1. |
Clip You Out
02:00
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The empty grid gazes up
At the empty face up above
Worn down and not a clue
The puzzle master and the fat she chews
Leaves ya mumblin’ and stumblin’
Where the numbers won’t live
Just her insinuations
And the answers you give
It fills in the puzzle but
It’s all up to her
Sometimes they settle
Sometimes astir
What goes where and
What makes the fit
You make speak the truth
But how well does it sit?
She’s the eye of her own storm
Be warned
The rose and the thorn
(gonna) Clip you out.
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2. |
Shut It All, Out (v. A)
02:18
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Boy at the bottom of the stairs
too many cares
a shroud, a crown,
in a bowl of black hair
puppet on strings
given plenty of hollow things
and off to the fort he goes
a place I know
built to shut it all out
cower in corners
scared of math
hiding behind the rock
at the top of the path
In space I am - safe to plan
a world around the bend
And I'm going to the tower
to take my revenge.
(I know how to toughen up - suck it up
'cuz stone don't tear
I know there's a place to go
and a way to get there)
Outdoor singing
Goin backyard
Harold's Chicken
on Mastercard
I know a place we can go - a place I know
to shut it all out.
With my guitar
I can shut it all out.
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3. |
Rock (v. 3)
01:57
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Sandinistas eatin’ Ranchitos
What the hell do we know
Speedin to Reno
All the way from Sausalito
I put 5 on Black
Seventy-three
Makin the scene
in my old jalopy
I was kicked to the bricks
Pulled up my stakes
Pinned it at 85
With the wobbles and shakes
(C’mon)
Rock with me, baby
Rock with me, girl
Rock with me, lady
Rock my world
So much profit in the prophets
I wish they’d just come off it
Her speech ain’t no sonnet
Ain’t no bee in her bonnet
About it. The past-dated dogma
Soakin in a sauna
While I’m playin dead like an iguana
Flyin outta Managua
You can’t pay me to lay low
Tell me something I don’t know
I beg yer pardon and say so
I’m the way the wind blows
(Darlin)
Rock with me, baby
Rock with me, girl
Rock with me, honeychild
(won’t you) Rock my world
Rock with me, baby
Rock with me, girl
Rock with me in the summertime
Rock my world.
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4. |
Parched Earth
04:21
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God spoke first
Then came the lions
The wind, the sea
The unborn dyin
The mess up ahead
And the sources cryin
About the untold dead
During the days of lyin
Some ask questions
When answers are given
Truth left long ago
Said it was quittin
Felt left out, so rarely used
Leave it to fiction who likes being abused
(And he’s good at it too.)
The animals shook
As the green went gray
History rewritten
In a single day
Penned from the hand
That carried the sword
The sun moves away
Darkness toward.
(Darkness towards)
The whole in the earth
The farmer sews
What once went there
Nobody knows
No crop circles
No drop-zones
Parched earth
Buckles at home
Parched earth buckles at home
The sun moves away, darkness toward
Parched earth buckles at home
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5. |
Sidewalk in Winter
04:10
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Pigs in the pen
Did it again
Lost in the wilderness
I begin
Youth is gone
Far less bold
What a crummy way to grow old.
(Chorus)
On the sidewalk in winter.
I’m on the sidewalk in winter,
And it’s fucking cold.
Aint goin down to defeat
Aint doin it on repeat
Ground’s too frozen to grow
Or to put my hands in concrete setting slow.
(Chorus)
Burned out. Confused.
The reasons are new
But not the way we abuse.
Go ahead and squeeze, and burn.
It’s my experience we never learn.
(Chorus)
Betray us our secrets
Our hereoes and weakness
What the hell am I doin this for
Aint no knockin at my door
(Chorus)
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6. |
Nujamb
02:25
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7. |
No Surprises
02:36
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A heart that's full up
like a landfill
A job that slowly
kills you
Bruises that won't heal
You look so tired
Un-happy
Bring down the government
They don't speak for us
And I'll take
a quiet life
a handshake
of carbon monoxide
And no alarms
And no surprises, please.
Only silence
Silence
And this is
my final fit
and this is
My final bellyache
No alarms
And no surprises.
Such a pretty house
Such a pretty garden
No alarms
And no surprises, dear.
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