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To Hear a Sound
05:45
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even though there's no one else around
keep singing just to hear a sound
the flint and tinder to my time
so if you should ever hear my voice
just know that I do not have a choice
but to try, and stumble through these rhymes
door's unlocked and the window's open wide
the breeze is turning like the tide
so if you're ever passing by
birds outside are singing songs of love
the sun shines down from up above
so come on darlin' don't be shy
dust is settling everywhere I look
the lampshades, windowsills and books
this place is looking like decay
oh and how the night is coming on
sweet sleep one moment then it's gone
just bide my time until the day
every now and then inside my head
I've heard the voices and they've said
your time to run is runnin' out
so I think about you day and night
and long to have you in my sight
though I can't say what it's about
now I never see your face
I'm lost and you have found your place
oh well, I guess that's just how it goes
gravity and singularity
I'm sinkin' into clarity:
It's just another view below
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2. |
Red
04:35
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when you want it so bad, when you want it so bad you just can't sleep
when you want it so bad, when you want it so bad you just can't sleep
well now you got what you wanted from me babe
yeah but why is there blood on your knees, babe?
do you take angels and do you make 'em red?
well I been walkin' a highway, a highway that's sick with tar and dust
I been walkin' a highway, a highway that's sick with tar and dust
I've seen beggars fallin' from trees now
well they're goin' back overseas now
and when the waves crash, well you know they're crashin' red
I'm at the last-stand asylum, I'm knockin' upon its leaden door
I'm at the last-stand asylum, I'm knockin' up its leaden door
I will sing my straightjacket hymns
I'm puttin' melodies to unspoken sins
as they float skyward, the sky goes red
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3. |
In a Day
05:37
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when the nighttime fades to black
and my eyelids fight off the day
I'm never so far away
don't have to think of nothin' to say
when the daylight floods my eyes
and the clock says it's time to rise
start to think of somethin' to say
somethin' to get me through the day
when the sun is in midflight
and I can see everything so clear
wouldn't be any place but here
'cept maybe with you, my dear
when the trees do shadows cast
and sunshine's spell has passed
these words hang in the air
sometimes it's too much to bear
and when all this becomes one
and the whole world has seen the sun
it'll end just like it began
we'll remember how we ran
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4. |
Blizzard Woman Blues
03:16
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you would leave me out there alone to die
you would send me down there alone to fry
yeah you will say that you did not mean to pry
but babe you got to know what you can and cannot buy
so take your blizzard somewhere else, little girl
your stormy weather ain't welcome here
and though I know you been tryin' to settle the score
you gotta shift it in another gear
you say your patience is longer than my face
oh yeah but I can see right through your plastic case
oh you're runnin' 'round like your life is some type of race
you know I'm TRYIN', but I just can't keep your pace
so take your blizzard somewhere else, little girl
your stormy weather ain't welcome here
and though I know you been tryin' to settle the score
you gotta shift it in another gear
spin spin spin till you're all alone and lost
you go to sleep and you surely will turn and toss
ah dreams hangin' over you like a dead albatross
hopelessly freezin' in your self-created frost
so take your blizzard somewhere else, little girl
your stormy weather ain't welcome here
and though I know you been tryin' to settle the score
you gotta shift it in another gear
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5. |
In Spite of Any Doubt
03:28
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you're speakin' in my heart
you're leakin' through my pen
I sit here every day that you're not around
wonderin' where you been
'cause time ain't never straight
keeps a low profile
but you can find him the distant reaches
runnin' all the while
oh but baby you can bring him back around
oh but baby you can pin him down
you just don't know the kind of things you can do
but just know that it all goes 'cause of you
sleep in backlight alleys
feel around for the day
well sometimes things don't go the way you plan 'em
but that's ok
because I'm doin' my best
to work with what I got
and even though I'm closed up on my own
it's all part of the plot
hangin' 'round, hopin' you'll be back soon
my mind flies around like a breathin' balloon
walls close in while the universe runs away
but babe I think we'll do better if we stay
you keep it locked inside
you keep it held up tight
you never let it see the light of the day
or the light of the night
but I can see right through you
and so I know it's there
so loosen up your deathgrip on your love
and babe give it some air
I know because a little bird told me so
I know and I just ain't gonna let it go
I know you're tryin' to turn your love inside out
but it'll stay true in spite of any doubt
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6. |
La Rosa de Don Juan
04:47
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me despierto en sudor vivo
pero mis ojos no pueden abrir
vadeo por mis suenos helados
calentando el mundo al otro lado
and when these cold eyes
look through what love implies
I see a bleeding rose
withered for all it knows
y camino a la ventana
un portal de mi mente al munto
y como polvo en viento tan fuerte
en todas partes hablo con la muerte
and when these cold eyes
look through what love implies
I see a bleeding rose
withered for all it knows
y por favor no llores, querida
no arrojes sus lagrimas
encontraras otro sueno manana
y una vida mas facil y sana
and when these cold eyes
look through what love implies
I see a bleeding rose
withered for all it knows
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7. |
Center of the Earth
03:34
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it brought me back to the start
the faintest beating of my heart
the cycle of the ancient tide
the laws by which I now abide
and down along the shore
we'll fight to the hollow core
for some type of rebirth
we'll fight for the center of the earth
I came to you from foreign soil
a product of the blindly loyal
your lowly skeletal frame
don't match up with your ivory fame
and down along the shore
we'll fight to the hollow core
for some type of rebirth
we'll fight for the center of the earth
and now that we have both escaped
we know it was an empty faith
a faith which floated all alone
on the outskirts of a field of bone
and down along the shore
we'll fight to the hollow core
for some type of rebirth
we'll fight for the center of the earth
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8. |
Storm Comin'
03:58
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well there's a storm comin'
it's gonna rain hard like a prophecy
you know I tried to warn you
but you ain't trustin' me
no so don't you come a-cryin'
about how you was wrong
don't light my hands on fire
don't sing me no more songs
just crawl up in your little hole
pretend like it ain't here
pretend that when it finds you
you won't have nothin' to fear
and check your heart and your soul
and tell me what you see
'cause babe therein lies why
it's after you and not me
oh no and don't you ask me nothin'
not even the time of day
it'll only freeze your mouth up
and you will not know what to say
but I will tell you one thing
just one thing I know to tell
there's a storm outside a-ragin'
it's rainin' heaven and hell
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9. |
Tide of Seasons
05:05
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the leaves have long since fallen to the ground
just drifted through the air without a sound
showin' signs of lost vitality
showin' signs of cold reality
they blow with the wind, and to the ground again they descend
there's somethin' in those ever-changin' leaves
they go through shade and light movin' in and out of sight
there's somethin' in those ever-changin' leaves
the barren trees have nothin' left to show
just waiting for the spring to help them grow
their bony fingers reach out through the air
reachin' out for something that ain't there
they're gray and unmoved, they've nothing left to prove
there's somethin' in those deeply rooted trees
underneath the moon a-shinin' there's a little silver lining
there's somethin' in those deeply rooted trees
the sun is shining dimly from the skies
from the east it came and in the west it lies
the day is gone before we knew it came
you're leaving and I never knew your name
it's restless farewells ringing out like eternal bells
it's close your eyes and wait for a new day
it's trailing-off voices and passed-over choices
it's hold back the tears and wait for a new day
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10. |
The Motions
05:22
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well I'm walkin' them fields, I'm walkin' through that burned out mud
I ain't walkin' for nothin' 'cept to hear my footsteps thud
yeah well you were holdin' the keys
and you left me down on my knees
so I'll go through the motions 'cause there's nothin' I can do to please
yeah so now I'll retreat to that dusk just teamin' with life
oh trite steady beat you just drive right through me like a knife
babe can't you open your eyes
can't you see my sinkin' demise
oh well I'll go through the motions just as long as I'm given the lies
you got that lien on my heart
but you don't got the right to tear it apart
babe, don't you go away
babe, don't you go away...
oh, miss needle-in-the-hay
in that old wooden frame lie the unseen markings of years
and in the eyes that are tame lie the unseen remnants of tears
well my eyes are calm as can be
they learned to take things in and to see
so now I'll go through the motions 'cause there's nothin' you can do for me
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11. |
Come, Child
07:10
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12. |
Song for Newborn
04:01
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13. |
Smithereens
17:34
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early in the mornin' I walk into the sun
turn back to it when the day is done
and somewhere in between I look at what my eyes have seen
I try to run but I cannot run
'cause there ain't no place to run if there ain't no place to hide
if there ain't no truth and ain't no sides
they say it's life to live for somethin' and death to live for nothin'
and all the rules I must abide
oh my eyes can never blink if my mind can never sleep
the words are there but talk is cheap
oh by now I know they're lyin' so I oughta just not try 'em
but no matter what it cuts so very deep
no but you would never know it from your eyes have seen
to show too much just ain't my scene
oh but babe the why and how is what I'm tellin' you right now
you blew it all to smithereens
no home no more
now I roam in a war
no home no more
but I just can't make you
just can't make you walk back through that door
all the dead leaves
they fall down out the nowhere sky
all the dead leaves yellow and brown
they fall down down out the nowhere sky
the wind blows 'em round up off the ground
but that way you can't fly, no not til you die
you can pick 'em back up
but you just cannot put them back and make them green
you can pick 'em back up honey
but you just can't put them back and make them green
so it will be, and so you must see
all the dead leaves, the smithereens
oh, I got a lotta time to kill
oh, I'll go out lookin' for some cheaper thrills
ooh, just sick of everything standing so still
there's nothin' like a cloudy day
inside your mind to make you stay
ooh, but for the winds of May
oh well it comes and goes
nobody sees, so nobody knows
nobody sees because nobody shows
oh but I think it's here for good
seein' things like I never could
all this time and I never understood...
well the burnin' pain of love don't mean to much to me
the nighttime is a dirty dream
well it never seems to find me so there's nothin' to remind me
of the way it all used to seem
oh but to live among the ashes just ain't my kind of trip
so I get back up shoot from the hip
and if you look into my eyes you will find the tired lies
that no more will leave my lips
you just go with what you know and react to what you've seen
experience is cruel and mean
but you learn to move along whether you were right or wrong
when your world is all in smithereens
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