1. |
Opium With Wooden Ships
04:07
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I listen …. scouts on patrol
The Canton system…. It loses control
Watching as the current rips
I blend opium with wooden ships
… all night long, all night long
All of my time in the merchant trade
Cargo holds the emperor forbade
Drifting forwards in the Chinese sea
My heart blackened by the red poppy
Hey-Ho Ha-Ho ropes tied fast and the smugglers row
All their tiny boats back to China’s shores
With all of the drugs in the tiny ship stores
Fool I’m certain… in all of this life
I draw my curtain… Hold close my knife
Watching as the current rips
I blend opium with wooden ships
… all night long, all night long
Once in a while I’m saved by grace
Tanka women come and kiss and my face
Moored on hulks by Lintin Island
Paid in silver that shines like the sun
Hey-Ho Ha-Ho ropes tied fast and the smugglers row
All their tiny boats back to China’s shores
With all of the drugs in the tiny ship stores
The first captain… wouldn’t listen
Lost his right hand …. in Chinese prison
Watching as the current rips
I blend opium with wooden ships
… all night long, all night long
… all night long, all night long
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2. |
Sleepy Hollow Muse
04:00
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Don’t trade your light for one’s life
Don’t hold the wrong end of your knife
It’s always summer… it’s always winter
It’s always someplace deep inside
Chorus:
Oh, get beside the moon
Oh, sleepy hollow muse
Oh, sing me a folk tune
Oh, sleepy hollow muse…
Oh, Laurel Highland blues
One eye is open for the road
One eye is down and all but closed
It’s always 1 AM…. it’s always 2 AM
It’s always burned out in the snow
Chorus
What aches your heart will make you sing
Sometimes it don’t mean a thing
Into the darkness, into the brightness
Into the conscience of your being
Chorus
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3. |
You Wonder Why
04:29
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When the sky runs out of things left to show you
And it crosses the horizon and your mind
Like an old friend you’d like to call
But you never pick up the phone
And you wonder why your time slips unknown
When the marshal holds his hat to his chest
And the marching feets come to a rest
Like an old fool who stood up to fast
And went and knocked his head
And you wonder why you’re always saluting the dead
When an orphan knows he’s one of a twin
And he goes out later in life on a whim
Like a feeling we have deep inside
That you just couldn’t seem to shake
And you wonder why your whole life is really at stake
When you’re tired of feeding logs into the fire
And your patience has run out of desire
Like an old friend who stopped to say
That you fell off the edge of the Earth
And you wonder why no one has called off the search
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4. |
White Room
05:13
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In the dim light of the room
White walls and white ceiling
Red kisses and red roses bloom
Down inside a good feeling
All in the white room
El quarto blanco
Dreamed I was running from two
Boys on a hill chasing deer
I jumped in the air and away I flew
My wooden wings just appear
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5. |
Laika
05:13
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Your fame caught the world by surprise, a satellite
Pioneer on a one way mission, gone fishin’
Everyone thought you’d return alive, by moonlight
Stray dog from the streets of Moscow
In ’57, they broke the heavens
In ’58, we charged the gate
In ’59, they took it as a sign
And Luna 2 crashed on the surface of the moon
The first one to orbit the Earth, a lunar birth
How many hours did you wait, a sad fate
All the letters to cheer you on, for rocket launch
Burned up in the atmosphere, in half a year
In ’61, Yuri took the first run
In ’62, John Glenn made the orbit news
In ’63, Valentina was first lady
But none of them carried the weight
Of the universe and fate
But Laika in outer space
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6. |
The Trees Have Turned
03:20
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Forest brown and black eyelids
Metal upon metal and indoor kids
The skies are grey and all around
The trees have turned themselves upside down
Blossoms bloom now under ground
The trees have turned themselves upside down
The trees have turned themselves upside down
No one listens and no one calls….
It’s like we’re not even here at all
It’s not like we’re even here at all
Like leaves from the fall
The trees have turned themselves upside down
The trees have turned themselves upside down
Wax on my wings when the sun came out
I’m not even sure why it is I doubt
I’m not even sure that there is no doubt
Then winter comes about
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7. |
The Negatives
05:09
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In between my fingertips
Unwanted foe, the light switch
Confused by my silver screen
If you know what I mean
Human ties, it knots the ends
The darker side, the gate defends
Swollen and hurting, truths I am skirting
All the negatives they reflect a dark hue
Hold me up to the light and I’ll see you
Oh essence behave and be true
Hold me up to the light and I’ll see you
Pour it down the pouring rain
The window sits, the inner pain
The tasks that are upon me
They weigh like the sea
In my hands the restless lens
It sees my fears, the gate defends
All the negatives they reflect a dark hue
Hold me up to the light and I’ll see you
Oh essence behave and be true
Hold me up to the light and I’ll see you
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8. |
Most Difficult Pill
04:56
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Congratulations are in order
You found a way out
Down at the information center
A hand-me-down, the lost and found
What comes around goes around
Life is never what it seems
Down at the bottom of the river of dreams
Your shadow is down there and it’s lying still
Change is always the most difficult pill
How many ways can you describe one vision?
All the colors in the world can’t find an easy decision
Last time I saw you it was round the corner dive
And we must have smiled at the sound
And had a good time, with a twist of lime
With no reasons and no rhyme
Life is never what it seems
Down at the bottom of the river of dreams
Your shadow is down there and it’s lying still
Change is always the most difficult pill
Life is never what it seems
Down at the bottom of the river of dreams
Your shadow is down there and it’s lying still
Change is always the most difficult pill
Change is always the hard way uphill
Change is always out of time left to kill
Change is always the most difficult pill
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9. |
Basketball At Night
02:57
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Oh I never lost a game like I did once after school
All of the others went home late and I stayed playin' on with you
Well, life is a jest and you know the rest, but I had to play it cool
Way after dark and the evening lark said his goodnight too
Man on the moon spoke too soon, I was down 3 games to 4
I got nervous and took a risk and planted one on your front door
Chorus
You make 3 and I make 2 then we make love all night
You say goodbye when the sun’s comin’ up
On the basketball all right
Later on the next day when I asked you out again
You said you could never see someone who lost 3 out of 7
Aw....
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10. |
Keep
03:18
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I'm gonna find her walking thru my door
But in a way the pain can make me soar
Above the clouds, so way up high
If and only I could die
But then out on the home stretch
The pain starts to sink and I begin to retch
Oh what I wouldn't do
To keep you and keep from turning blue
To keep you and keep from turning blue
To keep you... and keep from turning blue
How hard it is to love someone
You gotta pave the way for things undone
Make mistakes and sell it short
The pain backs up and strikes a chord
The pain backs up and strikes a chord
Yeah... strike a chord!
Oh what I wouldn't do
To keep you and keep from turning blue
To keep you and keep from turning blue
To keep you... and keep from turning blue
To keep you and keep from turning blue (X4)
To keep you... and keep from turning blue
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11. |
Can't Do It Alone
05:38
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Oh send me a word
Your words send me away
I picked up the verse
And had nothing else for me to say
I hold out my heart
I hold out my hand
I hold out my neck
They send the Riverman
Can’t do it alone
Once in a blue moon you might be surprised
And all the stars align and love’s in your eyes
Then fate hits quick just like it always does
But I don’t mind the easy way cuz
All I’m telling you, all I’m trying to say
Is I’m sorry for the thing I did today
Out of the frying pan and into the fire
I can’t help being called an unretentive liar
I hold out my heart
I hold out my hand
I hold out my neck
They send the Riverman
Can’t do it alone
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12. |
Adrift
02:35
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