1. |
It's All Over
03:27
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I tried to disappear
I thought I could escape
The final curtain falling
Before the hand of fate
But he called me to my body
He held my body in his hands
His hands kept me from calling out
But I got another chance
Felt around in the dark with my hands
To a backdoor in my head
But on the other side I fell on my back in the bed
The moon was over his shoulder
He said, for me it’s all over
I tried, but I could not resist him
I fight it, but who am I fooling?
And I bared my teeth like a cornered thing
My heart beat like a butterfly wing
He’s a bigger beast, but I’m holding
Against every one of my better instincts
And against every one of my better instincts
I feel my nerves unfolding
I’m belly-up, please don’t hurt me
I’m belly-up, please, don’t hurt me
But he called me from my body
My body ends where we began
To one heartbeat dissolving
I didn’t have another chance
The moon was over his shoulder
He said for me it’s all over
I tried, but I could not resist him
I fight it, but who am I fooling?
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2. |
Don't You Recognize?
04:23
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You had a dream about me
I ran off with your dad
You woke up the next morning
Sawed your shotgun right in half
You burst into my room
Forgot to knock, or didn’t care
Put the muzzle to my pillow
Blasted feathers in the air
And I sprang up from the bed
And I kicked you in the gut
You coughed up all the love letters
You’d eaten in the night
Looking for the right words
But not wanting to waste
All the sentiment you’d whipped up
You love that funny taste
And we sat among the wreckage
And your walls were up to here
Don’t you recognize
The one who sings you to sleep?
Don’t you recognize
The voice that gives your mind relief?
I’d never ever leave you, not even in my dreams
Don’t you recognize
The one who sings you to sleep?
I had a dream you had
A perfect life with some lawyer
Combined salary of half a mil
And a couple high-strung daughters
You hired me for my services
I couldn’t keep my cool
I lit up every candle
And wept us both a pool
I adorned you like a pharaoh
You said you’d still go home
Then I danced before the mirror
And you said you could postpone
I said, We’ll run away to Greece
On a symphony of strings
I can bring my shoebox
You can cash out all your savings
And we picnicked in the ruins
And my legs were up to there
Don’t you recognize
The one who sings you to sleep?
Don’t you recognize
The voice that gives your mind relief?
I’d never ever leave you, not even in my dreams
Don’t you recognize
The one who sings you to sleep?
I heard you over breakfast
Thinking about destruction
Maybe you had yourself
A rough night of sleep or something
I held a butter knife
To your carotid vein
You loosened like a tiger
And smiled when you sang,
Don’t you recognize
The one who sings you to sleep?
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3. |
Come Morning
04:43
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When the morning comes over this dominion
When the sun is searching it won’t find me
Rise and drift into the distance
Gone like the mist, it’s all behind me
The machine has risen from the pavement
And the wheels have rolled from the beginning
The city sinks back in the ocean
Turn back the years, it’s all receding
I wanna see it all come down around me
A silly little memory, like a dream
Where nothing is as logical as it seemed
And anything is possible come morning
I wanna see it all come down around me
I’m looking for the bigger beast, for my King
To lead me to the promised land where I’m free
And lay me in the canopy where I’ll sleep
When the morning comes over this dominion
When the world is burning you won’t find me
All my grieving is long dead and done
And there’s only one thing worth the fighting
I wanna see it all come down around me
A silly little memory, like a dream
Where nothing is as logical as it seemed
And anything is possible come morning
Take me to the animal, where does he feed?
I’m looking for the bigger beast, for my King
To lead me to the promised land where I’m free
And lay me in the canopy where I’ll sleep
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4. |
Looking for You
04:58
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I looked in every ancient city for you
I looked in every shitty bar for you
I looked in everyone who kissed me
I looked in every chance that slipped me
I looked in every crystal ball for you
I looked in every dirty basement for you
I looked in every vacant face for you
I looked in every troublemaker for you
I looked in every firm embrace for you
I looked in every true believer
In every reprobate deceiver
I looked in every crowd of people
I looked in every good and evil
I looked in every hotel lobby for you
I looked in every swinging door for you
I looked in every wrong direction for you
Every velvet roped-off section for you
I looked in every missed connection
I prayed that you would leave a message
I looked into the vile excesses
I looked till I was bruised and breathless
I looked in every haunted mansion for you
I looked in every undead thing for you
I let every monster get me
Every restless being possess me
Every hungry leech bloodlet me
I looked into the vault of heaven
I looked until the ocean ended
I looked in those who overlooked me
In every wave that overtook me
I looked in every Sunday paper
I even went and read the local news
I thought you would appear out of the blue
I didn’t know that I was looking
For you
For you
For you
For you
For you
For you
For you
For you
For you
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5. |
Vows
04:17
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Are you breathing?
Are you breathing?
Into the glowing heart?
When you stumble
I’ll pick you up
When you weep for no good reason
I’ll give you something to cry about
When you’re lost
I’ll be your sight
When you just want to go to sleep
I’ll be the darkness of the night
And when you wake
I’ll be that whisper
And when you just don’t understand
I’ll make you a much better listener
And when you run
I’ll be your tether
When you’ve lost your convictions
I’ll be your moral center
Are you held?
Who’s holding you?
Who sees your future,
The way you want to be?
Who sees the child within,
Precocious little thing?
Who sees you as you are,
Right under me?
Right now,
Pressed up under me
Do you believe me?
Are you breathing?
When you’re drowning
I’ll pull the plug
When you’re bleeding on the floor
I’ll roll up the rug
When you lose
I’ll keep score
And when you sweep the competition
I’ll give you your reward
And when you hear the roaring in the streets
I’ll hold you in my right hand, right here
And on the back of your neck, right here, right here
And I’ll treasure you
Pleasure you
Take you to the end
Finish you
I promise
Are you breathing?
Are you breathing?
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6. |
Forest
04:30
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How is it that you’ve never been here before?
In this hollow, deep
In the forest
You’ve lived for so long
The earth soft below your feet
When the birds sing,
It just sinks
The sky is never seen
Through the heavy vaulted trees
You are my dark within the darkness now
Am I shining from within
That you would bring me this far down?
The trail out of here is twisting round and round
Circumventing something terrible
Echoes when it cries out
How is it that you have never been here before?
Swallowed and dissolved
By the forest
Where you’ve lived for so long
Your voice trembles
Your eyes are strained
In the reverie of escape
We both melt and integrate
In the dwelling of your pain
And when I look around the paths we’ve walked
Are covering our footfalls
With peat moss and hemlock
I know you won’t remember anything at all
Let it slip under the mud
Still it echoes when it cries out
And when you wake up in the peace of my arms
Bruised and bleeding desire
Saying what was all the fighting for?
In the rivertide we wash it all down
And as we float beneath the clouds
Too low to hear, it cries out
How is it that you’ve never been here before?
In this hollow, deep
In the forest
You’ve lived for so long
You tell me you’ve never been here before?
Following the beat
In the forest
You’ve been for so long
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7. |
Cry in His Arms
02:37
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Wandering aimlessly
Like a fallen leaf
The day is already done
But will it ever cease?
The rare ability
To cry over anything
I finish folding sheets
And grieve on the floor
Have you had enough of me
Downward spiraling?
Meals and money
And upward mobility
Land of liberty, to thee I sing
Hold me
And, oh, how he loves me
To feel the weight of me
To wait so patiently
As I cry in his arms
Deep in my memory
I repeat the scene
She’s dropping the silverware
And he picks up the key
Playing silently
With rising intensity
The sun is sinking
And she meets it on the floor
Have you had enough of me
And my misery?
He was born to win
And I was born to weep
Cruel history, to thee I sing
Hold me
And, oh, how he loves me
To feel the weight of me
To wait so patiently
So patiently
As I cry in his arms
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8. |
This Time's for Love
04:51
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This time’s for love
No matter what you thought it was
This time’s for love
No matter where you try to run
This time’s for love
The golden hour has begun
We chase the setting sun
This time’s for love
This time’s for love
This time’s for love
We’re both under the gun
This time’s for love
You feel it in your lungs
This time’s for love
You’re calling in this month
You don’t work for anyone
This time’s for us
This time’s for us
This time’s for love
The sea is rising up
We saw it come
A darker season has begun
The party’s done
We only keep what’s in our cups
We drain it down
We let it linger on our tongues
And when it’s gone
We’ll sigh in each other’s arms
We lived it while it was
We felt it all
In the time for love
This time’s for love
This time’s for love
This time’s for love
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9. |
Prometheus
03:48
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Prometheus, why did you do what you have done to us?
My baby’s going up in smoke into the clouds
Around the blaze their eyes were burning with the animus
The fire feeds and then devours
Prometheus, the road to ruin is a lonely one
And the dust of it has settled in our lungs
Awake at night, my eyes were shining like a satellite
Against the blinding midnight sun
From where you are can you see us burning?
Up there on that rock?
Ooh, can you see us tiny stupid gods?
All the little gods have got?
Prometheus, why did you do what you have done to us?
Can you see beyond the embers in the night?
All on my own, my eyes were shining like a satellite
Now my baby’s never satisfied
From where you are can you see us burning?
Up there on that rock?
Ooh, can you see us tiny stupid gods?
All the little gods have got?
From where you are can you see us burning?
Up there on that rock?
Ooh, can you see us tiny stupid gods?
All the little gods have got?
Ooh, forever and ever
Ooh, you’ll wait and you’ll watch
Ooh, now and forever
Ooh, you played and you lost
From where you are can you see us burning?
Up there on that rock?
Ooh, can you see us tiny stupid gods?
All the little gods have got?
From where you are can you see us burning?
Up there on that rock?
Ooh, can you see us tiny stupid gods?
All the little gods have got?
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