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(Untitled)
03:24
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A white star crash landed on a black hilltop
So we tried to map a safe path
Tried intentionally losing our way back
We thought we caught it flickering off to our left side
So we surrender to the distance
Past a thousand hungry vines we would never pass again
But with the dawn we see
That there’s a canyon inbetween
One frayed bridge for the crossing
Half buried in dried leaves
But those clouds were so divine!
Drifting taking on the shapes of both of our eyes
Casting gray and stormy glances toward the far lands we would never find
Raining black and icy tears down on airplane windows in the sky
But with the dusk we see
That there’s a canyon inbetween
One frayed bridge for the crossing
Half buried in dried leaves
It’s still too far to walk there from here
We won’t make it before it disappears
But it’s not as far as those long dead stars
No it’s not as far as those long dead stars
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Pattern
06:03
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The pattern is clear
Emerging from a blurry swamp of circles and squares
Direction is gained
From brightly lit-up arrows pointing every which way
I’m packing up five photos and a jar of marmalade
And I’m walking away
The pattern is clear
You’ve seen it one thousand times deep in the mirror
In the heart of the night
When your arms are far too tired to put up half a fight
But in the morning you can go outside
You can go outside
Can you say is this the way to reach the sand
Can anyone tell how to sail to dry land
Can you say is this the way to reach the sand
Can anyone tell how to sail to dry land
The pattern grows dim
Falling out of view twisting end over end
Spinning down through the sky
Then filling in an answer that’s not wrong but not right
You’re finding it even harder still to decide
So just go back inside
Can you say is this the way to reach the sand
Can anyone tell how to sail to dry land
Can you say is this the way to reach the sand
Can anyone tell how to sail to dry land
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The Hungry Sea
10:23
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The sea has swallowed her whole
The sea has swallowed her whole
Swallowed her eyes and her mouth and her nose
Then swallowed her body her mind and her soul
The sea offers me no release
It says again, “I have swallowed her whole
Down past the bubbles, black boulders and brine
She is now no longer yours she is mine”
I blame the sun, I blame the sun
I blame the moon and I blame everyone
She is now gone, she is now gone, she is now gone
The clifftops stare down through unblinking grey eyes
While she makes her bed where the waves meet the sky
Untie the ropes and push off and set sail
I shall not return til I find her or fail
I blame the sun, I blame the sun
We were once two but now we are one
Cause she is now gone, she is now gone, she is now gone
Ten years have passed and I watch the waves still
The seagulls fly by me, once cautious now bold
I ask should they find her, please send her my words
That the sea of my tears now swallows me whole
And I blame the sun, I blame the sun
But I must return home I’ve traveled so long
And she is still gone, she is still gone, she is still gone
I blame the sun, I blame the sun
For how dare it still rise to shine through the fog
When she is still gone, when she is still gone, when she is still…
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The Sorryest Sunrise
04:50
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A dazzling daisy rose up from the street
But he called her the ugliest plant you could meet
“Your stalk is all twisted, your colors too few
I can’t see why anyone would ever pick you”
And she cried
“Against all the odds fought for water and sun
Just for the one day that I’d see someone
Look down on my petals, find brightness that day
I just can’t see how he could have such a say”
Well, he lied
It had nothing at all to do
With botany or truth
It wasn’t that he thought
Photosynthesis was flawed
It was just because his own colors had all rained off
A glorious sunrise came over the fence
“You’re the sorryest daybreak I ever did glimpse
Raced up far too quickly, got lost in the fog
You might as well not bother shining at all”
So it rained
“I’ve traveled for lightyears in circles, blank space
Just to give life to this dirty old rock
And only for that life to laugh in my face
I think that tomorrow I won’t rise at all
Just stay set”
It had nothing at all to do
With astronomy or truth
It wasn’t like he’d shown
That comets were crashing on homes
He’d just forgotten how to rise and give light of his own
A day without flowers, a week without sun
He looked out for something to shoulder the blame
But found only dimness, blank patches of ground
And all over town was the same and the same and the same
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Winter 2
06:12
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Well, the winter grew weak and fell ill
She tried sleeping on sunshine
And soaking her cold battered will
But the snow bled away
So we chased it down Broadway
Til neon lights gave way to daybreak
Then we celebrate
For all the long hours ago
When we thought we learned all we could know
So we bottled up whiskey and light
And we tried to live safely outside
Til we stopped keeping track and bid summers goodbye
And all that we want’s a new pill
Whether legal or lawless
The only difference comes in the bill
And the shape of the dose
So give us red ones or blue ones
As long as they color our souls
And give us ten miles more
For all the long drives yet to go
Where we thought we’d learn all we could know
So we bottled up whiskey and light
And we tried to live safely outside
But when the last blizzard went dry, we knew –
Wasn’t much moisture to hold
So we bid bye to springtime and stopped growing cold
They don’t lock the doors when they go
Cause the world is at peace now
We no longer have any foes
But they’ll leave on the light
They will wink and they’ll wave
But they’re too tired to say goodnight
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Plumeria
12:44
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If you look close the stars all wobble in their paths
Every night they move forward but not very
Fast
So I think you could race them, even win if you tried
You just need to get a little bit closer to sky
So you called up remembrance, rang ghosts of the past
And you fed them the present, til you weren’t scared to
Ask
If you know how to get there, could you lift me to space?
I will feed you the future if you help bear its weight
So carry me, like a scent on your breeze
Out to sea, out to sea
Then up above, until the last star dissolves
And then just let them fall, just let them fall
With your eyes on the Milky Way, you fled full speed
Past a kingdom of flowers, plumeria dreams
But the symphonic winter still rose from the east
Plucking off every petal with ice and disease
Til you reached tidal daylight, and tsunami nights
As the tropical stormclouds rained lurid insights
But the warm windy winter could not slow your pace
So you waved bye to Neptune, seeking Pluto’s embrace
And carry me, like a scent on your breeze
Out to sea, out to sea
Then up above, until the last star dissolves
And then just let them fall, just let them fall
Carry me
Or just let me fall
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Desperate Ones
04:26
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They said he was a desperate man
They said he would take anything he can
They wondered why and wrung their hands
Furrowed their poor eyebrows on command
The said he had few avenues
Cause he could not win, but he could not stand to lose
They felt that she had little choice
She drank too much, she read too much James Joyce
He said he’d sail the seven seas
And that seven nights a week, he would sleep and sleep and sleep
She wanted to be entertained
To climb out from the dead weight of her brain
But they could not carry it all
They tipped left and then right, before they began to fall
The sky started to look unreal
So they lay down on the floor, and there you will find them still
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