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Within the Pale
05:16
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The world quits spinning where lives intersect
In an uneasy quiet
You call out a name because you’ll never know
Until you try it
Hasten the cold light of day
You’ve got it coming
The feeling subsiding the spirit succumbing
Can you see where you’re supposed to be
Within the pale
No one to show you beyond the veil
With your arms ‘round another could you see
Where you’re supposed to be
Anxious and reeling eyes fixed on the ceiling
You know that you’ve not seen it all
One day you woke tied to a bed
Shadows dancing in the hall
Eyes on you
Don’t let go
How you’re alive and breathing
The heavens only know
Can you see where you’re supposed to be
Within the pale
No one to show you beyond the veil
With your arms ‘round another could you see
Where you’re supposed to be
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Last night I dreamt that the world stood still
My rowboat tipped as the satellites fell
I dreamt a dream of catastrophe
With every revolution round the sun
One more number
Another revolution round the sun
Over and over
I pulled myself out of the river of mud
Climbed the rubble of the town that tumbled down in the flood
Turned my lens to the burning sky
With every revolution round the sun
One more number
Another revolution round the sun
Over and over
Go through the motions
Every heartbeat
Blood on your wristwatch
Friends in the wings
With your face in the mirror
Love on the ceiling
Glimpse of the ether
A bloom from the garden
A song for the morning
Is this a new year
A chance to start over
Over and over
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My appetite begs to forget
My angels have not answered yet
And still my cup it overflows
Yet unlike the beast I feed each day
That lives to sleep and screw and play
My heart seems wild, the mind unreal
Step back get thee behind the wheel
There’s no coloured lights no easy movement
You lay a hand on top of mine
And all the world beneath the sky
Reveals itself in dirt and pavement
Step back the edge is closer now
Step back and watch the others fall
Step back the congregation kneels
Step back get there behind the wheel
There’s no coloured lights no easy movement
Move fast
Dance this
Tarantella
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4. |
Many Years From Now
05:02
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A strange evolution
Between now and then
There’s wolves at the door the rent’s long overdue
Put a flame to the tinders
Of remember whens
You’re done with your past your past ain’t done with you
Though this make believe
It suits me too
We won’t know what it does to us
Till many years from now
Say goodbye to your family
Goodbye to your friends
Let the heavy-handed heart to hearts go nuclear
There’s a place to the north
We could start again
Once behind the times welcome to your future
We won’t know what it does to us
Till many years from now
The smoke was always in your eyes
We won’t know what it does to us
Till many years from now
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All the World Above You
03:54
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All the world above you
All the light you keep inside
All the people who will love you
The place you keep inside their minds
Time stretched before you
Past a place that I can reach
Just a ghost that walks beside you
Made of sound and memory
God took all his secrets
And he hid them in the dark
In the place you go when you are dreaming
And in the space between the stars
All the strength that you will borrow
And all the time that you will steal
And a love so dire so as to beg for
The things you learn when you learn to kneel
All the lies that I will tell you
All the truths you won’t believe
The beliefs that will betray you
And whatever helps you sleep
I’m not afraid of where I’m going
But I’m afraid to leave
For once I’ve left this mortal coil
How will you then tug upon my sleeve
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Maggie
02:57
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Before you let yourself linger
Grow a chip on your shoulder
Before the wolves come knocking
And all the neighbours start talking
Before you’re lost in the blue light
And all the kids are just alright
Like Hera in the garden
And all the fruit has gone rotten
You could lose your mind for a moment
It’s not an easy burden to bare
Maggie look over here
Maybe one day the ground shakes
You know one day everybody’s heart breaks
Though California’s done for
We can see the ocean from our front door
It’s alright to feel broken
There’s still time to start smoking
Every man’s a number
Every woman a stranger
You could lose your mind by the ocean
Bring your buried treasure to bare
Maggie look over here
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7. |
People That We All Know
04:00
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Gotta get this off my chest
Do what the imp of the perverse seems to suggest
The music stops whisper under my breath
Hold me close, my love I must confess
You and I have no chance of living
Like people that we all know
Beneath the surface everyday
Imagine all the things nobody will ever say
I’m spoiled for choice here next to you
That fades away
So kiss goodbye a life worth living
Like people that we all know
Don’t know where we get the nerve
To rest our dreams upon the spawn of god’s green earth
Again, the music plays a song that we’ve both heard
Hold me close, my love and rest assured
When you close your eyes then you’ll be living
Like people that we all know
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8. |
God Fearing Men
05:59
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The well has run dry
So put the rope and the knifes away
I know you’re willing like a lamb to the killing
Good things come to those who run, run em down
It’s a stampede it’s Black Friday
If you can’t stand it leave empty handed
We kept the children safe by strapping them in
But we’re now no longer who we once were when
Should we throw them from this sinking ship and tell them to swim
With the last of the God-fearing men
Never questioned
The house on fire you let it burn
Then you waited, vindicated
Who’s to say who can stay, who will fall from grace
How to teach what won’t be learned
Live and let live
My god’s electric
We kept the children safe by strapping them in
But we’re now no longer who we once were when
Should we throw them from this sinking ship and tell them to swim
With the last of the God-fearing men
Like Theodore was saying from beneath the wooden boards
Are you a simple man of action? Is your pedal always floored?
And maybe nothing happens each time we say goodbye
Or perhaps when this is over, we all learn to fly
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9. |
More Was Said Than Done
09:21
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Knees bruised
Running through black spruce
The air like a cold noose
Hear the beasts overhead
Takes a long time
To run in a straight line
Part the clouds of a dark mind
Autumn hills burn auburn red
After all the ground you’ve won
And all was said and done
Much more was said than done
Day falls
On a phone full of missed calls
You fumble for the wherewithal
To find your way home
Knocked out
Lost the keys and you’re locked out
Spent a lifetime trying to figure out
How to leave yourself alone
After all the ground you’ve won
And all was said and done
Much more was said than done
When you’ve had enough
It’s never enough
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