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Discordant
02:47
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It's time for the end of the world show (step right up)
It's here again, whaddaya know? (no pushing in line)
You thought you were going just fine (mind the turnstiles)
Just when we were hitting our stride (linecutters will be prosecuted)
A symphony of birdsong rang out
A billion little voices sang as one
But as I drew in that deep breath
I found myself a little tone deaf
It seems we've run out of time (right this way)
The conductor has given the sign (we're watching you closely now)
We've come to the end of the tour (get your tickets now)
We're told there won't be an encore (mind your manners)
The waves crashed in with highs and lows
And as some ebbed, the others flowed
But as I heard the swell and subside
I found myself forever locked outside
One note out of tune with the rest
Screaming that ours is the best
While listening to the cord's death
One note drowning out the sorry
One note pretending that we don't know
Where the bees went
We're discordant
A grating note out of scale
A half-assed plan doomed to fail
Harmony's last coffin nail
Pretending that we'll change tomorrow
Pretending that we all don't know
What it all meant
We're discordant
Where the rain
We're discordant
Took it all and there's nothing left
We're discordant
Ashes in our mouths with our final breaths
We're discordant
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Mid Life Crisis
03:30
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Whenever you come to mind, it's 1989
Growing your hair, going somewhere
Through space and time
Then when you fade away,
Your ghost's with me night and day
Lost all that hair, never went nowhere
And closer to dying
Can find the words, can't play what I heard
And can't make them rhyme
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Down and Back
03:17
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Worn down to the nub
Torn down to the studs
... holding out hope for love
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If I Were a Junkie
03:52
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I'm so high, nothing can touch me now
I'm so numb, nothing can hurt me now
I'm so tired, I think I'll sleep a while
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Greed
03:31
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It's Greed!
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Grief
04:35
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You go, we're left behind. Heartache.
You go, forever on our minds. Heartache
You go, forever stuck in time. Heartache
You go away.
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Chinese Herbal Medicine Los Angeles, California
CHM is 3-piece (plus guests) rock band in Los Angeles. Thom - drums, Philip - guitar and singing, Rich - bass and singing
Our 5th release "Bomb!" will come out in Summer 2023.
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