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this little light of mine
is growing faint
and it's getting dark outside
i know
this little house of pain
shadows are long
in my shelter from the rain
oh god
in a doll's house
i play
ghost of a flea
in a box upon the stage
i know
this orphan will transform
lights flickering
greet the riders on the storm
oh god
///
this little act
is growing old
so i'm going down
to gun hill road
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2. |
History of a Foundling
02:25
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oh i think they wanted you
the sky falling out and turning blue
double nickels on the dime
single pennies on the dollar
why
they wanted you
studying the book of stone
tom jones taking out a payday loan
falling through the opera glass
quiet bodies lying neath the grass
they wanted to
working in the butcher's stall
with the holy family giving alms
porcelain ballerina blues
god and mammon and my union dues
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i was watching tv
you were wearing your shirt
with the hole in the sleeve
from the alcohol burn
you were sitting on top
of your dirty blue sheets
you were tying a knot
you were talking to me
i am asking for help
live from the parking lot
live a lie by myself
and die in a rest stop
and the morning sunshine
came in through the window
when your head hit the wall
i was checking my phone
///
it's a beautiful autumn day
i'm driving in a borrowed car
down three bridge road
i lied to my
friend about the reason why
i'm hoping for a score
four hours in a parking lot
and in my heart its three o'clock
i'm picking you up from your job
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up again and down again
my life inside the iron heart
steam rolling through the work of art
dead coachmen ride in central park
where love lies bleeding in the dark
down again and out again
jurassic park beneath two suns
where man of steel points this warm gun
through jungle book at number one
on closing night of this bank run
live again and die again
my midnight sun and sister twin
down twisted paths split before him
through rain in brain my brother grim
lies in the yard with lunatics
down again and up again
around again dumb satellite
a fight with clubs on teacup ride
where shadows over innsmouth rise
necropolis at eventide
///
you can tell a story
let me tell you how
i was out a'walking
when I met a fancy cow
you can find a new world
look out at the snow
who is out a'walking
what fancy people do they know
you can watch the carriage
drive across the written page
you can see the coachman
toil for his daily wage
i can tell you something
swimming through your ear
someone else is watching
and what do you think they hear
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5. |
Me & Van Eyck
02:23
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darkstone
water falling through my home
into my waiting eye
house of usher
falling
inside the jar of flies
passing
through the looking glass
standing behind van eyck
dark stage
see the footman and the page
inside of the ant farm
backwards
up the telescope
into the needle's eye
gilded
age of innocence
this machine kills time
waltzing
through the drawing room
into the music box
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6. |
A Life in Wounds
03:32
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live a life in pain
wanted to remain
no one ever quite knows
what they said and didn't say
friends are dead and gone
sing the dying song
no one wants to hear it
it goes on & on & on
live a life in wounds
piper change the tune
fear of self
hatred of self
what end is coming soon
sing a song of ear
dead these seven years
the clerk is dressed in black
and fade to black
i live in fear
a needle in the eye of a needle
lying dead in the dock of the bay
crawling up on out of this haystack
but you know it isn't going away
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7. |
I Found a World
02:45
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i found a world
it lives in a chord
a doll in a house
on a hill by the shore
of an ocean of sand
in the eye of a fly
in a quiet bedroom
with the clouds passing by
in a globe filled with snow
in the box of a child
sound asleep in a bed
with an angel beside
and an angel above
and a smile in the sky
and the world disappeared
when he turned out the light
i found a world
i heard a song
a song in my heart
spiraling out
from its mouth in the dark
and the mouth of the heart
is wide open in pain
and they sewed his eyes closed
and he's covered in flames
and the angel of love
explodes out of his brain
and they all ride a dust mote
out into deep space
i found a world
in a world in a world
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8. |
Paint a Smile / Pinhead
03:16
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it's just a game i play
but each and every day
gone with the wind inside
a cold and lonely brain
it's just a joke i tell
i'd like to paint a smile
it's just a face i pull
to pass the time a while
thought of a way to see
fewer people each day
than i already see
a staged still life with pain
inside an empty car
aboard the evening train
i turn around around to see
a smile just for me
///
baby lives in a paperweight
packed like angels in a solid state
i'm dead and gone to my mother's house
where all my lies will come washing out
sister's buried inside a wall
my daddy died in a bathroom stall
three angels dancing atop a pin
we were so glad to get rid of him
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9. |
Spyglass Rock
01:51
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i don't know where i'm going
without my mind
but i'll get there in good time
running from the hand
holding the spyglass
brown velvet's a gentleman
my fair lady's wearing blue satin
looking down from portraits
and staring right back
friend in need in lilliput
my fair lady’s living in a shoe
god is mad at me
but i'm mad at him too
sleeping in a walnut shell
the dead meadows burn in asphodel
tell me fairy prince
why you're singing the blues
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that won't happen to me
i'm not sure that it can
fell asleep in a dream
now i'm going to bed
i woke up in the crowd
where they shot marshal ney
i was hung as a spy
i had something to say
bitter pageant of life
lost upon the midway
meet the dead in repose
on the champs-élysées
i’m diving with a rose
down through your buttonhole
i was hung as a thief
was it something i stole
see the triumph of death
hanging in a gift store
oh but it's alright ma
cuz it's only my war
that won't happen to me
i'm quite sure that it did
oh but not once or twice
rather since the beginning
of it all
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running around the world
to catch up with myself
from the day before
watch the moon lap the sun
watch running out of time
watch me change
house of flies
watching the puppet man
eat his meals
tell his lies
shuffle from work to feed
watch me breed
live and die
running around the world
at some point this bag will fail
door that implies a cell
tiny hell
jail with toys
watch running low on time
watched you change
into a fly
i watched the change in you
changing me
turning screw
watching the watch run down
hand to mouth
wings and eyes
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12. |
Guitar Hero
02:54
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i ain't playing guitar again
think instead i'll go buy a gun
i ain't going back to gold sounds
think instead i'll go get a job
clear eyes full heart
i lost again
singing songs is a waste of time
ain't no cane on the horizon
think instead it's the nine to five
& on & on & on
little windmill
ain't no cure for summertime blues
pulled a gun on johnny b. goode
it ain't me babe you're looking for
who shot the bird in norwegian wood
papa he's got a brand new bag
me i've got me failing shoes on
i ain't playing guitar hero
think instead i will build a bomb
& on & on & on
little windmill
i ain't joining uncle john's band
think instead i will die alone
pawned off my record collection
now i'm driving that train with casey jones
no phonies i'm the real mccoy
behind the dakota hotel
rock and roll all night everyday
more more more
goes the rebel yell
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13. |
Exxon Provence
01:50
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filling up with blood
this twisted spine
suffocated this angel of mine
falling through the radar dust of space
he landed in an open plan workplace
where he set pen to paper with delight
and bought himself a team of four online
he took it to see a famous streetlight
at exxon in newark off the turnpike
tracing a straight line
this crooked hand
describes a life in wounds to tired men
angel reaching from the roots entwined
towards me & my monkey in the bread line
and how his cup of joy was filled with hair
wearing motley in vanity fair
they buried him after the evening prayers
beneath the m&m store in times square
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c'mon i guess
the eye turns west
riding the falling hand
of the clock
how now how now
hey hey my my
beneath the glass
this human butterfly
life's daily grey
my my hey hey
the sleep of years
beneath the burning clock
fie on’t ah fie
hey hey my my
got lost midway
between the hook and eye
///
i take those old records off the shelf
sit and listen to them by myself
can burning teach broken hand to know
its blessed way along the broken road
i'm going down
get hung about
see carriage wheels turn in central park
i found myself within a forest dark
what's left for this broken mind to hate
in jungle room waiting for the king
i'm going down
get hung about
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15. |
The Gilded Age
02:48
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gone as you're wrong
i see all things twice
i was tossing snake eyes
called it paradise
soon as i'm gone
i feel ten feet tall
i used to think i was right
i don't care at all now
few big ideas
in my hollow brain
i make a few big moves
on an open plain
i got a few things left
that i just might say
i spent a few years dead
but i'm here today
it's not all it's cracked up to be
and there's nothing wrong with me
but i'm tired
and i could use a rest from it
but don't worry
cuz i'll make the best of it
gone as you're wrong
gonna help you along
get set ready start
gonna tear you apart
good cuz you should
you've been wasting your time
don't just stand in line
could be changing your mind
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16. |
Planet You / Simian Cast
03:41
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worm in my head
worm in my heart
the tick who loved me
tick after dark
but then i know you
i know you
i know who you are
there is a right
and a wrong
and a hole in my heart
there is a hole in the ground
where we live in a jar
in a life black and white
that we wished on a star
the ring of love runs
round planet you
the fly who loved me
love love me do
but then I knew you
the true you
the you that you are
under lock under key
in a box in the dark
but then not really
the real me
the you that you aren't
died alone
skin and bone
in the trunk of your car
///
my journey through the past
i'm not confused it's a simian cast
goodbye to all of that
see the magpie in the river of sand
the water broke the wheel
the wheel broke me too
and you know how i feel
who is the god of love
ferried in the night
'cross the river of blood
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17. |
Sweetwater
04:44
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???
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no more tomorrow
and no more blues
no more lying
and no more truth
it seems so sad
but just for now
ok i'm done
please get me out
no more tomorrow
and no more blues
no more tomorrow
and no more blues
no more sorrow
and no more you
this life in blue
and black and white
good night ladies
good night good night
no more sorrow
and no more blues
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