1. |
Doomsday's Brink
03:44
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LYRICS
When panic comes to lock you down,
Put on courage like a gown.
Let love be limber, love be light,
And despair will fall by the wayside.
(CHORUS)
Hope is a bird with broken wings
But it still has a song to sing.
Even here on Doomsday's brink
You can hear it whistling.
When anger comes to trip you up,
Trade in your sword for mercy's cup.
Let compassion guide your hand
And stop your ears to fears demands.
(CHORUS)
As they say, This too shall pass,
The feeling like bare feet on shards of glass,
That long shadow that rides your back.
It'll all one day soon be in the past.
It'll all one day soon be in the past.
(CHORUS)
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2. |
The Status Quo
04:08
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LYRICS
Have you seen the Trashcan Man?
He's walking up and down our streets with a clenched fist for a hand.
He punches over garbage bins everywhere he goes
Just to watch the trash spill out like water from a hose.
Don't ask me why he does it.
I don't know.
Maybe he's just had enough
Of the status quo.
Have you seen the Lady of the Lawn?
She's out there with her mower at the break of every dawn.
Her yard to her must be akin to church or Catholic mass
The way every day she religiously cuts the grass.
Don't ask me why she does it.
I don't know.
Maybe she's just had enough
Of the status quo.
Sometimes a person just gets tired
Of the same old same old.
They do what they can to get fired up
And try to break the mold.
Have you seen the Papier-Mâché Girl?
She's transforming napkins into swans with folds and furls.
She leaves them all over town to send a special word
To anyone who'd care to crack the code in a paper bird.
Don't ask me why she does it.
I don't know.
Maybe she's just had enough
Of the status quo.
Have you seen the Boy with the Razor Blade?
He's carving lines into the trees at night in the esplanade.
Under sunlight his work stands out for all to see:
A bark bitten, not paper written, vandalistic poetry.
Don't ask me why he does it.
I don't know.
Maybe he's just had enough
Of the status quo.
Sometimes a person just gets tired
Of the same old same old.
They do what they can to get fired up
And try to break the mold.
But every new practice can turn stale
If you just give it the chance to do so.
Even the most rebellious act
Can become the status quo.
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3. |
Lockdown
03:34
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LYRICS
Stuck in your house all day,
There are still a million ways
To touch somebody else,
Touch somebody else.
Staring out the window pane,
Just trying to get through the pain
You can touch somebody else,
Touch somebody else.
(CHORUS)
Cos even in lockdown
Love is boundless.
It can't be quarantined,
Breaks out
Like an animal
From a caged body and dances free.
Lost in a bad, bad dream.
It could be better than it seems
If you touch somebody else,
Touch somebody else.
Even if your hands are covered
And you're six feet away from another
You can touch somebody else,
Touch somebody else.
(CHORUS)
Locked down,
Love is boundless.
It can't be quarantined,
Breaks out like an animal
From a caged body and dances free.
Love cannot be quarantined.
It doesn't just spread physically,
Doesn't need a body or even an eye.
There's more than one kind of human touch.
Maybe our bodies are just a crutch
When our spirits could learn how to fly.
(CHORUS)
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4. |
The Spark of the Day
03:24
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LYRICS
Let's watch the sky turn blue
Just like our skin used to
In that long winter of such bitter cold.
Now that the sun is out
Maybe our bones won't shout
Like they did when all the winds were bold.
(CHORUS)
Even the cold has an expiration date
And the night only lasts so long.
You can find in the dark the spark of the day.
Just put your eyes on the horizon and wait.
Let's go for a swim in the pond
Now that the ice has gone
And all the birds sing their wordless songs.
The grasses are green again
After a dull gray season
And all the leaves are on the trees where they belong.
(CHORUS)
Put your eyes on the horizon and wait.
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5. |
The Surest Trend
02:56
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LYRICS
Clamber up that mountain,
Fingers dug into dirt.
Hampered by exhaustion,
Body aflame with hurt.
The climb is never-ending.
Your legs feel like rock.
The glance down is so heartrending
So you keep your eyes on the mountaintop,
Keep your eyes on the mountaintop.
(CHORUS)
Hallelujah,
Every journey ends.
Doors that open will close.
Even the river that winds and bends
Will eventually get to the sea,
It's the surest trend
So say hallelujah again.
Swim across that ocean,
Arms trying to be fins.
You start to move in slow motion
When the night turns black as sin.
Your sides are both in stitches,
Lips chapped from the brine,
But you see land in the distance
And keep your eyes on the shoreline,
Keep your eyes on the shoreline.
(CHORUS)
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6. |
Candelabras
03:50
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LYRICS
We don't have to go
The way of the mammoth,
The way of the Alamo.
Nothing lasts, it's true,
But, call it habit,
I'm not ready to be done with you.
We don't have to be
Separated
Like a leaf from a tree.
I'm to blame, I know,
But, re-calibrated,
I'm a plant who needs your soil to grow
(CHORUS)
I can't say that I always get you
But I think you're the one I need to
Be with in crisis
Or whatever normal time is
And I know you
Want that too.
We could be a team,
A pair of candelabras
That share a special gleam.
Once I tried to flee
But if I'm an outlaw
You're the sheriff who arrested me.
(CHORUS)
For a while there it seemed like
You were nowhere in my life
But with time and care I realized
You had never gone
And I was always on your mind.
(CHORUS)
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7. |
Stuck In One Place
02:54
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LYRICS
Time stands still in lockdown:
Frozen smile or frozen frown.
Has your will been broken down?
Are you dialed into the ground?
(CHORUS)
Being stuck in one place
For innumerable days
Has a way of bringing out who you are.
Being stuck in one place
For innumerable days
Has a way of bringing out who you are,
Who you really are.
Life moves slow in quarantine.
Has it been a month or a week?
The steady flow of normalcy
Has since when just not been seen?
(CHORUS)
Once you see who you are within
You can make amendments.
Recognition is the first step
Towards making changes.
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8. |
David Lynch
06:06
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LYRICS
Life is surreal like David Lynch
Everybody in a pinch
Everybody far apart
Everybody shops at Walmart
Everybody socially distant
Everybody is a victim
Everybody wears a mask
Everybody stocks up on gas
Everybody has food in cans
Everybody learns how to dance
Everyone connects on split screen
Everybody gets their fifteen
Everybody's hands in gloves
Everybody meek as doves
Everybody wise as snakes
Not everybody is a fake
Everybody buying soap
Everybody tries to cope
Everybody watching TV
Not everybody playing hooky
Everybody needs their coffee
Not everybody needs their TP
Everybody feeling weary
Everybody has their theories
Everybody wanting normal
Everybody dressed informal
Everybody asks what's real
Not everyone knows how to feel
Everybody getting bored
Not everybody feels ignored
Everyone's afraid of death
Not everyone can catch their breath
(CHORUS)
Don't we all wish we could say to hell with
The movie we're in and put on Blue Velvet?
Wouldn't it be nice
To watch Mulholland Drive
Instead of living in a world that's like it?
David Lynch, tell us what the punchline is.
We need to know.
When will this surreality go?
Life is surreal like David Lynch
Everybody in a perma flinch
Everybody scared of New World Order
Everybody locked behind borders
Not everybody wants a wall
Everybody wants to skip to fall
Everybody losing spring and summer
Everybody says it's a bummer
Everybody hates 2020
Not everyone is made of money
Everybody wants a future
Not everybody needs a suture
Everybody's hearts are broken
Everybody has misspoken
Everyone's misunderstood
Not everybody is born good
Not everybody is born bad
Everybody stans the latest fad
Everybody making memes
Everybody bingeing Netflix streams
Everybody looking for humor
Everybody chasing down rumors
Everybody's lost their head
Everybody seeing red
Everybody losing sleep
Not everybody plays for keeps
Everybody wants what's true
Everyone's a different shade of blue
Everybody drinking whiskey
Not everybody feeling frisky
Everybody full of fear
Everyone living in the longest year
(CHORUS)
Life is surreal like David Lynch
Everyone apart six foot, zero inch
Everyone in family email chains
Everybody suffers aches and pains
Everybody talks through text
Not everybody's having sex
Everyone's an online lurker
Not everyone's an essential worker
Everybody on Facebook live
Everybody thinks as a hive
Everyone drives on empty streets
Not everyone misses meet and greets
Everybody facing a pandemic
Everybody longs for the transcendent
Everybody loves a viral GIF
Everybody hates a viral kiss
Everybody dreads catching diseases
Everybody ducks when anybody wheezes
Everybody hides behind glass
Everybody runs their errands fast
Everybody runs from coughs and sneezes
Not everybody runs to Jesus
Everyone has church at home
Everybody has time to read a tome
Everybody clicks on bait
Not everybody's tempting fate
Everyone gets news on Twitter
Not everyone is getting fitter
Everybody posting selfie pics
Everyone watching their clocks tick
Everybody wants the dream to end
Everyone wants to wake up in their own bed
(CHORUS)
Don't we all wish we could erase the present?
Compared to this, Eraserhead is pleasant.
Wouldn't it be neat
To binge the new Twin Peaks
Instead of living in a constant crisis?
David Lynch, tell us what the punchline is.
We need to know.
When will this surreality go?
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9. |
Don't Die
02:54
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LYRICS
The body is a paper house.
The trap is set up for the mouse.
When the jaws clamp shut like teeth
You can see the spirit leave.
(CHORUS)
Don't die,
Not you darling.
Don't die.
Just this one thing:
Don't die.
The heart is soft like origami.
The blood that flows can flow from me.
The car crash is a looming threat.
With every drive you make a bet.
(CHORUS)
Other deaths make me look at my shoes,
Such terrible news,
Such terrible blues,
But you, oh you…
(CHORUS)
Not you darling.
Don't die.
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10. |
Mozart Was My Enemy
03:42
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LYRICS
Once I used to be
Jealous of everyone.
Like Salieri,
I wore self-doubt like a coat of grime.
When life gave me lemons, I gave it back a lime.
That much envy
Wasn't that much fun.
On the contrary,
I was miserable all the time.
When life gave me lemons, I gave it back a lime.
(CHORUS)
Every Mozart was my enemy.
My insecurities
Wouldn't allow for celebration of another.
A regular Salieri,
You could see my face turn green
With every word of exclamation for my brother.
Well, I think it's time for me to say I'm sorry.
Once I was afraid
Of being criticized
For anything I made.
I wasn't glad unless I got top grades.
When life gave me a B I sent it back for an A.
I didn't grow in spades.
I was anesthetized
By the lack of aide.
I was like a seed trying to sprout in the shade.
When life gave me a B I sent it back for an A.
(CHORUS)
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11. |
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LYRICS
In my mind I can pinpoint the time
When the world broke.
It was the day Max Von Sydow died
And normal life went up in smoke.
That's the last day I can recall
Any ordinary routine.
That night was when I felt the pall
Of choas fall like a sheet.
(CHORUS)
The day Max Von Sydow went
And finally lost the game of chess
He'd been playing for 90 years with Death
Was when the world broke.
The man mentioned left behind
Enough material to watch for days.
Funny that I haven't opened my
Ingmar Bergman Cinema blu-ray
Since the day Max Von Sydow died,
Despite having hours to kill.
I guess I've found other ways to abide
In the world of "This is not a drill."
(CHORUS)
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12. |
King of England
04:12
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LYRICS
The rooster named the King of England returned on the third day
After he hurt my brother and our father tried to make him pay.
A wrung neck didn't kill him, and neither did a rake.
Now he's the Jesus Christ of chickens, only he's not here to save.
Whenever we collected eggs from the coop we went in twos,
One to do the gathering, one to guard from the rooster's rage let loose.
When the job was done we ran from there with muddy shoes,
And if our fear was strong enough we tracked that mud into our rooms.
(CHORUS)
King of England,
The meanest bird I ever knew.
King of England,
What did we do to you?
When we first got that rooster I gave him the best name I could,
One that suggested strength and power that I'd learned from Robin Hood.
Who knew he'd earn his appellation in more bad ways than good
By domineering anyone who went near the ground where he stood?
We kept the King of England longer than we expected to,
In spite of his history of hurting hens and crime of child abuse.
Finally we hawked him and the others off and turned the chicken coop
Into a place for my brothers, sisters and I to play in and run through.
(CHORUS)
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13. |
Jesus Christ, Be So Kind
04:13
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LYRICS
This has gotten too bloody for me.
Is all the violence necessary?
I still believe in you but I can't see
The real reason for Calvary.
Jesus Christ, be so kind:
Tell me why you had to die.
I hope not for me.
There's too much anger in most theology:
Damn the sinners if they don't believe.
Hell is too hateful for me to agree.
If God is Love then shouldn't He always be?
Jesus Christ, be so kind:
Tell me why you want my life.
I wish you'd let me be.
If my religion is a body in a tomb
Why do I still feel the pull to you?
Can my sprit at least be exhumed
Without bringing back what I want to lose?
Jesus Christ, be so kind:
Tell me why I'm not satisfied.
Maybe I do need you.
For a long time I've been running.
All my questions made me gun-shy.
But my life's begun to feel empty
And I'm starting to realize
That I need you.
I'm not saying I'm done with my doubting
But I want a life I can feel better about.
Whether or not I'm aware, you surround me.
Whether or not I care to, I've found
That I need you.
Jesus Christ, be so kind:
Take my mind and make it blind
So my heart can see.
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14. |
Wrestling
05:22
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LYRICS
Life is wrestling with God,
Whether we like it or not,
Is what I told her,
My oldest daughter.
She smiled and laughed it off
With a five year old's nonchalance.
She said, I don't believe it,
With the shrug of her shoulder
And in that very instant
I'd never felt older.
It's true when I was her age
I had the same childlike faith,
Even later,
Beyond teenager.
But at a certain point
I made a different choice.
I said, I don't believe it,
With the shrug of my shoulder
And in that very instant
I'd never felt older.
But I was not satisfied
With a life of the mind.
I needed more than
A thinker's fortune.
I need something for the heart,
Someone to light up the dark.
I said, I can believe it.
I admit that there is a God.
And in that very instant
I'd never felt so young.
I still wrestle with Him
Like it's my life's mission.
I'll never go back
To a faith that lacks
Any reason or doubt.
That's just not what I'm about.
But I'll say, I do believe it,
Let the words touch my tongue,
And in these very instants
I feel both old and young.
God is
And will always be
A mystery to me.
The question is:
Can I choose to believe
In someone I can't see,
Or ever really know?
God is
And will always be
A mystery to me.
But I'll say this:
I do choose to believe
In someone I can't see,
Or ever really know.
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15. |
A Kinder Way
03:18
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LYRICS
Yes, it's true me and you
Will never be the same.
We're overdo for a new view
When we see another day.
For so long we've been on
The drug of self-love,
Turning off what was not
Supposed to be lost.
We blindly hurt planet earth
As much as we hurt each other,
Play in the dirt of war work
Passed down by our fathers.
But I believe we can be
Better than we've been before,
Take a knee and choose to see
What lies beyond our door.
(CHORUS)
Maybe it's time
To make some changes,
Cross the line
And live a kinder way,
Live a kinder way.
(CHORUS)
Live a kinder way.
Yes, it's true me and you
Will never be the same.
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16. |
People Person
04:32
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LYRICS
Because everyone is your best friend,
Everyone is my enemy.
Where you see potential joy I see threat.
What you want to run to I want to flee.
(CHORUS)
I'm not much of a people person
But I do my best.
If my heart ever stops working
You get it going again.
Truth be told I long to be just like you,
To toss off my adult cautions and fears
Like an old snake's skin and put on a new
Childlike courage, a thing that is pure.
(CHORUS)
You get me going again.
My little extrovert,
You show me how it works
To love everyone
That you come into contact with,
Even the ugliest.
I long to rush headlong into the world
With arms open wide like a pair of French doors.
Not guarded or calloused but free like my girl,
Meeting everyone like waves meet the shore.
My little extrovert,
You show me how it works
To love everyone
That you come into contact with.
My little extrovert,
You show me how it works
To love everyone
That you come into contact with,
Even the ugliest.
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17. |
My Delight
03:06
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LYRICS
Tender eyes,
Blue like ice,
But I see fire in there.
The sensitive kind,
We sometimes
Cross our wires and split hairs,
But give it a while
And we end with a smile shared.
(CHORUS)
As you grow like a weed,
Like a Dandelion seed,
You will always be
Clear as light
My delight.
Gentle heart,
Shy in the dark,
But on your tongue a stubborn "No."
Tough as bark,
Silly as a lark,
You sing songs wherever you go.
Just give it time
And you find the shine to glow.
(CHORUS)
You can't wait to be tall,
Watching ink lines on the wall
Grow up from small to small,
But If I could I would stall time
My delight.
(CHORUS)
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18. |
Obey or Else
03:44
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LYRICS
Stay in line, not too close.
Don’t abide: you will go.
Disappear like a ghost.
Don’t go near anywhere but home
(CHORUS)
Or we will run you down
Like a hunting hound
Runs down a fox.
Stay in your box.
Don’t go out.
Shut your mouth.
Obey or else.
Be a sport, be a help.
Stay indoors for your health.
You are ill, you aren’t well.
Take your pill and sut the hell up
(CHORUS)
We know what’s best.
We are the experts.
You are the sheep.
You don’t have to think.
Leave that to us.
Don’t put up a fuss.
Don’t go out.
Shut your mouth.
Obey or else.
Obey or else.
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19. |
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LYRICS
Six feet apart or six feet under?
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Truth be told I can’t help but wonder
If we’ll survive
To the other side of lockdown.
Self isolation or an easy excuse
To make a clean break from me and you?
Did you ever or will you still have room
For me in your life
On the other side of lockdown?
On the other side of lockdown
(CHORUS)
On the other side of lockdown
Who will we be?
A different sort of people than the ones we used to be?
On the other side of lockdown
Will we still be friends
Or will the social distance be what brings us to an end?
On the other side of lockdown
No face to face doesn’t explain no talk.
Are you bad at texting or do you want to walk?
I thought we had a friendship that was solid as a rock
But will it survive
To the other side of lockdown?
To the other side of lockdown
(CHORUS)
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20. |
I'm Not On Either Side
03:36
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LYRICS
It is what it is.
I see it clearly.
Bullshit is bullshit
Whether it’s on the right or left of me.
Spare me your judgement,
Or not. I don’t care.
I will not budge when
You give me that condescending stare.
(CHORUS)
I’m not letting you drag me down
‘Cause I’m not on either side.
I’m not letting you drag me down
‘Cause I’m not on either side.
I’m not on either side.
I’m not indifferent.
Far from it, really.
I’m very passionate
About not getting my conscience dirty.
Spare me your lectures.
You do you and I’ll do me.
I don’t want to censor
Anymore what I think or see.
(CHORUS)
I’m not on either side.
I’m not on either side.
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21. |
This Great Evil
03:32
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LYRICS
This great evil,
Where does it come from, who gives it breath?
Why do people
Insist on bloodlust, insist on propitiating death?
Does our ruin
Benefit the earth, benefit the grass?
What are we doing
Playing in the dirt, playing on broken glass?
Is it in you too,
This eternal human blight?
Have you passed through this night?
This great darkness,
Why won’t light stop it, why won’t it leave?
Are we just heartless,
Filling up coffins, filling up the list of the bereaved?
Will our demise
Help the flowers bud, help the rivers run?
Why are our lives
Wasted in the mud, wasted on the bomb and gun?
Is it in you too,
This eternal human blight?
Have you passed through this night?
Is it in you too,
This dark dance with suicide?
Have you passed through this night?
Is it in you too,
This eternal human blight?
Have you passed through this night?
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22. |
Ratcatcher
04:59
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LYRICS
There comes a moment in every life
When you see the darkness for the first time.
You start catching rats by the tail
And store them up like rainwater in a pail.
(CHORUS)
Ratcatcher,
Don’t despair.
The bodysnatchers
Aren’t everywhere.
There comes a moment in every life
When you see the light for the first time.
You start noticing cracks in the strongest walls.
You tiptoe on beams, afraid that you’ll fall.
(CHORUS 2)
Ratcatcher,
Don’t despair.
The bodysnatchers
Aren’t everywhere.
Ratcatcher,
Don’t be shy.
The fly hatcher
Is just another guy.
There comes a moment in every life
When you see the monsters or the first time.
Suddenly giants loom like towers made of flesh.
What’s in their heads you can only guess.
(CHORUS 2)
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23. |
Pacifist
04:19
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LYRICS
Since I was a kid
I haven’t wanted to kill
Even the katydid
Or the bug called pill.
Just recently
I cried over a mouse.
We don’t eat meat,
Not in my house,
Not in my house.
(CHORUS)
But even I get the itch
To resort to my fists
When some punk calls my wife a bitch.
Am I really a pacifist?
Am I really a pacifist?
Since I’ve been full grown
I’ve been averse to guns.
I don’t like throwing stones.
For me wars are never won.
I don’t enjoy watching sports,
Violent as most are.
I’d rather sit on my porch
And look at the stars,
Just look at the stars.
(CHORUS)
In my heart am I just another hunter
Playing up the part of a nonviolent lover?
At my worst am I really just as bloody
As a person in a Cormac McCarthy?
Or am I really a pacifist?
Am I really a pacifist?
Am I really a pacifist?
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24. |
Seven Years
03:16
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LYRICS
All the bad advice
Has proven to be so
Over all this time
Through the highs and lows.
With you it’s always highs.
The lows come from elsewhere.
Best friends until we die.
We make a perfect pair
Of introverted lovers,
Prone to stay at home.
All we need’s each other
When other friendships go.
(CHORUS)
Seven years,
They’ve all been heaven years.
Seven years with you.
We’ve changed in many ways
And not always in sync
But at the end of day
Our changes always link,
Like two trees entwined,
Branches grown together,
Sharing the same vines,
Braving the same weather.
We can’t relate to most,
Not about being married.
We’re more than just spouse-close.
Our love’s not ordinary.
(CHORUS)
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25. |
Direct Me, Claire Denis
02:52
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LYRICS
I’ve always been the self-conscious type.
I see myself as if from the outside.
On the dance floor I just turn pale.
I end up a wallflower without fail.
(CHORUS)
But sometimes I wish I could dance carefree
Like somebody in a Claire Denis movie,
Shake loose my stiff limbs and let fly
Like Denis Lavant at the end of Beau Travail.
I’ve always been a stone faced man
Like Buster Keaton, that deadpan.
My face traffics in micro moves.
I don’t like to telegraph my moods.
(CHORUS)
Direct me, Claire Denis,
And I’ll move my body.
Direct me, Claire Denis
And I’ll dance, dance (maybe).
(CHORUS)
Direct me, Claire Denis,
And I’ll move my body.
Direct me, Claire Denis
And I’ll dance, dance (maybe).
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26. |
A Show of Kindness
03:21
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LYRICS
Finally
I can see
I am not who I claim to be,
Writing songs
Professing love
But all the words are just a glove.
Underneath
In a sheath
Is a sword that gives me peace.
I hold it tight,
Out of sight,
Just in case I need it in a fight.
The problem is
It’s in my fist
Even in my friendships.
I stay on edge
As if on a ledge
That I could fall from to my death.
When it comes down to it
Am I just another hypocrite
Putting on a show of kindness?
When it comes down to it
Am I really just full of shit,
Professing sight in spite of blindness?
When it comes down to it
Am I just another hypocrite
Putting on a show of kindness?
When it comes down to it
Am I really just full of shit,
Professing sight in spite of blindness?
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27. |
The Jaguar Shark
03:12
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LYRICS
So hark:
The jaguar shark
Cannot be killed.
Just park
Your boat in the dark
And let your eyes be filled
With this
Colossal fish,
A member of no herd.
Even if
It’s not what you wish,
He will get the final word.
It doesn’t have to be scary.
On the contrary….
(CHORUS)
Take a submarine
Into the darkest deep
And you will surely see
There’s even beauty there.
There’s even beauty there.
So hark:
The jaguar shark
Is not just out to feast.
Don’t bark.
Take to heart:
He’s not just another beast.
You can face
Him with grace,
As much as you can muster,
And so chase
The dread away,
Instead of getting all flustered.
It doesn’t have to be scary.
On the contrary…
(CHORUS)
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28. |
Leftovers
03:10
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LYRICS
The way things are,
We’re not for it.
We’ve travelled far
Like a murder hornet
To a new place,
Out of that nation
Where we were faced
With being eaten.
(CHORUS)
We’re the leftovers,
Caught between two worlds like a moon rover,
Like a middle child or a domesticated wild animal.
We’re not quite free
But we’re still alive
Like honey bees
Without a hive.
We won’t go back
To familiar haunts.
We know we lack
What we need, what we want.
(CHORUS)
Are we just lost,
A pair of fallen apostles,
Or have we found
That holy ground is everywhere?
(CHORUS)
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29. |
Thought Police
03:44
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LYRICS
Do whatever you want.
Just leave me alone
To do whatever I want.
Stop throwing your stones.
I don’t care what you think.
You can have your own thoughts.
Don’t try to change what I think.
My mind can’t be bought.
(CHORUS)
Just me leave the hell alone
And I’ll leave you the hell alone.
Stop trying to control me
And I’ll extend the same courtesy to you.
Live however you like.
Just let me be
To live however I like.
Stop policing me.
I don’t care who you are,
Just as long as you’re not evil.
We can have different hearts
And still both be good people.
(CHORUS)
The thought police are out in force.
Don’t they just love to beat a dead horse.
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30. |
Destroyer
02:54
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LYRICS:
Guns, go to hell.
Ignorance as well.
Hatred, disappear.
Violence, exit here.
(CHORUS)
I wish I could be the destroyer
Of everything that destroys.
I wish I could be the destroyer
Of everything that destroys.
Murder, become rare.
Kill the electric chair.
Fists, don’t talk anymore.
Weapons, leave the stores.
(CHORUS)
All the innocents
Lost to violence,
I wish I could bring them back.
All those loved and buried
Like Ahmaud Arbery,
I wish I could bring them back.
(CHORUS) (2x)
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31. |
Ammunition
03:06
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LYRICS:
You made me feel I could return to the world
And find something decent.
Was I wrong? Has the truth unfurled
To reveal the real reason
You called me friend?
(CHORUS)
Am I just being paranoid again,
Or is there something to these worries?
Have all the thoughts turned to noise in my head,
Or have I seen the light?
You made me feel like I was being heard
For the first time in a season.
Was I wrong to let spill so many words?
Did I just give you ammunition
For when things end?
(CHORUS)
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32. |
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LYRICS:
I had hoped that you could make
This world a better place.
I don’t know if that’s possible
But I’ll do my best to teach you…
(CHORUS)
Life doesn’t work without kindness.
Life doesn’t work without love.
Life isn’t worth it
If everybody’s just hurting each other.
Life doesn’t work without love.
I know that I will pass on
What I get right as much as what I get wrong.
I still hope that you will outgrow me
So I’ll do my best to teach you…
(CHORUS)
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33. |
Washington State
04:37
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LYRICS
I don’t think that I’ll go back
To Washington State.
There is nothing I now lack
That I long to reclaim.
And anyway…
(CHORUS)
The past belongs in the past.
The future is another place.
The past belongs in the past.
The future is another place.
I don’t think that I’ll return
To the old status quo.
Spend enough time with fire and you’ll get burned,
Or so the aphorism goes.
And anyway…
(CHORUS)
I was nearly twenty two
When I made the move
From Washington State to Ohio.
First I felt excited,
But over time I alighted
On a mix of resignation and denial.
Now I’m nearly thirty two
And those old nostalgic moods
That used to take me don’t anymore.
Over the years there were days
When the ground fell out from its place
But now my feet have settled on the floor.
I’ve come to see that I can
Feel fondly about the past
And also be OK with it staying there.
Now I only look ahead
To what’s coming for me next,
Knowing nostalgia can poison the air
If you don’t handle it with care.
And anyway…
(CHORUS)
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34. |
Moral Mountain
02:55
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LYRICS
Quick to judge,
Slow to budge
From your fixed positions.
Have you nixed intuition?
Don’t try to clean my face
With dirt under your fingernails.
Life is not a race
To the top of Moral Mountain.
Prone to preach,
Orate your feats
From a stage of ones and zeros,
Unleash your rage like a hero.
Don’t try to clean my face
With dirt under your fingernails.
Life is not a race
To the top of Moral Mountain.
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35. |
Evil People
03:13
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LYRICS
See that thing flopping on the ground?
That’s my heart.
All the evil all around
Tears me a part.
(CHORUS)
What can I do about it
When all the world is crowded
With evil people,
With evil people?
To think that my children will face
A world like this.
I wish there was a light-switch to chase
Off the darkness.
(CHORUS)
(CHORUS)
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36. |
Sleepwalker
04:48
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LYRICS
I know it feels safe
To let somebody else make your mistakes
But it feels better
When you untether your mind
And think for yourself.
(CHORUS)
Sleepwalker,
Open your eyes
And choose your own path.
The sweet talkers
Wear a disguise
To cover a current of wrath.
I know how easy it is
To shut off your head and swim with the fish
But it’s more satisfying
When, instead of dying, you let
Your mind live.
(CHORUS)
(CHORUS 2)
Sleepwalker,
Shake awake
And move against the tide.
The sweet talkers
Do what it takes
To get you on their side, asleep.
Sleepwalker,
Don’t sleepwalk anymore.
Sleepwalker,
Throw wide your mind’s door.
I know it’s in you to have your own dreams.
I know you know not everything’s as it seems.
I know it’s in you to have your own thoughts.
I know you know your mind’s not meant to rot.
Sleepwalker,
Don’t sleepwalk anymore.
Sleepwalker,
Throw wide your mind’s door.
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37. |
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LYRICS
There’s a body in the floe.
There’s a ticket to the show.
There’s no guaranteed halo.
There’s some fear in letting go.
There’s some fear in letting go.
There’s a fog upon the glow.
There’s a tree that cannot grow.
There’s a poison in the low.
There’s some fear in letting go.
There’s some fear in letting go.
(CHORUS)
We all know
There’s some fear in letting go.
It’s fear that we all know.
There’s some fear in letting go.
There’s a crack along the bow.
There are only dull arrows.
There’s a question in the blow.
There’s some fear in letting go.
There’s some fear in letting go.
There’s a razor on the toe.
There’s a river that won’t flow.
There are blades in the pillow.
There’s some fear in letting go.
There’s some fear in letting go.
(CHORUS)
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