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Under a Million Moons
04:41
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All that I failed to begin
Lifts away on summer wind
Only now, only this
Unravel every fist
Under a million suns
Under a million moons
We never left the room
Let it go
It’s not the time for you
There’s plenty more to do
We can’t know
Just keep yourself alive
Stay ready to survive
When all else fails us all
Fell from heights miles above the earth
Children now for all we’re worth
And the blood it drops
And the wretched hands
Burn the future where it stands
We led ourselves into an open jaw
We wouldn’t see what we saw
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California Everywhere
05:04
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You, the age of 9, stood still
While they pretended they were free
It struck you sudden and severe
The moment’s maw
The present’s pang
We are but little rivers with little gravities
Set to vastness
Sent to god
The smell of centuries of sand
We’ve razed the garden, razed it all
California everywhere
Fall in love after the cataclysms start
Tuck your head between your knees and sell your art
Your feet look dry so far
Golden frontiers in your father’s mind
Cops and cowboy hand-me-downs
Not roots but blood and blood
This was not a place of ours to waste
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Give
04:15
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Out of thin air
Gave some to a breath to measure, measuring me
Gave some to the paper chasing us off of the scene
Gave some to the heretofore and compositions of trees
Gave some to the sound of here on 17th, the Rorschach blot I’m underneath
Out of the clear blue
Gave some to the perfect pitch rustled under my feet
Gave some to your life, of which I’ve made myself unaware
Gave some to a burned out book without its ending to read
Gave some to the sound your hear when you hear me
A dozen plots I’m caught between
Inside he sleeps every night
The light of the sitcom strobes the wall
Laughter canned and scenery set
He dreams the sound of clouds made by the crew
Inside he sleeps every night
Til light from the window lifts his eyes
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4. |
Invisible Angel
04:22
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Invisible angel, indivisible me
Congregation tracing lines
Distant words in distant minds
I stood, unmoved, in a younger image of myself
All at once the children show
And I was switching all my clothes
To have faith in magic, faith in diamonds in the sky
Everything changes, let me change
You could be honest with yourself and let me go
Everything changes, let me change
I could be honest with myself and let you go
It’s time
Confrontations taking time
Just give me back my peace of mind
I thought I’d found a decent one
But it was just a dream
Now when I sing, I sing for free
I once was yours but now I’m me
How much could I give to you and still save myself
Invisible angel, individual me
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Custodians
04:03
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It took ten of your songs to walk me back home
Out of center city into rooms all alone
A bell sounded then, can’t be unrung
And I am the ghost of all that I’ve done
Here I am
Frozen at the end
The end is here when you forfeit every day
To custodians of fear
The sun across the moon
Are we angry or sad
And will we say thank you as they sell it all back to us
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Marigold & Moon
04:58
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Marigold was born in July
In the summer of god and ideals
Her mama was healthy and cried out in joy
The colors kept in heaven were revealed
Marigold sang me true love
Even before she could speak
She wrapped her little arms around this lonesome guitar
The one that my father gave me
Two years later came Moon
So constant, so bright up in our skies
She guided us through every ocean
Into the clearest, calmest waters of our minds
Moonie would grow to adore
Those relics of defiance that I spat
She says ‘fuck the police and every chain in this machine’
There exists no prouder a dad
Marigold & Moon shone through
Marigold & Moon I love you two
Just as the autumn fells the leaves
So I went the way of my old man
His heart took him from me and left my own empty
Untili that morning, brilliant, in July
Marigold & Moon you’re my life
I know you’ll sing your songs like I can hear
Your mama, she loves you
She’ll take good care of you
Unfasten one another from all fear
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I wanna read your mind and body (green light in the echo chamber)
I wanna raise my hand and speak (green light in the echo chamber)
I wanna taste the blood of lessers (green light in the echo chamber)
I wanna feast upon the weak (green light in the echo chamber)
I wanna share with you a story (green light in the echo chamber)
I wanna pin you to the wall (green light in the echo chamber)
I wanna love you in the daylight (green light in the echo chamber)
I wanna hate you in the dark (green light in the echo chamber)
I came here to show all my proof
I’ll move my feet when you follow me
I wanna blend into the water (green light in the echo chamber)
I wanna hear the rushing wave (green light in the echo chamber)
I wanna carve the land with pressure (green light in the echo chamber)
I wanna feel the mass take shape (green light in the echo chamber)
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Salt the Sea
03:25
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Show me the world put perfectly
Tell me what’s good, I’ll drown in speech
I cried enough to salt the sea
Heaven took my heart away
Fuck it all up, it sounded free
When no one’s around, I fall to sleep
Merrily, life is but a dream
Heaven took my heart away
It’s true
Never and forever mean the same thing now
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9. |
Someone Else's Voice
03:30
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Meet the new war
Just like the old war
I had the strangest thought today
Decades, thrashing, hide
Inside flesh, the flesh inside
How’d you get that deep sea color in your eye
They put a new coat down
To keep at bay what’s underground
One echo to another
As if someday I will not have done what I did
As if someone else’s voice could fall from my lips
It invents recompense
Meet the new smile
Just like the old smile, by and by
One hand to clean the other
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Apples
02:57
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Rolling around the turning lane
Suffering fools, running in place
Would you believe it’s all a game
Not to be naive, but I’ll save a space
I couldn’t cushion the fall for you
I couldn’t help it but fall for you and your gloom and your doom
Another round for goodness sake
Would you believe in yesterday
Holding our hands in outer space
Gravity kills without a trace
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