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The Mode

by Options Open

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1.
Sand 01:55
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Where are you standing? At the threshold of it all When it's all sand to sand And the natural man Doesn't have any buttons, no... The one indelible umbilical cell Inedible as silica gel Inevitable, immeasurable as hell Everyone zooming by at top speed With their unceasing outreaching It's gotta be plurality, I know The circadian grind Left to our own devices In the cold comfort of... The one indelible umbilical cell Inedible as silica gel Inevitable, immeasurable as hell
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Noisemaker 02:05
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I'm just a noisemaker Not trying to bother you I've had enough to say And not a thing to prove You want to play your game Coming in edgewise I'm just a noisemaker I'm just a noisemaker The canned or candid parroting and piracy overblown From the undertones The can or can't of variable odyssey waves They're slapping you awake Up at 'em trying to lay my claim as the noisemaker I'm just a noisemaker Not trying to bother you I've had enough to say And not a thing to prove You want to play your games Coming in edgewise I'm just a noisemaker I'm just a noisemaker The canned or candid parroting and piracy overblown From the undertones The can or can't of variable odyssey waves They're slapping you awake Up at 'em trying to lay my claim as the noisemaker It's not like you got no imagination Someday you'll find use It's not like you got no imagination Someday you'll get through... The waves, they're slapping you awake Up at 'em trying to lay my claim as the noisemaker
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Garbage 01:53
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All the barbs and stars are out tonight And I'm only light pollution In the mess of static they put on display How does one break through? Under ads over ads, kept your self-promotion Just more garbage in a garden of thieves Every angel's colliding, the devils will brighten your screen So carry out avant-garde, to the sparsest infinite Abalone shine seducer Unimpress the malice of the endless waste When it's the mode, your mood Under ads over ads, kept your self-promotion Just more garbage in a garden of thieves Every angel's colliding, the devils will brighten your screen Under ads over ads, kept your self-promotion Just more garbage in a garden of thieves Every angel's colliding, the devils will brighten your screen
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Scar 03:20
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Could never figure you out From any hair color faction Or your zero-to-one persona Living a life, no struggle Everything so damn dull Wanna carve a scar that isn't yours You're afraid of getting out unscathed However will you gauge yourself? Took the dye-job, sold your soulful shares off Get watermarked to the teeth Of the jaws of life, minus subtlety Clawed the X-factor out of you Living a life, no struggle Everything so damn dull Wanna carve a scar that isn't yours You're afraid of getting out unscathed However will you gauge yourself? Took the die-job, when I got my grey shock You're afraid of getting out unscathed However will you gauge yourself? Took the dye-job, sold your soulful shares off
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Strange 02:22
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Society girls kept you running in place For the better part of your age You tried to be heard when You muttered the phrase But verboten to harbor your own Through the strange everlasting strain What to do? What became, heaven I can't say Through the strange everlasting strain I love you, my selected one Your primary bird's got another intake And outlets you can't operate Don't wanna be hurt when She utters the safe-words Emotional armor to know I'm an empty social animal, can't you see? Droning onward, through the awkward Droning onward, I can't betray Through the strange everlasting strain I love you, your selected one I'm an empty social animal, can't you see? Droning onward, through the awkward Droning onward, I can't betray But in the way they see the world, I can say That's not what I sought to be
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Later 03:18
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Raising my gaze to the canvas When the good sky solace left it all up to you Couldn't contain all the answers You wanna know it'll all fare alright But how do you throw it all out? So suddenly clear now But how can you keep something? Exile means outta here But how do you throw it all out? So suddenly clear now But how can you keep something? Exile means outta here Stray voltage entered your stanzas Neighborhood restaurant to eavesdrop in next to you Wouldn't explain all the fanfare I wanna show you what my prayers are like But how do you throw it all out? So suddenly clear now But how can you keep something? Exile means outta here But how do you throw it all out? So suddenly clear now But how can you keep something? Exile means outta here Hid under the eiderdown far too long Won't amount much At the out of whack, hourglass Bureaucrats power-grab lunch Hid under the eiderdown far too long Won't amount much At the out of whack, hourglass Bureaucrats power-grab lunch Hid under the eiderdown far too long Won't amount much At the out of whack, hourglass Bureaucrats power-grab lunch Hid under the eiderdown far too long Won't amount much At the out of whack, hourglass Bureaucrats power-grab lunch

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released August 30, 2019

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Options Open Seattle, Washington

Seattle-based indie rock band.

Nick and Eric have been collaborating on art and music together for over six years.

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