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Songs From the Alien Beacon

by Jennifer Foster

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1.
In the Lab 06:13
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In the lab where I work got a lot of rock to study in the lab where I work we don’t talk to anybody there goes the clock on the tower but we can’t leave until we’ve found it In the lab where I work microscopes in rows lines of twenty an old map of the earth and a snack machine that’s empty night comes and we sleep on the ground ‘cause we can’t leave until we’ve found it We are looking for a thread that’s come up in the ore just a little trace of gold hidden deep down at the core we skip all of our vacations just to make sure I’ve been here since the start I get hopeful on my birthdays who will find the true heart? we look at each other sideways and we are sneaking around cause we can’t leave until we’ve found it We are looking for a thread thats come up in the ore just a little trace of gold hidden deep down at the core we skip all of our vacations just to make sure we skip all of our vacations just to make sure In the lab where I work, there is fighting and spying there is living and dying And everyone’s a jerk, desperate and afraid that they won’t find the life that’ll save them from the blade got a lot of lab technicians watching the daylight fade gotta lot of lonliness I don’t know what I deserve but i know it isn’t that I’ve been killing myself here, so what you looking at? I spent all of my vacations and now I can’t get them back I spent all of my vacations and now I can’t get them back I can’t get them back...
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The Key 03:00
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I’m different than I used to be I don’t follow you around hoping you will give me back the key I don’t grovel on the ground Think what would I say make up conversations can’t we have a one to one get up to your porch ring the bell and run I’m smarter than I used to be but I gotta come clean got a guilty conscience at the door and it’s tearing at the screen Sure I had to throw teacups at your window anybody home? but why’d you have to leave me sitting on the front lawn sadder than a garden gnome Still I’m better than I used to be yeah I’m stronger than I used to be I’m not working like a factory for you... All I wanna do’s forget about that bad scene hold you in my arms run into the night, sing up to the street lights set off all the car alarms If I ever get my key from you know exactly what I’m gonna do make a promise to myself be true this time.
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F*cking up the Friendship 02:45
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How close can you get without fucking up the friendship how close can you get without fucking up the friendship out of sight out of mind, until you're good and blind how good does it get and we’ve come pretty close without fucking up the friendship fucking up the friendship yet. How close can you get without stepping over the line cause we’ve said a few things, just a few more than the last time and now it comes to the point where it doesn’t matter what we do cause If we get to like it somebody’s gonna fuck up that somebody might be you Oh don’t blow my cover, don’t kiss and tell or steal my cigarettes what the hell... What the hell hell hell was I bloody well thinking this wouldn’t have happened if we hadn’t started drinking and baby everythings different and now we gotta pay the price cause its not good enough that we got a good friendship not good enough that we got a good friendship
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The Whale 05:44
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May 16, a year has gone by a year has gone by everything thought I knew hurts to hold onto. A whale lives in the sea just down the hill from me sometimes she takes me for a ride when I am feeling down thats when she comes around and we both head out with the tide and down under we go she tells me I’ll be okay If I just do what’s right So I gotta pick this thing up off the ground lift my arms and swing it around and let go... A coral choir sings there’s angels, clowns and kings hold on we’re going down where the dark things fly but the deeper down I go the less I want to know the less i want to see, the truth may set me free but it’ll still make me cry of all the stupid things why did I have to did I have to bring all this extra weight? Cause I gotta pick this thing up off the ground lift my arms and swing it around I gotta pick this thing up off the ground and let go, let it go... lift the rock and toss it lift the block and rock it tie yourself to it while you’re at it... I wake up and it’s all gone she’s just sitting there with the tape recorder on but it was all so real, why do i feel - Like I gotta pick this thing up off the ground lift my arms and swing it around I gotta pick this thing up off the ground lift my arms and swing it around and around and around and let go. May 16, a year has gone by
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Guts 01:50
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I am coming from the gut the guts are coming out of me my guts, my guts, my guts, my guts a voice telling me things I don’t want to know screaming at me I think I'm gonna throw my guts, my guts, my guts, my guts... hold me now hold me tight and just squeeze til I can’t breathe I can’t breathe they don’t let me off with nothing why can’t I have any fun? up goes the flag there goes the warning gun do I do I have the - do I have them anyhow? the guts, the guts, the guts, the guts... okay I’ll see you tonight just one more time it’ll be alright hold me now hold me tight and just squeeze til i can’t breathe i can’t breathe breathe breathe. I am coming from the gut the guts are coming out of me.
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Two Stars 04:59
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I’m your shitfaced girlfriend, yelling at the lawn you’ll have to pour me into bed and screw the top back on oh and screw the top back on tell you what I really think of you, say it to your face gonna drink all my passion and be a disgrace oh do you wanna take me home, oh do you wanna (something out of nothing, suddenly) Oh we are two stars shining bright lets hang out up in the night I’ll wish on you, you’ll wish on me, and we’ll see Up down around and backwards a car slamming into a tree I’m wired alive, I’m too punch-drunk to drive and I don’t care because finally I can be true I can be clear and you’re here (something out of nothing, and we’ll see) Oh we are two stars shining bright lets hang out up in the night I’ll wish on you, you’ll wish on me And we’ll get out of here, shoot through the stratosphere crash and combust, dissappear into dust come up through the ground and run down all that’s left of the old me toss one back, kiss off the past look up at the sky and say goodbye We are two stars shining bright lets hang out up in the night I’ll wish on you, you’ll wish on me, and we’ll see oh we are two stars shining bright...
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9am to 10am/ Balloon Out of Brokenland 03:47
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I just spent the best part of my day it ended at the bottom of my third cup of coffee 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. I’m open for business Sun is up, yeah I’m feeling fine my plans to run the world are running right on time 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. I’m open for business You’re still in bed, a pillow on your head you will never see the best of me because 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. I’m all la la la la la la.... Hey you people out in the world how do you do it how do you get it done? 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oh, cause 10:01 down goes the sun here comes the crash, I feel so trash what was I just thinking? oh yeah, breathe, breathe, breathe... I can’t fight my fucking life is shite can I go back to sleep and just dream that everything’s alright 10 a.m. to 9 a.m. and I can start again Cause I just spent the best part of my day it ended at the bottom of my third cup of coffee 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. I’m open for business open for business open for business...
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Speed of Love 04:27
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I wake up in the morning and look out the portal at the starry darkness on the way to Acturus I can see Procyon and the dog star shining home, oh just get me home, I am sick of Tang and dehydrated lunches and the electrocardiogram so far away so far away so far away in this three-dimensional space-time meat vehicle traveling towards the light, there go the events of my life and the love I’ve gathered with me through it all is bigger than a universe, a planet or a hospital so far away so far away I hear it say you’re on your way you’re on your way You’re closer now you are the one you’re getting strong you’ll pass the sun don’t be afraid your heart is true the planets turn and wave you through you’re closer now you are the one you’re getting strong you’ll pass the sun the speed of love a ray of light...
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Palm Trees 03:56
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Poppies blew where Jonathan grew his heroin garden up on the roof Jet helped hoist the dirt up there and when the choppers came she helped hide the proof you and me used to sit up there and sing they don’t know about us watch the sun set over the sweatshops and the spring street bus And there are palm trees and a hot breeze that makes you thirsty but don’t you drink and drive like everybody else on the freeway Next door get a chicken empanada, there was a pink teletubby piñata that hid the drugs left by the thugs that ran the parking lot drive into hollywood in my honda, map out in the front seat there’s a giant hotdog walking down LaBrea sweating in the hot sun heat And there are palm trees and a hot breeze that makes you thirsty but don’t you drink and drive like everybody else on the freeway And the stars come out at night but they won’t look at you if you’re a nobody At the beach now get a crazy carpet, slide down a sand-dune or bicycle through the waves someone’s praying, a megaphone is saying there’s danger on the rocks we stayed up all night, high as a mickeymouse kite but I never knew i never knew, i never stood a chance with you Palm trees where I go to get my groceries and a hot breeze called the Santa Ana winds that make you thirsty yeah but don’t you drink and drive like everybody else on the freeway...
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Pandora and the New Romance 03:16
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I opened up the box and my eyes fell upon it and i fell in love in a flash I saw everything now I can’t stop thinking of begin the morphing ones and zeros freaking out flying through my living room birds coming out of her mouth where is the truth is it in Pandora’s box it glows allure and naughtiness it terrifies and shocks all ye men on earth want to get into pandora’s pants its never been easier, she’s the new romance oh i spend all day with it i don’t care if its true its my artificial heart and now it beats beats beats for you all ye men on earth want to get wired and fired up now I can’t tear my eyes away from the human accident the wings of a bird carry off the days while I dither my life away in front of pandora’s box where is your courage, is it in Pandora’s box c’mon where is your courage is it in Pandora’s box do you wanna touch it? do you wanna touch Pandora’s box all ye men on earth want to get into Pandora’s pants
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Don't Worry 04:40
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I looked out at the new morning and something said don’t worry... don't One foot now front of the other, and in my head don’t hurry... don't Give me my life back oh give me my life cause I don’t want to loose the track and I‘m all worried now Have you seen the papers lately, all over town oh no don’t worry... don't worry now cause Heaven... she gotta walk so far and Hell... he got his own car and he’s driving to meet me I’ve had some hard times and I don’t do my best to pull through years down in that old prison cell I wish I could go back and redo oh Heaven... she gotta walk so far and Hell... he got his own car and he’s driving to meet me
12.
Starlight and Dreamgirl 02:48
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13.
Down on my Knees 03:36
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released April 1, 2014

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