1. |
Honesty
04:30
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some would say
heroes are masters of faith
and breathe in disaster
with honesty
when our friends are lost
when our heads are gone
masters of faith
masters of fate
some would say
heroes are masters of faith
and breathe their answer
with honesty
when our friends are lost
when our heads are gone
masters of faith
masters of fate
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2. |
Goodbye Ernest
03:59
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we think of you often
but with such a fine line
why have the different thoughts
better forgotten
with the hindsight
time has given us
as if in the meantime
we came to know
the fury in the phrases
so many years now
past their best moment
but not too late
and all the monuments that find
the source of their power in the light
are in the land of the living
where flowers hum
for a child to come and pick
them out of the darkness
that always ends in a
'goodbye Ernest' (click)
eagles will be first to
find the leopard dead
on the snowcapped peak
while in the midheaven
a star just appeared
for anyone who chanced to see
have all the ones who've gone before
all but used up these chords
that we keep on singing
and when we sing
will we have to think of him
joining the ranks of
wildflowers on the wave of spring
all as he blankets the high green hills
while far away his tired questions
drift off to sleep
on dreams of escaping
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3. |
Mauve and Gold
06:03
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turn it upside down and inside out
to know you was to love you or have I found
that whatever I'm looking into now
I cannot say if it's real
I cannot gauge now if I feel
that the play of light and shadow on the wall
that this is how so many stories crawl
and I'd be one of many tortured souls
waiting on what would be told
the words could mean anything now
the names could be anyone else
and birds would still fly from their nests
at the first sign of distress
if I hammered out the melody for years
could on its strength it sail to the right ears
there might still be time to quell those fears
but all of that remains to be seen
all our lives are but a dream
how was I to know when I watched you go
you'd fly away on wings of mauve and gold
and I'd be one of those left behind souls
the words could mean anything now
the names could be anyone else
and birds would still fly from their nests
at the first sign of distress
on wings of mauve and gold
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4. |
Abraham's Bosom
05:58
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only listening to the drummer
only looking at the trees
holding the baby up into the breeze
slaying the dragons, restoring the land
Abraham's bosom when I'm done with all that
only looking at the drummer
only listening to the trees
catching glimpses of the lost tribe
but never getting to speak
keeping my mind off of what I don't have
Abraham's bosom when I'm done with all that
anywhere but here will push you all around the world
and all the places and the musics
made without you look at where they won't grow
mazes you go 'round in, in a whirlpool of souls
with everybody wondering where they are going
and the ones who know the truth
hear you say outloud that you do
but you don't know
it starts with a feeling you just can't shake
there's no reason for it but no mistake
your sigh just rides through the silent air
no one can help you, no one is there
when your steps took you up to the end of your life
you stood on the edge with it all behind
the light grew brighter as the world went black
and I was already on the other side
and there's a photograph at the end of the race
the maker hands you a happy face
as the golden city appears through the mist
but it's Abraham's bosom when I'm done with all this
anywhere but here will push you all around the world
and all the places and the musics
made without you look at where they won't grow
mazes you go 'round in, in a whirlpool of souls
with everybody wondering where they are going
and the ones who know the truth
hear you say outloud that you do
but you don't know
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5. |
Marvelous Unknown Things
05:48
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when Jane Austen found me
on the wrong side
of five and thirty
she did admit
marvelous unknown things
would still reach deep
into the plane you're on
if I'm the moon and I am waning
or I think I will
towards a void I fear is nothing
I will call it new
and I'll make it up to you
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6. |
Perdition
04:33
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did you get stuck on a logic
you could not move past
was it something as tragic
as a flower fading fast
I never told you to listen
to a fair-weather heart
on a road to perdition
tearing his soul his apart
I'm not going to heaven
if not everybody will
or what greater love than this:
to lay down your life for a friend
for you there's no harm in dwindling
down a winning road
paved with good intentions
as so many of them are
scaring the shit out of children
and acting a fool
perpetuating nonsense
just to name a few
are we an unopened flower
warming in the sun
but stuck on a logic
we could not move past
but whatever I've written
will fade in the sun
blow off with the wind and
will soon be gone
and I never told you to listen
to a fair-weather heart
on a road to perdition
tearing his soul apart
don't want to go to heaven
if not everybody is
or what greater love than this:
lay down your life for your friends
you go on and dwindle
down your winning road
paved with good intentions
as so many of them are
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7. |
Indestructible
04:40
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I'm mystified by the one
that had an impact on this stone of a man
that when worlds drifted apart
a light was shining on the dark of the waters
but the time was then
the place was there and we were friends
I don't love you less
than the beginning does the end
but I missed the tell tale signs
lights going out one by one in your eyes
the thoughts I couldn't divine
that were turning round and round in your mind
that the time was then
the place was there and we were friends
I don't love you less
than the beginning does the end
on the other side I'm going to find you
I'm going to thank you for a reason to live
I've made up my mind to put a fine point on good times
before once-in-a-great-whiles fade and recede
indestructible is the matter they say houses the soul
remaining in motion until
acted upon by some other will
the time was then
the place was there and we were friends
I don't love you less
than the beginning does the end
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8. |
Find Me, Mark Kozelek
06:15
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the songs are still floating around, my love
close enough for me to touch
but the good ones are few and far between
I gravitate toward the sweeter notes
pray that the music will save my soul
as I look through the door to that other world
secrets were one day imparted to me
in the twinkling hours of the early morning
the twilight taught me how to sing
now all the stars have seen
my bouncing around the galaxy
searching for something
all the notes I sing
redefine beauty
but require a piece of me
every door opens to future time
your head in the past gets you left behind
and there you'll stay with memory and buried dreams
where dim is the hope that one day you'll see
that once in a million anomaly
that once in a million exalting of the meek
and all I have seen
is the marriage of bewilderment to disbelief
and like the sight of smoke rising
I know one day the spreading flames
will come looking for me
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