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Can't Stay
03:02
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Lately I’ve been feeling like I’m back inside the womb
Everything is upside down and I can’t get out too soon
I gotta tell you honey
I really lost the plot
I’m laughing at my own jokes I’m barking at the dog
I get up in the morning
and then I fall asleep
Don’t ask me what I’m doing it’s just god’s great mystery
Besides I ain’t got time to tell you
Now all I do is wait
The clocks are counting backwards
The hour’s getting late
In the evening when I go outside
I’m looking down at the stars wondering why
How did we ever even get up here?
There’s no space left between the moon and I
I didn’t want to go
but I know that I can’t stay
I didn’t want go
but I’m leaving anyway
I didn’t want to go
but I know that I can’t stay
I never said a word
but I mean every word I say
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2. |
Dates
04:27
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I don’t like birthdays, too much fuss
All the candles, what a waste
With no birthday I don’t age yearly
I watch my life slip away
in the evenings
I need parades & winter solstice
The shortest day in the year
Daylight savings, federal elections
I need new glasses with thicker lenses
Winter fell on me so quickly
now I need new socks
Suddenly I can’t remember
what summer smelled like
Like a school bus buzz
Drive in the country, I see the cows
They seem happy eating grass
They have four stomachs but no weekend
When does their weekend?
On a meat hook
All the insects live life quickly
They get the point – get to the point!
Live in the wild, sing in the night time
They don’t take up so much space
I need a date, to keep me going
To work towards, to see an end
To light the tunnel, I see a pinhole
It’s just a train light up ahead
In my office the time goes slow
I see computers losing value
The water cooler slowly empties
When it’s empty will there be another?
I need new plates, a dining table
I want home dinners, I eat out everynight
I eat sushi, I eat souvlaki
I’m sick of eating my food in a roll
I want roast chicken, fillet steak
I want it rare to taste the blood
we need more hangings
& public stonings, crucifixions
good ways to kill the time
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3. |
Susan
05:40
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Susan rolls the hall
While gold and red leaves fall
She dreams that she could run
through the autumn sun
but she can’t walk anymore
Richard was the one
Her one in one million
When the rear breaks failed
behind a semi trailer
he was buried in the autumn sun
Now at night he comes
To the sound of conga drums
He wakes her from her sleep
Susan throws off the sheets
& they’re dancing on the one
When you see the light, hold on tight
Tonight’s the night
Come dancing with your baby
Roll the dice, pay the price
Say good night
Come dancing with your baby
Morning Susan wakes
A feeling so sedate
Richard was here, I felt him kiss my ear
We were dancing cheek to cheek
He told me to up my dose
That way we’d always be so close
Mix the vicodin with the methadone
No more sad days on our own
When you see the light, hold on tight
Tonight’s the night
Come dancing with your baby
Roll the dice, pay the price Say good night
Come dancing with your baby
I need her love like the wind
To blow autumn leaves – Start again
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4. |
I.N.M
03:58
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Levitation is easy
if you know how to pull some strings
Breathing fire is simple
if you’re drinking kerosene
I built my house of wood
I set it up in flames
Now I’m a man of steel
I melted in the rain
The more I see
the harder it is to believe in...
Magic, it’s not magic
You know it’s really nothing
If it’s not magic it’ll make you sick
I know how to disappear
Look! I just close my eyes
When the coast is clear
I commit the sacrifice
Anyone can fake some love
But it won’t get you anywhere
Just look deep into his eyes
with that thousand-yard- vacant-parking-lot-stare
The more I know
I think I’m gonna blow...
What about Siegfried and Roy?
By their own tiger Roy was mauled
Bloody white silk on The Mirage stage
& nothing poor Sieggy could do at all
The more I see
the harder it is to believe in...
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5. |
Blue Mirror
03:53
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Blue mirror
My sad empress
Indigo fly on the wall
of a cruel world
Blue mirror
Your mood reflects
Blue grey plumes
of a last breath
Iceberg candle
Cobalt flame
Egyptian blood on the wall
It’s a shame, such a shame
Will we ever meet again?
Will we ever meet again?
You promised we’d be friends If we ever meet again
Will we ever meet again?
You promised we’d be friends
Till the end
Blue mirror Drinks cornflower wine
Tells sapphire lies
in a world of steel
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6. |
Tell It Like It Is
04:52
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Give me the truth like a hammer
Hit me upside the head
I need to know
Are you coming or going?
Is our garden dying or growing?
O what’s the use
In this decorative fruit?
Are you trying to break through the habit?
Don’t run away like some frightened rabbit
You’ll be caught by the snare
Tell me like it is honey
You tell it like it is
Don’t beat around the bush
Or sugarcoat the facts
This silence couldn’t grow any bigger
Are you willing to pull the trigger?
It’s cocked at my head
My heart sinks like an anvil
Our love is a door with no handle
Won’t you kick it down
Before we both drown
Are you searching
for a new sense of freedom
Or trying to set fire to our kingdom?
Please draw the bridge
and let me out
Tell me like it is honey
You tell it like it is
Don’t beat around the bush
Or sugarcoat the facts
Tell me like it is, honey
I want to hear it from the horses mouth
You tell it like it is
Don’t beat around the bush
Are you looking to break through the habit?
Here is my heart beating
reach out and grab it
Or flush it in the can
Because you can
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7. |
White Flag
05:21
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When you took me from my home
How I struggled to be free
Now out here on our own
I’ve found in you most everything I need
We sing our prison songs
You feed me to keep me strong
You’re my captor, you’re my best friend
Set me loose and I won’t run again
I surrender, surrender to be free
In your chains is where I’m gonna be
I surrender
& this love goes on forever
Wait, is this some kind of joke?
One hundred times you’ve tried escape
I wake alone in a cloud of smoke
and have to track you down
across the wild plain
We sing our prison songs
You whip me, right me when I’m wrong
You’re my captor, you’re my best friend
If I cut you loose I know you’ll run again
I’ve got no fingers left to cross
Each time I leave you cut one off
We left my family, burned my town
I’ve got no place left to be
so for you I’ll wear your crown
We sing our prison songs
We’re making love all night long
You’re my captor, you’re my best friend
Say you’ll stay and never run again
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8. |
Feel Brand New
04:52
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Another year up in smoke
Moving on not losing hope
You think we’d hang ourselves with this much rope
But I feel brand new
Every moment heaven sent
Dream together, pay the rent & never seem to save a cent
Still I feel brand new
Ooh la la la ooh la la
Tell me why did it take so long
To find out the sun never sets
We just keep moving on and on
You ask me why I cannot see the love that stands in front of me
O that’s some incurable disease I just... well, I feel brand new
So many lives, so many more
It feels so good when you hit the core
Behind this door is another door
& I feel brand new
Ooh la la la ooh la la
Tell me why did it take so long
To find out where the money went
Now we’re moving on
Ooh la la la ooh la la
Tell me why did it take so long
To find out the sun never sets
We just keep moving on and on
Will you and me in the miracle?
Now we’re moving all night long
Will you and me
OR
Will you kiss and tell?
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9. |
Merciful Reply
02:58
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Love, my heart is shaking
each breath is anticipating
waiting for your merciful reply
Now another night is falling
all my troubled dreams come crawling
only you can send a
merciful reply
O won’t you please let me know
should I stay, should I go
I don’t know, what’s the use
waiting for
a love who ignores
One week since I wrote you
You don’t know what I go through
waiting for your
merciful reply
O won’t you please let me know
is it yes is it no?
all the lies I’ve been sold
waiting for a love who never shows
One year since I wrote you
You don’t know what I go through
waiting for your
merciful reply
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