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Universvm Gloria

by Glass Elevator

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1.
Life is just a pretty candy colored sweet surprise That's what they tell you when you're five Then you grow up and you realize That no one's on your side And you work until you die And the ones you think that love you Are the ones who'll twist the knife So baby Pray with me To a god that isn't there In a world where no one cares Till the vultures pick our bones It's a sunny Sunday morning And there's not a cloud in sight And I'll spend this perfect day inside Trying really hard to hide From the people that I see Walking gaily down the street Holding hands, laughing, and dancing But they can't fool me Because I know that they go home Dejected and alone And pulling out their hair In a world where no one cares So baby Pray with me To a god that isn't there In a world where no one cares Till the vultures pick our bones I've spoiled a lot of good things Darkened a lot of mood rings But everybody thinks I'm a happy-go-lucky guy I can't even count the times I've contemplated suicide But I don't have the balls To spray my brains against the walls And let my roommates find my body two days later Oh that ice cream truck is singing And the phone it keeps on ringing But I'll never pick it up to say I don't wanna buy their shit today I don't need a cellphone plan Or a credit card glued to my hand I don't want a mortgage loan To work my fingers to the bone To make payments on an ice cream cone When I just want to be left alone In a world that tears us both apart And it keeps breaking my heart Till the vultures pick our bones
2.
Baby, have you been to the sun? You can dance like Buddy Holly But you won't get what you want if you don't got the right shoes Baby, have you been to the sun? You can burn out at the turn out With the good times leaving you cashed, trashed, and used Baby, have you been to the sun? You can wind up a famous doll And let the press read all about it in the news Baby, have you been to the sun? You can drink all the whiskey in the world But you still can't get enough to black out the blues Someday I'm gonna die And crawl out of that hole in the sky Oh well, I won't remember a thing I've done Baby, have you been to the sun? Baby, have you been to the sun? With the promise of a good time The skin socks line the blocks just to push and shove Baby, have you been to the sun? Why speak of love, or the lack of it When there's a golden ball of plenty shining down from above? Someday I'm gonna die And lose the picture that's behind my eye Oh well, I will tap my head and let it run Baby, have you been to the sun?
3.
I would lay it all on the line I'd risk it all I'd gamble everything Just to do it again all over with you And I got things on my mind But I'll put 'em off Just for the outside chance I could do it again all over with you You know that I would I would spend my whole life Talking backwards On the phone All alone No one home I would travel through time I'd steal a cop car I'd smash all the stained-glass windows Just to do it again all over with you And I would drink from a toilet I'd wear a tank top to a business meeting Just to do it again all over with you You know that I would I would trade my lifeforce For a passport to foreign times Some peace of mind I'm inclined To stay behind For one last time
4.
Black Pearls 02:28
The drunken boat sails the endless night Around in circles with no safe harbor in sight Another monkey with a pen begins to write Televisions emit a light To entertain us with a circus of death And hold our tongues as we hold our breath And hold our eyes so we can see the light And the light reveals a smile On the skull of every human child And through this faith we can accept our fate We know where to go, and when to go, and when to wait We get our signals from the flashing light And the light reveals a smile On the skull of every human child Let’s put them all into a pile And build a pyramid to the one true god So many choices, yes it’s true But all these choices have been chosen for you Anything that you can think to do The television has told you to We’re not trying to get in the way Of these American “happy days” But these days are numbered by the beast So whistle while you work and enjoy the feast A cornucopia of bile A modern love that’s pronounced “sieg heil” Bodies burn, but burn with style We’re pimping hip now for the one true god Upon roads paved with bones We walk down future fallout zones Blind to their true design that’s Been in the making for a while From D.C. back to the Nile And there will never be a trial For the followers of the one true god And so we line up single-file To make love to the necrophile On every skull there is a smile.
5.
You keep a long cold stare in your room You sleep with a broom You're wearing nothing but butterflies I try and I try just to look in your eyes But it comes as a big surprise When I see that you won't even Open your eyes Just for a little while Please help me smile And I don't know where you stand You're like a crooked old man Shaking most of my hands Shaking hands with your left hand Please tell me that I can stay I won't get in your way I'm very good at being very small When you're chasing a dog With a bat in his mouth Beware of the sign that says "Beware of the dog" When you're picking on windows A knock at the door It's quarter to four and it's starting to rain And I'm catching the train just to see you again Behaving like strangers when we should be friends I understand, yes I do Sometimes it gets very hard Coming and going and breaking apart You're breaking my heart If I were you I would be less like you Yes it's true Don't be confused Cuz I don't mean to be mean But it seems that you don't even want me around My head's on the ground And I feel like a clown Hitting myself in the face with a pie It's high time you and I Laid it out on the line I can see you from here Making a brand new start with the first of the year
6.
She Knows 03:27
She'll give you everything You never wanted and more (And that's the way it is) And she'll love you endlessly When you just want it to end (And that's the way it is) She'll bring you flowers When you're holed up in your house (And it's on fire) Because she knows She knows She'll sing you love songs While you're drowning in the sound (And you're on fire) Because she knows She knows And she may change her ways But I wouldn't hold my breath (And that's the way it is) And every step you take Is one step closer to death (And that's the way it is) She'll bring you flowers When you're holed up in your house (And it's on fire) Because she knows She knows She'll sing you love songs While you're drowning in the sound (And you're on fire) Because she knows She knows better She knows better She's out of her mind
7.
And if that's all there is Just a passing glance between us on the street If I love you then why don't I say, "I love you" And if I don't does that mean I'm not thinking of you? Oh tell me why this heart shouldn't break I see you hold his hand But not as tightly as the hold you have on me If I love you, but I don't tell you, "I love you" Instead in silence I sleep only dreaming of you Oh tell me why this heart shouldn't break Why call these loving arms When we just use them to keep us apart? Oh why? Why don't I tell you that I do If I love you? And if that's how it is And now I see you walking my way down the street I love you so I'm telling you, "I love you" I love you, I love you, I love you Now tell me why this heart shouldn't break
8.
She's got a poison smile That anyone's eyes can see She keeps a deck of cards Without any fours or threes She's like a muscle man That gets into fights with trees And even though I know she's beautiful And wonderful She's totally wrong for me Now she's leaning on my window As the glass begins to crack I pack my things into a suitcase because I know that you know I know I'm never coming back A golden sunrise in the morning A brilliant moon shines down at night A million passengers on aeroplanes And bullet trains With broken brains And let me tell you why I know somewhere that there's a girl for me She's probably somewhere near a coconut tree I know some day I'll find her The fortune cookie told me so And it would never lie to me She leaves her lipstick on my pillow She leaves me standing in the rain And as the seasons change And days go by And time goes by And life goes by And we all die alone
9.
I should have been a debt collector, baby Living off of tears that aren’t our own And if I was a debt collector honey So much money would be rolling in we wouldn’t know what to do We could get out of here “Nothing is for free,” replied my baby She lit a cigarette, and showed me the door Another silhouette, framed by her window Oh, the money keeps on rolling in while she’s rolling with him There’s no way out of here.
10.
We'll set our solar sails And fly like nightingales We'll float through clouds absorbing hues Of yellows, oranges, pinks, and blues We'll sail a crystal sea Of vapor-shrouded mystery We'll dance along a colored wind Towards a never-ending And undying love that we could share forever Your time is limited So don't be so inhibited Reach for the brightest star you see Till it consumes you in its light Cuz everything belongs to you And all you really have to do Is take what's waiting there for you And give until your soul explodes In brilliant color covering the universe Cuz when it comes down to it Everything's already gone Dust to dust Steel turns to rust Endless questions with no answers All is over No more rain No more pain One To live to die Two Together To laugh to cry Three Grant me vision To see The path laid out before Grant me power Grant me riches Grant me fame Eternal life Earthquakes Fire Rain down on my enemies Let their blood flow through the streets Let them wither on the vine Because the universe is ours Let's take back what's been stolen And poisoned And watered down And sold to us for profit And money We give to you our lives Our souls Our essence Our all Of pure unadulterated love

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Glass Elevator's Universvm Gloria: Not just an album or an idea, but also a place. A chamber of funhouse mirrors that don't distort so much as distill the dark absurdity of the human condition in the second decade of the Twenty First Century.

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released November 2, 2012

All songs written and performed by Glass Elevator

Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Glass Elevator and John Manini

Glass Elevator is

Mars Carlson
Jabe Jabberwock
Paul Rondo
Wylie VanWenger

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