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Your Hand in Mine
02:26
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Oh, to hold your hand in mine
Oh, to take you up in my arms
Oh, to hold your hand in mine
Oh, to take you in my arms
Oh, to hold your hand in mine
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2. |
Target On My Back
03:23
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Breathe out, breathe in
Free me from sin
Be good, begin
Becomes the win
I’m getting better, getting better
I’m getting better, better all the time
I’m getting closer, getting closer
I’m getting closer, watch me walk the line
See red, see signs
Rewire the lines
Stop lights, stop time
Remaps the mind
But I got a target, got a target
I got a target, target on my back
And for the record, for the record
And for the record, we are well under attack
I know that you’re on the run
I will find you when all is said and done
And under pressure, under pressure
And under pressure, did it go just as you planned?
You’re off the record, off the record
You’re off the record, bein’ you’re a self-made man
Be soft, be still
He knows you will
Must be quite a thrill
If looks could kill
I hit the bottom, hit the bottom
I hit the bottom and the bottom hits me back
Hits me back
Hits me back
Hits me
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3. |
Town Hall
03:51
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Oh gods, change me into something new
Cloudy, cold, and standing at the moon
How am I, how am I here again?
Given all the things I shouldn’t feel
Given all the things you shouldn’t hear
Here, here we are
Back and forth again
Has me wondering when
I’ll stop coming here to see
Parts of me
And though things are looking up from here
Cloudy, cold, and darker by the year
I don’t know if I’ll go with you
Give me something I can do today
Give me hope that there’s another way
Don’t you tell me that the power lies in my hands or head
Back and forth again
Has me wondering when
I invited you to follow me
Leave me be
And no matter what I do with you
Could it be that I’m not through with you?
See you soon, or many moons from now
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4. |
M.M.E.
02:31
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I don’t think I’m gonna wait for you
It’s not time for me to say what’s true
But if someday a shining-armored ride
You took to me, well I would be your bride
La la la la
La la la la
La la la la
And when the days of laying on the line
Have come and gone to rule another’s mind
As birds in time must need a place to land
If open, I’d rest in the palm of your hand
You’d walk in with me
I’d walk out with you
When there comes a time
If there comes a time
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5. |
Solid Ground
03:02
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Oh my New Orleans, I’ll write you a tune
As if I have known you forever
Take me away and I’ll weep for the day
I return to you for worse or better
Oh my New Orleans, you’ve colored me blind
Or perhaps things are clearer than ever?
I’ll get a drink just to spill in the streets
Take my hand, lead me into the morning
We’re, we’re on solid ground
Oh my New Orleans, you’ve broken my heart
And you’ll do it again, won’t you please?
Take me away; bayou, river, or Lake Pontchartrain
Will suffice for the wreckage
We’re, we’re on solid ground
Come and stay
Oh my New Orleans, I’ll visit the edge
Just to chain smoke and write nasty letters
Rattle my bones, send me searching for home
Show me, save me, then lay me down strangely
We’re, we’re on solid ground
Haunt me
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6. |
City Muse
02:39
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7. |
Sixth & Crescent
05:17
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First the ice, and then the gin
Heavy door, please invite me in
Crawling back, all hands and knees
Even though it’s up to me
So I’ll go then, since you don’t agree
With all I’ve thought is true
As it happens, you’re not needing me
Like I think I need you
In my wild and reoccurring dreams
I am your lost and found
And each morning I am getting by
Hoping that you’ll come around
And I’ve known the verdict would be near
For this body, heart, and voice
As it turns out, stars are not aligned
And meaning is a choice
Stories end and stories pass us by
Stories often are a lie
And this story doesn’t satisfy
At a certain place and time
So I’ll go then, since you don’t agree
With all I’ve thought is true
As it happens, you don’t need me
Like I think I need you
So I’ll go then, if you promise me
That when I go you’ll stay
I’ll go looking for another one
Is there any other way?
Oh, if it were enough
The wolf in your chest!
If we had been animals
Could I put it to rest?
And if you had wept for me
When we stood at your car!
And if you had wanted me
Would we have gotten this far?
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8. |
The Departure
04:55
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Let me sit with this awhile
Back of left, front of right
Wrap my legs, wrap them tight
And I’ll rise with a secret this time
Yea we’ll rise with a secret this time
Skin to skin and skin to the floor
Who is in, who’s wanting more?
Clumsy lovers, are we surprised?
Wrap me up, million dollar disguise
I’m alone as I can be
Do you know, what can you see?
Was it everything that you imagined?
Did you leave your head?
Tell me is it everything that you imagined?
Oh god, to leave my head!
If you will, if you could rise
Stronger still, I’d wipe these eyes
And these hands, how can they be mine?
Heavy fingers and heavy goodbyes
All these days, all this time spent
Do you know how it will end?
Was it everything that you imagined?
Did you leave your head?
Darlin’ is it everything that you imagined?
Do you know how it will end?
Be an animal with me!
Dip me in, toe to thigh
Pour me out, wipe me dry
Make me weak, make me sigh
Wake me up with a lie
Then take me back to the lights
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9. |
Slings in the Air
01:34
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I go down swinging
Sure of signs every time
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10. |
I Saw You
04:42
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I saw you, I saw you
It was a, it was a dream
I saw you, I saw you
Was it a, was it a dream?
Have you been walking all night?
Have you been listening all night?
These days I wake in the night
Is it you just passing through?
I greet you in putting up a fight
Door’s open, I’ll unfold for you
Have you been walking all night?
Have you been listening all night?
Things in the footage
Use the mask, use the mask
Your letters, your turns of phrase
Sometimes they’ll find me, they will
In the air or below the graves
Handprints, handsweats, footsteps, and still
Where they’ve been walking all night
Where they’ve been listening all night
Have they been walking all night?
Have they been listening all night?
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11. |
Storm Conductor
02:32
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Carry it all up the stairs
I am avoiding the mail
Take all the time that you need
I will try not to pull strings
Carry it all down the stairs
I am avoiding the mail
Given the time that you’ll need
Given I’ll do it again
I can get along by myself
I can get along by myself
I can get along by myself
It was an accident
An accident
I can get along by my
I can get along by my
I can get along by
You can see the way he stands with his arms
You can see the way she holds you in her hands
You can see the way to run from the storm
It’s an accident
An accident
I can get along by my
I can get along by my
I can get along by my
I can get along by
And I am not alone at the end of the night
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12. |
The Fool
04:29
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I just as well could play against the rules
I just as well could lay the cards in line
Convince me I’m in need of every word
I’ll do the rest to suffocate the mind
Turn me inside out
I’ll be crossing over
I’d be in your shoes had I your feet
Tables turned and dancing in the street
Met and matched and well beyond my means
I can’t give back what you take from me
I’ll be crossing over
I’ll be crossing over
Make a home of being on the run
Make you think that you’re the only one
Make up rules when all is said and done
Make a heart from games that can’t be won
I’ll be crossing over
I’ll be crossing over
Spin the wheel, let circumstance decide
Stop me at a certain place and time
Siren’s flaring, strange and angry child
Struggles doing only what’s required
I just as well could play against the rules
I just as well could lay among the stars
Turn me inside out
I’ll be crossing over
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13. |
When the City Goes Quiet
03:12
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When the city goes quiet, and the footsteps are few
My ears, they are listenin’ for summons, for clues
I puzzle the pieces, I rewrite the rules
But even though listenin’, would you refuse?
When the city goes quiet, and the footsteps are few
My eyes, they are lookin’ for outlines of you
If just by the lookin’, if just by these eyes
I could appear you, would it be by my side?
When the city goes quiet, and the footsteps are few
My hands, they are freezin’; my hands, they are fire
My body’s an orphan, my body don’t lie
Lay me down strangely, I will oblige
When the city goes quiet, and the footsteps are few
My heart goes a-wand’rin, my heart knows the view
How will you know, dear, how will I prove
If it’s forever or if it’s to lose?
When the city goes quiet, and the footsteps are few
My ears, they are listenin’ for summons, for clues
I puzzle the pieces, I rewrite the rules
But even though listenin’, would you refuse?
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Youth in a Roman Field Queens, New York
Surrealist Folk / NYC
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