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Open Hearts Open Minds

by This Mad Desire

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Running Wild Running Free 04:12
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You’re the devil in training, a sinner in disguise Sick and tired of pretending you’re the angel in their eyes They tried to tame you, tried to cage the beast And now it’s Judgement Day, time to cut the leash Running wild running free You can’t live in their fantasy Gotta break on through to your new reality Running wild running free There’s always hard times, always hell to pay It’s up to you if you’re the predator or the prey They won’t see it coming when you take it to the streets This Mad Desire for life and liberty Running wild running free You won’t live in their fantasy Gonna break on through to your new reality Running wild running free And this world will try to beat you down It’ll pick you up and kick you to the ground You’ve gotta believe in yourself and rise above it all
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Victim Appreciation Night 03:02
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Good evening, people -make yourselves at home Thanks for coming -you won’t go home alone Most of you are here because sleep gives you no rest Nightmares indicate that you are all quite depressed It’s anger right by wrong It’s sadness live by long It’s sickness cure by dream It’s love mind by machine It’s Victim Appreciation Night at the Maudlin Hotel The grass is always greener on the other side of hell Our mouths are stuffed with truth and our hearts with old age We all gag on our thoughts and our blood it spurts with rage We’re so frustrated with divine technology So we gave up on God in our victim eschatology In a Paris made of light In a crowd let loose with fright A French spoken with might Translates into death tonight It’s Victim Appreciation Night at the Maudlin Hotel The grass is always greener on the other side of hell We need money or love will fail We need art or we will die We need love or art will fail We need money or we will die You see, we’re guilty if you don’t drown and innocent if you do Hello I have a story Tonight I communed with the dead I went underground and their words wormed in my head
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Love Is A Glorious Thing -Album Version 03:42
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Take me with you anywhere Wherever you want i don’t care I’ll grab onto the airplane’s wing Because love is a glorious thing Because love is a glorious thing Because, because love is a glorious thing And I just want to see how it feels I just want to see how it I just want to see how feels to me Sometime I could feel it rise up from the sea This love wash over me And it changed me completely And it changed me gloriously Because love is a glorious thing Because, because love is a glorious thing And I just want to see how it feels I just want to see how it I just want to see how it feels to me Sometime I’m holding on but it’s moving fast I won’t let my future crash I’ll grab onto your airplane’s wing Because love is a glorious thing Because love is a glorious thing Because, because love is a glorious thing Because love is a glorious thing Because, because love is a glorious thing And I just want to see how it feels I just want to see how it I just want to see how it feels
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Bon Soir Regrette A Demain 04:00
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You dreamt you woke up in a hospital bed When you spoke up, they said it was all in your head Fear in the elevator, panic at the sink And the media tells you that it’s worse than you think Bon soir regrette a demain None of us knows what happens in the end So for now, why don’t we just pretend? Bon soir regrette a demain It gets so lonely in this quaran-time And we get so tired of going online Strangers when we meet, with social distanced hearts So we dance down this dark street six feet apart Bon soir regrette a demain None of us knows what happens in the end So for now, why don’t we just pretend? Bon soir regrette a demain All of you that did not choose A world in turmoil, the strangest news What do we do with all these blues? We’ve seen the movie and this time it’s true Bon soir regrette a demain None of us knows what happens in the end So for now, why don’t we just pretend? Bon soir regrette a demain
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Candy Doctor 04:59
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Candy Doctor –what can we do? Candy Doctor –is it all true? And to think that I loved you I have waited And I have waited so long So long for this And you, you will betray me I, I will come again I, I will come again Candy Doctor –with the sweetest lips Poison heart, sugar lips And I hurt you like this Candy Doctor –with the sweetest lips Poison heart, sugar lips And to think I hurt you like this
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Flaming Doves 04:00
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Oceans are rising, COVID’s taking a friend And the man shouting at the corner Holds a sign that proclaims the end I wrote you a letter that I knew I’d never send. Dream to end confusion, a love that never ends The vampires and the flaming doves A thousand different kinds of love She said she came from the Lord above To burn their cars and drink their blood Fire always comes before the flood The wolf followed me home last night Snarling and scratching at my door I camped out on the rooftop I don’t feel safe here anymore These psychotic invocations are not your answered prayers The wolf that chased you home last night still howls beneath the stairs The vampires and the flaming doves A thousand different kinds of love She said she came from the Lord above To burn their cars and drink their blood Fire always comes before the flood Champagne-swilling bleeding hearts Never realize this is how it starts Politicians and their boys that all play cops Are they the wolves that time forgot? Forgot Oceans are rising, COVID’s taking a friend And the man shouting at the corner Holds a sign that proclaims the end I wrote you a letter that I knew I’d never send. Dream to end confusion, a love that never ends The vampires and the flaming doves A thousand different kinds of love She said she came from the Lord above To burn their cars and drink their blood Fire always comes before the flood Over the mountain and through the air They will feel as though we are no longer there With your raygun eyes and purple dreams We will take their prisoners and we will set them free
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In The Garden 03:42
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In the garden I saw a secret birth A quiet beginning wrenched from the quaking earth The trees they shivered The cats, oh those cats they groaned In this waking moment, I was not alone This dream I’m in is not quite mine It feels to be before me and slightly out of time You were beautiful and I the oncoming storm You were beautiful and I was being born In the garden I saw a secret birth A quiet beginning wrenched from the quaking earth You were beautiful and I the oncoming storm You were beautiful and I was being born
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Open Hearts Open Minds 03:57
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Open hearts open minds No surprise what you’ll find I have a friend in an old steeltown He can’t believe what goes around Times will change and we’ll be strong We may feel lost Barely hanging on And they don’t know how our hearts melt like snow From all those times so long ago Are you with me? Open hearts open minds Open hearts -Why don’t you open mine? Take a chance on a new romance I already know your secret plans I have a friend in an old steeltown He can’t believe what goes around Open hearts open minds Open hearts -Why don’t you open mine?
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No Surprise 02:56
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Do you want to know how I feel with you tonight? Do you know the conversation that changed everything? They’ll come for me by morning if I know anything about this Don’t you know the temptation that tainted everything? It should come as no surprise Because it’s you It’s a brand new era Starting now is when I feel alive I’ll answer all your questions with lovely alibis There will be no secrets There won’t even be a sound Honey, don’t you know the temptation that turned this all around? It should come as no surprise Because it’s you Do you want to know how I feel with you tonight? It’s a lifetime that I feel all in one moment Stay with me til morning and you will know just what I mean Don’t you feel the temptation to let yourself change everything? It should come as no surprise Because it’s true
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Can't We Pretend We're In Love? 02:09
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Can’t we just for one moment Pretend that this all isn’t real? Not these waves of disaster that crushed us Not this heartache I feel Can’t we pretend the past does not exist? Or if it did we just laughed and smiled and kissed? Can’t we pretend we are in love? Can’t we just for one moment Pretend that we have no fear I really am your King Arthur And you my Lady Guenevere Can’t we pretend the past does not exist? Or if it did we just laughed and smiled and kissed? Can’t we pretend we are in love? Can’t we pretend we are in love? Can’t we pretend we are in love? Can’t we pretend we are in love?
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Storm the Countryside 05:00
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Storm the countryside and storm the summer garden Storm the quiet sea before the daylight darkens Clouds churn in the sky as black as crows This world so wicked as the wind blows But this love in my heart thunders like a gun Waited so long have I for this evening to come Storm the ghettoes and storm the homes of the elite Make love to everyone you meet Spread joy like lightning through the streets Don’t you be coy, don’t be discreet We’ve lived too long now lovelessly The sooner we act, the sooner we’ll be free Pick up your armour, pick up your shield We’re going to the countryside to devastate the field This hurricane of love will not mercy the weak The lame will quietly rise to their feet With joy in their hearts and passion in their speech The great celebration will knock you off your feet
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Pale Blue Eyes 03:38
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Sometimes I feel so happy Sometimes I feel so sad Sometimes I feel just about everything But mostly you just make me mad Oh baby, you just make me mad I thought of you as my mountaintop I thought of you as my peak I thought of you as everything I had, but couldn’t keep I had, but couldn’t keep Linger on, pale blue eyes Linger on, pale blue eyes Skip a life completely Stuff it in a cup She said, “Money is like us in time It lies, but it can’t stand up” Oh baby, down for you is up Linger on, pale blue eyes Linger on, pale blue eyes It was good what we did yesterday And I’d do it once again The fact that you are married Only proves that you’re my best friend But it’s truly, truly a sin Linger on, pale blue eyes Linger on, pale blue eyes
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Operators Are Standing By (felino Remix) 04:02
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What you’re waiting for is here We’re running riot now And all those things you feared We got rid of them somehow I called the President And she called Adam and Eve We got what you meant Honey you won’t believe Believe Operators are standing by Operators are standing by When you’re ready to give it one more try Operators are standing by, standing by I know we’ve made mistakes But we can fix them now And all that pain you faked We can forgive somehow Somehow Operators are standing by Operators are standing by When you’re ready to give it one more try Operators are standing by Standing by Standing by Tell me more Operators are standing by Operators are standing by When you’re ready to give it one more try Operators are standing by We will fly a great plane across the sky It will all be there for you and I So when you’re ready to give it one more try Operators are standing by

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released October 14, 2022

Produced by Mackenzie Kristjon Jenkyns except where otherwise noted.
Mastered by Phil Demetro at Lacquer Channel Studios in Toronto.

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The music of Hamilton, Ontario-based Mackenzie Kristjon. Like "Neil Young on David Bowie drugs". For more info, please contact macsonfire@gmail.com

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