01. iceberg

Crashing down the sidewalk
Underneath the screaming ads
Shades in cloudy weather shield
Circles colored black
We are just a billboard
Strutting through this modern church
Praise to God that He will bless us
In a chapter verse

I just can't believe that this here
Island is a joke
Everybody's moving to the
Iceberg's crowded tip
That is where it's greener and there's
Circuses downtown
That's where all the lovers live like
Liberated kings

Wait a minute junior
Where's the taxes in your hand?
Don't you know that there's a toll
To cross this narrow bridge?
Cower to the east
Don't show your face around these parts
Leave us be to party while we
Melt into the bay

02. american, i

I've got to hide from the falling stars
Aiming for my head
Breaking down the doors and windows
There's so much time to spare
To run off for the hills
Walk through the mud in boots
And look at towers
Reaching high
That all neglect
The flood at their feet
Should I take a chance?
The sea, the sky, the tumbling dice
Can't last forever
Forever
Forever
Enjoy the pictures
The outer youth that tries to
Stall the age
Because as we all know
That beauty dies so
Happy
Under pills
Behind the layers of
Crush
And plastic skin
That never face the world
What it shows that
Inside
We feel nothing like
What our common eyes will
See

03. farther

If I could slow this song to show you how it came to be
Shellfish just aren't interested in gold that's in the sea
Oh, they're driving me in
They say it's not for me
Oh, they do it again
They say it's mine, all mine
All mine
All mine

Ever wonder why the word of freedom's made of four
Take away the varsity and you have got ole
Remember when the definition used somebody else?
Remember when they laughed at you
When you declared
Solitude

04. leave it on the island

Don't take me home
The beach is crawling all around my toes
I need to build a fire
Can't believe it gets so cold at night
Couldn't sleep till the sun came up
The sky is running out of white
A poke, poke, poke
Bang
The hunter calls to me

Leave it on the island

Who can break the stars?
Break them off from underneath the mines
Hold them in their hands
Smooth them out and put it on a ring
Close enough to use it as an eye
Build a place to hide from the weather
That tells me that a busy man's
A rich man
But the good men call to me

Leave it on the island

05. american, s

instrumental

06. dial z

I see the cannons pointed at the sky
Waiting to destroy the passers-by
In business suits and leather shoes
And rockets in their briefcases too
Cause there's a war to claim the land
That's black with gold and green with pearls

Hey, if they can rip it right from my hands
Then it ain't mine no more

And what about the ragged dolls
Smiles stitched right across their faces?
The cotton corpses line the streets
Buttons missing right from their eyes
But it's ok cause they keep on smiling
Engraved with fear and string

Hey, if they can rip it right from my hands
Then it ain't mine no more
I'll bet it's strange in their own eyes
To see us laughing as we die
As we die...

07. it's just a ride

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08. further

instrumental

09. new haven dance party

instrumental

10. idols ate our babies

Run back here, these buildings shine like gold
Why not stake a claim to share a home?
Raise your children thirty stories high
Riders fled the fields years ago
Patiently, omega pulled the plug

The bright young man from out of town
Says he's tough as nails till they steal his throat
Packs his bags and buys a better home
History in books and film
Sell their story, go for broke

Leather capes and steel drapes collide
Every hero writes the way we grow
Dig up bricks and find another skull
How many bodies will we find
Before we praise our kids today?

11. american, u

instrumental

12. it's time to go

Ten straight years of trying to catch up
To statues and photos standing tall
If I could ever smile like a man in uniform
Without washing out a single drop of blood

I wouldn't need a car to take me home
I would'nt need a TV or a phone
I wouldn't need a bed to rest my bones
But who can know
When it's time to go?

Fire me across the river to the west
Where I can sing to children young and old
I don't want to hurt a single person I don't know
Not even those who treat me like a gun

Where can I find these open arms?
Where can I find that gypsy choir?
Where can I find that lonesome child?
And who can know
When it's time to go?

Now that I am free to face the traffic in the street
Should I try to find out where it flows?
Or should I walk along the lines to where it started from
And see if I can find a vehicle?

I wish I had a map that I could use
I wish I had a decent pair of shoes
I wish I had a lighter and a fuse
But who can know
When it's time to go?