1. |
Kissing The Beast
02:29
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Got a bad reputation
For a weak motivation
A story to write
But I've never read (I'm seeing red)
Should I get rid of what I love,
Or should I let it destroy me?
Either way I'll still be kissing the beast
Gotta strip mall for a nation
And a jungle for vacation
Spinning around like a head on wheels
There must be some combination
Of words for explanation
If I ain't lying, I'm telling the truth
Should I get rid of what I love
Or should I let it destroy me
Either way I'll still be kissing the beast
And when I see the light
It will be dark as night
Down by the Walmart with the freaks
And if I see the light
I'll still have to fight
Through the parking lot into the streets
Should I get rid of what I love
Or should I let it destroy me
Either way I'll still be kissing the beast
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2. |
The Last Drop
02:40
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So young i barely remember
Those nights,
We the pretenders
High, up on a wire
Lit, And ready to let go
Howling pain & pleasure
Above remembered treasure
Your ghost came like a dream
we'd found
But these things are real
Much deeper than we feel
Nothing here that will stop
Life beyond the last drop
Made bread in a Picasso
Love life living on muscle
Spread out across an ocean
A Flood in our beating pulse
Blazed out loud crescendo
Open to another place
Like stars, with
Feet on the ground
But these things are real
Much deeper than we feel
We're here in this Strange place
'Til we learn to grow a new face
But these things are real
Much deeper than we feel
Nothing here that will stop
Life beyond the last drop
But these things are real
Much deeper than we feel
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3. |
Burn And Shine
03:55
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Our broken bone is a permanent badge
We blow it up
To search from above
Carrying the courage of nothing to gain
But silence
or a flame
If we don't burn
We won't shine
All poets are liars
With sand in their hearts
But we're still arriving
Aiming to start
With less time in front
Than what's left behind
Knowing
At least we tried
'Cause
If we don't burn
We won't shine
Patience needs rebellion
Like love needs shame
Feeding oxygen to the flame
Erred and oversexed, This tragedy in a lie
We'll shine
If we don't burn
We won't shine
Shine on
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4. |
Love Is A Bomb
02:41
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Catch the Cult of Reason and make me impressed
Waking at the feet of a fallen dress
Open up a window
And tear your skies from blue
Yeah, Love is a bomb
Yeah, Love is a bomb
Read the revolution inside your chest
Tape it to the lip of your next little guest
Wake in a sweat
For every stolen night
Yeah, Love is a bomb
Yeah, Love is a bomb
Well, Love is statement full of doubt
Love is a lit fuse running out
Yeah, Love is a bomb
Yeah, Love is a bomb
Love is the saint on which we feed
Love is a razor kind of need
Love is the burn that wakes your soul
Love is a boiling chance in the blood
Love is the drowning in a final flood
Yeah, Love is a bomb
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5. |
Josephine Baker
03:23
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The things I notice when you're gone
Your butterfly boots and your songs
I still hear
Your hanging crosses catch the light
And bless the emptiness I fight
With No breath in my ear
I'm right here
Waiting on you dear
An only (lonely) light
Left on for you
The jealous distance pulls me in
My only solace is falling in
To (Maybe that'll) bring me around
Cards (that) I wrote you (are) stacked against
J Bakers photo and unspent pence
They amplify your sound
But I'm right here
Waiting on you dear
An only light
Left on for you
The phone's stubborn silence reminds your gone
My old poet's (poetic) (romantic) troubles they come back on
But even then my raging will catch a smile
from a fast faded photograph, shot
the night I fell in love with an angel (guided) (a) child
I'm right here / Waiting on you dear
I'm right here / Waiting on you dear
An only light
Left on for you
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6. |
Falter
01:54
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Walking it straight into-to the propeller
This Blind faith could use some glasses contacts
Way too broke to make it a habit
(Leaning in) Propping up bars to brace for impact (wade through the molasses)
One falter at a time
One falter at a time
Brought to tears by the pane of windows
Stoning our hearts just to hear them breaking
Justify days spent in wonder
(Of) How many ways to go without needing
One falter at a time
One falter at a time
The wind blows the courage through the bones
Wind blows the courage through the bones
One falter at a time
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7. |
Picking Up The Silver
04:32
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Why forget anything
It's a waste to forget what has been
Why deny that our love, was hard
but we survived
Why defy any pain
when it accuses
How could the trial be wasted
If we're only here to love
Picking up the silver one more time
picking up the silver to try to fly
Life is no college
Bursting through an open door
Sometimes we fall through it together
Then confusion throws us to the floor
But it's ours (yours and mine together)
Because it takes a life, lived at height
to know there's more
Picking up the silver one more time
picking up the silver to try to fly
picking up the treasure from the soil
Picking up the silver for one more try
The salt
the excess
(the battle)
the brave
the gold
The calm Surrender
Oh, Surrender
Picking up the silver one more time
picking up the silver to try to fly
picking up the treasure from the soil
Picking up the silver for one more try
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8. |
Hit Of You
03:40
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Your attitudes and platitudes
They come spilling out like English smoke
You grip the wheel the tightest feel
Spin a yarn and catch a joke
But your gut wrench and the tight pinch
You give yourself a belly ache
Til you realize you're half-right
But not enough to fake
I took a hit of you
And I got knocked out
A hit of you
And I got knocked out
A hit of you
Nothing leaves like forgiveness
Intended as a slap in the face
Leaving no-one not a witness
To stick around a press your case
But you know this cause you're in it
Hanging like a fly on the wall
Over flat ground where you made it
All mouths and heads and all
I took a hit of you and I got knocked out
A hit of you and I got knocked out
All this time we were calling
The Spirit has been dialing wrong
And the great I AM was yawning
At us thinking he was drinking along,
But we're numbing our courage
With everything we try to keep
That flatlines in the face of
All we deny that we reap,
I took a hit of you
And I got knocked out
A hit of you
And I got knocked out
I took a hit of you
And I got knocked out
A hit of you
And I got knocked out
I took a hit of you
And I got knocked out
A hit of you
And I got knocked out
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9. |
Mayahuel
04:11
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Wild wings set the pace
Your Beauty jungle of a face
Deep the valleys cut through life
Leaving us nothing the same
I try to hear you over air
Using potions to lay bare
The dimming darkness of the dusk
Clouding over with night's rust
I want you to break this silence
I need you to bring out the light
Under a swelling of the sun
I stumble searching for the one
Into a gathering of lost souls (piedres almas)
Until your thunder it rolls
You're woven into every sign
Nervously I'm looking for mine
To leave the losing of the days
The lonely dusting of this place
I want you to break this silence
I need you to bring out the light
Out in the Desert
Lantern Lit
Searching the darkness
Listening for it
The Rising notes
at your throat
for us
I want you to break this silence
I need you to bring out the light
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10. |
Life Or Luck
04:21
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Didn't want it to be like this
All this heat from a simple kiss
You picked my pocket in a single lift
Do I hold out
Do I take life or luck
Tonight
Do I fade out
Do I wake up enough
To fight
My debt it seems never paid
I'm back to the crawling phase
My redemption for better days
Do I hold out
Do I take life or luck
Tonight
Do I fade out
Do I wake up enough
To fight
It always arrives
Like the song birds arrive
When I end up falling for Love
But Tonight
It's your voice that i fight
While the songs still linger
So do I hold out
Do I take life or luck
Tonight
Do I fade out
Do I wake up enough
To find
That you called out
Will you take life or luck
Tonight
Will I fade out
Will you wake me enough
To fight
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11. |
Because Of You
04:02
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I accept the fear
That you won't love me
Quite as much as I
Want to keep you near
That our walking
Won't match the same steps
And the heart I share
Won't feed you dear
But faith is
the risk of knowing
The possible
Might never be
Whether nothing
Or every atom you're able
There's a universe
In all degrees
I will take joy
In exactly what that is
There's a god in you
That sees the one in me
But faith is
the risk of knowing
The possible
Might never be
Though I fear
You'll be the leaver
I'll take that chance
Because it's you
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