X-Files: The Album

Black--- Sarah McLachlan
Walking After You--- Foo Fighters
Deuce--- The Cardigens
One---Filter
Flower Man---Tonic
Beacon Light ---Ween
Invisable Sun ---Sting and Aswad One More Murder ---Better Than Ezra
Hunter---Bjork
16 Horses---Soul Coughing
Crystal Ship ---X
Chris Carter's Message (at 10:13 of the last track)

Sarah McLachlan
Black
As the walls are closing in and the colours fade to black
As my eyes are falling fast asleep to me, and I follow the tracks that lead me down
And I follow what is right and they wonder sometimes
When they see all the sadness, the pain the truth brings to light

'Cause I can't see no reason
What is blind cannot see
'Cause I want what is pleasing
All I take should be free
What I rob from the innocent ones
What I'd steal from the womb

As the walls are closing in and the colours fade to black
And the night is falling fast and deep into the sea
And in the darkness all that I can see - the frightened and the weak
Are forced to cling to mistakes they know nothing of, at the mercy of the meek

'Cause I can't see no reason
What is blind cannot see
'Cause I want what is pleasing
All I take should be free
What I rob from the innocent ones
What I'd steal from the womb

Foo Fighters
Walking After You
Tonight I'm tangled in my blanket of clouds, dreaming aloud
Things just won't do without you, matter of fact
Oh, oh, ohhh, I'm on your back, I'm on your back
Oh, oh, ohhh, I'm on your back

If you'd accept surrender, I'll give up some more. Weren't you adored?
I cannot be without you, matter of fact
Oh, oh, ohhh, I'm on your back

If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you
If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you

Another heart is cracked in two
I'm on your back

I cannot be without you, matter of fact
Oh, oh, ohhh, I'm on your back, I'm on your back
Oh, oh, ohhh, I'm on your back

If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you
If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you
If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you

The Cardigans
Deuce
I am afraid of you now, now that you left me
Nothing to say - no not now, now that you left me
Now that you left me, now that you left me

Just for how long did you know before you left me?
Nothing to do - it's up to you to use it against me
Use it against me now that you left me

You are ahead of me now, because you left me
Words that I said are yours now, use it against me
You have erased me now that you've left me

I'll be gone, I'll be gone
I'll be gone, I'll be gone
I'll be gone, I'll be gone
I'll be gone, I'll be gone

Filter -
One
One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
Two can be as bad as one - it's the loneliest number since the number one
"No" is the saddest experience you'll ever know
"Yes" is the saddest experience you'll ever know
'Cause one is the lowest number that you'll ever know
One is the loneliest number, even worse than two
Yeah

It's just no good anymore since you went away
Now I spend my time just making up rhymes of yesterday

One is the loneliest number
One is the loneliest number
One is the loneliest number since you went away
Since you went away

(One is the loneliest number since you've gone away)
(Since you went away)

One is the loneliest number (since you went away)
One is the loneliest number
One is the loneliest number since you've gone away

It's just no good anymore since you went away
Now I spend my time just making up rhymes of yesterday

One is the loneliest number
One is the loneliest number
One is the loneliest number since you went away
Since you went away

Tonic -
Flower Man
Flower man, flower man - when are you gonna grow?
When you gonna lay down everything you know?
Flower man, flower man - how you gonna sleep?
With all these people cutting down your feet?

Flower man (flower man)
Flower man (flower man)

Flower man, flower man - your head's above the rest
If you're gonna trust them, they gotta pass the test
Flower man, flower man - you're living in the sun
Shattered and hollow, you shine for everyone

Flower man (flower man)
Flower man (flower man)

They get enough to hurt you with all the things they say
So you put on your armour and stand in the way
You're wearing the target that took so long to earn
And you start looking sideways at every turn
You start looking sideways at every turn

Flower man (flower man)
Flower man (flower man)

Flower man (flower man)
Flower man (flower man

Ween -
Beacon Light
Looking up to the sky made me realise, made me want to fly
To a place far away where they're singing songs and making love all day
Somewhere beyond the sun where an atom splits and an ounce weighs a ton

So don't be late - I see the beacon light and it's on
So strap on that jammy pack - fill it up, 'cause I'm gone

The people all dance with their big long arms and a peach in their pants
Picking fruit from the sky as the demon ship goes passing them by
I'm not sure if it's love but it's coming down from the heaven's above

So don't be late - I see the beacon light and it's on
So strap on that jammy pack - fill it up, 'cause I'm gone

Sting and Aswad- Invisible Sun

One (one)
Two (two)
Three (three)
Four (four)
Five (five)
Six (six)
Seven (seven)
Eight (eight)
Nine (nine)
Ten (ten)
Lift off (lift off)

I don't want to spend the rest of my life
Looking at the barrel of an Armalite
I don't want to spend the rest of my days
Keeping out of trouble like the soldiers say

I don't want to spend my time in hell
Looking at the walls of a prison cell
I don't ever want to play the part
Of a statistic on a government chart

There has to be an invisible sun
That gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done

It's dark all day and it glows all night
Factory smoke and acetylene light
I face the day with my head caved in
Looking like something that the cat brought in

There has to be an invisible sun
That gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done

And they're only gonna change this place
By killing everybody in the human race
And they would kill me for the cigarette
But I don't really wanna go just yet

There has to be an invisible sun
That gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done

Better Than Ezra -
One More Murder
One more murder in this town
Don't mean a thing, just lock your doors and drive around
One more murder in this town
Don't worry, the rain will wash the chalk marks from the ground

Saturday night - shots ring out
Add one to the body count
You come alive to see another's end
Plead it to a lesser count
DA says without a doubt
In 3 to 5 you're on the streets again

One more murder in this town
Don't mean a thing, you get accustomed to the sound
One more murder in this town
Just block off the street and wrap the 'crime scene' tape around

Hosanna! Hosanna!
I can't feel a thing at all
Hosanna! Hosanna!
I can't feel a thing
I can't feel a thing at all

I said
I can't feel a thing!

Saturday night, you're going out
Parking lot - a figure come about
Feel a piece click against your head
Pleading to his sympathy
"Take the car - I got a family!"
You hear a laugh
"It don't mean shit to me"
One more murder in this town

Bjork-
Hunter

If travel is searching and home what's been found
I'm not stopping

I'm going hunting - I'm the hunter
I'll bring back the goods but I don't know when

I thought I could organise freedom
How Scandinavian of me
How Scandinavian
How Scandinavian
You sussed it out, didn't you?

You could smell it
So you left me on my own
To complete the mission
Now I'm leaving it all behind

I'm going hunting - I'm the hunter
I'm the hunter
I'm going hunting - I'm the hunter
I'm the hunter, I'm the hunter
I'm the hunter, I'm the hunter

Soul Coughing - 16 Horses
At 14 000 times a second the speaker moves
Magnetism pushes the impulse through
But I can't keep that speed, I can't generate that frequency
What the sound pressure level means
Wants a randomised electrons - I can't read
And you're still not dancing

She came pushing sixteen
She came pushing sixteen horses

I thought I heard, thought I heard, thought I heard
Thought I heard a doorbell tone
And I thought I saw, thought I saw, thought I saw
You watching from the lawn
She went over bridges like the river was a dream, dream
Over bridges like the river was a dream, dream

She came pushing
She came pushing sixteen horses

Two rings, two rings, two rings clamp down, quit it
Two rings, two rings, two rings clamp down, quit it
Two rings, two rings, two rings clamp down, quit it
Two rings, two rings, two rings clamp down, quit it

She came pushing sixteen
She came pushing sixteen
She came pushing sixteen
She came pushing sixteen horses

X - Crystal Ship
Before you slip into unconsciousness
I'd like to have another kiss
Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss

The days are bright and filled with pain
Enclose me in your gentle rain
The time we ran was too insane
We'll meet again, we'll meet again

Oh tell me where your freedom lies
The streets are fields that never die
Deliver me from reasons why
You'd rather die, I'd rather fly

The crystal ship is being filled
A thousand girls, a thousand thrills
A million ways to spend your time
When we get back, I'll drop a line

Chris Carter's Message

'The Method' as they called it, though it was more so a germ-line procedure of singular
meta-scientific complexity, had been given to them by the alien colonists as a quid pro
quo. The Syndicate would help them to create a population of alien hybrids who would
hide in plain sight, cloned from human ova and alien bio-material so there would be a clone
race immune to the effects of the black oil when the return to the planet began.

For this the Syndicate would be sequestered, granted a sort of immunity or asylum, given
a place in the grander scheme. They were the Vichy government to the German final
solution - collaborationists whose motivation was simple - self-directed survival. These
cloning operations were spread across the country, the cataloguing and record-keeping
done through a complex intra-institutional system that connected to every branch of
government, from the Social Security Administration to the Department of Defence.

The operation, under the working title "Purity Control" had been launched in 1948. Its
original conception the brainchild of German scientists given immunity themselves for war
crimes, and allowed to continue the eugenics experiments that were Hitler's dark legacy.
The Syndicate had begun as a sub-set of a shadow intelligence agency whose original
orders were to create plausible denial and an effective cover-up of Purity Control. But
through 50 years, numerous US and UN administrations, the principals began to wrest
control, accumulating power and influence across international borders. Such that, by
1990, the operation ceased to have a member accountable to any one government and
whose only orders were taken from a man named Strughold, a German industrialist who
fled his homeland to northern Africa.

These men, whose knowledge and access provided control of a forseeable future had, in
spite of this, everything to lose. Their secret work, the cloning preparations and the
cataloguing, constituted their greatest vulnerability - exposure. Their detection would
ensure not only their own demise, but a far-reaching dissolution of social and religious
order around the globe.

To protect against this, the Syndicate employed methods of disinformation, using covert
government program that had been regrettably discovered as a kind of smokescreen, a
dodge or blind where the transgressions of Congress' accountable agencies served to hide
their own more odious undertaking. They had even, at times, used the UFO phenomenon
to create an hysteria that science and the intelligentsia denounced so completely as to
make belief and believers seem ridiculous, and completely discreditable.

They had also, in a crisis, used a tool of the colonists themselves - alien bounty hunters
who policed the cloning operations and enforced rule on the countdown to colonisation. A
double-edged sword whose cold-blooded tactics would help to stem a leak, or threat, but
who also kept a watch on the Syndicate. A threat in itself, as the Syndicate had
something to hide that not even the colonists knew of - a vaccine against the black oil.
An innoculant against the substance in which the alien life force was held. In fact, the
very medium of the life force itself.

To guard this secret was perhaps even more critical than the truth of the existence of
alien life and of colonisation. If the Syndicate's own secret vaccine were discovered (the
vaccine that would make themelves immune from the effects of the black oil), they would
certainly be destroyed and the timetable for colonisation stepped up. They would protect
this secret with their lives. They would kill to protect it, as it symbolised the only hope
they had of avoiding enslavement when the planet was overtaken.

That they had been able to, over decades, conduct their work on the vaccine undetected
was the result of a code among the Syndicate members that put honour and the future
above personal politics. But now this code was beginning to break down; an incipient
scramble for power beginning to develop. A threat from within that doubled the threat
from without - from Agents Mulder and Scully, and the X-Files.

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