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Looms
04:40
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When you walking some way up cussing some day back home
and you get dressed up in the way that you always hate it's shown.
Yeah, but I'll be safe, I'll hide.
No wait my ride's flown.
And this time we're really gone.
I remember pacing stairs an armchair over there is key.
There was something I prepared, my yesterday hair cut free.
Thusly I propose I'm snaggled up froze in deep.
I dig deep for love.
She always turns the shades 'neath the pale of moon gradient fare
says "there's never any cover up and summer's just another nightmare."
If the window's knocking she knows now stopping for you.
Dig deep for love.
That's the phantoms throwing tantrums outside the local park for two.
There's a panzer shooting cancer with comets and they're spiked with truth.
There's a certain kind of measure weighed in pine tree feathers that looms.
There's a poltergeist leaking up the pipes but she's always looking out for you.
She's always looking out for you.
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Acting like a newborn, practicing with tuba
dashing now your mood's up, tapping for your new luck
but I'll likely never get there...
I can't live like that, happy in the past
but I feel it like a snap, starting from your back.
Reacting like I'm groovy, been acting like I'm moving...
They say always be yourself but I'm never any help.
I'm hoping that's a good thing.
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3. |
Real Good
03:34
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The dawn. The false alarm.
One sent crystal ivy day.
Paint it away.
They won't listen what you say
if you take it any further
don't give it one look
recognize you're making what's
real good, bad good.
good that's got you wakened,
patient, wheeling, living off your feelings.
kneeling to healing.
hey, it's good to have you breathing.
Breathe in sunshine
give up?
have I?
got sick?
get well
hang up
hotel
If I get tethered on the way I pray the dawn my soul to take...
one sent crystal Ivy day where you paint it away.
They won't listen what you say if you take it any further on one sent crystal ivy day where you paint it away.
real good, bad good
Recognize you make it once
real good, bad good
Recognize you're making what's
real good, bad good
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4. |
Soon Enough
04:25
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little topsy turvy, but with ears.
I'm bouncing on a ball this week
because lately in the morning she looks so sweet
it's hard to tell between the years.
From shining up the branches through her eyes,
hoping that I fall in deep:
don't think she'd get the thought,
but I just couldn't call when I didn't want to go to sleep.
Move to walk out of the room
run away
soon enough, die in the mood
on a sunny day.
Little cat can act like he's not on tact
but distance isn't outer space
the phantom scum can hunt for unicorn blood
but they're looking like they're running in place
I choose enough, make me a move I wanna do
soon enough, make it so new I'm wanting you
I'm haunting you....
They're playing out there.
They're not like me,
but I'm like them. I guess they'll see.
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Never Happens
04:18
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...I just never got up...
Everyday is s a new end
in every way a loose bend
everyday's a new friend
everyday is anew friend
how about I never
How can I let go?
How can I leave you?
Where does all the love grow?
What could it lead to?
Me I wouldn't say.
They left him hanging there for days
What if I?
What if it never happens?
Everyday's a new friend
everyday's anew friend
Everyday is a new friend
Everyday's a new end
in every way a loose bend
everyday's anew friend
everyday is like a new friend
everyday's a new friend
What if it never happens?
What if it really happens?
Why not?
It never happens.
I've had enough. It never happens
What about I never follow?
I've had enough. It never happens
I'm tired. It never happens.
What about I never follow?
How's about I never follow.
Do it again, I don't want to follow.
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Don't Handle Me So Well
04:19
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If you see me sitting at the top of the world
just shoot me where I stand.
If you find me swinging a hammer of gods
just place my head where it lands,
please and sweet release
guess, I'm not so hard to please.
When a leaning head tilts in my direction
and no one is around
here's to me hanging with my head so high
I shall not touch the ground
Planted like a tree
buried out at sea.
Is this part of me a window?
was the spark in me a sin though?
I think this part of me is a window
The way I've seen you smile I would never trade
don't handle me so well
I don't have the same holy ghostly graces,
fantasies of hell.
Bottom of a well,
a mind is just as well.
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God is Close
03:13
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(This way...come along this way.)
It's quiet and God is close.
And I'm reminded not to impose.
But hey, I'm crying.
Don't my sobs sound like home?
I'm climbing without any rope.
Here's a picture (how'd we get so hollow)
like good scripture
I wait for the day (steal and never borrow)
something better follows my way.
There comes a time I dream of your face
How'd I get me so out of place?
I'm liable to loose my mind when I see you walking by
But I'm still stuck in a time when I was yours and you were mine.
God is close and easy to find.
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8. |
That Opposum
04:47
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I can see it in your eyes and you saw that opossum
he was limping down the street looking slim and awesome
he was showing off his teeth like a patch of blue bonnets
the feeling's pretty weak but the feeling was honest
I think about it while I sleep I still get nauseous
Dream about a different day when I was the cautious one
Shuffle 'round I lean against a wall in August.
Shuffle 'round I lean against a wall in Autumn
"How'd they get so different than how we taught em?"
Something about my inner peace was awful rotten
And I know you've seen it in my cheeks I saw that opossum
he was limping down the street looking slim and awesome
he was showing off his teeth like a patch of blue bonnets
the feeling was weak but the feeling was honest
the way ain't very clean, but the way is pretty honest
It's the way you find
he's gone out of his mind
yeah he's way too fine
he's gone out of his mind
way too fine, he's gone out of his mind
I'll probably never bet a nickel on anything at all
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9. |
Class With Virginia
02:20
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Virginia was a woman, look into her beautiful soul.
(I can't find the place, new face, new day)
Pop quiz on pop music, folk songs or griots from space.
(soft and be replaced, new way, true way)
Low down Motown, something about a juke box gets played.
(made of shame and paper heart beats, cleared)
You taught us about the Velvets and taught us about the helpless too.
(hang and wait, and choke on lightning too)
(made away, and later starting)
And she showed me how to make it, right now pen to paper bloom.
(Virginia was a woman look into her beautiful soul)
(I can't find the place, new day new face)
Virginia was a woman, had me look into her beautiful soul.
(made of shame and paper heart beat cleared)
(hang away a witch and hardly hear)
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