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Covers & Rarities

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by Color Theory

 

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Be My Lover Now 03:51
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One Thing Leads to Another 05:01
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Johanna 01:57
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Hooked on Love 03:44
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Gabriel's Message 03:31
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Nothing Else Matters 04:01
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I Am You (GameBoy Mix) 03:59
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Survivor's Guilt 05:31
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Emotion Generator 03:35
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Amethyst 02:40
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My Gift to You (acoustic) 04:27
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Misguided 03:25
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A collection of previously unreleased and hard to find originals, plus covers from Sondheim to Metallica. "Survivor's Guilt" is based on a science fiction short story, "Emotion Generator" is the result of a collaboration with Keith Gillard of Fidgital, "Amethyst" and "Misguided" never found their way to an album, and "My Gift To You (acoustic)" was recorded for a National Public Radio feature. All tracks were mastered for this collection from their original sources.
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released 25 October 2006
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Track Name: Survivor's Guilt
One recessive gene
Why do I deserve this?
A three-year quarantine
Why do I deserve this?
Ten million casualties
Somehow I'm immune to the disease
The virus finally dies
Why do I deserve to live?

Are we really the lucky ones?
Every day we face the guilt of survival
And even though it's not my fault
I can't help but feel like I'm responsible
Why do we live while others die
Long before their time
It's like we're immortal
What did we do to earn the right
To survive an outbreak or a time portal

The fate of all mankind
Will I live or die tomorrow?
Conflict of the mind
Am I feeling shame or sorrow?

Targeted attack
Why do I deserve this?
I'm never going back
Why do I deserve this?
Travelling through time
I lost my entire family line
Now it ends right here
Why do I deserve to live?
Track Name: Emotion Generator
Emotion generator
You’d like to love or hate her
But you haven’t got the energy
Emotion generator
You’d like to praise her or berate her
It would seem such sweet ecstasy

If only you could care enough to care
But you can’t care enough to comb your hair
This is where I come in
I can save you
Win your soul back from the threshold of despair

Emotion generator
Initiative creator
Consultant to the stars
Emotion generator
Adrenal gland inflator
Provacateur of Venus and Mars

I can motivate you both to care
In ten minutes she’ll be pulling you and you’ll be pulling hair
Then I’ll collect my fee
Grant your privacy
Ashamed to show the feelings that you share

Emotion generator
Twenty minutes later
When you’re out of cash and energy
Without your stimulator
The lover and the hater
Restored to general apathy.
Track Name: Amethyst
I cross the road where my mother died
The wind is hoarse like labored breathing
Nothing can live here in the harshness of the sun
The earth is cracked and empty to the core

I knew you but not your name
I saw your soul but not your face

So now I live in a desert of my own
Trapped inside the dryness after tears
My life was paved in roads of purple stone
But now I’ve learned to hitchhike

I knew you but not your name
I saw your soul but not your face
I wear your heart on a chain around my neck
Amethyst, I am forever sobered.
Track Name: My Gift to You (acoustic)
Uncle flew in today
Grandma is on her way
A stocking stuffed
For each of us
Dizzy from the falling snow
Shying from the mistletoe

Gathered around the tree
Singing of Christmas dreams
That end in rhyme
Dreams far from mine
It never snows here in L.A.
And our family’s not that way
Still I hold a hope inside me
That brings me here today

This is my gift to you
Open it Christmas Day
Maybe my only chance to say
Something I never had the strength to say
This is my gift to you

Father I have one wish
No endless Christmas list
No fairy tales
No verbal veils
To hide behind on Christmas Day
Certain words are hard to say
Still I have the chance
To open my heart another way

I can open my heart another way.
Track Name: Misguided
Windswept shifting snowflake circles
Mirror my misguided thoughts of
Love, look what you’ve done now
Love, how can I feel this way
When all that lies before me now
Is nothing but a lump of clay?

Words were spoken straight from my heart
But my heart is spoken for
So please, tell her I’ve grown much colder
Please, tell her I’m not myself
I can control my own emotions
Including ones I’ve never felt

Look what you’ve promised
Love, how can I feel this way
When I’ve made promises of my own
It’s time for me to lock these stray
Misguided thoughts away.