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Grounded, 5 a.m., the nightlite is comforting
but gravity is holding you. Once settled into sleep you have watched on repeat the story of your life across the ceiling and in review. You've said the air was singing. It's calling you, you don't believe. These things you've never seen. Good morning, how are you? The weather's fine, the sky is blue. It's perfect for our seminar. Now close your eyes and start to breathe, allow the noise to recede, allow yourself to drift and fly away. But you just stay. You've said the air was singing, it's calling you, you don't believe these things you've never seen, never heard. Did you hear these voices? Did you hear these voices calling? Did you hear these voices calling you? Locked into a conference room, we're only what our minds assume and rationale is leaving you. This conceit these systems of belief Your counselor agrees You always mark these boundaries now you're free and with relief. You've said the air was singing, it's calling you, you don't believe these things you've never seen, never heard, never dreamed. You said the air was singing, it's calling you, you don't believe these things you've never seen, never heard, never dreamed. Never, never, never... Once you had a dream of oceans and sunken cities, memories of things you've never known and you have left alone. |
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| 2. |
| 3:27 |
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I've Been High
Have you seen? Have not, will travel Have I missed the big reveal? Do my eyes, Do my eyes seem empty? I've forgotten how this feels. * I've been high I've climbed so high But life sometimes It washes over me. Have you been? Have done, will travel I fell down on me knees Was I wrong? I don't know, don't answer. I just needed to believe. * Repeat So I dive into a pool so cool and Deep that if I sink I sink And when I swim I fly, so high. What I want What I really want is Just to live my life on high. And I know I know you want the same I can see it in your eyes. * Repeat Washes over me Close my eyes so I can see Make my make-believe, believe In me. |
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| 3. |
| 4:44 |
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Humming
All the way to reno Dusted the non-believers And challenge the laws of chance Now sweeter You're so sugar sweet You may as well have 'kick me' Fastened on your sleeve You know what you are You're gonna be a star. You know what you are You're gonna be a star Wing is written on your feet Your achilles heel Is the tendency to dream But you've know that from the beginning You didn't have to go so far You didn't have to go. You know what you are You're gonna be a star. You know what you are You're gonna be a star You know who you are You know who you are You know who you are Humming All the way to reno You've written your own directions And whistles the rules have changed You know what you are You're gonna be a star (star) You know what you are, You're gonna be a star (star) You know what you are, You're gonna be a star (star) You know what you are, You're gonna be a star (star) Humming All the way to reno All the way to reno All the way to reno You're gonna be a star You're gonna be a star You're gonna be a star You're gonna be a star |
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| 4. |
| 5:22 |
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She Just Wants To Be
It's not that she walked away, Her world got smaller. All the usual places The same destinations Only something's changed. It's not that she wasn't rewarded With pomegranate afternoons Of Mingus, Chet Baker and chess It's not stampeding fortune Or prim affectations She's off on her own But she knows Now is greater than the whole of the past Is greater, and now she knows. * She just wants to be somewhere She just wants to be. She just wants to be somewhere She just wants to be. It's not that the transparency Of her earlier incarnations Now looked back on, weren't rich And loaded with beautiful vulnerability But now she knows Now is greater And she knows that. * Repeat Now is greater, now is greater And she knows that. * Repeat * Repeat It's not like if angels Could truly look down Stir up the trappings A light on the ground Remind us of what, when, why or who That how's up to us, me and you And now is greater than the whole of the past Is greater and now she knows that. Now she knows. |
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| 5. |
| 4:11 |
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I dragged my feet
Across a seat And jumped out the passenger side. The only thing worth looking for Is what you find inside But that had not yet appeared Lost, invisible, here. Tel Aviv and Agadir Taroudant or Olomouc Before I learned to see The vanishing point appear. I looked for you and everywhere I looked for you and everywhere. There is a calm I haven't come to yet I spend half my life figuring what comes next I telescoped in I'll finally win I'll finally win the prize That now eyes see A comic's perfect timing squeezed. I'm head-first fighting everything The crushing force of memory Erasing all I've been The vanishing point appears. I looked for you and everywhere. I looked for you and everywhere. Tell me why you're here. I came to disappear. Look at this face Can you believe it? Am I living in the beautiful vacuum? Because I can't see it. The vanishing point appears. I looked for you and everywhere. I looked for you and everywhere. Tell me why you're here. I came to disappear. Tell me why you're here. I came to disappear. I came to disappear. |
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| 6. |
| 4:55 |
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Easy to poke yourself square in the eye
Harder to like yourself, harder to try These Elvis poses, postcards and neopryn Roses a dollar a stem Everyone's sleeping or pulling a long haul, The keys in the cooler it's 3 A.M. And saturn is beckoning no-one Is off on it's own Is offering up. Late shift convenience store Cut out the lights Telescope roof towards the Northwestern sky You pulled the ladder up No one's the wiser You find your sights and discover That Saturn is orbiting nothing It's off on its own It's breaking from home. Harder to look yourself square in the eye Easy to take off. You found the ladder in the pattern of your wrist You've seen and you've marked horizions Mother was difficult, she made you cry Cover the mirror, look to the sky You climb into your rocket-ship triumph Lift up and hold out your hands. * Saturn is orbiting nothing It's off on its own It's breaking from home * Repeat Saturn returns when you chased down its moons Throw them into a new gravity. Harder to look yourself square in the eye Easy to poke yourself, easy as pie Easy to take off, harder to fly Harder to wake Galileo. |
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| 7. |
| 4:21 |
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The sun reflected in the back of my eye.
I knocked my head against the sky. The dragonflies are busy buzzing me. A seahorse as if we were in the sea. Halfway from coal, halfway to diamond. My fall knocked a mean chip out of me. I'm gathering as far as I can reach. We're perched up on a precipice And this is what I've seen. * This is all I want, it's all I need. This is all I am, it's everything. This is all I want, it's all I need. A bluejay hectors from the felled Catalpa tree. A doctorate in science and a theologian's dream. The dragonflies are trying to lecture me. The seahorses if we were in the sea. * Repeat Beat a drum for me, like a butterfly wing. Tropical storm across the ocean. Don't explain, I'm sure I'll want to know Don't forget, we're just halfway from coal. * Repeat |
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| 8. |
| 3:57 |
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Charades, pop skill
Water hyacinth, named by a poet Imitation of life. Like a koi in a frozen pond. Like a goldfish in a bowl. I don't want to hear you cry. * Thats sugarcane that tasted good. Thats cinnamon, thats Hollywood. C'mon, c'mon no one can see you try. You want the greatest thing The greatest thing since bread came sliced. You've got it all, you've got it sized. Like a Friday fashion show teenager Freezing in the corner Trying to look like you don't try. * Repeat No one can see you cry. * Repeat ** Repeat ** Repeat * Repeat * Repeat |
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| 9. |
| 3:32 |
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Mercury is rising still
Turn the fan on high I won't step on my own shadow No one wants to cry Someone put a pox on me I'll spit in their eyes Summer turns to high With my bed-sheet cape and sandals Circle citronella candles Summer's here, the light is Raising hopes and dragonflies. If those hopes are overshadowed By cotton candy, caramel apple Summer turns to high Summer turns to high Summer turns to high Summer high After wine and nectarines The fireflies and time Move like syrup through The evening with the sweet resign I won't pine for what could have been I'm preoccupied Summer turns to high Summer turns to high Summer turns to high Summer high |
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| 10. |
| 4:32 |
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Hey there now young Wholly, sing along
Quote the scriptures, keep them guessing Which pit you crawled from. Just defy it, just deny it, was it fun? Your time has come- What have you done? What have you done? * That's when the insults start to sting You can't remember anything The chorus chime in, the Greek chorus, The machine of god singing. It's the poison that it measures brings illuminating vision It's the knowing with a wink that we expect in Southern women It's the wolf that knows which root to dig to save itself It's the octopus that crawled back to the sea. * Repeat Hey Hammered shooting plywood in the backyard Laughing 'cause the racket makes the blackbirds sing Write the holy terror, suck the marrow from the bone - singe Your own wings burning books, you got the chorus and the ring * Repeat * Repeat That's when the calibration brittle As a stick gets you the gold ring And the tar museum Che Guevera wink, gold ring. Gold ring. Sing, sing, sing, sing. |
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| 11. |
| 5:49 |
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The rain came down
The rain came down The rain came down on me. The wind blew strong The summer's song Fades to memory. I knew you when I loved you then The summer's yawn, now hopeless. You laid me bare You marked me there The promises we made. * I used to think, as birds take wing, They sing through life, so why can't we? We cling to this, and claim the best If this is what you're offering I'll take the rain, I'll take the rain. The nighttime creases Summer schemes And stretches out to stay. The sun shines down You came around You loved the easy days. But now the sun, The winter's come. I wanted just to say That if I hold I'd hoped you'd fold And open up inside, Inside of me. * Repeat I'll take the rain. This winter's song I'll sing along I've searched its still refrain I'll walk alone If given this, Take wing, and celebrate the rain. * Repeat I'll take the rain. |
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| 12. |
| 4:14 |
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Tonight's alive
The beach ball's set to fly Those well tequila'd guys Who smile at strangers. ?tes souhaits ?tes amours ch?i You give a little squeeze And dance the rhu-rhu-rhu-rhumba * This life is sweet You're dancing in the street Who knows who you might meet? You'll do find. The little weekend's here Thursday has an ear The coffee klatch career She talks to strangers And kissing by the sea Particular to me 'ti punch, mojito, sling and Dance the rhu-rhu-rhu-rhumba * Repeat We flash the seaside sky With starfishe butterflies To cast a spell And welcome locals and welcome locals, Weekenders and strangers. You'll do fine. You'll do fine. You'll do fine. |
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