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Into the ether
01:02
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finite thing
your skin has been
every thing
when they lay down their cotton heads
white bobbing atop a serene lake
finite thing
they pulled your skin
from the largest oceans
and from the baby blue whales
hip-bone
from everything that gleams and glimmers
under an iris moon
in the damp summer night
as fingers
pull in
through the open window
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now that we know what you can do
c'mon, let us prove, put that lilting tongue to use
dancing with evil he climbed on the roof
could not talk him down, stood so transfixed, i heard him cry:
"like warm golden honey
it kisses so softly
it glistens with eyes and it tells me it loves me
so i let it into my body"
when jim came to he felt broken glass all in his hair
sleeping women outstretched in their underwear
dawns new hazy light flooded the room with glitter
as he threw up in his hands
take what you can
strike strike strike strikeeeee strike me again, prove you're a man
those wild wolves burn so white under the headlights
well i've seen their furr stretched thin on the back of yours, king,
so i say "hey- don't bite me dog, i'm tryna help you"
like warm melted honey
it kisses so softly
it glistens with eyes and it promised me MONEY!!!
so i let it into my body
i don't know what has happened to me
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feather bed
00:52
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Counting sheep
06:06
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ceiling monkey
i see you writhing
i know where you go when you close your eyes
i know what you see when you close your mind
i know where you go when you close your eyes
crying "what am i"
1 and 2
3 and 4
1 and 2
3 and 4
rest your head and breathe
and at times i can still feel the warm blood
laying belly up in the gutter as it filled up my mouth
do you remember
how the pain unfurled its wings
and in dreams, in dreams
as my lives weave in and out of form
you are sewn, you are strung
1 and 2
3 and 4
1 and 2
3 and 4
what you were to me is as far away as the ghost of a memory
half awake, your hands appear then fall away as
sleeps sea swallows me
as my world begins to slow and freeze
i am counting sheep
i am counting sheep
as the sun lowers into the valley
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5. |
I wanna be the sky
04:42
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Your lipstick is pretty
it got all on my teeth
would you do it for me
I find it hard to speak
I'll show you a new trick (the boys don't go crazy
the first part is easy (they break glass, take on me
the apple comes up quick (they burnt down the treehouse)
I wanna be pretty
Next door the tv's flashing on and off
your daddy tells me there's no such thing as lord
he drinks his beer and brings me candy
when he's angry
I'm counting the cracks in the floorboards,
I do what I'm told
When we are older
we can get out of here
promise you'll find me,
I wanna be the sky
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i believe i beleieve i believe i believe
you angels
i feel you
breathing in my skin
winged apparition
now set free and fly
down here time sinks like a stone
down here feathers wilt and burn
but tonight
i believe i believe i believe
the truth
tiger behind the glass
her eyes do follow me around
tiger behind the glass
longing for land and lighting
this world is just a memory
this world is a mirage you will see
whatever you want to see
the dragon will not let me be
it spits and roars, it bears its claws
it glides above jubilee wharf
i lay beneath the bodhi tree
and pray its branches grow through me
intertwined within
what has always been
this is all that stands, turning life to sand
needing so much water
one beating heart
one beating heart
one beating heart
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little thing
i won't let you clip his wings
with your sheath but i won't teach him how to fly
iridescent coloured light
little thing i know he scares you
"i want his memory scrubbed from
the bottom of my brain"
no one feels any pain
melody please carry me
from my chained feet up to the top of the big blue sky
!!save us!!
little thing you can place her heart in
every ring of hell and it won't fry
flutter little butterfly
chanter, chanter
please go away
(don't take my soul-
i need my soul)
...............
meat covers the bone
and all the incests scatter to their homes
as the dark groans
"all is well
i found you"
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budding flower
every year you die
only to come alive
in sunlight
her breath in my
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what's on tv?
04:02
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a cage is a cell
paws pacing up and around that hell
the bear turns to hear
the bars rattle
past the window
there's my mountain love
there's my mountain love
scraping the bark off the trees
the human people ran
'cause they didn't understand
ash is raining from the sky
let them fry
as the smoke curls the wind picks up speed
don't know where to go
animals inside clothes
spiral of the storm it rings, brings
beauty to everything
beauty in everything
what was andy looks down from the sun
just to see the gun
shoot through his broken lung
again and again
pushing and fighting and kicking and shoving
these big politicians who think they are something
all animals inside clothes, animals making noise, making noise
if i'm a liar and if i'm a cheater and if i'm a con, well nice to meetcha
no one owns anything- hey man can you hear
that twister laughing?
( OHOHOHOHOHOHO)
man down, call for a new round
now the cats pouncing onto some new ground
finally her spirit is free and its angry, hungry
can't run from what you can't beat
can't cheat your destiny
you all stand for something, i stand to see
this big ol fuckin monkey toying with me
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11. |
the Dragon
01:02
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in this body i'm clean
wash away the bad dream
silver stars are saying
do you remember me?
baby lamb, look above (lay me down, let me go)
kiss my hands, wake me up (let me go, let me go)
sandman he is rowing
down the rivers flowing
from his sack he's throwing-
don't know where i'm going
baby lamb, look above (you were born and you lust)
kiss my hands, wake me up (i don't want to be touched)
his white dress
the music
boy-angel (i love you)
more than this (don't do this)
i'm going ( i wait for surrender)
remember the way (come home)
the curtains are parting
the wheel is turning
the dancers are spinning
the baby is coming
the cancer is spreading
the children are laughing
(i don't know, i don't know, i don't know- its cold)
in all of my life, never have i been alone
wash away the bad dream
sleepyhead have some tea
wash away the bad dream
sleepyhead sing to me
close your eyes, close your eyes
from your grave grows new life
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