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| 4:56 | 
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I'm alone above the atmosphere
And no one looking up can find me here ‘Cause I can close my eyes, and disappear When I climb the stairs, to watch the sun Above the station walls, the colors run To fill the swimming pool, when I am done I am the captain of an oil tanker that travels through your veins When the satellites hang all around And I can finally hear the lovely sound When all the engines in the back room die down All the airships move across the sky And my equipment just keeps standing by The planets glow, and intensify I am the pilot of a cargo airplane that travels through your veins When you are lying half asleep in your room Unaware if it is midnight, or afternoon Because the water doesn't flood the stairwell It could be raining, but then you can never tell If you're alone in this awful downpour Then struggle free and paddle out the cellar door In the evening light, the boulevard Conceals the night, with disregard For all the workers in a west coast shipyard When I rearrange, the silverware And re-install the lights, in captain's chair I'll lift the ceiling off to breathe the ocean air I am the engineer of forty freight trains that travel through your veins When you are lying half asleep in your room Unaware if it is midnight, or afternoon Because the water doesn't flood the stairwell It could be raining, but then you can never tell If you're awake in this awful downpour Then struggle free and paddle out the cellar door When you are swimming in Miami at night And all around you in the traffic and city lights |
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| 2. |
| 3:29 |
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I am stuck in L.A. Through the week and cant get away And you're alone on the pier In West Palm Beach on your holiday Stormy night, re-awake the stomach ache that I've acquired from feeling down, things look grim and I'm so sick of being tired apartment lights go dark and its depressing but what can i do? the midnight streets feel dead when I am so used to driving with you brighter lights fill the night and bluer skies reflect in your eyes As I inspect and analyze All of these dreams I don't recognize if you're still up when the ships in the port prepare to set sail comb the beach and put those blue flowers up in your ponytail inside my head you're voice is still resounding but what can i do? Empty rooms feel cold when I am so used to being with you Count the stars, watch the waves absorb the summer sun and think of me when you explore hidden coves and tiny island chains throughout the sea Can you still, hear my voice, when I'm outside from over the phone For what its worth, darling dear, I wish you were here Cause I feel alone when you were home we'd sing but since you've left I don't hear anything Though I feel so sad, I cant believe things are really that bad Old captains and brand new cruise ships Sailing over the briny sea When I crashed my beloved desk job And swim through the debris Ill cut loose and leave this mad house, bound for the Atlantic blue Ill stroll down your tree-lined driveway, and sail the ocean with you |
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| 3:29 |
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Affection, the gifted architect Is making a draft and beautiful design The options and possibilities Are endless when we connect and re-align Collections of books and documents Arise and parade around my cluttered desk Reworking the math and measurements Until I'm convinced these plans are picturesque Like mountains in the Midwest Reaction creates the columns dark And wide like the roads around Fort Lauderdale The structures begin to take their shape Before I've designed the public monorail The turnpike and high-speed motorway Connect and enclose the quaint suburban streets The airport, the broad suspension bridge The lake and the beach where several rivers meet Compounded from the spreadsheet A city sparkles in the night How can it glow so bright? The neighborhoods surround the soft florescent light Designer skyline in my head Abstract and still well-read You went from numbered lines to buildings overhead |
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| 4. |
| 3:08 |
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I'm moving to Tokyo
Cuz I'm tired of San Francisco My contracts are finally void And I am getting out On houses and building tops I swallow the beams and sundrops If my echos could reach your ears Then I could save my calls What happens when I'm above The east river when you are in love We're staring at all these lights And I am going blind Fill all of the navy yards With hard working security guards Cuz the numbers are wearing off My plastic access cards How can I begin to say I feel better off when we stay In Paris on winter nights Beneath the snowy veil Content like a panda bear Still breathing the fresh mountain air I'll put on a diving tank And sing when I inhale |
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| 3:24 |
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When I am fast asleep I dream and see you floating high above me And I awake at dawn Before the rays of morning paint the front lawn From on the bedroom floor I watch you sailing far above the seashore In deep Atlantic skies You float as I look aft to watch the moon rise Above the avenue I search above the clouds, trying to see you But you are just a blur In the sky when you parachute over the harbor I can see You above with the ocean around me If I could only stay Overhead in the airway You sail through Endless sky with the evening around you When I'm out on the bay You're aloft in the airway When I'm alone at night I dream you paint the stars against the twilight Suspended in the air I wish your silhouette would always stay there When I am on the beach I watch you held aloft way out of my reach But I can not take flight Or float upon the air the way that you might When I am in the sea You gazed down from the sky, trying to see me But I am just a blur Through the waves, as I scuba dive below the harbor The airway You and I in the airway Aloft in the airway In love in the airway I can see You above with the ocean around me If I could only stay Overhead in the airway You sail through Endless sky with the evening around you When I'm out on the bay You're aloft in the airway |
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| 4:41 |
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If I could look across the country From California to New Jersey Then I would count the parks and lake resorts And number all the jets and airports All those rather dreary rain clouds still bother me Cuz I look through the camera eyepiece and cannot see If I could open up my window And see from Tampa Bay to Juneau Then I would survey all those open miles And line them up in single file Everywhere I look I see green scenic sublime And all those oceanic vistas are so divine If I was standing on the balcony And you were walking down below I'd feel rather depressed and out of place And lonely just to watch you go If you were swinging from the highway overpass Within the western hemisphere I'd feel rather afraid and insincere If you began to disappear If I was walking through a sad art gallery And you were driving through the night I'd feel rather alone and ill at ease Beneath the brilliant showroom light If I was flying on a plane above your town And you were gazing at the sky Somehow I'd feel intact and reassured If you began to wave goodbye |
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| 2:58 |
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Hello Seattle
I am a mountain near In the hills and highlands I fall asleep in hospital parking lots And awake in your mouth Hello Seattle I am a manta ray Deep beneath The blue waves I'll crawl the sandy bottom of Puget Sound and construct a summer home Hello Seattle I am the crescent moon Shining down on your face I will disguise myself as a sleeping pill And descend into view Hello Seattle I am a cold seahorse Feeling warm in your sand I sing about the tide and the ocean surf Rolling in the evening breeze Hello Seattle I am an albatross On the docks and moor boats I sail above your inlets and interstates Through the rain and open wind Hello Seattle I am an old lighthouse Throwing beams of bright light Red in the morning Blue in the evening sun Taking heat from everyone Hello Seattle I am a mountain near In the hills and highlands I fall asleep in hospital parking lots Take me above your light Carry me through the night Hold me secure in flight Sing me to sleep tonight Take me above your light (Hello Seattle, I am a) Carry me through the night (mountain near in the hills and highlands) Hold me secure in flight (I fall asleep in hospital parking lots) Sing me to sleep tonight (And awake) |
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