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waitin' for a horse
and it's blue rider'
followed you that night
you tasted lucky
we staggered blessed
your scars they,... matched, my dress
never mind,
the happy ending
Maybeline eyes
and trampolines
old tattoos
burned, in their parlors
Christmas lights and mangers
spook you cold
Lazarus Heart, Lazarus Heart, Lazarus Heart
we forget,
we risk,
we're tired,
we're true
veils and whispers
rivers of ether
cigarettes and perfume
...a single gunshot,
to the foot
we staggered blessed
your scars they.... matched... my dress
Lazarus Heart, Lazarus Heart, Lazarus Heart
ready to drift
flat out forget
pull up and quit
look past the shit
we go nowhere
..we just get smaller, in the distance
said you wanna' see
what I look like inside
drew a hangman on a napkin
and you started laughin'
don't take prophets to see
this world will need
it's sorry chances
Lazarus Heart, Lazarus Heart, Lazarus Heart
Were you drownin'
or just wavin' ?
as you pulled away
pulled away
Home is the one thing
that winds us in wire
Home is the one thing
you can't face alone
..If the glow of the ember
helps you to remember
don't let them go
don't let em' go
So many stars and still we starve
Don't you tire of this hunger?
Of the spirit... that you've spent
It's a wasted road, we wander
when only one love
is radiant
Radiant skin
touch me again
love will not kill you
but wisdom sure will
last night I saw the ghosts
jumpin' ... from the train
chased em' as they walked away
asked em', if they knew your name
where only our... love... is radiant
where only our... love... is radiant
past the cities edge
where the horizon dips
and all the strip mall hookers
show promotion clips
and Life: The Movie
portrays us working stiffs
aaah.... as wastrels on
watch ourselves again
on some wasted trip
givin' up on love
just for the fuck of it
oh life: the movie,
so easy to forget
the angels and aliens, are restless,
ain't gonna' stay
they're countin' down the days
till they leave us alone
can't see them anyway
electric colors, cut a swath
but leave no trace
why do we advertise,
that we have lost this race?
if we were proud, we'd hide
but since we've lost
watch ourselves again
let's call the whole thing off
life: the movie ends
when the villain says
that he will apprehend
but then rides off instead
let us drown in peace
life: the movie, showin'
six and one-half days a week
life: the movie endin'
when they kick us hard
to make sure we're dead
and not just dreamin'
the truth of our lies
the thrill of our wrongs
are these the last things on earth,
that still turn us on?
and in a flash
we'll feel the crash
don't forget to breathe
don't forget to laugh
look beyond
watch ourselves again
Life: The Movie's on
in every single town
Life: The Movie plays
til we finally beg
let us bleed all day
the last hurrah
a forecast of our times
I refuse to fall
you'll choose t' just go blind
when Life: The Movie plays
I'll turn away..... I'll put out my eyes
and in the taxi home
you lost your phone
but you say, you're better off without it
I never lose, my temper anymore
but I know just where to find it
there are moments of grace
in the heat of the chase
more heat than light
a freeway overpass, in the fog
the future catches, up with us quickly
and though the sky is what I... wish I saw
I'll settle for your memory
crippled pigeons
earthquake stores
gypsies point you to the door
terra cotta traces
I remember all the towns
but not the faces
there are moments of grace
in the heat of the chase
more heat than light
tremblin' hands
tremblin' knees
the shiverin' of souls
the surrenderin' of greed
your friends all told me, that you
knew what you were doin'
silk or cedar
ivory of bone
not a single kiss is worth a stone
unless we say it is
unless we pray it is
come on, and say it is
|: more heat than light :|
there's a love
that will cut'us in two
first we're wild
and then we drink
but there's a comfort in our sadness
wisdom in our wrongs
a music to our madness
silent songs
we lose for our own good
we break the best
when nothin's left
makin' out with Judas
just to make your bail
we do shit like that
jus' before we crack
but there's splendor in the cracks
and gold in the darkest blue
I dreamed you're comin' back
I dreamed I'd wait for you
but I'm gettin' tired of dreamin'
Fallen Down Moon
if everything goes wrong
so what
Fallen Down Moon ...
we built a lot of things you know
and still they glow
We lose for our own good....we break the best when nothin's left
Lost my way
right from the start
but I see it in the dark
I see it in the dark
every lick and every lie
every bliss, and every good bye
I see it in the dark
I see it in the dark
Finally time
to go out dancin'
...pull the blue suit
from the bag
the one you bought
for my husband's funeral
in hopes he would
up and die
in a clutch or in a bind
at times I, still can... find the time
to see it in the dark
I see it in the dark
my hopes are wicked... my tears are blind
at times I still can...find the time
to chase the spark... feel the charge
it's going dim... it's nearly gone
Can you see it in the dark?
I see it in the dark
I see it in the dark....see it....see it
I see it in the dark....see it....see it
oh, busy body
let's take it back upstairs
to a room that disappears
Intoxicatin'
the glint, the gleam
headlights through the window
shadowin' the dream
lest we forget
where these shadows met
lest we forget
where these shadows met
greedy angel
reflectin' green n' red
hovers on the sill
steals sheets off the bed
intoxicatin'
stumble back downstairs
stretch for the sparkle
fallin', from your hair
lest we forget
where these shadows met
lest we forget
where these shadows met
run for your life....run baby run
faith... and faithful
grace... and grateful
the wind at Winslow Place
reached all the rooms
the wind at Winslow Place
reached all the rooms
don't ya' know
there is hope
braided in the rope
drag your fear
to the clear
I'll take it for my own
don't call
just show
don't bend my ear
don't want to know
caress
don't confess it
murder time
don't possess it
reach down
surrender
you were my sad
reckless driver
the wind at Winslow Place
reached all the rooms
the wind at Winslow Place
raced after you
the swallows
pause
then streak
n' turn
then fade into the North
guide wires
suspend them
not from heaven
not from earth
I know they'll be returnin'
and I guess I know you won't
when you first came home
there were seashells in your eyes
we took things real slow
but now, you've bought their bill of goods
it's the same old shit
'cept the end is quick
you seem to love it on your lips
if you could just stand up
we'd rise forever
Cul-de-sac
better watch your back
my heart's a dead-end
all memory is cursed
the river use to freeze
we walked on thick ice
and rememberin' is worse
I've lived to save the dead
and not the livin'
Cul-de-sac
better watch your back
my heart's a dead-end
flint n' bone n' tin
ya' started stut-te-rin' again
knife prayers n' blistered nerves
the last words that you heard
as you loosened from the world
can I get a witness?
climb me up
if you need some bones
on which to climb
climb me tall
I don't believe, your love of nothin'
climb me still
I won't wander
you will whistle
throw your sullen wings away
honesty is violence
that you took too far, and
I loved you, from the first night
we both got fucked up, in my car
climb me up if you need some bones
on which to climb
climb me tall
don't believe, your love of nothin'
climb me still
I won't wander
you will whistle
throw your sullen wings away
for good
throw your sullen wings away
tryin' to capture every sound
my microphone
hangs out, the back seat window
and what I don't succeed
in capturin'
turns weightless and indifferent
Lord, I've become a stranger.... in my old haunts
blips and bleeps
and siren squalls
this town it just gets richer
and it's teeth get clenched
and I am just a statue
of a long lost fearless age
our maladies
our strategies
this microphone
my wanderin's aside
Lord, I've become a stranger.... in my old haunts
hello desire'
and what your spooky name
implies
in you, I found my silk
and swagger,
the calm before the prize
and though I,
once was warned
you'd be the grave in which I'd lie
with you, I was no stranger.... in my old haunts
someday I'll hit the turnpike
speed past a truck stop
burnin'
it'll streak my rearview mirror
it'll fade, a lonely flicker
and I'll listen to these tapes I've made
my symphony of phantoms
Lord, I've ended up a stranger, in my old haunts
I've become a stranger.... in my old haunts
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