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CHORUS (spoken)
The breaking glass of lovelight; so bright
Left me crying N the rain
Hanging from your heartstrings
A puppet on a chain
Another heartbreak moment again
U said U were a dancer
Danced on MTV
But the flowers on your doorstep
Were not left there by me
The night we spent 2gether
I slept on the floor
When I learned U were a stripper
Stripping on the Jersey Shore
CHORUS
Small talk N the starlight
Dinner on New Year's Eve
U took off just B4 midnite
Your heart filled with deceit
I followed your taxi cab
2 the Jersey shore
I saw everything U did
Through a crack in the stage door
CHORUS
BRIDGE
The 1st time I tried 2 kiss U
I should have known when U turned your cheek
I should have known that very instant
I was 1 of your many freaks
I should have known when we danced a tango
I should have known when U licked my ear
I should have known, I should have...
I tried so hard 2 hate U
Believing it was never real
But there's no way 2 mistake U
Mistake just how I feel
The heart wants what the heart wants
And all I want is U
But the truth is I don't have U
Even though U say I do
CHORUS
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What you come back here for?
Nobody waiting for you on the river shore
We all was glad to see you go
Nobody round here wants to see you no more
so keep on rowing
keep on going
up the charles river
there is no place
around here for you to stay
this land has all been claimed
the streets have all been named
so keep your rudder fixed
on the eastern way
then keep on rowing harder
across the sea
when you reach the boston harbor
so keep on rowing
keep on going
up the charles river
there is no place
around here for you to stay
you came to this country
on another mans name
there was blood on his passport
and you were to blame
one of many victims
you assigned to their deaths
they should have hung you in nuremberg
with hess and the rest
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Frankie was on the bandstand
Polly was in the crowd
The beer was warm on the tables
The music was fast and loud
She held me close till the music stopped
And the walls came tumbling down
The lights had knocked the night aside
And there was nobody else around
The dancers on the dancefloor
Fell like the walls of Jericho
After the dance
I wondered
Where did my partner go
I was standing in line with my sister
The last time I saw Janette
She was selling tickets by the fistful
To some tango-crazed quartet
By the time I got to the window
Where the tickets were being sold
Janette had escaped to the breakroom
Where she was inpregnably enclosed
We had danced with the flowers at the fountain
Where the mountain thyme did grow
After the dance
I wondered
Where did my partner go
Chairs were set up in the ballroom
Where once we came to dance
Today the concerts are seated
They say its the end of romance
But lovers still sit together
arm in arm or holding hands
Until the show is over
And there's silence in the land
and one by one we disappear
from each attended row
After the last
performance
Where did our partners go
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in the sea in the sea
sisters break my bubble
freeing me freeing me
calling down the trouble
out pop my legs
out pop my arms
off go my father's
water alarms
evil in the wave
pulls me back as i go forth
undercurrents are re-magnetized
north to south now south to north
i wont be bended back
now that ive made my resolution
to lead my sisters forward
in our ponyo evolution
my true love saw his true love's face
reflected in the sea
i saw my love from a pail of sand
and embraced mortality
when the creatures of the sea
walk with the creatures of the land
life itself will take a leap
that few will understand
to the land to the land
sisters follow, follow
tideswept fish today, give way
to a sturdier tomorrow
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the plague broke out in florence
they put you on the road to rome
you fell sick in sienna
and were embedded there alone
till the inquisition found you
tried to force you from your bed
called you a malingerer
threatened you with arrest
when old threads are separated
the weaving will begin
i see a new day coming
i feel the turning wind
Dont mention Copernicus
Never, dont do it
They questioned you a hundred times
Will you ever get through it?
Why wont the pope let you go home
Dont tell me he hasnt the clout
You are no enemy of the church
There must be some way out
when old threads are separated
the weaving will begin
i see a new day coming
i feel the turning wind
Did you write everything in this book?
The inquisition asked
Every word of it, you answered,
That was my task
but you cannot defend it
as it goes against scripture
but we shall allow you to discuss it
As you would any picture
when old threads are separated
the weaving will begin
i see a new day coming
i feel the turning wind
why sacrifice yourself
when they wont accept the proof
that the sun is stationary
and the earth moves
defend your intentions
make your amends
make a plea for mercy
put it all to an end
when old threads are separated
the weaving will begin
i see a new day coming
i feel the turning wind
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from the slushing warmth of the womb
we burst into an empty frame
for each unsettled picture
we settle on a name
mama first and then comes daddy
taste and touch, sight and sound
the difference between soup and candy
the sky is up the ground is down
we find the places for the pieces
and the puzzle grows
a seed, a stem, a leaf,a thorn
and finally a rose
and if growing up
is a jigsaw
in which we are immersed
getting old
is like doing
a jigsaw puzzle in reverse
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We were lovers without lovin
Prisoners of our senses
Our bodies interlocked
Inside passionate defenses
We shut out reality
Denied the things we could not see
Uniting the lives of you and me
Leaving us senseless
I came in through the servant's entrance
And saw you shucking corn
Reminded me of my old mamie
Who was there on the day i was born
There is no greater delusion
Than a belief in love at first sight
It can dull the shades of darkness
With its web of faded light
Well, yeah, you slunk in through the back door
Looked like you'd seen a ghost
Like I needed some new master
Like the least would get the most
There's no bigger decision
Than to give myself as wife
It could lessen the lonesome
'less it ruins my whole life
We were lovers without lovin
Prisoners of our senses
Our bodies interlocked
Inside passionate defenses
We shut out reality
Denied the things we could not see
Uniting the lives of you and me
Leaving us senseless
you talk about a ruined life
while my life lays in ruins
some day ill get the guts to leave
and ill live again amongst the humans
there are some kinds of loving
from which there's no road to repentence
marriage is more than just a word
with you it is a sentence
Don’t kid yourself you’ll never go
You’re too attached to moanin’
You eat my bread and drink me dry
You’ll never leave off groanin’
Some day I will be shed of you
Though when is hard to tell
If I thought you’d get to heaven
I’d send myself to hell
Well... lovers without lovin
And prisoners of our senses
Our bodies interlocked
Inside passionate defenses
We shut out reality
Denied the things we could not see
Uniting the lives of you and me
Leaving us senseless
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V1
Traveling through my memories
Doesnt take too long.
It’s about as far to yesterday
As it is to days long gone
Every moment of my life
I have got filed away
And to get back there all i have to do
Is remember the day
Chorus
And when i see you I see many faces…
Superimposed
I see your childlike innocence
And wrinkles as you got old
I see you when you loved me
And when you loved me not
I see everything I remember
And some things I forgot
V2
When I see your sister
See how badly she has aged
but when I look at you
In many ways you look the same
This is not flattery
It's just an optical mistake.
All these images of you
Combine into one lovely face
repeat chorus
Bridge
Oh so many people
Leave behind no memories
So when you run into an old aquaintance
Dont be surprised at what you see
There is no hint of youth
No vitality remains
She is just another person
You cant even recall her name
repeat chorus
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I’m a singer, not a scenester
Do my show, then go to bed
Got another show tomorrow
Gotta keep a clear, cool head
Just a singer on the bandstand
Working hard and living clean
I’m a singer, not a scenester
Don’t have time to make that scene
I was never goth
I was never glam
I was never punk
That’s not who I am
But, I can sing country
Or an Irish air
Or popular standards
At a county fair
I’m a singer, not a scenester
Do my show, then go to bed
Got another show tomorrow
Gotta keep a clear, cool head
Just a singer on the bandstand
Working hard and living clean
I’m a singer, not a scenester
Don’t have time to make that scene
I always sing sober
Don’t need drugs or booze
Be it, rockabilly
Or rhythm ‘n blues
And if the crowd gets restless
And I sense red mist
I’ll get an upbeat chant going
And raise a right on fist
I’m a singer, not a scenester
Do my show, then go to bed
I’ve got another show tomorrow
Gotta keep a clear, cool head
Just a singer on the bandstand
Working hard and living clean
I’m a singer, not a scenester
Don’t have time to make that scene
I’ll play your wedding
Your shindig or show
Any celebration…
I’m good to go
I’m a singer, not a scenester
Do my show, then go to bed
Got another show tomorrow
Gotta keep a clear, cool head
Just a singer on the bandstand
Working hard and living clean
I’m a singer, not a scenester
Don’t have time to make the scene
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aladin
what can i do
of you dont believe
wishes come true?
who are these people in your dream?
some are shadows from the past
others you have never seen
what do they want with your life now
aladin
so dark and so damp
why did you trouble
with my lamp
conducting a sonata
you dont remember composing
the orchestra expertly led
by a seed you were sowing
perhaps they are real
these people you're sighting
or maybe they come
from a song you are writing
aladin
i thought you had known
wishes and dreams
are not yours alone
though they live or die
by the stroke of your hand
reality falls
like the rain into sand
prisoners of the earth
prisoners of the sky
for every truth that rises
will fall a thousand lies
aladin,
you set me free
be careful
with your wishes three
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verse one
Sometimes at night
When I'm afraid
And cannot fall to sleep
I turn on my radio
And try to find
Some peace
But rock and roll
keeps me awake
And new age
Leave me bored
The only comfort
To be found
Is the lullaby of the Lord
chorus
Lullaby of the Lord
Lullaby of the Lord
Cuts a swath for me to Heaven
Like a terrible swift sword
verse two
Anxieties
Of life and death
I toss and turn all night
No sleeping pills or nightcaps
Alleviates
My fright
No bad tv
Or counting sheep
Or worlds left unexplored
Will strengthen my soul
And make me whole
Like the lullaby of the Lord
Chorus: Lullaby of the Lord, Lullaby of the Lord
Cuts a swath for me to Heaven
Like a terrible swift sword
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released September 23, 2023
