1. |
Red Wine
03:26
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RED WINE
I’m a little dizzy
I’m a little faint
Shimmering and blurry
I am smeared wet paint
I’m in no great shape to
speak into this mic
Wish somebody told me
you’d affect me like
Red wine all around my head
Red wine on the white sheets of my bed
Red wine I’m not sure what I’ve said
Red wine
I am sheer confusion
I am joy and shame
Gotten high on you til
I don’t know my name
I’m a great disaster
You’re the one to blame
Spinning ever faster
You make me feel
You make me feel the same as
Red wine capturing the light
Red wine it makes you think you might
Red wine the end is not in sight
Red wine
Red wine
Everything’s undefined
When I get next to you
Everything shines
Everything shines
It glows in my head
I’m digging it, digging it,
Digging it, digging it
Red wine I hear the cameras click
Red wine the pins have ceased to prick
Red wine the clock has ceased to tick
Red wine
Red wine a long maroon parade
Red wine I’m no longer afraid
Red wine I’m no longer afraid
Red wine
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2. |
Oz
04:19
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OZ
I used to be Dorothy the meek and mild
My years as an orphan have turned me wild
My saviour, he left me on the ground
In red shoes on the wrong side of this town
My half life, Oz in black and white
My half life, Oz in black and white
I came to the scarecrow and walked on by
Who cares if the tin man is left to cry
I’m but a survivor who turned to ice
Unable to fathom paradise
My half life, Oz in black and white
My half life, Oz in black and white
My how you’ve grown
but you don’t know how to be here now
Should you stay, should you go?
When there’s no place like home
You still feel alone in a crowd
No wishing can change my checkered past
No hero can flip this hour glass
They say that there’s some who can’t healed
I dreamed that I left these poppy fields
My half life, Oz in black and white
My half life, Oz in black and white
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3. |
Kissing the Enemy
04:25
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KISSING THE ENEMY
Evidently I’ve been hanging by a thin thread
They’ve been watching me
with eyes in the backs of their heads
As I waited here for you
Sadly sucking cigarettes
and blowing smoke of blue
Then when you came
You would never tell me your name
And what you mean
To me it’s all in code
Still I’ve been seen
Kissing the enemy
They have pictures of me
Cameras in every tree
The old men hate what they see
Im afraid you can’t begin to know where I’ve been
I have tangled with the cruelest and the coldest hearted men
You would ever want to meet
I’ve carried burning secrets through the grey and frozen streets
I’ve seen a lot
Always getting out when things got hot
If it weren’t for your blank eyes I would never let myself be caught
Kissing the enemy
They have pictures of me
Cameras in every tree
The old men hate what they see
Kissing the enemy
They have pictures of me
Cameras in every tree
The old men
Kissing the enemy
They have pictures of me
Soon they will come for me
So come close listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
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4. |
Angels in the Street
05:04
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ANGELS IN THE STREET
Here’s how it was when I opened my eyes
It was 1968
The sons and the daughters were living on lies
I wondered if I’d come too late
Woke up in a world of colors that swirled
The noises of love and of hate
A sick smell of doom that hung in my room
And told me that I couldn’t wait
Silver lakes and rattlesnakes
Shimmered in the heat
As I was born a-lookin’ for the angels in the street
I was too little to sing in the choir
When I started dreaming in tongues
Visions of animals, circles of fire
Ladders with infinite rungs
Hymns turning red in the back of my head
I’d see explosions of blue
I studied the man who preached at our church
I wondered if he saw it too
“God is dead,” my momma said, “so trust your hands and feet”
But I was born a-lookin’ for the angels in the street
Now I can see that they were looking for me
Now I can see that they were looking for me
There’s something like god, beautiful, odd,
At the corner of darkness and light
I open my heart to those who have been
On intimate terms with the night
Women who seem to be fashioned from wire
Men who have cheated on death
Black as the smoke from a radial tire
Their eyes are all they have left
I feel their kiss
I heal from this
How hard my heart does beat
I was born a-lookin’ for the angels in the street
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5. |
Soul Highway
04:58
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SOUL HIGHWAY
These days I’m not the same
I’ve broken from the frame
My colors and my sounds
Spin backwards, upside down
I wandered sick and lost
With all my wires crossed
In dreams I helped to make
I thought I’d never wake, but
Suddenly I’m ok
I’m back on the soul highway
I’m lonesome but I am brave, I am brave
I’m gonna train to fight
This senseless heartless night
And keep the words you’ve said
like diamonds in my head cuz
You make me fell this way
I’m back on the soul highway
I’m lonesome but I am brave, I am brave
I used to tell myself a million dirty lies
It takes a lot of guts to open up your eyes
Like little children do
I’m learning about you
You move the strangest ways
Your heart’s a gorgeous maze, oh
You make me fell this way
I’m back on the soul highway
I’m lonesome but I am brave, I am brave
... open up your eyes
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6. |
Gold Ring
04:08
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GOLD RING
You’re a brown-eyed pirate
Our love is violent
I wear your gold ring
I wear your gold ring
And in a black and white world
I’m your blurry blonde girl
I wear your gold ring
I wear your gold ring
Lalalalalala
Lalalalalala
I wear your gold ring
I wear your gold ring
You’re a stony island
Your love is silent
II wear your gold ring
I wear your gold ring
You got a sticky finger
And a taste for singers
I wear your gold ring
I wear your gold ring
Lalalalalala …
Though I doubt I’m going to
Ever really know you
I wear your gold ring
I wear your gold ring
And baby when you kiss me
You’re a complete mystery
I wear your gold ring
I wear your gold ring
Lalalalalala …
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7. |
She Wants to Fly
04:40
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SHE WANTS TO FLY
She wants to fly on a jet airplane
To fall a sleep on a runaway train
she wants to find the divine in the street
To know her own heart and move to the beat
Beat, beat …
She's gotten by on her lizard brain
Uncaught so she’s never been tamed
Now she’s awake for her pleasure and pain
To watch her tears go around in the drain
She wants to touch the clouds
to hang tough
and live out loud
To want what is all around
Finally, she’s finally ready now
she wants to dance like she’s deaf and blind
to feel the thrill in the snake of her spine
she wants to swing on the end of a vine
she wants to ride to the end of the line
She wants to touch the clouds
to hang tough
and live out loud
To want what is all around
Finally, she’s ready now
she never been real
so she’s learning how
she's known the way all along
so why did she go so wrong
it always feels safe
being erased
just going along
until you notice you’re gone
She wants to fly on a jet airplane
To fall a sleep on a runaway train
To fight the fight for a cause unnamed
She wants to come back and not be the same
She wants to touch the clouds
to make rain
and not sell out
To love what is all around
Finally, she’s finally ready now
She wants to take a running leap
She wants to dive down into the deep
She wants to dance on the top of the heap
To blow her own horn and hear how it beeps
Beep, beep …
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8. |
Captain of Industry
03:59
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CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY
Gold hair and extra shiny shoes
new suit the color of a bruise
he loves the swelling of the waves
minds not the rowing of the slaves
nor does he bother with the past
he laughs the loudest, who laughs last
Its always been good to be king
with thousands of men on a string
one pull from him and they dance and they sing
A captain of industry
A cast iron symphony
A captain of industry
Bravely riding out the storm
with ethics and principles deformed
he pays for writing in the sky
all to perpetuate the lie
He’s steering the ship through the deep
while everyone else is asleep
a marvelous wolf who looks after the sheep - more or less
A cowboy of mystery
A writer of history
A captain of industry
Doesn’t know, wasn’t him
the world increasingly grows dim
a slow motion parachute glides by
And all of the children are tucked in their beds
while visions of Cadillacs dance in their heads
and armies of beauty queens show off their gowns
still the scandal is all over town
and the bastards will never be found
while rusty conveyor belts still go around
and tired old pistons go up and go down
its such a shame about all who were drowned
A cast iron symphony
A captain of industry
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9. |
Home
04:08
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HOME
Children of the damned
crawling onto land
slow to understand
the setup and the scam
My home isn't just a house where I once played
My home can't be burned it can't be washed away
Idiot savants
we want what we want
acting nonchalant
locked in heads we haunt
My home isn't walls and windows with a door
My home hasn't got a ceiling or a floor
Seen from space
my home is nowhere
it’s not a time or a place
at first it was painful to recognize
now I accept that it's in my eyes
Circling the drain
hurt you can’t explain
from fun with dick and jane
to passed out in the rain
My home doesn’t have a room for guilt or shame
My home hasn’t got the space for spite or blame
My home …
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10. |
Trapped in a Gold Mine
04:31
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TRAPPED IN A GOLD MINE
Fame - writhing in pain
mounds of cocaine
asleep at a stop sign
shade
empty charade
blacking to fade
I live on a fault line
I’ve been digging all my life
facing down my demons with a plastic knife
tearing up the future out of spite
glam
plastic and fake
let them eat cake
schmoozing on sunset
broiled
totally spoiled
hissing and coiled
isn’t she dead yet
I’ve been a target all my life
I only leave my mansion in the dark of night
I’m sleeping or I’m higher than a kite
Dark days trapped in a gold mine
Hot haze - hard empty shine
Dark days trapped in a gold mine
All this - all this is mine
Lies
holes for my eyes
friends I despise
rocking the grapevine
stained
empty of brain
sick and profane
barely an outline
I’ve been a victim all my life
living with my demons like a battered wife
kicking down the future out of spite
Thought it was a cure
now I’m pretty sure
oh say can you see
this road could ruin me
we hit the mother lode
so dig we must
Dark days
trapped in a gold mine
cracked pearl dances with swine
dark days trapped in a gold mine
all this - all this is mine
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11. |
Endless Summer
04:26
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ENDLESS SUMMER
You have lived endless night
But you’ve been crawling toward the light
You’ve known hurt and you’ve known shame
You’ve held your hand above the flame
You’ve been sad, incomplete
Orphans live on bombed out streets
Raised on someone else’s lies
Searching hard and empty eyes
But her love feels like endless summer
A journey to the 7th wonder
Howling winds and distant thunder
Gorgeous waves to take you under
Take you, take you under
Take you, take you under
In the shock of your long-buried heart awoken
she knows the secrets you've never spoken
healing your deep darkest places broken like new
Hide your love inside a box
She will crash it on her rocks
Let it flow down like tears
And the dream will never disappear
la la la la
Her love feels like endless summer
A journey to the 7th wonder
Howling winds and distant thunder
Gorgeous waves to take you under
Take you, take you under
Take you, take you under
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12. |
Come Back Love
05:02
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COME BACK LOVE
Since you’ve been gone
I don’t ever cry
I don’t have to fall from that place that’s so crazy and high
It’s easier now – Oh yeah, by far
When I wake up and look for my clothes I know just where they are
Come back love
Come back love
Come back, come back, come back, come on back
Man that was close
Thank God I’ve been saved
Thank God that I finally have quiet – the peace that I craved
This is the heart
I’m driving today
Nobody carries a permit to take that away
Come back love
Come back love
Come back, come back, come back, come on back
If you bring that feeling back
There’ll be no questions asked, no questions asked
Love drag your twisted sheets
Back down these empty streets, these empty streets
Since you’ve been gone
I guess I’ve been down
But the patient is up on her feet now, she’s walking around
Though her ears barely hear
And her eyes hardly see
When love’s not around I keep losing the best parts of me
Come back love
Come back love
Come back, come back, come back, come on back
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