1. |
Ocean Bride
04:48
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I woke up staring into sea-blue eyes
Nothing in my head, so I read her mind
Found my legs and stepped outside
Day laying open in the big sunshine
Took a drive to the sounding sea
Protecting her from the wind and teeth
Sang that line about Annabel Lee
And traced her name with sandy feet
Saw mermaids crash upon the rocks
Some survived and some did not
So long ago, I found her there
Fixed her bones and tangled hair
Sun was setting in the purple sky
So we threw our letters to the turning tide
Turned to kiss my ocean bride
I stole forever from the maritime
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2. |
Powerlines
02:50
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I don't remember
But they say that I was there
From July through December
They say I breathed your summer air
Then I cleared your timber
And left your mountain bare
For the powerlines to us all
I know I'm just a mixture
Of chemicals and sacred light
But they tapped my circuits and the pictures
Electrons dying in your eyes
I feel you slipping through my fingers
To ride dark wires through the night
On the powerlines to us all
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3. |
Dawn Birds
04:21
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It used to be
You didn't eat or sleep
And the city night would open up for you
Another butterfly
Beneath those sodium lights
That's a kind of nourishment too
So you set yourself on fire with invisible wires
Sparks flying yellow and blue
And those dawn birds were singing
A tune so nauseating
For a day about to break all over you
And year after year
Never ready to hear
Too busy raising the dead
Heart and hand burned
You live but never learn
And took it all for granted instead
Coping and conspiring, with the sun forever rising
Couldn't chase the shadows from your bed
And those dawn birds were singing
A mass communication
But the message just fly over your head
And they never play it the same way twice
And hey, everyday's another roll of the dice
So what
That's life
A waking eye
The forever sky
Where the radio dial finds its tune
And maybe in time
In your future mind
You'll hear them whistling true
That all the sweet things
The glitter and the shimmering
They're only passing through
But those dawn birds will be singing
For everything just beginning
And a day about to open up for you
And if you let it be
Leave the forest for the trees
You'll find that melody too
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Solomon says, "Run. Don't run."
Solomon says, "Boy, it's all been done."
Dealing out the time
Watching faces multiply
Nothing ever changes
Running circles every time until you die
Oh, but you're a strange bird
Like nothing I've heard or seen
And Solomon never knew anything
'Cause there's something new
Beneath the sun when I'm with you
Everything changes
Rearranges everything I thought was true
And I'm a space man
Crashing through the trees
And the death rays curve and ricochet off me
And there's something new
Beneath the sun when I'm with you
When I caught your eye
You know I found the bluest sky I ever knew
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5. |
Flyover
05:01
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Tiny towns and ribbon roads
Divide and conquer Ohio far below
And there's music piping through your teeth
Rising from your mind to meet the engine drone
With names they stole from Indians
Rivers wrap the stadiums with a crooked knee
And if they steal them back again
Nameless water still will bend into the sea
Landing on a strip of grass with your Dad
But it's flyover, they say
This autumn emptiness will break your back
But it's nothing you can't shake
Like the frozen fist that laid you flat
Ohio, make me stay
Fields are lined and ordered well
Like the smooth and perfect shell of a perfect brain
But in your brain the holdout folds
Cling to simple thoughts untold that still remain
Landing on a strip of grass with your Dad
But it's flyover, they say
This autumn emptiness will break your back
But it's nothing you can't shake
Like the frozen fist that laid you flat
Ohio, make me stay
We all go back to where we learn to fly
This autumn emptiness will pass you by
And I'm just glad I saw you from the sky
Ohio and goodbye
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6. |
Flyby
03:24
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Sci-fy flyby
Don't trust your eyes
It's just California skies
Twisting your mind
And taking you for a ride again
Past the little surfer girls and the skateboard kids
Waves are breaking in Pacific wind
California's blowing smoke and you breathe it in
California's blowing smoke and you breathe it in
Just state your name and name your state of mind
If you stare at the lights up there
I've got theories I could bring to bear
And who cares if the folks upstairs
Lift you up into the ocean air
Taking you for a ride again
Past the little surfer girls and the skateboard kids
Waves are breaking in Pacific wind
California's blowing smoke and you breathe it in
California's blowing smoke and you breathe it in
Just state your name and name your state of mind
Yeah, I know what I saw
Yeah, I know what I saw
Yeah, I know what I saw
Yeah, i know what I saw
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7. |
Antics
04:09
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I saw you stack stones
Beneath the trees
An antidote for everything
As the days roll up
There's a poison that fills our cup
And we stop looking to the starry ink
Walking in the fields where the spirits ring
We don't hear voices from the past
Roll across our feet in October grass
Singing of the stones
Sun sets on some hallowed ground
Go back in time and spiral down
To circles of stone on the English plains
And trace the wall on China's face
Still we forget what we know
And pretend that we're flesh and bone
And not running around
In somebody's dream
Abandoned now
Stacked against the fears we’re facing
Our secrets lost in rock formations
To tie the bitter myth together
We’ll live forever for however Long
We stack stones
There's a river running fast
Michigan stones rising on its back
It's like the heart always on your sleeve
Strong and helpless, flowing free
Cause all they’ll ever know
Of our antics and titanic hopes
Are the stones that we stack
And the bones that we give back
When we’ve flown
To the sun
We stack stones
We stack stones ...
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8. |
Dinosaurs in the Dark
02:32
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No one had to throw themselves
At monsters in the middle of the night
Nobody but me
A pair of yellow eyes
That look you over once or twice
A paradise nobody sees
But all the world can go fuck off
When i can see the Southern Cross
Reflecting off the hood
Get up, go to work, repeat
Go get old, now go to sleep
But I just never could
Been driving round for days
And I think Terri's getting tired of this
But she'd never let it show
And there's a million ways to die out here alone
But back before the first stars ever shone
When God was on some distant shore
Playing with his dinosaurs and thinking
In the dark
Somewhere in his thoughts and dreams
He traced the shape of me and filled the chambers of my heart
With dinosaurs in the dark
No one had to throw themselves
At monsters in the middle of the night
Nobody but me
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9. |
Easy
04:26
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Here we are 15 years on
I hear your name still echo along
Ohio fields, we grew up with the corn
Until our cells went haywire and wrong
We took our happenstance in stride
You always found the funny side
And jokes we told in hospital gowns
They tore our bodies up every way they knew how
I was a stone
Skipped true and made it through
Clear across the sea so cruel
Where you stayed
And it was all
Just a shadow i recall
Lost a summer and a fall
Got off easy anyway
I got the news, it came down hard
The world came through my eyes so dark
I went speeding down the California coast
High as hell and thinking like a ghost
Holding close the words you said
"This wasn't supposed to happen yet"
Till sirens pulled me over screaming red
I think i got off easy, I forget
I was a stone
Skipped true and made it through
Clear across the sea so cruel
Where you stayed
And it was all
Just a shadow i recall
Lost a summer and a fall
Got off easy anyway
So here we are, you and I
See your life laid out next to mine
And all the things I'll get to do in time
And time goes by, but it never does sit right
The mystery still burning in my mind
Now you're a stone
Skipping true and beautiful
Clear across a sea of memories
You made
And I guess
I hear your name a little less
It takes a while to forget
It's getting easier everyday
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10. |
Saltwater Again
05:30
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Day is over
I've no regrets
I'm sinking lower
My ocean bed
I'm fading with the rays and the waves
Crashing overhead
And all the thinking
That ate my mind
I'm barely blinking
Beneath the tide
Faces and the names wash away
The current swinging wide
Voices from the sea
Calling out to me
Telling me to be what I am
Saltwater again
In early oceans
Our bodies formed
Mud and motion
And a holy word
Rise and shine
Exploding from the rolling surf
But our line is broken
Our branches bent
From where we started
To where we stand
We burned right through the sun
Our race is run
We've done all that we can
So come back to the sea
Come back to the sea
Come back to the sea
Where we began
Saltwater again
It's coming for my eyes
These heavy-lidded nights
Saltwater's gonna rise
So i keep my body still
And hold my breath until ...
Telling me to be
Telling me to be
Telling me to be
What i am
Saltwater again
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