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| 1. |
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So now I am older,
Than my mother and father, When they had their daughter, Now what does that say about me. Oh how could I dream of, Such a selfless and true love, Could I wash my hands of Just lookin out for me Oh man what I used to be Oh man oh my oh me Oh man what I used to be Oh man oh my oh me In dirth or in excess Both the slave and the empress, Will return to the dirt I guess, Naked as when they came. I wonder if I'll see, Any faces above me, Or just cracks in the ceiling, Nobody else to blame. Oh man what I used to be, Oh man oh my oh me Oh man what I used to be, Oh man oh my oh me Gold teeth and gold jewelry Every piece of your dowry Throw them into the tomb with me Bury them with my name. Unless I have someday, Ran my wandering In my underway Oh man what I used to be Montezuma to tripoli Oh man oh my oh me |
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| 2. |
| 4:30 |
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If to borrow is to take
and not return I have borrowed all my lonesome life And I can't no I can't get through The borrower's debt is the only regret of my youth And believe me it's not easy when I look back Everything I took got soon returned Just to be hiding it's free again All of the sirens are driving me over the stern Just to be hiding it's free again All of the sirens are driving me over the stern One day hidin' is free One day that's my thing In the street one day I saw you among the crowd In a geometric pattern dressed Gleaming white just as I recall Old as I get I will never forget it at all Gleaming white just as I recall Old as I get I will never forget it at all One day hidin' is free One day that's my thing |
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| 3. |
| 3:14 |
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He was so kind such a gentleman
tied to the Oceanside Lightin a match on the suitcases latch in the fadin of night Ruffled the fur of the collie neath the table Ran out the door through the dark Carved out his initials in the bar When the earth shook that was all that it took for the train to bring All the loose ends would surround me again in the shape of your face What makes me love you despite the reservations What do I see in your eyes besides my reflection hang in time Are you off somewhere reciting incantations Sim sala bim on your tongue Carving off the hair of someone's young Remember when you had makeup your hair Call me Delilah then I wouldn't care |
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| 4. |
| 2:49 |
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I woke up one morning,
All my fingers rotting. I woke up a dying man, Without a chance. I came to your window, Threw a stone and waited. At the door, a stranger stood. The stranger's voice said nothing good I turned to walk the frozen ground, Alone, all the way home Wide-eyed walker Do not wander Do not wander Through the dawn Both my eyes are fading, No light in the evening. Planted like a seed in sand, Or drowned in rain. Watch you for an hour He kept you beneath him. He kept you on lock and key He paid the wage you sent to me And wastes the day so idlly Alone, all the way home. Wide-eyed walker Do not wander Do not wander Through the dawn Wide-eyed walker Do not wander Do not wander Through the dawn |
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| 5. |
| 5:54 |
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Just as the sand made
everything round Just as the tar seeps up from the ground Bitter dancer, ever turning So was the day that you came to town You took a room and you settled in Washed off the chalk from your weathered skin Daylight sleeper Bloody reaper You took a room and you settled in I should have known one day you would come All of us walk so blind in the sun Midnight feeder, beggar pleader I should had known one day you would come Tell me again my only son Tell me again what have you done At arm's lengths I will hold you there There At arm's length I will hold you there There |
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| 5:04 |
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I was raised up believing
I was somehow unique Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see And now after some thinking, I'd say I'd rather be A functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me But I don't, I don't know what that will be I'll get back to you someday soon you will see What's my name, what's my station, oh, just tell me what I should do I don't need to be kind to the armies of night that would do such injustice to you Or bow down and be grateful and say sure, take all that you see To the men who move only in dimly-lit halls and determine my future for me And I don't, I don't know who to believe I'll get back to you someday soon you will see If I know only one thing, it's that everything that I see Of the world outside is so inconceivable often I barely can speak Yeah I'm tongue-tied and dizzy and I can't keep it to myself What good is it to sing helplessness blues, why should I wait for anyone else And I know, I know you will keep me on the shelf I'll come back to you someday soon myself If I had an orchard, I'd work till I'm raw If I had an orchard, I'd work till I'm sore And you would wait tables and soon run the store Gold hair in the sunlight, my light in the dawn If I had an orchard, I'd work till I'm sore If I had an orchard, I'd work till I'm sore Someday I'll be like the man on the screen |
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| 2:08 | 
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| 8. |
| 4:25 |
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So, guess I got old
I was like trash on the sidewalk I guess I knew why Often it's hard to just sweet talk I was old news to you then Old news, old news to you then You, you were like glue Holding each of us together I slept through July While you made lines in the heather I was old news to you then Old news, old news to you then Fell for the ruse with you then Old news, old news to you then And I still see you when I try to sleep I see the garden, the tower, the street Call out to nobody, call out to me Chip on the shoulder, the diamond, the teeth Now I can see how We were like dust on the window Not much, not a lot Everything stolen or borrowed I was old news to you then Old news, old news to you then |
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| 9. |
| 2:30 |
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After all is said and done
I feel the same All that I hoped would change within me stayed Like a huddled moonlit exile, on the shore Warming his hands a thousand years ago I walk with others in me, yearning to get out Claw at my skin and gnash their teeth and shout One of them wants only to be someone you'd admire One would as soon just throw you on the fire After all is said and after all is done God only knows which of them I'll become |
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| 10. |
| 8:07 |
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I went down among
the dust and pollen to the old stone fountain in the morning after dawn underneath were all these pennies fallen from the hands of children they were there and then were gone and i wonder what became of them what became of them sunlight over me no matter what i do apples in the Summer all cold and sweet everyday a'passin complete I'm not one to ever pray for mercy or to wish on pennies in the fountain or the shrine but that day you know i left my money and i thought of you only all that copper glowing fine and i wonder what became of you what became of you Sunlight over me no matter what i do apples in the summer all cold and sweet everyday a passing complete apples in the summer all cold and sweet everyday a passing complete In the morning waking up to terrible sunlight All diffuse like skin abuse the sun is half its size When you talk you hardly even look in my eyes in the morning, in the morning In the doorway holding every letter that I wrote in the driveway pulling away putting on your coat in the ocean washing off my name from your throat in the morning, in the morning in the ocean washing off my name from your throat in the morning, in the morning Green apples hang from my tree they belong only to me Green apples hang from my green apple tree they belong only to, only to me and if i just stay awhile here staring at the sea and the waves break ever closer, ever near to me i will lay down in the sand and let the ocean lead carry me to Innisfree like pollen on the breeze |
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| 11. |
| 3:05 |
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Why in the night
sky are the lights on Why is the earth moving round the sun Floating in the vacuum with no purpose, not a one Why in the night sky are the lights on Why is life made only for to end Why do are do all this way in then Why this frightened part of me that's fated to pretend Why is life made only for to end In the city only for a while Here to face the fortune and the bile I heard you on the radio, I couldn't help but smile In the city only for a while Why in the night sky are the lights on Why is the earth moving round the sun Floating in the vacuum with no purpose, not a one Why in the night sky are the lights on |
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| 12. |
| 4:36 |
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In that dream I'm as old
as the mountains Still is starlight reflected in fountains Children grown on the edge of the ocean Kept like jewelry, kept with devotion In that dream moving slow through the morning You would come to me then without answers Lick my wounds and remove my demands for now Eucalyptus and orange trees are blooming In that dream there's no darkness alluded In that dream moving slow through the morning time In that dream I could hardly contain it All my life I will wait to attain it There, there, there I know someday the smoke will all burn off All these voices I'll someday have turned off I will see you someday when I've woken I'll be so happy just to have spoken I'll have so much to tell you about it In that dream I could hardly contain it All my life I will wait to attain it There, there, there Wide eyed walker, don't betray me I will wake one day, don't delay me Wide eyed leaver, always going |
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