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The Angler
03:43
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Earlier today I saw the light on the leaves
And it resembled your eyes in all their radiant green
And possessed of a passion more akin to a beast
I took off on a run, from the wood to the beach
And as my heart beat harder
I could have laughed, I might’ve cried
The wind was on the water
I could’ve flown, I might’ve tried
Oh, every sea contains a sky.
Later that day I caught a fish with a string
And remembered your body as an animate thing
And possessed of the need to bring myself to the brink
I stripped down to the skin and threw myself in the drink
The sea was never darker
Steeped in green, I might’ve drowned
But something in the water
Threw me back on solid ground
Oh, and that poor fish could not be found.
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A Fond Farewell
04:28
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I'm getting tired of you turning me, turning me
into something I'm not
I'm getting tired of you learning me, learning me
Now I'm unlearning a lot
You kept me spinning in turnaround, turnaround
Believing all of your lies
A hard rain is a-coming down, coming down
See the darkening skies
No one intervene and not a one defend
the wretch when left to himself
And now you've been found out we bid you a fond farewell
I'm getting tired of you turning me, turning me
into something I'm not
I'm getting tired of you learning me, learning me
Now I'm unlearning a lot
I've been watching you double down, double down
on the tales that you tell
My advice is to burn it down, burn it down
'Cause you've got nothing to sell
Every spirit's sacred but everybody's scared
The difference is like night and day
And now you've been found out I think you best be on your way
We asked for bread and you gave us crust
We asked for water, you gave us rust
We asked for life and you bade us, "Ask the dust."
No one intervene and not a one defend
the wretch when left to himself
And now you've been found out we bid you a fond farewell.
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On My Honor
02:44
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Come look at this picture of a child
taken in days of black-and-white
See in the eyes the pain and trial
of more than a hundred sleepless nights
Look at you now in technicolor
the better to show you're doing all right
'Cause you got some youth yet left to squander
so don't be afraid to go and wander
and I'll be beside you on my honor...
I've seen you sit down with the masters
Pentameter sprawled across your chest
Have you been flirting with disaster
at all your weakness' behest?
You can unring "The Bells of Rhymney"
you can lay "Elegy" to rest
'Cause you got some youth yet left to squander
so don't be afraid to go and wander
and I'll be beside you on my honor...
For you're harder than heartache, stronger than sadness
Better than bitter and meaner than madness
So go to the window and pick out a lover
and when it's all over we'll pick out another
I'm not just blowing smoke up your chimney
and I'm not about to kiss your ass
But you got some youth yet left to squander
so don't be afraid to go and wander
and I'll be beside you on my honor.
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Mine All Mine
03:15
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Once I was clever needing nothing whatsoever
but you’re still not mine all mine
And now I’m reeling chasing shadows on the ceiling
'cause you’re still not mine all mine
I’m gonna spin my shoulders back to Barcelona
for I’m running out of patience and time
Just like the cops at the five and dime
I’m never no more than one step behind
I while hours
Pull petals off of flowers
Summoning powers, not trying to understand any more than any man
I heard the stories of your power and your glory
but you’re still not mine all mine
I’ve seen the glances heard the "May I have this dance?"s
'cause you’re still not mine all mine
I’ve frightened friends and lovers, watched them run for cover
You could say I got some axes to grind!
I’m just not ready yet to resign
There’s misery still I’ve got to divine
I kill the minutes
Spit lyrics at the spinet
Yet to begin it, I don't need nobody's help fretting over fear itself
And should you set me free
I would return, a servant to thee
in perfect perpetuity...
I while hours
Pull petals off of flowers
Summoning powers, not trying to understand any more than any man
I kill the minutes
Spit lyrics at the spinet
Yet to begin it, I don't need nobody's help fretting over fear itself
I count the seconds
As this damnation beckons
Sixes and sevens, how's a body breathe its last just before the die is cast
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5. |
Horses at Dawn
03:24
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Horses stand at dawn, silvering in shadow
Just a final line and take my leave
Just a final line and take my leave
Just a final line and take my leave again
The whiteness of her gown, under shade of linden
Glimmered as she walked the garden green
Glimmered as she walked the garden green
Glimmered as she walked the garden green back when
For words can burn and words can drown
Words can drift like eiderdown
But words will never stay unheard forever
Hooves beat out the dawn and carry 'cross the meadow
Fare thee well to poets past the pines
Fare thee well to poets past the pines
Fare thee well to poets past the pines unswayed
For words can dance and words can crown
Words can mend a wedding gown
But words can never stand in for forever.
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Bright Boy
03:21
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Always been a point of pride, such a pure source of joy
See the way he smiles, Jesus bless the child
Isn’t he a bright boy?
Swaddle him in finest silk, Little Lord Fauntleroy
Our hearts are filled with gold, never growing cold
Isn’t he a bright boy?
As if he’s known us all our lives, a brilliance wholly unalloyed
His teachers are amazed, sing his every praise
Isn’t he a bright boy?
I can see in my mind how he’ll grow up to be a good man and refined
It’s been a privilege every day just to see and believe
There’s the little saving grace, pulling hair and breaking toys
Some days I want to weep, choke him in his sleep
Isn’t he a bright boy?
Who am I to complain for what some wouldn’t give for a son they could claim
It’s just the same thing every day and you can’t ever leave...
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Watch Me Unravel
03:50
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You can watch me unravel or you can quickly turn away
when they stand me near the gavel, lock the poorest ones away
When you treat a man like cattle and you throw away the key
Don’t you sing about me flying for the free.
You can watch me unravel but I beg you shut your eyes
When they send me into battle singing "God is On Our Side"
With their sabers made to rattle while the young ones fill the graves
Don’t you sing about me waving for the brave.
Still I tend to wonder at those who profess me
Where’s gone the brotherly love?
Just a matter of time before they come to arrest me
Guilty of all the above
Still I tend to wonder at those who profess me
Where’s gone the brotherly love?
La la la...
You can watch me unravel but I’d rather you went blind
When they toss me to the rabble bent to tear at their own kind
Now there’s blood on the saddle and there’s blood on all your hands
So don’t sing about me watching over this land
nevermore
Don’t you sing about me watching over this land.
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8. |
Stay Behind
03:18
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With every beat of my heart I feel something new
With every drop of rain I'm falling harder for you
And as you go for the door I need only reveal
that if memory serves you and me had a deal
Better believe it
No need to leave so soon
With every tick of the clock I hear two in my head
Might as well come closer to me here on the bed
And should I shut my eyes, turn the radio down
'til it's just our breathing and the rain and the sound
Can you hear it?
Lo, a low and lilting tune
Stay behind
I paid for this time.
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Threnody
03:14
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Lovers at rest under the manicured ground, no way
Lovers remembered for their feel and the sound, OK
Lovers created in the feverish night
later to blanch when brought out into the light
Lovers compared to summers wild and free
Tell me which one do you see
It takes a memory to match the morning dew
and a melody that dreams the dream come true
for the threnody to break the lovers' hearts in two
Lovers collected and forgotten at once, no way
Lovers in love whenever given the chance, OK
Lovers like hunters in they track what they fear
Lovers undone by the ones they hold dear
Tell me now, lover, what of love do you see?
Whisper it softly to me
It takes a memory to match the morning dew
and a melody that dreams the dream come true
for the threnody to break the lovers' hearts in two
Because my time is not long and I must be missed
so won't you spirit me away on a lover's kiss
and it will gratify us so to remember even this
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10. |
Legion
04:35
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Not another night...
Hearts this strong can abide no longer
we bent without breaking, bent without breaking
Friends in peace and a love unceasing
we grasp without taking, grasp without taking
What say you
to a morning anew
coming through...
Stars shall greet us, the ocean’s wonders
shall hail our arrival, hail our arrival
And when we’re buried, our children’s children
will sing our survival, sing our survival
What say you
to a morning anew
shining through...
Gimme one reason why not
Gimme one reason why not
The righteous canoness brings brightness upon us
So gimme one reason why not
Oh, which bird was I, what blue horizon
to fly without dreaming, fly without dreaming
And mourn each sunset, so fleet and dulcet
to cry without keening, cry without keening
What say you
To a morning anew
Break on through...
Gimme one reason why not
Gimme one reason why not
The righteous in trial succeed all the while
So gimme one reason why not
Not another night...
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