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I'm Yours
01:55
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when the light / from your eyes / reaches mine / i’m yours / take the light / from your eyes / make it shine / driving in a little car for too long / getting in a fight behind the dairy mart / building up a little steam for saturday / throwing out a book i’ve had for too long / biting at the cigarette that feeds me
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Trash Man
03:41
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he was a trash man / he kept his motor clean / he smoked a big cigar / and ran a magazine / he was a labor mediator for the ladies in the factory / he was a half-breed / that’s all he ever heard / he thought a lot about the way he came to hate the word / he tried to write an angry letter but instead he wrote an elegy / and we don’t care about his money / and we never cared much for his friends / we just tried to find some help is all / we placed a call / he was a big deal / at the record store / but everybody thought he should have been an orator / and all the kids were having heart attacks / trying to get his autograph / he was a maven / and an ingénue / he made a secret tape recording at the barbeque / but when we tried to get ahold of it / he was just so out of it
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Almost Gone
02:33
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don’t try to wake me / i’ve been asleep for so long that i’m almost gone / i guess that i’m floating / wandering lonely as a cloud near the daffodils / it feels like a movie / but each little frame is the same as the one before / i dreamt i was dreaming that i’d had a dream / i couldn’t run fast enough and i couldn’t breathe / when i woke up i could see to the end / then it all started again / i’m not pretending / the only thing i really know is that i don’t know / it’s more like a feeling / that all of these faces are places i’ve been before / so don’t try to tell me / i should have been more like the man i could never be / the best i could do was to fill up this room / with shadows and voices from lost afternoons / when i woke up i could see to the end / then it all started again / started again / that’s how it ends
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Look in a Mirror
03:35
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you said let’s stare at ourselves / until we become someone else / we both got lost in our heads / till we could not recall what you’d said / we went down to the cove / on our own / skipping stones / felt like we were at home / felt like we were at home / except that i was alone / the words you said became sounds / square-wave and saw-tooth and round / the sounds you made became words / like nothing that either of us had ever heard / we went down to the cove / on our own / skipping stones / felt like we were at home / felt like we were at home / except that i was alone / you said let’s stare at ourselves / until we become someone else / and you became someone else / but i am still staring at myself
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Nineteen Eighty-Five
03:36
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funny how we wait / never hesitate / to take no action at all / you and i decide / to go out back and hide / and stay there till the day we die / but it’s been so long / we almost don’t recall / what we’re doing here / and you said one time / we all were so alive / in nineteen eighty-five / funny when we walk / we beg the trees to talk / to find out what they have to say / my big brother found / a cathedral in the ground / it made us laugh and play / but it’s been so long / we almost don’t recall / what we’re doing here / we’d sing and shout through the night / we all were so alive / in nineteen eighty-five / funny how we shake / we tremble and we break / whenever you and i collide / we get stuck in the past / and the future doesn’t last / it’s a misplaced box of photographs / and it’s been so long / we almost don’t recall / what we’re doing here
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Kitchen Sink
03:16
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hi / i’m on the phone / so i can’t talk right now / i’m not alone / if anyone calls you / say that i’m gone / and tell them everything we thought was right is wrong / so how are you / i’ve got to go / i’m on a mountain top / i’m in the snow / it’s like a dream up here / there’s time to think / of all the dishes i left in the kitchen sink / now / i’m in the clouds / i’m in the atmosphere / don’t ask me how / and you’re the one who disappears into the crowd / just like a thought you never meant to speak aloud / we can’t be strong / we can’t be weak / we can’t be anything except the kitchen sink / and when we finally / give up ourselves / we’ll take a photograph and put it on the shelf / when / we fall apart / we’ll put the pieces in a frame and call it art / we’ll hang it up / we’ll drink some wine / we’ll sit and wonder what to do with all our / time
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The First Step
03:32
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what are you worried about / take my hand and lift your head / there’s really no need for that / just clear your mind and look ahead / i never did feel the pain / the day you tried to injure me / but now it’s starting to rain / at least as far as i can see / now it’s time you take the first step / no point in following my lead / now the sun is rising / well isn’t that surprising / you see a new horizon / like you’ve never seen before / the hand’s in front of your eyes / like i’ve said a thousand times / and you’re just asking why / can’t i see through my own disguise / what are you worried about / this time it’s guaranteed to fail / did you really think i had a plan / that i would soon unveil / and when you cast the first glance / my heart it skipped a beat / and everyone was staring / never interfering / silent in their frenzy / like they’d never been before
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No Hall Pass
02:39
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don’t give up / there’s still time to complain / write about the damage we’ve sustained / we can crawl right back into the sound / we can sell those pictures that you found / time to get invisible / you’ve got no pass / and you could get caught walking down the hall / there’s an egg shell floating in a glass / these experiments are all you have / don’t ever answer phone calls / stay away from cops and burn-outs / down at centre mall / having visions over pizza / passing out on willis street / and sleeping with the cold / time to get invisible / you’ve got no pass/ and you could get caught walking down the hall
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Song from the Grave
02:57
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rowing your drunken boat / i’m alone on the water / i borrowed your pain for a day / and carried it down to the bottom / i thought maybe i’d stay there / but i woke up with the sun / someone played a piano / a candle burned by the door / and my thoughts were all laid on the table / i tried hard to remember / and now i’m with your remains / and we touch the sky from this rooftop / we bring down the rain and i send you away / to a place where you’re safe and forgiven / but i can’t find my way there / when all my convictions are laid down to rest / i warm my delusion by the fire instead / and sing from this grave that i’ve dug in my head / we still dance on the waves / drowning in starlight and ether / we tap out rhythms and rhymes / and our lives are these poems that never get written / but i said i’d remember / when all my convictions are laid down to rest / i warm my delusion by the fire instead / and sing from this grave that i’ve dug in my head
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10. |
Old King Cloud
04:03
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old king cloud / old king cloud / old king cloud / old king cloud / old king cloud / old king cloud / old king cloud
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