Lights - Little Machines Album Lyrics

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Portal

In the throes of the ruby red
River that flows through this
Darkening concrete, devouring ghost afloat by
I'm with them

Up in the current and taking in whole
I've been struggling, strangling
Others in tow
Have my eyes gone missing

Imagining sequences, playing back visions by
Stereo air and fragmenting emissions
I'm lost and found in

The loneliest thing in the shape of a fist
That I wish I could bring in this bitter abyss
Is my petrified heart
Still pounding

Out on a balcony, reaching out to
Design this epiphany and what the sidewalks will do
And I just, in the processes through means to the end
It's the glass-bottom vessel and depths that extend
To the space between us

If I could I'd cut through the cables and cords
But I'll never be able, my knives at the table with yours
Immortal
Nothing is sacred and nothing is sure anymore
Except all that you are and stand for
Guide me toward your portal
Your portal, your portal
Your portal
Your portal, your portal
Your portal
Your portal, your portal
Your portal

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Running With The Boys

We were kind of feral, wicked little machines
Captains and Cavalries forming empires in the shade of the trees
Without hesitation, kings of the forest town
Holding the ocean down
We were half this heavy and twice this loud

So turn up the noise
Dressed to the nines
Running with the boys
Your hand in mine
Singing every song,
Loving every line
'Til the night is gone
Just like the old times
Just like the old times

Was what you made it
We had our friends around
All the images and sounds,
Super imposing to old backgrounds

We used to be clumsy, lost in a thousand ways
Captivated by the craze,
Those were hands down
My favorite days

So turn up the noise
Dressed to the nines
Running with the boys
Your hand in mine
Singing every song,
Loving every line
'Til the night is gone
Just like the old times
Just like the old times

Suspicion wasn't in our heads
It was only underneath the beds, beds
Saline eyes didn't have to hide
They were always open way too wide, way too wide

So turn up the noise
Dressed to the nines
Running with the boys
Your hand in mine
Singing every song,
Loving every line
'Til the night is gone
Just like the old times
Just like the old times

Just like the old times
Again just the like the old times
We're gonna have it all

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Up We Go

Here in a familiar place
We got our heads down
And we pretend it's cause the night is dark
And running out of space
For us to run around
But it's a dead end, and money's tight
And it's been a long time of this
Something is got to give
Everyone here is ready to go
It's been a hard year with nothing to show
From down this road
It's only on we go, on we go
Everyone here is ready to go
It's been a hard year, and I only know
From down this low
It's only up we go, up we go

Let's get on another flight
Maybe set out to sea
Kick it up and shake a fist at it
Cause death is harder to come by
Than it is to breathe
When you gotta make a break for it
Cause it's been a long time of this
Something is got to give
Everyone here is ready to go
It's been a hard year with nothing to show
From down this road
It's only on we go, on we go
Everyone here is ready to go
It's been a hard year, and I only know
From down this low
It's only up we go, up we go

Nothing gives easy
Easy gives nothing
I'm just tryin'a keep
Income coming in
Dawn is bound to break
When the night is done
Always darker days before brighter ones

Everyone here is ready to go
It's been a hard year with nothing to show
From down this road
It's only on we go, on we go
Everyone here is ready to go
It's been a hard year, and I only know
From down this low
It's only up we go, up we go

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Same Sea

Going the distance, every occasion
Headed for somewhere out of the way
Moving and shakin' every persuasion
Keepin' us out there, caught in the waves

Try to wander in the deep
Just waitin' for the tides to meet

And when the currents take us out again to opposite oceans
Out of the hands of safety
From the shallow to the deepest end
Places we break and bend
You're the one in it with me
No matter how far we get
Oceans we are in, still connect
And when the currents circle back again
They'll carry us with them to the arms of the same sea

Isn't it all just part of the nature
Piece of the business, part of the view
Physical labor, human behavior
It's an illusion I'm passing through

No place to stand or set my feet
Just waiting for the ends to meet

And when the currents take us out again to opposite oceans
Out of the hands of safety
From the shallow to the deepest end
Places we break and bend
You're the one in it with me
No matter how far we get
Oceans we are in, still connect
And when the currents circle back again
They'll carry us with them to the arms of the same sea

The tides were carried in, the lakes they take us out
They come around again and bring me back to you

When the currents take us out again
From the shallows to the deepest end
They'll carry us with them to the arms of the same sea
To the arms of the same sea
To the arms of the same sea
To the arms of the same sea
You're the one in it with me
In the arms of the same sea

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Speeding

One by one out the door
Wanted you, she wanted you, oh
It's okay, it's okay
I don't mind movin' on
Don't wait up, I'm already gone
Can't stay still, can't stay still

The world in the rear-view mirror doesn't matter
I won't be comin' back here after

Speedin' 'cause it feels good to be movin' on
Sleep is for the weary, I'm not slowin' down
And when the record is done, I'll put another one on
Speedin' 'cause it feels good, 'cause it feels good

Window down to feel the night
Whatever I touch I can make mine
It's enough, it's enough
I say go, I'm the one
You won't see me stoppin' for anyone
Can't stay still, can't stay still

The world in the rear-view mirror doesn't shake me,
I haven't looked back there lately

Speedin' 'cause it feels good to be movin' on
Sleep is for the weary, I'm not slowin' down
And when the record is done, I'll put another one on
Speedin' 'cause it feels good, 'cause it feels good

Lines that line the city
Guiding all the residents
From where I am sitting
I can see the evidence
Lines that line the city
Guiding all the residents
From where I am sitting
I can see the evidence

'Cause I am, 'cause I am

Speedin' 'cause it feels good to be movin' on
Sleep is for the weary, I'm not slowin' down
And when the record is done, I'll put another one on
Speedin' 'cause it feels good, 'cause it feels good

'Cause it feels good, 'cause it feels good
'Cause it feels good, 'cause it feels good
'Cause it feels good, 'cause it feels good
'Cause it feels good, 'cause it feels good
'Cause it feels good

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Muscle Memory

After having spent a fast year waiting for the next time I can get you close
I grew used to being back here like a chorus synth line soldier at his post
You call in, I respond, the sparrow and the song
I miss you when you're gone

When I am alone, I see you in the dark
I talk into the empty like you were with me
Started on a cold night, felt you in the low light
Noticing the reflex taking over me
I see you when I reach
Muscle memory

Again, often to the next fall
I am on the back steps trying to let you in
See you standing in the front hall
Maybe this is madness underneath my skin
Guess the misery responds or the body it haunts
And we do what it wants

When I am alone, I see you in the dark
I talk into the empty like you were with me
Started on a cold night, felt you in the low light
Noticing the reflex taking over me
I see you when I reach
Muscle memory

When you feel the change of a thousand words
And I speak your name like I know you heard
I can feel you there, I can hear you move
And it moves me too
And I'm playing games and I'm drinking wine
And I see your glass sitting next to mine
I can feel you there when you're not at home
Like I'm not alone

When I am alone, I see you in the dark
I talk into the empty like you were with me
Started on a cold night, felt you in the low light
Noticing the reflex taking over me
I see you when I reach
Muscle memory
I feel you when I sleep
Muscle memory

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Oil And Water

Gone when you get stuck
Sleeping when you wake up
Lover on the other coast
Off to the races
Headed other places
Chasing a familiar ghost

No one said it would be this hard
How could I know
Why do we always get so far
Before we let go

And we separate
Nothing is the same forever
See you drive away
Wish I could make you stay
Oil, oil and water
Oil, oil and water

Psycho season
Watching you leaving
Thinking I could change the rules
Rocks on the ocean, wheels in motion
Wishing is a game of fools

No one said it would be this hard
How could I know
Why do we always get so far
Before we let go

And we separate
Nothing is the same forever
See you drive away
Wish I could make you stay
Oil, oil and water
Oil, oil and water

Kicking, screaming, softly speaking, near apart in ways
We'll go wander, oil and water always separate
Kicking, screaming, softly speaking, near apart in ways
We'll go wander, oil and water always separate

And we separate
Nothing is the same forever
See you drive away
Wish I could make you stay
Oil, oil and water
Oil, oil and water

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Slow Down

In the garden with the wild
I can feel you like a child
Seeing shadows in the room
Like the fall and the rise
And the young and the wise
Playing dead with the moon
Chasing you

When I was young you were only a ghost
Taking old friends leaving me alone
When we are grown
Tell me where do we go
So fast
Taking my cheeks in the palm of your hand
Making me weak when I need to stand
If I can't keep you, nobody can so
Slow down, slow down

In the speed of the traffic
With the rush in the rapids
When the ends come and meet
And I know you by the days
From the moment we awake
Like the sour and the sweet
And you can see

When I was young you were only a ghost
Taking old friends leaving me alone
When we are grown
Tell me where do we go
So fast
Taking my cheeks in the palm of your hand
Making me weak when I need to stand
If I can't keep you, nobody can so
Slow down, slow down

When I was young you were only a ghost
Taking old friends leaving me alone
When we are grown
Tell me where do we go
So fast
Taking my cheeks in the palm of your hand
Making me weak when I need to stand
If I can't keep you, nobody can so
Slow down, slow down

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Meteorites

Perseids lead us up to it
Remind me is where kind leve
Both of us are leaving town when we get old enough
We're moving on

We are gonna see greater heights
They'll put our names up in neon lights
Rolling volcanoes in the night
Glowing in the dark like meteorites
We're volcanoes in the night
We're rolling like meteorites

Momma said they haven't even seen nothing yet
Don't you forget
Lately you've been breathing fire in your sleep
I feel the heat

We are gonna see greater heights
They'll put our names up in neon lights
Rolling volcanoes in the night
Glowing in the dark like meteorites
We're volcanoes in the night
We're rolling like meteorites

The greatest sights that I've ever seen
And I've laid eyes in big limousines
And maybe we sound young and naive
And maybe we just want to believe

We are gonna see greater heights
They'll put our names up in neon lights
Rolling volcanoes in the night
Glowing in the dark like meteorites
We're volcanoes in the night
We're rolling like meteorites

We are gonna see greater heights
They'll put our names up in neon lights
Rolling volcanoes in the night
Glowing in the dark like meteorites
We're volcanoes in the night
We're rolling like meteorites

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How We Do It

Ask me a question, I only want to talk
So get a little closer, cause time is all we got
Nothing is easy, nothing is free
But it doesn't matter nothing to me
Cause we could go anywhere

Got nowhere to be
It doesn't mean anything
The cities all become cities
Though we were visiting
We are all just passing through it
Hoping for someone to notice how we do it

I wanna be happy, I want to die in love
When I get the money, I'm going to burn it up
So we can go chase it
After the thrill
Time isn't wasted it's trying to be filled
And we can be anywhere

Got nowhere to be
It doesn't mean anything
The cities all become cities
Though we were visiting
We are all just passing through it
Hoping for someone to notice how we do it

It doesn't go out in a blaze of glory
It's all about how you ended up where
Maybe we live just to tell our story
And how to get there, oh

It doesn't go out in a blaze of glory
It's all about how you ended up where
Maybe we live just to tell our story
And how to get there, oh

Got nowhere to be
It doesn't mean anything
The cities all become cities
Though we were visiting
We are all just passing through it
Hoping for someone to notice how we do it

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Don't Go Home Without Me

This is the song I will sing to you when you're old and tired
I will sing it to remind you that I'm old beside you
And if you're tired of hearing my voice
I'm gonna sing it to you anyway
Cause I know that if we made it this far
Those differences I would put away
And I'll sing

Oh, its amazing that you're here
So alone I would be
In a world that you're not near
Don't go home without me
Without me

So if our bodies get ugly and our hearts stop beating
Our house is crumbling under me and our kids start leaving
I hope you know I appreciated you in every possible way
All of the little things that you did, they got me through the hardest days
And I sing

Oh, its amazing that you're here
So alone I would be
In a world that you're not near
Don't go home without me
You know that I'll be hanging around every mighty mile
And when you call me I'll be right down
And we'll go out in style, in style
And I sing

Oh, its amazing that you're here
So alone I would be
In a world that you're not near
Don't go home without me
Without me
[x3]

It's amazing that you're here
Don't go home without me
In a world that you're not near
Don't go home without me
Don't go home without me

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Child

(Bonus Track)

What is this about?
Where is everybody going?
What am I doing here?
Can't separate what I really need to know and
What I just want to hear
Maybe I'm alone maybe everybody's lost too
Looking for their own way out
Maybe I don't know maybe I don't even want to
Just don't want to be let down
There is no sureness, I kind of just stumble along
There must be purpose in trying to keep on

What do I know? I'm a child
Just trying to talk like a mother does
Seeing life come and go all the time
It's never as long as you wish it was
Maybe I'm still trying to see like a child does

And I always feel like I did when I was younger
Can't talk sense into me
How do you decide when to know or how to wonder
Or how to just get free
There's no certainty, I kind of just stumble along
Doesn't bother me, I'm trying to keep on

What do I know? I'm a child
Just trying to talk like a mother does
Seeing life come and go all the time
It's never as long as you wish it was
Maybe I'm still trying to see like a child does

I seen both sides and felt it all
I'm not a child anymore but I can't stand in here
The way I did when I was a kid

What do I know? I'm a child
Just trying to talk like a mother does
Seeing life come and go all the time
It's never as long as you wish it was
Maybe I'm still trying to see like a child does

What do I know? I'm a child
Just trying to talk like a mother does
Seeing life come and go all the time
It's never as long as you wish it was
Maybe I'm still trying to see like a child does

Maybe I'm still trying to see like a child does

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Lucky Ones

(Bonus Track)

It's you and I against the world
Hitting every green and living like
We were always told that we would
Not without the accidents, but I gotta good feeling
Even there the points we broke at, we could

Who knows?
Doesn't matter anyway
Let's go
You and I will be okay

Cause after all this time
Still don't know where we're going
But look how far we've come
And as long as you're just as lost as I am
I'll hold you in the morning
Like we're the lucky ones

I wish I could end the world
So I could feel it all over
All of our foolish notions, we do
Maybe we're invincible or we're sippin' on clover
All of it a wicked moment with you

Cause after all this time
Still don't know where we're going
But look how far we've come
And as long as you're just as lost as I am
I'll hold you in the morning
Like we're the lucky ones

Hey, we made it this far
I'm here undirected
No one knows where we are

Hey, we made it this far
I'm here undirected
No one knows where we are

Cause after all this time
Still don't know where we're going
But look how far we've come
And as long as you're just as lost as I am
I'll hold you in the morning
Like we're the lucky ones

Cause after all this time
Still don't know where we're going
But look how far we've come
And as long as you're just as lost as I am
I'll hold you in the morning
Like we're the lucky ones

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From All Sides

(Bonus Track)

Here in the open
Cool as a hand in the dark
Near as the voices that hang in the air
They're coming through
Caught in the moment
Sweetness and weakness are high
Gone like the shadows that follow me there
They're coming through you

Constantly killing me
With your invade in my mind
You got it covered I can't get a thought in edgewise
Oh with your fast lips, and not a catalyst
Seems like the memories are coming at me from all sides
You're all I see, surrounding me
From all I sides, you're all I see, surrounding me

Booms like a system
Swallows the sense of me whole
Love is the weapon that chases me there
Rushing to you
I'm the island, you're the ocean that's

Constantly killing me
With your invade in my mind
You got it covered I can't get a thought in edgewise
Oh with your fast lips, and not a catalyst
Seems like the memories are coming at me from all sides
You're all I see, surrounding me
From all I sides, you're all I see, surrounding me

I'm Tyche orbits
Where you have me
Barely noticed, falling madly
From all sides

Constantly killing me
With your invade in my mind
You got it covered I can't get a thought in edgewise
Oh with your fast lips, and not a catalyst
Seems like the memories are coming at me from all sides
You're all I see, surrounding me
From all I sides, you're all I see, surrounding me

Constantly killing me
When you're invading my mind
You got it covered I can't get a thought in edgewise
Oh with your fast lips, and not a catalyst
Seems like the memories are coming at me from all sides
Coming at me from all sides