1. |
Dreaming of Spires
04:41
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i would like to do just one proper thing in my life
if it was us, well, that'd be alright
but you twist and you turn
you're hard to pin down, i'm slow to learn
i keep getting lost, things vanish in the mist
i never thought that i would live in a place like this
the pipes run putrid, your breath stinks
i can't tell my parents, i don't know what they'd think
you've been to china, you've been to france
you walk around the flat in just your underpants
you're not trying to hurt me, you're just being yourself
i am scared of your freedom, you're ashamed of your wealth
i don't know why i came here, i can't see how this ends
i get lonely in crowded rooms, i'm not sure if i like our friends
i am trying to wake you, don't wanna go out alone
you are lost in dreaming like the spires of your new home
and you mumble "look, babe, it'll be all right
if you want we can just stay in tonight
i would rather hang out with you anyway"
you always know what i need you to say
as if i'm glass and you see right through
why should i need anything from you?
you roll over to make room on the bed
i don't know how you got in my head
and i don't know how i ended up in this town
but if we hold it together, i will try not to let you down
i would like to do just one proper thing in my life
if it was us, well, that'd be all right
but it's hard because
i think i might not be as simple as i thought i was
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2. |
Bollywood Stars
02:49
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dressed to kill, it's hard to catch a thrill
but as you always like to say, if we don't, then who will?
chills every time you touch my wrist
hell can't be half as cool as this
i say that we look famous, you say that we are
even the moon is not so vain, but then the moon has scars
you shine in the darkness, more beautiful than bollywood stars
oo
all pretend, introduce me as your friend
that's not the way you put it in those late nite texts that you send
you don't need to explain yourself
go on and dance with someone else
i'll just hang here, it's more fun to watch from afar
camera pans from the lonely girl who's drinking at the bar
to our heroine as she winks and spins, dancing like bollywood stars
oo
you'll marry someone your parents would approve of
the wedding guests will drink a toast to true love
and in the gutters of calcutta, shell-shocked and bereft
i'll be shouting i object as i drink myself to death
call a car, before things go too far
never meant to ruin your fun with some maudlin dtr
you'll call me in a day or so
you're sorry, i already know
but i'll let it go, cause apparently that's who we are
it drives me almost to despair, this love of ours
we'll see our names in the halls of fame with the romances of bollywood stars
oo
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3. |
Londoners
03:07
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fighting in a public bathroom in brixton
you got some good hits in
i was proud of you
you curse and revile me
you ask why i'm smiling
hey, it's just nice to know that you care too
i made you into something more than what you oughta be
i deluded myself you might think a lot of me
you can cry, you can scream
you can punch at random spots in the air
i could shout down the street that you ruined my life
the londoners don't care
crying underneath the roadways of vauxhall
i've got fuck all to do
and three more hours to kill
i don't wanna see you on the train back home
and i've never felt worse
than feeling sure i will
you were the one who was with me at the start of it
you were the last pure and uncorrupted part of it
and now there's a hole at the heart of it
i thought they would stop and stare
when i came for you, real rage in my eyes
but the londoners don't care
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4. |
Rain (Fire Island, 1985)
04:57
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dreams come and dreams go
i dream of living on the moon
this day will drag on
this day will fall to night too soon
rain beats against the building sides
broad street flowing like the tides
through the sewers, to the sea
it all comes flowing back to me
it was you i wanted to be with all along
by the time i realized it you were gone
on fire island, 1985, you asked where i was going, barely alive
i can hear it still
just get the time spent, never mind the cost
awake in bed at night, there's another day lost
and the chattering crowds throng and press in the streets
and i push my way through and i make myself eat
and i turn the pages and i smudge the ink
and i keep myself busy and don't let myself think
like each day is a maze that i have to get through
and a single wrong turn could bring me face to face with me and you
it was you i wanted to be with all along
by the time i realized it you were gone
on fire island, 1985, you asked where i was going, barely alive
i can hear it still
dreams come and dreams go
i dream i let things slip away
it rained on fire island
it rains here almost every day
and i wasn't brave, i let you go
every time i look in the mirror i know
and i try not to look and i end up here
it is like yesterday, it has been thirty years
i'm still trying to get there, i am always too late
and your ulcers and lesions suppurate
in some hospital up by the tappan zee
and i'm careening towards whatever it was that became of me
it was you i wanted to be with all along
by the time i realized it you were gone
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5. |
Worse
04:24
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big fur coats, it's some new fad
it doesn't keep out the damp and it looks bad
they line up outside the clubs, they wonder who made blues
they get drunk and vomit on each other's shoes
on hythe bridge street in the dead of night
they hang over the river like birds in flight
they shout and they sing as they march up the turl
they could do anything, they're not afraid of the world
i don't remember
if i was ever
as young and as dumb as them
but what oh what
wouldn't i give
to have it back again
temperature drops but it'll never snow
nothing left to learn that i would want to know
nothing left to say that could make me speak
forecast says it's gonna rain all week
and if it rains all week, then i'll just stay inside
i should head out now, try to glimpse the sky
and i had better
take a sweater
cause the weather will only get worse
the clouds can try
to hold it all inside
but something has got to burst
can't make something
out of nothing
i know that i'm getting worse
no traces left
in this heartless breast
of the way i loved at first
can't get somewhere
out of nowhere
i know that i'm getting worse
no signals sound
no survivors found
of this all-devouring curse
can't make something
out of nothing
i know that i'm getting worse
no traces left
in this heartless breast
of the way i loved at first
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6. |
The Unprotected
02:26
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i should write a letter to vancouver
that's the only place i've still got friends
looking for some space to maneuver
dead ends, that's all i got, dead ends
spend hours trying to pull it all together
go back as far as memory extends
the pieces drift away as light as feathers
loose ends, that's all i got, loose ends
the number for vancouver's disconnected
accept this fact and all that it portends
once lived my life among the unprotected
bad ends, that's all i got, bad ends
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7. |
King of Idiot Mountain
02:28
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sometimes i imagine how
you probably see me now
the traitor who got everything they wanted
and i try to imagine you
the way that you asked me to do
the way you've always been, young and pissed and haunted
you can ignore me forever
you can pretend it's not real
but i want you to know that i'm still holding up my end of the deal
and if you never forgive me
well i guess that's okay
at least i got to be the king of idiot mountain for a day
it gets dark and i get scared
it gets cold and i don't know where
where the world i used to know has up and gone
and i delete the final line
and i rewrite it a thousand times
but what i write to you will always turn out wrong
and i've been feeling weird lately
you don't care how i feel
but i want you to know that i'm still holding up my end of the deal
and if i was afraid for year and years and years
that things would turn out this way
at least i got to be the king of idiot mountain for a day
and if i ever see you again
i don't know what i'll say, but hey,
at least i got to be the king of idiot mountain for a day
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8. |
That Box Steals Souls
03:41
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i could make a brand new friend
but it won't matter in the end
that box steals souls
that box steals souls
from the marshes to the shoals
all the people it controls
that box steals souls
i could try to make things right
but i won't even catch your sight
that box steals souls
that box steals souls
from the woodlands to the knolls
from the schoolhouse to the polls
that box steals souls
we could try to make a home
but your mind will rove and roam
that box steals souls
that box steals souls
from your last few dreams and goals
to the way your eyes go dull
that box steals souls
when we were young, we used to sing
but its tendrils got on everything
when we were young, we used to sing
but its tendrils got on everything
i could try to move with pride
but it's all rotting from inside
that box steals souls
that box steals souls
from the way we lived before--
i can't remember anymore
that box steals souls
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9. |
Hyperborea
04:28
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monday nowhere, hot as blazes
don't explain, it just confuses me
you're losing me
tuesday nowhere, cold as truth is
don't pretend, it just reduces me
you're losing me
there's somewhere north of north where we can't go
feathers block our vision, thick as snow
wednesday nowhere, wet as oceans
somewhere going through the motions, me
i'm losing me
thursday nowhere, dry as deserts
don't reach out, it only pressures me
you're losing me
there's somewhere north of north that we can't reach
ships headed there just falter on the beach
friday nowhere, gone already
time moves slowly, sharply, shredding me
you're losing me
there's somewhere north of north, but we can't say
some part of me believed you knew the way
there's somewhere north of north where we can't go
feathers block our vision, thick as snow
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10. |
Elijah
03:24
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they say there's ways to go to any place you wanna get
i've been a lot of places but i don't believe it yet
elijah, can you hear me singing out the open door?
there's a new world waiting out there, i don't need it anymore
the prayer house on st. giles mocks the world with its repose
babylon is collapsing and now everybody knows
elijah, can you hear me, as i set a second place?
there's a new world waiting out there, it will vanish, leave no trace
angels over the house tonight, memories of home
the one thing you can't learn from others is how to be alone
elijah, can you hear me calling for my twin?
there's an empty world within me and i'm never going in
rain streams through the windows and falls lightly on the mess
sacred in my bed beside me, formless, limitless
elijah, can you hear me crying through the mortal din?
there are endless world within you, take me up and let me in
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you can grow things in december if you remember
you can grow things in july if you try
you can grow things year round
if you trust that they won't let you down
let them grow
you would do somebody some good if you could
you could do somebody some good if you would
if you give somebody a chance
and they just let it fall through their hands
let it go
some questions are just gonna haunt you when they want to
some questions run so deep that you can't sleep
sometimes there's no lesson to learn
it just sits in your chest and it burns
let it go
the young shoot asked the elder tree
oh god what will become of me?
the sun shone through the leaves' dense spread
the tree thought for a while and said
oh, there is a light in things
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12. |
Bop
04:26
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saw you in the covered market in the morning
when you're going out, sometimes i wish that you'd send me a warning
cause the sight of you still leaves me tearing up and short of breath
like a memory, like ecstasy, like lsd, like death
so hey, are you going to the bop later this evening?
oh i dunno, i've gotta go, i really was just leaving
i've not been getting out much, tell the truth, i haven't dared
but who knows, if the stars align, i guess i'll see you there
lights shine out over holywell and flicker in the haze
we all get to sing our number 'fore we shuffle off the stage
i keep on coming back to you, you're the only one i miss
if we could talk for just a second, away from all of this
we could give it another go
we could give it another chance
there's a lot that i still don't know
and they're gonna play one last dance
we could give it another try
we could give it another go
there's just something in your eye
there's so much that i still don't know
we could give it another chance
we could give it another try
they're gonna play one last dance
hey, there's no need to cry
we could give it another go
we could give it another chance
there's a lot that i still don't know
and they're gonna play one last dance
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