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Moby Dick
04:55
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The light it reflects your sentiment
When you close your eyes
Bonnie told me of a dream
That she had last night
She sailed in a ship looking for Moby Dick
When she found him she couldn't believe
He was six foot four with a chip toothed smile
And a face that reminded her of me
Amy came by with a dream in her pocket
This is what it said
Contagion hit the carnival
Left us all undead
And I took a ride in her el camino
With the windows down
Breathed in my lungs
A burning hope
And I blew it out
Chased my own tail through alabama
Into stormy groves
Slept in a cocoon made of feathers
When my Bonnie slit my throat
And I bled into the gutter
For regression's precious kin
Entangled by the circumstance
That I was living in
Call me a sinner one more time
Watch us duke it out
Call me a liar and I'll smile brighter
And let it all hang out
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I'm always standing in the rain
I walked for miles down your shore
You kissed me with some delicate refrain
When all I asked for was a chorus
Now you're gone and everything's the same
I don't have to lie anymore
About all of the things I've learned to hate
It's always easiest to pass along the blame
I unzip my skin, let fall my skeleton
Wake up without feeling refreshed
Forgot to speak in the conversation
But you know, I never really forget
I guess every beginning is an end
And you're too drunk to notice
That these strangers aren't your friends
I can't remember half of what I said
I guess every beginning is the end
The stars shine on the ocean
Soon it will be dawn
Your self-effacing crucifix
Is ready––for the crowd
When will we arrive back where we started
And see it once again through new born eyes
When will you admit that you are lonely
But that you find my company unkind?
I've fallen in the pitfalls of redemption
Drank myself to death with all the saints
Try to make believe like I've forgotten
But no matter where I go it's all the same
It all begins again and again
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I couldn't believe my ignorance
Couldn't believe it
Couldn't believe I made a mess
I couldn't believe it, no
No one ever told me how to tell what was true
So I followed you
And I dug into a grave of my own reflection
Couldn't believe it
Threw the rest away in a single moment
Couldn't believe it no
I was standing at the edge of a panicked phrase
Frozen in the shape of a figure eight
I couldn't believe my ignorance
I couldn't believe my opulence
And I knew, and I knew, and I knew
My day had come
Fumble with the chord like you're pulling teeth
Never had quite enough sympathy
Couldn't believe the violence and the ruin
Now look at you
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All my dreams are tucked in
They don't know where to begin
Won't you lay me down my friend?
Somehow, I've been left behind
With two nickels and a dime
They might not even last tonight
Fairchild don't you take that tone with me
It's all for nothing, can't you see
In my company
Maiden fair don't you curse me in my home
And leave me in the darkness all alone
Don't you know, I will atone
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5. |
Ghost Waltz
05:08
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I got a woman in Reno who lives in an empty house
When I call her phone she says she's not in town
But every time I walk upon her door
We make a waltz of memory
Glide across the floor
My woman in Reno has a garden on her roof
Where she hides a flickering smile, from the faded multitude
Of painters, poets, playwrights, and artists of the flesh
I see myself in every single story that she read
In the pages of her fantasy, that I have never seen
It was all that I could say
All that I could do
The circles we keep running
Aren't enough to pull me through
I have a woman in Reno
Living like a ghost
Have you seen her?
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6. |
If It Be Your Will
04:20
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Is it gospel? Turn your eyes and cry
He doesn't love you anymore than I
It was something in the incomplete
Reality we're underneath
It was something in the tourniquet machine
Tonight my love is out there on the beat
With her sunshine eyes dancing in the street
You can put the pills away you say
I won't run away ok
You can tie me up, I'm yours and always be
If it be your will
That I sing no more
You need only say the word and know I'm yours
I'm frightened, love, but only cause
I'll never know for sure
I'm always frightened now, don't you know it's cause
I'll never know for sure
If you hear this song it's not for you
You can spill me out and I am born anew
Cradling an idle wide
Driven out, an idle sigh
How are you a healing machine?
You can set me gently, rock a bye a prayer
If you change your hat, identity beware
If I knew you never tried, I could not apologise
Underneath my epidermal layer
I write myself romantic just for you
I'm leaving here tomorrow
I'm leaving here tomorrow
I'm leaving here tonight it's nothing new
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7. |
Last Exit To Brooklyn
05:06
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It's flooding in the valley
Better run away and hide
Don't think twice, don't unravel
Never mind the time
Only now remains
You better drop that anchor weight
Now you can lose your feigned convictions
Teach yourself to really hate
Cause tomorrow is a staged horse race
It's just a stage
Dream on, worried one
With the secret that you kept under your tongue
I wonder sometimes if you even know
What I mean when I say I got to go
Because I've got to go
And when the water covers rooftops
Meet me at the old spot
That kissing corner jukebox
Where we were questions posed and forgot
Some picture of our torn up praise
Our burning shame
And when we wake up in the morning
We won't even know our names
We'll be notes left in a bottle
Roaring on the waves
And I won't ask any questions
I'll just take it easy
Winter will bleed to summer
My clock is always broken
Tonight it's Brooklyn's ghost
Who never forgot to raise her veins to heaven
When she disappeared
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8. |
To Heathcliff, With Love
04:28
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When you come back from haunting this dark plain
Don't expect them to treat you any better
You'll always be a gypsy bastard
No one has a time
To resolve all the complexes you carry
Your agitation only hurts yourself
Because only the stupid seek discomfort
Raked over the coals
You're just a sucker for the slaughter
And who are you to deny them their fun?
Marriage has no place for your love
It's just a vestige of noble persons' interests
When you finally grow up you'll think like the rest of us
Because objectivity is an opiate that christens
All who have gathered here today
To bear witness to my authority
A lonely country preacher, who never talked to god
But I'll be damned if I ever stopped trying
So fill all your glasses to the brim
And leave all your tomorrows in that body weathering
Can't you see that your objection
Isn't even worth a mention
Your hatred insults our intelligence
We all know that the prince is kidnapped by pirates
And his mother married his father's killer
And the invading army is sharpening their weapons
They don't plan to leave a single witness
So don't you dare talk to me about justice
That could make right all you've unbalanced
Cause everybody knows, that in the eyes of god
There isn't a single saint among us
And you left your dignity way out in Glasgow
With some second rate landmine who never even earned her letters
And after you left she fell right to her death
Tell me how's that for reaping what you've sewn
Like the angels we all too must fall
And who are you to dare try to resist it?
Just raise that bottle to your lips
And breathe in the total eclipse
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Cinderella Man
04:23
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You can hold on to your subtlety my friend
And stare in the eclipse
And don't ask questions you don't want to answer with
You can make believe like everyone can dream
The same as you or me, they always rinse and then repeat
You can leave me waiting by the night arcade
You say you have to go, your chariot awaits
You won't be late
Will you be my Cinderella Man?
Could you hold me close
And take me by the hand
And love me come what may
Could you hold on to your sympathy my love
And keep your fingers crossed
When you say that you forgot
The slipper made of glass you gave to me
it's everything that keeps me
From a coffin so serene
I heard about all your sisters too
What they did to you
How could they be so cruel
There's magic in the way you look at me
I can barely breathe
Like a stone I start to sink
Tonight I'm an unreliable narrator
Tonight you're just someone else I love
I guess that I don't know, but I can try
I can try
To be just as elusive as what was
Will you be my Cinderella Man
Will you hold me close, and take me by the hand
And love me come what may
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10. |
Cross The Rubicon
04:15
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I have crossed the rubicon
I'm not waiting for the dawn
Cause the moonlight hypnotised me
So when you speak my name I just dissolved
You asked me if the heart or tongue
Contain what cannot be undone
Well I guess you guess you're clever
With your arrogance eternal
Seas of trouble, schools of fish
Remind me more we do exist
Than what we tell ourselves we're made of
Cause we have made up, all of it
And when you think you've got the time
Explain to me just what you're owed
And then we can flip through history
Either way it comes up worse for me
Settle down I'll sober up
To all the things I thought were luck, but were
Just time passing
And we had to find, something to do
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11. |
Touch The Ground
04:36
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Baby won't you crawl out your window
Or better yet let me crawl in
Bring your body close to mine
With wisdom skin to skin
If you let fall the curtains
Your love will fill these tired eyes
We reach for missing persons
Go wandering through the night
Easy as the snowflakes touch the ground
Baby won't you roll down that window
And fetch me a nicotine dream
It might be the pills or maybe I'm ill
But nothing is what we believe
When we reach for heaven
The fire fills your lungs with my design
You sleep inside the graveyard
Where making friends is easier you find
Easy as the snowflakes touch the ground
Sugar, could you answer my message
The withdrawal is setting in
I gave up my stomach in sacrifice
To smile on all of our sins
Irradient omission
Some day we'll meet again
An angel sent from heaven
Back to where it all begins
Quiet as the snowflakes touch the ground
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12. |
Meet Me In The Morning
06:38
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Sampson let his hair down
And it fell onto my chest
We were kissing full of smoke and dreaming of the rest
The first time I came over
He dug into his arm
And told me not to worry
Said it wasn't any harm
And that sometimes a body fled
Unfaithfully away
And when everything is sickness the best medicine is pain
He held me there so tender and so mild
And we let down the towers with a smile
Delilah laughed and told me
She'd heard it all before
The kingdoms of experience are just another chore
It's all a fickle fable snagged against your sympathy untamed
A fantasy where peasants storm upon oppression's gate
We always make like repitition
With our shadows on the wall
With whispers of serenity still not taking our calls
She spoke out loud of history's mistakes
And laughed out loud and looked the other way
The king and queen invited me to walk upon the water
A miracle of consequence, protection from the slaughter
They told me love was easy as anarchy to claim
A rose of ripe potential there by any other name
It's sometimes all that gesture's dreams
To dignity's remains
And hides in your rebellion
You're too quick to give away
They spoke all night with their abandoned taste
And left me hot and wondering at our fate
It was all that I could say
And all that I could do
Just to meet you in the morning
In the darkness of your room
It's all a relapse of potential
A poem upon the page
The grace of your surrender at an attempt to relate
What passes generations
With a petrified refrain
A virgin at the altar with her tongue upon the blade
Of prophecy, how pity dissipates
A martyr hanging upside down for days
By dawn my love has left me, with a hollow open wide
It's a canyon full of echoes
Big enough to crawl inside
All our elemental sentiment
With no ambition or doubt
An experiment, within or without
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D.M. Rice England, UK
Founder of Holy Island Records, a DIY label based in the UK––inspired by the beauty of its namesake.
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