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Crazy as a Loon
03:38
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A jangle of suspicion
Talking to the shapes as they move
The mother of invention
is the homicide of the truth
I used to call you sweetheart,
I was like a kitten in your lap
But lately something’s changing, I
am becoming a dangerous cat
I’m crazy as a loon
I don’t know what I’ll do
I’m crazy as a loon
I am crazy as a loon for you
I hid behind the station,
I watched you follow through
I felt a levitation
My education was acute
The buzzing in my gizzard,
the snakes inside my fingers
My tongue is but a lizard,
There is a new kind of creature in my shoes
I’m crazy as a loon
I don’t know what I’ll do
I’m crazy as a loon
I am crazy as a loon for you
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Careless, TX
03:03
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I’m through, shelve it
In Careless, Texas
On a visit from the mountain
A bible salesmen
with a .22 waving
The Lord’s angry and he’s reckless
In Careless, Texas
I followed him, breathless
To Shivering, Kansas
We took anything we wanted
We ravaged and we left it
The end would come soon
Yes we knew, we knew
Heaven is the plains and all our tears contain
the moon
Let the devil in
He wore blue velvet
and a rope around his pelvis
He moved like he was Elvis
I was paralyzed and helpless
A blood-splattered canvas
Burned the money and the mattress
We were running out of chances
The end would come soon
Yes we knew, we knew
Heaven is the plains, all our tears contain
the moon, the moon
Love, it leaves a stain, a beautiful pain
It’s true
Let the devil in
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Forever Loreta and Me
03:43
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Loreta came through the water, her embers were shining
Candle upon the alter, all behind her in the other country
When I reach out across the weather, and I pull her close to me
We will linger in the distance, like a picture, Loreta and me
Sleep, sleep, oh early fallen
In your green and narrow bed
We will meet beneath the whispers, on the wind, beside the sea
When the golden cord is severed, its forever Loreta and me
She was once a soldier on the wrong side of history
But no one ever told her ‘til it was over in New Orleans
We met in east Virginia, on a battlefield burning
Two killing machines with blood on our sleeves, forever, Loreta and me
Sleep, sleep, oh early fallen
In your green and narrow bed
We will meet beneath the whispers, on the wind, beside the sea
When the golden cord is severed, its forever Loreta and me
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The Ashes
04:01
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I left the window down I put my elbow out
My heart is stubborn so I keep it in my mouth
The ashes of dreams, time is so brittle
My mind doesn’t wander, it stomps and bangs
It splashes in the water that pours from your name
The ashes of dreams, the sound of hospitals
Before you left me, I was more logical
Beauty don’t come back, enjoy it while it lasts
You didn’t come to be tamed, but to be set free
The smell of your clothes, it has stayed with me
More of you in the breeze everlasting
Until the air that I breathe leaves me gasping
Time just repeats, and every moment you leave
The ashes of dreams, forever scattered
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I met a well-known cameraman on his way back from the war
I said the fighting’s not over, he said “it never is, and no ones keeping score”
He stumbled like an acrobat, long past his prime, into the crowd
When the singer has no audience, does he still make a sound?
Johnny’s not having fun anymore
With a split lip and a purple eye, he cries like a little boy
Screaming "I don’t want to hear anything, I’m listening to the void
You can cling to your need, it’s bottomless, you get it and you’re bored
I am returning all the whispers to the leaves, we were better off before"
Johnny’s not having fun anymore
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Citadel
03:58
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I collapsed on the steps of the citadel
On the set of the movie that was playing in my head
Why did they make this movie so sad?
I tried to listen but the whisperin’ made me mad
Oh darling
I want to taste it before we die
Oh darling
I want what’s left of you tonight
Until the end becomes and endless sky
I climbed the wall of day dreams, to hear what you said
I know my head’s no reliable place but why does it hurt so bad
In the infinite space with our infinite eyes
In the infinite moment, you are infinitely mine
Oh darling
I want to taste it before we die
Oh darling
I want what’s left of you tonight
Until the end becomes an endless sky
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Isn't it Silly?
03:46
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Bleeding eyes, from the camera flash, a moment you’ve undone
Here we are in the balderdash where one and one make no one
We wanna be seen like lines in the paperback, on an interesting run
But I once found a heart in a piano
isn’t it silly, we just make it up
there’s nothing worth killing
'cause there’s nothing here to love that much
way down the Mississippi, you will never disappear enough
isn’t it silly, so silly, what we’ve become
I was once on trail where I could a river, the mountains out west
I was alone, I and I did not think of anybody else
I was fine with the rangy spirits, all the trampoline ghosts
I was fine and no one had to know
isn’t it silly, we just make it up
there’s nothing worth killing
'cause there’s nothing here to love that much
way down the Mississippi, you will never disappear enough
isn’t it silly, so silly, what we’ve become
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Everything is Mine
04:38
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Seeing things, I am sleeping in your head
With my legs hanging off of your blood stained bed
I get bad ideas and I can’t shake ‘em when I’m red
When I lose the thread
Moonlight changing the way our shadows dance
The night speaks in languages we can’t understand
In another other way, on the other hand,
It is over fast
It’s a date, my dear
We’ll let go of the past
We have made it here
And we will not go back
Turn in, I’ll take care of the lights
Let the water run, until the hardwood shines
In my favorite dress, everything is mine
Everything is mine
It’s a date, my dear
We’ll let go of the past
We have made it here
And we will not go back
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Fever Tree
03:46
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At the bible revival with a healthy fear of the dark
I climbed the fever tree and leaned against my arm
I wanted you to look at me
The way I always look at you, baby
My vines were in your window and I prayed with all my might
arms become the tree limbs, birds pluck out my eyes
I wanted you to look me
The way I always look at you, baby
My imagination could drink the ocean dry
Solitary summers where quiet children hide
And your face hovers like a smoke ring
Your name, I set afire, baby
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There’s only one way to stay pretty
And it’s a bad deal to make
There’s only one way to keep the days from getting shitty
One way
Maybe when the white horses run through our dreams
It is done
Maybe when the family portrait falls all it means
Is it will come, come, come
There’s only one way to stay pretty
You have to die afraid
There’s only one way to forget about Kansas City
And it’s grave, so grave
Baby, in the silence of this house I know we
Can’t get out
Save me from the words in my mouth, kiss me
Talk me down, down, down, down, down
They'll remember.
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Haunted House
03:15
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I look into the face of the apparition
What good is fear without interrogation
I am climbing the stairs
To some new nightmare
Without a light to carry, I squint in the dark
She calls out for Mary, but Mary doesn't hark
She isn't there
She isn't anywhere
She isn't anywhere
I don't how to keep this from the congregation
They are going to feel all of these new vibrations
There is someone in this room and someone missing
I turn pilot on just to hear it hissing
When the night gets strange
You have to rearrange
I once believed that dreams were from the future
Guess you could say I've lost my sense of humor
My mind is now
Just a haunted house
Just a haunted house
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Oh Coyote
02:50
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I went outside
The midnight hour
And I listened to the coyotes crying
And I wished that I could cry with them
Just walk into the woods where they were living
Never return, I’d just go missing
I’d grow my fur and disappear
My thoughts would fade into the atmosphere
And I’d never again speak your names
And I could let go of all this shame
I don’t belong to you
I don’t belong to anything
Oh coyote, I am listening
And I can hear you crying
I want to take your heart and give you mine
Oh coyote, beneath the twisting
Trees and the wind that whines
I used feel so lonely but now I’m tired
I want to take your heart and give you mine
I want to walk away
Away from the lights
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