep in the pit of Rome
No one to be [?]
In theory

Will you drift into the dark war path
When the blood runs down the face sideways
[?]
It seems like a hippy me on
You let the schoolboys in your eyes run out
When you asked me to blow smoke in your mouth
I find
Can you think back to that time

I was so angry I got up and out of bed
I spent 25 minutes reading what you said
A phrase I know so well I memorized your teeth

Only gonna give you
I'm not take it and I'm not gonna give it
I'm not take it I

Will you solve your problems in the daylight
We like to change the rules as they go
Watch out to he got [?]
[?]
Made up the memories only person you've met
Of every pretty stranger [?]
I can't help it
Its not my fault
Got a be possessive
On and on and on

[Chorus]

[Outro:]
[?]

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Off To War...

Oh I see colors
On my made up

[Refrain:]
I wait for the light to shine
I wait for the light to shine

They're jumping on your [?]
Yeah baby

[Refrain]

When I look at your [?] shiny [?]

I wait for light to shine
But someone else got to you

[Refrain]