Where the Streets Have No Name

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lyrics

We don't speak
Steam rises from our coffee cups
You touch my cheek
I feel like I'm falling up
Weightless
Spinning between joy and dread
Trying to make sense
Of the memories flooding my head

Stop the world with a flash
Clutch it in a freeze frame
Wind the black ribbon back
To where the streets have no name
Erase the word that's written on each sign
Unbreak the glass, uncrush the butterfly
Turn back time

There was blood on my hands last night
Blood on the bathroom floor
What did you do to your wife?
She's not breathing anymore
I lifted her head from the tile
She felt as heavy and cold as stone
Oh, God, she's gone now!
Left us alone, this bird has flown...

Looking back, we reached for LOVE
But EVOL looked the same
We walked the streets of our yearning
And called each one by name
Lit the night up with our secret burning
Our old forbidden flame roared up bright, returning
And then the world changed

(mysterious Satanic messages)

How did we get here?
It felt like a palindrome
When you kissed me again in that bar yesterday
It felt like coming back home
You said to me then
We have to be together forever
and I said yes, you're right, I love you
Light as a feather

Stop the world with a flash
Clutch it in a freeze frame
Wind the black ribbon back
To where the streets have no name
Erase the darkness written on each sign
Take back our words and turn them all to lies
Turn back time

Stop the world with a flash
Clutch it in a freeze frame
Wind the bloody ribbon back
To where the streets have no name
I'm lost...
Is this love? Or is it evil?
The words look the same to me now

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from Message Received, released April 18, 2020

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Vowl Sounds Matlock, UK

Transatlantic dream-pop from Huan-Hua (Gentle Brontosaurus, Red Tape Diaries, TL;DR, Miscellaneous Owl) from Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and Tom Morton (Lardpony, Vom Vorton, Of Mice and Mental Arithmetic) from Matlock, UK

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