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Cherry Red
04:27
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do you hear the motor running
pilot light went out
who left the gas on
is it just the television
whispers in the dark
another night of bad dreams
you can hear the restless spirits
feel a sense of dread
what’s in the basement
take a dizzy inhalation
you can’t catch your breath
you’ve got the vapors
cherry red
that’s how you’ll know
the evidence
when blood runs cold
nobody said
you need a ghost
to have your house be haunted
have your house be haunted
have your house be haunted
cherry red
that’s how you’ll know
the evidence
when blood runs cold
nobody said
you need a ghost
to have your house be haunted
have your house be haunted
have your house be haunted
heavy weight of apprehension
pressing on your chest
you’re going under
floating through the empty hallways
you haven’t left your bed
forever slumber
cherry red
that’s how you’ll know
the evidence
when blood runs cold
nobody said
you need a ghost
to have your house be haunted
have your house be haunted
have your house be haunted
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2. |
Stockholm Syndrome
04:09
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It’s a hostage situation
In a blindfold on the floor and
Looking handsome
How can you take what has been given
There is no one who’s been stolen
There’s no need to pay the ransom
It’s an old investigation
Will we find out who’s the captive
Who’s the captor
Can’t remember the abduction
You could call it an entrapment
But it feels a lot like rapture
Lock the door and pull the curtain
Blood is beating in your eardrum
Take your pulse and check the symptoms
Is this love or Stockholm Syndrome
It’s a hostage situation (It’s an old investigation)
In a blindfold on the floor and (Will we find out who’s the captive)
Looking handsome (Who’s the captor)
How can you take what has been given (Can’t remember the abduction)
There is no one who’s been stolen (You could call it an entrapment)
There’s no need to pay the ransom (But it feels a lot like rapture)
Lock the door and pull the curtain
Blood is beating in your eardrum
Take your pulse and check the symptoms
Is this love or Stockholm Syndrome
When we go out we can close our eyes
To keep our secret safe
I’m calling you up with my voice disguised
A number we can’t trace
Think of a place where we can hide
A place we can’t escape
Is this a game that we are playing
Cutting letters with the scissors
In the kitchen
Or is it madness in the making
Tying string around the thumbtacks
Try to pinpoint try to pinpoint our position
Lock the door and pull the curtain
Blood is beating in your eardrum
Take your pulse and check the symptoms
Lock the door and pull the curtain
Blood is beating in your eardrum
Take your pulse and check the symptoms
Lock the door and pull the curtain (It’s a hostage situation)
Blood is beating in your eardrum (In a blindfold on the floor)
Take your pulse and check the symptoms (And looking handsome)
Lock the door and pull the curtain
Blood is beating in your eardrum (How can you take what has been given)
Take your pulse and check the symptoms
Is this love or Stockholm syndrome
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3. |
Ouroboros
04:29
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Your spoon was in the boiling
Your thumb was on the scale
Don’t try to lead the witness
That wont get you anywhere
Sit still and try to listen
Hear the whispers in the wind
Make yourself an empty vessel
If you want to let them in
Turn pages lick your finger
Black ink is on your lips
You won’t find out the secret
In all the books you kiss
Just like the ouroboros
Your tail is in your teeth
Strip off your outer layer
Find out what’s underneath
Find out what’s underneath
Underneath
You’ve had your fun, darling
Here’s the part you won’t remember
Lion eats the sun, darling
Till there’s only glowing embers
Who will you become, darling
When your skin is torn asunder
Torn asunder
Turned inside out
Now you have found all you wanted
Turned inside out
Now you have found all you wanted
Your wings were in the blueprint
A message left in code
A phoenix’s potential
In the ashes of your bones
It is a risky business
There is no guarantee
If you go out and seek it
That truth will set you free
What does the moth remember
Of caterpillar bliss
Is this annihilation
Or metamorphosis
Or metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
You’ve had your fun, darling
Shining in the summer splendor
Lion eats the sun, darling
In the dark of deep December
Who will you become, darling
You’ll receive what you surrender
You surrender
Turned inside out
Now you have found all you wanted
Turned inside out
Now you have found all you wanted
Turned inside out
Now you have found all you wanted
Turned inside out
Now you have found all you wanted
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4. |
I Am A Librarian
04:25
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I am a librarian
My mind is a cave
I don’t understand
How people behave
I’m greater than some of my
parts that seem broken
I make my own costumes
I own my own name
A witch in the wintertime
Philosopher king
I’m not staring at you
I’m considering things
A natural scientist
Singing my song
Where I am going is
Where i belong
This is my time
This is my place
Behind the drawn curtain
Or right in your face
I am a librarian
My tongue is a blade
With sharp doubled edges
To keep you away
A creature of habit
A half-wild animal
Hungry to touch you
But also afraid
An orbiting satellite
Counting the stars
Moving in circles
Out here in the dark
Prisoner of circumstance
Lying awake
Awaiting the moment
I make my escape
This is my time
This is my place
Behind the drawn curtain
Or right in your face
Did I make a crash landing
An alien planet
Will others find me in time
Sometimes I think
I’m the only one of my kind
I am a librarian
My heart is a fist!
My fist in the air
The air in my face
I'm facing my fear
My fear is a friend
My friends are beside me
I’m ready for this
I’ve set all the instruments
Sought out the signs
It’s what I’ve been studying
All of my life
This is my time
This is my place
Behind the drawn curtain
Or right in your face
This is my time
This is my place
Behind the drawn curtain
Or right in your face
This is my time
This is my place
Behind the drawn curtain
Or right in your face
This is my time
This is my place
Behind the drawn curtain
Or right in your
Right in your face
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5. |
Houdini
03:34
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Break out of that black box
Throw the ropes off can you pick locks
Chains wrapped 'round your shoulders
Never were enough to hold you
Darling cross the border
I am here now waiting for you
Can you hear me in the darkness
It’s been so long it’s been so long
Wandering free in a dream of a dream
Is there somebody calling my name
Come inside the circle
Where we sit among the candles
Tap upon the table
Won’t you send us any signal
If I could reach out and touch you
Would you know me when I come through
Will you meet me in the darkness
Can we hold on can we hold on
Wandering free in a dream of a dream
Is there somebody calling my name
Ring the bells and
Sound the trumpets
Are you here
Dearly beloved?
Wandering free in a dream of a dream
Is there somebody calling my name
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6. |
Murderer
03:56
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The air is still, the moon a yellow fingernail
It smells like gin beneath the junipers
A scraping sound, shovel in the muddy ground
I hope you thought to bring a change of shoes
Listen dear, we have a situation here
Someone’s picking up what we put down
Oh my word, I got it from a little bird
It might be better if we're not around
Murderer, what you gonna do
I'm a murderer too
Murderer, say it cause its true
You're a murderer too
Your pouty lip, chewing on your fingertip
A troubled look across your face
Narrow squint did we wipe the fingerprints
How can we be sure we left no trace
Murderer, what you gonna do
I'm a murderer too
Murderer, say it cause its true
You're a murderer too
Sin or crime, I think we might have crossed a line
I fear my dear there is no turning back
Do you recall the moment when we lost it all
A clenched fist going slack
Murderer, what you gonna do
I'm a murderer too
Murderer, say it cause its true
You're a murderer too
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7. |
Driving to Idaho
03:00
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Shovel in the back seat
Secrets in the front
Try to keep your shit together
Don’t open up the trunk
Fly under the radar
Keep your profile low
Driving to Idaho
Driving to Idaho
Driving to Idaho
Something might have happened
You don’t talk about
Make sure that the tail light
Isn’t burned out
Better watch out
Better take it slow
Driving to Idaho
Driving to Idaho
Driving to Idaho
Listen for the siren
Watch for flashing lights
Stick to the speed limit
Travel day and night
What doesn’t hurt you
Is what you don’t know
Driving to Idaho
Driving to Idaho
Driving to Idaho
Did you need to go too far
Did you do what you had to do
Make a wish on a shooting star
And hope it’s not aiming at you
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Idaho
Shouting at the windshield
Rain is coming down
Just another day
Till the money runs out
Take a deep breath
It’s all under control
Driving to Idaho
Driving to Idaho
Driving to Idaho
Driving to Idaho
Driving to Idaho
Driving to Idaho
Driving to Idaho
Driving to Idaho
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8. |
East River Ferry Waltz
03:56
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Walk with me for a while
Past the parking lot out where the boats glide by
As the sun settles down on the Upper West Side
We’ll leave solid ground behind
Put our faces to the wind
Tell stories and secrets of lovers and friends
Or say nothing at all
Do the east river ferry waltz
East river ferry waltz
East river ferry waltz
East river ferry waltz
Queens softly snores
She’s got to wake up for work in the morning
Manhattan's a drunken mess
Passed out in her silver party dress
As we bump into Brooklyn shore
We stumble like drunkards across the floor
With a step two three, step two three, step two three turn
Step two three, step two three, step two three turn
Do the east river ferry waltz
East river ferry waltz
East river ferry waltz
East river ferry waltz
When the waters rise again
Never to come back down
We'll sail between tall buildings
Where we used to work uptown
And an orchestra of seagulls
Will be the only sound
And we’ll turn to face each other
Do the east river ferry waltz
East river ferry waltz
East river ferry waltz
East river ferry waltz
The wind can blow good things to you
But the tide will pull them away
Let's treasure this time between us two
With the intimate lopsided sway
Of the east river ferry waltz
East river ferry waltz
East river ferry waltz
East river ferry waltz
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We’ve been through this many times before
Even so you just can’t be sure
Hear the crackling pyres burn
Sacrifice for the light’s return
In the morning
When it's still dark as under your pillow
It's a warning
The run down way you've been feeling low
Feeling low
Drink your hopes and eat your fears
It’s the longest night of the year
You can bring the sunshine back again
Back again
You can bring the sunshine back again
Wolves and monsters freely roam
We cast no shadows anymore
The air is cold and the light has gone
Will this winter go on and on
There's no dawning
And the chill's seeping into your marrow
Quit your yawning
Sleep's for the weak and the weary-o
Weary-o
Drink your hopes and eat your fears
It’s the longest night of the year
You can bring the sunshine back again
Back again
You can bring the sunshine back again
If the sun is truly dead
Maybe it won’t be so bad
We'll see stars in the afternoon
Bats and owls and the constant moon
Wind is blowing
Take shelter here in this hollow
Easy going
Wait just a minute and take it slow
Take it slow
Drink your hopes and eat your fears
It’s the longest night of the year
You can bring the sunshine back again
Back again
You can bring the sunshine back again
Torches flare on the standing stones
In the dark you are not alone
Say a prayer for the chosen one
Close your eyes now it won’t be long
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10. |
Spooky Action
04:05
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little foxes in our foxholes
on a tin can phone
shine a flashlight on the mirror
send a signal in morse code
when you step upon a needle
it goes straight to my heart
spooky action at a distance
we're together and apart
are you thinking what I'm thinking
at the same exact time
if you're out there somewhere listening
will you sing down the wire
sing down the wire
like the needle of a compass
I know right where you are
down the handle of the ladle
little dipper to north star
from the treehouse send a letter
at the end of a string
write it in our secret language
in invisible ink
clouds gather in
the trees bend in the wind
and the air is electric and thundering
crackle of static
a broken connection
transmission is lost and I’m wondering
are you thinking what I'm thinking
at the same exact time
if you're out there somewhere listening
will you sing down the wire
are you thinking what I'm thinking
at the same exact time
if you're out there somewhere listening
will you sing down the wire
sing down the wire
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Charming Disaster Brooklyn, New York
Charming Disaster is a goth-folk duo based in Brooklyn, NY, formed in 2012 by Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris. Inspired by the macabre humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they write songs that tell stories about death, crime, myth, magic, folklore, and the occult. ... more
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