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Lights Down
You can say you owe me
You can say you can’t escape
You can say you’re lonely
Oh but it’s lights down
I don’t think you know me
And I don’t think you understand
What it takes to show me
All these metaphors
I can’t take
Measure me in honest ways
You look at me with distant eyes
La la la la la
Well the city can do anything
You’re locked inside this diamond ring of hope
La la la la la
Lights Down
You can say you owe me
You can say you can’t escape
You can say you’re lonely
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The Factory
03:31
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The factory, it calls me to sleep
The stolen lights abound in my dreams
I don’t care if you ever call me again
I was happy when you squeezed my arm and shook my hand
But I am a dying breed
I spend my years on the kitchen floor
And never open the door
The factory, it calls me to sleep
When everyone is supposed to feel awake
Didn’t you ever see the light we did make?
Didn’t you ever see the light we did make?
We did make
But now you’re back in Daddy’s arms again
Just sit back and look over scum like me
But you said, “Can’t we...Can’t we get out?”
I’m waking up
I’m waking up, Carina
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Good Lives
04:47
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The front that you lead on the right
Is giving up good lives
The front that you lead on the right
Is giving up good lives
The song that you sing in your soul
Is somebody stirring
The wrong that you bring to the fold
Has led to the blurring
So what?
It has taken me all this time
But I don’t see for what
Come home a moment to find
The champagne and the dust
So lay me down
Well I’m calming down
Just to see what should have been
You spin me around
The turquoise in the sea
The world that you see in your brain
Is making me nervous
The lies that you lead in disdain
Will never be serviced
So what?
It has taken me all this time
But I don’t see for what
Come home a moment to find
The champagne and the dust
So lay me down
Well I’m calming down
Just to see what should have been
You spin me around
The turquoise in the sea
The front that you lead on the right
Is giving up good lives
The front that you lead on the right
Is giving up good
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When Nina Stays
03:50
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I’ve waited so long
I’ve been so wrong
Reading patterns in the stars
And I’ve come so far
That I’ve run away
To be near to where you are
And the traffic signs they all repeat
But when Nina stays
She’s got a smile that’s so complete
With unbelievable eyes
That the traffic signs they disappear
And they never remind
Me of the life
I just left
Behind
I met her back in ’93
Couldn’t understand what she did to me
Took my boots off in the yard
But now I’m older, I must say
It gets quite lonesome every day
The new apartment with the old guitars
But from out of town she reappeared on a distant train
The Metro North Long Island Sound
To the Brooklyn J
And without a sound stepped up to me
She remembered my name
From now on
I hope that
Nina stays
I ran into a ditch you passed along the road
Ran into the forest witch
And she said,
“Turn away from it all
Baby, you must run”
But I’m getting ever close to you
You can’t same that I’m not
So I will tell you what I’m gonna do
Scream at the top that, “I will see this through”
I will see
Yes, we will see
Yes, we will
So pick me up once again
Push my back against the wall
Help me understand this friend
Who’s above them all
Well she took my hand and she held my nose
And she shook my face
Well, I can’t stand this any longer
So what can I say?
If good looks was a queen
You’d have been an ace
From now on I hope that
Nina stays
Well she took my hand and she held my nose
And she shook my face
Well, I can’t stand this any longer
So what can I say?
If good looks was a queen
You’d have been an ace
From now on I hope that
Nina stays
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I will save paper if you just come home soon
I will play easy if you just release these omens you love
I will take on every beggar to steal your perfume
I will catch up on the voices that you hear in the afternoon
And I can say I was once underground for a while
You can say anything: whatever it takes me to make you smile
You would have to be crazy to live like we do
You would have to stay faithful to the lies that your dreams make true
But no one signed on to anything but your love
And I still feel like you don’t cry
So if you think you’ve got the time tonight
I know the time is never right
But I’ll help you feel no shame
You think about the ones you love
And feel the heat up above
Well, I’ll help you feel no pain
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It’s been waiting on a last train
I’ve been standing at your coroner home
On my way down I would slouch down
I was underneath a million moons
And they changed amidst the seasons
And it came down on an airplane
And it brought me to my senses
And it brought me to my knees
And it waits amidst the breezes
It’ll rain down on the trees of a lucky one
Who sings songs of the sad and the countdown
And it breeds amongst the ashes
Spilling seeds into another core
Oh, and it came down to the Earth now
Oh, it’ll rain upon the Earth now
It’ll creep into your heartstrings
You will dream another dream that you dreamt before
Out of ash will rise a dust song
Out of ash we’ll write the dust songs
And we’ll breed amongst the ashes
Spilling seeds into another core
Oh, and it came down to the Earth now
Oh, it’ll rain upon the Earth now
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The Mirror
04:25
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Well, I don’t care if your girlfriend’s back
You stand up forwards
She stands right back and you stare
Well, okay
A lot of things are okay
The dirty heat and the sweat from the steam
Make a steamship run
But it makes my dreams to seem
Like they’re gone
But they’re coming
Still you won’t break down
Down the mirror
Still you won’t break down
Down the mirror
So many years have followed me here
They make up the wall
The wall which I hang this mirror
The wall
That I hold
And love it has come, it has kissed, it has run
It gives me solace
It gives me hope in the end
That my love
Will come again
Still you won’t break down
Down the mirror
Still you won’t break down
Down the mirror
Still you won’t break down
Down the mirror
Still you won’t break down
Down the mirror
The vanity plates and the pride of the soul
Comes out your actions
Makes up the food in your bowl
And everything she said means she will come back
If I stand up forwards
And turn my back to the glass
Well, okay
I can do it
Still you won’t break down
Down the mirror
Still you won’t break down
Down the mirror
Still you won’t break down
Down the mirror
Still you won’t break down
Down the mirror
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I will stand in winter
With my thumb into the wind
Back against an icy forest
Where you return to again and again
And I will tear my heart out
I will bare my bones
I will light this lonesome candle slowly
For to show that I go it alone
So don’t look back and don’t you try
To see me crying
Crying
Crying
Crying in love
I will bolt the locks
And I will slam the door
I will burn the memory of you laughter
When we tore what you wore on the fourth
Crying
Crying
Crying
Crying in love
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9. |
The Cast Is Coming Home
04:27
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Stick, the transmission
Found his roll
I kick him to glisten
I found my soul
But friend, won’t you find me?
I’m a slow ride home
He waits when the time is right
Just lays in my room
She comes back to kiss him
He doesn’t know
Yeah, and he shouldn’t know
That the bastard she’s seeing
Has oh so many needs
But oh, won’t you fill the void
Well, I quit the transmission
Well, what do you know?
She goes home and quits him
Still, I found my soul
Yeah, and the cast is coming home
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Last Year's Landlord
05:39
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I will find time to thank you
Whenever you want me to
I will find time to play with you
A little play-date will always do
But of course the only problem
Is that you’re so mean to me
Well, maybe I’ll go out steaming
And maybe you’ll stay here to weep
I’ll recognize when you’re nice to me
And I’ll be nice back to you
But of course there is catch here
And you’ve caught quite a few
So I’m leaving on a motorcycle
That I bought from last year’s landlord
And I will drive cold through the north
Until I reach those open shores
On the beaches where we played ‘round the fire
Well, I saw you sitting next to him
Did you see me? I was quite a little high
But I know that there was something
And it beamed across that fire
And right now, you’re right in front of me
And together we can grow
We can grow
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Eleven
02:48
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On my way to Doris Day
I’m so ripe for the taking
That all my shirts pile up with work
And I’m so bright for the breaking
And all you knew
And all you do
Will be forgotten
Or misconstrued
And all you should
And all you would
Will be mistaken
Misunderstood
Way down south slips through your mouth
And hits those lips I’m kissing
And all my stares catch you unawares
But you’re still keen on my listening
And all you know
And all the glows
Will shine behind you
Alone in yellow
And there you’ll be
Standing next to me
A fifth dimensional
Reality
Well, morning breaks as I slowly awake
And drain my eyes of their dreaming
The night was good, it is understood
But now I must be leaving
To be the one
Who loves his son
And feed the mother
Who carries a gun
And look to the sky
When I need to cry
And feel these words
When I close my eyes
“You’re a long way from home”
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