Playlist Mgmt

mgmt - kids

You were a child
Crawling on your knees toward him
Making momma so proud
But your voice is too loud
We like to watch you laughing
Picking insects off of plants
No time to think of consequences

(Chorus)
Control yourself
Take only what you need from him
A family of trees wanting to be haunted
Control yourself
Take only what you need from him]
A family of trees wanting to be haunted

The water is warm
But it's sending me shivers
A baby is born
Crying out for attention
Memories fade
Like looking through a fogged mirror
Decisions too
Decisions are made and not bought
But I thought this wouldn't hurt a lot
I guess not

(Chorus x6)

mgmt - electric feel

all along the western front
people line up to receive.
she got the power in her hands
to shock you like you won't believe.
saw her in the amazon
with the voltage running through her skin
standing there with nothing on
she's gonna teach me how to swim

ooh girl
shock me like an electric eel
baby girl
turn me on with your electric feel

ooh girl
shock me like an electric eel
baby girl
turn me on with your electric feel

all along the eastern shore
put your circuits in the sea
this is what the world is for
making electricity
you can feel it in your mind
oh you can do it all the time
plug it in and change the world
you are my electric girl.

ooh girl
shock me like an electric eel
baby girl
turn me on with your electric feel

ooh girl
shock me like an electric eel
baby girl
turn me on with your electric feel

do what you feel now
electric feel now
do what you feel now
electric feel now
do what you feel now
electric feel now
do what you feel now
electric feel now
do what you feel now
electric feel now

mgmt - time to pretend

I'm feelin rough i'm feelin raw i'm in the prime of my life.
Let's make some music make some money find some models for wives.
I'll move to paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars.
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars.

This is our decision to live fast and die young.
We've got the vision, now let's have some fun.
Yeah it's overwhelming, but what else can we do?
Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?

Forget about our mothers and our friends.
We were fated to pretend.

I'll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms.
I'll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world.
I'll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home.
Yeah i'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone.

But there is really nothing, nothing we can do.
Love must be forgotten. life can always start up anew.
The models will have children, we'll get a divorce,
We'll find some more models, everything must run its course.

We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end.
We were fated to pretend.

Yeah yeah yeah

mgmt - congratulations

Dead in the water
It's not a paid vacation
The sons and daughters of city officials
Attend demonstrations
It's hardly a sink or swim
When all is well if the ticket sells
Out with? a wimper
It's not a blaze of glory
You look down from your temple
As people endeavor to make it a story
And chisel a marble word
But all is lost if it's never heard
But I've got someone to make reports
That tell me how my money's spent
To book? my stays and draw my blinds
So I can't see what's really there
And all I need's a great big congratulations
I'll keep your dreams
You pay attention for me
As strange as it seems
I'd rather dissolve than have you ignore me
The ground may be moving fast
But I tied my boots to a broken mast
The difference is clear
You throw it in your cauldron
Rust and veneer, dusk and dawn
Steinways and Baldwins
You start with a simple stock of all the waste
And salt to taste
But damn my? luck and damn these friends
That keep on combing back their smiles
I save my grace with half-assed guilt
And lay down the quilt upon the lawn
Spread my arms and soak up congratulations

mgmt - lady dada s nightmare

Instrumental

mgmt - your life is a lie

Here?s the deal
Open your eyes
Your life is a lie
Don?t say a word
I?ll tell you why
You?re living a lie
Your life is a lie
But you deny, you ever lied
Wondering why
Bury your life
Count your friends
On your hands
Now look again
They?re not your friends
Hold your breath
Everyone left
No surprise
Living a lie

Tell your wife
This is your life
Your life is a lie
This is your wife
Now she knows, she understands
Her life is a lie
Nobody wins
Try not to cry
You?ll survive
On your own (on your own)

Lessons in life
Your life is a lie
Now there?s no time
Wondering why
Where in the world
Is that girl?
He knows it?s alright
To live a life
Waiting to die
Not knowing that
Your life is a lie
Wondering why
Nobody writes
Hollow inside
Periods in light
Fire and ice
Your life is a lie
On your own
One more time
Your life is a lie
On your own, one more time
Your life is a lie

mgmt - an orphan of fortune

It can't stop now
The signs keep changing on me
Like a shimmering bell
Long waves enveloping me
And my plastic mind,
So chewed and shrieking all the time
Feels it whirling by
Morning, afternoon then night
And I can't get down

If I don't feel right
Polishing off the sand
Lay by me
And we'll erode
As gently as we can
Into twilight

mgmt - pieces of what

when the world has turned
paralyzed and wrong
cold blooded claws
never offered anything at all
past the point of love
shattered and untied
waiting to pick up the pieces
that make it all alright

but pieces of what
pieces of what
pieces of what
doesn't matter any more

moonlight on my floor
shining through the roof
they got the city surrounded
as if I needed proof
i forgot my fear
feelings on the rise
burying all of the pieces
falling from the sky

but pieces of what
pieces of what
pieces of what
we used to call home
pieces of what
we used to call home

when i drank your tea
and shallow water still
at the belgian gates
i waited for my meal

mgmt - the kids quartet

she had a four wing dinosuar
that she has to draw
she pays attention to the image that she saw, yeah
a pencil to the paper
a pluser and subtractor
and she makes a fine feather microraptor

she had a four wing dinosuar
that she has to draw
she pays attention to the image that she saw, yeah
a pencil to the paper
a pluser and subtractor
and she makes a fine feather microraptor

she had a four wing dinosuar
that she has to draw
she pays attention to the image that she saw, yeah
a pencil to the paper
a pluser and subtractor
and she makes a fine feather microraptor

she had a four wing dinosuar
that she has to draw
she pays attention to the image that she saw, yeah
a pencil to the paper
a pluser and subtractor
and she makes a fine feather microraptorrrrrrrrrr!

mgmt - mystery disease

It can't pay attention
What slips into the system
Don?t touch the whisper that puts you to sleep
Don?t slip your body to the mystery disease
All I have is this feeling
Pain just to feel
Lost mind you know I?m afraid to let it slip
She?s bored of the mystery disease

Don?t go to the past, darling
You just stay close to my mind
And that?s good, sip like the end of June
Fall back into the mystery disease
Go on, tell your secrets to me
It?s not ?? got them rushed to me
It's no fun to face what you don?t need to be
What's one more to the mystery disease

Floating in patience
Smacks right into a sea of black smoke
As soon as the pressure?s released
Lose their sight to the mystery disease
Consumed by your honesty, caught with the passion of ??
Dizzy stars, sunsets bleed in the street
Tell me what you want, waste what you need
And when your lips dry as sweets turn to leaves
That?s the place you thought you?d leave
Smoke parts, can't see ?
Wrapped in the dust of the mystery disease.

mgmt - come on christmas

And God said,
Let the waters under the heavens
Be gathered together unto one place
And let the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth;
And the gathering together of the waters called he Seas:
And God saw that it was good
And from the crew of Apollo 8,
We close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas,
And God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.

mgmt - metanoia

metanoia, reshaping the world
it can teach you
and re-program you
it can show you the flood that's trapped inside.
this one's alive!
the tail is breathing,
and she's listening.
kill the serpent, divide, disperse and grow,
into an oak.
a silver lining on a black scale.
wicked hunter,
on three hooves he still rode,
but where is the fourth?
you can climb there,
to your lofty perch.
It can teach you the fairytale of hurt.

Mystic Referee don't look on me with scorn.
I'm a child, I'm a lover being born.
(satchidananda)
disregard the path I'm on
You can justify the action, should you bless
my ambition and my indecisiveness
(satchidananda)
Let me know that you exist!
Watch me tremble as I'm answering the phone.
I am separate from everything you know.
Mystic referee I promise to return,
once I've given up and lessons have been learned.
(satchidananda)
You can watch my fire burn.

We were talkin junk right,
just before the show.
This wild-eyed kid came up to the fence,
he took one look at us and he said:

"HELP ME, DRUMMER! TICKET! YEAH!"

we didn't play his favorite song.
Now he'll never come to another show.

Hospitals and woods confirm red in the eyes of everyone.
Parasites and lovers scrape the meat from bones,
turned into jade and tiger's eye. Save me some dark hair over a face like her's. She'll help the rain come to a pour. Bathroom floor of stone and tiles broke in two, warm where they touch her porcelain timid skin. I'm careful to untie this road, wrapped in a knot indifferent. Lion's foot unearthing all the things I've seen but never truly understood. Rotten wood from oceans that were never green crumbles beneath the canopy, secretly. (let's pretend he never touched the sugar)

Tonight, under rose, you won't find another wheel to roll. When autumn winds appear, we wear these fears on our right, it just wants to be surreal DUDE. All dressed in diamond image jeans, mercury's found a new field. We miserable in love, a chance we walk, and ride on in, into the streets of the city, but
Watching people disappear without reaching out for years and years,
you're left, by Yourself on the Wheel.

mgmt - cool song no 2

Whenever I drift by the unknown,
Feign like I notice a fundamental tone
The fine petals open
And close, offended,
Poor explanation and nothing shown.

Kind of like if a friend
Exits without a sign
Glimmering like a precious stone
Maybe we shared a dream
For twenty nights in a row
I might feel better knowing that I was alone.

Wherever scientists turn lead to birds,
Torment ignites essence, delights from the earth
What you find shocking
They find amusing,
Something else to soften a sadistic urge
When they tell you the extent of the vice
Then the prime time mission is to choke the statistician,
And like the senses that you're lurking behind
While it gnaws right through to your core,
Oh, I'd twist it more.

If you think that you're free (free like a kite)
Watching as it goes by (spy the unknown),
Focus on the quiet oars
Tell me how far you'd go (go where you like)
Knowing your air won't last (last one to know)
Would you feel better holding the stars up?

What if the beast escapes (apes have it good)
And separates like a cloud (loud like a fault),
Seeps into the hollow bones?
Wouldn't its eyes expand
And zero in like a scope?
I might feel better
Knowing I wasn't alone.

mgmt - someone s missing

SOMEONE'S TELLING THE TOLL TO ME
I'M CUT AND I'M WEEPING LIKE A RUBBER TREE BUT I DON'T CARE WHO'S LEFT BEHIND LOST REVELATIONS THAT I'LL NEVER FIND
IN THE LONG HALL PIPES ARE WHISPERING
BLUES PREPARED FOR ANTI-CHRISTENING
SOMEWHERE THERE'S AN HONEST SOUL
TO MIRROR TEETH WHERE NEON LURES TROLL
AND WHAT'S EXTINCT MIGHT COME ALIVE
A PURPLE SMOKE IN SOME INTERNAL SHRINE
WITH A LONG SIGH LET THE HISSING IN
STONES DEFORMED BY GENTLE KISSING AND
ALL THE CLOSED EYES START TO GLISTEN
BUT IT FEELS LIKE SOMEONE'S MISSING
YEAH IT FEELS LIKE SOMEONE'S MISSING

mgmt - it s working

Here, you focus
so I can see your faces
the eyes are wrong
how will I know if it's working right?
light confuses
the tiny isles of bruises
the mangled lines
I see the signs of aging
But if I try to feel at all I am deceived
my mind's affected
it's empty now
as I lay down
I feel alright
my heart is racing
Turn the noise on
I'd like to feed my poison
assembly lines
carry a velvet warning
to the yard
it's just like striking matches
the polish lies
but it's working in your blood
which you know is not the same as love
love is only in your mind
and not your heart
no, it's working
it's working in your blood
which you know is not the same as love
love is only in your mind and not your heart

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