1. |
Nimble Body Gone
02:24
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Nimble body gone
he's leaving alone at dawn
run into the holy one.
Every mother's son is our
companion for a short hour
on this flowering tree
we all break open and fall down
white petals on the brown
holy ground.
lā ʾilāha ʾillā l-Lāh
lā ʾilāha ʾillā l-Lāh
lā ʾilāha ʾillā l-Lāh
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2. |
There is Only Now
02:48
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Give me a gift, give me this only
tell me it once so that it really holds me
there is no one, there is no only
there is only now
now is all there is.
Press your fingertip in 'til it blows up
here in the blast of the bomb of the moment
there is no was there is no will be
there is only now
now is all there is.
Oh the dead and the living we are singing
and it forms a wild ring.
It's a ring of fire or smoke.
Or of mist or of stone, no one knows.
Oh the dead and the living we are singing
and it forms a wild choir
it's a choir of angels or ghosts
or of souls, no one knows no one knows.
Oh the dead and the living we are singing
and it forms a wild ring,
and the question we are singing is
there is only now
now is all there is.
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3. |
Dreams
02:36
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Well I wrapped my dreams around you
but if I cannot be
where will the roots lie?
My my
Well I wrapped my dreams around you
but if I cannot be
where will the roots lie?
My my
And it comes and goes,
and it comes and goes,
who knows?
who knows?
But my heart doesn't understand the part
about us being apart
and when I try to explain it to her I can't quite
and in the day she grows quiet
but at the dying of the light
she moans, moans.
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4. |
The Seagull
02:21
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It's not that I'm looking for love
it's not that I need you
it's just that I feel better all day
if I think that I might
see you that night.
If this were the past, I would be married by now
sewing clothes for the baby, milking the cow.
I wouldn't know about whiskey and wine
I would be yours and you would be mine
I want a place where nobody bows
and every body bends
but nobody breaks.
I had no idea you could let me down as hard as you have
but a seagull has to fly very high
and drop a crab to break its shell
so I wished you well, even as I fell.
And I said to myself: "I am a woman now."
And I thought that I was lying, but I wasn't.
And I said to myself: "I am a woman now."
And I thought that I was lying, but I'm not.
I want a place where nobody bows
and every body bends
but nobody breaks.
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5. |
1/9 Train
02:51
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As I swam out into the water
the whitecaps piled on one another
like rubble rom a bone tower
and I wanted to swim forever
as the water got deeper and deeper,
my plans grew vaguer and vaguer.
And the sun in the sky called out to the 1/9 train
and the 1/9 train pulled in and the sun was gone again.
And all that I could see from back on the shore
was a rosy light from the center of a blacksmith's forge
as it wound around the edge
of your Marlboro Red
ringing out your age in smoke
like the rings of an old oak.
And the sun in the sky called out to the 1/9 train
and the 1/9 train pulled in and the sun was gone again.
(redacted)
And it was then that I swore
we both had lived before you had made love
to all the wittiest women in court
and I had been the mistress to the fat old king
and even then we'd a had a love affair
that didn't mean a thing
And the sun in the sky called out to the 1/9 train
and the 1/9 train pulled in and the sun was gone again.
And as I lay in the arms of the waves
I sent a message back to the shore
I would rather stay in the arms of the sea
than ever, ever, ever again in yours.
And the sun in the sky called out to the 1/9 train
and the 1/9 train pulled in and the sun was gone again.
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6. |
Alaska
02:10
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Don't shed a tear
think about Alaska
how cold it is,
how bright it is
You're not well
and everyone can tell
how cold it is,
how bring it is
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7. |
White Fog
04:46
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White fog over the mountain
white fog over the plain
white fog over the mountain
white fog over the plain
And I can't seem to find my way back
back into your arms.
I am a formless fire I burn, I am a formless fire.
I follow the lines that lie in my mind.
I am a formless fire I burn, I am a formless fire.
I follow the lines that lie in my mind.
But I can't seem to find my way back
back into your arms.
This is something as handsome as you
oh this is something I can do.
This is something as handsome as you
oh this is something I can do.
'Cause I can't seem to find my way back
back into your arms.
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8. |
Persephone
04:02
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Persephone steps out on the grass
the flowers before her are her laugh.
Down below where no winds blow
the lord of death beholds her.
And her brightness hurts his heart
as it breaks its slumber.
Not a drop of sorrow in her,
not a drop of sorrow in her eye.
Not a drop of sorrow in her,
not today, but tomorrow she will...
Helios rose red and bold the sky was violet
golden particles pattered on their clothes,
there were five of them, pretty young things picking hyacinths:
prelud to violence.
Suddenly the sunlight vanished from the sky
as his carriage passed over cast a shadow in her eye
and it's off to your marriage he cried, he cried
it's off to your marriage he cried.
And like every pair of lovers they
descended into Hades
and became a queen and king:
the only solid thing
in the swim of shades.
And like every pair of lovers they
descended into Hades
and became a queen and king:
the only solid thing
in the swim of shades.
When Demeter, her mother discovered
her daughter had been taken from her
she withered. And the world withered with her:
rye and wheat, all things sweet
die, deplete, wither with her.
Up above the gods of love and war
could take no more
they tired.
The missed the smoke that coiled up
from mortals fires.
"Something must be done about Demeter, and her rage.
Something must be done about Persephone," they said.
So Hermes the messenger was sent to her, was sent to her
was sent to her to tell Persephone that she was free.
Persephone steps out on the grass
the flowers before her are her laugh.
And the shock when she sees day and night,
death and life at once is a rock that words break over like water
the shock when she sees death and life, day and night
is a rock that words break over.
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