1. |
Air Traffic
02:47
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air traffic control
i'm coming down
was waiting on your word
flying round and round
this may not be
the best timing
but the heavens are full
and i need the ground
air traffic control
if you were in my place
if you could feel my wings
you too would fall from grace
so blessings or not
i'm coming down
the heavens are full
and i need the ground
take off your oxygen masks
and your life jackets please
there'll be only pain
if you survive the seas
kiss your neighbor goodbye
let go of your seats
let go of your seats
empty promises
false words that you said
come tumbling down
from bins overhead
limbs broken and scarred
hearts opened and marred
to find who we are
they'll dismember our bones
and take us apart
take us apart
take us apart
take us apart
let go of your seats
let go of your seats
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2. |
Your Moon
02:46
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lo the green acre
your father passed along to you
and how my bones shake dear
to think of how we used to use it
yet nothin' i say
is gonna change your mind
pasting my pebbles to your moon
darling my darling i don't know what to do
running on
running on
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3. |
Boys
02:25
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they are young a beautiful
and everything is clean
and the leaves at night don't rustle
with the passing of a dream
so hand me back that gun i've got a bone
to pick with each and every one of them
hand me back that gun i've gotta show them
oh boy you better hold fast to your claim
it's based upon your father's father's father's father's father's attitude
oh boy it's your favorite shade of grey
just because your father's father's father said it doesn't make it true
that we are the weaker fairer sex
and we devalue upon opening our legs
they are young and beautiful
and everything is clean
and the leaves at night don't rustle
with the passing of a dream
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4. |
Go Slow
03:30
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go slow
bones are shaking
all the old folks breaking up
the new molds
holmes you're older
and i don't give a shit
about the skin
on your teeth
hold me till the sun
goes down on you
i said hold me till the sun
goes down on you
cause it will follow, the night
onwards to the night
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5. |
The Magician's Wife
03:34
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reachin' for your arms again
i find you at the pavement's end
their curves as i'd remembered them
a daisy coyly hidden in your sleeve
but you'll not trick me
this time with your handkerchief
my dear
for i am
the magician's wife
and to be fooled
is my lot in life
mumblin' incantations in my hand
draw the curtain closed and be my man
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6. |
Waltz For My Victims
02:47
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i'll give you silence
in the wake of the beast
allow you to ponder
these weapons i weep
in the end its for nothing
or so i'd like to think
as i'm waving my daggers
and torches and all-around unhappy things
and it's a shame it's a pity
that my wires are crossed
that i blame you but can't quite condemn you
and want you for it ever more
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7. |
Stella
03:14
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stella's slinking down the sidewalk
the bad boys say they're gonna bring her back
some day
better run fast now
better make your great escape
on and on and on they whisper
spiraling hope and spitting answers dear
but like your tongue tied mothers
and your paper plane fathers
they will throw hearts away
stella's slinkin' down the sidewalk
the bad girls say she better figure out her place
better run fast now
better make your great escape
pushing the pencils
for grey hairing men
that will smile at her kindly
but never consider her their own
does she remember her mother
or forget where she came from
the smell of his belt
or the taste of his fist on her skin
lean lean lean lean lean lean
lean lean lean lean lean lean
on me
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8. |
Miss Molly
02:12
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don't be alarmed miss molly
i was just wondering
if you'd be coming back
or if you'd keep on suffering
cause see it's you whose word
their eager ears are hanging on
and see it's you whose lips
they set their lonesome hearts upon
don't be alarmed miss molly
heads may turn but that's alright
they cannot know that in your breast
their grows an appetite
they cannot know that you would
easily cast them all aside
they cannot know that in your wake
a crouching tiger lies
and you would turn them all away
yes you would turn them all away from you
oh you would turn them all away
what will appease you
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9. |
The Bad Guys
04:13
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I was sneakin'
into your garden late at night
to see if the sapling
that i had planted caught the blight
that all of the maples
in all the neighborhoods nearby
had quietly succumbed to
on the backdrop of the pale moonlight
and while I was sneakin'
into your garden late at night
it caught my attention
in the silhouetted dim lamplight
that you were kissin
somebody who was kissin back
and it was not my reflection
though I felt your lips upon my neck
and i'm alone alone
but rooted here with a leaf caught in my throat
it's a fine line darling
between what's wrong and what is right
and sometimes the bad guys
have not got evil plans in mind
yes most times the bad guys
are fellas just like you and i
who didn't have their wits about them
when the storm came rumblin at them
did you now
alone alone
but rooted here with a leaf caught in my throat
yes i'm alone alone
but rooted here with a leaf caught in my throat
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10. |
When This Mountain
04:15
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you come in sailboats that float on tears
made of hope and drawn from fear
you sail away till destiny
calls you to her slender knee
caught on sails of distant lies
comes the wind of better times
but upon the parting of this sea
you find there really was no need
fall in a little closer darling
as far from the earth as it may seem
together we'll make a softer landing
so into this bottomless ravine
we go, because
there's really nothing you can do
when this mountain crumbles for you
crumbles for you
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