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1,000 Chandeliers
03:29
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1,000 Chandeliers
words/music: Waylon K. Smith
©2017 The Positronic Cats
Don't ever look at me, touch me, or talk to me
I can exist just like this
You fed on my weaknesses, you know I get speechless
Then I freeze up
I'm not playing dumb, I am biting my tongue for good reason dear
& if this is some game, well it's cruel & insane & I'm leaving here
I am leaving...
I will crystallize your tears & make a thousand chandeliers (x4)
Don't ever look at me, touch me, or talk to me
I can exist just like this
You fed on my weaknesses, you know I get speechless
Then I freeze up
I'm not playing dumb, I am biting my tongue for good reason dear
& if this is some game, well it's cruel & insane & I'm leaving here
don't look so surprised, I am simply paralyzed (x2)
Well you've carved out your life with some dull, rusty knife
Now you're tasting it
And you've got what you want so stop
Crossing my lines you are taking my time and you are wasting it
You are wasting it
I will crystallize your tears & make a thousand chandeliers (x4)
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2. |
Love Me
04:52
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Love Me
words/music: Waylon K. Smith
©2017 The Positronic Cats
The glimmer of a rendezvous
Is a memory of the future
Oh but being so close to you
Has got me tearing at my sutures
& you look right through me
An apprehensive apparition
If you only knew me
I'd be above your suspicions
CH: Just tell me that you love me
You don't have to mean it
Just tell me that you love me
& make sure that I believe it
You reacted viciously
To the heart that you're betraying
& darling, there's no sympathy
For a heart that is decaying
Still I stand here pleading
With my feet firmly planted
Baby, i'm just needing
To be taken for granted
CH:
BRIDGE:
This illusion of romance
Is only getting obscener
It's all passion without substance
& it's darkening my demeanor
CH:
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Glitter
04:09
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Glitter
words/music: Waylon K. Smith
©2017 The Positronic Cats
Bright lights & smoke
Hanging heavy as a cloak
The only way to keep the wolves at bay
Feathers & claws
An empty room filled with applause
& I can’t, no I can’t look away
CH: How can we act our age
When there’s glitter covering the stage
This is the blood from our veins
This is the blood from our veins
Stars & silhouettes
May our hearts beat full & without regret
Spend the evening, spend the night
Please just stay
The scent of sparks
An empty room silent & dark
Bienvenue, bienvenue au cabaret
CH:
BR:
CH:
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Fluidity of Fate
04:27
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Fluidity of Fate
words/music: Waylon K. Smith
©2017 The Positronic Cats
As you sink into the soil
Chemically unchanged
A hundred billion stars go out at once
Behold the pillars of flame
The seas will churn forever
As the moon betrays the tide
A battery of waves will prove that history is changing
& the sacred will survive
The sacred will survive, the sacred will survive
CH: la la…
The breath that will not catch
The thirst that will not slake
The galaxy expands & then extinguishes her children
The fluidity of fate
The fluidity of fate, the fluidity of fate
CH:
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Love is Impossible
03:48
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Love is Impossible
music/lyrics: Waylon K. Smith
©2017 The Positronic Cats
Gravity works differently in the underworld
So I ascended from the center of the earth
Like Orpheus, I had to retrace my steps
& that is how we met
CH:
If love is impossible, so are we
If love is impossible, so are we
If love is impossible, so are we
If love is impossible, so are we
While we wept with wolves, we waited
For the gods to fall asleep
&, as the dawn broke, they found we had absconded
By the skins of our teeth
CH:
Bridge:
As we sailed to the edge of the world
I said, “I can see the past from here”
You said, “What the hell”
& pinned a rose to my lapel
& we left the atmosphere
CH:
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Mortal Cathedrals
04:06
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Mortal Cathedrals
words/music: Waylon K. Smith
©2017 The Positronic Cats
Thin as a shadow
Draped in the Starlight the made ya
You fell from the Earth
While we clung to you like a saviour
& baby you never showed your face
Maybe you were trying to distract us
Baby you’ve sacrificed yourself
Maybe you were trying to protect us
CH: Like mortal cathedrals
Like mortal cathedrals
Like mortal chathedrals
Like vapour, or, like smoke
Slipping through backdoors & cages
& every practiced pose
Was showing us how to be courageous
But now we are luminous
With your Starlight a symbol
A host of smoldering embers
Until our foundations crumble
CH:
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Sabres Sheathed
03:31
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Sabres Sheathed
words/music: Waylon K. Smith
©2017 The Positronic Cats
I’ll meet you on the bridge at dawn
Sabres sheathed & pistols drawn
I’ll bury you behind the cypress trees
& if I fall you’ll do the same for me
I’ll call on your pretty, young, bride
Dry her tears & hold her through the night
Our lips will lock & our limbs will intertwine
& if I fall you’ll do the same for mine
CH:
I’ll stagger through the midnight streets in pain
Broken hearted, bewildered, & insane
& every glass, oh I will raise it in your name
& if i fall you’ll do the same
CH:
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The Beautiful Chaos of Time
music/lyrics: Waylon K. Smith
©2017 The Positronic Cats
Arcadia can be anything
The past is arithmetic
Paradise is merely a feeling
And the future is synthetic
So let me know your pain
In a rosary of stars
Let me know your love
From your patterns and your scars
CH:
We're just children floating in space
We're just children floating in space
We're just children floating in space
And we illuminate like beacons of fate
Life can be the chance to glimpse the divine
The beautiful chaos of time
So let me know your pain
In a tapestry of stars
Let me know your love
Let your prophecy break my heart
CH:
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Heart of the Sea
05:06
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Heart of the Sea
music/lyrics: Waylon K. Smith
©2017 The Positronic Cats
I was adrift,
The man that I was, was a ship
That was trying to drown
And the ship, that I was,
Was sinking without making a sound
CH:
And my heart was a sea of smashed pianos
And the sea was sharp, and the sea
And my love was a tattered sail that hung lifeless
Endlessly, endlessly, endlessly
Endlessly...
And all hands abandoned the deck
All that remained was the wreck
Of a ship that was gathering gloom
And the ship, that I was,
Was sinking by the light of the moon
CH:
BR:
She appeared from the mist
Bade me to shake free my barnacles
It was time to fly
And the ship, that I was
Is still sailing through the stars tonight
Ch:
And my heart is a sea of constellations
And she is the heart of the sea
And my love is the force that's expanding the universe
Endlessly, endlessly, endlessly
And my heart is a sea of constellations
And she is the heart of the sea
And my love is the force that's expanding the universe
Endlessly, endlessly, endlessly
Endlessly...
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10. |
Cosmonauts
04:46
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Cosmonauts
music/lyrics: Waylon K. Smith
©2017 The Positronic Cats
Darling, tell me how
We are floating
So high above the clouds
&, darling, tell me why
we are still alive
We’re not breathing, we’re just being
We’re not breathing, we’re just being
& we are not cosmonauts
We are light & thought, we are holy
We’re not breathing, we’re just being
We’re not breathing, we’re just being
& we are not cosmonauts
We are light & thought, we are holy
& we are not cosmonauts
We are light & thought, we are holy
& we are not cosmonauts
We are light & thought, we are holy
We are holy
We are holy…
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The Positronic Cats Greencastle, Pennsylvania
Songs about love, revenge, and the future...
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