1. |
Mad Maps
04:28
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scale my mind like the weights on your time
then let pleasure take a sign
that we're all doing fine
as a forest
when winter flowers wind towards the clouds
sinking slowly she saw so loud
all the noises about happy children in
the freezing cold they don't know how old
they'll be before they lose their minds
don't you take
the words i say
out my mouth and turn them out
to speak my end into my toes
i walk through the cold
and yes so slow
but i know what the waitings for
love me now or let me go
'cause i'm heading north
tell me boy who's the hero this time?
when sane lost a war to his own damn spine
lost in water, lost in glow
of the city's throat
and through its teeth we saw the sky
you take what's yours and i'll take mine
'till we see it in
the people who
sell us the truth when we're losing it too
we're not angry, no
but care enough to see which half is them telling us it's not us
oh i must
don't you take
the words i say
out my mouth and turn them out
to speak my end into my toes
i walk through the cold
and yes so slow
but i know what the waitings for
love me now or let me go
'cause i'm heading north
these are mad maps
do tell me the facts
of where i went when i was lonely
and to the fall i say
be all you can be
before winter kills the trees
mad maps when her face has changed
and the look in her eyes means it's been raining for days
mad maps and i'm so tired
of knowing myself before i know the fire
don't you take
the words i say
out my mouth and turn them out
to speak my end into my toes
i walk through the cold
and yes so slow
but i know what the waitings for
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2. |
Don't Always
03:42
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we were wearing different clothes
i haven't the knowledge yet i'm told
far away, far away
and it stings to see you cry
a mechanical rose seize your eyes
in may, in may
walking too fast in the months that have passed
you crossed cherry road, driving slow to the last
eating the sunshine away, i never to you could say
don't always
i can hear it played
in my head, in between
the colors she's seen
it was burnt like paper red
call the cuban lights to spread
far away, far away
not a country nor a gun
steal your heart to know the hurt
feel away, feel away
don't always
i can hear it played
in my head, in between
the colors she's seen
don't always
i can hear it played
in my head, in between
the colors we dream
don't always
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3. |
Cemetery Girl
03:10
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now rises the burning sun
she's burning my eyelids i begin to run
back to the night at the park where we'd meet
drive up to nowhere going by my feet
she's a cemetery girl
quiet as winter snow
she touched my soul
losing control
she's a city city love
down in a sky of tears
waking up my dear
just let me know
now i feel the falling on
just like we did when we were young
you whisper to the night and make appear
submerged in our deepest fears
she's a cemetery girl
quiet as winter snow
she touched my soul
losing control
she's a city city love
down in a sky of tears
waking up my dear
just let me know
you never know what you're gonna find there
you're never know what you're gonna find when
she breaks like a thousand green sparrows
lights the way to the morrow
she breathes like a dead ocean
she sleeps in the sad forests
and travels away when the cold leaves
and travels away with the cold leaves
she's a cemetery girl
quiet as winter snow
she touched my soul
losing control
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4. |
December Rain (*January)
05:27
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if i were to wake up and remember
the way she carried herself in December Rain
simply drove my mind insane
am i doing this right?
i'd ask for your love tonight
if i didn't know
that words are just not for you and i
darling let me stay
you make it all
make it all alright
in the floodlights
drops became stars
and her feet began to move
traded poison for sound
our hands touched on the ground
darling let me stay
you make it all
make it all alright
the emptiness faded by her small paces
the moon not in sight still warm and alive
i knew only that something had changed
i knew only that something had changed
darling let me stay
you make it all
make it all alright
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5. |
Close
05:20
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don't wanna say it
she laughed when i kissed her in the cold
my heart cannot take it
from pages that i never wrote
and i wait just to see her
the one who makes everything beautiful
and i fall asleep beside her
just to wake up from my dream all alone
like a tiny mountain
whose river beside i lay my head
and i remember us like lions
rubbing maines just to feel the other there
as hearts tear to wander
she flew from lands aglow
these days pass like stones, love
stones that i throw
up into the sky where no one wants to go
but i'll keep on searching just to feel you close
it's easier said than
ever letting go
on the sidewalk there's a matchstick
with smoke broken on the road
as hearts tear to wander
she flew from lands aglow
these days pass like stones, love
stones that i throw
up into the sky where no one wants to go
but i'll keep on searching just to feel you close
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sometimes i get tired of waiting on sometimes
blisters on my feet
from walking to where our lungs will meet
she wears it on her sleeve
for me to see
and i can never tell
if it's a valley or i've fell
into just my mind again
just my mind again
oh how calm
when nothing is wrong between you and i
there was nothing better for me
than what tore me to the ground
our souls are water & ivy
it's best we remain unfound
and lost winds, the lost winds will carry us home
she took me by the hand
the roof of oh some other land
and there was no stupid plan
just the night time
and a set of beating hearts
a cave of the empty dark
a street with no cars for a start
oh how calm
when nothing is wrong between you and i
there was nothing better for me
than what tore me to the ground
our souls are water & ivy
it's best we remain unfound
and lost winds, the lost winds will carry us home
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7. |
Not For The i
03:40
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as much as your eyes said i could not move
pressed your hair inside a history book
where i could never be here, as long
as we were caught in space where we won't carry on
with the weight that i carry river to snow
the arms of the mountain cave below
breathing slightly as my slight of hand
by tongues of water even in midnight land
as away
as we can be
as away from what i need
where i go
is where i go too
and i walk where i know
bear the stamp in zoo
never is a word for the far and few
fate staples my veins and cuts my hair in two
i don't believe and how now we've been trained
you should have seen me in my younger days
can't name just about anything
'cause then a part of it's gone and that's just human belief
our flaw
we want it all
and we saw what it was all about
messy is as messy crawl inside my brain
and make a little space yeah never be the same
for yourself and what is not for the i
is just a little not there to see the art say bye
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8. |
Fever Now
04:45
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give me your, give me your fever now
heart it goes heart it goes
to a wayward douse
not just for anyone
the things you'd done were not soon to fade
i saw it once before i died and clear inside the bones i had made
give me your, give me your fever now
heart it grows heart it grows
deforest my thoughts
winter storm, winter storm
can't shake us now
give me your, give me your fever now
press the glass up to my ears
we can empty the morning as our lungs
and lost in sands of summer tongue
the restless won before the spun
give me your, give me your fever now
heart it grows, heart it grows deforest my thoughts
even in your home
where the sound of winter snow is dead
and daisies ring like picking days that i recall into a maze
of your own beating red
she said i've got no time, it's been gone for miles oh
she said take me where we can go someplace not far
not far
give me your, give me your fever now
heart it goes, heart it goes
to a wayward douse
give me your, give me your fever now
heart it grows, heart it grows
deforest my thoughts
winter storm, winter storm
can't shake us now
give me your, give me your fever now
give me your, give me your fever now
heart it goes, heart it goes
to your soul's sound
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9. |
Forest On
04:27
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promise to me
that the lights will be on
when you're snaking away
through the forest on
and the willow speaks
to everyone equally
but he told me your feet were tied together darling
all the times that we were
holding yours and mine were
brought on and on by what
shoes so worn and battered
and your face was tattered
from the noises of
how it felt like time had choked you inside
don't keep what you are hiding from
what was here and now become
you are the only
everything was crashing round and round
water right where it was from
and pulse to say don't go away
i said the grass was all on our paths
for the fog doesn't let anyone see
anything and everything
nothing was how it happened
how now in
the void i stole with
ropes of old, all the mountains wide and far
telephone and car
by flooded gates and waters
robins and the laughter
you spun you spun
dizzy little ripple
don't keep what you are hiding from
what was here and now become
you are the only
everything was crashing round and round
water right where it was from
and pulse to say don't go away
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10. |
Lost Control
03:54
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oh when i saw you out of place
we were trading faces with the stars
they told me
where we needed to go
away from here
she said i don't know
wait there don't say a word
you and i sound absurd
and i can't go away
hold on we're spinning
and i've lost control of you now
so tell me you don't want to go
when we were just sideways
crawling into our own skin
did you know the directions darling?
could you tell i was waiting
all the things you were telling me
oh you're something of a dream
yeah you're something of a dream
don't tell me which way to go
i wanna figure it out
i want you to let me know the way out
the way out of your love
we've been lost in this heart
i can't see the dark
i can't see the light that spins in my own mind
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11. |
Deer In Snow
03:37
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when the traces of your bones led me here
and the tangles in your hair
like branches and fears
that you kept in a box
not for anyone to see
in the cobwebs of your patience
and my drumming feet
that refuse to run
like a deer frozen with fear in the snow too young
and i'll say yes to the ink and blood
that stain my chest when the questions look like birds
flying away, flying away
when the walking starts to walk you right through
a maze you love as much as hate you do
it all comes together, then falls apart
the memories don't make no sense
alone and in the dark whoa
refuse to run
like a deer frozen with fear in the snow too young
and i'll say yes to the ink and blood
that stain my chest when the questions
look like birds
flying away
flying away
so break it all! the clouds and the numbers, the monsters, plants, and feathers your puzzle
break it all! the clouds and the numbers, the monsters, plants, and feathers your puzzle
were never mine to see through
and you're the shifting hues
that refuse to run
like a deer frozen with fear in the snow too young
and i'll say yes to the ink and blood
that stain my chest when the questions look like birds
flying away
flying away
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12. |
Ambrosia Pines
06:08
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enough stuff happens
so i'm not surprised
coincidence fills my life, my life
evil's the other
side of the coin
maybe there's no reason
maybe there's no point
her words battled concrete
like binocular waves
and the current in paragraphs
not written on a page
cause' there something growing
beneath her ribs alone
on empty docks so quiet
where we used to grow
like ambrosia pines
empty bottles of wine
that stained classroom tables
when we were caught at night
not risking the grand sound
our electric knees falling down
at the train station
when she begged me to go
the ghost of emory pond
afraid and lost
we counted each footstep and sank each heavy thought
with hands that talked and shaped each shadow's eye
i learned to come apart soundlessly and how to say goodbye
restless and burning her arms held open wide
as she sank into the earth
from which she couldn't hide
and i know it'd shine so brightly
to seek it in her eyes
but tired from the ivory
she looked towards the sky
the ambrosia pines
the way i felt inside
like no storm was able
to shake this heart of mine
in the current in the daze
in the endless hours of rain
you know i still see you through the red
and through the pain
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