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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 words and music amy ray copyright 1987 godhap music (bmi |
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| 2. |
| 4:02 |
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i'm trying to tell you something about my life maybe give me insight between black and white and the best thing you've ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously it's only life after all yeah 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 shores i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less i seek my source for some definitive (the less i seek my source) the closer i am to fine the closer i am to fine and 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 fountains 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 less i seek my source) the closer i am to fine 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 and i woke up with a headache like my head against a board twice as cloudy as i'd been the night before and i went in seeking clarity. i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains yeah we go to the doctor, we go to the mountains we look to the children, we drink from the fountains yeah 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 less i seek my source) the closer i am to fine the closer i am to fine the closer i am to fine |
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| 3. |
| 4:34 |
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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. Chorus: 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. Chorus 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. Chorus Bridge 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. Bridge Chorus Bridge Originally submitted by ? Reformatted and extracted to a single lyric file by Doug Henkle |
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| 4. |
| 5:45 |
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Thought I knew my mind like the back of my hand, The gold and the rainbow, but ntohing 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 guardrail on the highway, broken glass on the cement. A ghost of someone's tragedy How recklessly my time has been spent. And they say that it's never too late, but 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 files, get used to a country mile. When you're learning to face the path at your pace Every choice is worth your while. Well there's always retrospect 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, go full circle round Catch a breeze, take a spill - But ending up where I started again makes me wanna stand still, Stepping on a crack, breaking up and looking back Every tree limb overhead just seems to sit and wait Until every step you tak becomes a twist of fate Lyrics reprinted WP/FYC by Trip N. Gregory Reformatted and extracted to a single lyric file by Doug Henkle |
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| 5. |
| 3:09 |
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three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion one could send you down the river three's a strange way to be delivered would you trade your words for freedom that's a barter for a blind man three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion are you levee'd like a treasure only words can help me find you and this world's a fickle measure I would painfully remind you from a wise man to your red hand you lay covered ion our best sins three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion well I dream you constant stranger with your best bloods and your anger you say mother do you claim me my beloved do you blame me well the first two might release you but the last one sings in me son three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion three hits to the heart son and the last one sings in me words and music amy ray |
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| 6. |
| 4:11 |
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Galileo's head was on the block, The crime was looking up for truth, And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode, I try to trace them to my youth. And then he had to bring up reincarnation, Over a couple of beers the other night, And now I'm serving time for mistakes made By another in another lifetime. Chorus: How long til my soul gets it right, How many human being ever reached that kind of light, To call on the resting soul, of Galileo, King of night vision, king of insight. I think about my fear of motion, I wish I never could explain, Someone who flew across the ocean years ago, Must've crashed his little airplane. (Chorus) I'm not making a joke, you know me, I take everything so seriously. We wait for the time til our souls get it right, Well at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation In my lifetime, I'm still not right. I offer thanks to those before me, That's all I've got to say, Maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime, Now I have to pay. But then again it feels like some sort of inspiration, To let the next life off the hook, Let's just see...look what I have to overcome from my last life, I think I'll write a book. Chorus x2 How long (til my soul gets it right) How long (til my soul getis it right) How looooooooooooooooong |
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| 7. |
| 5:15 |
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there's a letter on the desktop that i dug out of the drawer the last truce we ever came to in our adolescent war and i start to feel a fever from the warm air through the screen you come regular like seasons shadowing my dreams and the mississippi's mighty but it starts in minnesota at a place that you can walk across with five steps down and i guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart but at this point you rush right through me and i start to drown and there's not enough room in this world for my pain signals cross and love gets lost and time past makes it plain of all my demon spirits i need you the most i'm in love with your ghost dark and dangerous like a secret that gets whispered in a hush (don't tell a soul) when i wake the things i dreamt about you last night make me blush you kissed me like a lover then you sting me like a viper i will follow to the river play your memory like a piper i feel it like a sickness how this love is killing me i would walk into the fingers of your fire willingly and dance the edge of sanity i've never been this close in love with your ghost unknowing captor, you'll never know much you pierce my spirit, but i can't touch you. can you hear it, a cry to be free i'm forever under lock and key as you pass through me now i see your face before me i would launch a thousand ships to bring your heart back to my island as the sand beneath me slips i burn up in your presence and i know now how it feels to be weakened like achilles with you always at my heels and my bitter pill to swallow is the silence that i keep it poisons me i can't swim free the river is too deep though i'm baptised by your touch i am no worst at most, in love with your ghost |
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| 8. |
| 3:27 |
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i had guards like watchdogs dogs in a manger i could feel the protection possession and anger and i drove out of there with no on behind me feeling funny and free all you pretty pretenders negligent vendors aren't you precious inside i have no need for anger with intimate strangers and i got nothing to hide yeah i laughed as i said it this is my situation it's not pictures or privilege it's just self preservation i don't want you to feel any obligation it feels so funny to be free all you pretty pretenders negligent vendors aren't you precious inside i have no need for anger with intimate strangers and i got nothing to hide we act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions (i remember you) of lives led in discontent (when we were shiny and new) trading misfortunes (now you guard your faith) cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver (temper your speed) it feels so funny to be free all you pretty pretenders negligent vendors aren't you precious inside i have no need for anger with intimate strangers and i got nothing to hide i got nothing to hide all of us aren't we pretty pretenders negligent vendors aren't we precious inside i have no need for anger with intimate strangers and i got nothing to hide i got nothing to hide I had guards like watchdogs dogs in a manger (i remember you) words and music amy ray copyright 1994 bmi virgin music inc and godhap music (bmi |
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| 9. |
| 5:22 |
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Now the parking lot is empty Everyone's gone someplace I pick you up and in the trunk I've packed A cooler and a two day suitcase 'Cause there's a place we like to drive Way out in the country Five miles out of the city limit we're singin' And your hand's upon my leg So we're ok, we're fine Baby I'm here to stop your crying Chase all the ghosts from your head I'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed Smarter than the tricks played on your heart Look at them together then we'll take them apart Adding up the total of a love that's true Multiply life by the power of two I know the things that I am afraid of I'm not afraid to tell And if we ever leave a legacy It's that we loved each other well 'Cause I've seen the shadows of so many people Trying on the treasures of youth But a road fancy and fast ends in a fatal crash And I'm glad we got off to tell you the truth So we're ok, we're fine Baby I'm here to stop your crying Chase all the ghosts from your head I'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed Smarter than the tricks played on your heart Look at them together then we'll take them apart Adding up the total of a love that's true Multiply life by the power of two All the shiny little trinkets of temptation Something new instead of something old But all you gotta do is scratch beneath the surface And it's fool's gold Fool's gold Now we're talking about a difficult thing Your eyes are getting wet I took us for better and I took us for worse And don't you ever forget it Now there's steel bars between me and a promise Suddenly bend with ease And the closer I'm bound in love to you The closer I am to free So we're ok, we're fine Baby I'm here to stop your crying Chase all the ghosts from your head I'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed Smarter than the tricks played on your heart Look at them together then we'll take them apart Adding up the total of a love that's true Multiply life by the power of two |
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| 4:10 |
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I sit two stories above the street It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep There's life down below me though The kids are walking home from school Some long ago when we were taught That for whatever kind of puzzle you got You just stick the right formula in A solution for every fool I remember the time when I came so close with you Sent me skipping my class and running from school And I bought you that ring cause I never was cool What makes me think I could start clean slated The hardest to learn was the least complicated So I just sit up in the house and resist And not be seen until I cease to exist A kind of conscientious objection A kind of dodging the draft The boy and girl are holding hands on the street And I don't want to but I think you just wait It's more than just eye to eye Learn the things I could never apply I remember the time when I came so close to you I let everything go it seemed the only truth And I bought you that ring it seemed the thing to do What makes me think I could start clean slated The hardest to learn was the least complicated What makes me think I can start clean slated The hardest to learn was the least complicated Oh, I'm just a mirror of a mirror of myself The things that I do The next time I fall I'm gonna have to recall It isn't love it's only something new I sit two stories above the street It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep There's life down below me though The kids are walking home from school I'm remembering the time when I came so close with you Skipping my class and running from school And I bought you that ring cause I never was cool What makes me think I could start clean slated The hardest to learn was the least complicated What makes me think I could start clean slated The hardest to learn was the least complicated Least complicated Least complicated |
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| 4:01 |
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My friends they wash the windows and they shine in the sun They tell me wake up early in the morning sometime See what a beautiful job we done I say let's put on some tunes sing along dolittle all day Go down to the riverside take off our shoes wash these sins away The river said la la la shame on you I go down to Chicano city park because it makes me feel so fine When the weeds go down you can see up close in the dead of the winter time But when the summer comes everythings in bloom and you wouldn't know it's there The white folks like to pretend it's not but their music's in the air You can hear them singing la la la shame on you You can feel them dancing la la la shame on you My friend Tanner she says you know me and Jesus we're of the same heart The only thing that keeps us distant is that I keep fuckin up I said come on down to Chicano city park wash your blues away the beautiful ladies walk on by You know I never know what to say They'll be singing oo la la shame on you Let's go road block trippin in the middle of the night up in Gainesville town There'll be blue lights flashing down the long dirt road when they ask me to step out They say we be looking for illegal immigrants can we check your car I say you know it's funny I think we were on the same boat back in 1694 I said oo la la shame on you |
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| 3:24 |
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The saddest sight my eyes can see Is that big ball of orange sinking slyly down the trees Sittin in a broken circle while you rest upon my knee This perfect moment moment will soon be leaving me Suzanne calls from Boston the coffee's hot the corn is high And that same sun that warms your heart will suck the good earth dry With everything it's opposite enough to keep you crying Or keep this old world spinning with a twinkle in its eye Get out the map get out the map And lay your finger anywhere down We'll leave the figuring to those we pass on our way out of town Don't drink the water there seems to be something ailing everyone I'm gonna clear my head I'm gonna drink that sun I'm gonna love you good and strong while our love is good and young Joni left for South Africa a few years ago And Beth took a job all the way over on the West Coast And me I'm still trying to live half a life on the road Seems I'm heavier by the year and heavier by the load Why do we hurtle ourselves through ever inch of time and space I must say around some corner I can sense a resting place With every lesson learned a line upon your beautiful face We'll amuse ourselves one day with these memories we'll trace Get out the map get out the map And lay your finger anywhere down We'll leave the figuring to those we pass on our way out of town Don't drink the water there seems to be something ailing everyone I'm gonna clear my head I'm gonna drink that sun I'm gonna love you good and strong while our love is good and young |
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| 4:02 |
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through the dust bowl through the debt grandma was a suffragette blacklisted for her publication blacklisted for my generation go go go raise your hands raise your hands high don't take a seat don't stand aside this time don't assume anything just go go go feed the fire and fan the flame i know you kids can stand the rain i know the kids are still upsetters 'cause rock is cool but the struggle is better go go go and raise your hands raise your hands high don't take a seat don't stand aside this time don't assume anything i said this time now don't assume anything just go the truth is i was afraid i felt inferior i felt i excelled in competing with others and i knew instantly that these people were not competing at all, that they were acting in a strange, powerful trance of movement together and i was filled with longing to act with them and with the fear that i could not did they tell you it was set it stone that you'd end up alone use your years to psyche you out you're too old to care you're too young to count did they tell you, you would come undone when you try to touch the sun undermine the underground you're too old to care you're too young to count i said go go go i said this time don't assume anything just go go go go go go go go go |
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| 4:50 |
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trouble came around here here in the south we fix something to eat steam risin' up off the greenery and we welcome the strangers we meet alien sick growing in these walls like moss in a crack that time made i brush a guy in the airport whistling it's a small world after all and the prices are higher but the kids still selling lemonade get to the point of it (get to the point of it) get to the sense of it (get to the sense of it) i'm in a hurry to get through it i am in trouble (i am in trouble) i am in trouble (i am in trouble) a hurricane flag flappin' in a bad storm same color of the spider underneath my nail that bit me in my dream and who would take out the dominican republic and send god's sweet children floating down a poison stream a secret society of conference rooms i pledge my allegiance to the dollar and when the clergy take a vote oh the gays will pay again yeah 'cause there's more than one kind of criminal white collar so get to the point of it (get to the point of it) get to the sense of it (get to the sense of it) i'm in a hurry to get through it one day the war will stop and we'll grow a peaceful crop and a girl can get a wife and we can bring you back to life sacks of flour and rice or poker chips greasy palms or systems underhanding (...shelter...) and maybe we'll take a walk on pluto yeah but be no closer to the understanding (...what i wish...) get to the point of it (get to the point of it) get to the sense of it (get to the sense of it) i'm in a hurry to get through it yeah i am in trouble (i am in trouble) i am in trouble (i am in trouble) i am in trouble (i am in trouble) i am in trouble (i am in trouble) trouble (trouble) trouble (trouble) trouble (trouble) trouble (trouble) ah |
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| 3:33 |
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words and music Amy Ray
I pulled out with the mountain laurel blooming On a dirt road that is soon to be paved Down to the site of my original establishment And the west end family grave Cause one day moves into two (One day moves into two) And I'm losing Everything except for you (Everything except for you) And I would sing you a song of devotion (I would sing you a song of devotion) Yeah that's what I should do (That's what I should do) Blood runs thick and when it rains it pours down (Blood runs thick) On the family tree on the fields of war (The family tree on the fields of war) I spend my time being broken hearted and grieving bound (I spend my time being broken hearted and grieving bound) Yeah I haven't much need to look forward I just let a one day move into two (One day moves into two) I'm losing Everything except for you (Everything except for you) I would sing you a song of devotion (I should sing you a song of devotion) Book of days (Book of days) The way things lay (The way things lay) That's just space and time (That's just space and time) I gave it up (I gave it up) All for a love (All for a love) That won't be defined (That won't be defined) I've had enough temporary acquisition Building fences for no gain (Building fences for no gain) Taking dead trees down before the winter freeze (Taking dead trees down before the winter freeze) I said let 'em rot and fall where they may Just let one day move into two (One day moves into two) I'm losing Everything except for you (Everything except for you) Ah yeah I would sing you a song of devotion (I would sing you a song of devotion) That's what I should do (I gotta let them fall where they may) (Cause one day moves into two) It's the book of days (I'm losing) It's the way things lay (Everything except for you) Now that's just space and time (I) (I would sing you a song) I gave it up (Of devotion) All for your love (Yeah) That's what I should do (That's what I should do) That's what I should do (That's what I should do) Yeah That's what I should do (That's what I should do) |
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| 4:24 |
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Jet fuel and traffic lines Pulling up to the Delta signs Distant shape of my hometown Black stain where the wheels touch down. I pick up the morning news, Pass the man who's never shined my shoes Through security and to the train That'll take me to the airplane. Count the miles on the highway The sum of all my days There's a postcard, there's a call, There's a picture for your bedroom wall. But do you ever wonder through and through Who's that person standing next to you? And after all the nights apart Is there a home for a travelling heart? CHORUS: But if I weren't leaving you, I don't know what I'd do. But the more I go, the less I know, Will the fire still burn on my return? Keep the path lit on the only road I know... Honey, all I know to do is go. A cup of coffee and my bags are packed Same vow not to look back. Familiar emptiness inside As the distances grow wide. And though I vow to memorize The last look in your loving eyes, It's here dusk and there dawn...oh, It's like a curtain getting slowly drawn. CHORUS 2x |
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