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"Cathedrals," Jump Little Children

In the shadows of tall buildings
Of fallen angels on the ceilings
Oily feathers in bronze and concrete
Faded colors, pieces left incomplete
The line moves slowly past the electric fence
Across the borders between continents
In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is
In the shadows of tall buildings
The architecture is slowly peeling
Marble statues and glass dividers
Someone is watching all of the outsiders
The line moves slowly through the numbered gate
Past the mosaic of the head of state
In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is
In the shadows of tall buildings
Of open arches endlessly kneeling
Sonic landscapes echoing vistas
Someone is listening from a safe distance
The line moves slowly into a fading light
A final moment in the dead of night
In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is

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"Such Great Heights," by the Postal Service

I think that it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images
and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned
I have to speculate that God himself did make us into
corresponding shapes like puzzle pieces from the clay
True it may seem like a stretch but it's thoughts like this that catch
my troubled head when you're away when I am missing you to death
When you're out there on the road for several weeks of shows
and when you scan the radio I hope this song will guide you home

They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now," they'll say.
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now." But we'll stay.

I tried my best to leave this song on your machine
but the persistant beat it sounded thin on listening
And that frankly will not fly
You will hear the shrillest highs and lowest lows
with the windows down when this is guiding you home
They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now," they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now," but we'll stay
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"Summer, Highland Falls," by Billy Joel

They say that these are not the best of times
But they're the only times I've ever known
And I believe there is a time for meditation
In cathedrals of our own
Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lover's eyes
I can only stand apart and sympathize
For we are always what our situations hand us
It's either sadness or euphoria

So we argue and we compromise
And realize that nothing's ever changed
For all our mutual experience
Our separate conclusions are the same
Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity
Our reason coexists with our insanity
And though we choose between reality and madness
It's either sadness or euphoria

How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies
Perhaps we don't fulfil each other's fantasies
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives
With our repsective similarities
It's either sadness or euphoria
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"Do You Realize," by the Flaming Lips

Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face?
Do you realize we're floating in space?
Do you realize that happiness makes you cry?
Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?
But instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realize
That life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round.

Do you realize?
Do you realize?
Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?
But instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realize
That life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'rond
Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face?
Do you realize?