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sometimes you ask me where do I go
and I tell you baby I just don't know
but the truth is
that I'm a million miles from home.
and in the kitchen where I'm drifting off
our family picture hangs on the wall
and laughter of children
echoes from down the hall
I held my sons when they were born
soon I won't hold them any more
and it would kill me
to see us drift apart
I'd like to kiss you like our first time
get carried away, and close the blinds
but I just can't get
imagined futures off my mind
and the source of your life
is tangled up inside
the winding ribbon of time
you're moving forward
but looking back
you can't perceive
what any of this means
so hold still
cause right now
is everything
see revolutions around the world
cruel dictators being overthrown
but we're too distracted
for insurrections of our own
and all this self help adds to the mess
internet courses on mindfulness
you won't believe these
ten new ways to feel content
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Preachers of Morality
02:13
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hey now kid,
they’re gonna try and make you
just as sad as they are
hey now kid,
they won’t stop accusing
‘til you’re all but dead and useless
it’s too easy to get confused
make things more complicated than they really are
we all forget the simple truth
that you can’t see the stars
when you’re standing underneath the streetlights
it seems easier,
to live by man made rules
than to live by the spirit
so they’re gonna baptize you
push your little head under the water
speak the old religious words
tell you that you’ve been made new
they’ve got everything you need but the fire that never dies away
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I Remember That Night
02:40
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I remember that night
when we sat on the curb
and all our friends talked about us inside
and we spoke in uncertain terms
about the way
we thought our lives could go
I was afraid to say it then
but this is how i dreamed that things would be
and every day my love for you grows truer
filling this heart that is bursting at the seams
I remember that day
when we stood on those steps
and all our friends watched us and smiled
and we spoke in such certain terms
about the way
our love would never die
I was afraid to dream it then
but this is how we said that things would be
and every day my love for you grows bigger
filling this heart that is bursting at the seams
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4. |
A River Running Red
03:13
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I put beauty on you
like it’s the thing you never had before
like a blanket on a rose bush
my words are caught
frayed on your thorns
which with the wind
are tearing me apart
you’re tearing me apart
when I see you in my dreams
one of us is bleeding
you are a river running red
you are a river running silver
you are dividing me
the sword in your mouth
cutting marrow from bone
spirit from soul
do I divide you, too
and pit your mercy against you
am I some kind of conflict
or are you past my comprehension
when I see you in my dreams
one of us is bleeding
you are a river running red
you are a river running silver
I am a river dry and dead
I am a river running over
a grave
the hollow of a hidden life
a city full of roses
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December
03:13
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December always came so slowly
I remember this time last year
when I couldn’t kiss you on your mouth
But now I kiss you every evening
and you sleep beside me in this room we share
and the autumn’s flying by outside our window
can you hold the room
I am reeling
I am reeling
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