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END OF SEPTEMBER
With the glaze on your eyes from the morning sun light
You’re awake to the tunes on the radio from last night
A long night alone on this road in our minds
Whether we’re born free, or bound by the light
When the domino tips, let’s leave these old tricks behind
What a long night alone on this road in our minds
Rewind, rewind
Your crushing beauty, tinsel hair, bright red-gold eyes and simple stare
Tell me your story, tell me more than you need, with simple care
I’ll lay you down, and make it peaceful with love and seconal
When you’ve left, we’ll keep holding on
When the domino tips, let’s leave these old tricks behind
What a long night alone on this road in our minds
Rewind, rewind,
When September ends and it’s cold out again
We’ll dance on the floors and call out for friendsSO LONG
So long
If we could walk on water or bleed of honey
the crushing sound of the walls coming down
if I lift you up will you still be around?
If we could walk on water or bleed of honey
you’re tongue tied and twisted with pride
the giving up goes away with time
So long
Reflections of yesterday
So long
Plastic island getaways
So long
If we could talk to our mothers, our fathers
our sisters, our brothers, our neighbors, all lovers
If we could walk on water or bleed of honey
and do away with time
Away with time
Trying every way to make this all better than before
Promise of a new day, these moneyless pockets can carry the weight
No more dragging feet on the sidewalks,blindly gazing into the sunlight before the black hole eclipses all the atmosphere,
All the atmosphere…
So longBEHOLD, THIS DREAMER!
One more moment while I wait in line
Are you my dancer, painted green and white?
Speak to me softly, see me through the night
Echoes, distance me from this tide
Behold this dreamer in our heart
How we breathe and complicate everything from the start
Disconnect our minds
Keep us wishing on the stars
Flipping coins in dried up fountains
Buried in the seabed
Take us with your tide
Wide awake I now see through your eyes
Beauty in conversation, open the door, bring in the light
We will get it right
We will get it right
Through the wires in our spine
Behold this dreamer in our heart
How we breathe, and complicate everything from the start
Disconnect our minds
Keep us wishing on the stars
Flipping coins in dried up fountains
Buried in the seabed
Take us with your tide
Through the wires in our spine
Through the wires in our spine
Become our vessel through the night
Through the wires in our spine
Behold this dreamer in our heart
How we breathe, and complicate everything from the start
Disconnect our mind
Keep us wishing on the stars
Flipping coins in dried up fountains
Buried in the seabed
Take us with your tide
Through the wires in your spine
Through the wires in your spine
Become our vessel through the night
Disconnect our mindMILE LONG MINUTES
So much of this past is dying
Ship’s leading away, into the antarctic line
Dimly lit lanterns on the starboard side
Navigating to hold onto the best times
Oh these are the best of times…
Night time constellation arch into the coastline,
The coastline
The murky water between what’s best and a blurry mind, a blurry mind
Oh Eta Carinae, remind
Navigating into the best of times
Well I just want to be here now
Wasting all the mile long minutes
Waiting for the perfect song to start the perfect night
Sunburnt and further away…
This arctic line, reminds me of the highway
And further away…
Airplanes along the skyway
Be your judgement or be mine
Whether rain or measured gold, or to sunshine
These days have no limit
Well I just want to be here now
Wasting all the mile long minutes
Waiting for the perfect song to start the perfect night
Mile long minutes
Mile long minutes
Mile long minutes
Well I just want to be here now
Wasting all the mile long minutes
Waiting for the perfect song to start the perfect night
Waiting for the perfect song to start the perfect lifeSLEEPWALKING INTO THE OCEAN
They said we’d walk with shadows and lead with our left foot
Hold the pain in our hands, just a whisper in our minds
We want off this road, we want ocean
We want soil, we want no guns
This is the first day in the rest of your life
We were told there’d be days like these sometime
Rivers to swim and mountains to climb
Down to the valleys
Lift the soil to look for a sign
In this atlas of our modern guilt
The illusion of time
Dreaming, sometimes swimming
Dreaming, sometimes swimming
Still dreaming holding onto the feeling
Trying not to give in
Sleepwalking into the ocean
Into the ocean
Into the oceanGENTLE HANDS
Don’t know what’s left, but I know what’s right
Can’t keep the riddle settled down tonight
Put your best suit on, holes in the shoes
Bright eyed and blood-shoot, no heat in the living room
Emblazoned with fortitude, cracking knuckles on the bench
Pick up the empty bottle, put the bed to rest
Singing praises, hail on the tin
Bleed it all out, bleed-it-all-out
No stranger to this sound, next minute coming in
Gentle hands we can feel,
We can feel
Unity gains with the caving in
We give it all up just to get in
Wake me up, wake me up
Ambient dreams, got me drinking all my hope
Singing praises, hail on the tin
Bleed it all out, bleed-it-all-out
No stranger to this sound, next minute coming in
Gentle hands we can feel,
We can feel
Bells and missiles with one knee on the ground
Arms reach out, arms reaching out
Bells and missiles with one knee on the ground
Arms reach out, arms reaching out
Small world wonders, “why the big city thunder?”
Which way to the road home is where to stumble
With arms reaching out
With arms reaching outBELOW THE AVENUES
The lights are busted and so the movie goes silent
One thousand birds, Egyptian and science
It’s this slow descent keeping me quiet
I never thought I’d be here in this silence
On Paris time while London wails
Sun drenched skies give me hail
Staying up seems to make me late
Wake me up from these neutral days
Golden age of time moves on…
Golden age of time moves on…
Below the avenues long live the shadows where we once danced
Gone are the vampires buried by miles in black sand
Then the stars fall like doves
This golden age of time moves on
The stars fall like doves
This golden age of time moves on
Touched with fire
Touched with fire
Fire
Below the avenues gone are the sultans from the badlands
Long live the history in the glass grains of these modern sands
This slow moving glacier carves the easy way inland
Time wave zero meets the Golden age as we slow down to move in
Move in
Touched with firePOISON
I’ve got poison in my head, poison in my head
poison in my head, poison in my head,
Poison in my head, poison in my head,
I’ve got poison in my head
I’ve got poison in my head, poison in my head
poison in my head, poison in my head,
Poison in my head, poison in my head,
I’ve got poison in my head
They’ll build the walls, we’ll take the gold
Then move the river for our bones
I’ll lift you up when we fall down into the bottom of this sound
But your always on my mind, always on my mind
Always on mind, always on my mind,
Always on my mind, always on my mind,
You’re always on my mind
But your always on my mind, always on my mind
Always on mind, always on my mind,
Always on my mind, always on my mind,
You’re always on my mind
They’ll build the walls, we’ll take the gold
Then move the river for our bones
I’ll lift you up when we fall down into the bottom of this sound
But your always on my mind, always on my mind
Always on mind, always on my mind,
Always on my mind, always on my mind,
You’re always on my mind
In the middle of the river I go blindBLOCK ISLAND BLUES
Dogs keep barking in my neighborhood
Make my way past the car alarms in my neighborhood
The subway’s drowned out by radio waves
TV’s been on for half the day
Static sounds, remember the rain?
The softest light cuts on the toughest of days
May you trade your shame for strength to change the things you want,
you want a change?
Is it all that bad if you can’t remember the rain?
Rain…
Block Island blues got you swinging low
Swinging low, swinging low
Block Island blues got you swinging low
Swinging low
While you wander around
Rain
Rain
Now change
Change…
ChangeLETTERS TO CATHERINE
Don’t wait for the summertime
Don’t wait to waste the wine
Heal our troubled minds
Our mother’s crying again
The breaking wheel spins around
Crown falls to her feet
The hailstones ringing loud
This letter to Catherine now sent
Bulldozers shake this ground
Piles of earth, broken, weighs this occupation
This death by politics
Judgement by jury erased
Believe in this call to grace
Where neighbors and martyrs are saved
If we could sing our hearts out
anytime and any place
But you never listen
Remind me again
If I could, I would
You’d still dismiss it
I see the noise in your eyes
You say “I know this is wrong”
With this we bid you goodnight
For you aren’t the only one
All these engagements we make
The breaking wheel, falling down in twilight
Breaking, stillVENUS
I wake myself up
There’s no end to this pouring rain
With my head the clouds, we won’t give it up in the end
Let’s be transparent and we’ll bleed into the unknown
I won’t dream alone, I won’t dream alone
In the new year
We’ll be forgiven, we’ll still be young
With our heads in the clouds
Planting bombs on the sun
When there’s nothing left and I see right through your bones
We’ll be transparent and we’ll bleed into the unknown
It’s not our simple minds polluted by what we’ve done
No broke down palace is where we’ll lay this love
It’s not our simple minds polluted by what we’ve done
No broke down palace is where we’ll lay this loveSWIMMING WITH MINNOWS
Who am I and what will I do next?
Can I spend time to watch? Can I spend time for less?
If I stay in my old haunt with these ghosts all around
Can I spend time to watch, can I spend time to drown?
With these ghosts all around, we’ve been sitting here for days
The silence is the loudest in my head since last May
Even if we don’t want to leave here today
With these ghosts all around, we’ve been starring at for days
With time, time, time ticking
If I stay in my old haunt with these ghosts all around
Can I spend time to watch, can I spend time to drown?
In the belly of New York City, losing hour by each hour
Chasing daytime into night, I follow darkness for a while
Time, time, time is ticking
Swimming with minnows, we learn to swim like the rest
Hold your breath, watch the clock, stay in line, fold your hands
Swimming with minnows, we learn to swim like the rest
Hold your breath, watch the clock, stay in line, fold your hands
With the time, time ticking
With time ticking
