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Lightning Song
04:20
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the very first snow is falling
it's been a long fall from the sky
the leaves are still blue, orange, yellow and red
they have the key to the sun
just like those animals pray
words not on a page
but written in the days
to the strangers in my blood
and the strangers in the sky
with their thoughts flying through time
and by the Head of Days
and by the sky's very eye
the lightning is born
both water in fire
and fire in water
the water does not
quench the fire
nor does the fire
dry the water
the lightning is brighter than the sun
softer than water and firmer than rock
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Amarillo
04:41
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Amarillo was the last town
I could really call home
I left Amarillo
I was 3 months old
Louisville, Damascus to Athens
Kansas City, Baltimore
between the towns
go the roads and the oceans
you carry what you own
My assassin weeps for me
somewhere in the Valley of Wounds
while my father builds a monastery
on the darkest face of the moon
my teacher's in the tower ringin'
the bells that toll doom
my brother died and left me
he hides in his tomb
my mother hears voices but
I know they ain't in her head
because my sister reveals the gold
hiding in the lead
my baby sees grey skies
behind sleeping eyes
while my used to be's
sing songs in the night
in each town that I go to
in each town I find
that the so called good
Lord is willing
but the creek is still gonna rise
that the Devil is so stinkin' rich
that nobody's poor
still someday I may never go home
to Amarillo
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Silence is Golden
03:57
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silence is gold
silence is golden
silence is gold
and silver song
city in the sun
city in the shade
city in the sphere
the sand and waves
sweep back the ocean
sweep back the ocean
sweep back the ocean
with a broom and stave
fog comes rolling
fog comes rolling in
fog comes rolling
and hides her name
she's looking for me
travels without cease
her name is morning
in gown of flame
silence is gold
silence is golden
silence is gold
and silver song
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4. |
Heart Healer
03:41
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last dollar's leavin' me again
I ain't surprised
we weren't friends
leavin' me for a lottery ticket
leavin' me for a bottle of gin
I'm lost in the noise with no way to tally the cost
to every heart still beatin'
broke or not's got to muscle across
the landscape of this planet
God-forsaken rage
every dollar in the world fuck'em
they're all the same
trembling Earth consuming flame
remembered and forgotten names
destroyed and re-arranged
loves lost and love's remains
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The Mind is a Trap
04:10
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can't stop the brakes are gone they melted off into ash
I cross the horizon right between the truth and the facts
this world is beautiful but the mind is a trap
sleepless dreamers lie awake beneath waves of rippling heat
alive and aware dreaming, never falling asleep
every moment of existence may be sheer insanity
be calm and be still
the Crescent Queen assembles her court in the darkening sky
her cryptic face a jigsaw puzzle of shadow and light
a glowing eye in the shadow of a ruined world
a corpse burning on the road of night
you got to check on the head arrangements all over the map
I tune into the radio I tune into the suicide stats
this world is beautiful but the mind is a trap
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Ancient Days
05:05
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the room was empty at dawn
pure mind absolved of form
strange music of instinct trace
a faint line of sight a hazy grace
ancient days
holy days
I can hear beyond the walls
but I can't see through them
to where desire's image is spoken
fear's rivers frozen
and memory's limits broken
ancient days
ancient days
in the garden of the Empress blows a breeze
poison blossoms swarm with bees
a love, forever new, reflection sees
Death, gone crazy, harvesting meat
a cryptic beauty stands before her door
dark figures passed out on the floor
bleeding hydenelum deep in the forest weeps
weeps for the secrets the Crescent Priestess keeps
ancient days
holy days
now the melted river flows by the light of The Star
Temperance of Souls pours from her jars
Strength brings peace to the screaming lion's jaws
as the Queen of Fire breaks curses and blesses the scars
ancient days
holy days
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Earthrise
06:20
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I'm traveling high inside of a raining cloud
lined in silver, drenched in sound
but the map below's gone blank redacted and blacked out
the rain pours down on the burial mound
sanity, like sand, slips through our trembling hands
as the music of extinction rolls over the land
lifetimes inside the spiraling staircase unwind
I'm traveling by night
to the day of light
at Earthrise
alive, she finds the comical Eluesis
center for commission on circular data at angular intervals of her mind
knock, knock, knocking from the other side of Death's door
tapping out the tempo in time
one, two, three, four
Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall, fall away
pack it all up again cause there ain't no place for you to stay
lifetimes inside the spiraling staircase unwind
I'm traveling by night
to the day of light
at Earthrise
Time wears a clock-faced mask but its melted on the altar
the glass is indeed half full but its blood not water
put on your death cap head for the blank spot on the map
travelin' hard from can 'til can't with my life in my hand
goin' up around the bend ridin' on them shifting sands
the time is infinitely beyond telescopic midnight in all directions
lifetimes inside the spiraling staircase unwind
I'm traveling by night
to the day of light
at Earthrise
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