1. |
Your Arm
04:18
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there's only one word ever spoken
attune to the liminal
hold up the symbol
the service goes beyond the lips
your heart is a teacup
and we're drinking like fish
my heart is a windsock
lifted by a wish
the heart is not a lonely hunter
it is one with it's prey
and the heart of the matter
looks the same as you today
with inequity as the measure
is it a stone or feather
is it a ball of wax
melting fast
hold me
as i let go
the air is so cold
my skin is not my own
and i'm growing
i'm getting warm
please take your hands off of me
thank you for your arm.
oh see how their arms reach up
branching towards the sun
the instinct lives inside us
connecting everyone
are you in it for everything that we've got
or are you in it for fun
i guess we'll see
on the other side of the sun
but you keep rolling that stone up the hill
now you're swallowing this bitter pill
or are you just exerting your rule and will
on the town below
hold me
as i let go
the air is so cold
my skin is not my own
and i'm glowing
i'm getting warm
please take your hands off of me
thank you for your arm.
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2. |
Shadows
04:53
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there's a crescent outside my window
there's a cross in the middle of my chest
there's a fire that was started a long time ago
that's never been quenched
and there's a tree that's been growing so long i can't remember
see it's branches break up the sky
i smell something burning, my chest is hurting
tell me, are these my eyes that cry?
each day we pass
on any old street
you live in the future, i live in the past
what makes us incomplete?
but today is new
and i am whistling a lucky tune
and i know you will be too
when our shadows meet
by the time i realized i was wrong
you'd gone the other way
reached out my hand across the line
said "if you'll have me, i'm going your way"
it won't be long now
cause today is the day
when our shadows meet
when we are complete
and if it all turns out wrong
and if we don't get along
and the distance just drags out
on & on & on & on & on
my time here has been long
i'm not afraid to say i was wrong
you know that could never lie to you
here's a plum, here's a peach,
here is the exit within reach
i beseech you to do as you please
when our shadows meet
by the time i realized i was wrong
you'd gone the other way
reached out my hand to the other side
said "if you'll have me, i'm going your way"
it won't be long now
cause today is the day
when our shadows meet
when we are complete
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3. |
All The Good Times
03:55
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when you, finally left
it was against your will
when the doctor came in
you nearly choked on the pill
there was a hole falling in that could not be filled
though you tried and tried
the trembling would not be stilled
you gave all you had
but were asked to give more
all your things were in boxes and bags by the door
there was hole in the room where all the oxygen escaped
and you were pulled backwards into space
and nobody knows what you felt
and nobody knows what you’ve been dealt
and nobody knows what you’ve held
the days spent on the lake
in the northern wood
there's a part of me that never left
and probably wouldn’t if it could
there is a line of fire burning at the end of time
and that's the only place
where you are mine
all the good times
all the sad times
and these dreams of mine
keep me holding on to a song
but the starlight and the dark night
and your eyes so bright
got's me wondering
how could i have gone wrong
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4. |
It Ain't Me
04:42
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you're unkind and a killer
set your sights on the mirror
and either undo its haunting creep
or what it makes you see
but not me
oh, what do you know
but the cruelty you've been shown
the daily rampage across your front page
something is straining your mind to be free
but it ain't me
once i loved a girl
to me she meant the world
but i had a need
i needed to bleed
and she needed to go
sick as it seems
you're a part of my dreams
and though i'm bursting at the seams
i don't care to figure out
what it could possibly mean
about me
i've tried and its true
i drew the Lovers and i drew the Fool
but the Two of Cups fell onto the tile
and the Empress was sent into exile
or did she flee?
it's a mystery
oh once i had a dream
but now a nightmare it has me
cause each time i raised a toast
i became more of a ghost
that no one here could even see
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5. |
Stars Are Singing
06:41
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trapped here upon, this island of madness
where fools suffer alone, for the price of a smile
and the walls, they tower over our heads
and the walls, are only there in the mind
trapped here upon, this path going nowhere
just circling around, a small patch of land
and the folly, tumbles down through the ages
and the folly, kicks me from behind
and all the while you cry away
for comfort and company
cry away
every time it gets a little lower, it just keeps on going
and every time it gets a little higher, it just seems to stop
and every time i feel i get a little closer
you remind me that i'm not
and then the breeze shifts
and you take hold of my hand
blow me a kiss
your wish is my command
show me where i'm wrong
let me treat you right
and listen to the song
the stars are singing in the night
trapped here upon, this rock spinning madly
lost in space, and all out of time
but i hear your voice, through the bars of my cages
and i feel the song, obliterate the lines
and all the while i cry away
for comfort and company
cry away, cry away, cry away
and then the veil lifts
and you take hold of my hand
and blow me a kiss
your wish is my command
you show me where i'm wrong
and you show me what is right
and we join in with the song
the stars are singing in the night
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6. |
Jasper's Song
04:14
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it's too hard to climb
i cant even sit down
it's all I can do, just standing around
but in my beating heart
the land where i go
the Great Run is on
i enter the flow
you found me as a puppy
and took me everywhere you went
i was a balloon, i was the moon
you'll never know what seeing you meant
i would run beside you
nuzzle up to say hello
i fell asleep as the band played on
and went to that place that all dogs go
into the dream night
into the light that shines within
Into the dream night
forever running..., with the wind
you watch me as i'm sleeping
you hear me whimper, see me paw
you can sense i'm ready
to leap in with my all
and with your steady hand
and a little pin prick
my body feels so warm
and i begin to slip
into the dream night
into the light that shines within
Into the dream night
forever running..., with the wind
as you lay beneath the window
and gaze up into the moon
i feel the appointed time approach
now will always be too soon
As the moon in the cup brims
and begins to spill it's light
your cloak of fur falls to the floor
and you fly into the night
Into the dream night
Into the light that shines within
Into the dream night
forever running..., with the wind
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7. |
Make Believe
04:01
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caught in a full-blown fantasy
that you are here, next to me
i don’t care who may see
you mean that much to me
i tried to play it casual
but now my back is against the wall
i tried to face it head-on
i think that brought on Armageddon
i’m caught in a full-blown fantasy
and you probably don’t even ever really think of me
except to think how uncouth
and foolish we are in our youth
as long as you feel me
as long as you’re real to me
as long as you can see
just what you are doing to me
as long as we can be
all that we are meant to be
i'll stay on
the truth won’t set me free
unless its the same truth that you see
anyway, whats that mean
you've probably washed your hands of me
how ever did we drift so far
are you still watching the same star
long ago i lost sight of the shore
set adrift did you change your course
i'm caught in a full-blown fantasy
but i don't think that i want to leave
you are much more real to me
than anything i touch and see
i'm caught in a full-blown fantasy
i'll make believe until it's reality
with you here next to me
my heart is finally at peace
as long as you feel me
as long as you’re real to me
as long as you can see
just what you are doing to me
as long as we can be
all that we are meant to be
i'll stay on
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8. |
Happy Again
04:21
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i see you every where i go
i see you naturally
i see you as you are
not as i would have you to be
i don't have to pretend
i don't have to pretend
i don't have to pretend anymore
i don't even begin
you precede the wind
our policy is always an open door
i see you every where i go
i don't have to look around
i center myself and open my eyes
...and its "howdy partner
what's going down?"
and i don't have to pretend
i don't have to pretend
spending time with you
i don't have to pretend
i don't have to pretend
there's really nothing to do
the change, it took so long coming down
everyone with any sense had already left town
but your gaze held steady as the polar star
brought me back from where i wasn't to where you are
and i see you everywhere i go
it's like we're never apart
i freeze the frame on a happy time
and i listen to my heart
and i'm happy again
i am happy again
my heart is light and it's free
and i'm happy again
i am happy again
i'm right where i need to be
i see you everywhere i go
but the best part is that you see me
i thought i was walking alone
then you waved from across the street
and i'm never alone
i am never alone
except for when i want
and that's good enough for
for both of us
and the places we haunt
The change took so long coming down
even i was wondering if i'd make it back around
You spoke to me
In the nick of time
You said hello
And I was thrown a line
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9. |
What Is This Thing
06:05
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is it a smile when you're crying in the rain
mysterious amnesia makes the hand reach for the flame
impassioned declaration that you'd do it all again
what awakens the mannequin
your approach is always timid and so bold
emotional intelligence, at once hot and cold
i've never felt so close and at the same time so alone
is it only at the crossroads that i truly feel at home
what is this thing
that causes such abuse
makes me take a chance
when i've got so much to lose
the wind moves our mind and the sea rules our heart
the sky is a mirror and we play our part
tethered to this turning world, yet made of stars
awakened with desire
we fulfill the longing written on our heart
there's something in my chest that i feel sometimes
at all the moments that you walk into my life
when i say that i love you, forgive me if i
can't recall your name i don't even remember mine
what is this thing
that causes such abuse
what makes me take a chance
when i've got so much to lose
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10. |
Chamomile
02:41
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feeling nervous, but i don't know about what
got that sadness, sinking down into my gut
brew some green tea, you always made it look easy
and that chamomile, only makes me queasy
you say, 'it doesn't make much sense'
how my happiness keeps falling off of the fence
there's gotta be a reason why i'm feeling so tense
maybe there is, true
maybe it's your business too
but i don't want to go down that road again
the road of pain and desperate questioning
it goes nowhere, serves no functional use
only leads to disappointment and abuse
you say 'it doesn't make much sense'
feeling attacked only leads to needing a defense
and you and me babe, what is it we're really against
is it a kiss, or is it the consequences
pick up the phone, and give my old friend a call
stop holding back, pull that guitar off the wall
dust off my suit, maybe take a walk down into town
"how you feeling?, man, i ain't seen you around"
i say "it doesn't make much sense!"
"how's a ghost 'sposed to keep paying rent?
i got no reply to all them letters i sent,
i never realized what i had had all been lent
bum me a ciggy, don't know where my money went
someone forgive me, went a little nutso at the end
then i can forgive me and we can go back to being friends
'cause that's what we are, true
hope it's the same for you
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