Part 2 of Stars Uncharted’s 100th feature celebration. Technically this the 101st feature, but let’s not let technicalities ruin the festivities. On today’s menu: Other Lives (double dose) and Chris Merritt (double dose). Bon appetit!
Tamer Animals / Other Lives
Lyrics
Solitary motion, in the wake of an avalanche
Deer in the headlights, there goes a weaker one
He’s listenin’ in the fast gaze, I don’t care now to see the way
Do you hear the silence? I was far too lateOh living for the city, and it’s always troubling
to keep it in the hot lane, I don’t care about no scenery
and you run from it then, now you can’t escape, cause it’s all you see
But we’re all just an end to a simple thing, and it’s all you see, and it’s all you seeWe’re just tamer animals
We’re just tamer animalsSolitary motion, in the wake of an avalanche
We too ka hit then, trying to see if you hold it in
and you run from it then, now you can’t escape, cause it’s all you see
But we’re all just an end to a simple thing, and it’s all you see, and it’s all you seeWe’re just tamer animals
We’re just tamer animals
We’re just tamer animals
For 12 / Other Lives
Lyrics
I was in the dark age
Searching for the ones in my life
I’m so far away
But I had hit the ground runnin
Steady as you go, I don’t mind
I’m still here today
Oh, spouting hymns and all’s in them
And forever target, when it ain’t so kindBut it feels like forever
When your mind turns to fictionAnd I had took the long way
and I was in the heat, and I don’t mind
I’m so far awayBut it feels like forever
When you mind turns to fictionImagine the darks from the skull
In a night without sleep, vibration comes, first suit I had in months without feet
Spouting hymns and all’s in them
And forever target, when it ain’t so kindBut it feels like forever,
When your mind turns to fictionThe Mexican Border / Chris Merritt
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She orders her food
She stares at the boy in the back
She’s falling in love
He’s bending the curve of his back
Sipping his sodaHe’s looking for fries
There’s always some left in the bag
The light from above
Is fading an inch from his eyes
Sipping his sodaWhen you feel that alone
It’s hard to tell the difference
Between being alone and being unwanted
When you feel that alone
Just remember, remember
I’m waiting for you
Waiting for youThey’re living a lie
The mirror is ugly and fat
There’s nothing to love
And no one will know ’till I die
What I was meant forWhen you feel that alone
It’s hard to tell the difference
Between being alone and being unwanted
When you feel that alone
Remember, remember
I’m waiting for you
Yeah I’m waiting for you
Somewhere waiting for you
Someone waiting for youSo the question is not “why?”
The question is when you can answer “why?”
When you can answer yourself “why?”
You’ll be where you want when you answer “why not?”I was giving the whole thing up
But I didn’t know what the whole thing was yet
And I thought I was sure to die
But I hadn’t even begun to start lifeI’m losing a good friend now
He’s walking around on the Mexican border
And now I’m finding a brand new town
And finding the sound that will kill my borders and now I’mWaiting for you
Yeah I’m waiting for
Yeah I’m waiting for you
Yeah I’m waiting for youQuinn / Chris Merritt
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Your days are watching a light show and swimming in music
And learning the functions of the brain
I know this was me but I can’t remember
I still don’t know what’s going on after twenty yearsQuinn, I walk in to check you out, it’s like your mother told me
When you’re breathing, asleep, you barely even move
You see colors all around, but you don’t know what they mean
When you started to live, I started living
When you started to live, I started livingYeah, your arms are like branches, your legs are like bamboo
You grow like those dinosaur sponge things
Where will you go and where will you be?
I guess we all wind up at home againChristy Quinn, I walk in to check you out, it’s like your mother told me
When you’re breathing, asleep, you barely even move
You see colors all around, but you don’t know what they mean
When you started to live, I started living
When you started to live, I started livingI think we’re gonna make it
Just stay right there and wait it out
When you can talk I’ll have a home
When we can talk I’ll have a homeQuinn, I walk in to check you out, it’s like your mother told me
When you’re breathing, asleep, you barely even move
You see colors all around, but you don’t know what they mean
When you started to live, I started living
When you started to live, I started livingI think we’re gonna make it
Just stay right there and wait it out
When we can talk I’ll have a home
When we can talk I’ll have a home
