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April's Song
02:59
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April’s Song:
April, you settle in, a head full of ash
April, you’ve proven a thief and snitch
You said you were hungry and strapped for cash
April, you plucked out every last stitch
April, I’m bleeding; your seed in a coil
April, your needy, how you muscle the soil
April, I’m bleeding; your seed in a coil
April, your needy, how you muscle the soil
April, I’m sorry to choke you in bloom
My hands are the birds you’ve hustled away
April, the poets still argue for you
April, you’re ugly, but I’m gonna stay
April, I’m bleeding; your seed in a coil
April, your needy, how you muscle the soil
April, I’m bleeding; your seed in a coil
April, your needy, how you muscle the soil
April, I’m tired of singing your song
April, these notes have all come out wrong
April, I’m tired of singing your song
April, don’t worry; I won’t be long
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April, I’m sorry; April, I’m gonna stay…
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2. |
Skipping Stone
02:14
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Skipping Stone:
Listen when the light is low
You an hear them sing
A lovely song but you should know
there's just one thing
Probably best to stop your ears
Pass on beauty pass on tears
It will never leave you
You will never be along
It will lift you and will sink you
Like a skipping stone
Simply let it all float b
And never learn their song
Leave it all up to the sky
and let the days grow long
Probably best to stop your ears
Pass on beauty pass on tears
But if your blood is ready
For all this joy and pain
Let its course be steady
And find a new refrain
Now's the time to lend your ears
Sing the beauty; sing the tears
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3. |
Where the Outside Begins
04:28
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Where the Outside Begins:
I haven’t got the stomach for this
Someone better turn this wreck around
I can’t stop the radiator’s hiss
I can’t keep my friends out of the ground
You said you’d be here in the morning
Help me keep my insides in
It’s two a.m. and too much thinking
and I’ve forgotten where the outside begins
I give you a call but there’s no answer
I try to joke but I can’t pretend
You’re probably sleeping on your good year
You probably lost your goddamn cell again
I thought that I could find a way
to keep it close and learn its name
All I want now is distance
But somethings, man, they just won’t play the game
You said you’d be here in the morning
Help me keep my insides in
It’s two a.m. and too much thinking
and I’ve forgotten where the outside begins
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Tornadoes
03:12
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Tornadoes:
I've heard it said they're like trains from afar
that they change lives or pull them apart
See the dark tunnels as they finger the plains
They'll pluck you up and take you away
Do you remember when as a child you whirled
Sprawled on the ground of a drunken world
If you come to in a distant field
Upside down beside you with a single wheel
A rusty old barrow spinning like a roulette
Nothing like the poem but all creaky and wet
Do you remember when as a child you whirled
Sprawled on the ground of a drunken world
Down all around these fluttery husks
Clothes like angels, like there's nothing but luck
Do you remember when as a child you whirled
Sprawled on the ground of a drunken world
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5. |
Abeline
03:23
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Wasted my time trying to find a rhyme for “nothing”
You came near, whispered in my ear, “Stop hunting”
Go it all alone, gonna break my bones on a dream
When it gets worse I’ll stay my course you’ll see
I’m not so flexible
I’ll probably break before I bend
It’s all so inexpressible
I can’t pretend
Wind in my face can’t erase the sound of name
There’s a space inside and I can’t hide it away
A flurry of wings, it sings an ancient word
I can’t tell you but I know it’s true what I heard
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6. |
Monsters
02:14
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Monsters:
I'm keeping track of your monsters
Tiny ghosts you've mastered
Wild wolves running faster
I'm keeping track of your monsters
These creatures that you hold, so beautiful and strong
Let them wander from your songs and we will all be bold
I'm keeping track of your monsters
Giants that you harbor
Wicked tongues grown sharper
I'm keeping track of your monsters
You sacrifice the remedy for all you leave answered
You're kicking all the windows out until it's all to clear
You are your own monster
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7. |
Ancient Word
04:01
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Ancient Word:
Wasted my time trying to find a rhyme for nothing
Then you came near, whispered in my ear, “stop hunting”
Go it alone, gonna break my bones on a dream
When it gets worse I’ll stay my course, you’ll see
I’m not so flexible
I’ll probably break before I bend
It's all so inexpressible
I can’t pretend
The wind in my face can’t erase the sound of your name
There’s a space inside, I can’t hide it away
A flurry of wings, it sings an ancient word
I can’t tell you but I know it’s true what I heard
I’m not so flexible
I’ll probably break before I bend
I t’s all so inexpressible
I can’t pretend
Verse Outro
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8. |
Little Dreams
03:55
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Little Dreams:
There's oceans of oceans far too deep
There's a bible written on a blade of grass
There's a secret that only you can keep
You'll find it if you spin around reall fast
There's a pane of glass you can't see through
It's smeared with oil, the mess of what's true
There's many worlds that swim in your blood
The sky isclaughing at your little dreams
There's flowers that rise out of the mud
There are worms with universal schemes
There's a pane of glass you can't see through
It's smeared with oil, the mess of what's true
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9. |
Unspecting Isaac
04:44
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Unsuspecting Isaac:
Lately, I've been remember reading Fear and Trembling
Futon Mattress on the floor, a tiny room without a door
I'm no Knight of Resignation but I was filled with righteous indignation
Color of my pills, they keep changing
But the world's only getting stranger
I was told that I was soul sick another unsuspecting Isaac
I took wagon's way of life; for so many years I saw the knife
Turned myself then into a ram, the very pride of Abraham
Color of my pills, they keep changing
But the world's only getting stranger
Many thought that I was bragging when I climbed down off that wagon
But I coudln't be what I resembled: I listened closely then to how I trembled
I gave up on the way of praise; I walked into a kind of faith
Color of my pills, they keep changing
But the world's only getting stranger
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10. |
Come on In
04:27
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Come on in
Come on in, she said
and take off your coat
There’s no way back
from the end of a rope
Come now take hold
of the moon on a string
If I can sell you this
you’ll buy anything
Love, it never ends X3
It can never be our friend
The broom is broken
there’s dust along the floor
Get on your knees boy
and feel for the door
The fire, it eats
your words into ash
You better make it quick
or we’ll never find the stash
Love, it never ends X3
It can never be our friend
Come on in, she said
and sit by the fire
That look in your eyes says you think I’m a liar
But I will never give you up
and I will never turn you in
The wind it will end
but I can only begin
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11. |
Pam's Song
03:55
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Pam’s Song:
I wish that I tried a little harder
to get to know you better
There’s so much that I’d like to say
but I know you’d tell me it’s OK
Lions and ponies and hummingbirds
Your smile it outshines all of our words
Your smile it outshines all of our words
I know regret is so hollow
A path that you’d never follow
And I can see your smile
How it urges us all into tomorrow
Lions and ponies and hummingbirds
Your smile it outshines all of our words
Your smile it outshines all of our words
You live in all that you love
but we still wish you were right here
You call us all to rise above
whatever it is we might fear
Lions and ponies and hummingbirds
Your smile it outshines all of our words
Your smile it outshines all of our words
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