1. |
Party of One
02:40
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PARTY OF ONE
Holding my hand for a party of two
Playing my faults – throwing it all in while waiting for you
Fingering love’s many designs
If I break down, the tangle of waves will say it’s fine
For a party of one
All out of conversation every day
I seem to start and stop with, “anyway”
If you grow old and tire of your face
I am the dust stuck to the mirror through years that you can trace
All of the times I say goodbye
Nothing is lost in losing the dreams I’ve had closing my eyes
In this party of one
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2. |
That Love Is Alright
03:11
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THAT LOVE IS ALRIGHT
Knowing what’s close to me
Tell me where middle ground should be
All of your nightmares flash but fade
Where you can walk through all you’ve made
Turn a leaf from your book
Over so quickly I can’t look
Up from the ashes’ backward tune
Nothing is sacred finding soon
That love is alright
Into my arms for good
Shedding the fears we’ve understood
I’ve been inside your silent scream
But after awhile it’s got to seem
That love is alright
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3. |
The Last We Danced
02:28
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THE LAST WE DANCED
I rest in the back of your mind
You are the pearl I can’t find
Saying so sorry
Wonder how far we went to meet happenstance
And that’s why we dance how we dance
Love undone
Can’t run
Free from ties save one
I am years of desperation
You are years of separation
You want forever mingled with never
I fight off every chance
And that’s why we dance how we dance
And that’s how we danced
The last we danced
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4. |
Alley of the Dolls
02:26
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ALLEY OF THE DOLLS
How the damsel’s without a gown
Picking numbers like buttercups
And I’m drifting down the currents unsettling
Drifting down
A little known alley where secrets are traded around
Rose unfolding without a sound
Breathe the petals but do not touch
‘Cause I’m drifting down the currents unsettling
Drifting down
A little known alley where secrets are traded around
Slender porcelain from toe to crown
Can the heart beat my frozen doll
‘Cause I’m drifting down the currents unsettling
Drifting down
A little known alley where secrets are traded around
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5. |
Shipwreck Sculling Home
03:13
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SHIPWRECK SCULLING HOME
Had a good time - My last thought at the bottom
What would you say to me if I ran the table
Someone will find - If you drink from a bottle
Put your hand upon it to see if you’re able
But if it seems to invade your waters
With a ceaseless raging foam
Know I’m no dreamboat, babe
Just a shipwreck sculling home
Never you mind the unthinkable horror
But polish all the bones you’re carefully storing
Haven’t you come so near but so far
Taken the walls for granite; it stopped me from boring
But if it seems to invade your waters
With a ceaseless raging foam
Know I’m no dreamboat, babe
Just a shipwreck sculling home
Due to question everything
Do too question everything
Do two question everything?
Bad to you now and then is forever
Losing your cloak and dagger - I’m not too clever
But if it seems to invade your waters
With a ceaseless raging foam
Know I’m no dreamboat, babe
Just a shipwreck sculling home
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6. |
Prospero
03:40
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PROSPERO
I’ve fallen from saving grace to this place
From my throne of weary sheets
Oh soft deceits I blow your way
I decry lovers’ knots – folly blots
out your promise of sunshine your sunshine
I make the thunder - I make the blinding
Mixed into clouds on summer day
To rain on you maidens - To rain on you princes
To reign over all that I survey
I’m a Man to be Reckoned with
To Be Reckoned with I Am
I’ve fallen from saving face to disgrace
What is pure – I’ve fallen I’ve fallen
And can’t get up
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7. |
A Sun Is Down
03:10
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A SUN IS DOWN
The word at sunset - leave before dawn
A pointed pattern sprawling upon
Signs warning will we
Be moving on
Beyond the skies
Moves all that doesn’t show
We can’t misread a language
We don’t know
Thunder breaks
In blades an icy storm
So come inside this evening
You’ll be warm
I can feel I can feel it
I can feel I can feel it
The gentle peak
Unscaled against the blue
There’s spirit among the beeches
How ‘bout you
Sun is down
Full moon a soothing sound
But you smell of blood
You’d best get underground
I can feel I can feel it
I can feel I can feel it
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8. |
Always and a Day
02:31
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ALWAYS AND A DAY
Words to the winds in silence
Haven’t we been of a mind since
Starting the song always and a day
Warm are the hands that guide me
Over the sands ‘til I see
Time as a lie always and a day
Shadows are very fine - But the stars misalign
A fateful design
Balcony - Aged tyranny
No more to ground - The lovers sound
Dare to defy always and a day
None can deny always and a day
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9. |
Dull Fire & Lusty Rain
02:50
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DULL FIRE & LUSTY RAIN
Your stars are not aligned
They fight for time
Shadows cast upon the stage you climbed
Projections eclipsing
Moons from the sun
I close my eyes before the day is done
Dull fire and lazy rain - on and on we go
Where do I stand again - on a need to know
We don’t mean it - you don’t mean it
Never lasting glow
Lip service is worse than nothing at all
But see mighty Babel standing proudly tall
Dull fire and lazy rain - on and on we go
Where do I stand again - on a need to know
We don’t mean it - you don’t mean it
Never lasting glow
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10. |
Better
02:40
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BETTER
Letting in the little urchin of most unholy name
The scabbard for a dagger searching - everything’s the same
Reliable little jab
But can you fool a fool - I have…
…a remedy for the sickness that you welcome
Better off than on a bad way
A dragon dwells in the dungeon not consuming me
No switch, no door, there’s no brazier - no light for me to see
Reliable little trap
But really it’s not all that bad
In a dream, tie the nightmare to the whirlpool
On the lips, in the service to the conscience
I’m afloat and not under
Hit the sail, bound and free
Roam the isle of lethargy
Strip away the shores of misery
Better life - bursting bubbles - living double
Better scenes than an actor - I’m not playing
Better job is just a good one
For better shots to hit the mark
How’d this song get this far?
And so for better days
Come tomorrow, better start.
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11. |
Took My Love Away
03:19
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TOOK MY LOVE AWAY
Tell me some more of the wasteland
How April is cruel - the month of a fool
who still thinks of growing
May - you come without warning
Fertility dance - futility plants...itself knowing
Please - take my dreams
Take myself for example if needed
Make a point; break me but don’t take my love away
Please - take my boots
Take my hat, all the sinew in between them
Aching joints – break me but don’t take my love away
Remember the promise of winter
Quiet and clean - no wild or green
Death undercover
The ground is thawed and empty
From dawn to dusk - body to dust...and hope’s over
Hay - once stood tall
In the fields of the thriving of the living
Sow did we; raze me but don’t take my love away
Please - take my life; take my life
Took it - Who took my Love?
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12. |
The Same
02:47
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THE SAME
You hear when it’s spoken, but not when it ceases
You feel like you’re broken; I’ll dig up more pieces
I think it’s not the same
I feel it’s not the same
I lie under a life I can’t rename
Without care without care
Show me your tear drops; I’ll blot out your sorrow
Tell me your heart stops; have you seen no tomorrow
I start nothing the same
I break like it’s the same
I race, mocking a stallion pulled up lame
Without care without care
I am less of the same
I drink more than I claim
I bed down in a desert scorched with shame
Without care without care
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13. |
Once Wild Gem
03:22
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ONCE WILD GEM
Babes of fortune are assured
Of flames only they can feel
Burning jewels stowed aboard
Vessels of steel
Undermined while I mined
Play the scenes before your eyes
Public and daring feats
Hands, lips, alibis
Went down in theater seats
...And you're fine / An ornate design
Sand...for the wind to blow
The eddies flow / Riff again
..And you're free / Cold stone can be
Precious in the raw / No knife could flaw
A once wild gem
I don’t know much that I know
That has been proved to me
Sweetest words long ago
Now reek of perjury
Undermined while I mined
…And you’re gone / To a stage beyond
Heed no beck and call / The curtain falls
On act three
No knife could flaw
But tears could thaw
Tears could thaw
A once wild gem
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14. |
True to the One I Love
03:08
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TRUE TO THE ONE I LOVE
If I told it once, I thought it twice
What the danger, the fire, the ice
A coward that risks no sacrifice
Despite what lies inside me
So help me God I’ve got to be
True to the one I love
If I’d never left while knowing right
Or blurred by vision of softer light
Even blaming a blinding night
There’s a silence, there’s a silence
Covers all the breathing
There’s a silence, there’s a silence
Listening for me
If I told it once, I thought it twice
What the danger, the fire, the ice
A coward that risks no sacrifice
Despite what lies inside me
So help me God I’ve got to be
True to the one I love
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15. |
River-daughter
02:25
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RIVER-DAUGHTER
Suddenly - Her eyes of piercing blue
And yellowy streaks of lightning running through
She knows everything
Suddenly - Her voice of falling rain
The silvery sound unveils an elegant pain
She knows everything
I won’t even try, touch, or deny
The earth and sky
Suddenly - She’s nowhere everywhere
She knows everything
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16. |
Sing for Your Darling
04:35
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SING FOR YOUR DARLING
Tend to the stock and vineyard
Beware the spoiling foxes
With a heave and ho pull westward
Virgin soil under wheels under feet
The forest is but trees
Press forward like you’re free - you’re free
Hitch up the wagon; hoist then set sail
Sing for your darling
Push back the bar stool; put down your ale
Sing for you darling
Though the devil demands a levy
Your House is not forsaken
With hammer and spade strike heavy
Claim your stake, what is yours remains yours
The forest is but trees
Press forward like you’re free - you’re free
Varnish the porches; polish the stairs
Sing for your darling
Pack up your worries; cast all your cares
Sing for your darling
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