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Peace & Love, Inc.
Going, Going, Gone
Made to Be Broken
Still Here
1,000,000 Watts of Love
Where Would I Be Without IBM
To Be Free
If It's Real
Crybaby
Where the I Divides
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Peace & Love, Inc.

Look at the world
It’s a complicated place
And it’s hard to keep the pace
You’ve got to wear a smiling face

But what we’ve got
Is a blue-light special on truth
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You’ve got nervers we need to soothe

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Believe in us we make it easy
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Shop around
See if you don’t agree
We think it fits you to a t
And the best part is it’s free
I believe

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It could impact your bottom line

If you’ve got to belong to something
Belong to us we’ll make you pc
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And we’ve got all the biggest stars
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Welcome... to peace and love incorporated


Going, Going, Gone

Sometimes looking back I can’t
Believe how many times I left her.
I guess it’s all part of the game
That we play.

All is fair in love and war,
But in this case they’re quite the same thing.
What’s the difference if I go
Or if I stay?

I tried to tell her
I was not the only one to turn to,
But she was indifferent to my pleas.
And now she’s
Going, going, gone.
And I did nothing wrong.
But she’s going, going, gone.

If I disappeared tonight,
It would not change her mind about me.
She’s in love with someone who has changed
Since that day.

She tried to tell me
I was not the only one to turn to,
But I won’t get down on my knees.
So she’s
Going, going, gone.
And I did nothing wrong.
But she’s going, going, gone.


Made to Be Broken

Never had to tell a lie
Never had to say goodbye
It was only you and i
Then

Memories will have to do
They will take the place of you
Can’t you tell me what is true
When

Words are lies the day they’re spoken
Love’s a lifetime’s only token
Words are lies the day they’re spoken
Promises are made to be broken

Life is always compromise
Ties that bind are a bind that ties
All I had was your two eyes
Then

Never had to tell a lie
Never had to say goodbye
It was only you and i
Then

Words are lies the day they’re spoken
Love’s a lifetime’s only token
Words are lies the day they’re spoken
Promises are made to be broken
They’re made to be broken


Still Here

So I dreamed we were somewhere
And everything you said was real
And everything I said was right
That we don’t have to fear the night

Then I’m in light and I still find
That when we look around we still feel
Like we’re running out of time
And there is nothing left for us to try

We stay together now
When all the signals say we
Should move on from here

But I don’t think it’s coincidence
And I don’t believe in accidents
It’s time to ask ourselves
Why are we still here

Come back down and we still find
That all our waking fears are around us and
Shining in our eyes
They are blinding out the skies

Something still you don’t give me
Something that just won’t break
You sit there silent in your place
And try to see your face

Why do we still try
When all our time is spent in
Holding on to hope


1,000,000 Watts of Love

There comes a time when
You need a good friend
But all that you have
Is that glowing screen

You know you could fly
Your hate a run high
But you’ve been squeezed in
To that same old scene
You know what I mean

Turn up the power
This is the hour
From every tower
Shout it from above

Turn up the power
This is the hour
From every tower
A million watts of love

By turning that switch
You’re finding your niche
And you could tell then
Where to put the advice

You should get back in
It’s time to jack in
We’ll help you hack in
To that glowing life
You won’t have to think twice


Where Would I Be Without IBM

I could never care enough
To do what I had to do.
And now that I am scared enough,
It all comes back to you.
Communication’s rarely open
For messages to get through.
I would speak; I’d be outspoken
If I could think of anything new.

Where would I be without my radio?
Where would I be without birth control?
Where would I be without fair-weather friends?
Where would I be -- without ibm?

You tell me what I should need.
Advice is your specialty.
But could I ever need enough
For you to set me free?
I’m afraid to make decisions,
That’s where you come in.
In the case of chance collisions,
I look at you as my friend.

Where would I be without my pc?
Where would I be without mtv?
Where would I be without cnn?
Where would I be -- without ibm?

Where would I be without all my toys?
Where would I be without sampled noise?
Where would I be without seeing you again?
Where would I be -- without ibm?


To Be Free

Staring at an empty screen
I can sometimes
Feel like dying
Doing what I have to do
I can almost
Hear you crying

This is how it feels
Funny how it’s all so real
This is how it feels
To be free
To be free

Figures slowly come to life
Almost always
They are having
Minor problems minor strife
I can almost
Hear you laughing

This is how it feels
Using up the time we steal
This is how it feels
To be free

So this is how it feels to be free


If It's Real

The two of us have seen it all
The good times and the bad
Life can be so could
When you think of what you’ve had

The time has come to make a change
I’ll follow where you lead
I can be so warm
If I get what I need

I always fail
Whenever I try
To explain to you
The reason why

I don’t know what you’re thinking
And I don’t know how you feel
But I only want to be with you
If it’s real
Only if it’s real

And when I learn you feel the same
The future and the past
We can make a change
This time things can last

And every time I think of you
I can’t believe it’s true
The world can seem so old
But I’m born anew


Crybaby

If I could say I still loved you, I would do it.
For you.
And if I could say that I’d be true, I would do it.
You know I would do it.

But I can’t ignore
The lives I’ve lived before.
And you will find
That you can’t change my mind.

So cry, baby, cry, I don’t care anymore.
Cry, baby, cry, ’cuz I’m out the door.

If I could stop the hands of time, I would do it.
On a dime.
And if I could say that you’re still mine, I would do it.
You know I would do it.

But life goes on,
And I am already gone.
What can you say?
I’m still running away.

So cry, baby, cry, I don’t care anymore.
Cry, baby, cry, ’cause I’m out the door.
Cry, baby, cry, turn your gray skies blue.
Cry, baby, cry, ’cause I’m over you.

So cry, baby, cry, I don’t care anymore.
Cry, baby, cry, ’cause I’m out the door.
Cry, baby, cry, turn your gray skies blue.
Cry, baby, cry, ’cause I cried for you.
For you.


Where the I Divides

When all my homes don’t feel like homes,
And the doors don’t open the way they should,
When all my senses are telling me
That the situation’s changed again.
It’s not the miles that I must drive
Or the endless questions in my mind.
It’s all the birds that I can see
And the soaring circles that they fly.

And half the world is moving on without me.
The sun goes down but I’m still standing here,
Where the I divides.
Where the I divides.
You’ll find me where the I divides.

When there is no way to go ahead
Without leaving something else behind,
Where there are signs that point me on
To a shining path or a simple mind.
When all my machines have all run down
And I don’t know what I’m fighting for,
There is some change inside of me and
I know I can’t stay here anymore.

’cuz half the world is moving on around me,
And I’m still standing hesitating here.


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Obs.: essa faixa é na verdade a rgavação de uma transmissão eletrônica de dados via modem.
No título está a dica para decodificá-la, com a informação do formato da transmissão:

300 KBPS, sem paridade, com 8 bits de largura e 1 bit de parada.

Aproximando um telefone enquanto toca essa faixa o modem que estiver no outro lado da linha irá receber a informação transcrita abaixo.
Nessa transmissão, Kurt Valaquen narra uma tentativa de assalto que eles sofreram enquanto estavam em Curitiba durante a maior turnê que fizeram no Brasil.
Se o fato é verídico, não sabemos, mas que a transmissão está gravada no disco, está.
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So we’re supposed to play in curitiba in 18 hours, but our bus is being held hostage by the local promoters. they’ve formed some unholy alliance with the brazilian counterpart of ascap: the prs.
Rently the prs has the legal power to arrest people, and they want a piece of the national tour promoter’s money. the local security force, gang mexicana, has been bought out for 180
Zados and a carton of marlboros each. the only faction still operating in our defense is big john, our personal security man, and he’s hiding in his room because a local gang is out
Is blood because of a 1982 knifing incident in which he was involved. our 345-pound road manager, rick only had this to say: you wanted the life of a rock star!. paul, jim and I real
That this was one situation we were going to have to get out of ourselves.

We convened a hasty conference in the hotel lobby. paul suggested contacting our national tour promoter in sao paulo, but we remembered that he was in recife with faith no more, who had just arr
For their brazilian tour. we thought about contacting our brazilian record company in rio, but they weren’t home. our ever-diligent american manager was arranging help of numerous forms, but he
N new york, and just too far away to get anything moving in time.

And there were 6000 kids in curitiba who just wouldn’t understand.

We knew it was time for action. paul went up to the prs guys and invited them into the bar to discuss it like civilized men over a few brazilian drinks, offering each of them a cigar on his way.
Amused prs heavies seemed to like the idea of a few free drinks, even if they knew they would never give us our bus back. when paul winked at jim and I on his way in, we went into action.

I stole off to my room to prepare while jim went into action. creeping carefully through a service duct, he managed to gain a vantage point some three meters above the bus, and dropped carefully
The roof. after using his all-purpose swiss army knife (affectionately known as the skit knife) to jimmy open the roof hatch, he went through the darkened inside of the bus and remo
He inside engine service panel. using some spare electronic parts he found while on an island in the amazon, he wired the entire bus for remote control, not unlike a remote control toy car.

At this point, he asked himself now how shall I get out of here? !?

Paul was having difficulties of his own.

Couldn’t you see your way clear to letting us fulfill our contractual obligations in curitiba? think of the kids!

Through our translator, fabio, the prs man, aldo, said:

No. you americans think you own the world. hah! we’ll burn down our rain forest if we damn well please. we need room for cows!! we want a mcdonald’s on every... oh, sorry, yes anyway, no.
Ed 40% of your concert receipts to give to david bowie, he said, winking to the local promoter, phillipe.

As paul continuted this elaborate distraction, jim effected an escape from the heavily guarded bus by crawling down into the cargo bay, cutting a hole in the floor with the swiss army knife’s ar
Der, slipping into the manhole cover situated under the bus, and walking up to the hotel’s basement from there. jim called up to me in my room and gave the signal. we were now to meet at the bac
Rance, with our tech guys. but first, paul would need some help getting away from his unwelcome guests, as things were getting ugly.

He says he has lost his patience, and that he can think of other ways of extracting payment from you kurt and jim physically, our trembling interpreter said.

The moment had come. jim began operating the bus from his back entrance vantage point. as the remote-controlled bus lurched towards the parking lot exit, the superstitious security youths fled i
Ror. paul was pulling anxiously on his collar as the prs man began describing his collection of world war ii nazi ceremonial knives when a sudden crash split the tableau.

Jim had purchased me the gift of a complete black ninja stealth assassin outfit in aracaju. I had been gearing up and crawling through the air conditioning ducts all this time. as I crashed thro
He cheap imitation-styrofoam hung ceiling tiles, skates first, I flashed ninja stars all about me. in the ensuing panic, paul escaped to the pre-arranged bus pick-up point. unfortunately, my ska
Ere a poor choice of foot gear for escaping over the broken glass of the table I had landed on. were it not for the confusion and the ninja-star-inflicted-wounds delivered to the bad guys, I wou
Ve been set upon while floundering on the glass-strewn carpet. as it happened, however, I leapt through the open door of the careening bus as it departed the city of maringa forever.

If only we had managed to get our equipment in the bus, too . . .

Every word of this story is true.

- kurt h


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