Incubus

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• Title: Just A Phase
• Album: Morning View
• Year: 2001

Lyrics:

I am bottled, fizzy water and you are shaking me up
You are a fingernail running down the chalkboard I thought I left in third grade
Now my only consolation is that this could not last forever
Even though you're singing and thinking how well you've got it made
Who are you? When will you be through?
Yea it's just a phase...it will be over soon
Yea it's just a phase...yea it's just a....phase
Call it women's intuition, but I think I'm onto something here
Temporaryism has been the black plague and the Jesus of our age
I know I must sound opinionated, maybe biased and quite possibly jaded
But sooner than later they'll be throwing quarters at you on stage
Who are you? When will you be through?
Yea it's just a phase...it will be over soon
Yea it's just a phase...yea it's just a....phase and I'm waiting for it to be over too

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• Title: Wish You Were Here
• Album: Morning View
• Year: 2001

Lyrics:

I dig my toes into the sand
The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket
I lean against the wind
Pretend that I am weightless
And in this moment I am happy...happy

I wish you were here (x4)

I lay my head into the sand
The sky resembles a backlit canopy with holes punched in it
I'm counting UFO's
I signal them with my lighter
And in this moment I am happy...happy

I wish you were here (x4)

The world's a roller coaster and I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care but my hands are busy in the air

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• Title: Circles
• Album: Morning View
• Year: 2001

Lyrics:

You saw me lost and treading water
I looked pathetic
I looked as helpless as a stinger without a bee
But underneath my presentation, yea
I knew the walls were coming down
And the stones that fell were aiming away from me
Hey what would it mean to you
To know that it'll come back around again
Hey whatever it means to you
Know that everything moves in circles
I saw you standing in my headlights (blink, blink, blink)
I thought I'd run you down for the weight you left on me
Instead I pushed rewind, reversed and drove away
And seeing you disappear in my rearview
Brought to me the word reciprocity
Hey what would it mean to you
To know that it'll come back around again
Hey whatever it means to you
Know that everything moves in circles
Round and round we go
Who would've known it'd end so well
We fall on and we fall off
existential carousel

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• Title: Nice To Know You
• Album: Morning View
• Year: 2001

Lyrics:

Better than watching Gellar bending silver spoons
Better than witnessing newborn nebulaes in bloom
She who sees from up high smiles and surely sings
Perspective pries your once weighty eyes and it gives you wings
I haven't felt the way I feel today
In so long it's hard for me to specify
I'm beginning to notice how much this feels
Like a waking limb, pins and needles, nice to know you

Goodbye, nice to know you
Goodbye, nice to know you

Deeper than the deepest Cousteau would ever go
And higher than the heights of what we often think we know
Blessed she who clearly sees the wood for the trees
To obtain a birds eye is to turn a blizzard to a breeze
I haven't felt the way I feel today
In so long it's hard for me to specify
I'm beginning to notice how much this feels
Like a waking limb, pins and needles, nice to know you

Goodbye, nice to know you
Goodbye, nice to know you

So could it be that it has been there all along?