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Everything That Rises
03:36
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Looked into my dark places
Where I keep the things I cherish most
Where I'm your father, your lover
Your knight in gold armour, your murderer
Felt death at my back like I do when love is in front of me
Turned out to be you, when you saw my dark places and slaughtered me
I have learned in my time
Nothing's permanent
Friendships die hope collapses
Love fades away
Photograph doesn't help - only worsens it
I'll see your face in my dreams tonight anyway
Looked into my dark places
Where the things I cherish most
Keep me
Where your my lover my sister my virgin my whore and my murderer
Found a child in the corner - must have been hiding there half of my life
He cried when I fed him. He cried when I left. He cried when I came back with a knife
I have learned in my time
Nothing's permanent
Friendships die hope collapses
Love fades away
Hanging on doesn't help - only worsens it
Hold me tight hold me tight hold me tight anyway
Sunlight streams through the mist of the waterfalls
River crashes and crashes on rocks below
Keep a piece of her. Like a conquistador?
Hold me tight hold me tight and don't let go
Everything that rises must fall
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2. |
Through the Cracks
05:25
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I am alone down here in my own bathysphere
Got my own company and my own atmosphere
Life here is quite alright. I read in bed at night.
TV on the sports channel. I sleep on the diagonal.
I keep my heart from going numb with a quiet unrequited thing.
Try not to blow the hatch when I hear the mermaids sing...
I came to on your shoreline
You dragged me in while you were diving for pearls
In a sea-wrack tangle with the taste of salt
Gasping on your shoulder as the foam unfurls
Do not bend or mutilate this soul is in distress
My body's twisted and abused please look away as I undress
Cut the ties that bind me to myself and set me free
On second thought maybe not. Just let me be
(Love comes through the cracks.
By the time you see it coming there's no turning back.)
Up in my satellite with no anxieties
I take my solace from the stars and that sister act, the Pleiades.
In space noone can hear you cry. The night's are always full.
I feel you down below, but I resist the pull...
This sensation's shaking me to the core.
I've never suffered such a breakdown before.
Calls into question everything that I know.
I lose control. I go with the flow.
My soul calls out for you as it burns
Like frozen fingers when the feeling returns
Feel so defenselss but so alive
You can have me - that is if I survive...
Do not spindle bend or fold
This soul's in disarray
My selves are incommunicado
Or so they say
Dissolve me in your liquid core
Melt me in your heart
On second thought, maybe not
We two should part
Love comes through the cracks
By the time you see it coming you're already hacked
Love shines through them too
By the time you told her, she already knew
If you take me as you find me
You'll have me as I am
(Love comes through the cracks.
By the time you see it coming there's no turning back.)
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3. |
The Long Haul
03:05
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Lady on the radio talking up some book
"The Death of Cool"
I said cool's not dead while I'm still alive
Yeah I said that
Into a spin!
Patch of black ice - where'd that come from!
The bells toll
It was your life that passed before my eyes
Faced up to the fact that I've been living for myself
Stayed long enough on the less-travelled road
Like some dead-heading trucker thinks he's got a real load
Taking our time, learning the road
Got a runaway ramp's gonna break our fall
Sometimes we're gonna floor this thing
Sometimes I know that we'll stall
But I ain't gonna take you on a short run baby
Don't you know I'm in it for the long haul
Unlearn "love"
Up til now it's been all about me
Just in time
Lady on the radio talking about souls
Into a spin
Nothing beats freedom but it's not enough to be free
The bells toll
From the wedding to the funeral that's just how it rolls
Faced up to the fact that I was living for myself
Like a bobtailing trucker says "I ain't no mule"
18 wheeler drawing up the inside
Lighting up the night like a carnival stall
Over the plains past the wild rose
Don't wanna stop til we've seen it all
Cos I ain't gonna take you on a short run baby
Don't you know I'm in it for the long haul
(You've taken my heart away.)
Over the mountain, on to the sea
Don't want to stop til we've seen it all
Ain't gonna take you on a short run baby
Don't you know I'm in it for the long haul
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4. |
Like a River
03:28
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When I was a child I sprang from the hills
Rolled down the slopes and raced after my fate
Winding through meadows and carving through stone
Seeking my level my equal my mate
Smooth as water when we spilled together that night
Merging the arms of the Nile - the blue and the white
Rushing through lovers in search of a friend - still alone
Writhing white waters you shudder and surge in the flow
Winding through meadows and carving through stone
Shaping the channel that gives you your shape as you flow
And the bolder we were, the closer we drew
And the closer we got, the stronger we grew
Merging the arms of the Nile - the white and the blue
Lay me down like a river in this bed
Still waters running deep as you need
Brushing off cities, no stopping our course to the sea
I'd freeze alone; together we're too strong for ice
Catch your breath on my shoulder before I drown in you, you in me
You show me why you can't enter the same river twice
Lay me down like a river in this bed
Overflow the banks the rushes and the reeds
Lay me down like a river in this bed
Before I lose you to the ocean ahead
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5. |
Hush
03:20
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In a moment of weakness i reached for your hand
Just like a child, I know, but I'm hoping you'll understand
Sometimes the little thing mean so much
Sometimes just a touch
It was only a second, but it rang so true
Your silence filled the world when I called out for you
Sometimes it all comes out in a rush
Sometimes just a
Hush
High summertime
August light
The smell of cedar baking
All night stars fall from the ceiling
Saturation of the senses...
But only if you share the feeling
At a bend in the river, where the willow stands
Water water pulling me down
I reached for your hand
I watched you watch me go
And just let it flow
Hush
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6. |
Not There
03:50
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This is the word that I can't say
You are my aphasia
My brain lesion
My synesthesia
Every sense bleeds into you
You are my vermilion
My high C
My food pavilion
This is the bed we broke each night
I'm lying in the wreckage
Sifting through myself
The broken slats
Each day I wake in that same bed and tell myself I just don't care
That when I wake up in that same bed I'm still shocked that you're not there
This is the thought that I can't stop
My trip wire
My phantom limb
The tracer fire
Each thought stops before it starts
Got a twenty four track mind and a one track heart
Hang the sun from the entrails of the last star shining
'Fore I shoot up the room
Silence the world starting here to the background splatter
Of the big boom
This is the thought that I can't stop
You leaning over me
Spilling from your top
Each day I wake in that same bed and tell myself I just don't care
That when I wake up in that same bed I'm still shocked that you're not there
Hang the sun from the entrails of the last star shining
Let it hang
Silence the world starting here to the background splatter
Of the big bang
This is the thought that I can't stop
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7. |
Black Door
03:58
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Hey there handsome, yes you can!
Each day you're a better man
You do not open that black door
You do not dwell there anymore
November evening in the rain
Your therapist will ease your pain
"Of course she loves you"
Hammering hammering nails in my heart
To keep myself from flying apart
Hollering hollering into the night
Pick my bones clean at the burial site
Bargaining bargaining: who should I be?
Hey there handsome you're number one!
The self-improvement that you've done
Your therapist brought in some light
You do not dwell in endless night
November evening in the rain
Call her up, start over again
"Of course she loves you"
Burning burning get out of my skin
It's useless - lets everything in
Can't tell where I end and the world begins
Triangulate myself by my sins
Take the hammer to the Christ within...
Try to release you
To your highest good
I am free
(No)
I release you
To your highest good
I am free
I release you
To your highest good
I am free
I release you
To your highest good
I am free
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8. |
This Time Last Year
04:06
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Should've seen it coming - guess I did
I should've run. I should've hid
But I stayed to the end, though I knew the ending
You'd think it was Thermoplyae I was defening
When I'm an old man should a young one enquire
I'll tell him love, like entropy, is a fire
I went down that road - I went too far -
When I got to the end I picked up a guitar
This time last year we went there
Here's a picture - look at the smiles
This time last year we saw that
There's a ticket.
(Kinda sucked.)
Should've seen it coming - guess I did
I should've run. I should've hid
I stayed to the end
There's only pain from this point on
You might want to turn around here now son
But what the hell, I'd gone this far
And at the end of the road there's always a guitar
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