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Eyes Of Innocence
04:25
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Eyes of innocence, songs of experience
my blood bleeds for you and your eyes sky blue
stretched out alone we curl through the calendar
breathing through trees our hands green as leaves
a cross road a crossing the dust and the devil
come rider come ride with me all heaven and its weeds
wild flowers bloom to be blowers of seeds
in our autumn we'll know them
life took us on the bend
Take me on past the houses the streets and the names
send up signals to passing terrestrials
lighting the air up winding creek waterfall
take me and break me all in your easy way
higher I go and I'm higher than high
I'm lost to this mountain too lost to the falling sky
roar me an engine take flight from a window
this morning is painting something unspoken I know
Come lie before me like fog in the valley so low
Lo and beholden all our times are changing I know
Before my voice finds me here I'm cloaked under slumbering
that you morphed so dear with your movements entangling
gone is the restless listing ship anchor slip
now I'm a diamond rough cut but proving it
all to a time you know only in photographs
rest assured baby these days are making their home in you
Hear all the bells of the city song singing out
all through our trembling echoes of memories now
here with me now songs pouring out of me
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Protein Scum
03:40
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It was three life times more
that I was dumbstruck in awe
to a woman I had known
only a fraction of the whole
It was new to me this feeling
of power overpowered
my freedoms curtailed if briefly
just a blink really in an hour
As I lay dreaming
lost to your call
all heavens did surrender
all my senses at fault
I sang dizzy, waltzed slow
drank oceans on my own
Everybody knows The Tyger
but tell me what's the first line of The Lamb
Oh little lamb who made thee
do you know who made thee?
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The Hesperus Motel
04:27
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Flowers in the Street
I go casting my nasturtiums
say why so many hearts they're painted on his sleeve?
and why the voice so full of weeds?
There's a place at my bedside
in the Hesperus Motel
a ring upon your finger now
and a harbour or your soul
A harbour for your soul
A harbour for your soul
The Pacific Ocean pounds
all the rocks of the heads
while we promise just to weather
all the storms from this bed
And tarry no more
And tarry no more
We crossed that equinox
into an Aeries moon
it rained three days
the creek it roared and raged
when you come in from the cold
talking time is nothing more
than summer passing over the snow
the melody of flesh and bone
so sweetly sung in spring
to follow where the seasons go
And tarry no more
And tarry no more
In a cloud of wings
what of all these things?
What of all your broken strings
left in the air so trembling?
In the Hesperus Motel
with a ring upon your finger now
and a harbour for your soul
A harbour for your soul
A harbour for your soul
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4. |
Circles
04:42
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Falling out of time
with an arrow for my heart
a twisted line oh the hungers of my heart
play their part
Oh the wind sings the trees
the creek winds slow
metres high now metres low
To run in circle no stranger than my own
To run in circle no stranger than my own
Sing O meridian the high noon the song
I'm short in the long grass tall as the sun
a bryter star layter your sickle moon halo
the blue of the nocturne who do burn for thee
Me on my sickle my scythe and my swathe
slow with the flowers your face grace beloved
I never felt better dressed as death
oh dressed as death
To run in circles no stranger than my own
To run in circles no stranger than my own
I run in circles no stranger than my own
For the land hungers and the water thirsts
the fore will take it all
blowing down the line of the spirals in your mind
in the holding and the letting go
the holding
and the letting go
To run in circles no stranger than my own
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5. |
Speed Of Light
04:58
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You are travelling at the speed of light
you are shining through an endless night
reaching out for darkness friends
a light without and a light within
Every blinding light I see
can't keep me from the dark
every darkness made of light
is some shadows mask I thought
O the light on the mountain
the light on the road
the light on the water
shining like gold
I heard a choir of angels
I used to call them birds
they sharpen up their tongues
and they carve up the night
then carry it away but it don't hurt
And I'm deep beneath the dead leaves
surrounded on all sides
of mans dominion I have suffered pains
of any moth and any flame
O the light on the mountain
the light on the road
the light on the water
shining like gold
Now I will cross this river so wild
that holds us to her side
and I will cross with providence
and go then with the tide
You are travelling at the speed of light
you are shining through an endless night
reaching out for darkness friend
a light without and a light within
O the light on the mountain
the light on the road
the light on the water
silver and gold
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6. |
Slaked
02:44
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Of all my true loves
I hold a true love still
who wraps me in tenderness
holding me still while
everything surrounds us
shatters and shakes in the wake
I wake in your arms to far gone to taste this
all that is left to see of long amber slumbers
is painting my face and all down my fingers
and you
you
So truthful so wild
so innocent child
so woman so lover
so fire flood and thunder
we're tearing it all down
to every number
my dead sort of past deaths
and you unsurmountable
so complete and so surrounding me
here where we lay
speak not so breathless
my steps are you feet
slaked from the crowded rooms
where we thirsted
and slaked in your chambers
of sunlight and circles
is golden is holding me
holding me over me
out of my body
and into you
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Tyger Red
04:26
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I've been writing songs for friends
but never using their names
sort of hiding my affections
like tears cried in the rain
while all the while my heart grows strong
the love I speak to me alone
I've been smiling in a darkness
a dark a call my home
I've been writing songs for friends who've grown
so deep so wild so sweet so long
I've been singing songs for friends who've grown
so well inside of me
It's calm on the levy I'm fit for a fall
I'm strong on my shoulders but begging to be saved
when Death comes a creeping
just a creeping in your house
and you want not care for sweet despair
well it's coming with it now
You won't back down
It's worth all the trouble
It's hard to hide inside when everyone's watching
all of me and mine my endless distraction
it's hard to hide inside the pale half of daylight
a screen blue onto blue as the hounds hound the angels
on desolation mountain watching for the lightening
it's a summer of bummer
then it's back to the river
You won't back down
It's worth all the trouble
So Laura for the hell of it I'll say your name
for the heat and the teeth in it
I'm breathing you
I pull on the stars
a thread of lonely night
and stain my hands on the wine of the song
stay here now deep
lost in a tangle of locks where we sleep
I've been nowhere I've been free
I've been kept well hidden
in a shade of green
as yet before unseen
I've been free I've been nowhere
I've been outta sight
in the green of your eyes
just a tourist in the forests of the night
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8. |
Orange Windows
03:27
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There is a ripple a ring
a circle in the water and a circle around the sun
the wind blows through your har
as the lights stretch and blur
I hold you in my arms
and we disappear
With the wren there dying at my window
her feathers messed and forgetting to eat
locked in battle with the trick of the light
reflecting on her enemy beside
Every time I try to drown
I get up and walk upon the water now
I hold you in my arms
but I wont hold you down
Where is the last love song I wrote
is it buried in the garden greens?
Left out in the cold May night
under the belly of the Southern stars?
Holed up in the marigolds with my poesy
the orange light from windows
and the tropic line descending
left out in the cold May night
under the belly of the Southern stars
Every time I try to drown
I get up and walk upon the water
I hold you in my arms
but I wont hold you under
Every time I try to drown
I get up and walk upon the water now
I hold you in my arms
but I wont hold you down
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Trinkets
04:43
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Well you keep me on my feet
time after time through the doubts in belief
with my home sick tremors
my side ways looks
the empty house echoes
from my cowboy boots
and all the trinkets on the shelf
If we leave can we chose who we save?
If I lose will I lose you to?
Don't let the last light of today
paint your city as a grave
even your towns sticks and stones
can only break your bones
if it's souvenirs you want
not a home sweet home
not a hone sweet home
O I'm nothing more
than a blade of grass
or a slamming door
Get your head up above the chimney pots
wont you try for some clarity
all your evenings illusions
all your street light lies they
always catch my eye
Turn your sadness into singing
pull the rain into the dry earth
you make a little home here
and keep drawing your breath
O in all this mess
you keep drawing your breath
turn your sadness into singing
pull the rain into the dry earth
you make a little home here
and keep drawing your breath
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I came home after I was rover
and as rover I did roam
'till my roving was done
I called it in called it off
had enough of all that stuff
I'm gonna keep my head in my heart
keep my head O
And I'll never be alone no more
because I lay my head
sing my song the bird has flown
I made my home
no more to ramble
no more to roam
I'll be down by the river just singing for the song
I'll be down by the river just singing for the song
And as a rover I saw the endless sky
caught in my eye from the gutter
and all the galaxies I sought
thrown from the bottles I bought
were as much illusion to me
as the neon signs 'aint the moon
I'll be down by the river just singing for the song
I'll be down by the river just singing for the song
So baby let's go crazy
and pull up the blinds O O
they been down for three days now
I want to watch that evening shine
because this time I'm going to let it all go
I'm gonna be
I'm gonna hang my soul
with the wind in the reeds
and nothing more
I'll be down by the river just singing for the song
I'll be down by the river just singing for the song
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