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Cohn Bay
02:09
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Your friends will talk
covering their wounds with clay
And drink it up
sinking in a shallow bay
Knee deep in mud
looking for another way
You've had enough
ready for another day
Oh let him watch
hidden on the other shore
Our way ain't blocked
He's working on an iron door
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2. |
Everything I Can't
03:57
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I have done everything I can
Everything I’ve done I can
Have I done everything I can
Everything have I I have can I have done I everything
And all I can do now is wait with a song
on my lips on my tongue on my fingertips
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3. |
Riverworld
04:33
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Lots of flower by the river
And people paddling by
But their names I can't remember
Or have never known
Wild flowers by the river
Among the dead trees they've grown
Their names I can't remember
But they catch my eye
I am alone and I am walking
But I do not feel alone
I can feel the people watching
And hiding in the river
Picking flowers by the river
That you do not own
Is it true that they are laughing
or crying in pain
Make a fire by the river
So the people can see
They'll come wet from the water
And laugh in your face
You can earn their friendship
By never questioning why
They live in the river
And laugh in your face
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4. |
Mother May I
03:51
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Mother may I pet the pig?
His hair seems soft to touch.
Boy those hairs are bristles
hard enough to cut you up.
Mother may I feed the tiger?
His eyes so hungry in his face.
Boy I’ve seen my share of tigers
Killing mothers’ only sons.
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5. |
Zoo
04:20
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Baboon play the drum
Ba-boom, baboon, ba-ba-boom
Elephant is drunk
Fat bear falls asleep
We know where insects are stored:
In the zoo bug room
Bucking and braying
Donkey talk compensation
Nothing new. The zoo.
Late afternoon sun
Shadows fall long at our feet
We become the chill
Everybody here
Seems to be doing their job
I can taste my teeth
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6. |
I Lie By The Water
04:18
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I lie by the water thinking of nothing
And then I dream of friends being fools and failing each other
The sun is low and I lied to you girl
I never wanted you
I never felt a thing
But if I was older I might be more careful
About who I decide is worth my disguise
About who I deceive and who I deprive
I'd rather be nothing than wait for you, girl
I'd rather have something to do
The smell of our love is the only perfume
This time I'm coming for you
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7. |
Without You
03:13
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Clinging to the concrete
Like you're on the moon
But it's just a movie
And the spotlight burns
They'll keep you coming
With promises of pay
Deep down you know that
They're only in your way
You reach for the shadows
That your lovers cast
Back when you could see them
Don't you wish it could last?
I'm going nowhere
Without you
I looked for my friend
But he was mowing grass
Driving round the city
Driving real fast
I can never catch him
When he's on the job
So I sit and whisper
Killing time with love
I'm in the corner
Of your mind
Chewing the fat
Just to pass the time
I'm going nowhere
Without you
I'm sticking with you
Got nothing better
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8. |
Rewrite
03:47
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I don’t wanna look backwards,
I don’t wanna to look back over my words
After they’ve left my lips
I don’t wanna look forward
I don’t wanna be caught looking for words
When I could just sing to you
Bva da da bva da da da da bva da da bva da da da bva bva
Bva da da bva da da da da bva da da bva da da bva da da da bva bva
I’ll walk blind I do not mind if I can’t see the mess I’ve left behind me
The open wound catastrophe the heart that bleeds
I don’t care to learn a thing from my mistakes I’ll make them again and again and again
And break your heart along the way
I tend to repeat myself tend to repeat myself tend to repeat myself tend to repeat myself…
Tend to fall into patterns into patterns into patterns into patterns into patterns into patterns…
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9. |
Sister Song
03:30
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I have a sister of nervous disposition
She'll often whisper this:
The end of the world
I'll tell you when it was
My nervous sister knows
And from the distance
Those atmospheres of slug skins
Approach another child
He'll tell you some secrets:
The end of the world
It clicks and waves you bye
He picks another salt crust rose
In the tied and tangled end
In the time you cannot spend
In the constellation's grace
In the time you shouldn't waste
What my nervous sister knows
Pick another salt crust rose
I want you to be my ghost
to be my ghost
to be my ghost
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10. |
Loosely Clocked Trains
02:34
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Keep time
The easy falling of lazy men into ridicule
One each generation
Landing in rhythm against a town
In intoxication hypnotism, suicide
The even pounding of the train on the track
Passing by our station
Continues in the vein
To thump out a beat coach by coach by coach
Of bullets and meat and scars
The clock on the dashboard of an aeroplane
That was scant minutes ago shot down and crashed
Still hammers out the pulse of the pilot
In a ghastly waltz 2-3-1-2-3-1
Keep time
All the snow which falls on rooves,
Trees and street signs and the ground below
Each flake a clock that lands on beat
Either tick or tock to keep time
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11. |
Come Never
03:47
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It seems that I have grown
Far too fond of you
And flowered far too soon,
For a heart that could never contain mine and will surely
Break it in two.
For I know it’s been said, many times, that a heart just can’t change,
Still I’m chasing the sun down,
‘Cause when you kiss me so clearly say you never could fall in love with me,
I’m still hoping
That tomorrow brings never around.
And I worry that I may be incapable of truly loving at all,
Still I let this weight fall on you dear
For I know that a heart that wants something may fashion it from air
Though nothing ever really was there
Hoping someday that never will turn into forever
Hoping someday that never will come.
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12. |
It's Like That Time
04:20
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It's like that time when we went a week underwater
Do you remember that?
I'd send you a message by touching your face
Then you'd reply in bubble patterns
It's like that time when made all the sweet milk go sour
Do you remember that?
Remember those pursed lips?
The shudders and sighs?
We used to get up to all sorts of trouble
Now I can't tell the walls from my brother
It's like that time when we reminisced for hours
Do you remember that?
I think of it fondly every so often
And picture us then
We used to reminisce
I don't recall just what we looked like
Now I can't tell the floor from my sister
Now I can't tell myself from any of you
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The End Tree Vancouver, British Columbia
Songs for strange and beautiful margins; intense, absurd, soft, playful, intricate.
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