1. |
The Dream
03:32
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i am living a dream
the dream man
has come to find me here
has come to take me where
the ocean meets the sand
Oh can you see my eyes
They don’t betray me
I’ve spent my life believing
That the way that it feels is the way that it is lord
My arrow has an arc
Cuz I’m a lover
The shadows that sharpen
the victory garden
Take it all in
It’s for the taking
i am living a dream
the dream man
has come to find me here
has come to take me where
the ocean meets the sand
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2. |
Full-Time Heist
03:57
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Go bait the room again
You need more praise
Was it for the capture or the set up?
You feed your lawn
With that extra applause
Spread it out over your yard
Your mirror whisper’s “you got the secret garden”
but I could never get behind hiding a bloom from no one
(so) Busy lapping up the like
living in your Vainglory
Pulling that wool tight
Pulling off a full time heist
Pull the wool so tight over my eyes
Pulling off a full time heist
You think if you insist enough
Someone will believe you?
Sadly you’re right
Few think for themselves
You can use that
Few think for themselves
Dream up your hole-shaped dream of who I am
and proceed to fall in love with your fantasy
You don’t even notice I’m not in it
It’s not me
Pulling that wool tight
Pulling off a full time heist
Pull the wool so tight over my eyes
Pulling off a full time heist
Remove the celebrity
and there’s nothing
remove the celebrity
and you’re disappeared
you’re a color that counts on the filter
A color that counts on the filter
I don’t believe you
Pull the wool so tight over my eyes
Pulling off a full time heist
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3. |
Back Again
03:54
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don’t wanna be saying this
but how can I say it other than
I want you I want you back again
don’t wanna be saying this
but how can I say it other than
I want you I want you back again
It’s always about the time
I know this
I know this to be true
I’ve got set the scene perfect for listening
i owe this
owe this to me and you
but I can’t seem to hold out any longer
and I
i wonder if you’d try
oh baby just try this on
don’t wanna be saying this
but how can I say it other than
I want you I want you back again
don’t wanna be saying this
but how can I say it other than
I want you I want you back again
I’m telling on myself
just singing this to you
I want you back again
ooh gotta be saying this
there’s no other way just say it
I want you i want you back again
we left it so very uncertain
we know this
we know this to be true
i had to think it over and over again I
return to me and you
but I can’t seem to hold out any longer
and I
i wonder if you’d try
oh baby just try this on
This song is just a start
A hope that you’ll fall into the melody
And open up your heart to you
To hold a little longer yeah I
I wonder if you’d try this
Oh baby just try this on
don’t wanna be saying this
but how can I say it other than
I want you I want you back again
don’t wanna be saying this
but how can I say it other than
I want you I want you back again
I’m telling on myself
just singing this to you
I want you back again
ooh gotta be saying this
there’s no other way just say it
I want you i want you back again
don’t wanna be saying this
but how can I say it other than
I want you I want you back again
don’t wanna be saying this
but how can I say it other than
I want you I want you back again
I’m telling on myself
just singing this to you
I want you back again
ooh gotta be saying this
there’s no other way just say it
I want you i want you back again
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4. |
With Hope In My Breath
03:50
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with hope in my breath
every morning I wake
with the question
did I dream you
or are you of this place?
to my amazement
the answer is yes
don’t know what to do from here
but I’ve learned when I don’t know
best to do nothing
until the answer comes clear
but oh to be in your arms again
oh to be in your arms
head half in the clouds
half in your mouth
you did it
you led to me to the edge
to your impossibly gorgeous shore
and whispered do it for love
well come on now
the water’s warmer than you
could ever imagine
just imagine
before we became the lovers
you waited with me in the long line
for the girl’s room
and under my velvet jacket
I felt the buttons down the
back of my blouse
come undone on their own
are you undressing
me with your mind?
an unfamiliar kind of weather?
some unknown power playing us?
have we no control at all?
the answer is clear
the answer is yes
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5. |
Long For Ruin
03:51
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It’s clear to me we got the mind
To slow this slide to Babylon
It’s hesitation we can’t afford
Unless we secretly long for ruin
Keep your eye on the middle of the wall
Aim your car right at it, why not destroy it all?
Too hard to just be softer and cry for another’s pain
Try to remember nothing, nothing
Nothing needs to change
Block out the pleading, keep the music loud
Cover any feelings, reaction of the crowd
Too hard to just be human and feel for another’s pain
Try to remember nothing, nothing
Nothing’s inhumane
We all need to leave tonight
Follow any animal
Do you have the fire, a light?
I do, but it’s not on me
It’s clear to me we got the mind
To slow this slide to Babylon
It’s hesitation we can’t afford
Unless we secretly long for ruin
Do we secretly long for ruin?
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6. |
Started Off Free
04:11
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I and I don’t have to own it
It started off free
This time I see it different
I find another way
You love me like I’m firmament
You love me like I’m worth it
You are working on me
You are working on me
I and I don’t have to tame it
It started off free
Watch it run to the sea
It needs to swim alone
You love me like a treasure-found
Yeah you love me like I’m worth it
You are working on me
My heart is like a bridge on fire
The passage to the past is gone
How can I return to dust
Without you
and I and I don’t need to trouble
we started off free
won’t you meet me here on this lighted stage
we’ll kill the lights and dance
You love me like I’m cushion cut
yeah you love me like I’m worth it
you are working on me
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7. |
Remember The Voice
02:51
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Remember the voice
Slicing into the playboys
Hard to have any recall
Over the noise
Yeah I was a mess
On the street in my nightdress
Acting like I was useless
And maybe I was then
Trouble’s just a verb
And love looks like
A word so false it’s true
But I found it
I found it in you
I tried to fall
In the direction of the great wall
Turning into the corner
Once and for all
The year of the bat
Flying in like a flashback
Is there ever a reason?
Well suddenly yes
I feel it like fact now
Love is just a word
And trouble is the road
out of the blue
And I found it
I found it in you
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8. |
Oh Joan
04:12
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I’m lookin everywhere and still I’m coming up empty
I’m just trying to let the spirit un-take me
untether my mind and let the ghosts idle
hope and pray it’s not a vicious recycle
I really wanna ride I’m burning god almighty
it’s way past time the angels un-bride me
unfocus my eyes and feel the drug runnin
can’t forget that I know how to let the sun in
Oh Joan
What is there to be done
he said ...
she said
they said
I stepped into the dark I heard the whip of the ocean
this unleashed the fantasies in slow motion
Uncover my body let the smoke rise up
Rename the future get along, give up your giving up
I’m lookin everywhere and still I’m coming up empty
I’m just trying to let the spirit un-take me
untether my mind and let the ghosts idle
hope and pray it’s not a vicious recycle
Oh Joan
What is there to be done
he said ...
she said
they said
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sometimes it was quiet
enough to scare you senseless
the streets were filthy
peels of lemons, limes and orchids
security tags entangled in a great weave
of humanity
i believe if you were simply
existing on the west side
you looked guilty
and you were guilty
but only guilty
of looking for the door
I wonder if our species
will evolve to birth our babies
much more able to survive
like a baby giraffe unfolding
herself like origami
right from her mother’s womb
instantly running
from the waiting cheetahs
does she remember this first taste
of terror in her new throat
i know I do
i am not angry
it just explains why
i ended up on the west side
so long ago
I witnessed a young woman
find herself in the road when she shouldn’t be
in a dangerous intersection
there were cars honking at her
she had no memory of how she got there
she was not high
Had not taken no drugs or whisky
cause all it takes is pain
and overwhelming pain
and pain knows what to do
go to the west side
and oh
what is more beautiful
than what really happened
what truly happened
there on the west side
one day i feel like butter
and the next I’m more aligned with the knife
you hear me talking about avoidance,
how it breeds the worst anxiety
well i can see the stain
And remember the smoke wall
when no one could find me
I have tried to find my way home
Found that trying to find most anything
Leads to loneliness
Still I have tried to find the deep hole
to fall into for the last time
i have tried and tried
to find a resemblance
resemblance of a past
resemblance of a past
but there’s nothing left
of the west side
and oh
what is more beautiful
than what really happened
what truly happened
there on the west side
and oh
what is more beautiful
than what really happened
what truly happened
there on the west side
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10. |
Tribute To Holding On
02:47
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here’s a tribute to holding on
what’s the point of letting go
stop your thinking and let me love you
more than you allow
more than you could ever know
even when I, I talk too loud
spinning stories, making lies
won’t you me wake me in the middle of the night
remember me
leave me breathless on the floor
the sun
ooh the moon reflects her light
we are just observers
we just do the watching
but what would happen if she left him in the dark
if the power went out on the night
alright be done
shred it it all
feed me to the dogs
we’ll survive out on our own
or feed this bloom we call forever
it’s the honeycomb
the sweet of holding on
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11. |
Safe To Say
05:17
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It’s safe to say it’s all about runnin’ around
Let the cards fall free
Drive me past the place where I figured it out
Let me out and magic, I walk away on my own
Or start again and try to forgive and forget
Reset the memories
Pretend we’re meeting up for the very first time
Pantomime the actions you’d take to rescue our love
Show me how to long to breathe your air again
Tell me what to do when I fail
In some unseemly fashion
Deliver me the keys to your heart and then
Remind me of the reasons why I chose you over others
Not just that you lie
May I suggest you start with befriending my body
She’d like to meet the new you
Extend your hand and know that the time may be wrong
For your song
To touch me the way I need to be touched
This cage of ribs did nothing to safeguard my heart
Just held me there captive, watching
The offer holds if you would just shake me awake
And be here
Show me how to long to breathe your air again
Tell me what to do when I fail
In some unseemly fashion
Deliver me the keys to your heart and then
Remind me of the reasons why I chose you over others
Not just that you lie
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12. |
Help Is On It's Way
02:49
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Help is on it’s way
Just joking
The water’s getting higher
Dirtier
Full of stuff that kills us
And you want me to wait,
wait longer
Well what if I say
something quite controversial
would you leave the table
or would you consider it
cuz you know I’m clever
or maybe just stop thinking
and let your heart breathe easy now
well here goes nothing
I am your lover
I’ll say it again
you are my lover
Help is on it's way
Just joking
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”full of meditative beauty…ravishing and lovelorn” - Mojo
”a voice so wondrous and moving that it makes everyone else’s seem ordinary and mundane” - The Guardian
”Beautiful” - Q
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