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le cerf
04:11
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angry farmers
03:29
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3. |
capture the stars
01:20
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capture the stars with a hammer
a leaf for a frying pan
nosing back and forth
just like a man
on a train
to nowhere
he's never known
for on the train
the people all bored
sitting & thinking
making a snore
why not, why not,
why not did not the ghost
enter the car of the train
why not why not did not the ghost
enter the train
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what is the truth of the past?
what is the truth of now?
what waxing and waning illusion
like a car on an old country road
or an oar on a boat on the sea
or on an old country road in the night?
what is the truth of ahead?
what is the truth of behind?
is there any kind of truth at all to your mind?
what is the thing that i feel
that i also feel in dreams?
it gets even stronger when I shut my eyes
why do i forget about it
when i look into a true friend's eyes?
why does the rain fall?
why does the sun rise?
why do i see myself walking by
and not even say hello?
are we even friends any more?
i need to be with you
our time together is quite short
my human brother whose eyes,
well, i know how they see
though they never look directly at me
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overstocked trailer
00:48
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overstocked trailer
turned over on the highway
option number three was the heart of the creature
mountains on the chalky peak
overture begins
you can enjoy that
before your arrest
the police are in the mezzanine now
a checking account hides in the bushes
the great face of the man
no longer clean shaven
looking like he wants me for lunch
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broad dust of gussamer
00:41
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a broad dust of gussamer
sweat on the chest of the harvest
ovular stones on walls of the moss
and an animal whose name is forgotten
why did i walk this far
where i'm completely lost?
a chain of stars dragged me here
I didn't realize i was clinging to it
each step that i took led me astray
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terror has struck in my heart
there were other meanings
underneath the meanings
i took to be true
the little boy is chasing a red balloon
until the sun melts the plastic and it pops
oh the little kid is far away from home
it's dark and cold before he realizes it
he doesn't know this dark cold wood
all he knows is he doesn't feel so good
he separated slowly chasing his plastic toy
terror struck his heart when it went away
he shivered and shriveled and died
a million times vaster was the meaning
underneath of the meaning
he was chasing all his life
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a long and narrow chair
00:44
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once there was a chair that was
long and narrow
once i sat there and it was
old enough to break
but the chair held steady by
the strength of a thread
now it's the cow's turn to sit in it
it's doubtful it will survive
what a good old chair we had
it was practically the reason for living
for struggling and fighting to get by
it soon will be sticks to put in the fire
it'll keep us warm for an evening
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every day
02:09
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every day is feeling
like a reaction
to a previous feeling
that i just had
do you know what you're feeling?
i don't know how to ask that
it's raining and I'm here all alone
i saw the face of an ancient dead man
between two rocks in the creek
staring at me
everyday is a moment
that never passes by
everyday is the feeling
of moving your eyes
to look at something that doesn't fit
and forget what we were talking about
everyday is a scarecrow
it is completely harmless
and it fades away over time
but it's rebuilt instantly
as a reaction
to the very first feeling
you had
everyday is an action
that's too hard to take
like a wave that's crashing
it always breaks
everyday is not money
everyday is pure honey
if you've got any time left in this life
if not comes a change
that i can't comprehend
it's the way with all living things
and we will feel
what we always feel
every day of life
every day is feeling
like a reaction
to a previous
that i just had
do you know what you're feeling?
i don't know how to ask that
would you know how to tell me
how you feel?
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how many have you got of those little bitty things?
how little bitty are they after all?
do they depend on the weather?
like the forest or the desert
on both sides of the Mississippi?
all i have ever
wanted to know
is how many of those little minuscule things there are
in your possession
can you fit them all on the back of a horse
or a camel or a great horned toad?
did you buy them in a store
or find them by the side of the road?
well if you won't tell me
and you won't show me
if you don't have the time for me
i understand you're very busy
with all of those little bitty things you have
so i'll be on my way
i do have to be watching the clouds
it's my occupation
and i have to go about it in a professional manner
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was that happiness?
00:57
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what did i just feel?
was that a quick, fleeting feeling of happiness?
Do you happen to know why i felt that
Do you happen to know why i felt that
it seems like so long
since i felt a flash of air beneath my wings
silver sabers suspended in the sunlight
silver sabers suspended in the sunlight
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this song is for my friend
without a name, without a form
who always walks inside me
like a river in a storm
whether i've been drinking
or whether i've not
i find myself sinking
in the river of thought
the suns opens up
on the field of the dead
through the clouds and light rain
on the forgotten homestead
and in the glory of day
as the sun passes by
the bodies are gone
hidden from the eye
hidden from the eye
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a bunch of scenery
00:53
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rising over a bunch of scenery
wings flapping like a crow
rain falling clouds moving
your eyes are feathers
on the wind they go
descending to a knee bend
where the flooding waters flow
i cannot see you directly
only in my heart like a charm
the magic was stolen from us
by space, by deep space alive
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i don't care whether you give me applause
it should be your decision
if you felt that i put forth
an admirable effort
singing my song
so when this song is over
if you don't clap
just know in advance
i respect that
we must act together
in the common interest
to look out for each other
to care for your neighbor
let them be the way they are
don't care if you applaud
i say, just be who you are
acting in our common interest
i want you to be who you are
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this cannot be removed
00:30
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this?
oh this cannot be removed
it's a part of my body
i acquired it as a babe in arms
everything grew around it
like a hole that leads somewhere
with dim damp drawings in the dark
the bones of the ancients are holy
but their actions were brutal
almost worse than today
but not quite
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i moan not for my meat
01:46
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i moan not for my meat
i moan not for the day
but i moan for all the green
that's soon to go away
oh nurse my child i begged the queen
till she stands up at your knee
for no kingdom have you anymore
and no mother more have we
o keep my girl my dearest queen
till she can walk alone
when you look into her eyes of green
you won't have lost your home
i'll take the girl the queen did say
she was born from the clouds
If you let me live in your house and home
you see i am kicked out
i'm sorry my queen but i have no house
these woods I call my home
if you take me there said the queen
and show me what to eat
then i will climb into a tree
and nurse the green-eyed girl
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a little boy went to a pond
took off his clothes to swim
he put his feet into the mud
when looking back at him
a face emerged and just a face
as though it wore a green-black hood
his eyes turned to the little child
who turned and ran fast as he could
when he got home to his front door
he had no key to enter
then looking up he saw the pale face
staring back at him through the winder
why did you run from me said the face
as it opened up the door
i was scared that you would hurt me
said the trembling little boy
how strange for i was only trying
to catch a magic fish
i caught it and i brought it here
so you could use one wish
that i'll give you
i wish that i could be a bird
and fly away to a tree
are you quite sure?
said the ghostly face
and the boy said indeed i be.
with a snap of the boy's eyes closed
he fell down in a dream
an eagle flew through the window
and picked his body clean
soon his mother came home
and his father shortly after
when they saw the eagle staring at them
they both met him with laughter
until they saw the skeleton
of their little boy lying
on his bed picked so clean
but still not done with drying
they made a basket with his bones
a bowl out of his skull
filled it full of flowers and stones
and the milk of their goat
and bone by bone the eagle took
apart the skeleton
to thicken up his nest so high
by the statue of george washington
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when i woke up there was a gun in my hand
and a fire in the echo of the blast
a body crumbled on the trunk of an ancient tree
with holes in the bark so deep you could put your hand in
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angel horse
01:04
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are your wings still heavy angel horse?
the planet has turned away from the day
and the darkness has begun
angel horse you may rest in the wilderness of the universe
in the gentleness of the junipers
and let your strength return
angel horse take my wishes and scatter them into space
listen to me while i weep over the letters that arrived
thirty-five years too late
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spare me the truth
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spare me the truth
don't tell me bout the details
of all the destruction i caused
to pursue a fantasy
of a rich lifestyle
spare me the truth
i feel like livin' a lie
spare me the truth
don't tell me what i need to know
i'm only on a tv show
pursuing a fantasy
in electric light
spare me the truth
let me die in the night
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21. |
le cerf encore
01:31
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humanity
02:07
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humanity
all i was taught about
humanity
now is called into doubt
all the idols of the past are dead
and the new life has begun as clear as water
overheard myself having an argument with you
saying I'm not dead I have no swords in my back
I know the truth about us
though the truth is that I cannot know but I feel
so I'll not say those things to you out loud
I'm sorry baby all I know is I love you
there's nothing that I cannot say
nothing that I can
naturally my body is given to me without exaggeration
even when I can't let go I'm already long long gone
bet you I know where you got your shoes not the land end's catalog
you got em from the hands laboring in the shoe factory
what more I cannot say
what's more another day of what's in store
I move less than a tree like a bird
I sing like clear running water in a stream
humanity all I was taught about humanity
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the eye of the lord
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a bucket of eyeballs burst in the entry
a pig opened its umbrella directly at you
the old boards in a pile just walked away
a thousand little critters could all do the job
eleven was the number of the calendars destroyed in the rain
my avalanche was happening while i was occupied
burning weaves a basket
anti-annihilation is on the mind of the mole
who lives under the courthouse flagpole
never caught but always bought
full of tissues the garbage can died
no magic elves were there left inside
a blister on his heel he threw away his sword
into a cloud through the eye of the lord
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exactly right this time
02:06
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it might be hard to see
it might be hard to tell
what it is i'm going for
what is it am i up to
who knows the secret
the secret is the heartbeat
the secret is the heartbeat of everything
the wheels of the chariot
rumble over the gravel
they try to kill me
by sliding to the left
by sliding to the right
but the sphinxes
are under my control
it might be hard to see
it might be hard to tell
but i'm getting it
exactly right this time
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i want you to be every age
to be a child to be a woman to be old
to feel the rain and the snow
and the heat of the bonfire
by the sound of the ocean waves
i want you to see really see
the quiet explosion of joy
even within sadness
the purple colors that emerge like sails full of wind in the gulf
and i hope you can hug to the hub of the wheel
and i hope you realize your power is a sphere
whose reach knows no bounds you are infinity
and i know the world turns in its way
not every choice will make or break you
nature always has its way so you can relax
there's nothing you really need even me
for you are the joy that has always existed
in the great unknown
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a piece of wood
01:29
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a piece of wood a staff
with leaves sprouting out
what makes you ill
silent burning questions
if i were not to hold you
though you did not move
you would be leaving still
growing waiting for someone
waiting for the work to begin
but it don't have to wait very long
because i hear it calling
good thing it's quiet
because it's using the birds
to say what it says
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there's the old souvenir that i didn't want to buy
on the highway by the giant crater museum
when she begged me when she cried
i just shrugged and sighed
and bought this little gemstone paperweight
now she's somewhere distant
traveling through another dimension
passed through to wherever we go after this life
my darling i wish i'd known how much i'd miss you
when you were gone and now you're gone
and now you're gone
i was gruff i was brash i treated time like so much trash
i was gruff i was brash i treated time like so much trash
i was gruff i was brash i treated time like so much trash
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the morning sun gently warms and gilds
the wheat and rye are dewdamp still
and the blue still has the freshness of night
I go out without a purpose but to go out
I follow 'long the river and the grass a path
vague waves of yellow by the old alders
the catkins dangling down
the air is crisp now and then birds streak
and its image in the water survives its flight
that's all
but the dreamer loves this country
where the memory of you
can be gently weaving through
can the tender wisps of daydreams
the breath of robins between their lively song
and the clear sweetness caresses
his dream of adoration cradling the charming memory
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your cell phone is ringing
my cell phone is ringing
the cell phones of everyone in the theater are ringing
and outside the theater all the cell phones are ringing
radio waves so thick you can taste em
and a great many people they answer the call
and on the other line speaks a voice to them all:
we've taken over the cell networks of earth
and our ships are prepared to land
we shall select the strongest of you to be our slaves
and the rest we shall feed to our animals
the aliens came and that was the end of this life
but on the other side we feel a sensation so pure
like the movement of light was very flesh and blood
we continue exploring this darkness farther and farther
in the depths of the very same bliss we felt in the theater
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alone
02:03
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as i relax on this dark night
as the thoughts come slowly
in orderly fashion
each image coming into focus clearly
and at a pace I can understand
when there's nobody around me
and I feel comfort calm and peace
wherever I happen to be
that's when I know what it feels like to be home
when I see the end of my little life
and the perishing flesh die away
when my soul goes mute
and the darkness spills like ink over me
when the known world fades away
and dark matter takes the stage
the strange motions I feel inside of my soul
suddenly become as distinct as a table
with a hamburger on a plate sitting before me
and yet all around me where before me I had thought
that there was nothing there but air
oh now I see the air is swimming with stuff
so thick you can grab it with your teeth
oh this is when I am truly at home
when I am free to be completely alone
when I am free to be so alone
I can feel how we're never ...
we're always ...
we're never ... always ... alone
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maroon moon
02:04
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fear is a moon
it's calming and soft
fear is an arrow
you try to pull it out of your chest
safety is dark
and protected by stone
whether together or whether alone
anybody understands what i mean
ovals of green
milestones behind
moron moon
turn bright maroon
on a sunny september afternoon
i chose you once
and i chose too soon
you were reflected in a spoon
but vanished like a spark
or a bat passing by in the night
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i went to the plastic surgeon to make my face ugly
to scare the children away
to let me be alone
to hide to hide away in this life this ugly life
my face is not me i am not my face
it changes every second
it doesn't leave a trace
but i guess i'm not good looking
my eyes are not kind nor bright
nobody seems to think that i am an alright sort of person to ask
for a trumpet playing dog
and I am quite afraid of the nightmares i have
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i set out on monday to the powder of the sky
on the ship they call sunrise that dazzles the eye
i prepared a pair of parrots one for each side
a male and a female the balance of my pride
i was 30 below zero, my body temp was low
you could say i was surprised when the time came to go
and the ship left the land unto the sea released
so began the journey towards the great emergency
there was the clouds in the air that came to block out the sun
and the crew of the boat was just unpacking all their guns
we'll kill these clouds they shouted out with all their beards askew
they shot the clouds full of bullets which rained back down on the crew
i jumped overboard and fell in love with a shark
who guided me back to the shore just as quickly as a spark
the seaweed covered me from my head down to my feet
they thought i was a god but I was robin hood
that's not who i am i said after a while
i am the bandit of the moonlight
but i'm off work right now
just go about your business on the quai
your secret's safe with me
and the charming crowd adored me
i don't remember why
this life of mine comes slowly
this life of mine comes slowly
this life of mine comes slowly
but always tastes divine
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the rain came down
some people drowned
a grandparent among a thousand
like the leaves on an aspen tree
tremble on the wind
delicate and thin
and enormous like a spider web
that covers up the world
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crater of mercy i was just like a lion
welcoming the truth like the colors of a foreign and ancient land
just only a little bit stranger than you can imagine
without sinking an inch the lightning struck the reflection of the moon
at the waffle house across the street a dinner plate shattered
i was out in back of the place eating all the good stuff they throw out
with a gang of raccoons and rats my family i call them
my family the cars oh Jesus the cars how i wonder where you are
my only one is hidden from my eye
as they drive down the nighttime road
with no-one to see me in the dark
behind the waffle house
how deeply can you imagine the arrow in my heart
that links me to you
though i suppose you are in one of those bright light automobiles
on the rainy streets on brained road
on the rainy streets on brained road
on the rainy streets on brained road
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being alive is more than just living
playing the part while writing the play
taking apart the mind like a puzzle
and putting it back in a different way
skating across a frozen ocean
never sure of a shore to find
don't tear up your family don't you make em cry
don't fill em up with bullets and leave em out to die
don't tear up your family
don't sell them for any price
even though that's how
it's always been done
don't tear up your family
because tearing us up
is tearing you up too
don't tear up your family
how it was is no longer how it is
to believe otherwise is quicker
than a gun for suicide to commit
old is still young
but dead cannot be free
only one choice is made
to be or not to be
i love you all my family
at the deepest core we're one
so it tears me up to see
white supremacy
like a hive of ghosts guarding secrets
the lies of ancestors substituted for liberty
the weight's too heavy, work don't justify
there's a fly on your knee
rubbing its hands together
hungry for you
i noticed cause he flew
from me to you
it tears me up to see
my fighting family
teetering on the edge of oblivion
that's not how it's gotta be done
for our hearts are much vaster
than is commonly believed
please don't kill
with guns or bills
your soul too will be grieved
don't tear up your family
don't sell them for any price
even though that's how it's always been done
don't tear up your fa
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what's gonna happen? oh!
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what's gonna happen? oh!
what's gonna happen? oh!
when they catch your face in the screen
the proper authorities delegate the task of search and execution
got a five percent fail rate of innocent people being killed
but it's beyond us or too costly to amend
so watch out my friend
for the axe of justice is coming down
you don't want to die?
you better find a place to hide!
they'll grind our bones until we convince them
that we're all friends in need of a friend
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the accompaniment
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no harm was meant by the accompaniment
though at times it was a hair too loud
unlike a dewdrop's fall
like a lonely eyeball
poking out of the wall
you were chosen to appear
singled out in the crowd
no harm was meant
by the accompaniment
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the nots
01:32
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I believe in the nots the nots are not real
incredible ink indelible i think
forgotten makes me play doctor
old bridges will be in that country
that needs stones set back hardly at all
how did i get here if the bridge is already broken
it provokes a mass media lightning storm
the weather people in their top form
a terror and an honor to behold
my head on the bench on the beach covered in blood
while the sea gulls fight over me
cold july wind on the odd cloudy day
bends the fall grass drying out for hay
how did it happen i was watching it blow
and it took me away so i couldn't see
the outward lashings of the truth
i never knew what the wind was meaning to say
but i felt it that's for sure i feel it today
it really blew me away
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stale air of the crypt
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all the secret gems in the earth
open belt of stars
fasten that belt you are obscene
said queen victoria eating ice cream
the forgotten signature of one who never lived
they lived so long ago
the most you can remember of how you died
whenever the stale air blows out of the crypt
you let it slip like a dirty undergarment
that navigated the shadows and the dust
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