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The Moon and the Wolf
04:53
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I know we just met and yet I bleed my heart and sound
My voice; my words; my very soul: I bleed it all
Yes I understand that sometimes you're shinning
Sometimes you're dark: so is the moon
I don't care, I always found the moon so much prettier than the sun
I'm a wolf, I guess I like singing to the queen of silver light
The bringer of change, the hope of the night, the mother of the tides
But I'll sing when you're shinning
I'll sing when you're dark, I'll sing in every that you've got
I'll sing when you're shinning, I'll sing when you're dark
I'll sing in every phase that you've got
I'm a wolf
And you are my moon
It's all rather strange, love, but it's all that we've got
It's strange for us all, love, there's no right way to walk
A road that goes nowhere and just circles around
Some pre-made conceptions of what is about
This dancing of questions, this craving to seek
These things that keep changing the more that we see
Just know we're all faking that we understand
Be my dancing moon, love, and I'll be the sand
And I'll be the sand
For now let's keep on going
This roundabout road
And try to live some tales that are worth being told
It's crazy I know the way things go
I've been rolling down this mountain for twenty three years you know
And it's still as confusing as when I was spitted here
Everything keeps swirling and I just disappear
Into some crazy ass dreams in my crazy ass mind
I go around faking I'm alright all the time
But my mother doesn't need to know these things that I feel
I've always been careful not to cry when she's near
But fuck it
Maybe you and I, one day, we'll be by the beach
And the waves will bring flowers that will cover our feet
And a thousand golden parrots will dance in the sky
And warm fuzzy pandas will kiss us goodnight
But until the dream comes true
I guess it's up to me and you
To suck it up
And keep on going forward
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Early morning
The birds are now up
The sun it now shines
For you
What a view
You start the day
By singing a song
No one ever had sung
Before
It's always new
With you...
You come to me
With a cup of black tea
And you strip as the sea
Rejoices
Through the window
That waterfalls light
And you ask me
As you're dancing
Why do birds
Sing so proud?
Do you think that they know
They're alive?
And I answer you
Of course they do
And they sing
For the same reason
As I
Those bastards are singing
For you
So I'll shoot them bastards with a gun
And you say
You won't shoot anyone
And you're right this time
I'll strangle them bastards
I'll learn how to fly
You say no you will not
First you learn how to die
And you jump to my lap
And we make love
By the window the birds and the sea
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The afternoon comes
It always does
And the birds
They burst into flames
Like Icarus
They flew too high
And the sun melted
Their tiny brains
The silence contrasts
The music
Like the paper
The rivers of paint
My happiness melts into nothing
I find it's always been the same
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Strangeness
04:05
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Things were covered by strangeness
Beneath the light
Of a sun setting sky
That lingers inside
The colours they danced
Like whirling balloons
The sky cut by buildings
The orange, the blue
Was if all the world
Was painted by you
Things were beautiful there
We found a bench by the sand
And watched the people go by
Little droplets of rain
Could not make us walk away
We just looked at the sky
And discussed all the questions
That have haunted mankind
Ever since it asked "Why?"
And we found not an answer
Just floating conclusions
But we both like to fly
The sun took to hiding
Behind tiles and concrete
And soon it was midnight
And we forgot to eat
You played with my hands
But you were afraid of the lines
That once made a fortune teller
Refuse to read
The future I had
The day I would die
My life line breaks in two
Then they go side by side
What if it's you
Joining my life?
Things are strange, but less strange
When we're two asking why...
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6. |
Golden Dust
06:08
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You were the one
I know you were
Bringing fire to my fur
Bringing water to my eyes
We sang beneath a grinning moon
Everything flowers ready to bloom
But now they can't
Cause there's no light
In Xanadu we spent our days
Picking mushrooms with golden blades
Dancing feathers
In the wind
But then they came like burning hail
Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail
The doubts, the doubts
Inside your heart
Sometimes the rain
It stops to pour
It was the same with your love
The clouds, I guess that they were smiles
The sky it's clear but there's no sun
Just some sort of emptiness
Some sort of burning
Grip of steel inside my soul
But there's no stopping all the dreams I have
The colours in my mind
They swirl, they dance, they sing
They do all the things that we would do
They're two peacocks in the sky
The stars fall as they glide
It's a different rain
But golden dust makes pretty rivers
They run through wood and dale
I have a boat but no sail
I try to find the way
To what I never knew I had
But the dust blinds my eyes
Caresses my skin
A disguise of golden colours
That I don't want to wear
Fake it
Until you make it
That's what they say, anyway
It sounds like solid advice
Singing
I'll keep on singing
Despite all of those songs
I don't want to sing anymore
Anymore
Anymore
Anymore
You were the one
I know you were
But the fire is now gone
There's just water in my eyes
It was in truth a waning moon
And all those things that were to bloom
They were only
On my mind
In Xanadu there are no days
Just a flow of summer haze
Happy moments
Intertwined
I forgive the burning hail
The chaffy grain, the thresher's flail
The doubts
Inside your heart
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The Man on the Piano
02:39
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Today I slept for a good nine hours
Woke up with a head full of thoughts and flowers
I dreamt of a man, he was singing a song
On the piano
As if he was alone
But he was surrounded by people
Two men by his side hit the keys on the keyboard
And he was pouring his soul on each word of the song
He cried in the end, I was crying along
I wish I knew the words he said
The melody that his fingertips bled
I wish I could tell him that I understand
I don't know the words but I know the face
Dreams pass him by
Like white doves in the sky
Like wind through the rain
I feel them too, oh singer
Feel them rushing through my veins
They bleed to the air and fly away
There's no hope for us, the dreamers
We're just bound to feel this way
Until we all are washed away
Until we're washed away
Until we're washed away
Until we're washed away
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Cheshire Cat
03:30
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How come your smile is
So hard to bear?
I see it in my future
As I go to bed
How come you're here and there
And everywhere I go?
A damned Cheshire cat
Inside my mental home
The whole
Concept of time
Crumbles before
Two parted pieces of flesh
You
Disdain your body
You claim it shackles your soul
Well it's freeing mine
You
Want to be a shapeless comet
Thinking through the fabric of time
But where would be your smile?
I am human
So are you
All I can do
Is ask you to join me
And try to explore
These weird bodies
Where we are trapped on
Infinite minds in a cell the size of a bathtub
So will you be a
Prisoner with me?
Our words will mingle
Like butterflies
They will fly
Through the iron
Bars of our mortal shells
Words don't fly far, but you hear that which I cannot tell
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A Bed of Seashell Tiles
03:57
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I've been drowning all this time
I slept on seashell tiles
Looking at the boats above
I recall to smile
They were only made of wood
And floating for a while
I knew they would rot one day
And spiral down to find
Me looking up to the stars and the moon
They look so pretty from under a pool
Of salted water, swimming things
Floating trash and six pack rings
Salt from tears, they're swimming dreams
I'm the trash: dispose of me
You're a shinning mermaid queen
I lie crushed beneath the sheer
Weight of my philosophy
My bones are dust but I am free
You are so beautiful
I don't deserve a single smile
From you
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Tiny Blob
04:08
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Little tiny blob, you weren't born today
But there'll come the day when you'll be
More than just a thought on my troubled head
They'll grab my nose, your small chubby hands
Oh, tiny bastard, I hope I'm alive when you're born
If I'm not, tell everybody I love them all
From the sick of the mind to the sick of the body
The preacher, the hooker, the saint
From the ones that rape little children
To the ones that make them insane
I love them all 'cause they're human
And as human they are of my kin
All the differences, they are nothing
To the things deep under the skin
I said that I love them, and I always will
Doesn't mean I have to agree
Love is not about sweetness
It's caring about to see
Through the clouds
That are found
All around
Shaped
Like hairless apes in a liquor store
Trying to look very smart
It's damn annoying I know
But they are just like you are
And you'll feel different all your life
If you come after your dad
I just hope that you have her eyes
And her will to make all things fair
You're not born but you have a mother
I see you on the lines of her face
If it's not here, then it's no one
I won't settle for second place
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Take Me Home
03:43
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What the hell am I doing here
I could be soaring the atmosphere with you
What am I so afraid to lose?
I see green and I see blue
We're in the bus to Kathmandu
And you're painting dreams
And I'm writing songs
And the world is swirling
And we're swirling along
We've been sleeping next to each other
And we are always home
Wherever the fuck we may be
With you I'm always home
Now we're dancing in an Irish pub
In the middle of Shangai
We swirl again and I lose track of
The world that is outside
Come take me home
Come take me home
Come take me home
Come take me home
I know you have a lot to read
About the laws and ways of men
And I should be exploring all the ways
To make us dead
But I think AI can take a break
And the laws can solve themselves
Because I have these dreams inside me
And they don't understand
What the hell I am doing here
When I could fly the stratosphere with you
You're all that I'm afraid to lose
I see green and I see blue
They're in the future and they're with you
So read on, my love, take your time, my love
I've been waiting all my life
Come take me home
Come take me home
Come take me home
Come take me home
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12. |
A Rock in a Field
03:30
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Laura, my love
I know that we
Can both clearly see
The chasm of doubts
It swallow everything
And its howling wind
Makes it hard
To be human at all
But now that we are together
I find that I
Have so many
Human things
To say
So of I go, from the pedestal
Leave my brain hanging on a tree
I just want to tell you
I'll always be here for you
Rivers flow and winds will blow
And trees will lose their green
But my feelings stand
As a rock in a field
Grass will bend and butterflies
Will dance between the rain
But my feelings stand
As a rock in a field
And there may come the day when all
Things burn beneath the sun
My feelings will stand
As a rock with no field
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The worst thing about dreams is they come true
And when they do they knock you to the ground
'Cause now that you're there there is no where else to go
The top of the mountain is the nightmare of the climber
Oh what is he to do now but hope to find a ladder
Hopefully one that never ends
So that he never sees the top again
Hopefully one that never ends
So that he never sees the top again
Sisyphus is a very happy man
Sisyphus is a very happy man
Sisyphus is a very happy man
Sisyphus is a very happy man
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The Bug on the Wall
04:02
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The bug on the wall
Is looking at me
As you lay there crying
And all I can see
Are tiny lakes
Formed round your eyes
Ready to spill
Where you used to smile
And the bug on the wall
Is now crawling
And I feel the emptiness
Of the words I
Should be saying
But I don't know how
To cast into meaning
What I feel now
Both the bug and the wall
Are closing in
The room colapses
In the silence
My brain strangles
My soul
And there are oceans
Where you used to smile
I wish I could hug you now
But I am locked inside myself
A sheepish creature, when it pours
I crawl inside myself
My heart, it pumps, the slave it yearns
To get outside myself
I feel your anger, feel your sorrow
Raining, pouring, I just
Hope you know
You're always in my mind
Hope you forgive
This selfishness of mine
You're worth the moon and stars
And honey songs by summer trees
You're worth someone who's so much better
Than this worthless me
The Gods themselves should wake again
To crush my bones for having
Spit us both to flames
Just to sooth the brain of worthless me
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Something Sweet to Say
00:54
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You hide behind your walls
Of fingers that cover your human eyes
And there you say
Don't look
As if tiny branches could hide the moon
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Wooden Heart
01:46
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Once you reach heaven then you've got to be good
You're the flame inside a heart of wood
Burning forever, ever growing in size
You're the warmth amid a world of ice
The wood may crackle, rattle, shiver and squeak
You won't move, you have enough to bleed
The red will melt the snow and set you apart
Burning floating wooden heart
Bleeding floating wooden heart
Burning floating wooden heart
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A Gentle Murder
00:39
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Stones
03:42
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There seem to be ghosts
Wherever we stand
But today I can't do it
I can't understand
There's weakness in mind
And there's weakness in soul
Today there's just way too much
Shit in my hole
I try to be reasonable
Whenever I can
And I try to be kind
And give you my hand
But sometimes the world's a bit
Too heavy to bear
I can't take the punches
It's too much to bear
I can't erase what is there
I can't go back in time
And there's nothing to share
Why can't you bury these stones
That you carry with you
And throw at my soul
I cannot bear them today
Will you put them aside
Or throw them away
I cannot bear them today
Will you put them aside
Or throw them away
I cannot bear them today
Will you put them aside
Or throw them away
I'm so sorry
I'm not strong enough
To take a beating
Yes I could have done
A lot of things
A whole lot better
And yes I think it's fair
I take the beatings
In bad weather
But today the rain
It pours, the ground is cold
There's no more lumber
I know it hurts you too, my love
These thoughts that never
Slumber
But today can you be strong
For me?
Tomorrow will be better
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Utter Gibberish
02:04
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21. |
The Girl and the Star
05:27
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Into the ocean
Once fell a girl
When the boat of her father
Cracked like the shell of an egg
Down and down
Our little yolk went
Down and down,
Our little yolk went
Down and down
Our golden yolk went
Down and down,
Our golden yolk went
Until she figured
She could breathe under water
And swim with the fish
And dance with the turtles and moon
Behind the moon
She found a star
She said
I love you just the way
You are
How come girl
I don't shine the brightest
I'm not even one of the top
Million ones to do so
Oh, star, that doesn't matter
To me
You're the one that looks best
From under the sea
Oh, star
I wish you well
Star
I wish you farewell
Star
I wish you well
Star
I wish you
I wish you, I wish you
Many wishes more
I wish you're brighter
Than the moon
And the millions of
Millions
And millions
And millions
Of stars
Oh, little yolk
I wish that you floated
But you don't, little yolk
I wish that you floated
But you don't, little yolk
I wish that you floated
But you don't, little yolk
I wish that you floated
Oh, the time has come
To be alone
The fires burn
All along
In the dark
Mirrors show me
More eyes than I have
And creatures dance
With he shadows of stars
Oh what a wonderful world
Oh what a wonderful world
Oh what a wonderful world
Oh what a wonderful world
Butterflies sing
Of far away lands
Where gold is the colour
Of all trees and plants
Snails carry treasures
Inside of their shells
They share it with crows
That from their nest fell
Oh what a wonderful world
Oh what a wonderful world
Oh what a wonderful world
Oh what a wonderful world
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John C. Blackthorn Lisbon, Portugal
A songwriter trying to make music without getting lost on that which is superfluous.
A pity I'm always lost
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