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| 5:20 | 
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Something is breathing in the air
Something is moving, in the water And the winds in you are blowing Bring back my boy I loved him I loved him Gentle flakes of snow on the roads and the fences And I'm fading out I can tell it all the time I'll go down in a flame and wheel in the air like a swallow, diving Oh, you border guards So young and handsome in the light Will you let me go through, to the enemy lines one more time? one more time? Hold my arm, will you Hold my arm harder There are islands in the sun There are diamonds in the water Oh.. |
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| 2:59 |
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In place of the sun
In place of the moon A terrible light Will flood every room And bathed in this light, we will swim again From the high desert's walls to the seas, red and black Turn the transmitters off We are not coming back And the pearls of our eyes, are turning black And when it occurred, oh, yes sir, yes, sir And the walls came down, it was a fucking disaster The whole thing's changed in unthinkable ways And now you have come to inherit it But why did you come, to corral everyone? When you're just pushing the darkness around |
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| 3. |
| 4:22 |
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I won't go traveling tonight
I won't go back to the wolves, now There's something singing in the ice In the deepest part of the world And a film across my eyes As I'm watching all the waves turn white He took me out on the tide To make pearls of my eyes And uncover me, oh, without asking Tore every stich, every line, every hook, every eye Between him and the diamonds, diamonds I would not give, but maybe tonight I will With you holding my arms and my stuttering heart As I'm bound and flayed alive Oh, don't go traveling tonight Hold that child in your arms Well, there's no more canaries in the mine And a cloud, black over the water And a voice, low in my ear Says, "The things that we did here will never die" |
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| 4. |
| 3:49 |
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The wind that lifts the leaves against the night
The reeds that bow and bend beneath its weight The holy sap, its smoky light I will not hide The fish that swim inside the murky deep The island shores that loom above the sea The holy, holy melody Will bring them all to me And play again that melody Hidden close to me |
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| 5. |
| 3:21 |
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Seventy-four
Seventy-five He's getting used to it now How each one falls away in that hoary light And they are gone Gone from the age Gone from the guards and their hands It's no different today than years gone by But it won't come out alive With his hands so thin and white Gone Gone from the age Then he is gone from your eyes As that splintering wave takes so many lives And now your hands Gripping the edge of such a waste Where every angel looks dead Every face a lie And you won't come out tonight With your hands so thin and white Alive Seventy-four Seventy-five Daddy, come back to me now I would beat them away I would pull you out I would wash every cinder from your eyes And with silver and gold I would adorn you I'll let it all come out tonight When they peel me out alive Alive |
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| 6. |
| 3:02 |
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His little hook
Your little eyelid The iris dilates while the heart implodes And when he comes And you're dreaming His mouth still denies what your heart just knows, oh no Nobody would ever have known No light in the dark would have shown How you would reply When the bombs finished falling And ashes were drifting along the roads Little child, how you lifted your eyes to the air And the ancient shapes of crows Nobody would ever have known No hand and no eye could have shown How you would reply Nobody would ever have known No light in the darkness would have shown How you would reply |
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| 7. |
| 3:11 |
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Hey, little birdie, catching my eye
Sing little sweet things into this mind And tug at my darker side Fly to the bed where we are confined Combing the cancers out of our lives And harness your song with mine And whose tongue gave you life but mine |
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| 8. |
| 2:30 |
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If you could ring the sky like a bell
Even such a sound would never suffice If you could bang the world like a drum It would only show it was hollow inside And your love, it slips behind a little cloud And your eyes are veiled Is there a medical term for a heart that's been removed? If you could wring the hours and the days Of all their lives, I think you would find That the lovely faces crash like a wave Upon a shore so frozen and white And as love, it slips behind that little cloud The snow is like a feathery down When your heart has been removed And as love departs your life Like silvery birds that leave the coast Your eyes are as wild and lifeless as the moon |
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| 9. |
| 5:52 |
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These were the words of the wounded man
He came to me, you should understand And he's coming to you, all the way From the hardest place Through the hardest days "Out on the roads of that winding plain I took her in, took her all I had Understanding everything But her coldest eye Should have changed my mind" So then he rose, and he rubbed his eyes Crawled through a hole in a lake of ice Just to show you, all the way Though the queen has died She has multiplied |
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| 10. |
| 5:12 |
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Oh hail Mary, full of death
Sing me a bitter song As dark as the day is long And as black as your eyes are wild While the hail from the blackened cloud is raking the firmament Destroying our argument About the temperature and the time Wild and unbroken We lay like a wounded lamb, facing a billygoat Bowed down in our heavy coats Under the force and the threat of his eyes And we march in our rows and rows Under a burning hand Past the scars of the wounded land Into a country of thorns and spines Wild and unbroken Oh, God save the chamberlain Oh, God save his appointed successor But God saved his hardest face for you and all your kind That's what's troubling me Hail Mary, sick and proud And holding aloft the light That would burn through a heaving night And then leave us upon the rocks And the child who is nearly born Waits just to do you harm Like the shock of a broken arm Or a love that would burn you blind Wild and unbroken |
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| 11. |
| 3:42 |
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Oh daddy, I'm lost in your overcoat
But I found my heart I pulled it out by its root And I said it once Said it twice "If I live, or I die, I am free again" And I was free I came to love the spaces inside of me The winds that blow The leaves of the almond trees That would grow by the road Brushed with light and with snow And I will ride as far as it goes Oh, joy of mine, swelling inside of me I feel your eyes, hands as they form in me Said it once Said it twice While you live When you die You will be free again You are free |
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