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Fear of a Blank Planet
(7:28)
Sunlight coming through the haze No gaps in the blind To let it inside The bed is unmade Some music still plays
TV, yeah it's always on The flicker of the screen A movie actress screams I'm basking in the shit flowing out of it
I'm stoned in the mall again Terminally bored Shuffling round the stores And shoplifting is getting so last year's thing
X-box is a god to me A finger on the switch My mother is a bitch My father gave up ever trying to talk to me
Don't try engaging me The vaguest of shrugs The prescription drugs You'll never find A person inside
My face is mogadon Curiosity Has given up on me I'm tuning out desires The pills are on the rise
How can be sure I'm here? The pills that I've been taking confuse me I need to know that someone sees that There's nothing left I simply am not here
I'm through with pornography The acting is lame The action is tame Explicitly dull Arousal annulled
Your mouth should be boarded up Talking all day With nothing to say Your shallow proclamations All misinformation
My friend says he wants to die He's in a band They sound like Pearl Jam The clothes are all black The music is crap
In school I don't concentrate And sex is kinda fun But just another one Of all the empty ways Of using up a day
How can be sure I'm here? The pills that I've been taking confuse me I need to know that someone sees that There's nothing left I simply am not here
Bipolar disorder Can't deal with the boredom
You don't try to be liked You don't mind You feel no sun You steal a gun To kill time
You're somewhere, you're nowhere You don't care You catch the breeze You still the leaves So now where?
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My Ashes
(5:07)
All the things that I needed And wasted my chances I have found myself wanting When a mother and father Gave me their problems I accepted them all Nothing ever expected I was rejected But I came back for more
And my ashes drift beneath the silver sky Where a boy rides on a bike but never smiles And my ashes fall on all the things we said On a box of a photographs under the bed
I will stay in my own world Under the covers I will feel safe inside A kiss that will burn me And cure me of dreaming I was always returning
And my ashes find a way beyond the fog And return to save the child that I forgot And my ashes fade among the things unseen And a dream plays in reverse on piano keys And my ashes drop upon a park in Wales Never ending clouds of rain and distant sails
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Anesthetize
(17:42)
A good impression of myself Not much to conceal I'm saying nothing But I'm saying nothing with feel
I simply am not here no way I... Shut up be happy stop whining please
And because of who we are We react in mock surprise The curse of "there must be more" So don't breathe here, don't leave your bags
I simply am not here no way I... Shut up be happy stop whining please
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The dust in my soul makes me feel the weight in my legs My head in the clouds and I'm zoning out I'm watching TV but I find it hard to stay conscious I'm totally bored but I can't switch off
Only apathy from the pills in me It's all in me, all in you Electricity It's all in me, all in you Only MTV and cod philosophy
We're lost in the mall, shuffling through the stores like zombies Well what is the point? What can money buy? My hands on a gun and I find the range, God tempt me Well what did you say? Think I'm passing out
Only apathy from the pills in me It's all in me, all in you Electricity It's all in me, all in you Only MTV and cod philosophy
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Water so warm that day I counted out the waves As they broke into surf I smiled into the sun
The water so warm that day I was counting out the waves And I followed their short life As they broke on the shoreline I could see you But I couldn't hear you You were holding your hat in the breeze Turning away from me In this moment you were stolen There's black across the sun
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Sentimental
(5:26)
I never wanna be old And I don't want dependents It's no fun to be told That you can't blame your parents anymore I'm finding it hard to hang from a star Don't wanna be I don't wanna be old
Sullen and bored the kids stay And in this way they wish away each day Stoned in the mall the kids play And in this way they wish away each day
I don't really know If I care what is normal And I'm not really sure If the pills I've been taking are helping I'm wasting my life Hurting inside I don't really know And I'm not really sure?..
Sullen and bored the kids stay And in this way they wish away each day Stoned in the mall the kids play And in this way they wish away each day
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Way Out of Here
(7:37)
Out at the train tracks I dream of escape But a song comes onto my ipod And I realise it's getting late
I can't take the staring and the sympathy And I don't like the questions: "How do you feel?" "How's it going in school?" "Do you wanna talk about it?"
Way out Way out of here Fade out Fade out, vanish
I'll try to forget you And I know that I will In a thousand years Or maybe a week I'll burn all your pictures Cut out your face
And the shutters a down and the curtains are closed And I've covered my tracks Disposed of the car And I'll try to forget even your name And the way that you look when you're sleeping And dreaming of this...
Way out Way out of here Fade out Fade out, vanish
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Sleep Together
(7:28)
This means out This is your way out Do or drown Do or drown in torpor
Leave no trace All my files erased Burn my clothes Burn my Prada trainers
Let's sleep together right now Relieve the pressure somehow Switch off the future right now Let's leave forever
This is fate This is your escape Leave here now Leave here like it's over
Let's sleep together right now Relieve the pressure somehow Switch off the future right now Let's leave forever
NOTES - The special box set edition also includes a 40 page booklet.
NOTE - This 2LP edition also contains all 4 tracks from the Nil Recurring mini album. Available in 2 editions - standard double LP in gatefold sleeve, and special limited edition of 1,000 copies with additional poster, booklet and slipcase.
Note: A special limited edition audiophile 5.1 surround sound version featuring the 5.1 mix of the album in advanced resolution/MLP lossless 5.1 surround, DTS 5.1 digital surround sound, and 24 bit stereo, as well as all 4 tracks from the Nil Recurring mini album in surround sound. The disc also includes three video works directed by Lasse Hoile: a special Blank Planet Introduction short film, the uncensored version of the Fear of a Blank Planet promo video, and the full length 17 minute film for Anesthetize as seen during the band’s live shows.
