1. |
Atomic Number
02:57
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I’m not the freckled maid
I’m not the fair-haired girl
I’m not a pail of milk for you to spoil
Why are the wholesome things
The ones we make obscene?
Latin words across my heart
Symbols of infinity
Elements so pure
Atomic number
I am the spark
Of this machine
Purring like the city bus
Why are the wholesome things
The ones we make obscene?
Well if your mercy’s lost
I have enough for us
Latin words across my heart
Symbols of infinity
Elements so pure
Atomic number
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2. |
Honey and Smoke
03:03
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I watch as they dance with you
I watch as they sing to you
I watch as they pour
Honey in your ear
Like moths with their tattered wings
Swing back into your flame again
But dear
There’s nothing for you here
But I know
It’s all honey and smoke
They don’t really love you
Like I do
Unaware
Of just how beautiful you are
From within
Uncontainable
Exquisite to the detail
It hypnotizes people
Robs them of their social graces
Swarming to your glow
Fanning with phrases
But I know
It’s all honey and smoke
They don’t really love you
Like I do
I watch as they sing to you
I watch as they dance with you
I watch as they pour
Honey in your ear
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3. |
Song for Judee
03:12
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You wrote 'The Kiss' it is beautiful
I can listen again and again
You never really got a break
From the car wrecks and the pain
You loved the sons of the pioneers
And the Hollywood cowboy stars
You were just trying
To put a hand to where we are
Living in a 55 cadillac
Five people sleep in shifts
Robbing liquor stores and going back
With the cash and rolling in it
You loved the sons of the pioneers
And the Hollywood cowboy stars
You were just trying
To put a hand to where we are
You never talked about your past
About the drugs and walking the streets
They found you with a needle in your arm
Beloved books strewn 'round at your feet
You loved the sons of the pioneers
And the Hollywood cowboy stars
You were just trying
To put a hand to where we are
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4. |
Blue Fires
02:57
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Why does the heart of the flame burn blue?
Why do January cherries bloom?
Why do blue fires burn in me
Yet not in you?
How can the prairie flocks keep their courses true
And navigate the stars as they do?
How do blue fires burn in me
Yet not in you?
You tell me you’re here
Your words are like fumes
They just disappear
Now all of the heat’s
Rushing out of the room
The hottest part of the flame burns blue
January cherries bloom
Blue fires burn in me
Yet not in you
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5. |
Delirium
02:46
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I kissed you in the morning
But only in my mind’s eye
The sunlight rolls along your sleeping dunes
The smell upon your skin is fireworks
Delirium, delirium
Kaleidoscoping in
Could you love me too?
In my delirium
The lions of the lamps coming filing in
Pacing through the still around the bed
Halos of their royal breathing
Break like waves across the ceiling
In your dreams do you know
I’m the only thing between you
And this heartbreak feeling?
Delirium, delirium
Kaleidoscoping in
Could you love me too?
In my delirium
Is it still the morning?
We left no trail of time
You’re camouflaged so fate can’t
Take you from my
Delirium, delirium
Kaleidoscoping in
Could you love me too?
In my delirium
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6. |
Greens of June
04:13
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Just in a moment
Everything’s changed
My dark disposition
Has been rearranged
Oh what was I thinking
Out there on the ledge
Your steady eyes pull me
Straight back from the edge
And all the greens of june
Come blowing through the door
They make me wanna live
Like I never did before
From the oriental rug
You meet my gaze
And all my desperation
Retreats into the haze
The lilacs in the vase
Still got their life
Quiet witnesses
Perfume the light
And all the greens of june
Come blowing through the door
They make me wanna live
Like I never did before
Just in a moment
Everything’s changed
My dark disposition
Has been rearranged
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7. |
Behind the Armory
02:20
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Flies in amber sand in soap
Air trapped in the glass
Tongue tied I cut and run
Fleeing ever faster
Behind the armory
I will never let you see
Behind the armory
Still I want you to love me
Sleeping giant joan of arc
Fold me in your grace
From the garbage to the stars
Make new constellations
Behind the armory
Still I want you to love me
Through the vines and the street
Slants the light and the heat
As narrow as the archer’s window grows
But it’s a rare stone
In a century’s thrown to me
Through the vines from the street
Slants the light and the heat
As narrow as the archer’s window grows
Behind the armory
I will never let you see
Behind the armory
Still I want you to love me
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8. |
Best Kept Secret
03:17
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In December I was lost in
Darkness that I couldn’t shake
I called you in California
And you answered right away
You were working at the table
That your father made
You were gonna teach guitar
To half the kids across LA
Oh you’re the best kept secret in Silverlake
I talked about my misery
You called it pain of pain
How we let it pile on
Until we go insane
Oh you’re the best kept secret in Silverlake
Oh you can sing and you can really play
You’re the real thing, your heart’s in the right place
When we hung up I was lifted
Turned my head up to the rain
Shortest day of winter
But the light found me again
Oh you’re the best kept secret in Silverlake
Oh you can sing and you can really play
You’re the real thing, your heart’s in the right place
Oh you’re the best kept secret in Silverlake
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9. |
1,000 Miles Away
02:57
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I’m out in the cold
I see in your window
The music’s on
I’m watching you sway
Just yesterday
In February’s dark
We watched the stars
Explode until day came
How can you stand right there
And be a thousand miles away?
A thousand miles away
I saw a light in your eyes
It was the animal kind
All fierce and bright
Now every color fades
I’m out in the snow
In your golden glow
I feel no heat
From my feet up to my face
How can you stand right there
And be a thousand miles away?
A thousand miles away
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10. |
Supermoon
03:47
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Supermoon
Where all the diamond deals are made
We never used to live this long
We’re pioneers my dear press on, move along
And if my smile seems painted on once in a while
I can count on you to notice and to take me out
Would you like to start a river
And ride it like a painted carousel
Our life savings aren’t enough
We’ll have to lobby hard and make it up
Make it up
Supermoon
We never used to live this long
We’re pioneers my dear
Pioneers we’re pressing on, move along
And if my smile
Seems straight as the Tropic of Cancer it’s because
Nature isn’t magic it’s just a mystery to us
Would you like to start a river…
Tell me if you feel it and we’ll mine it to reveal it
From the dams up to the turbines
We’re running much too hard to meter
Would you like to start a river…
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11. |
I Want To Be Here
02:47
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I just want
I wanna be here with you
Not bracing for what comes next
I’ve got some new words
I can see sideways
If there’s a limit
It hasn’t found me yet
My friend is an artist
Doesn’t fit in
Lost a front tooth
Can’t keep a job
But the things you make
Are so beautiful
They bring me joy
Don’t you ever stop
The hungry fools
Who rule the world can’t catch us
Surely they can’t ruin everything
I just want
I wanna be here with you…
The hungry fools
Who rule the world can’t catch us
Surely they can’t ruin everything
I just want
I wanna be here with you…
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12. |
Down
03:02
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Driving down I-5
I don’t ever want to die
Cuz I’d no more get to see
All this beauty passing by me
Laundry on the line
Truckers passing on the right
Every color on the wind
You know you’re living if you’ve sinned
Down I-5, down I-5
My shoulder’s burning in the window
I should roll it up I know
I pass the signs that promise hell
But they don’t know me at all
Some are born to sweet delight
Some are born to endless night
Born to endless night
But for now all is well
I see the horses on the hill
I smell the cut grass on the air
I feel the wind hot in my hair
Down I-5, down I-5
Some are born to sweet delight
Some are born to endless night
Cruel hoax and lightning strikes
I’ve tasted both they are the same
Into each other turn again
Driving down I-5
I don’t ever want to die
Cuz I’d no more get to see
All this beauty passing by me
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13. |
Why Do We Fight
02:35
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I can meet you in the ring
Where the sweat and punches fly
I can meet you in the ring
Where one of us is bound to cry
Why do we fight?...
How can a love this pure and true
Have me falling through the ropes?
How can this love make me so cruel
To lose your faith to lose your hope?
Why do we fight?...
Let’s face up to the fact
That face down on the mat
Won’t solve this or anybody else’s fight
It’s not hard to figure out
There’s no victory in doubt
Why do we fight?...
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14. |
Georgia Stars
03:16
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We took a trip my Georgia and me
Up through the wild strawberries
Up past the river running loud
We pitched a tent above the clouds
Georgia Georgia
can you hear me calling in the grave
Alone in fields all frozen
Tiger eyes you stop and gaze
At the stars going blue
my Georgia I still love you…
Great bear dog bull flying fish
Scorpion peacock make your wish
Pleiades sisters seven on high
Singing in the heaven’s silver light
Ah-ha-ha you showed me the stars
Ah-ha-ha wherever you are
Georgia Georgia
can you hear me calling in the grave
Alone in fields all frozen
Tiger eyes you stop and gaze
At the stars going blue
my Georgia I still love you…
Ah-ha-ha you showed me the stars
Ah-ha-ha wherever you are
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