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May We All
04:09
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He went to Hyannis to let go of Alice for the third and final time
I asked him if it worked when he got back, he said he didn’t have the time
the time to tell me anything or the time to let her go
But I guess it wasn’t a good time to press, so I guess I’ll never know, I’ll never know
on the way back looking straight ahead, we were hypnotized by the road
saw the coins on the dashboard truck and decide that they could float
in the air I looked down at the time, and mistook it for the radio
I thought about the little choices we made along and the song played on as if it didn’t know
May we all be forsaken:
Like the soldier trying to leave, the mother trying to sleep
May we all be mistaken:
about our current state, about the current of hate
bleeding on and on and on to sell our soul
Asked me why I was crying, said I stubbed my toe, and I wanted to blame the roots of the trees for pushing up the concrete but now I know
in the air I looked down at the time, and mistook it for the radio
I thought about the little choices we made along and the song played on as if it didn’t know
May we all be forsaken:
like the black man trying to breathe, or the woman that’s never believed
May we all be mistaken:
about our current state, about the current of hate
Bleeding on and on and on and sell our soul
Ask me why I was crying, said I stubbed my toe and I wanted to blame the roots of the trees for pushing up the concrete but now I know
May we all be forsaken:
Like the soldier trying to leave, the mother trying to sleep
May we all be mistaken:
about our current state, about the current of hate
May we all be forsaken:
like the black man trying to breathe, or the woman that’s never believed
May we all be mistaken:
about our current state, about the current of hate
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2. |
All This Time
04:52
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I saw it for a second but then the light was fading
Sister morphine was my lady in waiting
Can I help it if I can’t help it now, all the stories I tell myself
What can I say to you all, it’s fair to say, no words will do
All this time, time is speeding, it’s hard to recognize the life we’re leading
it’s time to trip the light of the evening and go now
And in this land there’s shade and shadow, we break bread and consecrate the battle
cradle to the grave, sword to the saddle, it’s each other we will miss
Oh the happiest moment of my life, was the saddest moment of my life
Was in prison when my daddy died
They didn’t tell me for fear of suicide
Told me when I got outside, I started using as soon as I was alone that night
And I died and I went up straight to him
He said where you been, my troubled son
All this time, time is speeding, hard to recognize the life we’re leaving
it’s time to trip the light of the evening and go now
And in this land there’s shade and shadow, we break bread and consecrate the battle
cradle to the grave, sword to the saddle, it’s each other we will miss
Oh the happiest moment of my life, was the saddest moment of my life
Oh my love can I just sit and hold your face. We finally made it here but now the light is low.
All this time, time is speeding, hard to recognize the life we’re leaving
it’s time to trip the light of the evening and go now
And in this land there’s shade and shadow, we break bread and consecrate the battle
Now I’m feeling kind of faint, I think I need to lay down
Oh you almost saved me
You almost saved me
You almost saved me now
All this time we pledge allegiance to the tune of a thousand treasons
One nation under something, under water, under mass incarceration
In the age of feast and famine can we disrupt the social canon
Let our children lead s’we all believe, let us see the forest for the trees
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3. |
One By One
02:33
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Came of age racing round the Georgia hills
Grew tall and straight around the backwood stills
you could do anything on the court and field, but you preferred getting high on the roof of the motel
One by one all the living that we done, how the days they seemed so long and true
One by one all the whiskey that got drunk, nothing ever felt as good as you
I saw you first from the back of the room
We drank together by the light of the moon
Built a fire and slept when the ground chooses you and wake up with the morning sun
One by one all the living that he done, how the days they seemed so long and true
One by one all the whiskey that got drunk, nothing ever felt as good as you
But can you give us all a sign, I don’t know how to let go or hold tighter still,
remember when you were mine
but now it’s all over, no chance to reconsider, I want to call you in from the outside, I want
to call you in for dinner
but you’re not there, you’re not there, what do I do with the years I have left that don’t belong to you
One by one all the living that he done, how the days they seemed so long and true
One by one i got whiskey i got drum, nothing ever felt as good as you
Let’s get a jump on this, before it’s too late, can we love each other harder before we all fade away, if there’s any way that we can live without you, it’s to live with all the love that you gave
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4. |
As Old As I
02:27
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higher yet my love, the water is rising
up on the counter my love, grab a hold tightly —
don’t you let go my dear, I can’t let you die
Til your old as I, as old as I, old as I
look both ways my dear, don’t trip on your laces
But here you lie shot in your sleep by a bullet gone stray
you gave me your blessing, to keep you alive til ur
old as I, as old as I, as old as I …
I’ll take all your baggage, and I’ll give you mine,
For the passage of the time, for the distance as old as i, as old as I … as old as I
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Down on the courts in Bed Stuy
A legend rose from the streets
Just a poor kid with no use for what the others called gravity
People came from all around to see young connie Hawkins do his thing
When the hawk went up against the best at Rucker park
oh how the choir would sing
High flying kid do you know what you just did
Is It just a dream love, is it just a dream love, steady you go
Hey pa I think I’m gonna make it, I’m going away on a one way ticket
Is it just a dream love, is it just a dream love, steady you go
round here those are always sinking, folks will say connie what were you thinking
He lead the team in Highschool he never once got beat two years in a row
Got a scholarship to Iowa and knew that he had to go
he sent a letter home, to his papa, said papa I’m going to the nba
But then out of nowhere his name got dropped into a scandal, always someone got to pay
I got to got to got to get going now pop, there’s a detective here from the DA
He’s telling me they’ll lock me away, if I don’t say what he wants me to saaaaaaaay
So to all the kids on the back home lots, I swear it isn’t like they say
the investigators pushed me around, and then I was black balled by the nba
That playground legend, who could dunk when he was eleven, with super natural abilities, long before MJ before the Doctor.
His Dreams were stolen, stomped on and thrown in, never got his day in the sun
And now here lies High Flying Hawkins the greatest player that never was
So to all the kids on the back home lots, I swear it isn’t like they say
the investigators pushed me around, and I was black balled by the nba
His Dreams were stolen, stomped on and thrown in, never got his day in the sun
And now here lies High Flying Hawkins the greatest player there ever was
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6. |
Silent Type
04:00
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Rode our horses in the pelting rain over the graves of the last war
Rooster was on a tare about something he’d seen the night before
Then he went quiet, when his horse stopped still in the night
I guess every now and then he the silent type
From a ramshackle shotgun house we heard a woman just a screaming a name
said why’d they take him lord, he hasn’t done a thing
But in that moment seemed god slipped out of sight
I guess every now and then he the silent type
I guess every now and then he the silent type
Another storm is coming, we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
Another storm is coming, we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
Further up the trail we came to ghastly sight
a man hanging from an old oak tree, for looking someone in the eye
I asked the governor but he ducked back from the light
I guess every now and then he the silent type
I guess every now and then he the silent type
Another storm is coming, we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
Another storm is coming,
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
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7. |
Break Our Fall
04:30
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I remember that night
you fell asleep under the truck when it got late
in the morning When I pulled out to look for you thank god I rolled out straight
Nothing was ever too much
doing flips off the roof
it’s like you were cheating death left and right, but you still wanted proof
i was thinking about you just yesterday, how you were gonna stop by on your way
i had some things that I wanted to talk you about, I had some things that I wanted to say
But now i stand here in your flannel shirt, your mom couldn’t bear to give it to goodwill
It’s not even cold out but I wear it still
You were always there when we hit the wall
now no one’s gonna break our fall
We laughed until we got drunk, we drank until we fight
Then we’d laugh again over my fat lip, while you were icing your eye,
but you got behind the needle, chasing the next high
And then you managed to escape it, you got that job and you married your wife
i was thinking about you just yesterday, how you were gonna stop by on your way
i had some things that I wanted to talk to you about, I had some things that I wanted to say
But now i stand here in your flannel shirt, your mom couldn’t bear to give it to goodwill
It’s not even cold but I wear it still
You were always there when we hit the wall
now no one’s gonna break our fall
Break our fall, break our fall
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8. |
Second Class
04:53
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9. |
Promise Land
04:20
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One man get killed by a man sworn to protect him
we reeling and dealing and elect a white nationalist president
Unconvicted people just sitting in prison
Families are struggling to swim against the corporate system
is this the promise land
who is the promised man
He only talks when the chopper blades spinning
chopper help the ego of the narcissist kidling
but we need to look at our selves, more or less how we voted
What’s that tell you now, tells you that we wrote it
I guess it should come as no surprise
Its just you’d think that we’d have done better, with all the time, all the generations
And now we’re on the edge of loosing it all, if we don’t kill each other, Mother Nature will
And can you blame her,, all we have is each other, all we have is you
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10. |
Born On Earth
02:29
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Oh Do you know there’s a place you can go
A place that is weathered and worn
But you can’t stay there long
like the plow and the stone
but you can wait if you like to be born
Born to a dark heaven on earth
Plagued by man’s greed and sorrow, sorrow and hurt
Born also to the beauty of tomorrow
Leading us back to the dirt
The old oak tree watches us like we were bees
Flitting and frittering in the golden
Everybody knows, we all died yesterday
And the day after that we were born
Born to a dark heaven on earth
Plagued by man’s greed and sorrow, sorrow and hurt
But Born also to the beauty of tomorrow
Leading us back to the dirt
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11. |
Greta
03:36
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I think we could have seen it
the smoke was rising slow
against the night
the screens and mirrors glowed
As we were shaping stories
and looking through the glass
the sky was moving
and the planets offered up the past
I say we should have seen it
the light was in the east
while we were blind sculpting songs
about waging peace
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Never, never would I, never would I believe
believe we got here
Never, never would I believe that we could be so dull
Dull to the way of our voices
And the uptick of our choices
Never, never could I, never could I
Believe in this show
I am looking for, looking for a way out, way out of this moment
Never, never would I, never would I believe
Believe we bought this
Never, Never would I believe that we could be so cold
Cold to the way of our counting
And the weight of all fears mounting
Never, never could I, never could I
Believe in this show
I am looking for, looking for a way out, way out of this moment
One more time we need, need only be silent
We will reap a field of coal, harvest of pain
Only one thing is needed for the triumph of evil
It’s for good men to do nothing nothing nothing nothing
I am looking for, looking for a way out, way out of this moment
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12. |
Elevator Operator
04:18
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airstream, poetry, New Orleans, the shape of ur mouth
cafe cars, corner bars, back roads, we did the south
And I told the elevator operator
see u later, there’s a chance I’m not making it down
the wind and the willows, cigarillos and chairman mao
Yeah I took a big hit of the counterfeit, but I’m better now
I told the elevator operator
see u later, there’s a chance I’m not making it down now
And All you moon drifters, beware of grifters in their glitter there’s a chance that they’re taking you out (now)
And ah if it wasn’t so tragic, I’d tell u everything from start to finish
But I’m afraid that it would lose its magic
That Slight of hand in the dreamland
The city of Louisiana that felt like heaven, but everyone was still alive
You said you were travellin and you put me in ur pocket
You said I tasted like summer, U could feel our pine forest bed
You words played on repeat in my head, and It took me a while to get you out
But then I’d get a letter with you still calling me baby
There’s Pine needles in the parchment and you asking me if I was still searching
For the world that I believed
and I’d write back not meaning to send
how I was fixing settle down in some quiet southern town
Now I know u were with him all the while
I didn’t think corporate lawyers were your style
And I told the elevator operator
see u later, there’s a chance I’m not making it d-d-d-down
And All you moon drifters, beware of grifters in their glitter, there’s a chance that they’re taking you out (aah)
So daisy don’t come, la la la, daisy don’t come to New Orleans
daisy don’t come, la la la, daisy don’t come to New Orleans
Daisy don’t come, la la la daisy don’t come to New Orleans
Daisy don’t come ,, ah daisy will you come?
And ah if it wasn’t so tragic, I’d tell u everything from start to finish
But I’m afraid that it would lose its magic
That Slight of hand in the dreamland
The city of Louisiana that felt like heaven, but everyone was still alive
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Hold it now, hold tight to the line, then fall back, those who are nearly drowned, don’t fear the rain in the storm
On an earlier night, I would’ve known better but tonight I’m tired, too tired to stay warm
Stoned enough, stoned enough, to gather in the night
if your shaking, if your shaking then come inside
4 and 20 blackbirds
There goes indigo bunting, a dark eyed junko at her side
they both looked like they’d been crying and I hesitated to ask why
There was a picture of a lost cat nailed to a tree, you could see it in it’s eyes
Woefully I, woefully I, stood there and tried to be
Stoned enough, stoned enough, to gather in the night
if your shaking, if your shaking then come inside
the finch was singing to the blackbirds in the pie
sorry I, sorry I was ever born
but they paid him no mind, they were busy counting
the common grackle in the caucus, as the thrashers they aligned .. they were
Stoned enough, stoned enough, to gather in the night
if your shaking, if your shaking, if your shaking then get inside
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She bled so hard during his birth
she was the middle child, the poet nurse
to the union dying swayback horse
and the future of the universe
can we get the king to catch the cannonball
When he was on the high wire
And the queen was on the trapeze, hanging from her knees
She could see revolution in the nose bleeds with a smile a mile wide
She found her son’s heart that lives in a lucky unlucky man
To the strangers chest she holds her hand
he getting lost in the ceiling fan
and his modified American plan
can we get the king to catch the cannonball
When he was on the high wire
And the queen was on the trapeze, hanging from her knees
She could see revolution in the nose bleeds with a smile a mile wide
The outcast, is digging in the yard
He found the mast of the Scottish second guard
But wait, when he found the Van Gogh
but no one lent an ear
can we get the king to catch the cannonball
When he was on the high wire
And the queen was on the trapeze, hanging from her knees
She could see revolution in the nose bleeds with a smile a mile wide
Isn’t there a peace we all been looking for
Day and night Far and wide
Don’t everybody got to just grab hold, lock souls
All rising and prizing on the high tide
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15. |
Pour Into You
04:01
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oh my son, don’t you go far
i need you not to go
you are long for this world, stay close to the earth
Just like I told you so
sometimes i feel like we’re falling fast
but we never hit ground
* and as we’re falling
i turn to you
now we know the world ain’t round
now we know the world ain’t round
oh sweet baby you blow my mind
with everything that you do
* we’ll sit right here
for every breath he makes
for the sunlight on his face
and we do it til we break in two
and we do it til we break in two
oh sweet baby you blow my mind
with everything that you do
*you said be strong
for this road that we are on
could be dangerous could be long
*you pour into me
and i’ll pour into you
and we’ll do it til we break in two
oh my son, i see how you fight
now you need to rest
*i know your scared
but we are right here,
pullout bed pulled up near,
with the nurses fighting the fever
like smokejumpers leaving
*their plane for the fire,
and pilot climbs higher
so your dreams don’t get tired
lights blinking all round your head
your like a Giant and the city’s your bed
rest now beautiful boy
you’re going to make it now beautiful boy
sometimes i feel like we’re falling fast
but we never hit ground
*and here we’ll stay,
and fall another day
i can’t remember what to say
where do you think he is
*does he feel our gentle kiss
is he coming back
can i hold him in my lap
away from all of these machines
monitors and IVs
*you pour into me
and i pour into you
we’ll do it til we break in two
oh my son, it’s ok
let the machine breath for you
* you’ll breath again
as soon as you can,
maybe open up your eyes
i think i saw a smile
*when i put the sox game on
on the radio
the light is getting a low
still they do not know
We can’t get any answers
*but you know that it ain’t dark,
in middle of fenway park,
and the crowd sings with all their heart
ah ah ah ah
rest now beautiful boy
rest now my beautiful boy
you going to make it now beautiful boy
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