1. |
Dot In The Distance
02:12
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Middle of another cold Northern winter
This time I’m not alone
It takes some years
To build a home
I come from a village
Where I am my father’s son
Oh, I long for my village
Where I belong
I’m leaving my past
To become
A dot in the distance
It is in my new land
I will reveal how I dance
I’m leaving it all behind
It is now a dot in the distance
A sailboat in the channel
I’ve reached the wind of the ocean’s expanse
Oh my darling you gotta know
It’s all in the past
I’ve let it all go
It’s now a dot in the distance
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2. |
Front Seat Talks
04:53
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Sitting in the front of your champagne car we’re
Having one of those front seat talks
You turn your head away
You’ve got one of your looks
We could talk in circles
We could talk in squares
Talk about the way you’re veiled
About the way death scares
Talk about your baby sister lost at 3
The way you might be lost at sea
Talk about your brother
And how to get you free
I don’t got any more time
I’ve got my secrets and my doubts
We’ve all got our fears
What I don’t got is
Any more tears
I’m fresh out
Say you’ll let me go because you care
Say you’ll walk away
Trouble is I must be hung on to
And needed every day
So take your soldiers and your dreams
And fly across the waves
Leave me hear to breathe and cheer
And build my battalion of knaves
There she goes
And you’re the only one who knows
We could talk in circles
We could talk in squares
Talk about the way you’re veiled
About the way death scares
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3. |
Never Deny The Seer
03:54
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I’m the one you saw hiding
Behind the land locked boat
I’m the one who couldn’t stop crying
Before I drew the bridge above the moat
You’re the one who’s out of reach
Whose voice I long to hear
Trouble is there’s so many other voices
Yours gotta be loudest, it’s gotta ring clear
CHORUS
Believe the lost when they tell their stories
Step back and leave space around your ears
Don’t let the dark halo of false auras
The creosote of lies, Deny the seer
I see the vultures circling your head
Carrion in their beaks
Their claws with poison you
I’d sooner wish you dead
Build a skyward tower, find a cure
Strictures and scriptures will all let you bleed
Cut strip and fail you
Breath, light and moon naught else do you need
CHORUS
I am turning to the desert
And into the sun
You kept me in caves long enough
Your arms are noose like, your mouth a gun
Don’t turn your swollen eyes on me
I can see you and your stones three
They are not lucky or sacred, no more than dust,
In your fists as I was, cursed and crushed
OUTRO
Drip of your leaves and revive me, dew
Pooled for days and nights alone
Under succulent gaze
I will be reborn
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4. |
Phantoms
05:06
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I don’t know what made me do it
What pushed me to the brink
All I remember is sitting down
With your beautiful face
And pouring it a drink
I blame the heat
I blame the nightmares
I blame the poison sheets
I blame the phantoms, down in the street
The ones who creep and creep and creep
CHORUS
Capsize me
Decapitate me
Cauterize me
Invalidate me
You always said
I have too much feeling
For one body to hold
Bursting at the seams, straw poking through
You said darling, it’ll only make you old
Wretched you and your wretched clock
You can’t keep time of anything
About which you can’t talk
I see the snake, coiled beneath you
She’s sleeping
She hears the words that you speak
I see her weeping
She’s weeping
She’s weeping
CHORUS
I don’t know what made me do it
What pushed me to the brink
All I remember is sitting down
With your beautiful face
And pouring it a drink
I blame the heat
I blame the nightmares
I blame the poison sheets
I blame the phantoms, down in the street
The ones who creep and creep and creep
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5. |
Swallowed Tale
01:47
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You know she said, it’s been awhile
How do I know there’s truth
Beneath your smile
You know she said, it’s been awhile
I’m outta practice
And that really ain’t my style
I’m so tired of flying here and there
I’m looking for something
I don’t know where
They say those jet planes move so fast
I have yet to figure out
If they’re taking me
To or from my past
Time, it ain’t a line
It breathes us in and out
The snake has swallowed its tail
Don’t have no breath to scream or shout
Evolution, darkness, revolution
In the blink of an eye
Some of the stars will burn out
There’ll always be light in my sky
There’ll always be light in my sky
There’ll always be light in my sky
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