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Will is broken and I can't get clear
Words that were spoken took a price so dear
Eyes in shadow and they're masked by pain
There goes another fifty dollars down the drain
Hands going crazy and I can't sit still
How many days until I break this spell?
Clear blue sky but it's pouring rain
And there goes another fifty dollars down the drain
Barn burned down now I can see the moon
I'm forgiven in an empty room
In a palace up on Gentry Lane
There goes another fifty dollars down the drain
Hands going crazy and I can't sit still
How many days until I break this spell?
Clear blue sky but it's pouring rain
And there goes another fifty dollars down the drain
Poor man, rich man, fat man, thin
The meal is free if you just sign in
Cheekbone shattered and my soul in chains
There goes another fifty dollars down the drain
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When I'm With You
03:01
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I've got holes in my pockets
That my mind falls through
When I'm with you
When I'm with you
A sunshine rocket
Aimed at the moon
When I'm with you
When I'm with you
I've got an ice cream cone
Lying on the ground
And a broken heart
That makes no sound
When I'm with you
When I'm with you
I've got a drink in a bottle
That I'll never taste
When I'm with you
When I'm with you
I've got gas on a throttle
That I always race
When I'm with you
When I'm with you
Words that I mumble
And I can't take back
Wishes that rumble
Like a railroad track
When I'm with you
When I'm with you
I've got mounds of bills I have to pay
For soulless games I had to play
Why do things turn out that way?
I don't know
I don't know
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3. |
One Tiny Lie
02:25
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Why have you gone away?
I'd preferred you'd stay
With me
Oh, no one leaves that way
This is a mistake
Please
Why would you cry over one tiny lie?
Why would this all be through?
Why have you left me here
With my deepest fear
Alone
Why have you gone away?
I assumed you'd stay
With me
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4. |
Which Are We
01:55
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There's a love
That's warm and lush and brave
Sweeps you like a wave
Miles into a raging sea
An there's a love
That's first as sweet as flowers
But soon turns stale and sour
Where once it promised only dreams
Please. Can you tell me please.
Which are we?
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5. |
Star Of A Fish
03:30
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I forget conveniently I guess
I seem to forget
I forget each week
What were we talking about?
What I was I saying?
I guess it wasn't important
I guess it's not
Ten percent
Ten percent of what?
I could slice out a pound of flesh
I think it grows back
Like the legs of an octopus
The star of a fish
The star of a fish
It feels like, it feels like
There's nothing left to do on the weekends anymore
No games 'til September
And the lottery is on Tuesday and Friday
Tuesday
Ten percent
Ten percent of what?
I could slice out a pound of flesh
I think it grows back
Like the legs of an octopus
The star of a fish
The star of a fish
Oh?
What's that sound?
Di you hear it?
Oh... Is someone there?
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A Hook For My Hand
03:36
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On my 50th birthday I slept in my van
A wifeless, homeless, shame-filled man
Uninsured, unemployable, itinerant, broke
My only real possessions were inside my coat
A hook for my hand
A hook for my hand
In the moonless darkness I stared at the sky
Counted every twinkle to measure my life
I sang with the whipporwill and cried hard tears
Heard sorrowful memories through ringing ears
A hook for my hand
A hook for my hand
I drive highways in an endless stream
Lie awake all night cuz I still have dreams
I carve out meaning, manufacture desire
From a broken heart bound in barbed wire
A hook for my hand
A hook for my hand
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The Passing Fords
04:13
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Danny peels away the bandage from the wound upon his arm
And he presses on the burn mark with his palm
He winces but it passes as he gazes at the storm
Coming toward him like the serpent from the psalms
When he cries he makes no sound
What's been said is said
And done is done
He hears the roar of the passing Fords
And tastes the spray from the splashing rain
The glaring lights makes him squint his eyes
But he's leaving home all alone
Mary stares into the candle flame and prays that he'll return
But this time more than candle wax was burned
So she licks her thumb and finger and another page is turned
A page with words she wished she'd never heard
When she cries she makes no sound W
hat's been said is said
And done is done
He hears the roar of the passing Fords
And tastes the spray from the splashing rain
The glaring lights makes him squint his eyes
But he's leaving home all alone
A tattered shirt from the city league
A canvas sack in the back is all he needs
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8. |
Take Me To My Daughter
03:35
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Trembling hands head is bowed
Please sir don't keep me out
Just take me to her now
Take me to my daughter
Take me to my daughter
Take me to my daughter
How is it than you can be
A barrier between her and me
Please just let her be
Take me to my daughter
Take me to my daughter
Take me to my daughter
She is just a little girl
This is such a scary world
I need her beside me now
Take me to my daughter
Take me to my daughter
Take me to my daughter
I know now why he put me here
Why my limbs are lame
I know now why I live in fear
Of his name
I don't think that you can see
What this has done to me
I raised her to be free
Take me to my daughter
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Wiry Willy's in the mists of his life
He lost his children when he left his wife
Now he shudders thinking what his mom used to say
And there are sweat stains drying in his clothes today
Oh, death comes slow
Where did all the giants go?
Long Lucy has the mists in her eyes
Coke in a bottle and her bile on the rise
Her mom yelled this morning, Christ get a job
You smell like a junkie and you dress like a slob
Oh, death comes slow
Where did all the giants go?
Oh, that's all gone now
Like stars in the ceiling and a moon-jumping cow
Oh, that's gone now
The moon still whistles and the stars still sing
Boys are missiles that can fly off a swing
Hair-tousled daughters laugh in the sun
Joy withers when the childhood's done
Oh, death comes slow
Where did all the giants go.
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10. |
Oh The River
03:45
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Again today I saw John's bike in the river
When's somebody gonna drag that thing out
The rims were warped and the vinyl seat was tattered
Only we know what that was all about
Oh, the river
Oh, river run
Oh, the river
Lying like a serpent in the sun
River towns are left now for the wealthy
Another mansion's rising on the bluff
Floor to ceiling windows for the luxury
Of gazing at the dried and cracking mud
It's funny how familiar gets forgotten
It's like John's bike isn't really even there
Buried to it's axles in the culvert
Nearly as invisible as air
And I keep thinking you'll appear like magic
Like blacktop heat waves rising from the street
The days and months and years have all gone misty
Water disappearing, bones from meat
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