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from Live - Mental Jewelry (1991)
Heard a lot of talk about the ocean
Heard a lot of talk about the sea Heard a lot of talk about a lot of things Never meant that much to me Heard a lot of talk about my spirit Heard a lot of talk about my soul But I decided that anxiety and pain Were better friends So I let it go Did you let it go? Let's get it back Let's get it back together Heard a lot of talk about this Jesus A man of love, and a man of strength But what a man was two thousand years ago means nothing at all to me today He could have been telling me about my higher self But he only lives inside my prayer So what he was may have been beautiful But the pain is right now And right here Let it go! Let it go! Let it go, my friend And let's get it back Let's get it back together |
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from Live - Mental Jewelry (1991)
You say "Hold on to the reigns"
I say "Let them go tonight" My brain waves Confused between what is and ain't She cries "Groundless and free" Tired of the water Tired of the wine Tired of the future Tired of time Tired of the madness Tired of the steel Tired of the violence Tired of me Used steel Used steel am I What was pliable in love Is now hard and crystallized The intellect is fine For counting money And recalling times That she cried, "Groundless and free" Hope is a letter that never arrives Delivered by the postman of my fear |
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from Live - Mental Jewelry (1991)
The world is burning down
Can't you smell the smoke in the air? War, disease, and famine This demon, she is everywhere Poets and preachers and politicians They've all had their say And we got 10,000 years Devoted to nothing But tomorrow and yesterday If all of the ignorance in the world Passes a second ago What would you say? Who would you obey? I am here to say that Peace is now Mr. President I hereby pardon you of all your crimes For they are just as much mine Selfishness and separation have led me To believe that the world is not my problem The world is not my problem I am the world And you are the world If all of the ignorance in the world Passes a second ago What would you say? Who would you obey? I am here to say that Peace is now |
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from Live - Throwing Copper (1994)
when all that's left to do is
reflect on what's been done this is where sadness breaths the sadness of everyone just like when the guys built the dam at otter creek and all the water backed up deep enough to dive we took the dead man in sheets to the river flanked by love deep enough to dive deep enough to dive be here now we took him there and three in a stretcher made from trees that had passed in the storm leave the hearse behind to leave the curse be here now |
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from Live - Throwing Copper (1994)
all the things that they make you say
and all of the love that you hide away I'll pick you up and it will be all right I'll pick you up and it will be tonight she rode a horse into my head she won't discipline the children and now they're running wild on the beach and I don't care oh, I don't care no I don't care hey, hey, hey it's the middle of the night and you're here playing dominoes and drinking beer I tried to think of something deep to say but my well is dripping dry today, hey hey, hey, hey |
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from Live - The Distance To Here (1999)
you got it bad
you got it good you saw the sun like you knew that you would we gotta make this better gotta make this right ain't no peace in the valley baby 'til the darkness turns to light can you hear that children's song? can you take me to that place? high above the lamentation up on the desert plane do you hear that children's song? can you take me there? lost in the maya overboard in the sea there was void and then that water broke then something called "me" now a trip to the desert to look at the sky it's like never-ending mirrors playing tricks on my eyes can you hear that children's song? can you take me to that place? high above the lamentation up on the desert plane do you hear that children's song? can you take me there? the face and ghost my guide i must move on it's the face of one ravaged by love it's both dead and alive you got it bad lover no you got it good you saw the sun like you knew that you would in spite of my confusion up above all my pain I gotta death-grip on this vision here we go again the face and ghost my guide i must move on it's the face of one ravaged by love it's both dead and alive sha la la la la la la sha la la la la la la sha la la la la la la can you hear them singin'? can you hear them singin'? can you hear that children's song? can you take me to that place? do you hear that pilgrim's song? can you take me there? |
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