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Spiritual Sucker
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you can find him up all night with the angels in the fluorescent
lights and a highball in a styrofoam cup
he says I think I've finally got it yes I know
and then there is silence there's silence that echoes
forever
forever
he says I can't find no can't find no relief
the spiritual sucker falls for all the latest guru schemes
find him smoking pot and writing down all his dreams
the spiritual sucker believes in life solutions
suffering's a dream so he's okay
he says I been up all night watching youtube documentaries of the maddest serial killers of them all now I know all their secrets
seen em watching television in their prison issue four cornered rooms
the spiritual sucker goes and drinks himself to death at 38. Leaves a mountain made of notebooks and a shoebox full of car keys and vanity license plates.
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City Kids
03:50
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they stayed out late that night, like city kids
the music was shining bright at the bar
and he held her hand and told her "I love you"
she said "I love you too"
there wasn't much to do after that
so they both squinted up ahead
at all the dark unimaginable roads
the world's one trembling note
and he remembers tall rough green grass and endless sky
and she remembers one look that held all their lives
he says I'm too drunk from your lips
she says hey let's go home and dance in the kitchen
radio whisperin sweet old songs to guys and gals in the GI halls
they caught the bus back home at one am
and he nodded right off with his head on her shoulder
and going home past the ridge past the bay
this moment never goes away
and in the night there is love all around
one unending sound
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Call A Yellow Taxi
02:31
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ugly need
skinny little art school girls with wrists and knees and histories
shake the hands
swallow sounds of longing be a gentle beast in eternity
(wake up!)
distract the dream
call a yellow taxi (wake up!) take you all away leave me in peace
no more hands in the trees that grab at my windows falling asleep without a sound
no breath in my ear
no breath in my ear
les mots français
these are the days of longing, distance bursts the grey stone wide apart
distract the dream
call a yellow taxi (wake up!) take me all away I've gone to pieces
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and though I told you not to cry
go on and cry if you want to
there's plenty left to wash away
days unchanging after days
winter calls us up to trade
to trade the color of the sky
for earthly cups of lemonade
for sweet mortality oh I
I just want to see your eyes.
Blink at the mysteries behind.
Lately I've been thinking of
my end and what it brings to life,
There will be fighting in the yards tonight
glinting tooth of knife tonight
laughter of the guns tonight
while breathing sweetly down the hall
my saintly family all
and though I told you not to cry
go on and cry if you want to
there's plenty left to wash away
days unchanging after days
mother sister lover angel devil saint and whore and home
oh love do not leave me alone
cause lately I've been thinking of
the salvation glimpsed through love
there will be dancing in the streets tonight
bonfires on the beach tonight
but none of us will hear a thing tonight
over the beating of our hearts
which will eventually
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