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Pas de Deux - Two

by Kuhl

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1.
Kuhl - Absolution 02:51
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Well, it’s Good Time Girls in the dead of night looking for mass destruction Sailor boys on a weekend haul, looking for instruction Downhome kids with Backstreet minds covered in confusion For a dollar a crime they’ll wait in line looking for absolution See the girl with blue sky eyes she's starting up a revolution She bruised my soul with storm-cloud lies and a jack-knife contribution I’m hospitalised with heartbreak sighs and a thirty day contusion Let me in you Preacher Man - I need some absolution So wake me, Shake me, shake that girl with the red dress on Here come’s Johnny down the stony road, looking for absolution It’s a wake me, shake me, we all need absolution Wake me, shake me, absolution Wake me, shake me, I’m looking for absolution Wake me, shake me, absolution So wake me, Shake me, shake that girl with the red dress on Here come’s Johnny down the stony road, looking for absolution So wake me, Shake me, shake that girl with the red dress on Here come’s Johnny down the stony road, looking for absolution Absolution Absolution Let me us in you Preacher Man - we ALL need absolution
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One to One 03:20
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So let’s have a one to one Let’s Camelot Let’s square the circle, babe Rewrite the plot Let’s have an Agincourt Draw up some plans But let’s not fight tonight Let’s just shake hands Pull down the sheets Roll down the blinds Pull up the covers babe What’s on your mind Let’s turn the lights down low It’s you and me For all the times you stirred my heart with unconditional love I owe you For all the crimes of loyalty when push comes to shove I owe you I didn’t need to bribe you to get you on my side Let’s talk this out Let’s have a one to one Let’s scream and shout Let’s have a one to one Negotiate Get on the right side Well have a one to one tonight Let’s draw the party lines It’s time to talk Let’s have some summit time It’s time to squawk This ain’t no game of chess It’s more like snap There’s even even odds that someone will crack So you bring the whip And I’ll watch your back No nasty little secrets To let slip and slide How can I repay you? The doors are open wide There’s no way you are getting off this ride… You owe me… There’s no way you are getting off this ride… You owe me! There’s no way you are getting off this ride…
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Lost in Space 03:57
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Take aim and fire We’re through A little light reflected by the moon Until the tide goes out, yeah Forever and ever, yeah I know we know there’s so much more to lose, hmm Than the pretty shine upon our shoes I know we know there’s so much more to lose, hmm Than the pretty shine upon our shoes There’s no time to pray now Where to find a way now Say goodbye - oh no! It’s too soon for us to go The last chance It’s too soon for us to go The final show So much I need to know So much I need to know Lost In Space like a speck of dust Black holes and cumulus Lost In Space like a speck of dust Black holes and cumulus Such a difficult choice for you Is this really what you want to do? Take aim and fire We’re through A little light reflected by the moon And when the light expires, yeah And the aura fades, yeah And when the light expires, yeah And the aura fades, yeah We’ll all be lost In Space like a speck of dust Black holes and cumulus Such a difficult choice for you Is it really what you want to do? Woah…Lost in Space Oh, We’re lost in space Oh, We’re lost in space Lost In Space like a speck of dust Black holes and cumulus Such a difficult choice for you Do you hang on Or do you let me loose Lost In Space like a speck of dust Black holes and cumulus Such a difficult choice for you Is it really what you want to do? Lost in Space We’re lost in space Lost in Space We’re lost in space
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Destruction 03:16
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Prologue: As the clock ticks, slowly counting down inevitable moments, convergent souls crash toward their destinies in the silent drowning city, lives will change forever as the sun rises on this bright new day of destruction… Mist in the streets, middle of the road Broken Ovation lightens the load Hitchhike, motorbike Seeds I sowed Drowning in salt The debt I owed Trails of destruction Middle of the road Destruction Red lights showing, must’ve been blind Slow-motion mayhem rolling behind Hitchhike Motorbike Rows I hoed Down in the flood A deadly code Trails of destruction Middle of the road Destruction Crashing at The Crucifix Brief encounter Dummy and the Big Girl talking about her Hitchhike Motorbike Roads I rode Drowning in caffeine Breaking the code Stitching the shroud Leaving a trail of destruction
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One Voice 03:10
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One voice will make us stronger One choice ‘cause there's a better way One voice will make us stronger One choice for a better day Jaw-Jaw better than War-War Jaw-Jaw No War-War You pays your money and you takes your choice Change the rules Kill the noise People power will win this time There’s light at the end of the party line All you chickens come home to roost, The clucking cock has flown the coop Clear the slate, hoop de doop Time to go Joe! Yeah, you’ll do… You pays your money And you choose your toys Up the ante Quench the noise People power will seal the crime There’s time at the end of the party line Trumpet Majors, currying favors, Placing bets with a billion-dollar wager Finger on the button red for danger Who the hell is gonna be our savior? One voice will make us stronger One choice ‘cause there's a better way One voice will make us stronger One choice for a better day Jaw-Jaw better than War-War Jaw-Jaw No War-War
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One More Summer Of Love 04:32
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Northern stars tattooed on my fingers In the summer of 69 On a Berlin train with the echo of the Ghetto Pounding in the raging Rhine It was all much closer than I ever dreamed of Yet further than I dared to think Twenty Five Years from there to here In the land of Grey and Pink… Now it's a grey old day in 88 There are bombs on the Greyhounds And the Chevrolets cruise along The Devil's Way As we ride the rails to God knows where One more Summer of Love One more Summer Of Love Fear and pheromones ruled the air, One more Summer of Love I had a brother when i was young He was a mystery to me We never got along and now he’s gone That was all he ever gave to me I don’t miss him all that much We only shared an hour or two It’s hard to miss what you never had When you’re coal house black and blue One more Summer of Love One more Summer Of Love Tears and amphetamines ruled the head, Give me one more Summer of Love There was another brother lost to me The one I have yet to meet He came between the boy and the man I am One minute old and he beat a retreat I’ve only just begun wondering How, when One more Summer of Love Give me One more Summer Of Love Fear and hurricanes fanned the flames One more Summer Of Love Would we have ever got along? Would we still be friends Would he have changed my destiny Would he have won in the end Then the willow arrows cut me down Cut me like a field of corn The cars roared into the silent town Leaving me reborn Cowboys… Indians… New brooms Blue moons Bolt holes Blue tunes Washtubs Rekkits Blues Sunshine shadows In the afternoons Quarrels and the slamming of the coal house door Trains on the Western roll Tearing through the infinite black black hole Taking out another soul One more Summer of Love One more Summer Of Love Oh yeah, One more Summer Of Love Fear and terror reigning down… It’s just one more Summer of Love...
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Hungry Tonight 03:57 video
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Give me the key Give me the bunch The carnivores are ravenous Plotting their lunch The bones and the gristle Add to the crunch The animals are hungry tonight Key in the slot Tumblers are falling The Dik Diks are scared The hyenas are calling There are bells and whistles As the dead come crawling The animals are hungry tonight I don’t need excuses to crack another bottle They’re lined up in the rack in a sequence of strength I’m celebrating corpses on Popocatépetl Just about as high as I’m ever going to get Knock on my door Any time at all The keys are on the table In the corner of the hall I’ve passed out in †he kitchen So just take it all The animals are hungry tonight So, Open the cages Open the gates Open your eyes, Start spinning those plates You want some more? You’ll have to wait The animals are hungry tonight Caught in the crossfire Mown down in blood The prisoners are restless Trapped in the flood There’s fingers round my ankles Deep in the mud The animals are hungry tonight
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Mean Girl 03:34
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I woke up in a bad place In another man’s shoes Just leave me to simmer here I can handle the blues You could have just abandoned me Staring at the stars But you had to settle ancient scores And leave those battle scars Mean girl Scaling Ivory towers For songs you’ll never sing The devil's in the decaff As the pas de deux begins A funeral march of memories Five fiery rings Mean girl Keening through the water Someone queered my deal Tomorrows never show their hand They conceal the reveal You spun me on a dime You led me down a rut You tangled me in knots There were ties to cut Mean girl You could always make me turn my head But there were lies in every word you said Having fun? You could have just left me Staring at the stars But you had to settle scores with me And leave those battle scars Mean Girl You could always make me turn my head But there were lies in every word you said Having fun? Having fun? Erasing every little thing we’ve done since the day we first met Lowering the stakes with every last bet Mean girl It’s always me, me, me! Always you, you, you! Always one, one, one Never two, two, two Mean girl You’re such a mean girl Nananana Nananana
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Shine 03:26 video
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There were cats on the crossbar and lights in the night There was music in the mist as we took to flight There were cops in the shrubbery taking our names There were stars in our eyes and the world was in flames Shine There were locks on the door and frost on the lawn And we watched as the moonlight died in the dawn The herons flew, the camomile brewed The doves in the rafters billed and cooed Shine There were stars on the steps with anonymous names There were pornographic knights who played their games There were painters and poets and indelible dreams There were swastikas carved in the castle beams There were flags in the hallway covered in toads Chickens in the basement, chickens on the road You and me on overload And Jakob preened and Jakob crowed Shine I don’t care if it’s wet or fine As long as you’re mine, all I wanna do is shine There was Escher at the baker, Anton in the Baarn Queenie in a headscarf to keep her from harm There was Pushkin and Pulin and Vietnam tears There was M-biotic mayhem and TB fears There were picnics in the poppies, Emperors in the grass Bubbles on the doorstep, futures in the past Smokes in the Oaks and swings in the Ash Cous-cous in the Kosmos – life was a gas!
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Deja Voodoo 03:52
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I hear a pin drop in the dead of our night You can crawl out of bed, but don’t turn on the light So why don't you crawl out of bed - it’s close to midnight And I'm playing with the dolls tonight I’ve been here before There’s nothing that’s new I’ve been here before You’re just one of the few Now it’s all down to me Cause I’m so over you Needles and pins Deja Voodoo Ten silent steps As you head for oblivion Count in reverse As you glide cross the floor Ticking of clocks Antemeridian Whisper the curse As you beg me for more I’ve been here before There’s nothing that’s new I’ve been here before You’re just one of the few Now it’s all down to me Cause I’m so over you Needles and pins Deja Voodoo
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The Wheels of Fortune 03:31
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There’s light at the end of the tunnel Sure looks like the dawn of a bright new day But it sounds like a freight train out of control On a one-way track, and it’s heading this way Riding the wheels of fortune
 Windows are dark around town tonight As the bartender trickles the gold There’s a spring in my step as I stumble and fall And the gutter receives my soul Under the wheels of fortune
 Catching your breath Take one little moment All you have left is time Get your head clear Of the reasons and rhymes The windows are dark As starless as midnight Colder than ice Colder than clay. They’re closing the bar, They’re closing the town Lovers in limbo reaching for anyone Pushing the edges of breaking day. Going around and round on the wheels of fortune
 There’s a light at the end of the tunnel And great is the joy in my heart There's an arrow of birds in the moonlight Splitting the seasons apart As they fly from the wheels of fortune
 There’s a light at the end of the tunnel Sure looks like the dawn of a bright new day But it rolls like a freight train out of control On a one-way track, and it’s heading our way Riding the wheels of fortune


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released February 10, 2021

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