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| 2:59 | 
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It's A Wonderful Life
I am the only one can ride that horse th'yonder I'm full of bees who died at sea it's a wonderful life it's a wonderful life I wore a rooster's blood when it flew like doves I'm a bog of poisoned frogs it's a wonderful life it's a wonderful life I'm the dog that ate your birthday cake it's a wonderful life it's a wonderful life it's a wonderful life |
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| 2. |
| 4:14 |
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good morning my child
stay with me a while you not got any place to be won't you sit a spell with me you've got diamonds for eyes it's time for you to rise and evaporate in the sun sometimes it can weigh a ton keep all your crows away hold skinny wolves at bay in silver piles of smiles may all your days be gold my child a necklace of leaves spirits in the trees and drown all the clocks 'til there's none little ambient in the sun keep all your crows away hold skinny wolves at bay in silver piles of smiles may all your days be gold my child ha-ah, ha-ah, ha-ah, hah-ahh good morning my child stay with me a while and evaporate in the sun sometimes it can weigh a ton keep all your crows away hold skinny wolves at bay in silver piles of smiles may all your days be gold my child may all your days be gold my child may all your days be gold my child may all your days be gold my child |
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| 3. |
| 2:43 |
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I got sunburnt waiting for the jets to land
circus people with hairy little hands come on boys strike up the army band I got sunburnt waiting for the jets how do you feel? how do you feel? I can't seem to see through solid marble eyes fiery pianos wash up on a foggy coast squeaky old organs have given up the ghost fire them up and kill the pianos there's creaky old organs burning on the coast how do you feel? how do you feel? I can't seem to breath with a rusted metal heart I can't seem to see through solid marble eyes |
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| 4. |
| 4:29 |
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can you feel the wind of venus on your skin?
can you taste the crush of a sunset's dying blush? stars will always hand in summer's bleeding veils can you feel the rings of saturn on your finger? can you taste the ghosts who shed their creaking hosts? but seas forever boil, trees will turn to soil stars will always hand in summer's bleeding veils but seas forever boil, trees will turn to soil |
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| 5. |
| 4:54 |
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of horses wet
with melted ice they would not heed my advice and burdened limbs of its weight to break and rot a whispered fate please doctor, please around me in a bloody sea to breach the hive and smoke the bees you can be my friend you can be my dog you can be my life you can be my fog please doctor, please the witches will return to their sticky tree knots I will feel the sun I will feel the sun I will feel the sun coming down I wish I had a horse's head a tiger's heart an apple bed |
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| 6. |
| 4:18 |
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the toothless kiss of skeletons
and the summer hail I'm the king of nails I drink my liquor from the palm of a child who spoke in tongues and smelled like sun give all your leaves to the ghosts in the trees to sink or to shine the nails are all mine and blood was rushing up the stairs I shut my eyes and killed the cock when the sun came knocking oh to taste the salty oil of your chest and on your eyes when the sting is on the rise sleep in the fire with snakes I have sired to sink or to shine the nails are all mine I drink my liquor from the palm of a child who spoke in tongues and smelled like sun the toothless kiss of skeletons and the summer hail I'm the king of nails give all your leaves to the ghosts in the trees to sink or to shine the nails are all mine sleep in the fire with snakes I have sired to sink or to shine the nails are all mine |
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| 5:27 |
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I will return here one day
and dig up my bones from the clay I buried nails and strings and hair and that old tooth I believe was a bear's I held my hand in the fire it burned me down to the wires blood suckers hide beneath my bed And black fumes of skin so gently bled I slept with a cat on my breast slowing my heart stealing my breath at sunrise the monkeys will fly and leave me with pennies in my eyes I will return here one day and dig up my bones from the clay I buried nails and string and hair and that old tooth I believe was a bear's at sunrise the monkeys will fly and leave me with pennies in my eyes |
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| 8. |
| 2:47 |
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oh mother I want a dog
I want a little dog I saw a little dog his name is happy well this is me ... ... old ... I could be a shopkeeper we'll call 'em ... she got a six foot pitchfork I see the wrecking-ball back over here together she got me here with or without she got me coming through the dog door she got me coming through the dog door I said pitchfork oh step-ladders you oughta walk away but you can't ... ... stairs she got me gone back here but don't sit there she let me keep the deck-chair she got me coming through the dog door she got me coming through the dog door pitchfork (pitchfork) crowbar (crowbar) clawhammer (clawhammer) hot tar (hot tar) she got me through her middle name but she can make it rain she got a small-town chill and she's starving in the belly wheel she got me coming through the dog door she got me coming through the dog door pitchfork (pitchfork) crowbar (crowbar) clawhammer (clawhammer) hot tar (hot tar) |
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| 9. |
| 4:53 |
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is your jewellery still lost in the sand
out on the coast, or rushed into the brine? you left your rings on the shoreline so you wouldn't lose them swimming in the shallows a plastic shovel, soft sweaty children far from home on vacation not unlike your very own and the Captain Howdy lit upon my shoulder and he left me with sulphur and rooms full of headaches I fell in with snakes in the poisoned ranks of strangers please send me more yellow birds for the dim interior will my pony recognise my voice in hell? will he still be blind, or do they go by smell? will you promise not to rest me out at sea but on a fiery river boat that's rickety? I'll never find my pony along the rolling swell a muddy river or a lake would do me well with hints of amber sundowns and moody thunderstorms a sunken barge's horns, with the cold rusty bells |
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| 3:40 |
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did you save your wisdom teeth?
did you burn your christmas tree? he got dragged by a donkey through the dust and the myrtle but he was once a little fat baby did you lose your [fatty?] in the bath? did you make the city slickers laugh? he got dragged by a donkey through the glass and the myrtle but he was once a little fat baby did you burn your wisdom teeth? did you save your christmas tree? he got dragged by a donkey through the switches and the myrtle but he was once a little fat baby |
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| 11. |
| 5:01 |
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with rocks in my dress
and smoke in my hair I walked into a lake to get some sleep down in there won't you come to comfort me? won't you come to comfort me? With minnows in my belly and deep in my veins the breath-robbin' lightning was making diamonds of rain won't you come to comfort me? won't you come to comfort me? dreamed I was born on a mountain on the moon Where nothing grows or ever rots I dreamed that I had me a daughter who was magnificent as a horse won't you come to comfort me? won't you come to comfort me? won't you come to comfort me? won't you come to comfort me? won't you come to comfort me? won't you come to comfort me? won't you come to comfort me? won't you come to comfort me? won't you come to comfort me? won't you come to comfort me? won't you come to comfort me? won't you come? |
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| 12. |
| 15:02 |
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the sound of your voice
rose graves of cats the pounding of your steps woke caves of bats babies on the sun babies on the sun your first burning breath was a symphony and a ship full of horses was going down at sea babies on the sun babies on the sun babies on the sun babies on the sun on the sun |
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