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3:30
A Hostage (Live at HI-FI)
Brazil
J'ai une ame solitaire
Feels the same
Can you not see it?
Our lips are trailing poison
The feeling will last forever
The fighting is over
Won without a sound
Alone in a white room
Alone with no one
Exstacy
Constancy
Rapidly
One, Two, Three
And if I get the chance
To lead one sheep astray
I'll pull the rope with bleeding teeth
There's something in his eyes
An angel can't tell lies
The war torn streets of Paradise
How hard the code to break
Depends on what's at stake
Perpetual state of measure
3:30
Crime & the Antique Solution (Live at HI-FI)
Brazil
Time delay
Synchronicity
Is all in disarray
From another tear under my duvet
It's antique and smells like Chantilly
The other day it took me far away
When we were young and so risque
You said to stay but I disobeyed
Now I've erased the mistake!
Is it called a crime if I play with time?
All the shame it brings, it changes everything!
Long ago
Someone that I know
Took all the torment I could throw
How would I know I couldn't let it go
Without a dose of a-d-o
And although it's been a year or so
I think I will never outgrow
I'm laying low, so in reverse I go
Because she's the one that I owe
Is it called a crime if I play with time?
All the shame it brings, it changes everything! (x2)
I have gone awry
Trying to defy the laws of time where they apply
And so I sigh that I am high and dry
It really took me by surprise
It caught my eye, I had to say good-bye
It seems I've lost my paradigm
And I could die, because I don't know why
But I forget the name I go by
Is it called a crime if I play with time?
All the shame it brings, it changes everything! (x2)
I'm fading away (I'm fading away)....
3:24
The Novemberist (Live at HI-FI)
Brazil
I dream of airplanes crashing
Solemn beginnings daily
Everyday I grow old
And am born again
Bath in light that starts to darken when I emerge
I dream of airplanes crashing
Solemn beginnings daily
Dissolution is change
I see tongues of fire upon our heads
Turn off the lights to see the next room
The constant
Save a match for me
Run with me into the flames
Save a match for me
Play the game with me tonight
Will november lose its meaning
When your fingers lose their feeling?
Today make it shatter like glass
Today makes tomorrow unbecoming
November is what can change me
5:11
Escape (Live at HI-FI)
Brazil
Awake
Dreaming
Solemn revery
Too lost
Secret
Link in a broken chain
Eyes are open
Only they don't see
Colour, shape, and terminal velocity
Run away when I feel danger
Danger hides in every stranger
Stranger things haves happened
So I feel like being stranger, laughing
All is lost
And all is lost on me
Lorazepam
Says it will set me free
No cold
No heat
Feeling has passed through me
Give me one thing
Escape is all I need
Breathing down my neck you see
Is someone else's destiny
It makes no difference to pretend
So give me all my garmonbozia
Pain and suffering
The right make a world of your own
Escape overrides it all
4:12
Candles Cast Long Shadows (Live at HI-FI)
Brazil
Hey, they say you died in your sleep
From a poison vapour leak
In 1917
You were only 23
And the time I saw you last
Was in a piece of broken glass
When you moved across the room
And I smelled your cheap perfume
Late, the candles cast long shadows
No matter where you are
Shiver! In the apartment where I live
And the death that you relive
Is too close to my bed
And it replays in my head
You are the ghost in the machine
You are the ghost in my routine
And I find you quite obscene
'Cause the way that you make me fiend
Late, the candles cast long shadows
No matter where you are
The candles cast long shadows
I, I don't know what to do
'Cause your body, I see through
Though I could not see your face
Though I saw your breath on the mirror
And there's one thing that you should know
That's that I fell for you long ago
And everything that I do
It begins and ends with you
Late, the candles cast long shadows
No matter where you are
The candles cast long shadows
Adelaide? (There's no one there)
4:52
Io (Live at HI-FI)
Brazil
one wore white
the other dressed in red
one invincible
the other fell down and bled
one to touch your face
the other to wipe the sweat
one to know your name
and the other not just yet
one day calm broke the silence and I heard my voive in the audience
and it said, "look at my face."
one day calm broke the silence
I wear my nerves on the outside and
hide them under my...
there's no one out there, I know
her eyes were gleaming in Io
and I'm still breathing on my own
but thoughts are leaving one by one
one stood by while the other came and went
the other flew away
so she woudn't fall out again
one to let you know
the other to make you wait
worlds across the fence and they're
traveled every day.
4:24
Zentropa (Live at HI-FI)
Brazil
Run run away
And don't remain
Running on the data track
And don't look back
Surprise attack
Conscience tells me I am right
Burning lungs, suffocate
Scream with every breath I take
Wondering, 1-2-3
Will I ever see my...
Run away, run so far away
The monolith stands in a darkening shadow
If I should die before I wake
Never see the shores
With foreign waves
Memory fades to black
Under crushing marble slab cool me off
Rinse me clean
Let me please come with you
Porcelain ivory
Look at you now look at me
Run away, run so far away
The monolith is beckoning every day
Close my eyes and set me free
2:56
Fall Into (Live at HI-FI)
Brazil
On time for me
Is too late for you
Their plastic gaze
Would melt for you
My passive face
Keeps me away
Cold, stark, and pale
Our sobriquet
Sending a wire transmission
Falling into submission
Are you real or are you a vain imagination
It's not for nothing
It's not for nothing I tell myself
5:36
The Iconoclast (Live at HI-FI)
Brazil
Your sky falls forever
A black heart endeavor
The game of laissez-faire
Aces in the air
Your eyes stare forever
In the cold dry hereafter
Hiding an affair
I swore was never there
It's over and under and over and under
In the city that never sleeps
You're the creature that never wakes
I thought you were someone else
Scent of attraction
Lean in to listen
"Resurrect the dead on Jupiter" she said
Time's game is wasting
Worldwide lambasting
A billion miles away
A deadly bird of prey
Flies over and under and over
Force fed everytime
My tongue everytime
Why are the words nonsense?
6:08
Metropol (Live at HI-FI)
Brazil
Take a breath
Random streaks of light prevade
The petrol perfume that I breathe
Air
Taken at the witching hour
Missle launch and fuselage
Rivets from a row of eyes
Factory glass state of mind
Glare
Thus machine begets machine
1 is 10 is 423
Affectionate utility
The death of time
Replaces the need
For age
I think I tried to steal a kiss
Amind hollow shriek and hiss
Building's blacker then the sea
The sky a wash of acid pain's
Gray
The air is thick and oil slick
The architecture breathes anf its breath
Soon I'll not want to go away
Black and silver
Soot stained eyes see fire and steel
How can I tell if it's for real?
I think sometimes today
I'll rescue you away
Andromeda can wait
Je suis desole
Nirvana encoded in concrete
Follow your gray sillhouette
8:20
The Vapours (Live at HI-FI)
Brazil
My head is floating like a rock in a riverbed
Today, the Vapours came and took my mind away, like an angel.
I look in the mirror and say
"Does anyone ever feel like I do?
Does anybody ever feel this way?
I never know how to explain it to you
I still wonder if it's all inside my head?"
My hands are aching like they're wrapped around a gun
Today, the Vapours put a rope around my tongue
And now my hands write down on paper what I say
"Does anyone ever feel like I do?
Does anybody ever feel this way?
I never know how to explain it to you
I still wonder if it's all inside my head?"
...I can never seem to some the same familiar beating drum...
My head is floating like a rock in a riverbed
Today, the Vapours came and took my mind away, like an angel
I look in the mirror
"Does anyone ever feel like I do?
Does anybody ever feel this way?
I never know how to explain it to you
I still wonder if it's all inside my head?" [x2]
...I can never seem to some the same familiar beating drum...
3:12
We (Live at HI-FI)
Brazil
Automation is a subtractive process
Do you remember it?
We had a data date
You tried to turn it back
Now you're a bit too late
Stand in the light again
Open your mouth speak
Give me a sign of life
Touch me
Make peace with your right brain
Sense of security
Logic cuts pure and deep
Logic all you need
A line dividing us
Cold stark reality
In logic you will find transformation
We have all the strengths of genius
And all the signs of weakness
You'd better go on believing
Interface cannot come between
Deep down I believe
I'll always be powerless
4:16
Breathe (Live at HI-FI)
Brazil
Breathe in breathe out your contradictions
Breathe in breathe out your words of fiction
"Breathe in breathe out," you say, "but not on my time."
Says I, "Good bye to Grace."
Breathe in breathe out your pale addiction
Breathe in breathe out without conviction
"Breathe in breathe out," you say, "but not on my time."
Says I, "Goodbye to Grace."
Says the look on my face
Says I, "Goodbye to Grace, but not on my time."
Says I, "Goodbye to Grace."
We may never be something better
We may be down but we're not afraid
We may never be something better
We may be down but we're not afraid
Breathe in breathe out without permission
Breathe in breathe out your final mission
"Breathe in breathe out," you say, "but not on my time."
Says I, "Goodbye to Grace."
Says I, "Goodbye to Grace."
Says I, "Goodbye to Grace."
Says I, "Goodbye to Grace."
Say goodbye to Grace. Say goodbye to Grace.
Say goodbye to Grace. Say goodbye to Grace. Your breath is clouding the window.
Say goodbye to Grace. Say goodbye to Grace.
Say goodbye to Grace. Say goodbye to Grace.
4:40
Aventine (Live at HI-FI)
Brazil
Watch me and stay close beside
So helplessly waiting close my eyes
And hold me now because it's after me
Just waiting for my last breath
Vague distant holes in my memory
The nightside I'm drifting so far away
The words that I'm speaking come haltingly
The air that I'm breathing taste sulfuric
Deep inside me
Deep inside my fortress
Feeling is lost with my memory
I'll work my way back to what it means
It's far to late to trace my steps back again
The thoughts petrifying me because
The spider man is after me
Fading hoping of familiar recognition
I built a castle made of arms cross and breathless
Watch me turn things around
Turn them on their head
This nightside where I'm drifting
This place is a lie I'm believing
To live with myself
To ease the strain
Release the brain
It's all I want
Bleeding the vein
4:47
You Never Know (Live at HI-FI)
Brazil
Yesterday morning upon my waking
Inside my pocket, I found a calling card
It said in cursive "Meta-detective"
And had a number I didn't recognize
It rang all morning and in the evening
I heard an answer. It sounded like a sigh.
It was a woman on the receiver
(she was a breather)
I said i'd see her because you never know
She said she'd meet me under the marquee
Of a theater that was abandoned
She ran up to me and leaned in closely
Whispering softly, she told me how I would die
She spoke in cipher and coy conundrums
Her hair was like lightning and smelled like thunder
Ending our rendez-vous, she said "Rappelez-vous?"
And with a pirouette, she disappeared and I said,
"You never know"
I'll let you be my eyes if we fly
I'll let you be my eyes because I'm blind
The rain flies into out mouths while our heads fly into the clouds
4:08
This official bootleg was recorded live from the board during Brazil's 2019 reunion show at HI-FI in Indianapolis.
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Credits
Recorded and mixed by Bryan Nelson.
Mastered at Bunker Studio, Indianapolis, IN.
Cover photo by Bryan Nelson.
Layout by DL;BR.
Saxophone performed by John Newby.