1. |
Fire
03:57
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Head in hands, crawling on shoulders,
Little boy weeps he’s running in circles, looking for a man with any sort of plan
Pass the goldfish he could not see, half the man he was born to be
Now he’s on fire and gone away, away.
One by one, two by two,
So what do you you want to do? the sense?
Makes no sense, present tenses.
Three by three, four by four
He wants revenge and so much more
The bodies are repining up with the dead , bled.
Political promises are never, kept, social stream lines of property and wealth
Giving him the unease, through the red disease
So he's moving on to another place, different religion bombs the same, now he’s on fire and gone away, way up!
Just suicidal bomber,
Just a masochist follower,
Chauvinistic follower,
Suicidal bomber
Just a masochist follower,
Suicidal bomber,
Just a chauvinistic follower,
Suicidal bomber
Bomb the same just another day
Another flag on another grave
Certain things in shallow graves
Its coming back up round again
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2. |
Lighten The Load
03:34
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3. |
Desert Walkin'
03:22
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Sam walk in, sam I am,
Welcome here for a long stay, sam I am
Five to ten he’s getting nervous,
Millions more like him in the twilights observing,
Now where do we go
As he floats back into space,
Walls of feeling on his face,
They all remain the same.
While he’s desert walking, he’s desert
Desert walking, he’s desert
Desert walking,
He ain't coming home,
Desert walking
Now listen here sam, sam I am,
The blood runs though the bad lands, into the sands
Quarter to eight,
He’s getting irate,
We watch on the TV,
While the truck lines on the way,
Now where do we go?
And now he’s opposed, just a broken man with his soul
See all he wants is more
And its me, I won’t see the waves crashing past the waves
He’s desert walking, he’s desert
He's desert walking, he’s desert
He's desert walking, he ain’t coming home
desert walking, wow!
Im going back where I came from,
I'm going back to the desert
Desert walking, he’s broken,
Broken he’s still walking,
Walking, he’s still crawling,
Crawling, he’s still crawling home
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4. |
Until You Turn Blue
04:19
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Hey, things didn’t work out like we planned,
maybe a house with some green land
I’m still living life through you, through you
And hey, hair clips and empty photographs
Stained and burned on the mattress
Where we slept, hand in hand,
and with a life line on the way
Still I’ll hold your hand until you turn blue, oh baby
Ya I’ll hold your hand till you turn blue, oh darlin’
Ya I’ll hold your hand
Just wait, thoughts and history surround me,
Smiles of friends and family are pulling me through,
Cause all I need, all I need is you.
Smiles burn through the whispering stars, long locks of your lucid hair
Beware the ghosts, she’s calm enough, calm enough to go
Still I’ll hold your hand until you turn blue, oh baby
Ya I’ll hold your hand till you turn blue, oh darlin’
Ya I’ll hold your hand
Hold your hand till you turn blue
You see, happy and sad dreams keep me the same,
A stained counter puts my heart in a cage
Hatred torches me in a chair for days
Last list, age coming up quick and I'm burning fast
No and I'm burning fast
No and I'm burning fast
No I'm burnIng fast
Turn blue oh baby, ya I’ll hold your hand until you turn blue, again
Ya I’ll hold your hand until you turn blue, blue, blue.
Hold your breath!
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5. |
Goodbye
03:04
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It all started, like one more day, with a final verdict coming in a dark and burnt out bang.
Oh nothing planned, with a speeding car driving in the furthest parked car left lane
It went a flame, with a memory passed while in the present, going up with that old dame
And you see, his whole being
Its like he never ever even belonged
As he sits, and waits to ponder it,
while he waves and says goodbye
Now he finds himself, all alone, with no-one to come with, or make his house his own home
One last step, left, he takes a long look at his serenity and sunlight
No church or puy, with an open view, still trying to be found while taking a closed look down
And you see, his whole being
Its like he never ever even belonged
As he sits, and he waits to ponder it,
while he waves and says goodbye
Oh goodbye, oh while he waits and sits there
And says goodbye, oh goodbye,
I'll be waiting there sitting on the other side
The crashing glass in that midnight trans am,
Left his love in the clear blue light,
on whispered dark dream land
Got one step to heaven, and another foot in the floor
A 12. gauge buried under the floor boards,
While still looking for so much more
Her last wishes enjoyed, but they never occurred
To keep living without her, she’d say, voice lost and unheard
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6. |
Border Dream
02:15
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South American dream, on a northern trip
Centred hit of arrival, still the fear of survival
Taken up with aeroplanes, brought down with a little dream
Empty hands in shallow graves, moth to a flame
Work for almost anything, love our families just the same
Hate with government to blame, we’ll take aim
We, have a voice, voice
Speak. Choice, choice
From the machete gun, boy you better run
Away from the sun, ya you turn to fractions
Hear me boy and run, run, run
Nothing left to lose, ya blood on the sun
Fills my soul, with my new life, and my daily goal
Such a small fence to climb, pain, dollar silver in mind
Can’t see, I’m not blind, all things come in time
We’ll stay out of trouble for fear for being brought back here this year
Fight with food with three to a bed, not till your dead
We, have a voice
Speak. choice, choice
From the machete gun, boy you better run
Away from the sun, ya you turn to fractions
Hear me boy and run, run, run
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7. |
Snitch
04:05
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Starring right up at the ceiling, he sees his chains,
wrapped up in thought where he’ll be for days.
Jail cell, his hell, a beautiful sky with white clouds, in books only.
To see, his time, it goes back only in his mind, just trying, to find the snitch that left him failed and betrayed
Clapping hands in a mad panic, the snitch went to speak and told the jury all that need known.
Years go, choroid, hallowed little man lays in his jail room cold.
Thinking of lies, they were passed down from eye to eye just blaming the mole who rolled over, obeyed afraid
Last walk through an empty hallway, the priest speaks of final wishes as the little man spoke.
First plea, guilty, while walking out and open towards the gallows, he froze, he knows that time isn’t weighing on his side, the light, last breath obtained to your future delight, the fight, politely, set all your cursing venoms aside.
Its burning bright, the snitch was the flinch in reaction to your actions inside, the fight, the night you left me there, oh boy I cried, to your delight, dying here waiting for the wrong things to make right
Just a dead man walking, just a dead man, he’s trying to breath, just a dead man walking, just a dead man trying to breath, breath
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8. |
Grab The Wheel
03:44
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By the grab by the thread of it,
We might not have long to share,
I don’t know where we went wrong
Through the hills,
And through all we have,
But its in the trees we will ever be in love
Till it pushes and pulls at my last strings,
Severing something dying, all for nothing
Now the horizon is rising in her eyes,
Now I've seen the light,
Now I’ve seen the light
Now she’s gone away, nothing ever stays the same
On this long gone day, where you’re never safe from change
Change, change, change, change, change.
Bring it in these men,
But I don’t see,
How the needle bends so needlessly
Ever did, I don’t want to be alone,
Now its where we are, its never that far from the car
Digging through all I ever knew, all for you,
Now I've seen the light, now I’ve seen the light
Now she’s gone away,
Nothing ever stays the same.
On this long gone day
Where you’re never safe from change
Eats some breakfast,
Give me some rest,
Whip the ignorance from my hands,
Smoke a cigarette in the crowd,
Sit there and ill watch them as they all drown.
They all drown
They all drown
They all drown
They all drown, round, round
They all drown, round, round
They all drown, round, round
They all!
Now she’s gone away, nothing ever stays the same,
on this long gone day, where you’re never safe from change.
Change!
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9. |
Trip To Cairo
04:07
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Wake up with pain in my chest,
Tea, coffee, cigarette, helplessly beside my chest
Now breath, woah breath, c’mo and breath
Woke up in Saint Peterserberg, black foul rain hitting down on the church,
While I'm resting my weary eyes, for us to wake up in the sunlight
Now breath, woah breath, cmon and breath
You see I don’t care, where we go, anywhere, don’t take it slow
One direct flight and we’re losing light
So we’re going on home, on a church to Cairo
No sleep, sex in another bed,
Ecstasy laid by her lamp shades aids bed dress
Oh breath, oh breath
Past the last train to Amsterdam,
Blue and white took all I had,
Now I'm sleeping on this metal bed,
A nomad with no house, no rest
Now breath, woah breath
C’mon and breath, breath
You see I don’t mind anytime.
Just a bullet right between the eyes
Deep below until you see me low
When I'm going home
On a trip to Cairo, (trip around the sun)
We’re on a trip to Cairo, (trip around the sun)
Where on a trip
Where on a trip
Where on a trip to Cairo
Woah
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10. |
Midnight Waltz
03:31
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You got five different people telling you where to go
Saying I ain't got no soul, saying that so I repeat again
“Everything is new” my friend
So keep your eyes closed, keep your eyes high
Gatta see what’s walking on by
Never fear the mid waltz is here, just showing just what to fear
While understandably saying, (tell me all about it, tell me all about it)
Last warning will you please, (tell us when to quit, tell us all when to quit)
Understandably don’t, its all over now
Leave it alone, for one night long
You got ten different drugs making you feel like a boy, one big boy and toy
Take it down, take a look at yourself, what are you missing? Some relevance?
So leave your last note, forget to vote, take a long look at ya now
Never fear, mid waltz just showing just what to fear
While understandably saying, (tell me all about it, tell me all about it)
Last warning will you please, (tell us when to quit, tell us all when to quit)
Understandably don’t, until its all over now
Leave it alone, for one night long
As your worldwide fades, with you come tumbling down,
We’ll pick you up when you fall so long, and so on and so on
Now its 3am you got a note in your hand, saying I ain’t for pretend
Take it down, take a look at yourself, what are you missing, some pieces of yourself
So fall away, fall away, don’t know what to ever say
Midnight Waltz is here again, just showing just what you sayin’
While understandably saying, (tell me all about it, tell me all about it)
Last warning will you please, (tell us when to quit, tell us all when to quit)
Understandably don’t, until its all over now
Leave it alone, for one night long
As your worldwide fades, with you come tumbling down,
We’ll pick you up when you fall so long, and so on and so on
As your worldwide fades, with you, you come tumbling down
We’ll pick you up when you fall so long, and so on and so on.
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11. |
Ghost At The Gate
06:00
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Heaven doesn’t wait for no-one, endless,
Neither does hell, you gotta buy or sell,
Long awaited, hidden in basements, the trap door to my soul
Cause now the time, it rolls faster than these wind chimes,
To preach what you teach,
When you sink so long you gotta swim
Now I’ve been holding down for years,
Sleeping through my prayers, and its endless.
Living life through you singing out of tune,
But I'm calling, ya im calling
Now black and blue, long and pretty,
Never scared, not any pity, but bored so bored
Endless nights they seem the same,
Heavy verdict with eyes only glazed, its on the way
Cause now the time,
It flows on your mind,
Saying I don't know,
How this ol' life will go, I don't,
Masochisted, marriages in pavement,
Reap what you sow, and im rolling,
I'm rolling on.
Now I've been holding up my hand,
Playing with my band, and its endless.
Lense in a clearer view,
A mind sharper than view,
Still longing, ya im longing
Now burnt inside, air in lungs,
Burn, singe, repeating,
On the run, on the run
Maid inside, the cost of return,
Don’t know what you got until you burn,
Until you learn
Cause now the time, it flows on your mind,
And I don't know, how this ol life will go, I don't,
Oh masochisted, marriages in pavement,
Reap what you sow, and I'm rolling, I'm rolling on
Said out on the freeway, and she’s getting old
Said the lights of this city, she once called her old home
And she’s getting old, where all getting old
But she’s getting cold, ya she’s getting old and going up!
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12. |
Arc
03:31
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I’m just a Canadian kid, Arabian prince on this very ship
Im shoulder to shoulder with a mystery
The Swedish superstar minds the stern,
He’s thinking how long before this boat turns
We learn the melting pot, doesn’t burn, we learn
We fall half back, half massed
Oh half back and half massed.
Now they give you everything and tuck and hide
Sunshine and wine just the rebel life
Oh this midtown manner, never seemed so finer
But look below, the boots and the snow,
Beneath and the mud and gutters you find your soul
A fraction of the boy I use to know
We fall half back, half massed
Oh half back and half massed
Will you wonder and walk with me
Beyond the forest, beyond the trees
Oh
You verse me, me verses you, into infinity
You verse me, me verses you, into infinity
You verse me, me verses you, into infinity
We fall half back, half massed
Oh half back and half massed
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Evan W. Craig Edmonton, Alberta
written with love for god
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