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Curtains
04:05
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The lampshade
May blur the blaring beam
The valence
Obscures the blue bedframe
But not your sleepless pain
The curtains
Soften the window frame
But not your aches and pains
'Cause it's an inevitable side of living
O wide ever
Abiding never
This bond must sever
The place cloth
May keep the table clean
The screen
May keep the bugs at bay
It won't keep the blues away
'Cause it's an inevitable side of living
O wide ever
Abiding never
This bond must sever
O wide ever
Abide forever
This bond will sever
Curtains
I saw your spirit lift today
Curtains
The safety net got stowed away
Curtains
My father's routing from his grave
Curtains
To see your spirit lift today
Curtains
My father's turning in his urn
Curtains
To see your light and spirit burn
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2. |
The Fields of Dunbar
03:55
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From the top of this hill
We were brought down low
Never lo, to return to you
Lost count of the slain
In that September rain
On along, never coming home
We counted the tears
Between Tyne and Wear
Marched along, Durham growing near
Kept in the kirk, 3,000 bodies hurt
Half of us destined for the dirt
Some set sail and some dug trenches
Some in mines and all indentured
Some remained and all remembered
Some were lost and soon forgotten
And the fields of Dunbar, they grow slowly
Through cold, dreamless nights
We burned everything in sight
To keep warm, not to do harm
But it just goes to show
If you really want to know
That the victor alone gets his story told
Some set sail and some dug trenches
Some in mines and all indentured
Some remained and all remembered
Some were lost and soon forgotten
And the fields of Dunbar, they grow slowly
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3. |
Lost and Found
04:42
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Hey boy, what do you say
We go back to my place?
This is no hour for dancing
And besides, I'm drunk off my face
I won't call you tomorrow
Won't trouble you at all
And I'll throw away your number
If I find it in the hall
Come for the point of it all
Up for the night
Arise, go forth, and conquer if you like
Starved for affection
Is far from perfection
With my 3 times a day
I'll be a bachelor all my life
But I'm not a bad companion
Still a bride's maid's never the bride
My compassion has the shelf-life
Of a jar of good honey
Although gone before you know it
It lasts for an eternity
Come for the point of it all
Up for the night
Arise, go forth, and conquer if you like
We're starved for affection
And far from perfection
Come 'cause it's pointless
Up for the night
Arise, go forth, and conquer if you like
We're starved for affection
And far from perfection
Do I sound hopeless?
Hope is not for me
You can snort it, you can smoke it
Or give it to charity
'Cause we get lost in bars so
We get found in bars so
Lost and found so
We get lost in bars so
We get found in bars so
Lost and found so
Lost and found
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4. |
Hate's Progress
04:06
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The possibilities, the blood, the breath, a human being
You have shattered and found virgin ground for evil deeds
Hate and enmity, smoldering and consuming
Hate me my repose, and leave me to wake and roam
The great hand breaks my bones
Wherefore is never told
And nothing will withhold
And nothing is foretold
Light rides around the globe
Hate's progress is seasonal
A woman in the water
I know where she is
The wide dark straddles the poles
The whole's but half in lunacy
The moon's lifted, bloodless gaze
The arc it makes on everything
The great hand breaks my bones
Wherefore is never told
And nothing will withhold
And nothing is foretold
Light stalks around the rows
Hate's progress is seasonal
A woman in the water
I know where she is
A woman in the water
I know where she is
A woman in the water
I know where she is
A woman in the water
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Beliefs
03:40
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Leaving me
Alone in you
Alone in me
Alone, a clue
I hide
Inside of make-believe
I bide
My time in make-believe
I find
Belief's all make-believe
Leaving you
Alone in me
Alone in you
Alone, a key
You'll hide
Inside of make-believe
You'll bide
Your time in make-believe
You'll find
Belief's all make-believe
Belief's all make-believe
Belief's all make-believe
Belief is made
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Pictures 1 - 3
03:36
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Picture 1
Inside your red shirt
The flash glares as if it came from there
And I have you in half-hug
The wax and wane so hard to bear
And the tree, lit like a sky
In the background at Christmastime
And we both knew what would ensue
That I wouldn't be seeing you too soon
And that tree
That ugly tree
Blinks on...
Picture 2
Still in your red shirt
This time the flash is where it's supposed to be
And she has you in her arms
A kissed posed gently on your cheek
And the tree, lit like a sky
In the background at Christmastime
And she didn't know how it would go
That was the last kiss that he would know
And that tree
That bloody tree
Blinks on...
Picture 3
There's that tree
In the foreground on Christmas Eve
And you're nowhere around
Now I will have to take it down
And the tree, lit like a sky
In the background at Christmastime
And we both knew what would ensue
That I wouldn't be seeing you too soon
And that tree, lit like a sky
In the foreground at Christmastime
And that tree
That fucking tree
Blinks on...
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7. |
Tinsel
01:53
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(instrumental)
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February 1st, 7a.m.
04:49
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4 a.m
When the kitchen light
And coffee can
Get personified
Does the lamp desire a duet with the sun
Flashlight's to fire
As iPod's to choir
The hum of early morning house, a tune
When it slows
What does it show?
The snow's filled in the shadow lines
Muffled the rain
Dandruff of moon
5 a.m
By the oven light
And frying pan
Channels left and right
Does the sink desire a duet with the lake
Sky is to tap
As death is to nap
The hum of early a.m. streets, a sound
Hark! Hear it now!
A herald snowplow
The snow's filled in the shadow lines
Muffled the rain
Dandruff of moon
At 6 a.m. parting ways
With the firmament
In sway
The snow's filled in the shadow lines
Muffled the rain
Dandruff of moon
The amethyst gaze glistens in
February 1st, 7 a.m
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skiing Berlin, Germany
All beneath the moon will fade
The moon itself will move away
All that in this world that's
bought
Now or then returns to nought
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