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Crazier
03:43
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Crazier
Reason is ice clinking in your drink
I think because I am so sad
About the why’s I used to have
Have is, have was, have lost is naught
I bought the whole damn dream I thought
It was guaran-fucking-teed
Believe it or not I thought
I was crazier, but I was wrong
Believe it or not I thought
I was crazier, but I was wrong, wrong, wrong…
Who taught who to play with knives?
We fooled the fools, we played both sides
We sacrificed our lives
I believe in all the rules
Your little trick proved them true
They always ask about you
CHORUS
Catch a fist of lightning, swing at the ghost
Sing a song broken—broken off at the throat
Bury all the money, float out on the tide
There’s nothing more you need to hide
CHORUS
Pour me another, pour me another
Pour me another and I’ll…
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2. |
Easy
03:54
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Easy
When I was younger much younger than now
it was graveyards and candlewax vows
how I'd never be taken alive
Now that I've miraculously survived
the rites of my furious spring
I still cling to my arrows and slings
Easy, it's not easy, it's not easy to believe
Never is forever better beware
if you stare too long into the lair
then the beast, it will notice you're there
Where have my suicide lovers all gone?
Breaking bottles of red bravado
over quietly patient headstones
Easy, it's not easy, it's not easy to be- leave me now
leave me while you still can
to my crow and the worms in my wine.
So absurd, the things I once wished for in glorious vain
I was young and insane.
When I was younger much younger than now
it was graveyards and candlewax vows
how I'd never be taken alive
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3. |
Elemental
03:00
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Elemental
Yeah, the skies would open wide
We’d forget about the time
When you walked me, walked me in on
Side, we talked about the rain
How the thunder came
What the weather said about our…
Fate ain’t accidental
Fate it’s elemental
Yeah, you showed me all the rooms
In your little cocoon
Told me how the ‘burbs was killing you
Were lovely, out of place
Exotic and ornate
Queen of the gypsies, queen of
Grace ain’t accidental
Grace it’s elemental
And afterwards, you wondered aloud
Love is absurd, but I can’t live without it
Are you your word? I know the sound of
Colliding worlds.
Why? No need to ask no why
No need to even try
Love is thunder, love is very
High, catch lightning when it strikes
The kite is in the sky
The key unlocks the rest of our sweet
Life ain’t accidental
Life it’s elemental
Elemental, elemental, elemental…
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4. |
The Devil's Dance Card
04:20
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The Devil’s Dance Card
Deep within the earth, along the world’s seam
The band must play all night, this feverish dream
Down here no heroes, only survivors
We dance the tango, we are on fire
Down here no heroes, only survivors
The devil’s dance card is saved for you and I
My love, her hair ablaze, her feet clickety-click-clack
She dances through this maze, she’s never coming back
CHORUS
Burning up we float across the dance floor
The devil’s counting time and two and three four
Our souls as graceful as a fish on fire
Damned to sing in this infernal choir
Join us we are yours, we are eternal
Dancing on all fours, we are infernal
CHORUS
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Let’s Forget It For Awhile
Once upon a time I used to die
I died for fun, not so long ago
This girl I knew she was just as fun as me
And we were doomed to wild joy and misery
Wicked, sparkly pinwheels in her eyes,
She cried, "The end is near!"
Paralyzed by the horror of it all
I said "And so it is, my dear."
All right, things fall apart now the center cannot hold
Hold tight, crush the very life out of things you hold most dear
Don't fear, we all go out the same way we came in
But since we're here, you and I should love each other madly
'Til the bed breaks and we're happy and the dead they sadly smile.
Let's forget it for awhile
Let's forget it for awhile
Hidden in the woods I had a friend
I loved this man, a brother 'til the end
He'd sing into the telephone at night
And write poems with hidden messages.
He tied a bungee cord around his neck
And left a note that wasn't poetry.
He was loved but his body on the floor
Well, it failed me as a metaphor.
CHORUS
Oh Dayn, what have we done?
Oh Dayn, what have we done?
CHORUS
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6. |
Only Half Here
03:15
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Only Half Here
Man they call me crazy 'cause I'm only half here
Dreams when I'm sleeping are twice as real as
The hours I spend lost in this weird machine
I wobble through the world like a broken wheel
But the view isn't all that bad
I always get the sense that it's merely invention
The story in my head and this mirror's reflection
Afraid I got no time for your intervention
'Cause I got no sense of self-preservation
But the view isn't all that bad
I smash and grab the very things
That keep me on my knees
I beg you darling please
Forget all the words I sing
Just hum the melody
Because that's really the only honest thing about me.
Sorry that I sound like a broken record
Something is amiss but it's hard to measure
Whether I'm a mess or it entropy
Things are hard to gauge when you don't think
No, the view isn't all that bad
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7. |
Wise Blood
05:32
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Wise Blood
In between the cocktail hours and the form-fitting plastic
I am a mold of your body, it fits fantastic
You realize no one is watching, maybe no one ever was
I am the wise blood that feeds you, I feed you just because
Swing low sister
Roll your body down
Swing low sister
Roll your body…
Lay me down in your garden of blown glass—where the beasts have been
Lick rain from the heaven inside us, your eyes are votive flames
We realize no one is watching, maybe no one ever was
You are the wise blood that feeds me, you feed me just because
CHORUS
To all the nights we burned between our fingers
All signs of life we squeezed like little triggers
How long? Baby, I don’t know. Nothing lasts forever
It comes undone.
In between the cocktail hours and the form-fitting plastic
I am a mold of your body, it fits fantastic
You realize no one is watching, maybe no one ever was
I am the wise blood that feeds you, I feed you just because
CHORUS
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8. |
Klutina
04:32
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Klutina
Klutina holds him all night long
Klutina sings her sweet black song
Dreams of drowning lucidly
Klutina, how the mountains weep
Klutina, where the waters feed
Out to the Copper, to the sea
Eyes of light cold heartbeat
Rock his body off to sleep
Silt and salmon, fast and deep
Whisper secrets while they eat
Klutina holds him lovingly
Klutina flows furiously
Dreams of drowning lucidly
Klutina’s waters never slow
Klutina never lets him go
He’s hers now don’t you know
And the view from below
Nice as heaven’s I suppose
Nestled in her logjam hold
Swaying gently in her undertow
Klutina holds him all night long
Klutina sings her sweet black song
Dreams of drowning lucidly
Klutina how the mountains weep
Klutina where the waters feed
Out to the Copper, to the sea
Eyes of light cold heartbeat
Rock his body off to sleep
Silt and salmon fast and deep
Whisper secrets while they eat
Klutina, Klutina, Klutina…
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9. |
Bone Tea
04:20
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Bone Tea
Sipping bone tea from porcelain cups
I try to remember where it was I fucked up
The ants will devour all my rose petal lies
Let me pour you another for the sake of old times
Low sigh sweet, turn the tea she would say
Husks of bees piled high on her plate
Dipping watches in boiling pots
The second hand dripping, squeezed in a knot
The leaves are for reading, the future is steam
Cast your spell on the sugar to curdle the cream
Low sigh sweet, turn the tea she would say
Husks of bees piled high on her plate
Locust casing tea bags full of
witch's breath brew
something for the dying
and something for you
Sipping bone tea from porcelain cups
I try to remember where it was I fucked up
The ants will devour all my rose petal lies
Let me pour you another for the sake of old times
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10. |
Hey Oblivion
03:00
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Hey Oblivion
I remember now
Seems so simple that I
Wonder how I could forget
We start lost to be found
Every time it’s the
Same old search round and round
Beginning blind we are bound
by an unbroken cord
cobalt blue, slowly unwound
Hey Oblivion
When I first walked I was walking towards you
Hey Oblivion
Now we’re found let’s walk round and round and round and round
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11. |
Finding Mnemosyne
03:01
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Finding Mnemosyne
Buried in a redwood box
Borne upon the spores collecting
Sailing cold, dark waters
The flow of an underground stream
Set the timers, fertilize the crops
Let the germ grow inside you
On the endless playas
The cries of the thing inside your head
Finding Mnemosyne, Finding Mnemosyne
When you finally recognized that you weren’t alone
It already called your body temporarily home
Do you remember long before we lost our way,
How it seemed so easy, dancing with the demons, Dayn?
We left the door wide open and the dancers came to stay
How we recognized them, how we loved them...
Finding Mnemosyne
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12. |
Aquanaut
05:52
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Aquanaut
Blind like me, blind like me
Dive Aquanaut, tighten your brass-fitted head gear
Dive Aquanaut, ensure that your airways are all clear
Dive Aquanaut, descend ever-darker atmospheres
Dive Aquanaut, to slay for me what I fear most
On the bottom it feeds, on the bottom it feeds
Blind like me
Blind like me, blind like me
Dive Aquanaut, spear me my many-armed reason
Dive Aquanaut, silence the sound of my sirens
Dive Aquanaut, net me my private leviathan
Dive Aquanaut, slay for me what I fear most
On the bottom it feeds, on the bottom it feeds
Blind like me
Dredge me free, I’m losing all feeling down here
All this fear is crushing my tin can body
Dive Aquanaut, we’ll honor your madness and folly
Dive Aquanaut, salute the still silent waters
Dive Aquanaut, slip a stone-weighted casket
Dive Aquanaut, after you into the sea
On the bottom it feeds, on the bottom it feeds
Blind like me
Blind like me, blind like me
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13. |
Nevada Shoulder
03:25
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Nevada Shoulder
Nevada Shoulder soft and deep
Lay the child down to sleep
She’s yours to keep out there
Softly hold her
In your sands remold her
Soft and deep Nevada shoulder
How have you consoled her?
Is she older out there?
Gently reap
Lay the child down to sleep
Desert wreckage sharp and cruel
Broken glass and spilling fuel
There’s only one truth out here
Pinks and blood and blacks and blues
Bathed in predawn desert hues
Life seeps out and slowly pools
Is it me or is it you?
Gently reap
Lay the child down to sleep
Nevada Shoulder soft and deep
Lay the child down to sleep
She’s yours to keep out there
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