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---Lyrics---
Draw the line, draw it again
I only lie to my closest friends
Straight as an arrow, but that depends
You hit the road and the road bends
I have no quarrels, no enemies
I know my failure is my expertise
The righteous gamin of '82
You came to me but I was born to you
Where would you wander, what would it mean
There might be saviors but no guarantees
When we needed something kind of like love
We fell together, I guess, just because
Oh my friend Sorrow, you are relieved
I no longer need your company
And what's stuck in my throat is a mystery
And what it is is a heartbreaking, soul shaking
Overwhelming undertaking
Hit me once again
I knew your mother, she was my friend
It's only love to her I do extend
When I fell under, sometimes nightly
She was the branch to which I held on tightly
Tried my stable of remedies
I know its harder to see the light when you're on your knees
Had a map, borrowed a car
North Colorado via Arkansas
Island to island, breaking my silence
I'm hemmed in water
Quelling the violence behind my eyelids
I close and open
Something inside you is bending like I do
Its like that feckless song
Down the road if you should find
Some box of clues that I left behind
I just thought I'd save you some time
Straighten it out here and make it rhyme
Its not in my nature to pretend
That any one road leads to any one end
And maybe victory's too heavy for arms like these
And freedom's too loaded when you speak of destinies
You just try to see the thing for what it is
And what it is is a heartbreaking, soul shaking
Overwhelming exhalation
Hit me once again
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2. |
Look Before It Changes
04:38
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---Lyrics---
I put my arms up
And felt the sea in front of me
I let my guard down
The ocean spoke these words to me
She said I've been trying
For about a million centuries
Just to get up on that shore
And not get pulled back anymore
Mostly I'm just breathing……
Look before it changes
Cause when it changes,
It changes for good
When you were screaming
And I was too deaf to hear
When you were leaving
I said I don't need you here
You said I've been trying
To see what's going on behind your eyes
I said mostly I'm just breathing……..
Look before it changes
Cause when it changes,
It changes for good
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3. |
Song That I Heard
03:57
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---Lyrics---
In the same reckless city where Great Antonio died
On the island in the river with a mountain at its side
I came to scatter ashes of the bridges I had burned
And to know the name of the song that I heard
Yeah to know the name of the song that I heard
Like a moonlight mathematician I subtracted my concerns
Multiplied my options and divided my returns
Sacrificed the angel who was tugging at my shirt
I was already claimed by the song that I heard
Yeah already chained to the song that I heard
From the corner of my eye I caught the shadow of a girl
But my shoes were tied together and my face was in the dirt
Her gentle eyes said everything before she said a word
I knew I was changed by the song that I heard
Yeah I knew right away by the song I heard
In the cult of desperation we stay just behind the curve
No one here admits we're getting more than we deserve
I was born a first child and she was born a third
We were already named by the songs that we heard
Yeah already cleaned by the songs we heard
Did I make you out a phoenix from the ashes of a bird?
Did we build our palace and watch it as it burned?
Its kind of like a lesson that had to be unlearned
Like a fool-maker fall taker
forsaker heartbreaker
earth-quaker soul shaker
sooth sayer moon bayer
sun slayer ye sayer
mistaker rattlesnaker
We are already changed by the songs we heard
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4. |
Maybe Someday
04:11
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---Lyrics---
I wish I knew the magic words
To dry up all our tears
I wish I had a magic wand
To make our troubles disappear
But I don't know no magic words
And I don't have a magic wand
But here's my empty hand, my dear
Hold on, hold on, hold on
When I woke up this morning
The dream was on my mind
Beside me was a cigarette
Floating in a glass of wine
So I picked up my guitar
Started strumming out of time
Couldn't find a reason
I could only find a rhyme
Maybe someday, maybe someday
Maybe someday, maybe someday soon
I won't be this far away
I won't be the man in the moon
I know just what you would say
If you heard me sing this tune
Singing someday, maybe someday
Singing someday, maybe someday soon
Singing someday, maybe someday soon
Someday maybe someday soon
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Kompromat
04:34
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---Lyrics---
Look at the sun go behind the hill
Look at the country through a dollar bill
I can't see the bottom of the hole that we're trying to fill
I think we're in love with your abuse
You got one hand on the driver's wheel, in the other a noose
You can call it whatever you want, I say we call it a truce
Whether it breaks, whether it bends
I don't know where I begin and the madness ends
Last time it happened we said we wouldn't let it happen again
White sand, black horses
White sand, black horses
A gold ring in deep water
Why call it anything but….
Greed
I woke up from a bad dream
I was wanted in 11 states for murder it seemed
I was dragging the head of a buffalo through the city streets
White sand, black horses
White sand, black horses
A gold ring in deep water
Why call it anything but….
Greed
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---Lyrics---
The speed of love returning
To my depraved heart
Like a song, it carries the memory still
You waited til the river froze
To come and find me
With your voice, speaking the words in my throat
The dream you dream of falling
Out of the blue, child
Like a stone--I think I've been dreaming it too
We were never forced to love
You would have to lose your mind
You would have to lose your mind
You would have to lose your mind
When Icarus was falling
Burning and blinded
He was born and buried along with his pride
Woke up in the bed last night
Her features were golden
And the walls, they were crowded with symbols of lust
And then, an emperor returning
Dragging his sword
From the guerre, cutting the snow on the ground
We were never forced to love
You would have to lose your mind
You would have to lose your mind
You would have to lose your mind
The Line that you were drawing
You would have to lose your mind
You would have to lose your mind
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7. |
Queens of the Breakers
05:28
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---Lyrics---
It'll never come easy
Babe if it don't come clean
And if it won't come sweet, babe
Sometimes it comes mean
Its like trying to put a fire out
With matches and gasoline
We've been going around and around
But how have you really been?
You know we were good friends
Its funny how we don't talk
I flew over your city last night
On a red-eye flight from New York
I was looking for you down on the ground
Wondering if you still remember
The way that we just walked around
Like the Queens of the Breakers
I've been making up time
I've been borrowing it too
I've been taking advice that I
Threw off in my youth
Should have left it right there where you found it
Instead of picking it up
You wanted the world, but you drowned it
At the bottom of the blues
Its a reckoning feeling
At the bottom of the blues
We're begging and stealing
You were ready to confuse
Knowing and believing
But you were right about the blues
You were wrong about the meaning
Talked with your mother
We remembered when you were sick
Felt like no one could help you
You were falling and falling quick
And it made a very heavy sound
Like thunder on the mountain
We were waiting for you to come around
With the Queens of the Breakers
I've been making up time
and borrowing it too
and I’ve been taking off disguises
that I know are not true
Should have left it right there where you found it
You had to pick it up
You wanted the world, but you drowned it
At the bottom of the blues
Is your arbitrator giving up
At the broken alter of your love?
Took the sugar out of your coffee cup
Every sulfur morning, waking up
At the bottom of the blues
At the bottom of the blues
At the bottom of the blues
But you were right about the blues
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8. |
It Came to Me
04:21
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---Lyrics---
Thrown out of the company ball
Breaking bottles on the Berlin Wall
I been shaking all the bushes on the Champs Élysées
Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall
Then it came to me
Yeah it came to me
Then it came to me
It came to me
I was looking for your face
On a three dollar bill
Marking my bible in red
Drinking ripple with my daily bread
I been asking all the ladies in the March of Dimes
I should have been home instead
Cause it came to me
Yeah it came to me
It came to me
It came to me
I was looking for the nose
At the end of my face
I was wrong and I heard you right
I was wrong and I heard you right
I was wrong and I heard you right
I was wrong and I heard, yes I heard
Yes I heard it right
Tugging at the tiger's tail
Bobbing apples with the humpback whale
I been knocking all the jockeys off the rich folks lawns
Raising anchor and setting sail
Then it came to me
Yeah it came to me
It came to me
It came to me
I was looking for the truth
Til it kicked in my door
I was wrong and I heard you right
I was wrong and I heard you right
I was wrong and I heard you right
I was wrong and I heard you right
I was wrong and I heard you right
I was wrong and I heard you right
I was wrong and I heard you right
I was wrong and I heard, yes I heard
Yes I heard it right
Then it came to me
Yeah it came to me
It came to me
Oh, it came to me
Oh, it came to me
Oh, it came to me
Oh, it came to me
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Hideous Glorious
04:14
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---Lyrics---
Did you come here for an ambush?
Did you come here for the truth?
Did you come here to tighten it down
Or to turn it loose?
I'm running out of reasons
For keeping it neat
Running out of ground
Beneath my feet
Darling I'm not
Saying that you are not
The best thing I've got
And that's saying a lot
I can still feel the hole
Where the revelation nailed me to the wall
Now I can't recall
If there was any revelation there at all
Or just some kids getting high about it all
There's nothing easy about it
Don't know which way I should run
Maybe go to Mississippi
Get a ride to Gunnisson
Wanna remember how we did it
The first a thousand times
Wanna be a thousand people
Living a thousand different lives
I can still feel the hole
Where the revelation nailed me to the wall
Now I can't recall
If there was any revelation there at all
Or just some kids getting high about it all
Bury us
In the delirious
Hideous glorious
Alright
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10. |
Hideous Glorious Part 2
01:47
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11. |
Ready for War
05:47
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---Lyrics---
In the violence of the morning
I'm as wrong as I am free
And Saint Cecilia
Holds a candle out for me
Its an obligated offer
But I'll accept it just the same
It's better than trying
Not to feel anyone else's pain
I'm not talking about beauty
Don't feel like speaking anymore
Cause when it finds me
I'm ready for war
I'm ready for war
I'm ready for war
Now they're burning down the temples
Of some long forgotten grace
And Shiva sits
With that look upon her face
If you think you're done pretending
That you don't feel it anymore
And win or lose
Say I'm ready for war
I'm ready for war
The heart screams
Is this what you wanted?
Blood on your hands
To feel something of your own
Everybody does
It was raining in Savannah
And you kept your apron on
While we danced slowly
To that Van Morrison song
Well you brought me to the vanguard
Let me see behind the door
And in my fury
I said I'm ready for war
I'm ready for war
I'm ready for war
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