1. |
The Longest Dream
05:07
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It is down here in a dark place
Behind the closed door
There is movement
Protoplasm
Bursting open like a spore
The stair is twisting like an Escher
Up and back and through
All these pictures collecting dust
Hence and hitherto
It is the longest dream
And it will never end
It is the longest dream
A lost world of pretend
There is laughter and there is rage
And there is illness all around
It’s in this building
It’s on these streets
It’s all over this seasick town
I see fat faces, I hear odd voices
They bubble up through the cracks
I look for clues. I parse the logic
I study the syntax
There is weeping
In cathedrals
There are virgins sacrificed
All these rituals
They come to naught
In the name of Jesus Christ
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2. |
Into the Wild
03:51
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I heard a sound from just beyond the door
It was like nothing I had heard before
Was it a laugh or was it a cry
I felt my brittle bonds liquefy
Come to me
Come to me
Won’t you come to me my friend
Come to me
Come to me
Into the wild we will descend
Go go mad
I felt the pull and tug of a secret song
It sung to me smack dab where I belong
Was I in or was I out of my mind
Or was it somehow both intertwined
I took a drink from a most wicked ale
And the I saw my whole world in great detail
The moon sat down beside me on the bed
While a secret song played in my head
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3. |
The Water Keeps a-Comin'
05:18
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The sky it is crying as if it's filled with despair
And the rain pours through my window
As I sleep in my old chair
It's ruined all my draperies and carried away my TV
It's swallowed up all my records
And dragged me off to sea
I am down with the fishes, down with the fishes
There go all of my neighbors
Trying to swim against the tide
They are struggling to cross over
But the water it is wide
We are down with the fishes, down with the fishes
The water keeps a-coming
Sweeping through my town
The water keeps a-coming
Keeps coming down
Keeps coming down
It keeps coming down
There is good old Captain Nemo
And the great Poseidon, too
I ask them where dry land is
But they haven't got a clue
We are down with the fishes, down with the fishes
Oh, here comes the flood, gonna wash us down the drain
Oh, here comes the flood, rain, rain, rain
I should've heeded all the warnings
And paid attention to the signs
I should've built myself an ark
I'd be where the sun still shines
I am down with the fishes, down with the fishes
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4. |
Power
02:47
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Ain’t got no power
Ain’t got no say-so
You pull your shit on me
And I, I just gotta let it all go
You got all the power
You hold all the aces
It’s your rules and I must abide
No matter what the case is
Ain’t got no power
Ain’t nothin’ but a eunuch
I toil in the mines
While you sashay in a tunic
You got all the moola
You got all the juice
All I can do sit on back
And take all your abuse
Ain’t got no power
I'm such a frickin’ loser
I always gotta get out of your way
You’re a big bruiser
You took away my strength
You took away my will
I’m an ugly wad of kudzu
And you’re a daffodil
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5. |
Black Sheep
03:24
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Here I am back home again
I’m here to rest
All they ask is where I’ve been
Knowing I’ve been west
I’m the family’s unowned boy
With golden curls of envied hair
Pretty girls with faces fair
See the shine in the black sheep boy
If you love me let me live in peace
And please understand
That the black sheep wears a golden fleece
And holds the winning hand
I’m the family’s unowned boy
Golden curls of envied hair
Pretty girls with faces fair
See the shine in the black sheep boy
I’m the family’s unowned boy
Golden curls of envied hair
Pretty girls with faces fair
See the shine in the black sheep boy
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6. |
Release Me
04:50
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I been a prisoner here
Been here for a million years
Could be here for a million more
Open up the gate before it's too late
Won't someone help me knock down the door
Is anybody out there
Does anybody have the key
Won't somebody come along and set me free
Won't you release me, I’m down on my knees
Won't you release me, please, please, please
I want to let it all go, I want to give it all up
But I guess I just don't have the guts
I want to be strong, don't care if I'm wrong
No ifs, no ands, and no buts
Wouldn't hurt you to help me
In fact I would do more than ask
You might like to if you are up to the task
Won't you release me
Grom this troubled place
Won't you release me
And send me to a state of grace
I want to hang it all up, I want to pack it all in
The question is why haven't I
I want to say, See ya
I want to say farewell
I want to kiss you all goodbye
You could make it easier
If you'd pitch right on in
Plan a little send off
Best to leave you with a grin
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7. |
My Old Familiar
04:03
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This feeling takes me over
I know it well
The details shiny and clear, as clear as a bell
I can't make it stop, it's out of my hands
I try to explain it but no one understands
Down, down and down I go
To meet my old familiar
It greets me in the morning
Takes me through the afternoon
It's with me in the evening
Playing a familiar tune
The sound it makes unnerves me
Cuts me to the quick
It's all that I can do to keep from feeling sick
I am a passenger along for a bumpy ride
On a train that never stops
Across a great divide
I can't hold it, it has no taste
But it is stuck to me like paste
I'm sure there's a reason
There must be a plan
I'm just not privy
I'm just an ordinary man
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8. |
Who Are You?
04:52
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Thought that I knew ya
What did I know
Just the guy I thought you were
You talked a good game
Sounded like truth
But most of it went by me in a blur
Now when I look back I feel deceived
Now when I look back I feel peeved
I should have read between the lines
I should have looked at all the signs
Who are you, who are you
I can’t really say
Who are you, who are you
You always slip away
Thought that I knew ya
Man I was wrong
Turns out you were a question mark
You had an easy way
Of seeming light
But what you were was pretty dark
Now when I look back I feel like a fool
Now when I look back I feel like a tool
I should have listened a lot more close
I should have said adios
You are one of those tricky, tricky guys
Yeah you and your tricky, tricky lies
Thought I knew ya
Boy was I mistaken
You turned out to be a petty jerk
You trashed our friendship
Like it was nothing
What a wally, what a burk
Now when I look back I feel real had
Now when I look back I feel real bad
I should have seen it all along
I should have not plunged in headlong
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9. |
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My whole life has been a wilderness year
In the middle of nothing I disappear
You never asked, “Where did he go”
Wherever I went how would you know
Blow along, blow along
I wish you’d miss me so I knew you cared
The slightest gesture and we’d be squared
Will we ever get ourselves back on track
I guess I won’t know until I get back
Till I come back home again
My whole life has been an unraveling
On this road that I been traveling
I guess I should’ve had a smarter plan
Went from Alaska down to the Yucatan
Zig and zag, zig and zag
I wish you’d miss me so I knew you cared
The slightest gesture and we’d be squared
Will we ever get ourselves back on track
I guess I won’t know until I get back
Till I come back home again
My whole life has been chaotic
You look at me like I’m idiotic
Got no peg to hang my coat
Got no supplies in my lifeboat
‘Round and ‘round, ‘round and ‘round
I wish you’d miss me so I knew you cared
The slightest gesture and we’d be squared
Will we ever get ourselves back on track
I guess I won’t know until I get back
Till I come back home again
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10. |
Vespertine
04:27
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Well we both love the nighttime
Nighttime's when we come alive
And the day just begins
When the sun goes sliding down
Can't wait for evening to arrive
You can say that we're nocturnal
Don't you dare call us diurnal
Vespertine do you know what I mean
Do you know what I mean Vespertine
The nighttime is the right time
The time to be with the one you love
Yeah we love the wee, wee hours
We get up when your day's all done
We nurture our rock star tans
And we both hate the sun
Some folks they think that we must be bats
Running 'round like a couple of midnight cats
Well our alarm it is set for six p.m.
For us that works out right
We yawn and stretch and get out of bed
And we get ready for the dead of night
We're like two old vampires
Living out our nighttime desires
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11. |
Swoon
05:06
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I yanked off my great gray coat
And I draped it on the chair
I conjured you up like a ghost
Your dark eyes, your dark hair
Your lips parted slightly
And you breathed a gentle sigh
You reached out and took my hand
Reflections in a golden eye
My soul swooned slowly
As I heard the snow fall faintly
Through the stars and faintly falling
Upon the living and the dead
We waltzed around the room
Like we did when we were young
You smelled familiar and blue
I tasted your sweet tongue
I held on to your hips
You took me for a ride
‘Round and ‘round and 'round we went
As the music amplified
I dragged on my gray coat
And I headed out the door
You stood there like a chest
And I closed the drawer
I walked among the strangers
No one I recognized
I heard your song echo in the streets
It flew away like butterflies
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12. |
Going Out My Own Way
03:33
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There’s a lot of ways that you can go
And how that goes should be up to you
And though quite often you just can’t
But if you can it’s what you should do
Me, I’m going out
Yeah, I’m going out my own way
Yeah, me, I’m going out
No one else will have a say
There’s a lot of ways that you can leave
And when you leave, leave in grace
Don’t be the guy who tripped and fell
And split his skill and smashed his face
I won’t let you do me in
I won’t let you lay that claim
I won’t let you take my choice
I will do it, if it’s all the same
There’s a lot of ways that you can go
You know, vamoose, split the scene
In the end I wanna pick my means
A box of pills or the guillotine
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13. |
Points West
05:00
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"It was hell," recalls former child.
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