B i o g r a p h y (by Official Site)
"Jesca Hoop has lived all over the map, and her rich life experience is reflected in her distinctive voice and natural gift for inventive song craft. Hoop is the real deal and a true one of a kind. She learned to sing at an early age, harmonising with her musical Mormon family in northern California. She began writing highly idiosyncratic songs at the age of 14 to keep her company on her long walks to school. At 16, Hoop broke away from her strict upbringing and began what she calls her 'life as a racoon', off the grid & close to nature. Rambling through the high mountain deserts of the Southwest and along the coastlines of the Northwest, she worked as a wilderness survival guide and chalked up skills in farming, surveying, and carpentry. Her songwriting continued throughout, shared on porches, in deep river canyons and around campfires. In 2004 the desire to share these songs on a broader scale set in. She settled in Los Angeles, where she honed her songwriting craft, recorded and released her debut and sophomore records and developed a reputation as a unique and beguiling live performer of real substance. Though she now resides in Manchester, England, Hoop returned to Los Angeles to record her third album, The House That Jack Built. Jesca has quite the growing collection of fans in high places: Tom Waits described her music as being "like a four sided coin. She is an old soul, like a black pearl, a good witch or red moon. Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night”. Peter Gabriel took her to South America to sing with him, and in recent years she has been hand picked to play as support on tour for Eels, Andrew Bird, Punch Brothers, Shearwater, Iron and Wine and Elbow: Elbow's Guy Garvey even has her do regular stints as guest presenter on his BBC radio show, to great reception. Hoop has released three critically acclaimed studio Albums, a few ep's and in currently working on her 4th full lengthier record.
Baby Boy Baby Doll Big Fish Call upon rest City Bird Deep blue sea Fixit Men Flume Hero I Feel Love John, I'm Only Dancing Life within a life Make me dance MeMisery My boo Paradise Phonograph Rêves dans le Creux Revolving Door Snowglobe Storms Make Grey The Sea While You Were Away
Kismet
Summertime Corn is getting high And the well is getting low Fields are getting dry I'm gonna catch a lizard's eye So I got to lay low Playing in the rye La, la, la, la... Summer Summertime Summer Summertime Summer Summertime Summer Rattle rattle, rattle grass I hope that you won't bite You can save your venom Let me pass I'm headed to the hive La, la, la, la... Summer Summertime Summer Summertime Summer Summertime Summer baby baby Find me in the field Follow my trail till the grain is Higher than your ears Bring a soft blanket baby Lay it down for me And roll me daddy daddy Roll me in the wheat La, la, la, la... Moon is on the rise And the sun is sinking low Swim in a lake at night I'm gonna sing with my cricket cicada choir Owl on a wire La, la, la, la... Summer Summertime Summer Summertime Summer Summertime Summer
Seed of wonder Once my love stood still like a stagnant Well for so long, you could hear The song of spiders, strumming fibers Calling her to the web My river sits in ebb The little ones lean over Laughter echoes Bounce down the dark until it hits the floor Singing come on baby come on child, call your flo Like a seed of wonder, faith of mustard Oh yeah oh oh yeah All is dark All of the light Is vanished it is gone Like something large Hovering high Has covered up the sun And something quiets The silken ringing Something breaks the strum A wish has finally come All I want is to be writing to be writing All I want is to be writing and it goes something like Once that wish did land Like a star in my hand It burned and it burned and it burrowed in Soar through the source searching Hammer and ping And tapped my virgin spring And prime the vein with milk of mother And wet my river bed Pearls strung up on silk thread The starry one Beams a light He's working under Digging through the dark gathering particles Finding everything you ever wished for in your soul Like a seed of wonder faith of mustard Oh yeah oh oh yeah Finally that tapped spring Come running like a river my song it came Right away I went writing I went writing Right away I was humming I was humming Right away I was singing I was singing Right away I was loving And goes something like…light I haven't always been under such a blue Only you have seen such storming in my life All I want is to be writing to be writing All I want is to be writing and it goes something like Once my love stood still like a stagnant Well for so long, you could hear The song of spiders, strumming fibers Calling her to the web My river sits in ebb The little ones lean over Laughter echoes Bounce down the dark until it hits the floor Singing come on baby come on child, call your flo Like a seed of wonder, faith of mustard Oh yeah oh oh yeah All is dark All of the light Is vanished it is gone Like something large Hovering high Has covered up the sun And something quiets The silken ringing Something breaks the strum A wish has finally come All I want is to be writing to be writing All I want is to be writing and it goes something like Once that wish did land Like a star in my hand It burned and it burned and it burrowed in Soar through the source searching Hammer and ping And tapped my virgin spring And prime the vein with milk of mother And wet my river bed Pearls strung up on silk thread The starry one Beams a light He's working under Digging through the dark gathering particles Finding everything you ever wished for in your soul Like a seed of wonder faith of mustard Oh yeah oh oh yeah Finally that tapped spring Come running like a river my song it came Right away I went writing I went writing Right away I was humming I was humming Right away I was singing I was singing Right away I was loving And goes something like…light I haven't always been under such a blue Only you have seen such storming in my life Enemy Beautiful Alone with my enemy And share a bitter cup Of poisoning My countenance To see his face in mine And follow every line Back to my enemy You are mine Pennyroyal wine fly Like an innocent child That followed every line Back to my enemy Beautiful Falling fast from a state of grace And trusting there's a light In darkest place My dirty knees Hold the ground till it's done with me I've come to see that beauty Is a thing That is without grace You are mine Pennyroyal wine fly Like an innocent child That followed every line Back to my enemy Beautiful At home with my history And run the scarlet ink With the tears of mercy My battle wounds Lay to rest in a treasure box And thinking of the scars As the jewels of my story You are mine Pennyroyal wine fly Like an innocent child That followed every line Back to my enemy Enemy Enemy Enemy Enemy
Silverscreen Stolen crown Pillow down All tangled in my hair Evening gown The lights downtown All dangle in the air The gates of heaven open There is me On the silverscreen I hope they did good editing Bell and beau Buck and doe A love of tender age Jill and Joe Dosy do A tragedy on stage The gates of heaven open There is me On the silverscreen I hope they did good editing Bye bye baby bye bye Hello to my beautiful mind Bye bye Bye bye baby bye bye Hello to my beautiful mind Bye bye Bye bye baby bye bye Hello to my beautiful mind Bye bye Bye bye baby bye bye Hello to my beautiful mind Bye bye Crystal ball Padded walls A bright blue TV Glare A moth to light is as lost as I'm found Far down cellar stair The gates of heaven open There is me On the silverscreen I hope they did good editing Bye bye baby bye bye Bye bye baby bye bye Bye bye baby bye bye Bye bye baby bye bye
Money
Money money makes the world go round Money money'll make you change your sound If the price is right If the price is right If you want paper If you want gold and silver Learn now not later People pay for what's familiar No need to know yourself too well You can trade in that saga you tell For the song you know will sell If you want cheddar If you want smoke and roll better Take off your sweater To earn your varsity letter It's a virgin feast for all See how gracefully they fall Into the mirrors on the wall 'Cause if you want to belong you write a sing-a-long Money money makes the world go round Money money'll make you change your sound If the price is right You forfeit your style without a fight Who will be your beacon The dark of night Should have been truly bright Where do we go The freaks On the fringe When the edges are all rounded out We just dangle out in space You can call us when you need to find out We go The misfits On the fringe When the edges are all rounded out We just dangle out in space You can call us when you need to find out What the real stars are all about Time has turned and the scenery has changed And all the books have Burned But the lyrics remain Let the motherfucker burn let's change the refrain Nobody need history Repeatin' tin tin tin tin Money money makes the world go round Money money'll make you change your sound If the price is right If the price is right If you want skrilla If you're a cheddar gorilla Stack up your bills as You sign away your free will There's no need to represent The truth of self has been well spent Moving from mortgage out of rent 'Cause if you want to belong you write a sing-a-long Money money makes the world go round Money money'll make you change your sound If the price is right You forfeit your style without a fight Who will be your beacon The dark of night Should have been truly bright
Dreams in the hollow Why do we Want to be Ballerinas when we grow up Little boys dream the night away With fighting fires When we grow up Torlege relevé rond de jambe And round and up Round and up Firemen slide on down the pole and sound The siren Everybody up All is well In my sorrow Isn't she a beauty Burning hall Ash and shadow Here comes the hero Little eyes Small but wide Young but wiser All looking up All looking up For your hat And your axe And your yellow jacket Daddy get up Ash to ash dust to dust None could muster Daddy get up Daddy get up They see what you couldn't do When consumed by fire Days glow Sleep in the hollow Dreams in the hollow Pesky old crow Heather and thistle No prints to follow Hope that they follow Hope's all they know All is well in my sorrow Isn't she a beauty Burning hall Ash and shadow Here comes the hero Oh I tried to put it out But the big tree was falling And now I find him reaching out But the big tree it fell Cross the sea Her dancing broken dream So I'm lacing up I'm lacing up For musing starts In broken hearts The most courageous beauty So I'm lacing up Mother's milk Ragged silk Chalk's in the hall tree Tattered toe shoes Broken toes Relevé turn and pray For mother's broken dancer Days glow Sleep in the hollow Dreams in the hollow Pesky old crow Heather and thistle No prints to follow Hope that they follow Hopes all they know All is well in my sorrow Isn't she a beauty Burning hall Ash and shadow Here comes the hero
Love Is All We Have The night before the night she came Katrina the hurricane Oh was calm Calm for a land untame That spill the boarders of New Orleans Oh was calm The plow boys played their old favorite "the city's on parade" On parade But deep in the heart of The ocean Their beds were made Love me now Love is all we have Love me now Love is all we have And the rains that came With the force of a runaway train Oh run away And the waters rose and the levies the levies Broke Oh run away And the cradle broke my beloved The cradle broke Oh I must stay For deep in the heart of Our home My beloved was washed away Love me now Love is all we have Love me now Love is all we have Love me now Love is all we have Love me now Love is all we ever really had The old church bell Is in the graveyard The old church bell Oh lace and stone The naked feet Pound the pavement Of nameless streets Oh faceless homes But deep in the heart of The American Prayers for New Orleans Love me now Love is all we have Love me now Love is all we have Love me now Love is all we have Love me now Love is all we ever really had
Intelligentactile 101 Can I borrow your bones and marrow till i get my own Lovely lovely lovely bones till i get my own I won't tell my new friends that they're on loan They won't know It's no smart thing to do when you're far from home Can I borrow your skin blushing to get lucky in Lucky lucky lucky lucky with a special friend Well I hear that on planet earth that it's a sin big sin We'll all the more fun for me to get lucky then Oh I'm gonna be a baby girl A round trip ticket to a blue planet Flip a uuueyy at mars Oh I'm gonna swim in the water first Blowing up her belly though she didn't plan it I took the invitation when she rocked the hammock Pulling all the wild cards And now I'm swinging from the stars From an umbilical cord from an umbilical cord From an umbilical cord feels like I've been here before On my tongue on my tongue I want your fingers on my tongue I want some intelligent tactile When foreign play things come I'm gonna study 'em with my tongue I want some intelligentactile 101 Can I borrow your hips and your lips And your wink and curl Is I is or is I ain't one flossy girl I'm gonna paint that planet red 'Cause I'm in the world In the world And leave a trail of kisses when my loves unfurled Will you steady my ground Dizzy ground when I'm turned around Dizzy dizzy dizzy ground When I'm lost you'll found Well I'm headed to planet earth to search the sound Deep sound So keep my compass wound when I'm on the ground Oh I'm gonna be a baby girl A round trip ticket to a blue planet Flip a uuueyy at mars Oh I'm gonna swim in the water first Blowing up her belly though she didn't plan it I took the invitation when she rocked the hammock Pulling all the wild cards And now I'm swinging from the stars From an umbilical cord from an umbilical cord From an umbilical cord feels like I've been here before On my tongue on my tongue I want your fingers on my tongue I want some intelligent tactile When foreign play things come I'm gonna study 'em with my tongue I want some intelligent tactile On my tongue on my tongue I want your fingers on my tongue I want some intelligent tactile When foreign play things come I'm gonna study 'em with my tongue I want some intelligentactile 101
Havoc in heavan Red ribbon on which we ride Carry us over horizon as the sun setting Night puts on a phantom cloak Sing violet light and evoke The protection that violet evokes Fasten your focus on your sole cause Is your fruit and flowers on red ribbon Swift justice comes delivery white bone demon Oh oh oh oh Begun the havoc in heaven Oh oh oh oh Begun the havoc in heaven Deep deep in the green sea There is a weapon for me A pin that is fixing the sea A pillar gold shiny And if I can pull it free The cudgel is coming with me Fasten heave ho Pillar of gold Runs through the deepest darkest stone Cudgel undone weighing one ton Bring on your force white bone demon Oh oh oh oh Begun the havoc in heaven Oh oh oh oh Begun the havoc in heaven Don't believe your eyes When the maiden does arrive You fool She is the enemy And do not trust the guise of a woman old and wise For truly she is the white bone demon Dance makaku's round the fire Warrior drums, banshee cryer Call to them visions of her piar Fulled by the demons throne We shall subdue her to bone And ashes to ashes her home Fasten your focus on your soul Cause is your fruit and flowers home And in one blow I smite down my foe And ashes to ashes welcome home Oh oh oh oh Begun the havoc in heaven Oh oh oh oh Begun the havoc in heaven Oh oh oh oh Begun the havoc in heaven
Out the back door When we rock the house watch the roof go bump Watch the swingers swing on the floor And all the brick houses Gonna shake da rump And all the swingers gonna swing it some more And all you players gonna round em up And all you lovers get ready to score The beat gets harder when the love erupts And all the flames shooting out the back door Out the back door Out the back door Powder boost and gloss it Brush your shoulders floss it And we're out the back door Out the back door Left hand on the bible 'Cause daddy's got a rifle And we're out the back door Out the back door And it's one on one from moon to sun What we do from sun until moon We waltzing on water dipping Lucy Liu And all the flames flicker red and then blue And we cut that time in two in two And baby I'm turning purple like you When we move we move with wings on our shoes Sickest angels you ever knew Out the back door Out the back door Rollin up the window Smoking up some indo And we're out the back door Out the back door Mellow in the cloudy Knock it back get rowdy And we're out the back door Out the back door Spin the vinyl cut the bopshoobop A get down and bump hip hop It's a motto when it come to rock Tick tock and it do not stop Hey now tick tock and it do not stop Spin the bottle where will it stop Get down on the table top It's a motto when it come to rock Tick tock and it do not stop Hey now tick tock and it do not stop Out the back door Out the back door Rollin up the window Smoking up some indo And we're out the back door Out the back door Left hand on the bible 'Cause daddy's got a rifle And we're out the back door Out the back door When we rock the house watch the roof go bump Watch the swingers swing on the floor And all the brick houses Gonna shake da rump And all the swingers gonna swing it some more And all you players gonna round em up And all you lovers get ready to score The beat gets harder when the love erupts And all the flames shooting out the back door Out the back door Out the back door Rollin up the window Smoking up some indo And we're out the back door Out the back door Mellow in the cloudy Knock it back get rowdy And we're out the back door Out the back door Powder boost and gloss it Brush your shoulders floss it And we're out the back door Out the back door Left hand on the bible 'Cause daddy's got a rifle And we're out the back door Out the back door Out the back door Out the back door Out the back door
Love and love again ( Written by Jesca Hoop and David Baerwald ) Come the sun Heaven's rays And the stormers are gone and the white cloth is raised Golden days And the city is in love again And we dream In a daze And we drink and we dance and we throw cares away Lovers gaze And the city is in love My heart was so dark dear With you not here And the cold wind's All that would meet me at my door I waved goodbye and wished you well Life's a carousel When it brings you round it never never tells When you'll find yourself in love again Love and love again Love and love again The merry-go-round never ends I waved goodbye and wished you well Life's a carousel When it brings you round it never never tells When you'll find yourself in love again Bitter rose sour plum And the birds sing to soothe where the roses were stung Hearts undone And the world is in love again There's a spell on the air And the sailors all drift and get lost in her hair Hearts are bare And the soldiers come home again My eyes they grew dark dear With you not here And the cold wind's All that would dance me round my floor I waved goodbye and wished you well Life's a carousel When it brings you round it never never tells When you'll find your self in love again Love and love again Love and love again The round and round ride never ends
Hunting My Dress
Whispering light And we walk the road as long as the road goes And we try to dodge the rock the valley throws Revealer Caught a fever We all have a sinking stone And when the road presents a twisting case of fate A meaner irony to contemplate The season Comes with a reason We all have a setting sun Distance, mark of distance Your burden is your brilliance There's a vessel A hidden vessel in the stone Difference not indifference Your passion marks you different And you wrestle And how you'll wrestle to come to know The whispering light The truth is often quite Like it's whispering in light It can tell you how to break the fever With light, the truth is often quite Like it's whispering in light It can tell you how And light is less and light is more in some But don't confuse the weather for the sun Revealer Magic healer And when will your vision come And lightning rods will guide your journey home And revelations from a fist of bones And when the rock weighs heavy in your soul Just tell it that you have earned the right to know Revealer How to break the fever You'll carry it in Like this demons your kin And you'll render its secrets then Distance, mark of distance Your burden is your brilliance There's a vessel A hidden vessel in the stone Difference not indifference Your passion marks you different And you wrestle And how you'll wrestle to come to know The whispering light The truth is often quite Like it's whispering in light It can tell you how to break the fever With light, the truth is often quite Like it's whispering in light It can tell you how to break the fever With light The truth is often quite Like it's whispering in light It can tell you how to The kingdom All of the fallen on the ground Hollarin ground I lay down a shrine and I Come with the autumn To tear it down Orange and brown And I lay a soft down For all are waiting All in line Brethren bathin' Bones in brine Separate your light from lime Our mortal bind Under the spell of full November moon Light on the broom Frost in my room In through the window Came a ghost I knew She paid me a visit while I was in my bed Sleepy she said "Sleep as though dead For in the morning you are called" Is what she said To the high desert War is raging You must go to the battlefield And follow the cry of men rampaging And gather the ones that won't heal Down through a cloud of smoke to the promise land Many are dead, river runs red "For my god and for my king” is what he said I came to my knees with my lips to his ear My hand to his chest his wounded breast For my god and for my king I will not rest But in the high desert You are dying For your god and his ghost and the son Do not hold to the earth on which you are lying For the kingdom can never be won All of the fallen under ground Hollarin ground I lay down a shrine and i Come with the autumn to Tear it down Orange and brown And I lay a soft down For all are waiting All in line Brethren bathing bones in brine Separate your light from lime Let go of the earth Feast of the heart And there's a light switch, baby you turned it on Don't you ever leave me here in the dark And there's a red room deep in my house You come and meet me and I'll lay down a feast of the heart And there's a light switch, baby you turned it on Don't you ever leave me here in the dark And there's a red room deep in my house You come and meet me and I'll lay down a feast of the heart 'Cause your skin's medicine Wanna bear it all, wanna wear it on me Lose all reverence 'til we become one with god Your beautiful body I want more, more Hold it upon me 'Cause I'm yours I wanna eat my heart Boy you make me feel Wanna eat my heart You make me feel Wanna be your blood Boy you make me feel Wanna be your blood Boy you make me feel And there's a light switch baby you turned it on Don't you ever leave me here in the dark And there's a red room deep in my house You come and meet me and I'll lay down a feast of the heart And there's a light switch baby you turned it on Don't you ever leave me here in the dark And there's a red room deep in my house You come and meet me and I'll lay down a feast of the heart 'Cause I'm your kiss to kiss Your intimate kitten, pleasure mission Lose it all to bliss 'til we become one with god Your beautiful body I want more, more Hold it upon me 'Cause I'm yours, yours, yours, yours I wanna eat my heart Boy you make me feel Wanna eat my heart Boy you make me feel Wanna be your blood Boy you make me feel Wanna be your blood Boy you make me feel Wanna eat my heart Boy you make me feel Wanna eat my heart Boy you make me feel Wanna be your blood Boy you make me feel Wanna be your blood Boy you make me feel Wanna eat my heart Boy you make me feel Wanna eat my heart Boy you make me feel Wanna be your blood Boy you make me feel Wanna be your blood Boy you make me feel I'm your kiss to kiss Your intimate kitten, pleasure mission Lose it all to bliss 'til we become one with god Angel mom Today on my birthday You were home when I arrived You were standing in the doorway When I pulled into the drive An excitement came over me And I rushed out of the car And I jumped up To be carried in your arms I haven't felt that way Since I was a child A grown woman jumping up and down Like I was a child The dream went dark when I awoke And I remembered that you are gone And I struggled there to fall back asleep When I remembered that you are gone And my grief was deep and my joy was high Because you visited me from beyond On my birthday You visited me from beyond I haven't felt that way Since I was a child A grown woman jumping up and down Like I was a child My love My love's missing My love's far gone And where will I find her My heart My heart's rambling My heart's far gone And where will I find her Hey hey hi do you hear me I feel somehow you are here For when I talk to you I intensely feel you are listening My only wish I wish that I could hear your voice Angel mom Later that day Driving in my car We turned on the radio We were watching the graveyard stones pass by And the songs that come and go And the DJ played a song called Enemy It was a song you knew I wrote On my birthday You were telling that you know I haven't felt that way Since I was a child A grown woman jumping up and down Like I was a child My love My love's missing My love's far gone Where will I find her My heart My heart's rambling My heart's far gone Where will I find her My love My love's missing My love's far gone Where will I find her My heart My heart's rambling My heart's far gone Where will I find her Hey hey hi do you hear me I feel somehow you are here For when I talk to you I intensely feel you are listening My only wish I wish that I could hear your voice Angel mom
Four dreams Come and bring your stereo Come and bring your stereo And lay down on my pillow Down into a dream we go Down into a dream we go You never know where we'll go Under the shelter of a willow tree Sam and I awoke where we were once sleeping The bed that we lay upon is chamomile And it smells like bubble gum for real Skunk and owl and doe Gather round my radio Oh Then with a resonance that split the earth The skunk cried a call like one I've never heard And from the crevice a cuckoo clock emerged And from it a little wooden bird It spread apart its beak And time began to speak I'll gift you one two three Songs as old as me Come and bring your stereo Come and bring your stereo And lay down on my pillow Down into a dream we go Down into a dream we go You never know where we'll go Climbing a statue that stands fifty feet The cast of a woman that looks just like me To find that my character was caught completely Cemented from head down to my feet A bee flew from my nose He said come and bring your stereo Oh Down through my throat to what seemed my teeth The bee tuned the stereo to bump a beat And she began a buzzin' in the key of B All to instigate the crumbling of concrete The mask fell from my skin Left me younger than I've ever been I'll gift you one two three Youth eternally Eta, my sweet little Loretta I love it when you put the warm milk and honey in my bowl Get up now don't you go and get up I'm gonna show you how I love my Jelly Roll Oh how I love my Johnny boy And if you ever leave baby me I'll be destroyed Let's make a baby Johnny boy Right here in this living room and we'll call her June Come and bring your stereo Come and bring your stereo And lay down on my pillow Down into a dream we go Down into a dream we go You never know where we'll go One summer evening at a block party The juice from the ghetto blaster was fading So we highjacked electrical piracy Because nobody had a battery And the gods of rock and roll Hypnotized my stereo I'll gift you one two three Ad Rock, MCA, Mike D Come and bring your stereo Come and bring your stereo And lay down on my pillow Down into a dream we go Down into a dream we go You never know where we'll go Tell me bring your stereo Tell me bring your stereo And lay down on my pillow Down into a dream we go Down into a dream we go You never know where we'll go
*** Thanx a lot to Therube for this one *** Murder of birds I'm not a bird I'm a murder of birds Shifting my shape When your tongue finds the words Like I hate you when I Love you the most Love you the most Love you the most This shape of a snake In a defensive coil Same retracted lips Of the one foolish girl Says she hates you when she Loves you the most Loves you the most Loves you And I've got demons when I need 'em Don't ask to see them they're not supposed to be used against You oh Can we build a safe house Far from the bitter bride And we'll make a home with a brown recluse And the cobra locked outside For the spider we'll give a web To the cobra a lullaby And keeping the demons happy You make free for me to fly And the shape of home baked bread And the girl in a turned down bed In a wake of twisted thread From the loving words you said Hmmm And I think I'm alone In desire for grace For you unleash your mood And I'm no longer safe I say I hate you and I Love you the most Love you the most Love you the most This shape of my breast And a shape of my kiss Dement and coil With a slither and hiss Said I hate you and I Love you the most Love you the most Love you And I've got demons when I need 'em Don't ask to see them they're not supposed to be used against You oh Can we build a safe house Far from the bitter bride And we'll make a home with a brown recluse And the cobra locked outside To the spider we'll give a web To the cobra a lullaby And keeping the demons happy You make free for me to fly And the shape of home baked bread And the girl in a turned down bed In a wake of twisted thread From the loving words you said The shape of home baked bread And the girl in a turned down bed In a wake of twisted thread From the loving words you said 'Cause I'm not a bird I'm a murder of birds Bed across the sea LA is hot as fuck And Manchester is about to freeze You're on your way to the mail To get a letter from me And as of our seperation At the Ancienne Belgique I rock you every night In a bed across the sea Words are all we have for touch They are our fingers And I love our words so much Write your lips to kiss me now And I can taste you as I read Your words out loud You rise and start your day With toast and black tea While I'm in the still of night and pushing back sleep And I ride the hands of the clock 'Til they fall upon three And drop me in our virtual garden for elevenses Words are all we have for touch They are our fingers and I love our words so much And write your hands between my legs And I can feel you as the words jump from the page The sky is bruised It's a lusty dusk With lover's rouge Wet with sap and musk Under you Under dream spell dust under you And it's true And I know that I must And with you I immediately trust And it's so That I fell at first blush And it's snowing in Australia Just now your letter came And the pages did say That you'll fly from your home to mine On January 8th And just now I find that I can just barely wait And from now until that time I'm counting down the days Words are all we have for touch They are our fingers and I love our words so much And write yourself inside me now And I can feel you as the words come pouring out Words are all we have for touch They are our fingers and I love our words so much Write your dreams out line by line And I will stitch them in this heart of mine It's me I'm in Australia Tulip Ada, my rarest bulb from the desert valley Your hair of fire and skin of snow Have caused me to the heights of the desert mountains In search of a cure for a rampant fever Your beauty's power has plagued me now I come and scour the land for the desert flower For beauty and perfume I stake my house and my lands The gold is sleeping in the river but the flower's in my hand With a paler leaf and a broken petal I'll bait the king and queen And to the goldsmith with my flower I'll buy a wedding ring Tulip, tulip, with one what I did buy Oxen, sheep and wheat and rye And land on the north seaside Tulip, tulip, with one what I did buy The finest dresses man could buy And a pearl for to bait my bride Then with my rarest bulb to her father's garden And like gold for lamb or wool for clam I gave that man the bulb for his daughter Ada Your heart is mine and it's mine forever And she replied "My faith that lies on yon horizon's tethered me to the sky” The match arranged and vows exchanged and the dove flew away The bells spilled out the hollow canyon on our wedding day To me she gave her hand until death do us part But the birds will nest with the one that she has promised her heart Tulip, tulip, with one what I did buy The bed from which our sons will rise and the window where she cries Tulip, tulip, with one what I did buy A net to catch the birds that fly from the window where she cries He reaches out and I withdraw Spilling the flowering bribes from his paw The broken petals climbing the walls Stealing my oxygen, no air at all From the bed I hear him call but I answer cooing when the night falls The cotton sword is storming the hall Cutting my vision to no sight at all I tied the tulip round her neck like a red lead sinker And blindfold her and spin her round and round and round To the banks of the river And then walk my true love in to the rushing water And by her long hair bleeding red hair Pull my love there under until she drown For beauty and perfume I'd stake my house and my land My love is sleeping in the river but the flower's in my hand With a paler leaf and a broken petal I'll keep her all to me And to the river with my flower I'll hear my true love sing No water is still my friend Ready to drown Water, water, oh water my kin Carry me out This iron river is mercy at last Die as she laughs For he is waiting where the doves nest My true love Tulip, tulip, with one what I did buy The veil that parted over my bride And her breath as my true love dies Tulip, tulip, with one what is did buy The veil that parted over my bride And the blue from her bluest eyes
*** Thanx a lot to kevin for this one *** Hunting my dress And the tall trees all fall down And they scatter seeds on the ground And one is lost and one is found Water is moving underground When I was a young girl I would sleep in a tall tree On the down of bending boughs And from the mount of his shoulders I would traverse the valleys Through his dusk And dawning eyes "I will let you in,” said the doe to my arrow, "And you will wear my bones and my skin” Hunting my dress Love is ruthless And in a nest from the forest I would carry and ember And with a burning heart we'd walk And when he asks me to rest with him I would lay down my fire And in that heart we'd sing and talk I am a raccoon and you are an owl I will run from you in the mid of night And we will strike a truce in the billowing tower And we'll eclipse the moon with our firelight Hunting my dress Love is ruthless You love me in my dreams It's easier when I'm fast asleep But I don't want you to come to me anymore The river bed has married me But I don't want you to come to me anymore And out of ashes comes morning And the ritual if bathing In the pools at bridal falls And from the mouth of my lover I would drink of the river And kiss his jade and marble walls You will spill the red from my heart with your arrow And you will make my bed under the red grass And I will give my flesh And my blood and my marrow And you will wear my bones and my skin Hunting my dress Love is ruthless And the tall trees all fall down And they scatter seeds on the ground And one is lost and one is found Water is moving underground And you're the one who showed to me the sky It's so much more than you and I And darling I wish I had the time The river is whispering goodbye Bye Bye
The House That Jack Built
Born To Held all within these flesh walls Pair of dice and domino Seven fingers and thirteen toes Wind her up and watch her go Spin her out of dust into rock and fire Oh holy water Throw her to the earth through the burning air Oh bang survivor And now you've gotta get it with what you've got With what you've been given or not Now you've gotta get it with what you've got With what you've been given or not I was born to Held all within these flesh walls Envelopes and time capsules Mark her fingers and mark her throat Spin her round and let her go Send her like a cup to her mothers table Swallow, drink the water Watch her play her part in a long fixed fable Oh as her father's daughter Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin And now you've gotta get it with what you've got With what you've been given or not Now you've gotta get it with what you've got With what you've been given or not I was born to, I was born to I was born to, I was born to Through the burning air Through the burning air And now you've gotta get it with what you've got With what you've been given or not Now you've gotta get it with what you've got With what you've been given or not I was born to, I was born to I was born to, I was born to I was born Pack Animal In the mirror The mirror There you are again Wearing my green eyes My brown hair and my aging skin My body is your bed Dear reflection you're my oldest friend And where you go I go End of eternity and back again And I don't wanna be here All by myself in this strange house It won't let me out Don't wanna be here All by myself in this strange house It won't let me out It's a new day A new day Here you are again Speaking in my voice With my tongue In my brain My voice is echoing Dear reflection it's a sad refrain How we endure the hours And in my arms we sleep alone again Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin And I don't wanna be here All by myself in this strange house It won't let me out Don't wanna be here All by myself in this strange house It won't let me out It's unnatural I'm a pack animal I need it heart to heart Mouth to mouth And bones to bones And I don't wanna be here All by myself in this strange house It won't let me out Don't wanna be here All by myself in this strange house It won't let me out Don't wanna be here All by myself in this strange house It won't let me out Don't wanna be here All by myself in this strange house It won't let me out Don't wanna be here Be here, be here Peacemaker Put on your peacemaker blue Warrior, warrior Powder horn pepperbox boom Warrior, warrior Matchlock rifle cycle axe and club Talon dagger marble razor Put on your peacemaker And call upon your God of war, god of war Enyo anat chemosh oracle Arm us guard us bring us home Stay home I beg you oh my lover My lover, my lover Or I will not serve you as your lover Your lover, your lover Dita corset stockings and thigh cuffs Hornet playsuit oil diamond dust Until you draw action from a higher resonance Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin I will tamp the lamp light in our window I will drown the fire in our bed Through my legs I will withhold from you passage And from my lips to take Tongue and taste Sex and make Milk in your baby Swords enraged Fuck me babe Pray abstain girls reign Put down your peacemaker blue Warrior, warrior Beaten and broken and bruised Warrior, warrior Come and I'll unlock your chain link armour Seven baths absolve your blood stained honor Your honor Tell the water of The bread in the basket The game on the fire The milk in the jar The milk in the jar The babe in the cradle The mothers in bed Asleep in the dark Asleep in the dark Your circled the cabin and broke down the door You broke down the door You broke down the door You emptied the cradle and ravished the bed You ravished the store And fired your torch Now I take you to the bed and there you lay I drop my dress and feed your hungry eye Until you draw action from a higher resonance I will tamp the lamplight in our window I will drown the fire in our bed Through my legs I'll withhold from you passage And from my lips to take Tongue and taste Sex and make Milk in your baby Swords enraged Fuck me babe Pray abstain girls reign Hospital (Win your love) Just my luck Today's the day, man, that hurt It's worth the pain There's a new queen in this house She's plastered up Behold the sight, just look up Fluorescent light Have I gone to heaven or to hospital I'm dreaming of the hospital I'm dreaming of mom and dad Look at me like they did back when I'm born again Daddy's girl and Mama's princess Sister Jen She doesn't exist till when I need something She'll bring me ice creams 'Cause I'm in hospital I'm dreaming of the hospital I'm dreaming of the date with the doctor is a golden ticket I want your attention now I'm gonna get it Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin And now come on you cunt come come on and hit me There's no kind of attention that a black eye wouldn't get me And there's nothing like a broken arm to win your love There's nothing like a fresh abrasion to win your love You can work on your bedside manner And you can kiss it till it feels better And there's nothing like a broken arm to win your love Oh my old friends I'm voting you out or in You envy me I walk through red carpet to my cast signing A crayon or a marker pen And all of the It girls ask me what it's like in hospital I'm dreaming of the hospital I'm dreaming of the hospital It's dreamy And the date with the doctor is a golden ticket I want your attention now I'm gonna get it And now come on you cunt come come on and hit me There's no kind of attention that a black eye wouldn't get me And there's nothing like a broken arm To win your love There's nothing like a fresh abrasion to win your love You can work on your bedside manner You can kiss it till it feels better And there's nothing like a broken arm To win your love I got five weeks, forty one days, one thousand glorious hours To wave my arm and get what I want with my new found powers But this is not a fairytale with a happy ending When the clock strikes twelve will I ever find your love again And there's nothing like a broken arm to win your love There's nothing like a fresh abrasion to win your love And you can work on your bedside manner And you can make me feel like I matter And there's nothing like a broken arm to win your love The House That Jack Built I carried a bag of rock and stone full of memory Of our family Aboard a plane to Tulsa Five years of waiting for his life to end suddenly Tearing its way through me All of the way to Tulsa It's not enough It's not enough It's not enough It's not enough To know you through them I walked through the door of living room that I do not know To a couch where he slept alone In the bone yard of the house that jack built My brothers were sorting through his fine shoes and fine cologne Pictures of our childhood home The glory of the house that jack built Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin It's not enough It's not enough It's not enough It's not enough To know you through them Purple hearts and racing cars and the words for her you wrote Your deal was raw but you loved us all and we know it note for note Now they tell us of your life until the end Your sister and your best friend The stories are a revelation All of a brother and a sailor and an honourable man A boy driving as fast as he can To this man I have no relation It's not enough It's not enough It's not enough It's not enough To know you through them Purple hearts and racing cars and the words for her you wrote Your deal was raw but you loved us all and we know it note for note Purple hearts and racing cars and the words for her you wrote Your deal was raw but you loved us Pa and we know it note for note Ode To Banksy My pencil is dull My pencil is dull There's not much lead left in my pencil My marker ran dry Was a scribblin night And there's not much lead left in my pencil There's not an activity at all There's no wheels a turnin in my skull In my skull, in my skull Oh oh oh I'm in love with Jacques Cousteau You take me deeper than I ever go And that's the reason why I'll leave you Oh oh oh Making love when ad we've just begun I need assistance from your aqualung And that's the reason why I'll leave you And oh my mystery man You're so oh oh oh You're so provocative so underground And I never wanna see your face You come oh oh oh You come invisible to paint the town My pencil is dull My pencil is dull There's not much lead left in my pencil My marker ran dry Was a scribblin night And there's not much lead left in my pencil There's not an activity at all There's no wheels a turnin in my skull In my skull, in my skull Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Oh oh oh Suicide bombers just need a hug Get that bomb strapped on nice and snug Let my divine love relieve you Oh oh oh Tonight's the night go and oil your gun We'll turn the quick stop to emporium Let my divine light lead you And oh my mystery man You're so oh oh oh You're so provocative, so underground And I never wanna see your face You come oh oh oh You come invisible to paint the town Go on guerrilla pull your hoods up And the billboards yours this time And shake your paint can and throw your piece up Then you run for your righteous crime Oh oh oh ring around the fat man Around little boy Daddy gave me this fantastic toy Let's go and find out what it can do Oh oh oh Ashes to ashes and we all fall down There's nothing standing for miles around I guess we found out what it can do And oh my mystery man Oh my mystery man You're so oh oh oh You're so provocative, so underground And I never wanna see your face You come oh oh oh You come invisible to paint the town My stencil is dope My stencil is dope Just follow the rope to my stencil Tiananman square mickey d's in the air 'Cause there's not much lead left in my pencil There's not an activity at all There's no wheels a turning in my skull In my skull, in my skull In my skull, in my skull In my skull, in my skull Dig This Record Dig this record Dig this record now Dig it like you never dug one before 'Cause it's so far out Find your lover Lay your lover down Make a moment to remember And relive through this sound Dig it out of the basement now Out from under the Van Gogh owl Dig it out from the discard and onto the record player Now that I'm gone and far away I am in a flood I'm about to sink I am tits up in the water without a drop to drink I look for my saviour He's nowhere to be found So I hang on to my guitar like a lifeboat till we both drown Dig it out of the basement now Out from under the Van Gogh owl Dig it out from the discard and onto the record player Now that I'm gone and far away Now that I'm gone and far away Now that I'm gone and far away Dig this record Dig this record now Dig it like you never dug one before 'Cause it's so far out I am on the drift I am out to sea You know this poor world couldn't put a price on the likes of me Turn to your lover Kiss your lover's mouth There's no others I'd rather be with as my song plays out Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Dig it out of the basement now Out from under the Van Gogh owl Dig it out from the discard and onto the record player Now that I'm gone and far away Now that I'm gone and far away Now that I'm gone and far away Now that I'm gone and far away Now that I'm gone and far away Now that I'm gone and far away Now that I'm gone and far away DNR Winter's dark morning woke my dad The diabetic didn't feel his feet step out of bed The truck filled with TV dinners Needing delivering round town He would drive behind the paper boy throwin' them headlines out And no antidepressant of sort Could change the weather report When the wind chill factor was high he took the whole bottle down He's got his paperwork now DNR, DNR, DNR DNR, DNR, DNR Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, he raised his kids up right But being raised in the light of Christ adds insult to injury that night When the mail order brides and the phone sex and his negligence became real The wall covered in spit how's it to make your teenage daughters feel Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin He called his flame that never died She could hear something weren't right Now we've got one more failed attempt at a suicide Keep it right by your side DNR By no heroic measure DNR Restart restart his heart DNR, DNR, DNR, DNR A lonely heart was the black hole that did him in From the first attempt to his current critical condition Now we're talking over who will take the dog if he's gonna make it through again And we're taking turns tell him the stories of the good times worth remembering And then my sister asked Are we praying for him to pass And no one dared speak out loud but we all knew And pushed the paperwork through DNR By no heroic measure DNR Restart restart his heart DNR, DNR, DNR DNR, DNR, DNR DNR, DN Deeper Devastation I don't trust anyone Not you And the closer you come Deeper devastation I'm a baby bird I'm a hungry bird And I feed from your gut And the wind blows And the tree shakes And your beak stabs my throat Under the power of Our one and only sun There's a kink in the pattern Do you do the right thing There's a hole in the fabric Do you do the right thing You cannot trust a human being to do the right thing Do the right Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Under the power of Our one and only sun And there once was a time With you But it turned on a dime And tales call the decision I'm a lover wild I'm a loyal child And I've burned your eyes on mine When the bones collide And the rocks catch fire And your greed swallows me whole Under the power of Our one and only sun There's a kink in the pattern Do you do the right thing There's a hole in the fabric Do you do the right thing You cannot trust a human being to do the right thing Do the right Under the power of Our one and only Under the power of Our one and only Under the power of Our one and only sun I'm a bleeding heart I'm a hiding heart And I can bleed and hide and still love When the truths blown wide And my faith's capsized I drift in loss and sorrow Under the power of Our one and only Under the power of Our one and only Under the power of Our one and only sun There's a kink in the pattern Do you do the right thing There's a hole in the fabric Do you do the right thing And it is all in the planning Do you do the right thing You cannot trust a human being to do the right thing Do the right Under the power of Our one and only Under the power of Our one and only Under the power of Our one and only Under the power of Our one and only When I'm Asleep You gotta bring the bread to the table You gotta bring the bread on home So you dance for the rain and the sun and the wind And you pray for your crops to grow And every morning till sundown You work your hands to the bone You keep your head high and your eyes wide Diamond in your mind and you bring the bread home Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin But when I'm asleep When I'm asleep I'm not anyone You're not anywhere But when I'm asleep When I'm asleep I'm not anyone You're not anywhere And you know I gotta win your heart babe You know I gotta win your love So I promise the moon and the stars and the sea And I pray to the stars above With every beat my hearts skipping You'll know what I'm made of I keep light on and the bed warm Shelter from the storm and I'm keepin our love But when I'm asleep When I'm asleep I'm not anyone You're not anywhere When I'm asleep When I'm asleep I'm not anyone You're not anywhere And my mouth doesn't talk back to me And my plans don't have to be And my back doesn't feel gravity And my dreams go back to sleep And you know I gotta make it to heaven You know I gotta save my soul So I marry the lord and I drink from the scars And I swear off my worldly ways And every second a baby Is born through his mother's bones And torn from grace gotta find your faith Or the devil's gonna claim your soul Go back to sleep Go back to sleep I'm not anyone You're not anywhere Go back to sleep Go back to sleep I'm not anyone You're not anywhere...
LOVE LETTER FOR FIRE
Welcome to feeling Happy Welcome to feeling Calm comes We're sleeping in the sun another stupid copy paste Deep in the sun Dark in the sun Dark inside the sun Deep in the sun Dark inside of wonder Full of song Dark inside of wonder Full of happiness One way to pray You can see with your wounded eye Crossing low narrow streets at night Like a car crash fighting for road You'd rather sleep alone I've got arms that can't hold enough And my love song might ask too much How your shadow grows bitter and long When I enter it wrong I enter it wrong, I enter it wrong I enter it wrong, I enter it wrong another stupid copy paste I could heal but my hands are cold You could lend me your broken bones Letting love keep climbing the stairs To comb your long hair You could sleep where no dreamer goes Build a house more of stone than home Pray for music with a reverent ear And the song reappears Open sky receiver The song reappears Open sea receiver The song reappears Open land receiver The song reappears Red ember believer The song reappears Open eye receiver The song reappears Open mouth receiver The song reappears Open palm receiver The song reappears Burning heart believer The song reappears You can sing with your tired lungs Know the wind and we'll take what comes It's a tough road taking the name They'll carve on our grave We're alive under thunder clouds Taking hymns out of mothers mouths Swimming out to the incoming waves That's one way to pray One way to pray Open eye receiver One way to pray Open mouth receiver One way to pray Open palm receiver One way to pray Burning heart believer The lamb you lost Oh the pin fixing the sea Was a pillar in my spine Until the tempest embraced me In its still and quiet eye When my hand reached out to skim Bluer water than your eyes I was ripped into the spin I was torn into the tide Hear the waves hit the cliff Like our names engraved Silhouetted you and I kissing another stupid copy paste Moon in a tidal lock And I am born to love you Like the king who gave his name to Carolina Know when the sky is dark The light will come tomorrow And the lamb you lost is following behind you There's a lamb you lost still following behind you Feel the cold on the cliff With our names engraved There is music in the sea And we swim into the sound Far adrift like I am free When your voice turns me around Any heart could burst its shell Love is made for broken things Bring your hands to know me well Know my heart for what it sings There are names on the cliff That the waves won't take Silhouetted you and I kissing Moon in a tidal lock And I am born to love you Like the king who gave his name to Carolina Know when the sky is dark The light will come tomorrow And the lamb you lost is following behind you There's a lamb you lost still following behind you We too are a moon This song is a love letter to toss into the fire Wind comes in the window Faces carve into the hearth Find a soul and feel it Hearts have hidden rooms Sing with me to wrong gods Music isn't safe This love is a photograph of snow kept in a cloud We don't look for failure but it's teaching us the world another stupid copy paste And it's open kisses Mercy among stones Horses in the doorway Running out of rain And we all die of thirst We put family first The world can withhold so much beauty This life is a river rock to turn under your tongue Laughing rubs it smooth and crying turns into a pearl Promise me tomorrow Fingers deep in green This well's full of water We two are a moon Midas tongue The devil made the water warm And the fruit trees call Out for us to taste them all Little heart I poured your wine And you poured mine another stupid copy paste Heaven isn't always kind Singing stars are far away And the sun says gray Wind is in the heavy wings and the light stone sinks Halos and the night falls free Falling not for you and me A halo is a band of gold And we both have one of those God is breathing on the shore We become his words Disappear and reemerge Even borrowed love is sung in a midas tongue Little heart I knew you well You were kin and my kind when i lost you in the tide Sing a star for all that glows in the undertow Halos and the night falls free Falling not for you and me A halo is a band of gold And we both have one of those Know the wild that wants you When you were a boy you stuck A thumb inside the light Morning bottle warm Holy compass ready you would run into the wild Into the wild Gathered in its arms In its arms, in its arms another stupid copy paste When you're in the city You're a tangled native tongue Another tongue eating fear for free Know the wild that wants You know you're not another pillow on a gun Drifting off to sleep And come home Feel your own bones say "Heal yourself, yourself" Hear your own heart moan "Love yourself, yourself” When you were a girl Salt was beading down your back And all the braves were tangled in your hair Candy for your lips and for your love All you were given was a bruise Falling down the stairs When you're in the city and it's talking to itself To itself, stealing what you sing Know the wild that wants you when the sun is underground And park police are laughing off your leaves Feel your own bones say "Heal yourself, yourself" Hear your own heart moan "Love yourself, yourself" And come home, and come home And come home, and come home Every songbird says I'm a tiny heart Thats falling fast Like a hummingbird Like an hour glass I'm a hollow bone A determined wing For the distant home Of a promise ring This bed is old But the dream is new You can borrow mine If you break a few another stupid copy paste I'm a mountainside I can wash away I'm a pool of tears On a wedding day Oh, we're both baby bottles full of love Oh, empty fingers of a glove Oh, we know when its enough Oh enough, oh enough Oh it's enough Oh, to be walking with you I get lost I get lost a lot And you meet me there I can close my eyes And find you anywhere I can hold you close While you wander free And the long walk home Says you're good for me You're good for me I can take a lot I'll give you more We're a tiny heart But the blood is warm I'm a thunderclap I'm cutting through Every songbird says I'm in love with you I'm in love with you I'm in love with you I'm in love with you Oh, we're both deaf and banging on a drum Snow angels sleeping in the sun Oh, we know when it's enough Oh, enough, oh enough Oh, enough Oh, sun sinking down and this work is never done Oh, your heart is never won Oh, we know when it's enough Oh, enough, oh enough Oh, enough, oh enough Oh, enough, oh enough Oh, enough, oh it's enough Oh, to be walking with you Oh, and get lost Bright lights and goodbyes Fish don't care for a quiet sea The trees won't give the lightning sky Who died right from living thin We'll throw our gold where waters wide When the world grows love in between the words Held beneath your tongue They sound strange When we listen there's a heart beat Singing about the need for leaves Wind within the wind and change Nameless days and a memory like stone Snowfall coming and a warm walking home Bright lights and goodbyes Bright lights and goodbyes Bright lights and goodbyes Bright lights and goodbyes another stupid copy paste When we listen theres a rainfall Calling us ground for green Waves beyond the waves like old stars We can hear fear like fire in the river blood Hands for pulling through I'll pull you hard Night likes feeling and its lovers all run free Time loves crying it was kind to give us these Bright lights and goodbyes Bright lights and goodbyes Bright lights and goodbyes Bright lights and goodbyes Kiss me quick Kiss me quick while you still can I'm a heart with a heavy hand Every morning horn is a crown of thorn Every breath is a wedding band You could roll your eyes You could play for time You could weep the sunlight down Won't you kiss me quick while you still can And I'll find the night with you We'll build our house in a field of gold When the mountains tumbling down And blocks the road another stupid copy paste We'll turn each rock into a stepping stone And fumble around the failing stars On our way back home Kiss me quick while you still can I'm a tongue for the wicked truth Every autumn takes what the summer makes And we wilt in the living proof You could pull the tide Build a wall inside You could drift and draw like love Won't you kiss me quick while you still can And I'll meet you inside me Kiss me quick while you still can Kiss me quick while you still can Kiss me quick while you still can Chalk it up to Chi I am on a train You are on the road Ear down to the track Feeling out communication I am on the rail You are kneeling still Ear down to the rail for a whale call Elemental communication You're a sorry black boot I'm a shiny marble I am old and stone You are mossy green I could be your home But you've gone and overgrown it another stupid copy paste I could be your home You won't keep it clean Greedy as a grain in a rainfall Elemental communication I'm a sorry black boot You're a shiny marble I'm a shiny marble you're a sorry black boot You lost your marble in your sorry black boot You shine them up, you get your swagger shiny black You shine them up, you get your shiny marble back Could we just agree Chalk it up to Chi Sing around the roots And I'll sing along the leaf tops I could be your home Fuck with you for fun Laugh until it hurts With a friend first Elemental communication I'm a shiny marble you're a sorry black boot You lost your marble in your sorry black boot You shine them up, you get your swagger shiny black You shine them up, you get your shiny marble back I'm a shiny marble you're a sorry black boot You lost your marble in your sorry black boot You shine them up, you get your swagger shiny black You shine them up, you get your shiny marble back Valley clouds Why don't we go slow below the valley clouds Our edges worn round and sacred now All in time, all promises were not the same We left flowers in the field and our tears were plain Bend to the wind It'll baptize your skin Until your music is tender Tender as trees For the truth we believed It's the wind we remember another stupid copy paste We were overcome Spinning in the wheels Hitting bottom in the wellspring mud Crying to the cold until we felt the sun Home was up a hill but our weary legs could run When we closed our eyes We could see the serpent And the savior laying side by side Heaven was a corner where we tried to hide Our running would be long And our river would be wild Feel this flag Let's ring another freedom bell Our backs were to the sound but it's sermon held All things wild draw cups until the waters cold Our memories are christ and our hearts are clothes Bend to the wind It'll baptize our skin until our music is tender Tender as trees For the tears when we leave it's the wind we'll remember We'll be overcome Spinning in the wheels Hitting bottom in the wellspring mud Crying to the cold until we feel the sun Home is up a hill where our weary legs will run When we close our eyes See the serpent and her favorite savior Laying side by side Every heaven only you and I can find Our running will be long And our river will be wild Be wild Bells come back We'll name a star we know all night What valley is our claim when our coin is sky Soft place to land I know you're out there Out in that weather It's raining sideways A hard rain another stupid copy paste Keeping your head down Buried in your collar You press into the headwind Because theres work to be done If she don't cling to you If she don't tend to you And give you respite from your worries And the wind thats blowing through If you're looking for a soft place to land The calm of a steady hand An unconditional friend If you need to take a moment to catch your breath Come in before you catch your death You don't have to pass the test to come home Your faithful pony Who's legs have broken Now leaves you stranded on the high plain When the gunshot echoes Your heart despairing You pack up all you can carry 'Cause there's work to be done If she don't pray to you And run her fingers through I vow to always leave the light on She don't bend to you And she don't bow down to Or put a shoulder to the burden That is weighing down on you If you're looking for a soft place to land The calm of a steady hand An unconditional friend If you need to take a moment to catch your breath Come in before you catch your death You don't have to pass the test to come home A soft place to land The calm of a steady hand An unconditional friend If you need to take a moment to catch your breath Come in before you catch your death You don't have to pass the test to come home A soft place to land A soft place A soft place to land A soft place A soft place to land A soft place A soft place to land A soft place Sailor to siren This tenderness comes as a surprise Drinking where the riverbed was dry Trees in the wind trembling with love Mad morning light drew you out the door Mama didn't need you anymore She pointed at night but you saw the stars Brace yourself and nestle into me Bare it all like fallen autumn leaves You don't even know me that well Now every blossoms ready to explode Rooted in the cracks along the road The world is a dream that wiggled free another stupid copy paste Wild distant water told me where to run Papa let me know i'm not enough He took out the life and left me the hole Are you the sailor or the siren in the tide Trusts a tiny ocean and besides You don't even know me that well Your song is warm and coming through the wall Hearts are thrown to strangers after all You don't even know me that well
MEMORIES ARE NOW Memories Are Now Memories are now Memories are now I was not there I won't be there I am only here Memories are now I can carry this weight I can stand up tall Look you in the eye You haven't broken me yet You don't scare me to death You don't scare me at all Though you try I've lived enough life I've earned my stripes With my knife in the ground This is mine Clear the way I'm coming through No matter what you say I've got work to be doing If you're not here to help Go find some other life to ruin Let me show you the door copy paste robots kill the internet And the only fear Is a thing called fear I am only here I have only now To bear the load To feel my way Trust my mistakes I've seen you before I know our face I fell for that line shame on you You've got this idea I can be fooled again with the line Shame on me Clear the way I'm coming through No matter what you say I've got work to be doing If you're not here to help Go find some other life to ruin You have outstayed your welcome Best get up, get on, get movin' Get movin', get movin', get movin' Let me show you the door Memories are now Memories are now Memories are now And every doubt is just A trigger proving strength Clear the way I'm coming through No matter what you say I've got work to be doing If you're not here to help Go find some other life to ruin Take a bite out of me Find you've got more Than you're happy chewin' You have outstayed your welcome Best get up, get on, get movin' Get movin', get movin', get movin' Get movin' Let me show you the door Memories are now The lost sky I walk the dark star The lost sky Searching for your signal Receive mine I caught your cold And our tears became laughter Happy ever after copy paste robots kill the internet Out of our secrets We built a home Confide and fortify Blood bone A love like ours comes round once in a lifetime Sending you a lifeline The bitter burn of a signal run cold You became the dark star and left me all alone A love like ours comes round once in a lifetime Sending you a lifeline The bitter burn of a signal run cold You became the dark star and left me all alone A love like ours comes round once in a lifetime Sending you a lifeline When we said The words I love you I said them 'cause they are true Why would you say those words to me If you could not follow through Go wash your mouth out child I walk the dark star The lost sky Searching for your signal Receive mine I caught your cold And our tears became laughter Happy ever after Out of our secrets We built a home Confide and fortify Blood bone A love like ours comes round once in a lifetime Sending you a lifeline The bitter burn of a signal run cold You became the dark star and left me all alone A love like ours comes round once in a lifetime Sending you a lifeline When we said The words I love you I said them 'cause they are true Why would you say those words to me If you could not follow through Go wash your mouth out child I walk the dark star The lost sky Searching for your signal Receive mine I caught your cold And our tears became laughter Happy ever after Out of our secrets We built a home Confide and fortify Blood bone A love like ours comes round once in a lifetime Sending you a lifeline The bitter burn of a signal run cold You became the dark star and left me all alone A love like ours comes round once in a lifetime Sending you a lifeline The bitter burn of a signal run cold You became the dark star and left me all alone A love like ours comes round once in a lifetime Sending you a lifeline When we said Animal Kingdom Chaotic Where would we find a pulse I just work here computer says no Are we all ones and zeros I just work here computer sa ys no You know you wanna but the Computer says no You know you wanna wanna Take back control I say it is possible But your computer says no You say it's impossible But your dumb computer says no copy paste robots kill the internet You know you wanna but the Computer says no You know you wanna wanna Take back control Take back control Take back control Take back control Human kind wiped out by rise in drone Take back control Fightin', killin' by remote control You know you wanna but the drone You know you wanna but the drone You know you wanna but the drone You know you wanna but the You know you wanna but the computer says no You know you wanna but the Take back control Robots are the new exotic Animal kingdom chaotic Smoking jacket Hand in pocket Oh how I learned to love the rocket You know you wanna but the Computer says no You know you wanna wanna Take back control You know you wanna but the Computer says no You know you wanna wanna Take back control Take back control Take back control Take back control Human kind wiped out by rise in drone Take back control Fightin', killin' by remote control Take back control Human kind wiped out by rise in drone Take back control Fightin', killin', fightin', killin' Fightin', killin', fightin', killin' By remote control You know you wanna but the drone You know you wanna but the drone You know you wanna but the drone Simon says Pound's falling out my pocket We went straight out and bought it Cats stripes stars and swishes standing in a line The satellite connects We're hypnotised by TV sets And sing along commercial anthems Like a zombie choir Doo doo doo doo doo We're all talkin' about it Round the clock about it Scheme about it, dream about it Eat it all the time It's on the grocery list Below the cream above the chips What Simon says we've got to listen Tell us what we like copy paste robots kill the internet 'Cause I like what I like I like what I like But why do I, do I, do I, do I Do I, do I, do I, do I Www don't forget life before the internet When streets were run by sharks and jets And children running wild As we pixelate a generation Children become application Pawn consumer pollinators Buy it, buy and buy 'Cause I like what I like We're all talkin' about it Round the clock about it Scheme about it, dream about it Even when we die It's on the grocery list Below the cream above the chips What Simon says we've got to listen Tell us what we like We're still talkin' about it Can't stop talking 'Cause the needle in the haystack Is a splinter in your mind It can get quite confused When you don't pick the words you choose Involuntarily advertising for their enterprise 'Cause I like what I like I like what I like I like what I like But why do I, do I, do I, do I Do I, do I, do I, do I, do I... Know every climbing tree Do I know every climbing tree Do I know every climbing tree Do I know every climbing tree Cut Connection I'm living the dream In the dream I'm buried alive Two bed grave, one bath, car in the drive Mirrored covered windows block the light Feeding back reflection distorts life Cut connection Cut connection Cut connection Cut connection Come on Be the drummer in my Come on Be the drummer in my heart I summon y our hands to bring me what is mine I flatter your eyes and fail the heart behind All else element in my design I don't waste my breath, don't waste my time Cut connection copy paste robots kill the internet Cut connection Cut connection Cut connection Cut connection Come on, be the drummer in my heart Be the drummer in my heart Be the drummer in my heart I want for your kiss, for your kiss my lips won't part I want for your touch, for your touch my hands won't move Come on bring that friction get that spark Come on be the drummer in my heart Cut connection Cut connection Cut connection Cut connection Cut connection Be the drummer in my heart Be the drummer in my heart Be the drummer in my heart Come on up To the old rock To the old rock To the well Drink from the old well Be a beggar Be a king Be a cold machine Be a part of all things Come on up To the old rock To the old rock To the well Drink from the old well Be a beggar Be a king Be a cold machine Be a part of all things Come on up To the old rock To the old rock To the well Drink from the old well The horizon Ocean floor Sail on wounded wing Be a part of all things Be a part of all things Be a part of all things Be a part of all things Be a part of all things Be a part of all things Be a part of all things... Songs of Old Turn the key in the iron lock of the old oak door Lean into its passages with all my weight and enter Immediately my olfactory senses its home Paper thin and paraffin and the glimmering of gold Marble hands out pouring ater Silver wings delivering wishes Streams of coloured light Make hell a home Mama singin' the songs of old Mama singin' the songs of old Singin' the rock of ages Though the gold is marred by red Singin' the rock of ages Melt 'em down and make new saints Singin' the rock of ages Empires are made this way Singin' the rock of ages copy paste robots kill the internet Endless hopes and endless fears Polish this stone The deeper desire The finer the grain This time I walk the stair way And turn the key in the cellar door I want to know why, why All these stories never spoken Danced or drawn or sung or written Of how we built this temple soul by soul Mama singin' the songs of old Mama singin' the songs of old Singin' the rock of ages Though the gold is marred by red Singin' the rock of ages Melt 'em down and make new saints Singin' the rock of ages Empires are made this way Singin' the rock of ages Mama singin' the songs of old Singin' the rock of ages Though the gold is marred by red Singin' the rock of ages Melt 'em down and make new saints Singin' the rock of ages Empires are made this way Singin' the rock of ages Unsaid I have never felt for any other lover like I feel for you Our love is on a higher plane, a high humbling and holy thing And your love is king and champion of my heart A heavy weight, I'm gonna make you stay Don't wanna fight, don't wanna fight Wanna hold you close, wanna love you right Wanna love you right 'Cause the night is long and the bed is cold And the heart is hard and the ember is coal And the door is closed when you walk away copy paste robots kill the internet Don't walk away like that Don't turn our back on me I know that I don't make it easy on you babe So come on back Let's not get mad Show teeth Say things we wish could be Let's not stay mad Get mean Say things we wish could be Unsaid I have never felt for any other lover like I feel for you Our love is on a higher plane, a high humbling and holy thing And your love is king and champion of my heart A heavy weight, I'm gonna make you stay Don't wanna fight, don't wanna fight Wanna hold you close, wanna love you right Wanna love you right 'Cause the night is long and the bed is cold And the heart is hard and the ember is coal And the door is closed when you walk away Don't walk away like that Don't turn our back on me I know that I don't make it easy on you babe So come on back Let's not get mad Show teeth Say things we wish could be Let's not stay mad Get mean Say things we wish could be Let's not get mad Show teeth Say things we wish could be Let's not stay mad Get mean Say things we wish could be Unsaid Pegasi You found a map to my heart It led you to the well You combed out my mane I'll wear your saddle and reins With all these stars at my feet I'll stamp and tap the spring With my rider a mount I feel like spreading my wings Take to the sky like poetry copy paste robots kill the internet When we're in love we're alive You're the envy of the sky Every ember wants to ride the supernova But I fear you'll see the day That I've endured all I can take I won't bend but I will break under the weight Because you broke within me What others could not tame I'll summon the wind And do your bidding day by day And with your firm strong hand Go steady tow ard the north We are a thing of beauty Lit by the fires of iron ore Your good old girl was built to soar When we're in love we're alive You're the envy of the sky Every ember wants to ride the supernova But I fear you'll see the day That I've endured all I can take I won't bend but I will break under the weight Dying star Dying star Dying star Through many love lit moons I served my rider well I suffered the bit And took his spur into my side And still I paid that price When I shook that bridal free And my beloved rider fell From the stars into the sea You're of the earth I'm Pegasi When we're in love we're alive You're the envy of the sky Every ember wants to ride the supernova But I fear you'll see the day That I've endured all I can take I won't bend but I will break under the weight Dying star Dying star Dying star The Coming Jesus Turned in his crown of thorns today And announced to the earth and the heavens The end of his reign And took a seat next to the devil and said I need a new name And the coming never came copy paste robots kill the internet My whole life I fervently served him and obeyed And I walked through this world full of sinners And I kept them at bay 'Cause there's only enough room at his table For the souls that are saved And they're coming to shut the gate You're too little and too late And you can't get in on that name But I don't buy it I refuse to think that my best friend is going to hell anymore And condescend to offer her a key to her salvation Like it's something I have and can afford And I won't blame my parents for clinging to the good word In hopes that it makes sense of it all And believing in a story Like it was the bible when it was just a tale made tall Hey ya, hey ya, hey ya Now I wake up to the most spirit rattling scare As I'm loosing my religion layer by layer 'Cause it's triggering all of the trip lines of the traps and the snares It's that old device called fear, that old device called fear Now it's the long ride through the unknown which I embrace And the cops and the robbers And the cowboys and the indians have got the same face We just each of us doing our best to get by day by day And heaven is ours to take And our choices day by day Bring us closer or further a way I understood the risk that asking any kind of question Could unravel me with one small fray But I looked in my closet filled with ignorance Intolerance and a fear that was turning to hate And that is not the meaning or intention of the teaching Or the truth from which the message came And I can't turn a blind eye to centuries of conflict And wrong-doing in his name His name Hey ya, hey ya, hey ya Jesus Turned in his crown of thorns today And announced to the earth and the heavens The end of his reign And took a seat next to the devil and said I need a new name And the coming never came
Stonechild
Free Of The Feeling Where the ringing bell falls deaf We go look for dark Where no flag is waving red We look for dark Out where there's no whites of eyes Out where there's no stars Casting far and watching night We go look for dark To get da To get da To get da To get Free of the feeling Past the grave and vicar's house People packed in bars All the chaste and junkies raising hands to god Down the alley sleeping rough Pressing darkness To the ground he can not touch We go look for dark To get free of the feeling Free of the feeling Free of the feeling Free of the feeling Streetlights and cameras were separate and alone Orphaned and alien down here where stars shine wrong The book might tell me what to think But the pulse is what I know The infant goes right for the drink My heart beats on its own Free of the feeling Free of the feeling Free of the feeling Out there is not sky that has been named sky Opening no heaven that has been named let it rain Out there is no river that has been named river Washing over no sinner that has been named let it rain Out there is no tower that has been named closer to god Watching over no children that have been named lost I woke the wet moon I woke the wet moon I woke the wet moon I woke the wet moon
Shoulder Charge I've been going through something quietly So quietly Nobody knows my trouble Nobody knows I dress myself for city streets These leathers shield my sadness So nobody sees Nobody sees Nobody sees me Nobody sees Nothing not my skin Keeps out from in I came out of the world Not into this world I rehearse my hello's, hello, hello To refined deceit And head out to meet a friend for coffee Armoured in mascara I hit the street and join the sea Of islands walking the island All of their stories underneath In currents of unconscious Driven by deep water Heads above the water Barely above the water Nothing not my skin Keeps out from in I came out of this world Not into this world Nothing knows a finishing Where nothing begins I came out of this world Not into this world Not from outside this world Out of this world Out of this world Out of this world Out of this world I live as the world If I told you what was really going on Surely I'd have lost your love There was no one I could trust to understand Something personal But at the station In a moment Of sonder On the platform Standing shoulder To shoulder To shoulder To shoulder To shoulder charge Standing shoulder To shoulder To shoulder To shoulder charge I found myself holding the thread That I might trust a friend That we might just all be in this together Empathy's contagious We gathered round a spring fed well What a tale to tell And what a fucking relief That nothing one can go through Has not been shared by two Nothing one can go through Has not been shared by two Nothing not my skin Keeps out from in I came out of this world Not into this world Nothing knows a finishing where nothing begins I came out of this world Not into this world Not from outside this world Out of this world Out of this world Out of this world Out of this world Out of this world I live as the world Out of this world Out of this world Out of this world Out of this world Out of this world Out of this world Out of this world
Old Fear Of Father I love my boys More than I love my girl Try not to show it She knows like I knew I have my father's legs Long kissed with summer Old fear of father Keeps me in mother's mirror Sing to my boys Back to your own bed girl Cold fills the bottle He'll get the swaddling And my milk I have my mother's gaze Pastures and towers Soft drawing him near To her down cast severe Oh Valerie Valerie know the hand that feeds you The hand that keeps you The hand that owns the keys Keeps you pretty Don't look for me to hold you I shape and mould you So you can get the ring While you're still pretty Rock a bye boys Run along daddy's girl Your blushing youthful Dewy bloom cut From my tree You'll learn your mother's game Seal your reflection For his affection Now against me you'll play So on it goes Never to trust a girl All sistren rivals To be expected in his world Valerie know the hand that feeds you The hand that keeps you Can put you on the street At least you're pretty Don't look to me for sweetness This borrowed dress holds nothing sweet
Footfall To The Path As every hand I've ever held Like water moves From me And every mouth I've ever kissed Like open doors Closing When you say hello I hear goodbye I feel your hand in mine When my empty bed Is cold again You're sleeping by my side Goodbye moon Goodbye sun Goodbye moon Goodbye sun Goodbye moon Goodbye sun As every roof and wooden floor Once turned to dust You'll see That every road Drawn to the door To home no longer lead When you say goodbye I hear hello And cross the wet threshold when I crave to feel The sun again I lengthen my shadow Hello moon Hello sun Hello moon Hello sun Hello moon Hello sun Why love if loving never lasts I'll never have what I'll always have Palm pushing fist into the past I'll never have what I'll always have Why love if loving never lasts I'll never have what I'll always have Nowhere but footfall to the path I'll never have what I'll always have Nothing Grasp Nothing As every breath Leaves every breast So every step Leaves stone Somehow stone Once held fire But leaves nothing To hold To hold, to hold To hold, to hold To hold, to hold
Death Row Narrowly I escaped inevitable Utter and total ruin though not left unscathed My name and face kept intact by benevolent Cowardice we wore our Sunday best Encircled your chrysalis But you slept through the crisis You will take a breath you'll take your very first breath You'll take a breath once you've inhaled water May you have a good death a very good death As the dust's settling I'm tip toeing my way Back to controlled environs the smug and relief When a voice stops me in my tracks And laughter bounds from the wreckage We came out Easter dressed Now how could second guess A well-timed metamorphosis You will learn to laugh you'll get a belly aching laugh You'll learn to laugh once you've finished crying May you have a good death a very good death Throw the baby out with the bath Stones in a house of glass lean into the cracks And let the sky fall in All I would die for replaced By virtual immaculate Imitation my tryptophan teeth And comatose lips firmly latched Round the teat of a comfort whore We waited all night long For you at rock bottom Consoling your swan song You will get a kiss you'll get your very first kiss You'll get a kiss once you've endured falling May you have a good death a very good death Throw the baby out with the bath Stones in a house of glass lean into the cracks Stones in a house of glass lean into the cracks Stones in a house of glass lean into the cracks Stones in a house of glass lean into the cracks And let the sky fall in
Red White And Black Take the old man to the river is mercy Wearing his father's coat and woven pedigree Take his old friends from the gentry To the river the river is thirsty Take his old girl to the river is mercy Wearing a heavy thread heirloom tapestry Take his old girl with him his family tree To the river, the river is thirsty Take his old blood His moon and sun To the river and the white rows Like ribbons of lace bend And roll with the field like a flag that is waving And the black rows that sew their own chain Get a dollar worth of calico for their new-born baby And the bell sends a key to the lock And a whistle on the wind that carries the wings And the guard dogs that catch the call Put the key to freedom to the hand of redeemers Now the iron cloth that was cut from the loom bears The black and white stripe of a cotton field rolling And dark mines and flame of redeemers Put them right back in the iron cloth and the flag is waving Take his old blood His moon and sun To the river is thirsty Take him by the hand to the river Lead him by the hand into the water Let the heavy thread drink up the river Let the heavy thread drag him down to the bottom Take him by the hand to the river Lead him by the hand into the water Let the heavy thread drink up the river Let the heavy thread drag him down to the bottom Lead him by the hand to the river Lead him by the hand into the water Let the heavy thread drink up the river Let the heavy thread drag him down Take his old blood His moon and sun Root and seed Take the old man To the river is thirsty
01 Tear I sat him down at the table I pushed in his chair I recorded the minute and hour That he sat down there I gave him one golden apple And one lawful arrow I said show me how to win solitaire oh Show me how to win solitaire He studied the loaded figures Took one in each hand He wept for the truth in symbols The love of his man He wrote in a hidden language And spelled the word anguish I said show me how to live through tomorrow He wrote life is only borrowed He counts 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 tear Oh to be human He picked up the lawful arrow And he threw it away He picked up the golden apple And he gave it to me I can't show you a love that is fair Or a life that is bearable So I'll show you how to win solitaire Oh show you how to win solitaire He counts 0 0 0 1 tear 0 0 1 0 1 tear 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 tear
All Time Low Hope lives with darkness He sleeps in her bed And darkness fills tables With desperate friends For the harvest of heartache On which hope depends How the lost echo The light at the end is a white paper Pin hole loosely pinned to the wall Cown the miles of darkened hall Your seat was set before you fell And the house you get is how you tell All of your voice for the song of a savior Only to find you were never in favor Michael on the outside always looking in A dog in the fight but his dog never wins If he works that much harder his ship might come in He gives it the old heave Ho Signs up his soul and works his hands To the bone Michael outside looking in One day management notices him You've got heart a lot to give Bring me sand take this sieve All of your heart for the love a father Only to find you are farther and farther All of your voice for the song a savior Only to find you were never in favor All of your working in vain to turn the wind Only to find your fate's predetermined Push the wheel, push the wheel, push the wheel, push the wheel Push the wheel, push the wheel, push the wheel, push the wheel Hope lives with darkness he sleeps in her bed And darkness fills tables with desperate friends Now you know when hope enters you've entered the end At the all time low ever so kindly softening The blow Michael outside looking in Michael outside looking in Michael outside looking in Michael outside looking in
Outside Of Eden Come shut in boys For the girlfriend experience Enter the code and I'll taste real I just ate an apple I'm poised for your kiss Thank the heavens virtual love Like this exists Where love like this exists Tractors then trains Now enters adeline The moon's illusion And addy's eyes Going round the school yard From device to device A feral education To give her what she likes All alone On the outside of eden Where love like this exists Where love like this exists Where love like this exists Where love like this exists Outside of eden Outside of eden Where love like this exists Where love like this exists Come shut in boys For the girlfriend experience Enter the code and I'll cry tears Don't I know the feeling What you are I'm ai And I need deeper meaning And to be held through the night Outside of eden Outside of eden Outside of eden Where love like this exists Where love like this exists Where love like this exists Where love like this exists
Passage's End There's a house in the middle of the ocean You can see it when the waves dive Then they rise like furious mountains Swallowing the girl inside it You and I are connected by a wire I feel what you feel The hum is affection pulse is desire Anger is rasping dissonance is Fear You and I are bound by a secret And the weight of a lie We gave up our families to keep it And I carried our stonechild Bring the wine to the passenger Bring the passenger bread In the morning draw her a bath in the evening Draw down the bed Write my verse through her brittle fingers Find my voice echoing her dreams At the river watering the horses Plunge my stonechild down into the stream What false darkened force possesses me Would true love dare try to possess me What false darkened force possesses me Would true love dare try to possess me There's a house in the middle of the ocean You can see it from this mountain's top Emerging from the resting water From the door to the sand a mile of wooden dock You and I are connected by a wire I feel what you feel I've called calm waters I've got the cutters Now your verse is humming what I never hear You and I are the shape that "the spray makes" From a surfacing whale The tall redwood tearing down the cliff The lovers kiss and in universe exhale Walk the mile with me passenger To our passage's end How my love became became hard coil of bone A hard coil of bone to the ocean floor I'll send Now in this way out in dark water Now in this house find the girl inside Opening my legs to the deepest of oceans Now here I bury my stonechild Now here I bury my stonechild Now here I bury my stonechild Now here I bury my stonechild What false darkened force possesses me Would true love dare try to possesses me What false darkened force possesses me Would true love dare try to possess me What false darkened force possesses me Would true love dare try to possess me What false darkened force possesses me Would true love dare try to possess me
Time Capsule The time capsule We buried in the yard Is brittle rust And swallowed by the roots Where the past gathers old ghosts commune They found a life in me and divided me in two The moment you reach out to take hold of beauty Is the moment that she turns to go The time capsule And all its prison guards Turned rusted earth And all its jailbirds too And the dead letters buried there soon Found a light in me Held power over me I found a way to get free The moment you reach out to take hold of beauty Is the moment that she turns to go The moment you reach out to take hold of beauty Is the moment that she turns to go The quivering Livid tear into deliverance The violent ecstatic Flash into existence Of breath and heat The moon cycling shadow And light the wheat Bolted wilted winnowed To raze the gold grain Down to darkling meadow The moment you reach out to take hold of beauty Is the moment that she turns to go The moment you reach out to take hold of beauty Is the moment that she turns to go The fallen ash Made a crater in the yard And arms of roots And your letters into leaves
ORDER OF ROMANCE
Sudden Light In the fruit she fed me though the chord In the voices coming through the wall In the way I earned to suck and kick In the sudden light and the waterfall In the sour milk that once was sweet With each swallow I could feel love die Every morning for a family prayer For a fairy tale can tell no lie And in the rhythm and in the vibe Before the moment I was born I Came to believe To believe In a fish cross dove and dollar devil rules the water But the water shape shifts to my beliefs Came to believe to believe We got inherent scarcity No antidote for greed But the wheat shape shifts to my beliefs Amen, amen, amen, amen With a tantrum I can get the tit With my finger I can shoot them down With my beauty I can lead the pack With my prowess I can get the crown In the teeth for my name in bold print In a glossy fashion magazine In the spotlight where I found true love Did I get life if mine went unseen And in the rhythm and in the vibe Before the moment I was born I Learned to believe To believe In the sun star goat and raven Virgin crone and maiden But the maiden shape shifts to my beliefs Came to believe To believe We got a prophet missionary Evil visionary But the vision shape shifts to my beliefs Amen, amen, amen, amen I Was Just 14 Jackie's girl comes back to church and showing through her Sunday dress She bows to pray amongst a congregation where she can't get blessed Mother says the baby is a punishment for having sex My body As a child, my mother forbade me to play alone with boys What's so scary and so bad and dangerous about the boys I formed confused and terrified and tortured obsessions with boys My body My body and mind My first crush when I was only five was Jared on the swing My first kiss with Derek in the backyard on the trampoline My first time with Michael in the bathroom, I was just fourteen My body My body and mind My first time My first time was all of life еxacting the great choreographеr's dance A dramatic flamboyance of flamingos And all the pink boys and red girls Under spell in a trance Stretch their necks and salute to the order of romance Romance Romance Romance My first time with Michael in the bathroom, I was just fourteen I lost my mother when I lost my virginity When I stepped on that crack, I broke my mothers back Mother's back Mother's back My body As a child my mother forbade me to play alone with boys What's so scary and so bad and dangerous about the boys I formed confused and terrified and tortured obsessions with Obsessions with My body My body and mind My first time My first time was all of life exacting the great choreographer's dance A deceitful wild orchid dressed as a wasp And all the blue wings on brown boys Fight to get their last chance Jokes on you, so salute to the order of romance Life's exacting the great choreographer's dance A dramatic flamboyance of flamingos And all the pink boys and red girls Under spell in a trance Stretch their necks and salute to the order of romance Life's exacting the great choreographer's dance A dramatic flamboyance of flamingos And all the pink boys and red girls Under spell in a trance Stretch their necks and salute to the order of romance Romance Romance Romance
Hatred Has A Mother When you find good people I sing for the river When you find good people A need for the giver When you find good people A wound at the trigger An époque for the gun When you find good people A victim for the pen When you find good people A villain for the hymn When you find good people There's hands to make good men Out of our wayward sons Come join the revolutionary love Oh, listen up Ooh give your mirror love Oh, listen up When I find that people Are pebbles in my boot I think they're just bad apples But there's ground for every shoot I give these big bad actors The tongue in my oyster The pebble in my pearl I watch these big bad actors And suspend disbelief I watch them birthed and turned from Children into thieves I keep a watch and I wonder How my very own tongue Has made the bankrupt world Come join the revolutionary Mother to mother Hatred has a mother Naming the other Nature loves a mirror Other'd by others Mirroring the mirror Give to your mirror Revolutionary love Oh, listen up Ooh give your mirror love Oh, listen up We are broken people We fall and break the Earth So the deal was written And contracted at birth And If I'm to be worthy Of mending any hurt I must tend my wounds first So hey, man, where do you come from What neighborhood did you grow up in The hateful way that was taught to you Can be unlearned too There is salmon in the river And a line for you Come join the revolutionary Mother to mother Hatred has a mother Naming the other Nature loves a mirror Other'd by others Mirroring the mirror Give to your mirror Mother to mother Hatred has a mother Naming the other Nature loves a mirror Other'd by others Mirroring the mirror Give to your mirror Revolutionary love Oh, listen up Oh, give your mirror love Oh, listen up Oh, give your mirror love (When you find good people) Oh, listen up (When you find good people) Oh, give your mirror love (When you find good people) Oh, listen up (When you find good people) Oh, give your mirror love (When you find good people) Oh, listen up (When you find good people) Oh, give your mirror love (When you find good people) Oh, listen up (When you find good people) Oh, give your mirror love (When you find good people) Oh, listen up (When you find good people) Oh, give your mirror love (When you find good people) Oh, listen up (When you find good people)
One Way Mirror I came out to see it for myself The steady lock dutifully refused The night stood like a wall beyond the door Loyal his bourbon Heavy my poor I went where I am not meant to go Did I see the street lamp flicker on Did I see a flurry in the grass His one way mirror My looking glass This tiny patch of earth I thought was earth And I'd meet the earth's edge where his arms end When the Order handed down The new hairstyle for the town I saw something flicker round the bend I crept along this silver of sky Past the granite guards keeping the gate And every silent voice the tower held My sky burst open His canyon yelled And only made heard by the hush And only shone by stars I'm oddly dressed And only know the violence for the calm Heavy his burden Broken my bond This tiny patch of earth I thought was earth And I'd meet the earth's edge where his arms end When they cut radio and TV And raised a new flag on Main Street I saw something flicker around the bend You say it's not happened I saw it happen The good guy struck the match that lit the cross (You say it's not happening) (We all know) I know it's happening You point at the effect and call it cause (You say it's not happened) I saw it happen The good guy struck the match that lit the cross (You say it's not happening) (We all know) I know it's happened You point at the effect and call it cause (You say it's not happening) I saw it happen The good guy struck the match that lit the I followed the siren to the square The neon arrow sent me underground The drum sat me on the back of a whale Mother, I'll see you beyond the veil Veil, veil, veil, veil, veil, veil, veil
Silent Extinction Each time I put myself into it The fruit grows bitter on the vine I dare not ask for explanations I let our love vanish in silent extinction Silent extinction happens all the time The baby must keep you quite busy There's only so much room in the lime light The hearts of your confidants are all spoken for Or you have heard something and changed your mind Silent extinction Silent extinction happens Silent extinction Silent extinction happens Silent еxtinction Silent extinction happens all thе time Elephant, elephant, elephant Elephant, elephant, elephant Elephant, elephant, elephant Elephant, elephant, elephant Now one by one, the prairie fire became the barren desert Slow disappearing gold and green Now a sudden empty Sudden vast Sudden lonely desert When I was a child that river ran I heard your new song on the radio I know you're talking about me (silent extinction) You're wrong if you think that I was raised right I know we're both cursed with jealousy I unfollowed all your social media It made me feel like a peeping Tom I don't want subscriptions to your magazines I wanted your love Silent extinction Silent extinction happens Silent extinction Silent extinction happens Silent extinction Silent extinction happens Silent extinction Silent extinction happens Silent extinction Silent extinction happens Silent extinction Silent extinction happens all the time 7lbs Of Pressure Seven pounds of pressure Seven pounds of pressure As president, I'll take the seven pounds of pressure From blue and black and white, the seven pounds of pressure No sniper at the school with seven pounds of pressure As leader of the free world, I'll pull the trigger From starchy white collars, seven pounds of pressure By executive order, seven pounds of pressure No life is ever free when it is lived in self defense There's a palm to read when there's a hand around my neck Either end of the barrel Just takes one rotten apple to spoil the barrel Kolt thunder ghost and throttle Watch as I put the genie back in the bottle All dutiful citizens under my protection False gods who pray to money have promised protection By the very thing from which we need protection Mother's afraid of daddy say we need to carry Still there's the angry dad beneath the need to carry Take care of angry man and we won't need to carry Just one forgone conclusion that we reap from violence Our forever children play beyond the chain link fence Either end of the barrel Just takes one rotten apple to spoil the barrel Kolt thunder ghost and throttle Watch as I put the genie back in the bottle Seven pounds of pressure Seven pounds of pressure Seven pounds of pressure Seven pounds of pressure Each man for himself Each man for himself What man claims country where it's each man for himself Put heat on each child, we will leave nothing but the shell Either end of the barrel Just takes one rotten apple to spoil the barrel Kolt thunder ghost and throttle Watch as I put the genie back in the bottle Either end of the barrel Just takes one rotten apple to spoil the barrel Kolt thunder ghost and throttle Watch as I put the genie back in the bottle Seven pounds of pressure... Sioux Falls Flying over Sioux Falls Down there something forms a circle Must be a stadium wide Is it spinning counter-clockwise Is it a water wheel No, see, it spins like a mobile Is it the wheel bent down No, it is spinning round and round Is it a fresh-plowed patch What on the Earth would spin like that As we descend for landing Do my naked eyes deceive me It is women and men Thousands of them and their children Spinning like thread around a spool Circling 'round like a whirlpool What do they chase and chase? What is the terror on their face As though under a spell Trodding upon the ones that fell Oh my eyes Do I see my late mother Caught in the mill Whipping around her five children Do you see them run Do you see Benjamin falling Do you hear them hum in dissonance A torch A zippo A pocket knife Whistle One space blanket and a first aid kit We touch down on the airport apron And go to the field where they run Feels like standing on the edge of a cyclone As the world picks up and spins like a cyclone Many more flailing in Caught by the wind and confusion Like ants that have lost the scent Following where their leader went Caught in a spiral wind Many collapse from exhaustion Caught in the spoke of the wheel Stamped under foot, under hoof, under heel Oh my eyes Do I see my late mother Caught in the mill Whipping around her five children Do you see them run Do you see Benjamin falling Do you hear them hum in dissonance A torch A zippo A pocket knife Whistle One space blanket and a first aid kit It is Armageddon Gotta head for the mountain When there's not a rainbow But a Greek president A torch A zippo A pocket knife Whistle One space blanket and a first aid kit It is Armageddon Gotta head for the mountain When there's not a rainbow But a Greek president A torch A zippo A pocket knife Whistle One space blanket and a first aid kit It is Armageddon Gotta head for the mountain When there's not a rainbow But a Greek president Like I Am Time Through the cafe window Water-colored kids skip to school In the rain Past Atkinsons laundry Billowing steam clouds of white chalk charcoal Thunderclouds curling round Lillyanne Like I am time travelling It's 1979 where you live Summer storm clouds burst with lightning Rain turns torrential This street will soon be The river that baptized us Why must I apologize for the both of us All of the time One shared womb and DNA address Spiralling ladders Chains, bonds and contracts One might hope Means love and devotion No such commitment Is written in the pact These hands, my gift From mother Tell of our childhood by a landscape of scars Gifts from you A faun that is caught in the wire Can't see her angel These moon-shape dew-claw scratch marks Are just what little sisters do One shared womb and DNA address Spiralling ladders Chains, bonds and contracts One might hope Means love and devotion No such commitment Is written in the pact (Unwind the road and thread the needle) (Here in the eye all white) One shared womb and DNA address Spiralling ladders Chains, bonds and contracts One might hope Means love and devotion No such commitment Is written in the pact (I am the spec on the page) (The dark of the arch) (The eye of the needle) (Constant light is blindness) (We're travelling by feet) One shared womb and DNA address Spiralling ladders Chains, bonds and contracts One might hope Means love and devotion No such commitment Is written in the pact Firestorm The sky is orange And red as the bridge A vision fit for end times California summertime The tannin oak and sugar pine The veteran sequels Armored for a firestorm Like one we've never seen before A tracking trail from Malibu Up to Portland moving fast Turning the suburbia into ash Now we know how the deer feel Lords of Dogtown rain dance All day at the surf shop Gods B.Y.O. Rain, rain fall Rain, rain fall Rain, rain fall Rain fall Mourning of sirens And amber alerts From California dreams to Red fog warning, time to go And you can never go back home The avenue of giants Will it stand another day How many burns before we break The heart of Colonel Armstrong Lords of Dogtown rain dance All day at the surf shop Gods B.Y.O. Rain, rain fall Rain, rain fall Rain, rain fall Rain, rain fall Rain, rain fall Rain, rain fall Rain, rain fall Rain fall Go call the number On the horses hoof And tell them that we found her In our pool Lyrebird Troubled the world over The trouble found my child's mind Each morning the sea wakes up coughing Coughs up the bottles and bags left behind David's gone Mom's beside herself David's gone The inupiaq watching the ice melt Bring back no caribou What little they get from the hunt They share out 'cause that's what they're brought up to do The TV is on Mom's beside herself The TV is on The lyrebird mimics the chainsaw and camera shutters How as he's mocking the poacher Do you hear a protector David's gone Mom's beside herself David's gone The Homosassa River sea cow With a dirty word etched in its back Has no choice but to eat the red tide bloom And the capitol's under attack Eve stands at the polling stating Clutching her grandmother's cross She pictures her family ad friends Picks up the pen and she fills in the box The TV is on Mom's beside herself The TV is on She gave him her whole life The lyrebird mimics the chainsaw Troubled the world over Trouble found my child's mind This morning, the flag's flying at half staff And the rain doesn't show up on time David's gone Mom's beside herself David's gone She gave him her whole life The lyrebird mimics the chainsaw
Non Albums Tracks
Baby boy ( Live ) Because my baby boy He's got my heart in wraps Better believe my baby knows he's met his match Oh yes my lover boy He always got my back If ever an adversary attacks and that's a fact. In two days tarot reveals cupid's arrow Aurora I might have to glow, oh Feathers of a dove guide And ??? Our love Because you love her, love her, love her And your love turns into punch And you'll do anything drunk Uh my ocean And 'cause he sunk On a champagne descent Whilst you live is therein Because you love her, love her, love her Baby boy You've got my heart in wraps Better believe my baby knows he's met his match Oh yes my lover boy He always got my back If ever an adversary attacks and that's a fact Strong arms Wrapped around Delirium On the ground Under the sky her deeper blue eyes Make the ocean feel shy On a desert dry skin There grows a garden Because you love her, love her, love her And now in the garden You say that since you pick your lip On a granite smiles and face And you keep on digging Throughout the winter fat or thin Because you love her, love her love her On a stormy ship On a sunny ??? ??? Fashion bringing back blue On a paramount In a god of fon??? I am always in love with you Sing it with me Baby boy You've got my heart in wraps Better believe my baby knows he's met his match Oh yes my lover boy He always got my back If ever an adversary attacks and that's a fact Strong arms Wrapped around Delirium On the ground
Baby Doll (Bessie Smith cover / The Empress Of The Blues: A Tribute To Bessie Smith LP) Honey, there's a funny feeling 'round my heart And it's bound to drive your mama wild It must be something they call the Cuban Doll It weren't your mama's angel child I went to the doctor the other day He said, "I'm well as well could be" But I said, "Doctor, you don't know what's worrying me" I want to be somebody's baby doll So I can get my loving all the time I want to be somebody's baby doll To ease my mind He could be ugly, he could be black As long as he can eagle rock and ball the jack I want to be somebody's baby doll So I can get my loving all the time I mean to get my loving all the time Lord, I went to the gypsy to get my fortune told He said, "You're on hard luck, Bessie, doggone, your bad luck soul" I want to be somebody's baby doll So I can get my loving all the time I mean to get my loving all the time I said to get my loving all the time
Big Fish ( Silverscreen Demos EP ) I made up my mind I'm leaving this town I'm leaving this town You won't find me look around After twenty years of carving my name in the wet cement Hand your head down and lament You won't find me look around Baby boy, baby boy Don't follow me I'm a seed, I'm a seed, I'm a seed From a dandelion wish With intent to be big fish In the sea in the sea in the sea I made up my mind I'm leaving this town I'm leaving this town You won't find me look around After twenty years of carving my name in the wet cement Hand your head down and lament You won't find me look around Baby boy, baby boy, set me free Don't sabotage Don't hide away my key I'm a lark inside a cage And the world is but a stage For to sing, for to sing, for to sing I made up my mind I'm leaving this town I'm leaving this town You won't find me look around After twenty years of carving my name in the wet cement Hand your head down and lament You won't find me look around From a dandelion wish With intent to be big fish In the sea in the sea in the sea In the sea in the sea in the sea...
Call upon rest
( Live ) Lay your head on my breast close your eyes and call upon rest Your could be my baby child, how tenderly I feel about you And I can see for miles and miles the foreign land in my mind And would you come here be near me Lay awake with me till dawn breaks And take my love no price to pay I don't wanna make you mine I just wanna hold you baby so fine Lay your head on my breast close your eyes and call upon rest I have let down I have let down I have let down a wall I have let down We fall and humble down to grace Boy you take me down since you endeared me to you all of my pain has gave way And love has healed my wounded dove Boy you take me down Lay your head on my breast close your eyes and call upon rest
City Bird ( Snowglobe EP )
City bird, city bird Fly away from my window From my window 'Cause you don't sing Like the birds from home sing Your song is dying I set the table For the ghosts in my home, my home And pour the wine, and raise a glass For the guests in my home They enter in In their skin and in their bones, still in their bones The vision scares, but none compares To the dread of drinking alone After the tower was turned to a tomb The underworld refugees all refused by the banker They can never go in So I let them in Oh city bird, city bird Fly away from my window From my window 'Cause you don't sing Like the birds from home sing Your song is dying I light the candle For the ghosts in my home, my home And say a prayer to please send care For the guests in my home But in their sleep They claw and scream the devil home (The devils come home) But that nightmare Does not compare to the demons in sleeping alone After the tower was turned to a tomb The underworld refugees all refused by the banker And with nowhere to go They wash up on Skid Row Oh city bird, city bird Fly away from my window, from my window 'Cause you don't sing Like the birds from home sing Your song is dying
Deep blue sea
( Live )
If there is trouble in the deep blue sea There is trouble in me Trouble in me now Trouble in the deep blue sea There is trouble in me Well your house in the hill The fat on your face Your green rolling bills And your heavy iron gate If you live in the big bad world- No stone steel or name Could separate your from beyond That gate in any type of way. You just might be protected By the front lines from attack But on levels of soul dear you You can't avoid impact If there is trouble in the deep blue sea There is trouble in me Trouble in me now Trouble in the deep blue sea There is trouble in me Fixit men
( Silverscreen Demos EP ) You got to keep them fixit men fed you get You got to keep them buttered and breaded You got to keep them sweet Sweet things said No love at the door they won't come no more. My oh my My pipes is dry What I'm gonna do with dry pipes Forlorn it's early morn What I'm gonna do with dry pipes I call my man but he won't stand Cause all I paid him was a bag of sand Now baby what I'm gonna do with dry pipes Oh boy, now what I'm gonna do with dry pipes You got to keep them fixit men fed you get You got to keep them buttered and breaded You got to keep them sweet Sweet things said No love at the door they won't come no more. No fun my car won't run What about the car that won't run Work work gotta get to work What about the car that won't run I call my man but he won't stand 'Cause all I paid him was to shake my hand Now baby what about the car that won't run Oh boy, now what about the car that won't run. You got to keep them fixit men fed you get You got to keep them buttered and breaded You got to keep them sweet Sweet things said No love at the door they won't come no more Roof roof got a leaky roof What I'm gonna do 'bout that roof Drip drop the rain won't stop What I'm gonna do 'bout that roof I call my man but he won't stand Cause nothing's sizzling in the frying pan Frying pan You got to keep them fix it men fed better get it Got to keep them buttered and breaded You got to keep them sweet Sweet things said No love at the door they won't come no more No love at the door they won't come no more No love at the door they won't come no more
Flume (Bon Iver cover / The Voice Project Session) I am my mother's only one It's enough I wear my garment so it shows Now you know Only love is all maroon Gluey feathers on a flume Sky is womb and she's the moon I am my mother on the wall With us all I move in water, shore to shore Nothing's more Only love is all maroon Lapping lakes like leery loons Leaving rope burns, reddish ruse Only love is all maroon Gluey feathers on a flume Sky is womb and she's the moon
Hero
( Live ) It wasn't the leprechaun It wasn't the Easter bunny It wasn't Santa Claus With his cider paws And his bag of coal That stole my child Made me grow old The man is just a man like any The man is just a man The man is just a man like any The man is just a man It wasn't the day go down It wasn't the burning sound It wasn't years go by and mama died and went under ground That stole my child made me grow old The man is just a man like any The man is just a man The man is just a man like any The man is just a man Now daddy was a man like the heroes on TV Until I caught him chasing the cat up a tree And he made the world go round He made the sun go down The day I met my dad was the day that I met gravity The day I met my dad was the day that I touched down Touched down Touched down Touched down The man is just a man like any The man is just a man The man is just a man like any The man is just a man Do as I say to do Not as you see me do Well I saw you do it Saw your soul go down in hell It's just as well Better than lies The man is just a man like any The man is just a man The man is just a man like any The man is just a man Now daddy was the man like the heroes on TV Until I caught him chasing the cat up a tree And he made the world go round He made the sun go down They day I met my dad was the day that I met gravity The day I met my dad was the day that I touched down Touched down Touched down Touched down Touched down
I Feel Love (Donna Summer cover / Fingathing & Jesca Hoop / Tru Thoughts Covers, Vol. 2 LP) It's so good, it's so good It's so good, it's so good It's so good Heaven knows, heaven knows Heaven knows, heaven knows Heaven knows I feel love, I feel love I feel love, I feel love I feel love I feel love I feel love Falling free, falling free Falling free, falling free Falling free You and me, you and me You and me, you and me You and me I feel love, I feel love I feel love, I feel love I feel love I feel love I feel love I feel love I feel love I'll get you, I'll get you I'll get you, I'll get you I'll get you What you do, what you do What you do, what you do What you do I feel love, I feel love I feel love, I feel love I feel love I feel love I feel love I feel love I feel love
John, I'm Only Dancing (David Bowie cover / A Salute To The Thin White Duke: The Songs Of David Bowie LP) Annie is pretty neat And she always eats her meat Joey comes strong But I know he's putting me on Oh lordy, oh lordy You know I need some loving John, I'm only dancing She turns me on But I'm only dancing She turns me on Don't get me wrong I'm only dancing Shadow love was quick and clean Life's a well-thumbed machine I saw you watching from the stairs You're everyone that ever cared Oh lordy, oh lordy You know I need some loving John, I'm only dancing She turns me on But I'm only dancing She turns me on Don't get me wrong I'm only dancing John, I'm only dancing She turns me on But I'm only dancing She turns me on Don't get me wrong I'm only dancing Dancing Dancing Dancing Dancing Dancing Dancing Dancing
Life within a life
( Silverscreen Demos EP ) The come and they go My woes and my joy I know getting attached to that temporal toil Is…is…is…is ignorant They ebb and they flow My frowns and my smiles I know getting attached to that miracle mile Is…is…is…is ignorant State of bliss Tell me are you happiness Something's gone terrible wrong If you are the other than this Turn out the sun All of your golden days are gone There's a world better than this one is your favourite song Observe and then note The flux in your power Your efficiencies in spinning your hour to hour Is…is…is significant Deserve and then don't Your bouquet of flowers The universal candy is bitter-sweet-salty And sour get …get…get…get used to it State of bliss Tell me are you happiness Something's gone terribly wrong If you are other than this Go get your gun No need in leaving the safety on I'm going higher one day is your favourite song Yeah they come Sure as they go Yeah they come Sure as they go So they come Sure as they go Yes they come Sure as they go Sure as they go Life within a life Has ended and begun Again my tune is sung Oh yeah We sail into the sun Light and brightest night Dark and dismal day Has ended and begun In out and in of one We sail into the sun Life within a life Has ended and begun In out and in of one Oh yeah We sail into the sun Light and brightest night Has ended and begun In out and in of one We sail into the sun Light and brightest night Dark and dismal day Has ended and begun In out and in of one We sail into the sun
Make me dance What I know is it's raining and I'm alone Ooh I like to call you on the phone If only I had your number I'd take you for my lover All my own Do you know I rehearse the lines I'll say to you Then you'll say to me And how I set my eyes I think about all the things I did say to you Now I've been wasting time Waiting on our coincidental meeting I'm hanging on your line Oh you got your strings tied to me Well if you're such The puppeteer Then while you have me here Make me dance Make me dance Make me dance Oh no no no no Woah lord there's a fool on the floor From flopping his ?chance/chairs? Oh no no no no Me dance Make me dance Make me dance Oh no no no no Woah lord there's a fool on the floor Come on for the ants crawled up my pants Me dance I think of a lingerie To the cafe My sisters my ??? I want people staring at me I'll sting my lips with sugar peas I wear high heel galoshes Oh the 'oh my goshes' that be Do you know I rehearse the lines I'll say to you Then you'll say to me And how I set my eyes I think about all the things you did say to me Now I've been wasting time Waiting on our coincidental meeting I'm hanging on your line Ooh you got your strings tight on me Well if you're such The puppeteer Then while you have me here Make me dance Make me dance Make me dance Oh no no no no Woah lord there's a fool on the floor From flopping his chance Oh no no no no Me dance Make me dance Make me dance Oh no no no no Woah lord there's a fool on the floor Come on for the ants crawled up my pants Me dance What I know is it's raining and I'm alone Ooh I like to call you on the phone If only I had your number I'd take you for my lover All my own
MeMisery
( Live ) Choo da choo choo Come the chariot to carry me away Boohoo da boohoo Carry me away my misery All alone trying to beat The cold in my shack Feel the work and the lack Of touch on my back Smart people say You don't know what you have Tell it's gone away Who is gonna miss me Who is gonna miss me All the tests And all that's missed and lost Honey you can't afford the cost Bailing rain bailing rain Bailing rain soaks bones in pain Well I must have something Cause I'm overwhelmed with joy Like a brand new baby toy Leaping around with my arms Open wide living out loud Singing come inside inside inside Hello hello hello Hello hello hello Wave goodbye And hear the rail go clack Engine rolls Blows coal on down the track Carry carry me Carry me my misery Who is gonna miss me Who is gonna mis me Choo da choochoo Come the chariot to carry me away Boohoo da boohoo Dig my grave dig my grave Dig my grave dig my grave
My boo
( Hunting my dress UK I-tunes bonus track)
In my chest of a cage Wrapped with a gold velvet ribbon In the cage of the bird ??? For the moment you had turned to me In the bird there's a heart Keeps a wind under her feathers In my heart there's a song Makes you feel like we're together In the moment you had talked to me My boo my boo My boo my boo In the song there is a flame Burning the length of a candle In the flame there is a wish Soon you will be holding my hand In the moment you had turned to me In my hand there is a love Like a long awaited letter In the love there is a road One that you and i walk together In the moment you had turned to me My boo my boo My boo my boo My boo my boo In this darkened heart of mine Your love has shined a light for me When you're gone i pine and long Write this song over don't be gone too long And don't go And don't go And don't go Down the road there's a house Under a milky way sky light In the house there is a room Where I will wait through the long night For the moment you had turned to me In the room, there is a bed Under ??? of daisies In the bed brand new boo Careful to not wake the baby In the moment you had turned to me My boo my boo My boo my boo My boo my boo My boo my boo
Paradise
( Live ) Everybody needs their own oasis Their own paradise to call their own But ?while the penny's scratched? For single spaces Move in with some strangers and call it home Oh no They greet you with some smiles and lemon meringue But there is something sketchy about the pie Soon enough the crust will start revealing All the filling failed to catch your eye The floor is made of eggshells The roof is made of rain The walls are opaque paper The bones are a brittle ?frame? But nonetheless the life is mostly normal But there was trouble brewing deep inside And sure enough one night our star crossed lovers Turned into dr. Jekyll and mrs. Hyde And through the night I suffered intimate violence She would bite and kick and he would cry And by the time I'm begging god for silence She let out a scream as if something just died Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Oh terror on paradise The price for a rented room And a pot to piss in while they smoke their lives Into a paramedic doom 'Cause that girl is a powder house With an abbreviated fuse And he's a sucker for a tramp like a ?mess? He's a trigger fool When the tempest past The worst is over The underwear was washed and on the line But as for me the innocent bystander I fear their underwear has stained my mind Oh no Oh no Happy days again A dinner party She served her rack of lamb and sadistic too For all the wild hair big eyes batting Add an apple other than ?her ??? The food turned into foreplay The wine turned into truth Desires walking her way But what she'll leave is you The floor turned into quicksand Sinking where he stands He needs me to be his saviour He needs me to take his hand Inevitably the house caved in Me a desperado and a pile of wood I listen to him bash but then I gave up When he said I'll leave her if I only could And she runs down in the ruin like a lone soldier Riding her little engine that could She pulled him from the dust and said 'we can rebuild it' He took her in his arms like a lover junkie would Oh terror on paradise The price for a rented room And a pot to piss in while they smoke their lives Into a paramedic doom 'Cause that girl is a powder house With a schizophrenic moon And he's a sucker for a tramp like ?a master? He's a trigger fool
Phonograph ( Live ) I fell in love With a brilliant boy I gave him my heart When he captured my voice He carried it cross the sea How did he Tangibly Black was my true lover's hair His eyes were green and his skin was fair I bent to kiss the ground where he is Standing there The sugars rose When springtime came The fields were green When I took his name Our love was ripe as summer's rain When they cut down that cane Then the word came to my door All the world had gone to war He dropped his papers on the floor He was called for the draft I see him now in silhouette Fading toward an army jet Carrying with him bayonet And a phonograph I fell in love With a brilliant boy I gave him my heart As he captured my voice He carried it cross the sea How did he Tangibly tin a needle crank The cylindar round Until we meet again Send the men underground Bands of angels clean the blood from your brow Through the smoke of firing guns Man by man the war is won One another father son Your children all pass Then at last his letter came The poem read of love and shame All I have to keep me sane Is my phonograph I fell in love With a brilliant boy I gave him my heart When he captured my voice He carried it across the sea How did he Tangibly tin a needle crank The cylindar round Until we meet again Send the men underground
Rêves dans le Creux
( Snowglobe EP - Dreams in the hollow french version ) Et pourquoi on veut toutes être ballerines Quand on sera grandes, quand on sera grandes Et la nuit les garçons rêvent d'éteindre des incendies Quand on sera grands Dégagé, relevé, rond de jambe et tourne et saute Tourne et saute Les pompiers glissent le long du mat et sonnent l'alarme Tout le monde debout Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Tout va bien dans mon chagrin N'est-ce pas qu'elle est belle Hall en flammes, cendre et âme Voila le héros Petits yeux, larges yeux jeunes mais sages Tous sont levés, tous sont levés Vers ton casque et ta hache et ton ciré si jaune Papa lève-toi Toute la cendre et la poussière n'ont pu te rendre Papa lève-toi, papa lève-toi Ils voient ce que tu ne faisais pas Quand le feu te rongeait Jours radieux Blottie dans le creux A rêver dans le creux Corbeau odieux Chardon et bruyère Pas de pas à suivre On espère qu'ils vont suivre L'espoir fait vivre Tout va bien dans mon chagrin N'est-ce pas qu'elle est belle Hall en flammes, cendre et âme Voila le héros J'ai essayé de l'éteindre Mais le grand arbre tombait Et le voilà qui tend ses branches Le grand arbre tombé Au delà des mers son rêve de danse brisé Je noue mes rubans, noue mes rubans Car des rêveries d'un coeur brisé naît la plus ardente beauté Je noue mes rubans, noue mes rubans Lait de la mère, soie en loques, craie dans la penderie Orteil cassé, pointes en loques Relevé tourne et prie Pour la danseuse cassée Jours radieux Blottie dans le creux A rêver dans le creux Corbeau odieux Chardon et bruyère Pas de pas à suivre On espère qu'ils vont suivre L'espoir fait vivre Tout va bien dans mon chagrin N'est-ce pas qu'elle est belle Hall en flammes, cendre et âme Voila le héros
Revolving Door (Holmes feat. Jesca Hoop / Complication Simplified LP) All this confusion And nowhere to go All this delusion And nothing to show Last time I saw you You slipped through my hands Again I know you still say I'm A boy, not a man Next time I swaer I will Come with a plan Quit figthing fictional Wars in my head But then My heart's pendulum Swings on a whim Empty one day Then full to the brim Night time voices Bounce ceiling to floor Endless revolving door Let's make a family Let's settle down Let's ditch this place, find a New hiding ground End indecision Abandon this scene But then My heart's pendulum Swings on a whim Empty one day Then full to the brim Night time voices Bounce ceiling to floor Endless revolving door The grass is always greener on the other side My mind is always clearer when I lose my pride I think I shouldn't think about it all the time Just go ahead and do it, settle down Settle down, settle down My heart's pendulum Swings on a whim Empty one day Then full to the brim Night time voices Bounce ceiling to floor Night time voices Bounce ceiling to floor Endless revolving door All this confusion And nowhere to go All this delusion And nothing to show
Snowglobe ( Snowglobe EP ) Under the deep Wyoming snow Water runs over rocks Like blood and bone below Her long white robe Eyes alive with stars Of brighter light of hope We have all come home To take her side At the mountains foot We left the past behind I'm your child In a snowglobe This precious moment froze in time We have all come home Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin How are you How long, be gone Feeling quite well Feeling quite well For I love you How are you Feeling quite well Feeling quite well For I'm loved She was saying goodbye She was saying goodbye She was saying goodbye She was saying goodbye And as the earth spins steadily on So my snowy globe spins steady towards the sun Water runs Ice drapes thin over the rocks like mother's skin We have all come home To take her side Singing "we are going” In a chamber choir of five Mother's pride "I know” echoes as she slips to cross the great divide We have all come home How are you How long, be gone Feeling quite well Feeling quite well For I love you How are you Feeling quite well Feeling quite well For I'm loved How are you How long, be gone Feeling quite well Feeling quite well For I love you How are you Feeling quite well Feeling quite well For I'm loved She was saying goodbye She was saying goodbye She was saying goodbye She was saying goodbye ???
Storms Make Grey The Sea
( Snowglobe EP ) You sit up there Did you know what you were in for The change in air When you walked through the door You were blue, but now you're green For now you belong to me In the way storms may grey the sea You belong to me Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Maybe you feel a bit brighter by now Maybe you hear the violet in your crown Maybe you see your troubles wash out Showering your colors with sound And let them wash away You sit out there Did you know what you were in for The change in air When I stepped to the floor You were blue, but now you're green For now you belong to me In the way storms may grey the sea You belong to me
While You Were Away
( Snowglobe EP ) While you were away You were away I made Bricks of bread Bricks to break From home grown grain Planted in rows And gathered when gold And ground by my hand stone While you were away You were away I slept past the dawn The sun would set And the sun would say This night will be long So I lit up the stars On this ceiling of ours And I wrote song for hours Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin So your home is warm 'Cause I kept it warm And alive while you were gone So your home is warm 'Cause I kept it warm And alive while you were gone While you were away You were away I made A charm of herbs Herbs that pray And the charm is brave It's guarding the glass And it's guarding the doors And it guarding the floor boards Through the storm, through the storm The windows fought the wind And the rival oak's broken arm But they never gave in So I'm tending the fire That you built before you left It's not gone out once So your home is warm 'Cause I kept it warm And alive while you were gone So your home is warm 'Cause I kept it warm And alive while you were gone