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Leipzig, 1844
05:08
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How can we know all the places we go
When we’re passed out on the drop
Out from the stables and traded by tables
That only can see what we’re not
Oh, oh and now you’ve come this far
Oh, oh the lights are falling stars
In the minutes they burn
We think that we know what you are
Whispered in fables and sung to the cradles
I linger in bright broken lines
I once was a twister but now I’m a mystery
Man cause I’ve come back in time
All the voices you hear when you fall in the dust
And the spaces you fill with your blood and your rust
When you’re down to your last dime
Oh, oh it all will come to pass
Oh, oh you’re moving on too fast
In the minutes they burn
We think that we know what you are
There were faces but now there are symbols
There were spaces but now we got time
It was ending but now it’s beginning
And it’s all in the back of your mind
We had pictures but now we got progress
There were circles and now there are lines
It was something but now we got meaning
And when the nighttime comes
I finally can close my eyes
And when a new day comes, I finally can close
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2. |
Self-Help
04:36
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I’m out on the road
Trying to make a connection
Out in the fields
Struggling for perfection
It’s all the rage these days
Cutting through these chains
I’m looking for this
Trying to see my reflection
Having a fit
Seek another direction
Oh if you could help me out of here
I swear that I would change
Say these words that feed my fears
I used to be just like you
You know it hits like a fix
Like you already know me
Playing a game
But nobody told me
That it’s all right if I get sucked into your gravity
I see my brightest days shine up ahead of me
Oh if you could help me out of here
I swear that I would change
Say these words that feed my fears
I used to be just like you
Gotta lift up my head
Make a minor correction
Think about what you said
Be aware of perception
We're living in false, false times
I keep spinning you false, false lines
Oh if you could help me out of here
I swear that I would change
Say these words that feed my fears
I give myself away
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3. |
Careless Love
03:47
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Careless love, my sweetheart said to me
I thought it was dead to me
It’s sad but it’s true
If you love me, then baby love me
Cause to leave me, yeah that would be cruel
Make me forget all the heartache, and
Don’t ask what love can do for you
It’s a dream, it's mirrors and smokescreens
Just a dream, does she think I’m a fool?
Careless love, though you’ve shaken and wrecked me
And all the games we used to play seem worn out and abused
Oh what’s a loving man to do?
When we live in a practical world
A clean and rational world
It’s a mean and tactical world
If you believe what you read
But that’s not the half of the world
There’s a sharp and natural world
It’s a dark and magical world
That we can’t see
It gives me everything I need
Oh engines and fables and crickets and tables are turning
Lovers and cradles and pitchforks and babies are blue
And everything over the ocean is quietly burning
So don’t ask what love
Don’t ask what love
Don’t ask what love can do for you
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4. |
1983
04:25
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I think that most of you would more or less agree with me
I get the feeling nearly everything I see is deceiving
Well it’s nice to know, but I can’t let go
Getting sick of nearly everything I see on the TV
Spin the web and catch me like a disease, will you free me?
It’s nice to know, it’s good to go on
Drops on the rocks, we head to the show
Smile for the cops, and everything goes
Bring it back and show me how to feel, Ruby
Build me up and break me like a deal, when you do me
You make me think that everything is real
You make me think that everything is real
Knocks on the locks, they close the door
Race to the top and fall on the floor
We had a laugh in 1983, do you know me?
In a world where everything is free, you owe me
I rocked, you rolled, I can’t let go
Bring it back and show me how to feel, Ruby
Build me up and break me like a deal, when you do me
You make me think that everything is real
You make me think that everything is real
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Angelina, it’s starting to show
The rains are coming and you let me go
You’ve been standing on the edge of the bed
Traveling far, in your own head
All your music has been killing my time
Sharpshooter ain’t spending a dime
Smell the plastic as it’s starting to burn
See the narrator sit and wait his turn
Annie, help me through the night
(help me through the night)
Annie, help me through the night
(tell me everything’s all right)
And it’s got to just be me
Cause it’s so easy to see
That you mean everything you say
Angelina, I’m saying goodbye
I’m lying here melting and you want to get high
Angelina, it’s starting to show
The rains are coming and you just let me go
Annie, help me through the night
(help me through the night)
Annie, help me through the night
(tell me everything’s all right)
And it’s got to just be me
Cause it’s so easy to see
That you mean everything you say
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Righteous Canadian
05:30
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I’m a ghost that can’t stop walking
A medicine man who won’t stop talking
I can tell you your affliction
Pennies in your eyes
And no sense of diction, no
It’s not a story, it’s a rectangle
She's not a comet cause she moves too slow
She's not a model but she gets to me
Her erotic body’ll lift me off my feet
Her twisted fix is going down on me
I can’t resist it when she says to me
Innocently
I’m gonna ride when I want to
Get high when I want to
I’m gonna fly when I want to, whenever I want to
Slip into Christmas in a garbage pale
Momma’s pinker than a rusty nail
Reptiles don’t need entertainment
Forfeit tickets to my arraignment, yeah
Ten million people wanna cut my hair
Medieval preachers bleatin’ everywhere
God loves his children I love my disease
Makes me dismissive of reality
I’m not a sailor boy I’m a chimpanzee
Got mother nature looking out for me
I’m holy rollin’ through the centuries
And I do what I please
I’m gonna ride when I want to
Get high when I want to
I’m gonna fly when I want to, whenever I want to
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Pick Me Up
06:14
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He keeps her in the dark
Smokescreens and shadowcasting
She sees someone
He thinks he is someone else
As far as he can tell
She's out for dinner
With the loyal clientele
Wake up baby, please wait up
This old lady’s had a second cup
Clear the sink into the cupboard
Tell your boyfriend he is not your mother
And he watches her try on new clothes for a while
Elegant ladies go the extra mile
But he can't tell
She's got a way with getting what she
Wants to be somebody someday
Pick me up
Turn me round
Lift me up
Knock me down
All I ever wanted was to play a part
Fills the empty spaces deep inside my heart
Oh baby just don't start
She's got a way to roll with punches
Blames their problems on the flunkies
Pick me up
He seeks a modern life
Plans a three-way
Grows impatient
With the pace of meek and mild
It always makes him smile
When he sees her face set
With all the blitzkrieg of a child
She's got a way with speaking lovely
Reasons to get married someday
Pick me up
It's like water in a cup
Once flowing down
Getting stuck
He tears it all apart
Leaves her lonely
She'll be stronger
Never make the same mistakes
A second landing
From the stand-in
The way they planned it
Once they'd worked out what they was
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Big Green Bat
05:17
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The strangest things start happening when you get to following the rabbit
That fleeting beast could lead you anywhere, she’s not a creature of habit
And when she’s caught a scent you can see it by the twitching of her nose
A mellow fellow but she often gets a twinkle in her toes
Now she’s a thousand miles away
Misplacing tricks in the sorcerer’s hat
Keeping the beat with the tail of a cat
Channeling the spirit of her grandma
Rubbing shoulders with the Dalai Lama
I think he could learn a thing or two
Her name is Tina and she doesn’t know if she believes in choice
I saw her up before the sunrise painting pictures of the envoys
Afternoon she’s by the river sifting through the mud for shells
I trust her easily cause she has some secrets she will never tell
Now she’s a thousand miles away
On the steps to the Buddha after dark
Speaking the words straight from her heart
Whenever she can she’s taking off her shoes
Never bothered by the newsman’s
Depressing attitude
She feels vibrations
She knows not where they’re from
Universal love
Said the Cactus man
Now she’s thousand miles away
Got me feeling like E.T., I wanna go home
I wanna give away everything I own
Now she's a thousand miles away
Receiving the signal through the static
She said that she comes from another planet
I do believe it’s true
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There once was a time that might not have existed
Try not to blink; it’s so quick you might miss it
You might find
Something you might not expect to find
You might find
Something you might not expect to find
Over the bridge
And down by the trail
Carried us away
On top of an orange tail
Floated a nest on the water
Dead leaves and branches are precious materials
For building something new
I once lost my mind, so I fashioned a new one
Retraced my steps and now I’ve got two of ‘em
You might find
Something you might not expect to find
You might find
Something you might not expect to find
If you should live one hundred years from now
Are you prepared to live forever?
It’s harder to see when the sun’s going down
Shadows all around
Better watch your step
Before you slip
There once was a girl who chose death over prison
A singer of songs who forgot how to listen
You might find
Something you might not expect to find
You might find
Something you might not expect to find
Oh you might find something you might not have expected
Yeah you might find something you might not have expected
Yeah you might find something you might not have expected
You might find
Something you might not expect to find
You might find
Something you might not expect to find
There once was a time that might not have existed
Try not to blink it’s so quick you might miss it
And if you should see it try not to persist it cause
Sometimes the best things only last for a minute
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10. |
Albatross
03:58
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Only lines cross
A sickly little albatross
Follows me
You’re afraid we might
Shoot the bird on sighting
How can we agree?
Will fortune favor
Or are we only paper
Burning bright and brief
I love you, only you
And you love me, just me
But we were all too clever
Tried to catch a feather
On our way
Then she tells me fall asleep
Says that it’d be good for me
We’re not who we are when we’re not
Who we want to be
I feel you breathing on my bed
I feel your heart against my headstrong disbelief
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