-"Austin City Limits" presents a special hour with music
from deep in the catacombs of Paris.
Queens of the Stone Age.
-♪ Forget the rat in the race, we'll choke chain them all ♪
♪♪
♪ Where will you run? ♪
♪ Where will you hide? ♪
♪ Lullabies ♪
♪ To paralyze ♪
-Thank you, Austin City Limits!
-It's Austin City Limits.
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-Austin City Limits!
-All right, Austin, Texas.
-♪ One, two, three, run ♪
-All right, all right, all right.
-50 years of Austin City Limits.
Austin, Texas.
-Recorded live from Austin, Texas,
it's "Austin City Limits."
-Now defying boundaries and expectations,
an immersive experience seen for the first time on television.
Queens of the Stone Age.
[ Bell tolling ]
-♪ When I was a little boy ♪
♪ I looked under the stairs ♪
♪ The king and the pawns ♪
♪ Were caught unawares ♪
♪ Standing in the shadows ♪
♪ A whisperer to be ♪
♪ Was fishing in the darkness ♪
♪ Of possibilities ♪
♪ Just look at you now ♪
♪ Yeah, look at you now ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Oh, look at you now ♪
♪♪
♪ Among such style and grace ♪
♪ Our highest hopes ♪
♪ None standing still ♪
♪ The running joke ♪
♪♪
♪ Where goes the warm embrace ♪
♪ It fades without return ♪
♪ That lives to slip through fingertips and burn ♪
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♪ I don't care what you think anymore ♪
♪ Doesn't matter anyway ♪
♪ Joan of Arc, victim, perpetrator ♪
♪ Just a paper machete, yeah ♪
♪♪
♪ The truth is just a piece of clay ♪
♪ You sculpt, you change, you hide, then you erase ♪
♪ You think you're brave? ♪
♪ All the plans you made ♪
♪ Behind my back and from far away ♪
♪ Truth is, face to face, you're a coward ♪
♪ Sharp as a paper machete, yeah ♪
♪♪
♪ Now I know you'd use anything, anyone ♪
♪ To make yourself look clean ♪
♪ In sickness, no vows mean anything ♪
♪ So long, cruelty ♪
♪ So long, too late ♪
♪ So long, my love is dead ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪ But just look at you now ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Oh, look at you now, yeah ♪
♪ Oh, look at you now ♪
♪ Ohh, ohh ♪
♪ Look at you now ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Oh, look at you now ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Look at you now ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
-♪ I ♪
♪ Never lie ♪
♪ To myself ♪
♪ Tonight ♪
♪ Rose ♪
♪ Tinted eyes ♪
♪ Color my sorrow ♪
♪ A shade of wine ♪
♪ Bye-bye, black balloon ♪
♪ See you real soon ♪
♪ Wave bye-bye ♪
♪ Bye-bye ♪
♪ Oh, why you so sad? ♪
♪ What have they done? ♪
♪ Forget those mindless baboons ♪
♪ They're off playing God ♪
♪ Copycats in cheap suits are playing it safe ♪
♪ While cannibals of bad news consume a parade ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Is it wonderful? ♪
♪♪
-♪ Kalopsia ♪
-♪ Ohh ♪
♪ Ohh ♪
♪♪
♪ Kalopsia ♪
♪ Far, far from shore ♪
♪ The land of nightmares ♪
♪ Gone forevermore ♪
♪ And I love you more ♪
♪ Than I can control ♪
♪ I don't even try ♪
♪ Why would I? ♪
♪ Oh, why the long face? ♪
♪ You've got it all wrong ♪
♪ Forget the rat in the race, we'll choke chain them all ♪
♪ Fates favor the ones who help themselves ♪
♪ The rest feel the sting of the lash ♪
♪ As they row the boat ♪
♪ To Hell ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Mm ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Mm ♪
♪ Ugh ♪
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
♪ I miss you now, what's come over me? ♪
♪ We're hostages of geography ♪
♪ The wait is long ♪
♪ And heavy too ♪
♪ Despite what you're accustomed to ♪
♪ I know life moves on ♪
♪ That's what scares me so ♪
♪ Have no intentions of letting go ♪
♪ Only us ♪
♪ No one in the world ♪
♪ Only us ♪
♪ No one in the world ♪
♪ Mm-mmm ♪
♪ I'd better do something ♪
♪ Move earth and sky ♪
♪ And patiently, sweetly ♪
♪ With all of my might ♪
♪ I sing only for you ♪
♪ To the beat of my footsteps in the night ♪
♪ Close your eyes ♪
♪ And dream me home ♪
♪ Forever mine ♪
♪ I'll be forever yours ♪
♪ Always, evermore, and on and on ♪
♪ Always, evermore ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Ohh ♪
♪♪
♪ There's no magic bullet ♪
♪ No cure for pain ♪
♪ What's done is done ♪
♪ Till you do it again ♪
♪ Life in pursuit of a nameless prey ♪
♪ I've been so close, I'm so far away ♪
♪ It's so hard to explain, so easy to feel ♪
♪ I need you now, nothing is real ♪
♪ Save me from the villains of circumstance ♪
♪ Before I lose my place ♪
♪ Close your eyes ♪
♪ And dream me home ♪
♪ Forever mine ♪
♪ I'll be forever yours ♪
♪ Always, evermore, and on and on ♪
♪ Always, evermore ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh ♪
♪♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
♪ When you say ♪
♪ It's dead and gone ♪
♪ Yes, I know ♪
♪ You're wrong ♪
♪ Cut and slash ♪
♪ Sharpest knife ♪
♪ It won't die ♪
♪♪
♪ Poison cup ♪
♪ Drank it up ♪
♪ It won't die ♪
♪♪
♪ No fire, no gun ♪
♪ No rope, no stone ♪
♪ It won't die ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Why you gotta shove it in my face ♪
♪ As if you put me in my place? ♪
♪ 'Cause I don't care if you or me is wrong or right ♪
♪ Ain't gonna spend another night ♪
♪ In your bed ♪
♪♪
♪ The laws of men ♪
♪ Are just pretend ♪
So what, you know?
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
♪ Love so good ♪
♪ Love so bad ♪
♪ It won't die ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Some talk too long ♪
♪ They know it all ♪
♪ Well, I just smile ♪
♪ And move on ♪
♪ Words ain't free ♪
♪ Like you and me ♪
♪ Mmmm ♪
♪ I don't mind, yeah ♪
♪ Why'd you have to be so mean and cruel? ♪
♪ The dogs are loose, I'm on to you ♪
♪ You ball and chained together from the dawn to dusk ♪
♪ Can't call it leavin' 'cause it's just ♪
♪ I never came ♪
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[ Vocalizing ]
♪♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Ohh ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
-Follow the light.
♪♪
-♪ Ohh ♪
♪ Mm ♪
♪♪
♪ Once you're lost ♪
♪ In twilight's blue ♪
♪ You don't find your way ♪
♪ The way finds you ♪
♪♪
♪ Ahh ♪
♪♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪♪
♪ Tempt the fates ♪
♪ Beware the smile ♪
♪ It hides all the teeth, my dear ♪
♪ And what's behind them ♪
♪ Ahh ♪
♪♪
♪ Ahh ♪
♪ So glad you could stay forever ♪
♪ Ohh ♪
♪ He steps between the trees ♪
♪ A crooked man ♪
♪ There's blood on the blade ♪
♪ Don't take his hand ♪
♪ Ahh ♪
Oof!
♪♪
♪ I got what was ♪
♪ I want to take what's left ♪
♪ No talk will cure ♪
♪ What's lost, or save what's left ♪
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I...
I remember...
I remember like it was yesterday.
It was the last day I was a small boy,
the years lined up in a row.
The years lined up in a row like --
like little shoes on a mantel place over the fire.
One year larger than the next.
Or was it smaller than the next? I don't even care.
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All I remember was looking up
at the top of the water
through my eyes, drowning.
Do you remember the last day you were a child?
It happens in a flash.
♪♪
Like a flash before your eyes.
You can kiss it goodbye.
You don't have to kiss it goodbye.
But it kisses you goodbye.
You think to yourself, "Where did I go?"
But you can't go home.
You can't go home.
And as the years grew on
and the pathway into the forest got smaller,
I realized --
I realized I don't want to go home.
The world I knew shrunk every day.
And if I stayed inside,
I'd just...
get smaller.
Until I --
Smaller until I...
Until I vanished.
So there is no way to go home.
There's no way to call home.
Maybe it's a good thing now.
I don't even -- I don't care.
It's been so long since I left it behind.
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It's been so long since I left it behind.
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And I realized something.
♪ To face down your demons, you've got to free them ♪
♪ To seize all your demons, Carpe demon ♪
♪ To face down your demons, you've got to free them ♪
♪ To seize all your demons, Carpe demon ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
♪ Ahh ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
♪ Ahh ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
Sing it!
-♪ Whoa ♪
♪ Ahh ♪
-♪ Whoa ♪
-♪ Ahh ♪ -Louder.
-♪ Whoa ♪
-♪ Ahh ♪
-♪ Whoa ♪
-Sing it up there. Let me here you.
-♪ Whoa ♪
-♪ Ahh ♪
-♪ Whoa ♪
-♪ Ahh ♪
-♪ Whoa ♪
-♪ Ahh ♪
-♪ Whoa ♪
-♪ Ahh ♪
-♪ The look in your eyes ♪
Says, "I love you"
♪ And, oh, I love you too ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪♪
♪ Whoa-oa-oa ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
Thank you.
Hello, Austin. Hello, Austin City Limits.
How are you?
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
♪ I know, I know the sun is hot ♪
♪ Mosquitoes come and suck your blood ♪
♪ And leave you there all alone ♪
♪ Just skin and bone ♪
♪ When you walk among the trees ♪
♪ Listening to the leaves ♪
♪ The further I go, the less I know ♪
♪ The less I know ♪
♪♪
♪ Where will you run? ♪
♪ Where will you hide? ♪
♪ Lullabies ♪
♪ To paralyze ♪
♪♪
♪ Fat and soft, pink and weak ♪
♪ Foot and thigh, tongue and cheek ♪
♪ You know, I'm told they swallow you whole ♪
♪ Just skin and bone ♪
♪♪
♪ Cutting boards and hanging hooks ♪
♪ Bloody knives, cooking books ♪
♪ Promising you won't feel a thing at all ♪
♪ Swallow and chew ♪
♪ Eat you alive ♪
♪ All of us food ♪
♪ That hasn't died ♪
♪ And the knife says ♪
♪♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Oh, oh, ohh ♪
♪ Ohhh ♪
♪♪
♪ Oh, oh, ohh ♪
♪ Ohhh ♪
♪ Oh, oh, ohh ♪
♪♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪ Simmering, pick and pluck ♪
♪ Tenderize bone to dust ♪
♪ The sweetest grease, the finest meat ♪
♪ You'll ever taste ♪
-♪ Taste ♪
-♪ So you scream, whine, and yell ♪
♪ Supple sounds of dinner bells ♪
♪ We all will feed the worms and the trees ♪
♪ So don't be shy ♪
♪♪
♪ Where will you run? ♪
♪ Where will you hide?
♪ Lullabies ♪
♪ To paralyze ♪
Thank you so much.
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
Scared, aren't you?
♪♪
Me too.
♪♪
♪ Don't look, just keep your eyes peeled ♪
♪♪
♪ Thoughtless, traipsing my mind's field ♪
♪♪
♪ Shotgun, never behind the wheel ♪
♪ Anymore ♪
♪ Danger, monsters of smoke and mirror ♪
♪♪
♪ Slowly, can one so lost be found? ♪
♪ Well, I know you'll never believe ♪
♪ I play as though I'm all right ♪
♪ If life is but a dream ♪
♪ Then wake me up ♪
♪ Fallen leaves ♪
♪ Realize they are ♪
♪ No friend of autumn ♪
♪ The view from Hell is blue sky ♪
♪ So ominously blue ♪
♪ Daydream until all the blue is gone ♪
♪ Well, I know you'll never believe ♪
♪ I play as though I'm all right ♪
♪ If life is but a dream ♪
♪ Wake me! ♪
♪♪
♪ Underwater ♪
♪ Is another life ♪
♪ Disregarding ♪
♪ Every myth we write ♪
♪ Rag doll churning ♪
♪ Over and over and gasping in horror ♪
♪ So breathless you surface, and just as the next wave hits ♪
♪ Big smile ♪
♪ Really a show of teeth ♪
♪♪
♪ Without a care in a world ♪
♪ No fear ♪
♪ Lonely ♪
♪ You don't know how I feel ♪
♪ Praise God ♪
♪ Nothing is as it seems ♪
♪♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
♪ Once ♪
♪ Out in the rain ♪
♪ I was able to strangle my shadow, unshackle the chain ♪
♪ Chain ♪
♪ What ♪
♪ What will you do? ♪
♪ Is it safe to play God in the garden or king of the zoo? ♪
♪ Holes ♪
♪ Well, they need to be filled ♪
♪ Positions available ♪
♪ Some are quite hard to get out of, or in ♪
♪ In ♪
♪ Spinning in the daffodils ♪
♪ Dizzy from a dozen twirls ♪
♪ Spinning in the daffodils ♪
♪♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪♪
♪ Cold ♪
♪ Alone and alive ♪
♪ You're afraid but that's not what I asked ♪
♪ Wanna go for a ride? ♪
♪ Sharpen your teeth, my darlings ♪
♪ Sharpen your minds ♪
♪ Take a finger if the hand feeds you... ♪
♪ Take one scalp at a time ♪
♪ Get 'em, boys ♪
♪♪
♪ Fail ♪
♪ As big as a whale ♪
♪ Like a canine that chases the bone that's tied to its tail ♪
♪ I wish I was a beautiful balloon ♪
♪ I would rise up above it all and then fade out of view ♪
♪ Gracefully fade ♪
♪ Fade out of view ♪
♪ What have you turned me into? ♪
♪ Spinning in the daffodils ♪
♪ Dizzy from a dozen twirls ♪
♪ Spinning in the daffodils ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪♪
♪ What have you gone ♪
♪ And done again, my love? ♪
♪ Incinerated ♪
♪ In the morning sun ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
Yeah, yeah!
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Ohhh ♪
♪ Ohh, oh ♪
♪ Ohh ♪
♪♪
♪ I'm ♪
♪ So high ♪
♪ I just ♪
♪ May never come down ♪
♪ I'm ♪
♪ So high ♪
♪ I just ♪
♪ May never come down ♪
♪ I'm ♪
♪ So high ♪
♪ I just ♪
♪ May never come down ♪
♪ Yeah, I'm ♪
♪ So high ♪
♪ I just ♪
♪ May never come down ♪
♪ I'm ♪
♪ So high ♪
♪ I just ♪
♪ May never come down ♪
♪ I'm ♪
♪ So high ♪
♪ I just ♪
♪ May never come down ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-We love you so much. Thank you.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-♪ The truth is just a piece of clay ♪
♪ You sculpt, you change, you hide, then you erase ♪
♪ You think you're brave? ♪
♪ All the plans you made ♪
♪ Behind my back and from far away ♪
♪ Truth is, face to face, you're a coward ♪
♪ Sharp as a paper machete, yeah ♪
♪♪