1. |
I'm An Animal
02:16
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You could say it's my instinct
Yes I still have one
I don't second guess it
And yes, there are things that I'm still so afraid of...
But my courage is roaring like the sound of the sun
Cause it's vain about it's mane and will reveal them to no one
I'm an animal, you're an animal too
Pick up that rock, drink from that lake
I do my best but I'm made of mistakes
And there's still a few things that I'm sure of
I love you this hour, this hour today
And heaven will smell like the airport
I may never get there to prove it
But let's not waste our time thinkin' how that ain't fair
I'm an animal, you're an animal too
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2. |
Lady Pilot
02:26
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What?
Stars can't fight city lights
They've turned their backs on us
It's true today, I saw it from the plane
Aeroplanes were never built to fly
Down down down down
Don't look down
Don't look now
Crosshairs of our shadow trace the dam
Told that there were people trapped alive
Boulder City looks like coals in the fire
Cabin's perched by satellites
And now it's flying down
We've got a lady pilot
She's not afraid to die
It's true today, I saw it from the plane
We've almost finished reeling in the sky
Power lines once laced the heavens
Pima County looks like coals in the fire
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3. |
Halls of Sarah
03:50
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Childless widow of a nation
You cry like guns across the water
Yet we expect you to bring springtime
It isn't fair
Searchlights wither in your hair
You are a silent movie, Sarah
They build their industries around you
Diverting rivers of your hair
They're looking for their own reflection
You're left to die of exposure, Sarah
Sarah, with the beaten heart
Sarah, with the mouth of stone
Sarah, with the.
You are a silent movie, Sarah
Let her go the light is fading
I cry like guns across the water
She didn't ask to be your remake or your muse
We're parasites inside her blues
Sarah, with the beaten heart
Sarah, with the mouth of stone
I call but there is no one home
Sarah, with the beaten heart
Sarah, with the mouth of stone
I call but there is only echo
From a recording machine
Screaming "haunt your own vampire dreams!"
You see our poets
Do an odious business
Loving womankind
As lions love christians so
Who are you to deny?
Who are you to deny them, Sarah?
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4. |
Man
03:31
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I'm a man
That's what you raised me to be
I'm not an identity crisis,
this was planned
I'm a man
As in a citizen of Mankind
It's what kind of animal I am,
it's that simple.
I'm a man
and not just casually
I pull the barge full time
Your treehouse will not support me
I'm not the runt of the litter
fat-fingered bullies were no match for me
I still taste them in my teeth,
I'm a man.
I'm a man's man
I've always been
But make no mistake what I've invested in;
A woman's heart is the watermark
by which I measure everything
I'm a man
that's what you raised me to be
I'm not your identity crisis,
this was planned
I'm a man
You'll have to deal with me
My proxy is mine,
you'll deal with me directly
And if I'm dipshit-drunk on pink perfume,
then I am the Man in the fucking moon
Cause you didn't know what a man was
until I showed you.
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5. |
Star Witness
05:16
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My true love drowned in a dirty old pan
Of oil that did run from the block
Of a falcon sedan 1969
The paper said '75
There were no survivors
None found alive
Trees break the sidewalk
And the sidewalk skins my knees
There's glass in my thermos
And blood on my jeans
Nickels and dimes of the fourth of July
Roll off in a crooked line
To the chain-link lots where the red tails dive
Oh how I forgot what it's like
Hey when she sings, when she sings when she sings like she runs
Moves like she runs
Hey when she moves, when she moves when she moves like she runs
Moves like she runs
Hey there there's such deadly wolves 'round town tonight
Round the town tonight
Hey there there's such deadly wolves 'round town tonight
Round the town tonight
Hey pretty baby get high with me,
We can go to my sisters if we say we'll watch the baby"
The look on your face yanks my neck on the chain
And I would do anything
To see you again
So I've fallen behind:
Go on, go on scream and cry
You're miles from where anyone will find you
This is nothing new, no television crew
They don't even put on the sirens
My nightgown sweeps the pavement
Please don't let him die
Oh how I forgot...
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6. |
I Wish I Was The Moon
03:33
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Chimney falls and lovers blaze
Thought that I was young
Now I've freezing hands
And bloodless veins
As numb as I've become
I'm so tired
I wish I was the moon tonight
Last night I dreamt I'd forgotten my name
'Cause I sold my soul
But I woke just the same
I'm so lonely
I wish I was the moon tonight
God blessed me I'm a free man
With no place free to go
Paralyzed and collared-tight
No pills for what I fear
This is crazy
I wish I was the moon tonight
Chimney falls as lovers blaze
I thought that I was young
Now I've freezing hands
And bloodless veins
As numb as I've become
I'm so tired
I wish I was the moon tonight
How will you know if you've found me at last?
'Cause I'll be the one be the one be the one
With my heart in my lap
I'm so tired
I'm so tired
And I wish I was the moon tonight
I'm so tired
I'm so tired
And I wish I was the moon
I'm so tired
I'm so tired
And I wish I was the moon tonight
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I hear the tiniest sparks in the tenderest sound
Diving music, drowning the sound
waltzing with the hairs upon my arms
And your fire flood alarm, and you tremble
And you stumble, and you scrape up your palms
I can't stay here to hold your hand
I've been away for so long
I've lost my taste for home
And that's a dirty fallow feeling
To be the dangling ceiling
From the roof came crashing down
Peeling in the heat, vanish in the rain
The next time you say forever
I'll punch you in your face
Just because you don't believe it
Doesn't mean I didn't mean it
You never know when I'll show you the never
You never know when I'll show you the never
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8. |
Favorite
03:16
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Oh lie
I thought you were golden
I thought you were wise
Caught you returning
To the house you caught fire
But I know that I was your favorite
And I said Amen
Lies, found favor in heaven
And I at your side
And I never felt sorry
For those shimmering lies
When I laid down and cried
I was faking
And I said Amen
Last night I dreamt
That I hit a deer with my car
Blood from his heart
Spilled out onto my dress and was warm
He begged me to follow
But legions of sorrow defied me
Oh lie
I thought you were golden
I thought you were wise
When I caught you returning
To the house you caught fire
But I know that I'm your favorite
And I said "Amen"
Oh favorite
And I said Amen
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9. |
Hell-On
04:09
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God is not a contract or a guy
God is an unspecified tide
You cannot time its tables
It sets no glass or gables
God is a lusty tire fire
Its bristles scrape and strike the stage
A rock, paper, scissors' rage
Have mercy on the natural world
My voice is not the liquid waves
The perfect rings around a heron's legs
My voice is straight garroting wire
A stolen mile of fingerprints
Peeled the quiet from the dunes
Captured and re-spooled as ruin to be used
At a different time
My voice is a fracture
For shinbone's lust
Pounding barefoot ground
It lifts you up and sits you just
Just at sorrow's waterline
I drape you on tomorrow's plate
Fair as metal, marrow spilling
Not yours but mine
I'm an agent of the natural world
Don't you tell me I didn't warn you
That that's some gravity you ought not to play with
Don't you tell me I didn't warn you
That that's some gravity you ought not to play with
Nothing quite so poison as a promise
Nothing quite so poison as a promise
Nothing quite so poison as a promise
Nothing quite so poison as a promise
And me, I am not a mess
I am a wilderness, yes
The undiscovered continent for you to undress
But you'll not be my master
You're barely my guest
You don't have permission to take any pictures
Be careful of the natural world
Nature can't amend its ways
Boils along and then replays
Despite heartfelt springtimes of regret
The storms she still cries for days
Have mercy on the natural world
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10. |
Hold On, Hold On
02:46
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The most tender place in my heart is for strangers
I know it's unkind but my own blood is much too dangerous
Hangin' round the ceiling half the time
Hangin' round the ceiling half the time
Compared to some I've been around
But I really tried so hard
That echo chorus lied to me with its
"Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on"
In the end I was the mean girl
Or somebody's in-between girl
Now it's the devil I love
And that's as funny as real love
I leave the party at three a.m.
Alone, thank God
With a valium from the bride
It's the devil I love
And that's as funny as real love
And that's as real as true love
That echo chorus lied to me with its
"Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on"
That echo chorus lied to me with its
"Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on"
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11. |
Polar Nettles
02:24
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He takes his dinner in the bath
Love sickened and infirmed
The orderly found him there
Fileted on the marble stairs
Hat still in hand
His smoking remains
Blown out by a kiss from the Sunday scene
Sunday soon Sunday soon someday soon
Someday, someday, someday
His eyes are closed his mouth has named her rosary her lips and tongue
She is the centrifuge that throws the spies from the sun
The Sistine Chapel dated with the gattling gun
Someday soon
Oh the meadows set on him
Move like starlings of the clearing and tenor of a foggy tongue
The force field round his frosty hips
Whose shape recalls the wicked spade
That buried him but on his lips the last rites of man
Someday soon
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12. |
Wild Creatures
02:39
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When you catch the light
you look like your mother
It crushes me some,
just right from the side
When you catch the light
there's a flash of wild creatures,
before the Stone Age
of the preachers,
and the husbands,
and the wives
When you catch the light
the flood changes direction,
and darkens the lenz
that projects my disguise
As you fight along-side,
you'll discover my weakness
I'm not fighting for your freedom,
I am fighting to be wild.
"Hey, little girl, would you like to be
the king's pet or the king?"
"I'd choose odorless and invisible,
but otherwise I would choose the king.
Even though it sounds the loneliest..
and my brother's hands would poison me."
"Hey, little girl, would you like to be
the king's pet or the king?"
"I'd choose odorless and invisible,
but otherwise I would choose the king,
Even though it sounds melodious..
there's no mother's hands to quiet me."
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13. |
Furnace Room Lullaby
02:53
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All night, all I hear, all I hear's your heart
How come, how come
I twisted you over and under to take you
The coals went so wild as they swallowed the rest
I twisted you under and under to break you
I just couldn't breathe with your throne on my chest
All night, all I hear, all I hear's your heart
How come, how come
So far under the bed
Into the beams you've gone
I've gone, you've gone
I'm wrapped in the depths of these deeds that have made me
I can't bring a sound from my head though I try
I can't seem to find my way up from the basement
A demon holds my place on earth 'till I die
All night, all I hear, all I hear's your heart
How come, how come
So far under the bed
Into the beams you've gone
I've gone, you've gone
All night, all I hear, all I hear's your heart
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14. |
A Widow's Toast
01:36
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Specters move like pilot flames
Their widows toast at St. Angel
Better times collide with now
The tears were warm, I feel them still
Their heat to vapor and disperse
And cloud our eyes with weary glaze
You raise your glass and may exclaim
"I'll put my hands on the truth by God"
But it's faster, love, than you and me
Faster than the speed of gravity
That's how it catches you from falling
And how it always slips away
Specters move like pilot flames
Their widows toast at St. Angel
Better times collide with now
And better times
And better times are coming still
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15. |
Deep Red Bells
04:03
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He led you to this hiding place
His lightning threats spun silver tongues
The red bells beckon you to ride
A handprint on the driver's side
It looks a lot like engine oil and tastes like being poor and small
And Popsicles in the summer
Deep red bells, deep as I've been done
Deep red bells, deep as I've been done
It always has to come this
Red bells ring this tragic hour
We've lost sight of the overpass
The daylight won't remember that
When speckled fronds raise round your bones
Who took the time to fold your clothes
And the Valley of the Shadow
Deep red bells, deep as I've been done
Deep red bells, deep as I've been done
Where does this mean world cast its cold eye
Who's left to suffer long about you
Does your soul cast about like an old paper bag
Past empty lots and early graves
Those like you who lost their way
Murdered on the interstate
While the red bells rang like thunder
Deep red bells, deep as I've been done
Deep red bells, deep as I've been done
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16. |
This Tornado Loves You
03:19
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My love, I am the speed of sound
I left them motherless, fatherless
Their souls they hang inside-out from their mouths
But it's never enough
I want you
Carved your name across three counties
Ground it in with bloody hides
Their broken necks will line the ditch
'Til you stop it, stop it
Stop this madness
I want you
I have waited with a glacier's patience
Smashed every transformer with every trailer
'Til nothing was standing
65 miles wide
Still you are nowhere
Still you are nowhere
Nowhere in sight
Come out to meet me
Run out to meet me
Come in to the light
Climb the boxcars to the engine through the smoke into the sky
Your rails have always outrun mine
So I pick them up and crash them down
In a moment close to now
'Cause I miss, I miss, I miss, I miss, I miss
I miss how you'd sigh yourself to sleep
When I'd rake the springtime across your sheets
My love, I am the speed of sound
I left them motherless, fatherless
Their souls they hang inside-out from their mouths
But it's never enough
My love
I'm an owl on the sill in the evening
But morning finds you
Still warm and breathing
This tornado loves you, this tornado loves you
This tornado loves you, this tornado loves you
This tornado loves you
What will make you believe me?
This tornado loves you, this tornado loves you
This tornado loves you, this tornado loves you
This tornado loves you
What will make you believe me?
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17. |
Winnie
03:49
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I'm here to tell you a story
I'm here to tell you a lie
My poetry's weak and I know it
I was dropped dead sad and crazy sometimes
So I fucked off, wayward canon to the sea
On land I was just an appetite
All that started as a joke, now it ruled me
Sick on chronic mathematics
I just wanted to feel music
A fever delivered me from the flue
The night hag's hands spread lovingly
Pulling the cape from the sunrise
Revealing a bank of warships called she
Less Warlike then reckless, I realized
No weapons were drawn that I could see
Save the blazing stare of the captain
Who held lightning captive frim in her teeth
So I looked off the edge of the world
I saw the girl who changed everything
That's when I met Winnie
I wanted to be her sailor's tattoo
She sang me a song that was too sad for some
Struck up the band and filled up her lungs
Her mouth was sharp as the rib of a star
As She told no truths
That would break our own hearts
We were warriors!
We clothed ourselves in the deaths of our enemies
Who'd no respect for the wild
Warriors!
Long before hog wire safari park husbandry
And the joy ran through us like a welders flux
We just wanted to be music
The joy ran through us like a welders flux
We just wanted to be music
Her gravity pulled up my sad remains
Into the curve of cunning bow
I've loved you so long, Winnie
I want to be your sailor's tattoo
I've loved you so long, Winnie
Blurring softly into you
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18. |
Night Still Comes
03:47
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My brain makes drugs that keep me slow
A hilarious joke for some dead pharaoh
But now, not even the Masons know
what drug will keep night from coming
There are so many tools
that are made for my hands
But the tide smashes all my
best-laid plans to sand
And there's always someone
to say its easy for me,
but I revenged myself
all over myself,
There's nothing you can say to me
You never held it at the right angle
you never held it at the right angle
catch a, catch a, catch a, catch..
a falling star,
but wash your hands of it
catch a, catch a, catch a, catch..
a falling star,
because you can't hold it.
Did it poison my food?
Is it cause I'm a girl?
If I puked up some sonnets,
would you call me "a miracle"?
I'm gonna go
where my urge leads no more
swallowed, waist-deep
in the gore of the forest
A boreal feast
let it finish me, please..
Cause I revenged myself
all over myself,
There's nothing you can do to me
You never held it at the right angle
you never held it at the right angle
catch a, catch a, catch a, catch..
a falling star,
but wash your hands of it
catch a, catch a, catch a, catch..
a falling star,
because you can't own it.
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19. |
Maybe Sparrow
02:37
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Maybe sparrow you should wait
The hawks alight till morning
You'll never pass beyond the gate
If you don't hear my warning
Notes are hung so effortless
With the rise and fall of sparrow's breast
It's a drowning dive and back to the chorus
La di da di da di da
La di da di da di da
Oh my sparrow it's too late
Your body limp beneath my feet
Your dusty eyes cold as clay
You didn't hear my warning
Maybe sparrow it's too late
Moonlight glanced off metal wings
In a thunderstorm above the clouds
The engine hums a sparrow's phrase
For those who cannot hear the words
For those who will not hear the words
For those who will not hear the words
La di da di da di da
La di da di da di da
Maybe sparrow
Maybe sparrow
Maybe sparrow
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20. |
Things That Scare Me
02:30
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Fluorescent lights engage
Blackbirds frying on a wire
Same birds that followed me to school
When I was young
Were they trying to tell me something
Were they telling me to run
The hammer clicks in place
The world's gonna pay
Right down in the face of God and his saints
Claim your soul's not for sale
I'm a dying breed who still believes
Haunted by American dreams
Haunted by American dreams
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21. |
The Tigers Have Spoken
02:41
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They shot the tiger on his chain
In a field behind the cages
He walked in circles 'til he was crazy
And he lived that way forever
And he lived that way beside them,
Separate from the other tigers
He did not know another tiger
They shot the tiger on his chain
In a field behind the cages
He walked in circles 'til he was crazy
And he lived that way forever
And he lived that way forever
Just as long as he could remember
If he'd wanted to remember
It was the last time he had felt alive
When he saw that brown-haired lady
She fed him with a bottle as a baby
And he recalled her face and smile
They shot that tiger on his chain
They shot the tiger on his chain
They shot the tiger on his chain
They shot the tiger on his chain
They shot the tiger on his chain
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22. |
Set Out Running
03:00
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Want to get it all behind me
You know everything reminds me
I can't be myself without you
Want to crawl down deep inside
The springs inside the mattress
Where I cry my dirty secrets
'Cause I just can't shake this feeling
That I'm nothing in your eyes
And if I knew heartbreak was coming
I would've set out running
Past the city houses
And the ditches on the highway
Weave between the seasons
Under bridges in the valley
'Til the winds out on the prairie
Whipped the tears from my eyes
Want to get it all behind me
You know everything reminds me
I can't be myself without you
Want to crawl down deep inside
The springs inside the mattress
Where I cry my dirty secrets
'Cause I just can't shake this feeling
That I'm nothing in your eyes
Well if I knew heartbreak was coming
I would've set out running
Across the muddy river
And the smokestacks on the bank
Swallow that horizon
Hunger beyond hunger
'Til the cloudy blue Pacific
Took the air in my lungs
And if I knew heartbreak was coming
I would've set out running
'Cause I just can't shake this feeling
That I'm nothing in your eyes
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23. |
Oh, Shadowless
02:26
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