Brighten the Corners
Pavement
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Stereo
03 : 07
2
Shady Lane / J vs. S
03 : 50
3
Transport Is Arranged
03 : 52
4
Date With IKEA
02 : 39
5
Old to Begin
03 : 22
6
Type Slowly
05 : 20
7
Embassy Row
03 : 51
8
Blue Hawaiian
03 : 33
9
We Are Underused
04 : 12
10
Passat Dream
03 : 51
11
Starlings of the Slipstream
03 : 08
12
Fin
05 : 24
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Track Lyrics
Type Slowly Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Sherri, you smell different
Get up early in the bed, for you morning comes so easy
Spells have been cast and the urge has been lost
Snipers posted bills, as they should, of our midnight vacation
[Chorus]
Back on the planet now
I'm beginning to see just how
Echelon your dreams and they'll come true
Type slowly
[Verse 2]
One of us is a cigar stand
And one of us is a lovely blue incandescent guillotine
The edge of creation is blurred and blushed
Not a lot of room to grow inside this leather terrarium
[Chorus]
People of the bay
It is excruciatingly gray
Face the front when he comes for you
Type slowly
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Verse 3]
Cherish your memorized weakness
Fashioned from a manifesto
Lady, I am no Futurist, I'm my only critic, I
Trolls in the glen are consorting again
The liberals say they don't exist, but I know that they do
[Chorus]
Reinforce your literal ass
Hit it on the first or second pass
Frozen images, respected few
Type slowly
Embassy Row Lyrics
[Intro]
Old intuition on your dock we're fishin'
Come on now, give us a grade
A for effort and a B for delivery
C for devotion when the world starts encroaching on your plans
Where is the savoir? Where is the savoir?
He's not here right now
Where is the savoir? Where is the savoir-faire?
[Verse 1]
Embassy row, the fumes, they lay low
On lanes that are wide where the limousines glide
On the wrought-iron gates and the bone china plates
And don't forget your manners where the anthems play
[Chorus]
In a netherworld of foreign feeds
In a netherworld of foreign feeds
In a netherworld of foreign feeds
I'm gonna take the crown, I'm gonna take the crown
I'm gonna take the crown, I'm gonna take a crown
[Verse 2]
Maids, they are frisked and asses are kissed
I needed a visa I bought off a geezer
Political favors could make you a savior
In an open corner where the news is late
[Chorus]
In a netherworld of foreign feeds
In a netherworld of foreign feeds
In a netherworld of foreign feeds
I'm gonna take a crown, I'm gonna take a crown
I'm gonna take a crown, I'm gonna take a crown
[Verse 3]
I need to get born, I need to get dead
I'm sick of the forms, I'm sick of being misread
By men in dashikis and their leftist weeklies
Colonized wrath, their shining new path
The converted castle of Moorish design
If you want to stay the weekend, well, we wouldn't mind
The plots, they are hatching, the surface is scratching
In the open corner where the news is late
[Chorus]
In a nether-land of foreign beads
In a nether-land of foreign beads
In a nether-land of foreign beads
I'm gonna take you down, I'm gonna take the crown
I'm gonna take the crown, I'm gonna take a crown
I'm gonna take the crown, I'm gonna take the crown
I'm gonna take the crown, I'm gonna take a crown
We Are Underused Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Out beyond the call of duty
Hold your instincts hostage and stick near me
Let's drink a toast
It's the most I can stand to cry
About the mental energy you wasted on this wedding invitation
Let's thank the host
You've been such a great host
The roast was just so perfectly prepared
[Chorus]
Now I know you care
Now I know you care
We are underused
We are underused
[Verse 2]
Simply put, I want to grow old
Dying does not meet my expectations
Let's drink a toast to all those who arrived alive
To tell about their struggles in hushed tones around a fire
It's late winter
Let's sink the ship
Mix our blood, just the tip
A Crip is sleeping on the basement stairs
[Chorus]
Oh, I know he's there
Oh, I know he's there
We are underused
We are underused, yeah
[Outro: Malkmus]
We are underused
We are underused
We are underused
We are underused
We are under, under, under, underused
We are under, under, under, underused
Starlings of the Slipstream Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I heard what you said
The leaders are dead
They're robbing the skies
I can hear their followers cry
[Chorus]
Starlings in the slipstream
Starlings in the slipstream
Starlings in the slipstream
Starlings in the slipstream
[Verse 2]
The language of influence
Is cluttered with hard, hard Cs
And I put a spy cam
In a sorority
[Chorus]
Darlings on the split-screen
Darlings on the split-screen
Darlings on the split-screen
[Outro]
There's no women in Alaska
There's no Creoles in Vermont
There's no coast of Nebraska
My mother, I forgot
Slavic princess with a rose in her teeth
Do you suppose she would bite you if she could?
Insane cobra split the wood
Trader of the lowland breed
Call a jitney, drive away
In the slipstream we will stay
Stay away, away, away, away, away, away, away