Name: We'll Dance Until Dawn [Cabaret] by The Psychonauts
Duration: 4 min 31 s
Description: We'll Dance Until Dawn [Cabaret]

[Impatient Exchange]
By Jonas L. Cockson

Skippin’ stones on mountain lakes
That capture time
Younger days not carin’
Didn’t have a dime (on me)
Couldn’t wait to grow up
And leave these lakes behind – me
Im-patient ex-change
Consumed my mind you see

[Chorus/dual vocal] 
(and)What was here (there) was
Ignored and lost to me
Mirrored lakes…
And trees of majesty
And what’s to come (what is now)
Is pure reality
and not the mirage (mirages)
of my (that were) dreams

City pools 
Replaced the lakes of my youth (gettin’ long in the tooth)
Stupid fool,
In debt, the wife and kids
Have moved – on
Songs seem nostalgic,
Cathartic, for only
Just so long
Like pine trees in
The mind [Chorus]

[End verse/long vocal echo]
I made it back here
Only to find
The trees are cleared
And the lakes have dried
An old man cries
As he reads the sign
“New Mall for All!”
Time to die…
Oh – ooooh - Oh, I can feel it in these old bones – oooh –
Oh
It’s time to die
Leave it all 
With no goodbye
I found an old stone
So cool and smooth
I’ll take it home
As I leave you

Lyrics and Music by Jonas L. Cockson

Copyright 2024

"Impatient Exchange"

Inner Universe... A Stream of infinite consciousness ... 

Inner Universe (Ambient 432 Mix)

Invisble nothing, see once something
feel through, waves you once knew
loving all, there was to come
even wrong, you did some

I feel this now, so loud
dissonance,
i need my dissonance
keep your distance when i stray

Ships move slowly, never on sand
though the time rips, sunken ships
that move along
even wrong, did you want some?

Machine fault, last check
no respect for the mounds of flesh
we once knew, when i was you
i had some.

Dissonance ((Acoustic))

I pronounce U...yea
I could denounce U...O
but another day ...I guess
as I'm on my way to the graves of gods
where their bones and bodies lay
O
and would U excuse me from delay
Ur foot so very heavy...
gotta be dragged couse it's turned to clay
I pronounce U...yea
I could denounce U...O
but another day ...I guess
and have U noticed how the clouds r extra grey
waitin' on the birth of their baby grey's
then they all just blow away
O
yea blow away blow away...O hey
for I'm on my to the graves of gods
to protest a highway
yea
and have U noticed all the feet of clay?
O
I pronounce U...yea
I could denounce U...now
won't wait another day...
no
not pavin' our celestials graves
cause there's no thru lane for a highway built on shame
O yea shame shame O
I pronounce U...yea
I could denounce U...O
my man...not here...no
not today
where their bones lay O yea
not today

cover art: Lucia Ferrer Zamudio

Where Their Bones Lay

Broken Mirror * Instrumental

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dub generation

We'll Dance Until Dawn [Cabaret]

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