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Building a Broken Ship

from Caliban by LAM! LAM!

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Vocals: Ayako Kondo

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I will push you away
because you will not stay
because nothing ever does
I can force things to break
and have it go my way
even if it's not what I want

this was prophesied
this was realized
self fulfilling in its way
cover up your eyes
you are not my kind
no one is at first anyway

let's build a ship
full of holes, made of lies
so it will capsize
let's make romance
let's dance and drink and screw
because there's nothing else to do
and everyone loses
because we're playing with fire
and everyone lies
everything ends sometime

I will sing you a song
because it's written about me
and you can see through me through it
I can write you a note
to tell you the worst
but it will end up getting burned

this is standardized
this is every time
I cover up my tracks and improve on my
ways of faking smiles
and feigning blindness
in the face of the obvious

let's build a ship
full of holes, made of lies
so it will capsize
let's make romance
let's dance and drink and screw
so that when things go awry
nobody's surprised
because we're playing with fire
and everyone lies
everything ends sometime

I am marshland
I am steeping
I am waiting for the other shoe to drop
and if it doesn't I will take my own shoe off
and throw it on the ground

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from Caliban, released May 27, 2014

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LAM! LAM! is (mostly) unintentional rubenesque burlesque. LAM! LAM! chews up your subconscious desires and spits them back at you with a sassy uhn-tiss uhn-tiss uhn-tiss. It's a sex dance and rock and roll extravaganza with a conscience but without shame. ... more

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