The Hypertonics NYC Complete Catalog
The Hypertonics are a New York City band commited to the idea that artist and audience are not adversaries. Money puts them on different sides of the barrier while neither one gains. They have the sonics of The Police, the linguistics of George Carlin and the optimism of Noam Chomsky.
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There Are A Million Of Us
We will start again We began from men Though our pain is something blessed There is so much unexpressed We are there, already broken down We know the Scar We've seen down that far We will try what's still undone Becoming fathers to our sons We are a buried thought, alone in what we've fou …
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Unpolitic
It's all so organized Beneath these secret lives Was a truth and it's hidden under glass One person understands But just beyond our hands Was a truth and it's hidden under glass There used to be dreams That were vivid More than day was Oh you could live it Now the time's gone To return th …
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It Seems Obscene
Verse: I'm overstretched - though I've just started And I'm hungover in these thoughts It's never flown before and it's too late for trying This was the place that I forgot I see the others play the same scene over With words of magnitude they do not mean I didn't even know to climb those hei …
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The Possibilities
You saw a photo under water You watched the image multiply It pushed upon a transformation It lit a mirror from the sky The mirror shines and creates itself You opened on the folding stairwells To continue what was handed you The walking was a conversation The tunnel was a mirror too …
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Half A Dozen Roses
I know that what I do is emptyness I hear the things that people say I am the driver and the passenger I see the walls that block our way And so these patterns start to show their threads While we fill the vases with a laugh You thought that nobody was noticing But your whole life has been a …
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I Want You To Want Me
Cheap Trick Cover
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Finally Happy
Verse 1: Standing near a Saturday Looking for a place we've asked about That began an altering Close the floor - a new one opens out Chorus: There's a whisper on this side of things: "It's finally here, it's finally happening." Verse 2: From the message comes a messenger And you trace …
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We're Changing
I've been staring at the same screen And saw the same words in the ones I just read I pushed the page down to change the channel And these same ideas were there instead. There's been nothing out there that's not already in here I see no contrast in it's variation The words repeated could show …
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It Seems Obscene (Reprise)
Verse: I'm overstretched - though I've just started And I'm hungover in these thoughts It's never flown before and it's too late for trying This was the place that I forgot I see the others play the same scene over With words of magnitude they do not mean I didn't even know to climb those hei …
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Future Shock
The opposite is true and we accept it Deposit what you knew and then expect it She'll copy and she'll paste just like they taught her Pace it and she pays you for the water Billionaires, journalists, followers, overstock Metaphors, multiples, narratives, future shock Trauma after trauma after …
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You Don't Kiss Me Anymore
You pull me into you like a drowning soul And there you hold me close, there you lose control But you don't kiss me anymore. One night you said to me, "we will never part." That's what you said to me, talking from the start But you don't kiss me anymore. Don't turn this wine back into wate …
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Allergic To The Medication
What do I need and what do I know and what's my voice saying? My human brain is such a limited game, one I keep on playing We fight and we'd rather be right, but is the yelling winning? While these answers, supposed Answers, undo the underpinning I tried again and I lost from it, this trust is b …
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Raging Bullshit
I've made a very bad mistake, worse than any government, I'm writing love songs but the requiems got sent. I've practiced every day at being someone else, And I am the dumb one who keeps this from himself. When you've been hiding yourself for such an infinite time that you don't know what to …
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Like Background Music
I am not here just to match your curtains I'm not a sentence on your resume I wasn't sent to try and supplement you I'm not the busy work along your way I'm the money where you see a wallet Not these enemies you've made your friends I'm not a monkey for your dinner party And not the means to …
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Cry Cry Cry
It's never been so sad or so silent There's something going on and I can't believe The quiet and the calm are returning but my lungs are burning I can't even breathe. And so I see the pain that is coming I'm looking through a universal eye I used to do my best to forget it, now I won't let it …
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A Thousand Years
I'm walking through my contradictions to where my knowledge bends I've gone beyond a scope I comprehend. I've seen the different sublimations I've seen the fluid forms But you must leave yourself to keep these visions warm. You'll know it in a different language, in the different styles …
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You Get So Uncomfortable When You're Uncomfortable
Was mid-September in a London bar We're at Artrocker for the Chinese Stars Another country but a frequent face: A crowd of people there to stand in place... But something's different when the band goes on We get permission to be something wrong The singer's bringin' so I take his lead Let go …
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Ruined I'd Rather Be (Remaster)
When I was eleven I knew it already: Wisdom has nothing that money won't steal Causes are cursed and it leaves it unsteady Ask any doctor and see what they feel. Spain conquered Egypt to get what it wanted I'm not like that 'cause I'm waiting for more But Spain travels now like a house that …
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Punctuation Marx
Remix
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A Love Undiagnosed (Live)
Live
The Hypertonics NYC Complete Catalog
