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Our story begins on a Summer night at the Colburn County Mall
Lightning bugs and minivans filled the parking lot as plastic purchases and super sales thrived inside the towering shopping center.
That fateful Friday night, a young man entered the mall, never to exit through it’s revolving doors again.
While waiting for his first date to arrive, the young man passed the time with a game of lazertag. It was here Billy Rone suffered from a freak accident that tragically trapped his lifeforce within the electric circuitry of the Mall.
Imprisoned, never to know love, only buying and selling… only madness…
Mall madness.
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Mall Directory
04:32
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You can do it just believe yourself don’t let anyone else talk you down.
There’s something here just waiting on the shelf for you to take your money out.
Just breathe in that plastic air.
Just be in, new clothes to wear
You’ve got questions I've got answers but dreams are what we’re here for.
We can go shopping, a quick food court stop in, but I can’t leave anymore
You can find me
Though the mall directory.
I can shop with you
But I can’t leave when you do!
Come find me
Though the mall directory.
I can shop with you
But I can’t leave when you do!
Tragic laser beam
I’m trapped here it seems
I’m a victim of a tragic laser beam
Tragic laser beams
I’m trapped in between
So much of the world I’ll never see
Two pretzels and a soda, dream big just like our cola, I think there’s a new sale to see.
Two coins go in the fountain, we’re climbing this mountain together but alone you’ll have to leave.
Just breathe in that conditioned air.
Just feeling, the product in your hair
You can find me
Though the mall directory.
I can shop with you
But I can’t leave when you do!
Come find me
Though the mall directory.
I can shop with you
But I can’t leave when you do!
I can’t leave when you do.
I can’t leave when you do.
I can’t leave when you do.
Laser beam, Laser beam,
Laser beam, Laser beam,
Laser beam, Laser beam,
Laser beam, Laser beam,
Laser beam
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This Current Sea
02:35
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When the mall closes
I used to think
I would hear silence.
But that was before when lock the door… I’m not alone.
We are just two islands on display
Come far just to find this. It wasn’t easy.
Lightning strikes
Timed perfectly
Trapped me here
In the circuitry.
Lightning strikes
Timed perfectly
Trapped me here.
Or did it set me free?
This current sea between you and me is space I’m hoping to erase.
Oh, can I buy some more time?
All my time amongst the power lines I never thought to find love inside.
Spent my sanity thinking about you and me girl.
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Manic Ann
04:02
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Heading to the mall, to shop and save
Not looking to fall, in love today.
But I saw you there, on display
Without a care, with nothing to say
Manic Ann you got a hold on me!
If you can, run away with me!
Manic Ann you got a hold on me!
If you can, run away with me!
I wanna know if you’ll go shopping with me
I want this dream to be reality
If I could buy more time you know I would
So we can work it out tonight
I freeze up, don’t know what to do
I’m standing still, just like you.
We lock eyes, through the pane
She broke through the glass, and everything changed..
This love is real, even if it’s plastic
Cause what I feel, is everlasting.
This love is real, even if it’s plastic
Cause what I feel, is everlasting.
Billy Rone, you got a hold on me!
Electric ghost, gonna set me free
Billy Rone, you got a hold on me!
Electric ghost, set me free!
I wanna know if you’ll go shopping with me
I want this dream to be reality
If I could buy more time you know I would
So we can work it out
Alright!
The sales are starting, the time is now,
so let’s go shopping, and work it out.
The sales are starting, the time is now,
so let’s go shopping and work it out now.
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Escalate Her Love
04:12
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This time was different, not like the rest
We shared a moment, one of the best.
Checked my shoelace, as I got off
Then I looked for her face, but she was gone.
She shoplifted my heart don’t know where to
Start with this mall interest.
Stimulate the economy it’s all so new to me
This love business.
Escalate Her Love
Escalate Her Heart
Escalate Her Dreams
I fell in love electronically
Escalate Her Love
She’s going up I’m going down
Escalate Her Heart
Back stock of love is all sold out
Escalate Her Dreams
Can’t believe it’s happened to me
I fell in love electronically
Mall crossed lovers in a distant time
Will we see each other in the checkout line?
Galaxies collide and I cannot find
This one of a kind merchandise
True love thwarted by mechanical stairs
She stole my heart and now nothing compares
Nothing compares
Nothing compares
to this love business.
Escalate Her Love
She’s going up I’m going down
Escalate Her Heart
Back stock of love is all sold out
Escalate Her Dreams
Can’t believe it’s happened to me
I fell in love electronically
Escalate Her Love
She’s going up I’m going down
Escalate Her Heart
Back stock of love is all sold out
Escalate Her Dreams
Can’t believe it’s happened to me
I fell in love electronically
Escalate Her Love
Escalate Her Heart
Escalate Her Dreams
I fell in love.
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Set Sale
00:58
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Billy Rone was trapped in the mall for years. Becoming a memory of the man he once was.
A ghost. A myth. The ultimate phantasm of consumerism.
Until one day he was free.
It was the day he found true love. The day… He embraced…
The Madne$$
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7. |
Madness Mountain
08:54
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We’re going to the Mountain of Madness
We’re going to cure all your sadness
We’re going to the top. We’re never going to stop
Shopping at the mall!
I don’t know
What happened to me
But I’ma show you
How good life can be.
Just loving what you have
No need to fill a bag
Just fill your heart
And love your start.
Me? I’m apart of you.
Dreams? They're coming true!
No matter the price,
Day or night
They're coming for you!
Everything’s got a price tag.
Everyone’s paying the tax.
But you don’t gotta be what you don’t want to be
Just wake up and believe!
But now that I’m free
I can see what’s been in front of me
And I can be what I want to be
And all I want to be is with you!
Everyone is shopping at the mall tonight
All of us together. Forever. For life.
This is the Mountain of Madness
Our business is money made happiness.
Everyone is shopping at the mall tonight
All of us together. Forever. For life.
Join us in our tower;
Our fortress of all consuming power.
Madness Mountain. Tower of Power.
This is my life
This is me now
I am them all
I can’t get out!
This is my life
This is me now
I am the mall
I can’t get out.
Madness Mountain. Tower of Power.
We’re never gonna stop.
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