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2004 - Astronaut

(Reach Up For The) Sunrise
Want You More!
What Happens Tomorrow
Astronaut
Bedroom Toys
Nice
Taste The Summer
Finest Hour
Chains
One Of Those Days
Point Of No Return
Still Breathing
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Virus
TV vs. Radio
Know It All

(Reach Up For The) Sunrise

Now the time is come, the music between us
Though the night seems young - is at an end
Only change will bring you out of the darkness
In this moment everything is born again

Reach up for the sunrise
Put your hands into the big sky
You can touch the sunrise
Feel the new day enter your life

Now the fireball burns, we go round together
As the planet turns into the light
Something more than dreams to watch out for each other?
'Coz we know what it means to be alive

(chorus)

Reach up, reach up
Put your hands into the big sky
You can touch, touch the sunrise
Feel the new day, enter your life!

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Want You More!

You had plans all along
Musta seen me coming down a mile above the ground
'Coz I am weak where you are strong
It's a thrill that makes me curious!

Whatever I'm thinking of
You always seem to know
'Coz nothing is good enough
There's always something to keep me guessing

What is it's real, what if you're just faking?
What if you knew you could?
What if you get off on manipulating?
Why does it feel so good?

Drivein' the car turn up the sound
Gets yer head in the hailstorm
Man I'm gonna feel the blast
I pick you up - you throw me down
And it only gets more serious

What could you be thinking of?
You never let it show
Coz you give me just enough
There's always something
You keep it coming

Why do I want you more? Why do I want you?
Why do I feel so torn?
Why do I want you more? Why do I want you?
Why do I want you more!?
What could you be thinking of?
You never let it show
Coz you give me just enough
There's always something you keep it coming
Just keep it coming!

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What Happens Tomorrow

Child, don't you worry
It's enough you're growing up in such a hurry
Brings you down, the news they sell you
To put in your mind that all mankind is a failure

But nobody knows what's gonna happen tomorrow
We try not to show how frightened we are
If you let me - I'll protect you - however I can

You've got to believe it'll be alright in the end
You've got to believe it'll be alright again

Fighting because we're so close
There are times we punish those who we need the most
No, we can't wait for a saviour
Only got ourselves to blame for this behaviour

But nobody knows (nobody knows) what's gonna happen tomorrow
We try not to show how frightened we are
It would seem lonely - if you were the only - star in the night

You've got to believe it'll be alright in the end
You've got to believe it'll be alright again

And nobody knows what's gonna happen tomorrow (nobody knows)
So don't let go now we've come this far
Hold my hand please, understand - we never alone

We've got to believe it'll be alright in the end (nobody knows)
We've got to believe it'll be alright my friend (so don't let go)
And yes we believe it'll be alright again (so don't let go)

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Astronaut

Makes my hair stand up on end
Something alien happenin'
Synchronise but don't comprehend
Coz where I stop that's where you begin

I know the moment I commit
A pleasure rising when I take the hit
And I'm addicted to the state you're in
Coz you're getting me out of it

Wasted
There's nothing gonna ace this
And we're gonna go to space, kid,
Coz I'm leaving with an Astronaut

Grooving-out to X-ray spex
Something tells me you're the alien sex
I can't imagine now, what comes next
When this Astronaut connects?

Coming-on when I touch your skin
A kind of strange light you emit
I feel your gravity pull me in
Now you're getting me out of it

(chorus)

Bare-feet for quantum leap
Because space is hot and deep
And we follow giant footprints as we fall... in
Falling like the twins through Saturn's holy rings
And if they can't hold us
Where it's gonna end up - anybody knows

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Bedroom Toys

You want it, you got it. Now whatcha gonna do with it?

I been around the world I seen a lot of things d' make your chicken curl
You're squeeze 'm like boys 'n' tease 'm like girls who please 'm like boys and girls
Plan an exit route, parachute, rubber suit
"Are you ready for a little swim?"
There's regular, queen-size, flip it on the b-side...
Solid gold
Oh my God what's this?

I saw the bedroom toys now I'm stallin'
I can't believe my eyes
I saw the bedroom toys now I'm crawlin'
I've learned to improvise

Checkin' out the five star atmosphere - you want some expertise
If you got treasure a-praying for the pleasure, it'll bring you to your knees
Silicone romance, "What's your name fancy pants?"
Fraternize with the employees
Forget about the reel-in, talkin' 'bout the feelin'
Solid gold
Oh my God what's this?

(chorus)

You want it, you got it. Now whatcha gonna do with it?

Now you washed up beat, smash it, grab no receipt, takes the platinum off your shine
Lazy bed-star, lahdidah, petit eourgedis
"Oh my, would ya look at the time"
Until we wise up, you know we're gonna line up
For pimps and snitches to dip into yer riches
If you can't destroy it, might as well enjoy it
Solid gold
Oh my God what's this?

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Nice

Take the beautiful sting of a Scorpio
A careless smile and it begins to snow
And it hurts me to think you might never know
That I've got this thing about you

Case you don't understand, there's something else I meant to tell you

There is nothing better than being with you
And I'm feeling so nice
There is nowhere better than here with you
And it's feeling so nice

Stayin' up with the moon, walking home in the rain
Mixed with your perfume and never twice the same
I got a lot to lose but everything to gain
When I really think about it

You haven't got a clue it's all that I can do to hide it

(chorus)

Did I already say
Coz you make me forget
I might as well be brave and tell ya
Now it hurts me to think that you might never know
Will it hurt as much being true?
I might as well be brave and tell ya

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Taste The Summer

Du, ru, du, du-pi-du, du, ru, du, du, ru, du
Du, ru, du, du-pi-du, du, ru, du, du, ru, du...

Can you taste the summer?
Can you taste the summer?

Can you, can you taste the summer?
I do, I find it in your mouth
Now, if I have a weakness it's for sweetness
And it's floating on your breath the sweetest melody

Can you taste the summer? (Taste the summer!)
Can you taste the summer? (Yeah!)

Sure we can make it 'til the evening's
Cool haze is reflected off your thighs
Long days are coming up, they're staying out and playing
Music off the falling stars - a melody

(chorus)

Wild orchid on the wind you know just where it's blowing
So fresh, from your lips is born the melody...

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Finest Hour

How does it feel out on the ice?
You speak to the crowd but nobody hears
It's not a dream and you are no Christ
And you're not alone come in from the fear

Gonna take it back
Take back the life that you want to lead
Been under quiet attack, but now it's time for you and me
If we're gonna take it back you've got to fight for what you believe
Gonna make this stand the finest hour that we see

When did our choice become erased?
Where is the violence in this crowd?
Now that our voice has been replaced
With a silence that screams out loud

(chorus)

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Chains

An hour since the sundown, the ghosts are creeping in
A-gathering around me like starlings in the wind
Dark shapes a-gather 'round

Voices like my brother's are whispering to me
But I don't know these others who want to set me free
Come home you're out of time

But the life it can't let go
It's a chain cuts across my soul
Anchoring in this world

I put my hand into the flame
Burning but I feel no pain
Don't speak, don't speak my name
Hold on to this life of chains

The door is standing open but I'm too tired to be afraid
My whole life's in the moment, I've been fighting all the way
Just need a li'l more time

'Coz the life just can't let go
It's a chain cuts across my soul
Anchoring in this world

(chorus)

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One Of These Days

Suddenly it all looks so familiar
Gone and wrecked it, like I always did
Don't you know it, life is out to kill ya
But you still go getting on with it

Seen better times than right now
But I'm not running away
No, nothing's gonna bring me down
It's just in one of these days
I'm not the only one
They can drag me to the gates of hell now
There's nothing left but I'm still hangin' in
Not for me, ain't no final showdown
I'm too shattered to do anything

Seen better times than right now
But I'm not running away
'Coz nothing's gonna bring me down
It's just in one of these days
I'm not the only one feeling this way
And I'm not sorry

I'm not the only
One feeling this way
And I'm not sorry
Not running away
I'm not the only
One feeling this way
And I'm not sorry
I hear you say
No, I'm not sorry...

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Point Of No Return

The random aspects of our lives
Come together once in a while
So blinding and decidingly
Naivity falls from our eyes
And we'll not regain
As we watch the tower falling down

Maybe things can change only if you want
You know, you know there's no avoiding
The lesson to be learned
(The lesson to be learned, the point of no return)
We say "What if?", but can you live it?
It's all that we deserve
(It's all that we deserve, the point of no return)

Don't blame yourself, don't blame me
But we're the ones
Who can feed the ground
So this poison tree don't ever grow again
And from this glass and broken earth (there is a way)
There is a way - there can be built
A better life for everyone

(chorus)

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Still Breathing

Home, it's not brick or stone
Or comfort in the firelight, not in that sense anyway
Dreams, if only I had known
But these things always seem
So much clearer at a distance

I'm walking out of this town
I'm never going back there, I'm never going back there
I'd burn the place to the ground
I'm never going back there, I'm never going back there again

Words only could break that ring
You know the words still sting
So much harder than the blows ever did
Heart, though it's hot and violent
My head is cool and quiet
As the ashes that fall from the sky

(chorus)

Now, I know this shattered feeling
Trampled but still breathing
I'm just waiting for a good day

I'm walking out of this town
I'm never going back there, I'm never going back there
I've burned the place to the ground
I'm never going back there, I'm never going back there again

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Virus

I am the virus
I am a siren in the rain
I am a courier bring the spiral into your brain

Alter connections
Encoding now
Intial sequence is loading down
Into the BIOS
Into the BIOS
Into the BIOS

When I interface
Difference erase
Nothing will remain
Everything will change forever

Viral subdivide
Target and align
The message will survive
Everything will change forever

I am the virus
I lay a coil around your spine
I bring the silence
I am protection for your mind

(chorus)