Distraction

by Steven Mark

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1.
Get Off The Ride 02:56
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Everything just keeps on moving faster Faster than the speed of love Hear no sunshine Feel no laughter Distort the voices from above And now I think I’m caught on wire Resurrect my one desire Execute when I say fire And get off the ride And get off the ride Everybody’s got their suits on backwards Blinders to the left and right Everybody’s pushing garbage paper Sleepwalking through each day and night And now I think I’m caught on wire Resurrect my one desire Execute when I say fire And get off the ride And get off the ride So many times I have bent down to reach you But you had their lives on your mind So many thoughts there are still left to teach you But we’ll never make any time Everybody’s empty gaze stares forward Sixty channels nothing’s on Got to overlook the unsaid bore word Could be you’re the only one And now I think I’m caught on wire Resurrect my one desire Execute when I say fire And get off the ride And get off the ride And get off the ride
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Under The Covers 05:23
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I’m tired of speaking your words Can’t shout them louder than you I’m tired of passing your notes Rehashing old as new I’ve got to hide under the covers I’ve got to hide under the covers Your thoughts are so much deeper The butter that you spread Your mountain so much steeper So I’ll climb yours instead And how many hours of your life Will they hound you With how many blades of a knife To surround you. And how many dreams can you hide In your sweater. With how many tears have you lied You bed wetter Distraction Distraction A bird will travel overseas Hailing words of stone Haunted by the angry breeze The diction not his own I’ve got to hide under the covers I’ve got to hide under the covers And how many hours of your life Will they hound you With how many blades of a knife To surround you. And how many dreams can you hide In your sweater. With how many tears have you lied You bed wetter Distraction Distraction Distraction Distraction
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Pass Around The Bowl 03:57
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You wake every Sunday You’ve got tickets to see the show Don’t cost any money Until they pass around the bowl You kneel before daddy Protecting you from the evil one He offers you some candy He’s going to make you his sweet little son And it makes me wonder And it makes me ask me why And it makes me stutter Play along or say goodbye You worship the baby You pray for the great return You wait to live, maybe There’s no great lesson here to learn You’re searching they win now Find a partner and dosey home Just remember the sin now One misguided chromosome And it makes me wonder And it makes me ask me why And it makes me stutter Play along or say goodbye Something so noble. Your humble existence Keep walking homeless Deep talking resistance Others will tell you Don’t look, give or listen They just can’t detect Your holiness glisten Listen Empty circles will pass now Carbon copies the same old school Never bother to ask how Just memorize the chorus rule You’re sucking life out now Metronome to the final dance Could there be just a doubt now You’re one short earthly after-chance And it makes me wonder And it makes me ask me why And it makes me stutter Play along or say goodbye
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Ubersize That 04:21
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Burgers fries Homogenize Buy me a pair of blue eyes Grande venti tranquilize Lie about your shoe size Grow your castle on the lot Give thanks to everyone you’re not What’s the debt, oh you forgot Throw another piglet in the pot Oh you’ve got to ubersize that Oh you’ve got to ubersize that Cancer pods inside you lay Faking D the ladies play Measure green from day to day Cover stories fade away Oh you’ve got to ubersize that Oh you’ve got to ubersize that Crossing a bridge now to you Safely intending here flying too low. Speaking in code thanking you Fearful befriending love wanting to know Love wanting hello Quarter gains you’re doing fine Ivy league assembly line Spread them out no labor line Suburban unions soccer time Oh you’ve got to ubersize that Oh you’ve got to ubersize that Oh you’ve got to ubersize that Oh you’ve got to ubersize that
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Another Day Insight 03:48
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Wolves still outside Panting howling there to scratch you Mouths open wide Run Awake Got to decide Empty wit can barely catch you Silent we glide Make no mistake Without you another day insight Without you it’s just a joyless flight You tease the smoke But no one gets the punchline One more virgin coke Call it a date You overspoke Misplayed it during crunch time Maybe next year More on your plate Without you another day insight Without you it’s just a joyless flight Judge is gone bye bye Just a larynx in the sky Ain’t no one going to stop Please take my hand Clocks keep walking by Like a body left to die You’re the solo flyer, understand Maybe today You will blast that plastic wall down So far away Can’t you hear Please go away Don’t you leave me all alone here Nothing to say Find me unclear Without you another day insight Without you it’s just a endless fight
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Dumb It Down 03:58
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So what’s your sign Tell me all there is to know Matchbooks and wine Never measures need to grow You serve your time Take the vows in jail by dawn You don’t have a spine Just go fuck your need to spawn Dumb it down subway boy Dumb it down subway boy I can’t be the cause You arise from haunted dreams It’s no crime to pause No one’s ever as he seems Dumb it down subway boy Dumb it down subway boy Moons reveal the truth Now the countdown to stop loving me Dungeons painted you Every door leads to your sanity Now time to pretend You’ve got nylon on the brain Passive till the end Drowning in domestic rain Acting maybe lying Every blemish now is showing Mourning laughing crying Empty are the seeds you’re sowing Dumb it down subway boy Dumb it down subway boy
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Toxins With Cream 06:01
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You let me down Your mind is coiffed and clean You’re so much smaller than I saw yourself in the dream You stayed in town Never played a thought obscene Defending your sweet life you serve each morning Toxins with cream A brother will cast illusion Until you see through the open sores And when you slip past confusion Your desperate appeal the padded doors The padded doors What’s she doing here. Just a mother to break the bread How can you lie still And not a rabid dog to the head Hold the bride you fear Restless voices in your bed Too many tables feeding four You choke, the poet’s dead The oceans will flood transfusion Until you see through the open sores And when you suspect contusions Your desperate appeal the padded doors The padded doors You’re living old No stories told You never bought the madness to find Your will was sold Why so uptight Eighty-Five was years ago Ironing away the night The safety net let go You sit upright Shackled under flakes of snow Older than no younger Your resemblance that we know A father will cast illusion Until you see through the open sores And when you slip past confusion Your desperate appeal the padded doors The padded doors The padded doors The padded doors The padded doors
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This Dance Is Mine 03:25
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Hey can my friend come out to play Everybody’s gone away Fantasize you’re on display Here serves a man where crime is fear In your mind the dream will steer Satin prizes will appear Why can I not phone it in Why is solitude such a sin Who? Could be anyone who’s new Understand the black and blue Order dominate what’s true Shame. Only screams reveal your name Photographs display the lame Self destruction just a game Why can I not torch the cloud When will Fountainhead be allowed And I know it’s getting hard Phantom blood rush to the head Weak defenses still on guard All disrobed inside your head This dance is mine This dance is mine This dance is mine This dance is mine Hey can my friend come out to play Everybody’s gone astray Could it be you’ve lost your way
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Beer & Nyquil 03:20
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You fake each day Swallow the mirrors with the smoke Roles that you play Are who you are Can’t run away You’ve grown addicted to the joke You read today You’re just the latest sinking star So now you’re living on beer and Nyquil Living on beer and Nyquil Living on beer and Nyquil You’ve won faint praise You dare to call your sales pitch art You count lost days Who might have have been Doubt overstays You hide from where you cannot start At least she pays From nerves within So now you’re living on beer and Nyquil Living on beer and Nyquil Living on beer and Nyquil Six figure mantra game Count again The pen he waits in vane Wait till then Six figure mantra game Count again And again Ask Siggy Fraud You’ll offer any brain excuse Others applaud To say goodbye The chain is gnawed Can’t tell the pleasure from abuse Iron has thawed With every try So now you’re living on beer and Nyquil Living on beer and Nyquil Living on beer and Nyquil
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Primary Colors 03:20
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Let’s raise a glass to the red Nothing but fluff in your head Millions of crosses lined dead Dense are the primary colors Lets give it up for the white Always controlling the fight Keep your minds locked every night Rich are the primary colors Oh say can you see My surround sound IV Stars bursting on air. Silicone dreams go nowhere For the land of the me And the home of the safe Let’s give a shout for the blue Living their climax untrue Zoloft you haven’t a clue Sad are the primary colors Oh say can you see My surround sound IV Stars bursting on air Silicone dreams go nowhere For the land of the me And the home of the safe
11.
Where You Are 02:51
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Speak to me Glowing sky from overcast Laugh at me Growth on high Forget the past Cuz where you are Is where you are Muttering to yourself Monogrammed you stand in placid state Egos on your shelf The verdict You’ve arrived a too late But where you are Is where you are Deserts behind you Greying debate Nothing to bind you Ashbury and Haight Summer of love child You reappear Guidance above while Soaring no fear All too much Acid boils you disengage Internal touch Geriatrics come of age So where you are Is where you are Yes where you are Is who you are
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Messiah Complex 05:02
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Buddy died one stormy night Check the records from the flight Swiveled hips shipped off to fight History not sitting right Jimi died embittered end Hearts attacked a fleeting trend Trickery makes king a friend I’m a wounded citizen I heard today messiah’s dead My eyes they burn through them Innocence turn the other head Conspriracy I see me Johnny died on our tv The actor set the gunman free Video immortality Stratocaster atrophy I heard today messiah’s dead My eyes they burn through them Innocence turn the other head Conspriracy I see me Can I write this one without you. Will the words all fit too neatly Just one night the pulse she doubts you Taken from this world discreetly Freddie died decayed reflection Synthesized bio lab infection. Flannel gunshots blame injection Lovely blonde denied inspection I heard today messiah’s dead My eyes they burn through them Innocence turn the other head Conspriracy I see me

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The album that started it all. I asked the producer to make it sound like it came out in 1966. I think he succeeded.

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released August 17, 2004

Written by: Steven Mark Doppelt
Produced by: Alton Delano

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Steven Mark New York, New York

Blending poetic introspective lyrics, with layered instrumentations and lush vocal harmonies, Steven Mark’s songs explore themes of isolation, mortality, regret, redemption, All set to melodies that go straight to the heart and stay inside your head.

After releasing four albums in six years, Steven Mark took a hiatus He’s now making a return to music with his new release, The Long Goodbye, ... more

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