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Change
Like the wind
Like the water
Like skin
Change
Like the sky
Like the leaves
Like a butterfly
Would you live forever, never die
While everything around passes?
Would you smile forever never cry
While everything you know passes?
Death
Like a door
To a place
We’ve never been before
Death
Like space
The deep sea
A suitcase
Would you stare forever at the sun
Never watch the moon rising?
Would you walk forever in the the light
To never learn the secret of the quiet night?
Still
Like a stone
Like a hill
Like home
Still
What I find
Is you are always
On my mind
Could I feel happy for you
When I hear you talk with her like we used to?
Could I set everything free
When I watch you holding her the way you once held me?
Change like the sky
Like the leaves
Like a butterfly
Death like a door
To a place we’ve never been before
Would you live forever never die
While everything around passes?
Would you smile forever, never cry?
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Electric waves a rush of energy
Silent river pouring backward eternally
Through the phase and touch of entropy
Old age in the beginner
To hit the stage and blush wild, laughingly
Crush the rage and rush time tappingly
Call the name so much so vapidly
Dissolving into thin air
Turning the two-fork taped up television
Into tunnel vision
Taking the new fork tactile as revision
Working the revision
Time escaping time
escaping
There is no reason to go down alone
Through distortion’s secret telephone
Separate contact separate
Poison in the ether
Swinging still incessant pendulum
Lavender, nettle, calendula
Separate, contact, concentrate
Drawing out the fever
Time escaping time
escaping
Only the winter wind survives
After the heat rush feeds and thrivesAfter the bushfire burns and dies
Frozen and bitter
Desert ground so cold and clean
Spreading out like a magazine
Reading the dirt like gossip
What do the weeds say? They say
“Everything everything everything falls through
Each dimension breaks in two
Like the two hands clapping
Like the two wings flapping
Everything everything everything for free
As it all eventually turns to dust and petal
Molten rock and meadow”
Time escaping time
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What’s it gonna take
What’s it gonna take
What’s it gonna take?
To free the ce-
lestial body
From way up there it looks so small
From way down here it looks so small
One peculiar organism aren’t we all together
Everybody steps on ants
Everybody eats the plants
Everybody knows to dance even with
Just one finger
What’s it gonna take
What’s it gonna take
What’s it gonna take?
To free the ce-
lestial body
When I took another look
The past was not a history book
That was just some linear perception
Ash to ask and dust to dusk a dime a dozen aren’t we just?
But a dozen dimes will buy a crust of garlic bread
What’s it gonna take
What’s it gonna take
What’s it gonna take?
To free the ce-
lestial body
When I say celestial
I mean extra-terrestrial
I mean accepting the alien you’ve rejected in your own heart
When I say heart I mean finish
The last one there is a potato kinish
Baking too long in the sun of Spud Infinity
When I say infinity I mean now
Kiss the one you are right now
Kiss your body up and down other than your elbows
Cause as for your elbows they’re on their own
Wandering like a rolling stone
Rubbing up against the edges of experience
What’s it gonna take
What’s it gonna take
What’s it gonna take
What’s it gonna take?
To free the ce-
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Name on the line
Last request
Pull the car over
To find some rest
Saying “I love you”
Need to lie here
Need to leave
Living in the debt of make believe
Saying I owe you
Crooked as a crow gnawing on dawn
Shadow from the grass in the dirt on the lawn
Why do I string you along?
My certainty is wild, weaving
For you I am a child, believing
You lay beside me sleeping on a plain
In the future
Sit on the phone
Watch t.v.
Romance, action, mystery
Wanted to show you
Sine wave is a particle ride
Bring your light out then in on the tide
Maybe I love you
Maybe I love you is a river so high
Maybe I love you is a river so low
I love you, still don’t know
My certainty is wild, weaving
For you I am a child, believing
You lay beside me sleeping on a plane
In the future
My certainty is wild, weaving
For you I am a child, believing
You lay beside me sleeping on a plain
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It’s a little bit magic
Like a river of morning geese
In the new warm mountain
Where the storm face forms and speaks
I believe in you
Even when you need to
Recoil
When the topsoil
Is kicking up into the storm
Where the dust goes dancing
And a billion planets are born
I believe in you
Even when you need to
Recoil
Just like that
The moon goes flat
Big lights in the city shine
Crying out
Take me to the limits of your love
There’s a dragon in the phone line
Coughing up a mighty flame
With a tongue of silver
Calling on my oldest name
She says “hey you,
Do you remember me too?”
We were coiling
It’s a little bit magic
Magic
A little bit magic
Magic
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Wrapped in the wings of a sparrow
Beak is as sharp as an arrow
Sings in a whispering whistle
Sleeps in the ivy and thistle
Owls out swooping and howlin’
Deep in the midnight a’ prowlin’
Mama the scream of the eagle
Threading my heart through the needle
Threading the blood through the apple
Sucking the juice from the apple
Eating the seeds of the apple
Bearing the tree of the apple
Trapped in the weeds like a scarecrow
Stuck to the wind like velcro
Distantly hearing the bell toll
Warbling chime through the meadow
Mama the scream of the eagle
Threading my heart through the needle
Threading the blood through the apple
Eve sucked the juice from the apple
Nakedly running I saw her
Boy chasing after to stall her
I wish I’d have spoken to call her
Before she found fabric to shawl her
Breasts bound and burdened with fiber
Adam came trembling beside her
And he said, he said
“She has the poison inside her
She talks to snakes and they guide her
She has the poison inside her
She talks to snakes and they guide her
She has the poison inside her
She talks to snakes and they guide her”
She has the poison inside her
She talks to snakes and they guide her
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The little things I like about you
How you say when you say what you do
When your feeling is a little gold and blue
When your feeling is a little strung out
Everything we talk about
Living in the city is a crowded place
I still lose sight of every other face
Turn in your direction
Feeling like I need attention
Told you this once or twice
Won’t you hear?
I see you in the yard, drinking a beer
Leaving me undressed like some cheap
Classic movie
Maybe I’m a little obsessed
Maybe you do use me
One step behind you,
Following you down
I was inside of you
Kissing your mouth
You were inside of me
Kissing my mouth
Seein’ out that needle eye
Seein’ out that needle eye
Seein’ out that needle eye
The little things I like about you
How you say when you say what you do
When your feeling is a little gold and blue
When you’re feeling a little strung out
Everything we talk about
New York City is a crowded place
I still lose sight of every other face
One step behind you
Following you down
I was inside of you
Where are you now
Where are you?
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Came to light on a very hot day
The grass was sweating
You were sleeping in
With the window open
The blanket breathing
Cigarette on a golden ash tray
Your golden hair lay in the swollen sunray
The withered roses hangin’ in the doorway
Don’t wanna be right
Don’t wanna be let down
Don’t wanna fight
Don’t wanna pretend
Formless secret,
heavy bend
heavy bend
Second sight and the clouds above you
As the wilderness grew thicker and the crow flew
Tossing and turning, your forehead burning
Don’t wanna be right
Don’t wanna be let down
Don’t wanna fight
Don’t wanna defend
Formless secret,
heavy bend
From the empty height
Flies on the ceiling now
Wanna hold you tight, don’t wanna pretend
Formless secret
heavy bend
heavy bend
heavy bend
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Give me some time on earth to know you
Help me unearth the map and show you
Thinking of her, thinking of him... Want to?
When you touch me
Mirror in the sky
Making me cry again
Roll up the sheets, suddenly frozen
Like a knife carving through my thick skin
When you touch me
When you touch me
Hearing you sigh soft and heavy
Holding mine til’ you feel ready
Flower of blood bloom on my tongue, steady
When you touch me
When you touch me
Flower of blood
Flower of blood bloom on my tongue
When you find the lonely tower
Climb inside the darkest room
Feel afraid, surrender your power
When you touch me
(Feel afraid, surrender your power)
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I am the magazine,
The blue screen
The big hand moving past the last thing
I turn for you, turn for you, turn for you
Turn for you
I am the private room
The quiet croon
The grey eye blinking on the new moon
I burn for you, burn for you, burn for you
Burn for you
Within the last kiss
I am the genesis while the earth rolls
Bleeding from its axis
Return to you, turn to you
Turn too turn to
I am the water rise
The waterfall
Filling up your eyes and when you give the call
I run for you, run for you, run for you
Run for you
I am the sweaty sheets
The wet bed
The things she’ll do
And the things she said
I’ll come for you, come for you, come for you
Come for you
I am the right brain
The paper crane
The bright gold moving past the night train
A blurred view, blurred view, blurred view
Blurred view
I am the new disease
The light breeze
The yellow stars glowing through the white trees
I pine for you, pine for you, shine for you
Pine for you
I am the teeth sharp
The lips read
What is unfeared and what is unfed
I’ll feed for you, feed for you, feed for you
Feed for you
One step closer and I’m real
Tell me everything you feel
And I will sing for you
One step closer and I’m real
Tell me everything you feel
And I will sing for you
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Red moon rising like a fire in me
So many questions, she asks them all to me
I have to answer most curiously
Scarlet angel
I am too small to see
Earn earn, shuffle round the big city
Burning the rubber down,
Crossing the hot concrete
I’m gonna leave town, there is someone to meet
She turns her head around a full 360
Bedroom rising from an old growth tree
Bring out the sawmill
Cutting the twelve inch beams
Building a pattern a reservoir to fill with dreams
Rings like saturn, telling their old stories
Windmill turn and turn eternally,
What do you yearn for
Where do you long to be?
I’ve been here before looking at the wild country
Opening the screen door, talking with Diane Lee
(That’s my grandma!!!)
Radio singin’ from the corner of the kitchen
I’ve got the oven on
I got the onions wishin’ they hadn’t made me cry
Filling the sink with dishes
Lettin’ em air dry
Waitin’ for the wind’s permission
Too many movies got me shivering and shy
Turning the lights out glisten’ in the owl’s eye
Glimmer like lightning
Under the violet sky, shimmer like diamonds
Watching the red moon rise
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Leave the bed unmade
Draw the light green shade
Start the microwave
Dried roses
Cradle, yeah she does
Lights the fire because
Window frost
Heat loss
Dried roses
Steep the black coffee
Set the plates
Pour the tea
Three for her, three for me
Dried roses
Sleepily she walks
Gradually she talks
With the geese she flocks
Dried roses
Afternoon, midnight
Mornin’s what she likes
Fly the broom, see the moon
Dried roses
Here I go there I am
All alone in the pan
In the silence again
Dried roses
Half dead
Half awake
Make a pie bake a cake
Which road will you take
Dried roses
Goodness her goodness me
Goodness eternity
Out you go in ya be
Dried roses
So leave the bed unmade
Draw the light green shade
Start the microwave
Dried roses
Dried roses
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Been pulling through
Since the last time I touched you
Making due with an internet signal
Calling for the delivery to the front door
There is no reason to believe
No reason at all
Come together for a moment look around and dissolve
Like a feeling like a flash
Like a fallen eyelash
On your sweater threading future through the past
City of salt bone and bell tower
Country of ice rain and wildflower
Picking out the wreath for the funeral and
There is no reason to believe
No reason at all
Come together for a moment look around and dissolve
Like a feeling like a flash
Like a fallen eyelash
On your sweater threading future through the past
There is no reason to believe
No reason at all
Come together for a moment look around and dissolve
Like a feeling like a flash
Like a fallen eyelash
On your sweater threading future through the past
There is no reason to believe
Come together
Like a feeling like a flash
Come together
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Exit on a whim
Hopefully we find it again
Tired of turning back
Let’s keep on moving down the track
And if the horse lies down
There’s a push just a mile uptown
If the horse lies down
Wake me up to drive wake me up to drive
Even if I’m tired I don’t wanna miss the ride
Wake me up to drive wake me up to drive
Even if I’m tired I don’t wanna miss the ride
Hand upon my skin
Warm me up and calm me down
I like to watch your chin
Tracing the familiar sound
Of the famous song
Put one on let’s sing along
To the famous song
Wake me up to drive wake me up to drive
Even if I’m tired I don’t wanna miss the ride
Wake me up to drive wake me up to drive
Even if I’m tired I don’t wanna miss the ride
Vacancy is none
The same idea from everyone
We never plan ahead
We take the gamble on instead
And if they turn us down
Find a warm bed in the next town
If they turn us down
Wake me up to drive wake me up to drive
Even if I’m tired I don’t wanna miss the ride
Wake me up to drive wake me up to drive
Even if I’m tired I don’t wanna miss the ride
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I could never build the ether
Or the grass overgrown
Could never build the river
With a mouthful of foam
I could never build the winter
With her cold tears of glitter
I’ve been listening to the red oak
The acorn she cries
Listening to the white birch
The paper she dries
I’ve been listening to the frogs joke
Listening to the firesmoke
I can never tell you now
What I had often said before
Because promise is a pendulum
Just swinging at the door
And I’m not saying I’m not jealous
Or scared anymore
I’m just saying
I could never build a rainbow
Or any kind of flower
Could never make a sparrow
Or a meteor shower
Could never build an earthworm
Never make the earth turn
I’ve been listening to the laughing
Of the fox down the trail
Clasping to the listening of the moss to the snail
The shimmer of the beech leaves
As the wind does a big sneeze
I could never tell you now
What I had often said before
Because promise is a pendulum
Just swinging at the door
And I’m not saying I’m not jealous
Or scared anymore
I’m just saying
I could never build the shadow
Between your cheek and your eye
Could never make a freckle or the warm breath you sigh
The canopy of lashes
With the softness of ashes
I’ve been listening to the memory
The way that it was
Listening to the echo of whys and because
Listening to the echo
Telling me to let go
I could never tell you now
What I had often said before
Because promise is a pendulum
Just hanging at the door
And I’m not saying I’m not jealous
Or scared anymore
I’m just saying,saying
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Cross twelve thousand lines
Looking for your face
Only to find not a trace
Even the memory of your mouth
Tries to disappear
Little lights turn into spheres
Blue mountain
In the rear view
Some nights barely breathing at all
Waiting for my woman to call
Cross twelve letters down
Found the longest word
This morning I’d heard
Somebody said they saw you ‘round
1st and 23rd
Blue feathers in your hairdo
Some nights barely breathing at all
Waiting for my woman to call
Maple, cherry leaves start to fall
Waiting for my woman to call
Sweet honey stirring in my tea, stirring me
Forgiveness, all the money in the world
Won’t buy it
Some nights barely breathing at all
Waiting for my woman to call
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I tried to tell you,
Didn’t know how to stay
You believe she can see through
Cutting at the silent clay
A relief, beckon deep blue
Fettered in the magnet sun
Eat the gun as it feeds you
Spitting up the oxygen
Once again
Once again,
Empty horses
Gallop through the violet door
Follow red, crooked courses
Shadows on the moonlit floor
O my stars
Winged creatures gathering in silken height
Like the last human teachers
Once again,
We must bleed new
Even as the hours shake
Crystal blood like a dream true
A ripple in the wound and wake
You believe, I believe too
That you are the river of light
Who I love that I cling to
In the belly of the empty night
From the 31st floor
Of the simulation swarm
With the drone of fluorescence
Flicker, fever, fill the form
With a warm gush
Now I wanna touch
Like we never could before
I’d fly to you tomorrow I’m not
Fighting in this war
I wanna drop my arms and take your arms
And walk you to the shore
I remember building an energy shield
In your room, like a temple,
Swallows in the windless field
Very thin, with your mother
Tall as a pale green tree
Very wild, bright as winter
Rising with a prism key
And a child to deliver
Tangled in the blood and vine
The first little angel
Little Andy, soft in your newborn skin
Only one, little Andy, will you return again
I believe we can renew
And you could be my brother
Once again, fall asleep with our backs against each other
You believe, I believe too
That you are the river of light who I love
That I sing to in the belly of the empty night
From the 31st floor
Of the simulation swarm
With the drone of fluorescence
Flicker, fever, fill the form
With a warm gush
Now I wanna touch
Like we never could before
I’d fly to you tomorrow I’m not
Fighting in this war
I wanna drop my arms and take your arms
And walk you to the shore
I’d fly to you tomorrow I’m not
Fighting in this war
I wanna drop my arms
And take your arms
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I already died
I’m singing from the other side
Underneath love
Avoidance and pride
I look you in the face and lie
I tell you I want your love
You’re the cigarette in my fist
You are so hard to resist
I can’t help but breathe your love
When I’m scared to die alone that’s when I call you on the phone
Tell you that I need your love
Love love love
Love love love love
Love love love
Frailty and fragile words
You tell me a lot of words
You tell me all about your love
And I feel what I hear you say
I don’t talk the same way
Cause that don’t feel like love
As the dog opens his eyes
As the blue crow flies I’m going to meet my love
I already died
I’m calling from the otherside
Underneath love
There’s a bottle out in the sea
With a message inside from me
Saying
“Release my love”
Release my love, my love
I’m dreaming of release, my love
Release my love, my love
Release my love
Release, my love
It’s a moving operation
I’m getting off at this station
I’m leaving your love
I’m scared to die alone
I call you on the phone
Watch me bleed your love
Love love love
Love, love love love
Love, love love love
Love love love
Love love love
Love love love
Love love love
Love love love love love
Love love love love
Release my love, my love
Release my love, my love
Release my love…
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What if all the worlds in space
Would melt into one single place
And intertwine the human race
With other kinds?
The atom is an empty vase
A vehicle to know embrace
The way you feel
The way you taste
It multiplies
So much to share
So much to share
When all material scatters
And ashes amplify
The only place that matters
Is by your side
What if all the time between
The words we say and what we mean
Would roll as softly as a stream
That we could ride?
We’d ride the bend from source to mouth
I want a friend from north to south
To build that question as a house
Where we’d reside
So much to share
So much to share
When all material scatters
And ashes amplify
The only place that matters
Is by your side
(Instrumental break)
When all material scatters
And ashes amplify
The only place that matters
Is by your side
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Blue lightning was an autograph
Signin’ up the sky
To the question I had to ask
She only answered “why”
Angelia took a photograph
The moment had to die
Years later like an epitaph
We read it and we cry
This mornin’ I went to have a bath
The water ran dry
Clear warnin’ has it come at last
The time to say goodbye
Can we make love, can we hold fast
I really wanna try
Two-eyed lie
Is it fight or fly
I wanna be the shoelace that you tie
Until the end will you be my friend
I wanna be the wrinkle in your eye
Yeah I wanna be the vapor gets you high
Blue heron now you’re scarin’ me
You circle and dive
Blue angel yeah you’re in my dreams
Swearin’ every night
And a spider just beside her, larger than a hill
And it’s plain to see if she don’t comfort me
The rattlesnake will
Two-eyed lie
Is it fight or fly
I wanna be the wrinkle in your eye
Until the end will you be my friend
I wanna be the shoelace that you tie
Yeah i wanna be the vapor gets you high
Two-eyed lie
Is it fight or fly?
I wanna be the shoelace that you tie
‘til the end will you be my friend
I wanna be the mountain kiss the sky
Yeah I wanna be the vapor gets you high
Yeah I wanna feel so happy that I cry
Yeah I wanna be the shoelace that you tie
Yeah I wanna live forever til’ I die
Yeah I wanna live forever til’ I die
Yeah I