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I'm trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white The best thing you've ever done for me Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable And lightness has a call that's hard to hear I wrap my fear around me like a blanket I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it, I'm crawling on your shore. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. I went to see the doctor of philosophy With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee He never did marry or see a B-grade movie He graded my performance, he said he could see through me I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper And I was free. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m. To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend I woke up with a headache like my head against a board Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before I went in seeking clarity. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. We go to the bible, we go through the workout We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine The closer I am to fine The closer I am to fine |
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In the ink of an eye I saw you bleed;
Through the thunder I could hear you scream, Solid to the air I breath, Open-eyed and fast asleep. Falling softly as the rain; No footsteps ringing in your ears. Ragged down worn to the skin, Warrior raging, have no fear. Secure yourself to heaven. Hold on tight, the night has come. Fasten up your earthly burdens, You have just begun. Kneeling down with broken prayers, Hearts and bones from days of youth. Restless with an angel's wing, I dig a grave to bury you. No feet to fall, You need no ground. Allowed to glide right through the sun, Released from circles guarded tight, Now we all are chosen ones. Secure yourself to heaven. Hold on tight, the night has come. Fasten up your earthly burdens, You have just begun. |
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Pain from pearls-hey little girl-
How much have you grown? Pain from pearls-hey little girl- Flower for the ones you've known. Are you on fire, From the years? What would you give for your Kid fears? Secret staircase, running high, You had a hiding place. Secret staircase, running low, But they all know, now you're inside. Are you on fire, From the years? What would you give for your Kid fears? Skipping stones, we know the price now, Any sin will do. How much further, if you can spin. How much further, if you are smooth. Are you on fire, From the years? What would you give for your Kid fears? Replace the rent with the stars above. Replace the need with love. Replace the anger with the tide. Replace the ones, the ones, the ones, that you love. Replace the rent with the stars above. Replace the need with love. Replace the anger with the tide. Replace the ones, the ones, the ones, that you love. Are you on fire, From the years? What would you give for your Kid fears? Replace the rent with the stars above. Replace the need with love. Replace the anger with the tide. Replace the ones, the ones, the ones, that you love. |
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My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
I do not feel the romance I do not catch the spark I don't know when I noticed life was life at my expense The words of my heart lined up like prisoners on a fence The dreams came in like needy children tugging at my sleeve I said I have no way of feeding you, so leave But there was a time I asked my father for a dollar And he gave it a ten dollar raise When I needed my mother and I called her She stayed with me for days And now someone's on the telephone, desperate in his pain Someone's on the bathroom floor doing her cocaine Someone's got his finger on the button in some room No one can convince me we aren't gluttons for our doom But I tried to make this place my place I asked for Providence to smile upon me with his sweet face But I'll tell you My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark I do not feel the romance I do not catch the spark My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark (By grace, my sight grows stronger and I will not be a pawn for the Prince of Darkness any longer) Maybe there's no haven in this world for tender age My heart beat like the wings of wild birds in a cage My greatest hope my greatest cause to grieve And my heart flew from its cage and it bled upon my sleeve The cries of passion were like wounds that needed healing I couldn't hear them for the thunder I was half the naked distance between hell and heaven's ceiling And he almost pulled me under Now someone's on the telephone desperate in his pain Someone's on the bathroom floor doing her cocaine Someone's got his finger on the button in some room No one can convince me we aren't gluttons for our doom I tried to make this place my place I asked for Providence to smile upon me with his sweet face But I'll tell you My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark I do not feel the romance I do not catch of spark My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark (By grace my sight grows stronger, grows stronger) I do not feel the romance I do not catch the spark (And I will not be a pawn for the Prince of Darkness any longer) |
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I have spent nights with matches and knives,
Leaning over ledges, only two flights up. Cutting my heart, burning my soul. Nothing left to hold, Nothing left but, blood and fire. You have spent nights, thinking of me, Missing my arms, but you needed to leave. Leaving my cuts, leaving my burns, Hoping I'd learn. Blood and fire Are too much for these restless arms to hold. And my nights of desire are calling me, Back to your fold. And I am calling you, calling you from 10,000 miles away Won't you wet my fire with your love, babe? I am looking for someone, who can take as much as I give, Give back as much as I need, And still have the will to live. I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love. I feel forsaken, like the things I gave away. Blood and fire Are too much for these restless arms to hold. And my nights of desire are calling me, Back to your fold. And I am calling you, calling you from 10,000 miles away Won't you wet my fire with your love, babe? I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love. I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love. I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love. Blood and fire Are too much for these restless arms to hold. And my nights of desire are calling me, Back to your fold. And I am calling you, calling you from 10,000 miles away Won't you wet my fire with your love, babe? |
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From baby to best with no second test,
Little storms destroy you. Here is the fame they promised to give you, Taking the place of my hand now. Did you try to be true? What separates me from you? What separates me from you now? Did you borrow the soul, The soul that you sell now? What does your conscience tell you? Where are the demons Of your desire? Why does my love destroy you? Did you try to be true? What separates me from you? What separates me from you now? I said I tried to be true. What separates me from you. I said I tried, tried to be true. What separates me from you. What separates me from you now? Did you try to be true? What separates me from you? What separates me from you now? So where is the fame, Where is the fortune? Where is the world that denies you? Who is to blame, When my heart finally forfeits To a road that will only misguide you? Did you try to be true? What separates me from you? What separates me from you now? Did we try to be true? What separates me from you? Did we try, try to be true? What separates me from you: Did you try to be true? What separates me from you? What separates me from you now? I bought my love a hunger More precious than a stone. All these fatal flowers, Did I misguide you? (Where is the world that denies you) (Try to be true) Did you try to be true? What separates me from you? What separates me from you now? |
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You can go to the East
To find your, inner hemisphere. You say we're under the same sky babe, You're bound to realize, Honey, it's not that clear. I'm not your promise land I'm not your promise one I'm not your Land of Canaan, sweetheart, Waiting for you under the sun. I'm lonely tonight, I'm missing you now. I'm wanting your love and you're giving it out. I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight. Well the meanings changed (for what it's worth), It's just a senseless game. I should think of love, but it's fear every time I hear Your heart strain. It's not the fallen man, It's not the call of time, It's just the London skyline Telling me you're not mine. I'm lonely tonight, I'm missing you now. I'm wanting your love and you're giving it out. I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight. My blood is running dry, My skin is, my skin is growing thin For every time you find yourself You lose a little bit of me, from within. It's just a raging cycle, why can't we Bring it all to the end of the line. From inside this existence, sweetheart, Time is not on my side. I'm lonely tonight, I'm missing you now. I'm wanting your love and you're giving it out. I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight. I'm not your promised land, I'm not your promised one. I'm not your promised land, I'm not your promised one. I'm not your Land of Canaan Sweetheart, I'm not your Land of Canaan Sweetheart, I'm not your Land of Canaan Sweetheart, Waiting for you under the sun, I'm lonely tonight. |
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Laughing in a crown of jewels,
Numbness from a scepter's wound. Toss and Turn, I spin and learn, "Catch yourself before you burn." A joker's dance before the king, Jangling beads, a silver ring. Close your eyes and bare the sound, Jumping up-falling down. Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. Royal rebels discover you. Trust? you turn there is no truth. And circle, circle, why are you scared? Why a smile instead of tears? I'm gulping smoke to fade away. Figures floating down to lay. Meet the joker and the thief, The king and queen but-no relief. Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. "The king is in the counting house, counting out his money" {Look yourself in the eye before you drown. Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down.} Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. "The queen is in her parlour, eating bread and honey" {Look yourself in the eye before you drown. Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down.} Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. [instrumental] "Mary had a little lamb" I cross myself before I die The leaping man, he asks me, "why?" "Well your rhythm is off" I reply, "Now you must dance the dance That you imply!" "Your actions will follow you full circle round, Your actions will follow you full circle round, Your actions will follow you full circle round, Your actions will follow you full circle round, The higher the leap, I said, The harder the ground!" |
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I went all the way to Paris to forget your face
Captured in stained glass, young lives long since passed Statues of lovers every place I went all across the continent to relieve this restless love I walked through the ruins, icons of glory Smashed by the bombs from above So we must love while these moments are still called today Take part in the pain of this passion play Stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust Until time makes history of us Jeu de Paume's full of faces knowing peace, knowing strife Leisure and toil, still it's canvas and oil There's just no medium for life In the midst of the rubble I felt a sense of rebirth In a dusty cathedral the living God called And I prayed for my life here on earth So we must love while these moments are still called today Take part in the pain of this passion play Stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust Until time makes history of us There are mountains in Switzerland, brilliant cold as they stand From my hotel room, watching the half-moon Bleeding its light like a lamb And the town is illumined, its tiny figures are fast asleep And it dawns on me the time is upon me To return to the flock I must keep So we must love while these moments are still called today Take part in the pain of this passion play Stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust Until time makes history of us |
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i come to you with strange fire
i make an offering of love the incense of my soil is burned by the fire in my blood i come with a softer answer to the questions that lie in your path i want to harbor you from the anger find a refuge from the wrath this is a message a message of love love that moves from the inside out love that never grows tired i come to you with strange fire fire mercenaries of the shrine now who are you to speak for god with haughty eyes and lying tongues and hands that shed innocent blood now who delivered you the power to interpret calvary you gamble away our freedom to gain your own authority find another state of mind you know it's time we all learned to grab hold strange fire burns with the motion of love fire fire when you learn to love yourself you will dissolve all the stones that are cast now you will learn to burn the icing sky to melt the waxen mask i said to have the gift of true release this is a peace that will take you higher oh i come to you with my offering i bring you strange fire this is a message a message of love love that moves from the inside out love that never grows tired i come to you with strange fire fire fire I come to you with strange fire |
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crazy game
i never should have started to play but now you couldn't tear me away love is sweet sweet baby so good to you and so bad and i fear the situations clear before my eyes confusion wants to break me and it tries i've been a little bit stronger from the start listen to my heart cause if you're ever believing i'm thinking of leaving look to the moon cause it's a fact she may go wandering about but she always comes shining back and it's true i'll wait for you you dry your tears don't be thinking grey is here to stay sometimes everything is in the way you're wanting to look at it turn your view around dry your eyes eyes like yours should carry a smile i haven't seen them sparkle in a while give it one more try dry your eyes cause if you're ever believing i'm thinking of leaving look to the moon cause it's a fact she may go wandering about but she always comes shining back and it's true i'll wait for you |
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everybody loves you
and they want to know your story you go riding out a mystery concealed in all your glory but when it comes to flesh and bones you remind me of shallot only made of shadows even though you're not i remember how i spent all my energy and time with affected conversation trying to pry inside your mind you are as beautiful as truth and as empty as a shell and i came to you one night and it made me feel like hell oh to reach through all your surface just to find an empty pool and to suffer all your pride as i lay down by your side and you swallowed up my heart and left me a fool left me a fool everybody loves a hero an image to create the antithesis of everything inside ourselves we hate but you'd better close your eyes when it's time for them to die because you'd hate to think the life you'd built upon them was a lie oh to reach through all your surface just to find an empty pool and to suffer all your pride as i lay down by your side and you swallowed up my heart and left me a fool left me a fool i resign myself to silence i will never blow your cover no one ever has to know who the hero took for lover but it comes to mind as you blaze on as brilliant as a star how many you've left behind how many casualties there are oh to reach through all your surface just to find an empty pool and to suffer all your pride as i lay down by your side and you swallowed up my heart and left me a fool left me a fool |
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hey jesus it's me
i don't usually talk to you but my baby's gonna leave me and there's something you must do i am not your faithful servant i hang around sometimes with a bunch of your black sheep but if you make my baby stay i'll make it up to you and that's a promise i will keep hey jesus it's me i'm the one who talked to you yesterday and i asked you please please for a favor but my baby's gone away went away anyway and i don't really think its fair you've got the power to make us all believe in you and then we call you in our despair and you don't come through hey jesus it's me i'm sorry i don't remember all i said i had a few, no, too many and they went straight to my head and made me feel like i could argue with god but you know it's easy for you you got friends all over the world you had the whole world waiting for your birth but now i ain't got nobody i don't know what my life's worth i'm not gonna call on you any more i'm sure you've got a million things to do all i was trying to do was to get through to you get through to you because when i die and i get up to your doors i don't even know if you're gonna let me in the place how come i gotta die to get a chance to talk to you face to face |
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love is but a song we sing
and fear's the way we die you can make the mountains ring or make the angels cry though the bird is on the wing you may not know why come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now some may come and some may go we will surely pass when the one that left us here returns for us at last we are but a moment's sunlight fading in the grass yeah come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now if you hear the song we sing you will understand you hold the key to love and fear all in your trembling hand just one key unlocks them both it's there at your command come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now come on people now smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now try to love one another right now try to love one another right now |
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we use to walk in each other arms
"it was one on one," that's what you said now the moon is a sliver in our eye we stumble bleeding on this broken glass there was too much repetition (over and over and over again) you know we're past the point of sane (over and over and over again) all this broken glass you left behind won't let you make a clean, clean i said walk away now we're crossing from the sacred ground where we once held each other, and each other's names and the words are sparse, and we feel so profound but babe you know all i feel, honey i feel so ashamed ah cause there was, there was too much repetition ah you know you know you know you know we're past the point of sane ah oh all this broken glass we left behind it won't let us make a clean, clean i said walk away ah yeah walk away oh no walk away baby baby walk away ah oh i said walk away walk away oh no walk away baby baby walk away there was a time when we gave everything and it was true babe, true enough to bleed (true enough to bleed baby) but now you feel that you've got nothing left if there's nothing to lose babe ah babe don't you know by now then there's nothing to gain ah no walk away ah no walk away oh baby baby walk away you know i'd still hold you if i could its hard not to try and change try to change your mind i'm a pillar of salt and i want you to understand me cause honey this is the last time, it's the last time i ever look behind ah yeah walk away ah no walk away baby baby walk away all right let's go ah i said walk away ah yeah walk away ah no walk away baby baby walk away ah no i said walk away (don't you know we used to walk) come on now baby walk away (in each others arms) i said close your eyes walk away (hand in hand) baby baby try to listen to me i want to tell you (that's what you said to be baby yeah) now walk away (now the moon) ah yeah walk away (is a sliver in our eyes) try to learn to look inside walk away (and we stumble) baby baby baby baby baby baby (walking on broken glass) i said walk away come on now baby walk away i said listen to me walk away baby baby now i've got something that i want to tell you walk away ah no walk away ah baby i said you've got to know by now come on baby |
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i'm in search of greener pastures
don't like my garden's what i said although i'm working harder than last year i'm still deep in the red i am rowing as hard as i can and they're selling me up a stream i'm always one more step away from the american dream i got a chip on my shoulder about the size of a mental block i've got someone on the telephone trying to sell me a future in stock maybe i work too hard to be happy and i should practice letting go but it's hard not to rock the boat when you're sailing against the undertow i want to slide into the black and wear the black mask i might not get what i lack but it doesn't hurt to ask if i want to sail i need my life to be breezier i said please god or someone make it easier i went to sunday school every sunday swallowed the bait and i got the hook when i needed something someday i would read the good book tell me what does it take to get ahead sometimes i know i'd sell my soul when it looks like everybody else is flying and i'm crawling in the hole well maybe if i open my own business maybe if i buy a lottery ticket someone tell me what is the secret to getting out of the thicket give me more than just a sample i need a whole lot of glory my life become an example of the american success story i want to slide into the black and wear the black mask i might not get what i lack but it doesn't hurt to ask if i want to sail i need my life to be breezier i said please god or someone make it easier i want to slide into the black and wear the black mask i might not get what i lack but it doesn't hurt to ask if i want to sail i need my life to be breezier i said please god or someone make it easier make it easier make it easier |
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when I let you go
I cursed myself with empty hands strong enough to watch you walk but not enough to understand with spiteful eyes you burn for my grace I was trying to stand outside of this you were trying to save face you can say that I don't care I don't care you can hope that we still have something left to share but just between you baby and me just between me baby and you there's nothing there I finally found someone I can hold you ask me to defend myself as if I shouldn't be so bold well get that look off of your face I don't have the time you don't have the place to say that I don't care I don't care to hope that we still have something left to share and just between me baby and you just between you baby and me there's nothing there baby what are you gonna do I can't salvage any truth for you everybody else already knows it hurts you to realize so leave well enough enough alone and you don't need my hands to help you understand you don't need to hear my voice (you have no choice) so don't be throwing stones the closer we get the harder they come now even if your feeling alone don't come home cause when it was up to you when it was up to you you left it up to me oh you left oh you left oh you left it up to me when it was up to you you left it up to me |
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You can go to the East
To find your, inner hemisphere. You say we're under the same sky babe, You're bound to realize, Honey, it's not that clear. I'm not your promise land I'm not your promise one I'm not your Land of Canaan, sweetheart, Waiting for you under the sun. I'm lonely tonight, I'm missing you now. I'm wanting your love and you're giving it out. I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight. Well the meanings changed (for what it's worth), It's just a senseless game. I should think of love, but it's fear every time I hear Your heart strain. It's not the fallen man, It's not the call of time, It's just the London skyline Telling me you're not mine. I'm lonely tonight, I'm missing you now. I'm wanting your love and you're giving it out. I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight. My blood is running dry, My skin is, my skin is growing thin For every time you find yourself You lose a little bit of me, from within. It's just a raging cycle, why can't we Bring it all to the end of the line. From inside this existence, sweetheart, Time is not on my side. I'm lonely tonight, I'm missing you now. I'm wanting your love and you're giving it out. I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight. I'm not your promised land, I'm not your promised one. I'm not your promised land, I'm not your promised one. I'm not your Land of Canaan Sweetheart, I'm not your Land of Canaan Sweetheart, I'm not your Land of Canaan Sweetheart, Waiting for you under the sun, I'm lonely tonight. |
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welcome me to your city of angels
devil prophets still hold my hand i walked your stillborn streets for hours ethnic echoes spitting out their trials they tell me i'll be the first to praise the sun the first to praise the moon the first to hold the lone coyote the last to set it free welcome me to a haven given it's well received into my open arms oh i ran in my sleep through shaking tremors i felt the splitting earth echoing in my ears i feel it i'll be the first to praise the sun the first to praise the moon the first to hold the lone coyote the last to set it free welcome me to your city of angels there's a devil monkey laying on our backs now tell me where's the heart where's the bullet for breaking who's gonna give me a weapon a pacifying weapon i need it i'll be the first to praise the sun the first to praise the moon oh the first to hold the lone coyote the last to set it free i'll be the first to praise the sun i said i said welcome me the first to praise the moon oh the first to hold the lone coyote the last to set it free i said welcome me |
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i'm coming home with a stone
strapped onto my back i'm coming home with a burning hope turning all my blues to black i'm looking for a sacred hand to carve into my stone a ghost of comfort angels breath to keep this life inside my chest this world falls on me hopes of immortality everywhere i turn all the beauty just keeps shaking me now i woke up in the middle of a dream scared the world was too much for me sejarez said, "don't let go just plant the seeds and watch them grow" i've slept in rainy canyon lands cold drenched to my skin i always wake to find a face to calm these troubled lands ah this world falls on me with dreams of immortality everywhere i turn all the beauty just keeps shaking me now i'm running to the end of the earth and i'm swimming to the edge of the sea and i'm laughing i'm under a starry sky this world was meant for me don't bury me carry me i wish i was a nomad an indian or a saint the edge of death would disappear leave me nothing left to taint i wish i was a nomad an indian or a saint give me walking shoes feathered arms and a key to heaven's gate ah this world falls on me dreams of immortality everywhere i turn all the beauty just keeps shaking me i'm running (this world falls on me) to the end of the earth (with hopes of immortality) i'm swimming (everywhere i turn) to the edge of the sea (the beauty keeps on shaking me) and i'm laughing (this world falls on me) cause i'm under a starry sky (hopes of immortality) this world was meant for me (everywhere i turn) i've got hopes of immortality |
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maybe we'll make texas by the morning
light the bayou with our tail lights in the night 800 miles to el paso from the state line and we never have the money for the flight i'm in the back seat sleepy from the travel we played our hearts out all night long in new orleans and i'm dirty from the diesel fumes, drinking coffee black when the first breath of texas comes in clean and there's something bout the southland in the springtime where the waters flow with confidence and reason though i miss her when i'm gone it won't ever be too long till i'm home again to spend my favorite season when god made me born a yankee he was teasin' there's no place like home and none more pleasin' than the southland in the springtime in georgia nights are softer than a whisper beneath a quilt somebody's mother made by hand with the farmland like a tapestry passed down through generations and the peach trees stitched across the land there'll be cider up near helen off the roadside and boiled peanuts in a bag to warm your fingers and the smoke from the chimneys meets its maker in the sky with a song that winter wrote whose melody lingers and there's something bout the southland in the springtime where the waters flow with confidence and reason though i miss her when i'm gone it won't ever be too long till i'm home again to spend my favorite season when god made me born a yankee he was teasin' there's no place like home and none more pleasin' than the southland in the springtime |
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From the bowery to the brimstone I tried to find your heart
The drugs of initiation, the bottom of a barrel that drops I understand your causes sympathize with motivation All the details of this war are just self-infatuation 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go home Your manic blood runs thick my friend are you looking for a clean escape What's left when the locks have all been broken young children of authority Tell me how long can you be agile dancing between the alter and the merci seat Now here's a chance to make a choice are you aware of the fire beneath your feet 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go home You better own up to me Yeah Yeah Go home The basement lies within us Our fear comes through the door Now there's nothing left between us As the fear becomes a roar Once that wheel is in motion don't lose what you have found We're talking bout the burning wheel of tongues everything that makes it go round and round We're all born in the devil's scorn he wants to see you die I'm asking you, "are you true", and everything they say is a lie is a lie now 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pick up the sticks And go 1 2 3 (we're all born) Nothing's for free (in the devil's scorn) 1 2 3 (we're all born) Nothing's for free (in the devil's scorn) And everything they say is a lie it's a lie now Everything they say is a lie it's a lie Pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) Pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) Pick up the sticks (pick up the sticks) Pick up the sticks |
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i would tattoo me with lines crossing into a hand and a heart that would never bleed with the twilight and the horse drawn on my arm standing for an addiction pray we go unharmed here is my love and anger you see now these are my gods these are my scars here is my love and anger well these arms are burning but they're open wide some things i hold too tightly some things i'll never i'll never touch oh but i'm wearing down the stones in the river and you see all my life i've painted with anger's brush now, now could you lift me through my love and anger you see now these are your gods these are my scars lift me through my love and anger ah and my arms are burning but they're open wide oh you precious kid i have a motion and it's just for you i see a warrior barefoot and dancing oh with tears of pain and beauty and all of this is true for you lift me through my love and anger you see now these are my gods these are your scars lift me through my love and anger oh and my arms are burning and they're open wide pointing out the graveyards i will be the reaper if you will be the keeper of my heart i will be the reaper if you will be the keeper of my heart you are the keeper of this heart of my heart |
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Thought I knew my mind
Like the back of my hand The gold and the rainbow But nothing panned out as I planned And they say only milk and honey's Gonna make your soul satisfied Well I better learn how to swim Cause the crossing is chilly and wide Twisted guardrails on the highway Broken glass on the cement A ghost of someone's tragedy How recklessly my time has been spent They say that it's never too late But you don't, you don't get any younger Well I better learn how to starve the emptiness And feed the hunger Up on the watershed Standing at the fork in the road You can stand there and agonize Till your agony's your heaviest load You'll never fly as the crow flies Get used to a country mile When you're learning to face The path at your pace Every choice is worth your while And there's always retrospect (when you're looking back) To light a clearer path Every five years or so I look back on my life And I have a good laugh You start at the top (start at the top) Go full circle round Catch a breeze Take a spill But ending up where I started again Makes me wanna stand still Up on the watershed Standing at the fork in the road You can stand there and agonize Till your agony's your heaviest load You'll never fly as the crow flies Get used to a country mile When you're learning to face The path at your pace Every choice is worth your while Stepping on a crack Breaking up and looking back Till every tree limb overhead just seems to sit and wait Till every step you take becomes a twist of fate (twist of fate) Up on the watershed Standing at the fork in the road You can stand there and agonize Till your agony's your heaviest load You'll never fly as the crow flies Get used to a country mile When you're learning to face The path at your pace Every choice is worth your while Up on the watershed Standing at the fork in the road You can stand there and agonize Till your agony's your heaviest load You'll never fly as the crow flies Get used to a country mile When you're learning to face The path at your pace Every choice is worth your while And when you're learning to face The path at your pace Every choice is worth your while |
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i've taken so many down
i've helped them all to dismount i've followed so many down i take their hand me downs all with hope all with hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness all with hope all with hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness to us all everything that i believe crawls from underneath the streets everything i truly love comes from somewhere far above everything that i believe is wrong with you is wrong with me everything i truly love i love in you and i love in me so give me hope give me hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness to us all you swear you can't swim the river (i've become the beggar now) (you've become the saint somehow) but i saw you running to jump in (i've become the beggar now) (you've become the saint somehow) i swore i'd never be your sinner (i've become the beggar now) (you've become the saint somehow) til i held your sin hand me downs now you ask me why i'm here the same as you i'm scared - it's fear i've become the beggar now and you've become the saint somehow twist the words and place the blame and tell me now aren't we the same tripping in our yellow feet checking underneath our sheets for some hope give me hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness give me hope give me hope that emptiness brings fullness and loss of love brings wholeness to us all |
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you and me of the 10,000 wars
dividing life into factions of pleasure and chores a bed to be made and a bed to lie in a hand in the darker side and our sights set on zion the heart of a skeptic and the mind of a child put my life in a box and let my imagination run wild pour the cement for my feet the heart and the mind on a parallel course never the two shall meet and oh the dissatisfied with the satisfied everybody loves a melodrama and the scandal of a lie still you held your arms open for the prodigal daughter I see my eyes in your eyes through my eyes still water try making one and one make one twist the shapes until everything comes undone watch the wizard behind the curtain the larger than life and the power of seeming certain the evil ego and the vice of pride is there ever anything else that makes us take our different sides I wanted everything to feed me about as full as I got was of myself and the upper echelons of mediocrity and oh the dissatisfied with the satisfied everybody loves a melodrama and the scandal of a lie still you held your arms open for the prodigal daughter I see my eyes in your eyes through my eyes still water still water after the battles and we're still around everything once up in the air has settled down sweep the ashes let the silence find us a moment of peace is worth every war behind us you and me of the 10,000 wars |
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well i woke up this morning
grey dawn with a prayer on my breath you see i lost something precious and god'll save me from losing myself i said i think i know what's wrong i think i know what's wrong now i met the queen and i understand why why she closed the door i'm not making excuses but you know i've been there a few times you know i was i was knocking on the door i said i think i know what's wrong i think i know what's wrong wrong wrong see there's a man he lived in a house had a family of five well he blew up the windows and the doors he said “i just couldn't i just couldn't survive” yeah well we've all been removed in one way or another we don't know our families we don't need our brothers we're pushing the needle too far pushing the needle too far well if you wake up in the morning grey dawn there's a prayer on your breath see maybe you've lost something precious god'll save you from losing yourself you say i think i know what's wrong let me hear you i think i know what's wrong there's the queen who closed the door the family that lies the people who turn the cat that has died a boy that od's a girl with a gun the world on its knees and a band on the run you know you'd help me more (the queen who closed the door) by not giving in (the family that lies) you know you'd help me more (people who turn) by not giving in (and the cat that has died) you know you'd help me more (a boy that od's) by not giving in (and a girl with a gun) i said you'd help me more (the world on it's knees) now don't you give in (and a band on the run) ah now you'd help me more by not giving i said don't you dare (not giving in no) don't you dare (not giving in no) don't you dare (she said) you'd help me more (she said she wouldn't give in) by not giving in i said you'd help me more by not giving in i said i i think i know what's wrong i think i know what's wrong we're pushing the needle too far |
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she won't recover from her losses
she's not chosen this path but she watches who it crosses maybe move to the right maybe move to the left so we can all see her pain she wears like a banner on her chest and we all say it's sad and we think it's a shame and she's called to our attention but we do not call her name the girl with the weight of the world in her hands cause we're busy with our happiness and busy with our plans i wonder if alone she wants it taken from her hands but if things didn't keep getting harder she might miss her sacred chance to go a consecrated martyr the girl with the weight of the world in her hands i wonder which saint that lives inside a bead will grant her consolation when she counts upon her need it makes us all angry though we feign to care but who will be the scale to weigh the cross she has to bear the girl with the weight of the world in her hands is the glass half-full or empty i ask her as i fill it she said it doesn't really matter pretty soon you're bound to spill it with the half logic language of the sermon she delivers and the way she smiles so knowingly at me gives me the shivers i pull the blanket higher when i'm finally safe at home and she'll take a hundred with her but she always sleeps alone the girl with the weight of the world in her hands i wonder which saint that lives inside a bead will grant her consolation when she counts upon her need it makes us all angry though we feign to care but who will be the scale to weigh the cross she has to bear the girl with the weight of the world in her hands |
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