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Notre Dame Still Stands
06:38
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Tell it to the Muslims
Tell it to the Jews
Tell em that their mosques and synagogues
Got nothing to do with their religion
They told it to the Christians
Whiletheir cathedral burned
The loss of 3 million tourists a year
Was their only concern
They said its not about religion
Its our common history
Russia China and the <united States
Are the New World Trinity
These are not houses of the holy
But holy markers of time
Filled with false idols of worship
With the blood turning back into wine
I posed in front of the tower
The picture caught me in a yawn
But Ill always treasure the picture}
Of the burning of Notre Dame
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Blue Dogs Dont Bite
02:10
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Secrets In Her Eyes
02:34
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You can make em jump
You can make em scream
You can make em do
Most anything
But all that doing
Leads to nothing at all
You are one jump ahead
Of a fatal fall
Break a window
Escape with the prize
but you will never penetrate
The secrets in her eyes
Sit down at the table
Before the last one leaves
You can take the pot
With the cards up your sleeve
But your full house
Is made of sand
You will never lleave town
With a dead mans hand
You can pump the mound
Until shes paralyzed
but you will never see
The secrets in hr eys
The secrets in her eyes
Are nt for you to know
To you a naked woman
Is nothing more
Than a burlesque show
You can have any girl
in this pick up bar
But nothing you can do
Will even leave a scar
In the final hour
When the truth breaks through
No one will remember
A thing about you
Love was nothing
But an exercise
You never bothered to look
For the secrets in her eyes
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4. |
Landsdowne Street
03:51
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theres always a party in allston
a nightengale sang in kenmore square
now aint that just the gospel truth
i believe beccause i was there
but that party ended
in a blast of summer heat
someone tells me that party is still gong on
its been moved to a club on landsdowne street
landsdowne street landsdowne street
when her boyfriend went down in the hyrricane
she went silent inside a shout
now she dances naked on the factory floor
because thats what shes all about
is she running from ghosts
or only people in sheets
shes a witch its true but so beautiful
beneath the lights on landsdowne street
landsdowne street landsdowne street
the tourist season has come and gone
then stops and comes no more
in days when main street was painted white
me and karen black fell through the cutting room floor
the stairs are gone that led up to
the cafe where we ued to eat
i wonder if anything is cooking tonight on landsdowne street
landsdowne street landsdowne street
the city ouncil is digging tunnels in seattle
and closing the surface roads
hollywood is burning
thats it for the movie shows
waters coming in to the basementt
where the sailors and mermaids meet
i wonderif there is still a happy hour
with ten cent dogs and dollar drinks on landsdowne street
landsdowne street landsdowne street
what are these people doing
in the room where mama ket her books
the catter goes on al night long
and the kitchen is full of cooks
silence falls across the halls
leaving oisture on th seats
i wonder if the doors have all been slammed shut
to the clubs on landsdowne street
landsdowne street landsdowne street
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Miss Ives
03:18
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Miss Ives
Had she married
she would no longer have been Miss Ives
So she stayed single
Through all her lives
I mentioned a book
I wanted to read
She put it on
Reserve for me
Bit i ddnt really want to read it
I only wanted to see it
So she showed it to me
I didnt kave the time to look
There was some place I had to be
but when I got there
I found I didnt have to be there at all
In the morning I found a hundred dollar bill
In my sports coat
It was signed by Miss Ives
Who had stayed single all her lives
If she hadnt
She wouldnt be Miss Ives
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BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.
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