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Good World
03:35
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It is a good world, now I know it is a good world
I'm an old garnet, be a new pearl
I'll be a good boy, be a good girl
Just be a remnant of the day
Be a quick heartbeat away
And make gold from lead astray because you know it is a
good world
When the crow sings
We'll pray, "Oh Goddess"
Offer the night
Up to the moonlight
When you grow wings
You'll be my Empress
And you and I
Will take to the sky
I am now as honest as the Star
You don't know how unfortunate you are
But I know and I will show you and when you see you will
know
It is a good world and I know it is a good world
I'm an old garnet, be a new pearl
I'll be a good boy, be a good girl
Just be a remnant of the day
Be a quick heartbeat away
And make gold from lead astray because we know it is a
good world
The forest calls
The path is buried
Still foot hits earth
We measure their worth
When woman falls
Man will be carried
And something new
Will prove to be true
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Bridge Over Nothing
02:21
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Building a bridge over nothing
Connecting nowhere to nowhere
If I ever know where wherever is
I'll go there
You will look hard at our lives
And see that not all things must pass
A snake in the hand is worth two in the grass
Not bitten, not shy
Skinning the truth with the knife of your eye
Digging a tunnel through the bullshit
To join forever with forever
Whatever the piper wants
Is clever
You will look hard at our lives
And see that not all things must pass
A snake in the hand is worth two in the grass
Not bitten, not shy
Skinning the truth with the knife of your eye
Foot on earth
Immaculate birth
Forgive me for carrying on
Show the moon
You know it's too soon
By then all of us will be gone
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The Creeping Heart
04:12
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Water and the air and the earth make a tree
Magic and a mind and the fire make me
I know what I am, so just don't be afraid
And come and lay with me in this bed we've made
Don't be so sure, you know, we've been wrong all along
I'll speak with Her, in truth, She’ll bring us everything
Will She decline to fulfill
All I truly will?
She'd never do such a thing
I'm promised a diamond ring
My golden angel on the wing
Do I give my heart to Her?
He found you and he's not gonna ever let go
In his crown and his root, as above so below
Give a ghost an inch and you're fucked, fucked, fucked
With your hair all a mess and your shirt untucked
Don't be so sure, you know, we've been wrong all along
I'll speak with Her, in truth, She’ll bring us everything
Will She decline to fulfill
All I truly will?
She'd never do such a thing
I'm promised a diamond ring
My golden angel on the wing
Do I give my heart to Her?
Just go back to sleep
Allow this heart to creep
Nothing here to see
No one here but me
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Hesitation and Haste
03:10
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Let it all go to waste
Take your fate like a sculpture, for now
Hesitation and haste
It's as loose as your arms would allow
Lost in a haze of ethereal intoxicants
Counting the days before you return to relevance
Throw up hands, follow suit
Make your choice just as if you had none
From your crown to your root
Dig deep into what Goddess has done
Dirt under nails and air retreating with your words
Down water scales so shadow may invite the birds
So I will wait for you my little consequence
I'll fall not by my greed but by my arrogance
There is so much more than I can know
Seeing when and why to go
So seed do not sow
Let future die in peace of a natural cause
Tell me a lie to explain the internal laws
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5. |
Too Beautiful
02:15
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Well I was alone
Choking on my doubt
Turned these hands to stone
But nothing came about
Then I found myself
Having fortune's favor
What I couldn't have hoped for
You were there with me
We made out like bandits
So unlike how I'd planned it
You're too beautiful for this ugly world
Now it’s tomorrow
Now there's more than enough
Something I’d never dreamed of
You're too beautiful for this ugly world
Well I was alone
Choking on my doubt
Turned these hands to stone
But nothing came about
I didn't know what I was capable of
Or how far I would go until we were in love
You're too beautiful for this ugly world
You're too beautiful for this ugly world
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6. |
Love Me There
03:01
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Praying hands
Left and right
But unaware
Open up
In the night
And love me there
Goddess keeps saying
"Be careful what you wish for."
Empty me
Into fire
Be so sincere
Show yourself
Rising higher
Appear up here
Goddess keeps saying
"Be careful what you wish for."
Please, release
What you hold
I know you care
I will do
As I’m told
Just love me there
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7. |
Anymore
02:38
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Well, I don’t
No, I don’t
I don’t get sad
Anymore
Well, I don’t
No, I don’t
I don’t get mad
Anymore
One of these days
I’m gonna fix up my back
And fix up my head
Then I won’t
No, I won’t
I won’t feel bad
Anymore
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8. |
Really
02:26
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You may have heard me say, "I love you"
When we were passing out somewhere
Reaching for skin that wasn't there
Oh, baby, no, I really don't love you
You might have seen me looking at you
When we were both in the same place
It's just the angles of your face
Oh, darling, no, I really don't love you
It took me so long to take control of my body and so
Now I know what I know
I've got a grip on letting go
Oh, honey, no, I really don't love you
You could know of me speaking of you
To some of our mutual friends
Well sometimes everyone pretends
Oh, sugar, no, I really don't love you
It took me so long to take control of my body and so
Now I know what I know
I've got a grip on letting go
Oh, honey, no, I really don't love you
You may have heard me say, "I love you"
When we were passing out somewhere
Reaching for skin that wasn't there
Oh, baby, no, I really don't love you
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Time Slayer
03:50
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I spent a lot of time
Asking you to save me
I used to toss all night long
Now I sleep like a baby
Open it up and stir it up
And put yourself to the question
Swallow it down and keep it down
And follow your finger’s suggestion
I spent a lot of time
Bothered by the weather
I used to be so heavy
Now I’m light as a feather
Figure it out and hold it out
And break a most heartfelt promise
Settle it in and break it in
And trade self-respect for service
I spent a lot of time
Hanging in the darkness
I used to be all chained up
Now I’m Free like Charles is
You will discover that in the center of your brain there’s a diamond
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Hearts
02:32
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Love ain’t nothing but an hallucination
The labor isn’t worth the communication
Talking to mirages won’t get you there
Well, if you can’t get it all, well, just get your share
My tongue can kill my heart
Love ain’t nothing but a fleeting illusion
Try it and you’ll come to the same conclusion
People are like water you just cannot hold
Give me something solid, be it hot or cold
My skin can kill my heart
Well, all it’ll take is a little self-control
You don’t have to be alone
But you don’t need no rabbit hole
You don’t have to sell your soul
Love ain’t nothing but bad medication
To fool your ears and fingers into changing the
station
‘Cause if you let it go, you know you are still sick
There’s a lot that the flutter of a heart can’t fix
My brain can kill my heart
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11. |
What Will I Do?
02:48
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With a handful of pity and a dozen roses
We were behind the building, I was under hypnosis
The sun never goes down on diligent lovers
Before we fell asleep you were stealing the covers
Oh, what will I do without you?
The Goddess gave us her instructions in Spanish
With me looking harder and you trying to vanish
You did what she said in the shadow around us
We were both disappearing by the time she found us
Oh, what will I do without you?
By the time I reached you I knew what I wanted
I’d grown tired of living in a house that was haunted
I’d seen even respect turn into resentment
And traded an old beat up soul for contentment
Oh, what will I do without you?
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Undead Ends
02:18
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I was en route to go push up some flowers
When pretty little you caught my eye
Then hope revealed the thing under its mask
And I kissed all my demons goodbye
So tell me it all will be beautiful
Show me the back of your hand
Make me sorry I doubted love
Make sure I understand
Baby
I was just about to turn off the lights
When I saw a little truth walking by
But the ground she was walking on turned into fire
And my truth, she turned into a lie
But tell me it all will be beautiful
Show me the back of your hand
Make me sorry I doubted love
Make sure I understand
Baby
Silent footsteps
No tracks in the snow
To undead ends
No way back to go
I was on my way into the great abyss
When pretty little you turned my head
But now you have turned me into a living corpse
And I’d much rather just be dead
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13. |
It'll Be Fine
02:32
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She told it the truth
And it cried
Control of itself was denied
Its little heart broke
In a puff of smoke
It was over and done but it tried
It's okay
Eventually
It'll be happy
And its teeth will shine
Someday
Before she knows it
She will be sorry
And it'll be fine
She gave it some space
It believed
That there was more than it perceived
It was brought back to earth
In a quick still-birth
Nothing was dead but it grieved
Give her some time and it won't have mattered
And she won't know why but she won't care
No, she wouldn't dare
She told it the truth
And it cried
But it’s alright
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