Norm Fischer
Came to this album late.
But it is full of fuzzy space theme bangers. And I am happy I am not the only one who's seen the Ninth Configuration.
Favorite track: Information (And The Island In The Sky).
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Shake Your Diamonds
04:17
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Nowhere Girl
04:30
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3. |
9th Configuration
05:59
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I arrive at the asylum, a makeshift funny farm
An old abandoned castle where Section 8’s can do no harm
I’ve been sent here on assignment, the new doctor in charge!
To analyze the patients; to see who’s real and who’s a fraud
(Then there’s you) the paparazzi’s favorite, (Captain) the schizo-astronaut
(One day) you lost your marbles in the capsule, right before it was ready for lift off
O, Captain, why are you afraid of the moon?
Tell me your secret; I’ll share mine with you
Why did you refuse?
Le Voyage dans la Lune
You broke out of the castle; got lost into the night
You found a little biker-bar where you thought that you could hide
The King of The Angels recognized the superstar
The Demons and The Horsemen broke you like some cheap guitar
(Then there’s you) they called me to come save you, (Captain) my battered astronaut
(One day) Twinkle, twinkle Killer Kane came out; killed every biker on the lot
O, Captain, why are you afraid of the moon?
Tell me your secret; I’ll share mine with you
Why did you refuse?
Le Voyage dans la Lune …dans la Lune, dans la Lune
(Then there’s you) you will find your marbles (Captain); get permission to take off
(One day) your status reinstated to ride on that Galactic-Molotov
Now, give me your Saint’s Medallion and just a little time
I will prove to you and the whole world there is pure-self-sacrifice
O, Captain, why are you afraid of the moon?
Now, tell me your secret, I’ve shared mine with you
O, Captain, My Captain, please tell me the truth
What kind of spaceman is afraid of the Moon?
Why did you refuse? It’s only the Moon!
Why did you refuse?
Le Voyage dans la Lune …dans la Lune
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Teen Beat Cosmonaut
03:15
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Stranded out in the cosmos
Just an ancient astronaut, floating through the galaxy, flying solo
Voted “Hottest Astronaut Alive”
By the people at People Magazine in Nineteen-Ninety mother fucking Five
So, goodbye, my big blue shining star
I’m gonna miss you a lot
I’m your Teen Beat Cosmonaut
Left here in an obsolete machine
When NASA lost its funding from the Congress, they forgot about Little Old Steve
And now there’s no fuel to get home
But all these dirty little girls keep sending dirty little pictures and videos
So, goodbye, my big blue shining star
I’m gonna miss you a lot
I’m your Teen Beat Cosmonaut
So, goodbye, my big blue shining star
I’m gonna miss you a lot
I’m your Teen Beat Cosmonaut
Godspeed
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Above This Broken World
05:11
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Lift up the blinds; look out (the window)
I don’t believe my eyes (no, I don’t)
There’s a hole in the sky the size (of Ohio) O …hi …o
All the stars have aligned (placed just so)
The Mothership could arrive (through a black hole)
It came from the other side (of the cosmos) the …cos …mos
Yes, I
I have this dream sometimes
The Mothership takes my damaged girl to another world
I watch her fly into the ocean of lights
The sky is filled with a million pearls
Above this broken world
I woke-up surprised to find (I was alone)
Ran into a furious night (full of ghosts)
In the tempestuous sky (a cyclone) a …cy …clone
Yeah, there’s a hole in the sky the size (of Chicago)
You left all that loved you behind (and went solo)
Wherever you’ve gone, you will find (there you are, Love)
Yeah, there you are
Yes, I
I have this dream sometimes
The Mothership takes my damaged girl to another world
I watch her fly into the ocean of lights
The sky is filled with a million pearls
Above this broken world
Try as you may, there are things you can’t escape
No, you can’t un-see those self-destructive tragedies
And you may be bound, tethered to the ropes you’ve found
You can go far away, but some things you can’t escape
You are who you are, now. You are who you are
You are who you are, now. You are who you are
You are who you are, now.
Yes, I (yes, I) I have this dream sometimes
The Mothership takes my damaged girl to another world
I watch her fly (I watch her fly) into the ocean of lights
The sky is filled with a million pearls
Above this broken world
(Broken world, damaged girls, a million pearls in space)
(Broken world), I have this dream sometime (damaged girls), where I watch her fly
(A million pearls in space), I have this dream sometimes…
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Forgotten Astronaut
04:43
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FORGOTTEN ASTRONAUT (Lyrics: Matt Sharp)
We’re high above the tranquil sea
I take a big deep breath and set the Eagle free
Oh, I know, what I know and I know it’s all up to me
But, I feel what I feel and I feel the history
Over two hundred thousand miles home
If the Eagle fails, I go back alone
Oh, I know, what I know and I know it’s all up to me
But, I feel what I feel and yeah, I feel the history
They got names like superheroes, bigger than The Beatles or I could ever be
They got all the great one-liners, written in the schoolbooks for all eternity
They’re bouncing up and down in the tranquil sea
Three hundred million girls watch on TV
Oh, I know, what I know and I know its just jealousy
But, I feel what I feel and I feel it endlessly
They got names like superheroes, bigger than The Beatles or I could ever be
They got all the great one-liners, written in the schoolbooks for all eternity
We are waiting for connection, trans-Earth injection, three thousand degrees, yes
Splashdown, North Pacific Ocean; soon we will be home where Hornet waits for three, yeah
Oh, I know what I know, as my parachutes released
Like peppermint candy we float in a blue-sky dream
Like “Starlite Mints” we move through the cotton sky
And the arms of the ocean are stretched out; open wide
Yeah, they got all the great one-liners, written in the schoolbooks for everyone to read
Yeah, they got names like superheroes, bigger than The Beatles on black and white TV
And now I’ve all but been forgotten, Forgotten Astronaut has been lost to history, yeah
THE END
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Conspiracy
04:26
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I don’t know about our institutions; the fairytales they taught us in class
They never told the truth about anything; that’s just a fact
Awe, no, we’ll never know the truth about Elvis
You say, he’s living in Jim Morrison’s flat?
Hiding away with Princess Diana just trying to relax?
Tell me, what should I really try to believe? (Conspiracy)
Yeah, tell me and I will try to believe your conspiracy (Conspiracy)
The intel inside The War Room is hid behind a code we can’t crack
The secret bunkers down in Grand Central are filled to the max
And you say, a hundred and seventy-six miles outside of Vegas
Is where Stanley filmed that spacecraft
That’s where Tricky Dick faked the moon landing; then had a nice laugh (ha, ha, ha, ha, ha)
Tell me, what should I really try to believe? (Conspiracy)
(Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me; show me, show me, show me, show me)
(Hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me; know me, know me, know me, know me)
Yeah, tell me and I will try to believe your conspiracy (Conspiracy)
In the hills, in the hills, in the Ellensburg Hills, rumors of the paranormal
There’s hole, there’s a hole, Mel’s bottomless hole; it must be some kind of portal
Tell me, what should I really try to believe?
You say, Elvis lives with The Lizard King? (tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me)
They’re with Princess Di, tell me one more thing…
Tupac and Kurt Cobain, do they live there too? (show me, show me, show me, show me)
Is Andy Kaufman still playing tricks on you?
There are UFOs (Conspiracy); Art Bell told you so
They crashed Northwest of here in New Mexico
Check the Baltic Sea (Conspiracy), on the ocean floor
Swear to secrecy and tell me just one more
Conspiracy (Conspiracy)
Conspiracy (Conspiracy)
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Anybody calling, anybody calling, anybody calling, anybody calling?
This is Mother Russia’s first re-entering the Earth, can you hear me, right now?
It’s November ’63, find the frequency and just tell me…
Why do I have to die for Mother’s pride?
Why didn’t they tell me before?
Time is not on my side
I don’t want to die like some kind of race-to-space whore
Oh, I’m breaking, I’m breaking; I’m breaking apart, oh whoa!
Oh, I’m breaking, I’m breaking; I’m breaking about to explode! Woo!
Can you hear me, Italy? I can barely breathe, I need you right now
I’m the sacrifice, record my last goodbye and try to find out…
Why I had to die for Mother’s Pride
Why didn’t they tell me before?
Time is not on my side
And now I will die like some kind of race-to-space whore
Oh, I’m breaking, I’m breaking; I’m breaking apart, oh whoa!
Oh, I’m breaking, I’m breaking; I’m breaking about to explode! Woo!
Oh, why do I have to die for Mother’s pride?
Why didn’t they tell me before?
Time is not on my side
I don’t want to die like some kind of race-to-space whore
Oh, I’m breaking, I’m breaking; I’m breaking apart, oh whoa!
Oh, I’m breaking, I’m breaking; I’m breaking about to explode! Woo!
Oh, I’m breaking, I’m breaking; I’m breaking apart, oh whoa!
Oh, I’m breaking, I’m breaking; I’m breaking about to explode! Woo!
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9. |
Great Big Blue
03:25
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Frigid Tuesday morning, waiting for the winds to die
Shake the Magic 8 Ball; ask if everything’s all right
Outside the thermometer reads 31 degrees
Our families in the bleachers, bundled up so they don’t freeze
Filled with pride to watch their children fly
Eleven Thirty, Eastern Standard Time
(We want to take you)
Into the great big blue
Into the great big blue, we want to take you
Into the great big blue (we want to take you)
Into the great big blue
We skate across the launch-pad, anxious sled dogs on the ice
Tidal wave of darkness waits above the morning sky
Strapped onto the rocket, after multiple delays
Came down with “Go Fever”, after 6 or 7 days
Lost in wonder, dreaming how it feels (how it feels)
Blasting off from NASA’s frozen fields
(We want to take you)
Into the great big blue
Into the great big blue, we want to take you
Into the great big blue (we want to take you)
Into the great big blue
Isaac’s laws of motion, coming true, right now
Classical mechanics start to take us down (we’re going down)
Atlas holds the heavens a little too (Atlas holds the heavens too far) far out
Falling to his ocean, never to be found (we’re going down, never to be found)
(We want to take you)
Into the great big blue
Into the great big blue (we want to take you)
Into the great big blue
Into the great big blue
Grey graffiti sprayed across the sky
Fall like streamers, eighteen miles high (we want to take you)
Grey graffiti sprayed across the sky
Fall like streamers, eighteen miles high
(We want to take you) …blue, blue
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This desperate need to constantly share
The comfort we take (hey), thinking someone is there
Everyone wants to show you everything is fine, fine; fine
Everybody wanna to show you they’re OK; share every little detail of their day
Everybody wanna overload on information
The need to connect with someone out there
Unfounded hope (oh), in unbounded prayers
(Everyone wants to show you everything is fine, fine; fine)
Everybody wanna to show you they’re OK; share every little detail of their day
Everybody wanna overload on information
Sometimes, I wanna leave this star behind; get lost in the ocean of the night
Find an island in the sky far from information
My friends they try to tell me everything is fine, fine; fine
They want to show that they’re OK
Every detail of their day, all that information
They want to show us what they’ve seen and know that we’re listening
To all their information
Everybody wanna to show you they’re OK; share every little detail of their day
Everybody wanna overload on information
Sometimes, I wanna leave this star behind; get lost in the ocean of the night
Find an island in the sky far from information
Do you wanna fly away with me?
Our best friend could be a cosmic chimpanzee
We’ll break the chains and be set free from information
We could leave this star behind; find an island is the sky
Far away from information
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We are mad schizophrenic drifters
We hitchhiked across the milky way
We’ve traveled through multiple dimensions
Looking for a better place to play
D.I.D., damaged and bipolar
Breaking through the Sun’s magnetic field
We are on a supernatural voyage
Searching for a place where we can heal
(Ooh hoo!)
Spaceships gonna take away our heartache (Uh ho!)
Spaceships gonna take away our pain (Ooh hoo!)
Spaceships gonna take us far from sorrow (Oh, yeah!)
Spaceships gonna take us far away
We are not simple men of science
We are not your parent’s astronauts
We are not role models for your children
We remember less than we forgot
(Ooh hoo!)
Spaceships gonna take away our heartache (Uh ho!)
Spaceships gonna take away our pain (Ooh hoo!)
Spaceships gonna take us far from sorrow (Oh, yeah!)
Spaceships gonna take us far away
(Ooh hoo!)
Spaceships gonna take away our heartache (Uh ho!)
Spaceships gonna take away our pain (Ooh hoo!)
Spaceships gonna take us far from sorrow (Oh, yeah!)
Spaceships gonna take us far away
We are schizophrenic drifters, lost in multiple dimensions
A supernatural voyage, searching for a place to call home
(Gonna take us far from sorrow, gonna take us far away)
We are schizophrenic drifters, lost in multiple dimensions
A supernatural voyage, searching for a place to call home
Spaceships gonna take us far away
Spaceships gonna take us far away
We’ll live to dance another day
Spaceships gonna take us far away
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Goodbye, Steve
02:18
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13. |
Invasion Night
04:07
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Here’s the story of how we became friends
We met on the day that the world would end
Attacks first started in West Berlin
Uh oh, uh, oh tonight
The simultaneous strikes
Four thousand cities at the same time
Seven billion people died side by side
Uh, uh, uh, oh, tonight
Sirens in the sky (no one can save us)
The two last souls collide
Invasion night; the laser lights are shinning bright
And in the fight darkness descends
But, you and I, we didn’t die; we’re still alive
Just waiting for the world to end (is this the end?)
We waited for the blitzkrieg to stop
Hotwired a Mercury Sport drop-top
Genocide is the saddest place to hook up
Uh, uh, uh, oh, tonight
There’s no one left to be saved
Just empty cars on P.C.H.
We drove all night to San Simeon Bay
In William’s House, we’ll hide
Sirens in the sky (no one can save us)
The two last souls collide
Invasion night; the laser lights are shinning bright
And in the fight darkness descends
But, you and I, we didn’t die; we’re still alive
Just waiting for the world to end (is this the end?)
In the Neptune Pool, tonight (no one will find us)
The two last souls collide
Invasion night; the laser lights are shinning bright
And in the fight darkness descends
But, you and I, we didn’t die; we’re still alive
Just waiting for the world to end (is this the end?)
Hold on to the end
Hold on…
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14. |
Another World
03:20
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To wake up inside another world
To breakdown beside another girl
In this room where no one else can see
What tortures you, tortures me
Travel time to another day
Cloudy eyes dream of Milky Way
Laying waste to countless butterflies
In the hope it will change our lives
Standing in the grace of another world
We’ll never be the same in another world
Awe, no
Tic toc through the time tunnel maze
Desperate hearts move at a desperate pace
As we twist into another age
To rendezvous with yesterday
Standing in the grace of another world
We’ll never be the same in another world
Awe, no
Standing in the grace of another world
All our dreams, like Wilton Sugar Pearls
Awe, no
Standing in the grace of another world
We’ll never be the same in another world
Awe, no
No, no, no, no
No
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15. |
Machine Love
03:44
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