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Marion
04:17
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I wonder why I let you in
you wouldn’t say
where you were going
from my front door
I wanted to hurt you
I know I did
but you took a part of me
kept a part of me
while you were gone.
You should try shutting your mouth
once in a while
I was in love
And it’s all over now
but I remember singing
“California Dreamin’”
living like two gypsies
walking in the rain
letting it wash our bones
I’m so tired of making sense
too tried to try
so drop the whole charade
of mystic innocence
it goes to show
it’s been too long
Marion,
I’ll let you know
when I’m gone.
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2. |
Do-Si-Do
03:28
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I’m slipping out of something
I can’t leave behind
I’m sure you wouldn’t wanna know
slumped out across the border
Neath the ole’ dog star
From his remains a poplar grows
I don’t need what’s left of me
You just take it all for free
Well known in another lifetime
To steal the smile of a saint
What a wicked game to feel this way
Last seen in a Japanese maid cafe
In Mexico
Blowing smoke rings sadly in the twilight glow
I don’t need what’s left of me
You just take it all for free
I dreamed this place before
I can blink it all away
Blow a wish to a wiz who won’t look back
To barely catch himself
Slip into the reservoir
And come up slack
I don’t need what’s left of me
You just take it all for free
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3. |
To Dance With You
02:21
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Oh, to dance with you
Oh, what I would do
Diana, you pierced my heart
In a motel room in Virginia.
Oh, to dance with you
Slow, like I used to do
In a motel room in Virginia,
Diana.
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4. |
Pure Violence
04:14
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All I wanna do
is slip away from you
but I don’t ever stray
and this feeling just grows stronger every day
she’s the half-moon riding my broken jaw
she’s out there in space, above all love, beyond all law
I’ll read you the story of the eye,
and feed you cosmopolitans ’til you die
the exasperated sun
her insomnia tongue
trying to pry loose
your snaggletooth
Playing savage tricks on your future self
slip off this skin and catch a brighter shell
I’ll read you the story of the eye
and feed you cosmopolitans ’til you die
I’m all shook up and no one else can see
and i’m not feeling sorry, should i be?
better luck wishing on the last remaining star
she never could help taking everything too far
I’ll read you the story of the eye
and feed you cosmopolitans ’til you die
I’m all shook up and no one else can see
but i’m not feeling sorry, should i be?
Aw, should I?
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5. |
Rosie
03:42
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By Alex Riaboff
You are my hummingbird
thought I could be your tree
set off from the barflies
you danced like a candle to me
If you give something
say it was for nothing
I searched for sunflowers
my whole garden was green
Take care, Rosie
you would hardly know me now
that’s alright
we’ll always have Guernville anyhow
I’d watch the sunset
Ocean Beach, parked with you
You’d pull me in
as the sea gave its blue to you
Take care, Rosie
you would hardly know me now
farewell, friend
think of you, coming down.
Memories can’t wait
to be forgotten
you have changed
when I close my eyes.
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6. |
Homemade Songs
03:46
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By the late, great Bobby Charles
You asked me if I think I’ll ever
Make it back down home
I doubt it ‘cause I know I
don’t belong
I think I’m gonna stay right here
Cause here’s where I belong
Stayin’ stoned and singin’
Homemade songs
I only know one thing for certain
That I’ve been down so long I’m hurtin’
You never could accept my ways
To you I’m always wrong
Forget about the past now
Cause it’s gone
You wonder how I spend my time
And how I get along
Stayin’ stoned and singin’
Homemade songs
I only know one thing for certain
That I’ve been down so long I’m hurtin’
You never could accept my ways
To you I’m always wrong
Forget about the past now
Cause it’s gone
You wonder how I spend my time
And how I get along
Stayin’ stoned and singin’
Homemade songs
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I woke up one morning
Thinking you’d already gone
And the thread you left me holding
Was a thin and painless song
but when your whole routine’s
to never play a room again
You’ve got to hit the road
Before you find out where you’ve been
I was on the outside
I was never looking in
and that’s as close I ever came
to all your twirling friends
but as I recall you were looking good
in an exotic fighting stance
When you told me that not everyone
Deserves a second dance
you led me by the hand
Face to the ground
I won’t be around
It’s always sunny
When I find out
But let’s keep that between you, the driver and me
When we met I was the last
Blues maestro in the Northern World
And you were just another
Very strange enchanted girl
Your saluto romano
Stirred a beehive flown by fists
I caught them all between my teeth
All for to earn your kiss
They say the moon leads dreamers by its phase
And I don’t know that’s true
but I’m all through with games
and chasing anyone but you
So when you’re living like a heifer
In sad blue jacuzzi fields
iIl teach you how to walk away
you’ll tell me how that feels
And I’ll learn from you
Face to the ground
I won’t be around
It’s always sunny
When I fall down
But let’s keep that ‘tween you the driver and me
Now folks just roll their eyes
at all your won’t-get-fooled-again’s
and mom and dad just turn their heads
don’t ask me where i’ve been.
‘cause since you left the city’s
been exactly like you said
I wish I was back in Reno
But hey, I’d take being dead
Forget what I just said,
Face to the ground
If I come around—
Hey, what’s so funny?
You laugh too loud
But let’s keep that between you the driver and me.
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8. |
Map of the Stars
02:17
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On a dead-end town
Another sun goes down
Franzen shotguns another beer
Shallow grave on the shore
Old friends close their doors
Your eye’s a hurricane of tears
Moonbeam shining on a Saturday night
Here comes one last chance to make things right
And you blew it.
Losing the plot
How does this one go again?
Delaney won’t you change the tune?
I don’t know
But I’ve been sold
There’s a bright future in your doom
I was grazing on the past like a skipping stone
Back on the right side of being alone
Did you know you were taking a fall?
Could I ever be myself at all?
Two symmetrical trees
The ghosts of honey bees
A cage for you and me to roam
How will you know where you are?
What good’s a map of the stars
If you can’t find your way home?
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9. |
Mariana
03:36
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Mariana,
I know you have a very nervous mind
Hey, I do too
And if you reach for me I won’t be hard to find
But baby don’t call
Your second hand news taped up on the wall
A second chance
whatever awful circumstance demands
I’m still your fan, Mariana
Looking over,
The wasted years, the salty tails of doves
I miss who I used to be
Back when I wore the nervous chains of silly love
God, don’t let me change
I was just getting to know what still remains
Kid, don’t kid yourself
You still hold the reins, I’ll ring the bells
Tell me if I wear it well, Mariana
In Chicago
They say you made the best of what you got
It’s tough to realize
You put your weight in valentines and true love knots
Only a fool’d believe you
But baby, you could have my heart and eat it with a grapefruit spoon
This one makes you small
This one makes you don’t know clouds at all
Playing tetherball, Mariana.
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