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We Reject You
02:56
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Cloud Cover
04:17
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Bullets floating by on the breeze tonight
Rolling thunder
Bombs like balloons caught in the trees tonight
As we sleep there, under
Sunglasses
Son of mine
You will never know what it’s like
In my mind
But oh, baby, don’t you see what I am?
Torpedo river ends at minefield falls
Where we swim in summer
Knives like a sun shower on a day so bright
In the backs of every runner
Wave rider
Wave of fear
You will never know what it’s like
Out in here
But oh, baby, can’t you see what I am?
Oh, baby, can’t you see what I am?
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Have you hugged your dreams today
Have you held them too hard
Did you squeeze until they squeaked
Oh, now I see the light!
See the light
Have you hugged your dreams today
Whispered in their little ears
Your most precious worries, shame
And all your greatest fears
Your greatest fears
The fear of falling
And the fear of flying away
The fear that knowing
What you know
You’re gonna go and just do it anyway
As your dreams
They dream away
Have you hugged your dreams today
As you hugged your dreams today
Did they hug you in return
Or did they sort of pull away
Did your eyes begin to burn, yeah
Start to burn
The fear of failing
And the fear of fading away
The fear that nothing you will do
Will shake the shadow that’s come over you today
Arms don’t know just where they’re supposed to lay
Arms don’t know how long they’re supposed to stay
As your dreams
Just dream away
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4. |
Charlene At The Shore
03:16
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The news it came from every odd direction
A kind of awful weather of its own
I could hear it in your voice
The black clouds coming
Rolling out like smoke across the line
You saying,
There’s no time
I told you that I loved you
With a weight unfelt before
My thoughts of you, Charlene
At the shore
Two ships eclipsed the sun, in heels, lifting
Their skirts to keep the water from the hem
Caught coming home from choir,
Softly singing
Whistling “Just A Closer Walk With Thee” and then
The tide of men
Sinking to the depths but, still baiting them for more
You bastards, screamed Charlene
From the shore
I came across the hill, struck by the sunshine
A kind of hammer tapping at my brain
Your shoes the only thing left there still standing
In the narrow space between chagrin and shame
I remain
My feet were burning brightly
But my hands were only sore
From searching for Charlene
At the shore
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5. |
A Little Bit About Me
03:13
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Whenever I go
On the Sunday shows
I bring a fresh perspective
That’s why they call
I’ll say, “Have you considered
They’re all extraterrestrial lizards
And from old TV they drew
Their suspect southern drawl?”
They’ll say, “Anything else to add?”
I’ll say no, that’s all
I’ll shake hands in the hall
As the chyron crawls
Away
When I’m doing my thing
On a sex chair or a swing
Well I’m no Lazy Susan
I move around
I’ll say how’s this position
Setting up the composition
And then I rest up in my room
Until sundown
When they knock, they’ll say my name,
A proper noun
They lift me off of the ground
As the lights go down
Ole!
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6. |
Naturally (To Me)
02:43
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Why am I always messing around your mind
So reckless and unkind
And wasting your sweet time
Every turn of phrase I turn around
Turn over upside down
And run into the ground
Why don’t I just tell you
What I want you to say
I’m going to tell you in a minute anyway
I don’t try to push you around
It comes naturally to me
Just comes naturally to me
I could have told you then on that first day
You should’ve walked away
But who was I to say
Just another man can’t keep his grip
As the happy face it slips
The smile peels off the lip
Why don’t you just tell me what you want me to do
I’ll do it cause it’s right I’ll do it just for you
I don’t try to put you down
It comes naturally to me
Just comes naturally to me
It comes naturally to me
Why am I always
Wasting
Our sweet time
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7. |
Don't Say Goodbye
03:44
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I’m not afraid
Of the whole sad parade
Things have their ways
Of washing away
To somewhere where
They stay
Don’t say goodbye
And I don’t mean
Don’t ever go
I just mean
Don’t let me know
Why don’t you say
There’s a cigarette so big
You might be out there forever
Why don’t you say
It’s not you it’s not me
It must be the weather
That’s keeping us from being together
Deep in the tide
That you can’t push aside
Flailing your hands
Like a one man band
Your toes just touch
The sand
Don’t say goodbye
And I don’t mean
Don’t let me go
I just mean
Don’t let me know
Why don’t you say
Come over here to the edge
I’ll be right here behind you
Why don’t you say
I believe you can fly
So why don’t you try to
Oh how sweet
To be so simply lied to
Don't say goodbye
Say
I don't know
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8. |
Running Out Loud
03:22
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9. |
I Lost My (Focus)
03:21
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I lost my focus
I had it here
It just disappeared
I must have watched it
And not realized
Or it was disguised
When, unauthorized
It mobilized
There it is I see it running
Bloody, barefoot down the road
Soaking wet although it’s sunny
That’s funny, why’s it smiling
And where are all its clothes
I should know
I suppose
Now what was I doing
What was I doing here
I lost my focus
I had it here
If not crystal clear
I lost my patience
It was never great
But as of late
I don’t know the date
It would not sit straight
There it is I see it floating
Out a mile or so from shore
Waving like it missed me badly
and sadly would forever
To its core
And then it sank
To the floor
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10. |
Tower of Lies
03:34
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I know you placed
Every stick and every stone
Every nail you pulled
From a place you called home
Now every brick is
Compromised
By its place in your
Tower of lies
I punched every ticket
And I helped park every bus
There was paper
And it was signed by us
I warned you not to
Advertise
The Castle of Wondrous Surprise
When it was really just your
Tower of lies
I don’t know how
You kept it up
You kept it up and for so long
It was easier than letting go I guess
Easier than being wrong
You were never that strong
I’m stuck in traffic
As it slows and then it stops
At that store where the dishonest shop
Your bags are full, your face, I
Recognize
Your teeth in their black sky still shine
Your tongue working
something so fine
A thread dark and cold, crystalline
The thinnest of fakes to comprise
The first in a
Tower of lies
Lies, lies, lies…
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11. |
The Weak Cadet
04:30
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The devil riding on his skateboard
Flame retardant helmet and holes for the horns
Look at the street!
Who’s going to pay for the damage
And how will we know it’s not just
him in another form
This thing just goes around in circles
This ring is nothing if not round
Like the river that gets filled up at the top
With snow
Well you know how the story goes
How the river’s there to flow
Aunt Cecilia doing donuts on her moped
Screaming “Down with tyranny, the tyranny of organize sound!”
She took a spill and was spread across the causeway
In the dying light she saw the children in white
Clear their throats and gather round
This thing just goes around in circles
This ring is nothing if not round
Like the savior who waits in sweet repose
Well you know how the story goes
At the end he takes the stage and starts the show
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12. |
When You Coming Back
04:48
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Time is floating through my mind is floating through
When I see your ghost
In my soup and on my toast
In the morning, in the sunny afternoon
In the pulsing light of day
The clouds give themselves way
And your face floats in the coffee on my spoon
Oh honey I am never more alone
My heart a grey, dull, drained monochrome
Where you’re really only
Half at home
Did you hit your head somewhere son
What are you dreaming of
It’s time to give up on love
Did you hear a noise from above
What are you dreaming of
It’s time to give up on love
Time to give up
Will the memory live on
Or did I do it wrong
I would tell you but I tend so to forget
In its bright and brutal way
The sun has had its day
But we don’t know why he did it as of yet
Oh honey there is nothing more absurd
For me to smile, take you at your word
Like I’m the only one who hadn’t heard
Did you hit your head somewhere son
What are you dreaming of
It’s time to give up on love
Did you hear a noise from above
What are you dreaming of
It’s time to give up on love
Time to give up
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14. |
Not You, But You
03:41
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Submarine
Don’t bring me down
The great wide whale
Of your corduroy hat
Yes, it was many moons ago I
Hadn’t been heard from
In ages, it disappeared and reappeared
in stages
If you’ve been looking for me to say hello
Hello
If you’ve been looking for me to say hello
Hello
Not you but you
Someone like you
A donut rolling down a hill
With a canary in the distance
Could see that
I hoped that one or more of these
would land in one of the right places
And rearrange the furniture at Graceland
If you’ve been looking for me to say hello
Hello
If you’ve been looking for me to say hello
Hello
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