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Heart Rings
03:33
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Speaking into the air, “I care--
I love this little globe down here.”
The astral plane’s a lazy game
and we can sort it out down here.
On the mountain lake, in the grassy way,
or somewhere on the moon.
I hear the water’s fine--we’ll be next in line
among babbling buffoons.
Their hearts ring like a bell.
Pain: get out of my way.
Rain: A-okay.
Suffering: get out of my way.
The rain is a-okay.
The astral plane’s a lazy game
and we can sort it out down here.
On the mountain lake, in the grassy way,
or somewhere on the moon.
I hear the water’s fine--we’ll be next in line
among babbling buffoons.
Their hearts ring like a bell.
They bellow and billow.
Their hearts ring like a bell.
Through their hell, their hearts ring like a bell.
Through my hell, my heart rings like a bell.
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I’m a true actor on the scene
I snip a page from my diary
Am I a real player of a sigh from the unlike?
Give so much reverie
We are lost
We are found
In salt marshes we go around
We sing of a lake
In salt marshes
In merry rounds.
Digging deep, falling back asleep
Trying hard to console my destiny
Yarn picker in a shrouded room am I
Damn monsters live inside of me
The light of me is lost
But they have found it
In salt marshes, they go around it
They sing of a lake
In salt marshes
In merry rounds
I have decided to be free again
I have decided to love again
We have decided to be free again
We have decided to love again
We sing a lake in salt marshes in merry rounds
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3. |
House on the Hill
03:47
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Every house is built upon the hill
Everybody seeks the cheaper thrill
When every bottle of soda is consumed
Everybody wanted to be subsumed
House on the hill, be my refuge
Be my refuge from greed
Everything is alternating fast
Between dark and light
I’ve decided to stop caring what
My voice sounds like on top of my chords
House on the hill, be my refuge
Be my refuge from greed
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4. |
Forever Overhead
05:45
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Tomorrow I’ll rise a better man
The tallow of my weight in recall
Swallow, savor poison--a night’s reach
I’ll borrow another cigarette and fall back in again
Tungsten waves are crashing in the lanes
Chlorine chemicals in the breeze
Forever overhead--forgotten but not lost
The memories of a deep blind dive into unknown blue
I’m swimming in the deep end
Sandpaper sharks caress my feet
They’ve got my soul invited to swim with them
Again again
We watch for drunk sailors to dive headlong, blind
Into our pools
And then we’ll drag them down and drown it out
Suck their blood
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Colossus Drift
06:03
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Sands are shifting underneath my feet
Colossus drift away inside
Stumble down upon a staircase
Oh, what great and awful works we hide
Far away, far away, far away…
The stony meadow of my conscience,
Full to its brim the pond of chance
Swaying in the reeds and willowing cattails
In the breeze put on a dance
Far away, far away, far away…
Shake out your pockets
Stave off the light
Consume and consummate
Celestial delights
Shake out your pockets
Stave off the light
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6. |
Love Through Their Teeth
05:04
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Love, love, sweetness of my soul
Everyone you know will go away from you
Everyone you know is lying through their teeth
Everyone you know will go away from you
Sweetness of my soul, they’re all lying to you
Everyone you know is lying through their teeth
Everyone you know will hide the underneath
Lying through their teeth, my love, love, love…
This old song of mine gets me through the night
Echoing inside, “Read between the lines”
Figuring the truth, dreaming on the roof
Life beyond the pale, fly home through the hail
Everyone you know, everyone you know
Everyone you know, my love
Run, run, love, run, love, love
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Harvest Stars
07:51
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Babe, I’m sorry
but I don’t know what I did
to make you so unhappy here
Babe, I’m lonely
but I know that you don’t care
You don’t care at all
Sail me under the roof of the harvest stars
I’ve got nothing to lose on the earth, no more
Babe, I know that this is the last time
Babe, I know that this is the last time before we go on.
Babe I wanna see you bleeding for
Babe I want you to be lonely, like me
Sail me under the roof of the harvest stars
I’ve got nothing to lose on the earth, no more
We’ll find others again to make us happy
But I feel no friend
But...some sunny day, I’m gonna find my way out
Out of this place
Back to my familiar haze
Light a candle for you
Yeah
Sail me under the roof of the harvest stars
I’ve got nothing to lose on the earth no more
Sail me under the roof of the harvest stars
Where I feel no pain
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8. |
What Have I Got to Say?
04:34
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What have I got to say?
What have I got to say?
What have I got to say to you
to make you feel the way you used to?
You left me, you changed me
You rearranged my mind
I’m broken, I’m lonely
This I know and sigh
What have I got to say to you?
“Don’t turn out the light before you go.”
What have I got to say to you?
What have I got to say to you, love love?
What have I got to say to you that I haven’t said before?
What have I got, what I have got to say to you?
“Don’t turn out the light in your heart.”
“Don’t turn out the light before you go.”
“Don’t turn out the light.”
No.
Yeah, yeah.
No.
Yeah, yeah.
Don’t turn out the light
Don’t turn out the light before you go.
No.
Yeah, yeah.
Love.
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