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Dance of the Horselady
03:43
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2. |
Afterbirth
06:17
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There's some nights I hardly sleep
I feel the light go out from me
I hate to watch it slip right through my fingers
But what's the use of holding back
Something I obviously lack
If it can't hold onto me
Long after the sun has dried the earth
We are still wet with afterbirth
Our pride it breaks under the work
We are not paid to have self-worth
Sorry to spill all these words
Upon your pretty little dress
You swear your mind would never utter such
Oh come on, don't make me laugh
Everyone I know is cut in half
Yes there's two in each and every one
There's a good and there's a bad
A dirty thought I know you've had
Ma'am, there is an ugly side to life
Slice down the belly, pick for meat
There's enough for the world to eat
This carcass covers life like a warm blanket
You poke your holes, you let in light
But my skin's just too thick tonight
And I hate to lie
Long after the sun has dried the earth
We are still wet with afterbirth
Our pride it breaks under the work
We are not paid to have self-worth
Keep the light on me and everyone so we'll agree
That you never meant to hurt anyone
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3. |
Tell-a-Vision
02:49
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They've got us wired to their living machines
It keeps us from making a scene
You're all glass eyed and unhealthy like me
And I feel like I'm gonna scream
Just a brain colored mess in my head
In my head
A brain colored mess in my head
Like a dark mildewed nest
Where the eggs are all dead
A brain colored mess in my head
Cables all underground where I step
And satellites fill up the sky
So many antennas all broken and bent
Turn around and get poked in the eye
Just a brain...
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4. |
Turtlebones
02:34
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I can see it all from the hilltop
The fire goddess wreaking all her havoc on the town
Slowly working her way up to my land
The fire and smoke inhabit all the places I have been
Run on down to the edge of the river
Swim so far I start to lose my strength and my control
The fish are always there when you need them
I grab a hold, they take me to their burrow in the sand
I gather up the sticks and stones
Along with all the turtle bones and I use them
I look across and see a face
Then rocks and gravel take it's place
And I lose it all before the fire hits the ground
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5. |
Wallow in the Mud
04:32
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As I draw this breath in vain
And pour the filth from out of my brain
You soak it up like little sponges
Eager for the coming rain
And you know not that it's there
You're completely unaware
You hoped for something more
Like a piece to your mildewed and forgotten puzzle
So let's just wallow in the mud
We all wallow in the mud
Come on you little pigs
Let's wallow in the mud
When the rain falls from the sky
I wipe the scum from off my eyes
And I crawl out into the open
Among foreign speaking mice
And I ask them why I'm here
But they know no more than the deer
Who run away each time
Like they are any better
A tisket a tasket
We're locked inside this paper casket
We'd cut out if we had knives
Something to redeem these boring lives
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We squeeze a book into the point of a pen
And all life's labors in our hands
A billion words into my mouth
Eternity inside a doubt
And a God into our heads
Everybody's doing without
These are the things that I think about
Have a problem work it out
These are the things that I think about
When everyone else screams and shouts
You sit on back and figure it out now
Oh can you tell me how to squeeze
The book into the point of a pen
A billion words into my mouth
Eternity inside a doubt
And a God into our heads
The space in which I call my mind
That passes through this piece of time
Is circling and circling for a sign
But the only thing that I can find
Is the fact that we are the sign
And that sign's just to big to fit in my mind
So let's try our mind
Yeah I am still talking about
Things you've already figured out
But I take my time I sort it out
These are the things that I think about
When everyone is freaking out
You sit on back and figure it out now
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This is a lullaby for those who are in Hell
I'll pray for you until the day I die
This is a song I wrote, not written very well
A long finger sticking down our prideful throats
You hear the screams, you plug your ears
They fill your lungs, your boiling tears
Your body quaking with the sound
If I could offer you relief
By trading all my beliefs
I'd gladly suffer when I speak
This is a lullaby for those who are in Hell
I'll pray for you until the day I die
This is a song I wrote, not written very well
A bullet to blow out our Christian minds
Let's take a dip, what do we see?
Three fourths of our family tree
Was thrown into the angry void
Now open up and swallow this
They'd kill themselves for your holy piss
They'd tear their skin for just one drop
One drop to cool their tongue
This is a lullaby for those who are in Hell
I'll pray for you until the day I die
This is a song I wrote, not written very well
A knife for gouging out our sinful eyes
Oh my God I beg of thee, please let Hell just be forgery
Please let it just be man's worst lie
Don't turn the key, don't lock the door
Don't turn our mothers into whores
I swear that they have died enough
This is a lullaby for those who are in Hell
I'll pray for you until the day I die
This is a song I wrote, not written very well
To show the crushing burdens of belief
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9. |
Eternal Youth
05:04
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Put your clothes on
It's time to wake up before the morning comes
And I can't recall the last time we did this
And woke up with the dawn
Every day we're getting closer to the end
So see the sun and smear your makeup
And believe in our eternal youth
I'll take you there tonight
I want you to keep holding on to life
Eternal youth, I know it's just a lie
But honey we just don't have time to die
Because when they come for me, they come for me
I'll have this in my mind
When they come for me, they come for me
I'll be so alive
When they come for me, they come for me
I'll stare them in the eye
Oh when they come for me, they come for me
I want you by my side
Let's lose these clothes
Swim in the moonlight and wash away the death
Because it clings too tight around my neck sometimes
And I often forget that no one knows
The truth like we do, what's written on our hearts
So if we leave before the morning comes
We'll find our place in eternal youth
You took me there tonight
You want me to keep holding onto life
Eternal youth, I know it's just a lie
But my friends it is the very best kind
Eternal youth, I know it's worth a try
To break this mold and try and live a life
Because when they come for me, they come for me
I'll have this in my mind
When they come for me, they come for me
I'll be so alive
When they come for me, they come for me
I'll stare them in the eye
Oh when they come for me, they come for me
I want you all by my side
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10. |
Oh Darlin
04:46
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Oh darlin, darlin please
Please help my mind
Inside's an awful brew
I mistakened for wine
When hard times last this long
Any question's fine
Toss that rock right through
The stained glass window of my mind
Oh darlin, please darlin
I'd better wait for you
I've seen a lot of things
But I have never seen the truth
I felt God in the woods
And I felt him in the lake
I thought I felt in church
But that could've been my mistake
Love's a pretty payment
Love's a pretty one
Love's a pretty payment
Some food for thinning ones
Pass around and come on down
Let's see what work needs done
Oh lordy can you help
I think I'm blind
I know I've been no good
It's no one's problem but mine
They go to church on sunday
I think that's fine
Me I'd rather start my own
Of mystery and rhyme
Oh darlin, please darlin
I'd better wait for you
I've seen some awful things
I think they qualify for truth
The blind faith of our forefathers
Just ain't good enough for me
If knowledge is like fruit
I pluck my pears right from the tree
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11. |
Like a Tree
04:31
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Out of the sky you made your way to me
As you descend upon the water
And I've been waiting for hours
Just to see what's really out there
Because you're like a tree out on the cliff
And I would climb out on you if
My weight just wasn't far too much for you to bear
So I'll send my words out on the breeze
To flow between those withered leaves
That cling to you despite the fact that winter came and left
But words are just a compromise
Of everything I want to find
And sacred things I'm trying to keep close to me
So I'll tell you that you're beautiful
But ears can only hear a stagnant portion
Of what my body offers you
Praise be the lord is really just the same
As the warm air on my neck when you're breathing out my name
Suffer once with sin, suffer twice without
But I can't seem to get that far without my doubt
I was like a bird out on the sea
An awful breeze kept pulling me
Back out to the middle where I was before
And then you came to rescue me
You bore my weight on weathered wings
And took me to the place where all life began
You're beauty cut me like a knife
That drains my body of it's life
My blood becomes a river
Rushing eager for the sea
And there your blood will mix with mine
And we'll discover all in time
The mysteries of God and Love
And lose our grip on death
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12. |
J'nana
07:20
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Feel God open up my head
Feel the light pour in on everything that's dead
Feel the cool air blow right through
Feel the wind dry up and blow away mildew
And I don't need help from anyone
When we're all blinded by the same sun
I don't need help from anyone but me
Because we don't need to die
To wipe our dirty eyes
There is a river in my mind
And I dammed it up for a long time
I dammed it up so I could see
The stagnant lake of ideology
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13. |
Progress of a Man
15:40
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I took a walk upon the morn
Before the sun was high
I traced the paths that I once knew
The ones among the pines
A vulture's song accompanied
As trails began to fork
And so I took the narrow path
the dark and crooked sort
Can you feel the sinking of our boat
Lose our dead weight so we can stay afloat
I climbed a hill before I quit
And there a wooden cross did sit
It hid among the dry dead grass
And on it my name was writ'
I shudder at the memory
Of a day so black and cold
The day I saw a strong boy die
His life I was to hold
But for freedom he was sold
Can you feel the sinking of our boat
Lose our dead weight so we can stay afloat
He drove his stake into the ground
And claimed to own my land
So with sinister eyes I struck a deal
As we shook bloody hands
Tread lightly now as I walk the ground
The ground where he now lays
That was the day that I would trade
A foothold for a face
So hear my words and write them down
You may not hear them again
Discontent is the first step
In the progress of a man
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