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Lucifer's Glory
04:29
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Lucifer’s Glory
Spare me the story of Lucifer’s glory
Swore he was soaring as he fell down the stairs
In an Eden of garters, he wrote to his father
Said can you tell me what I’m down here for?
Said can you hear me under your floor
when all I want is to fall some more?
In the concrete streets he whispers discreet,
Dance with me if you like
It’s the kinda step you just don’t forget
I don’t want to be right if it’s right with them
I don’t want to be born if it’s born again
I just want to drink ’til the world don’t spin
Do I remember you right?
Smoking in the shadows ‘neath the lavender light
Looking pretty proud that you lost a fight
Do I remember you right?
Do I remember you still?
You said do what you want, but I want what you will
When the thrill is gone, was the thrill so wrong?
Do I remember you still?
So don’t tell me how love’s supposed to be
I’ve seen June brides in the fall
For a second then I coulda sworn heaven
Was catching your light like a long dead star
Was wrapping a tree with a Japanese car
On the lips of abyss and a step too far
Do I remember you right?
With your oxblood stride, lazy and light
swaying in the grays of the dying night
Do I remember you right?
Do I remember you still?
You said the flowers I brought should be alive still
Well maybe the beauty is they never will
Do I remember you still?
So don’t tell me now what this son’s become
A taste was all I did need
to know and then I knew too well
The hint of ash in my naked mouth
That one look back when you’d been cast out
It’s the kind of loss you don’t live without
Do I remember you right?
With a tender desire and your jaw clenched tight
You were singing to the crows when you’re out of sight
Do I remember you right?
Do I remember you still?
Kicking me the scraps when you had your fill
and leaving me with more and less than the bill
Do I remember you still?
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Carolina
05:05
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Carolina
Feel no peace and make no war, so what is it you want?
In coastal climes you’ll wait all time for some silent detente
Mourning for a poet who never spoke a word
Bury your young father with enmity insured
Throw the dishes in the street, no one eats here anymore
Tired of playing house with some disgraced philosopher
Saturdays you work a double at the uni store
I don’t demand your attention like the child I was before
Carolina, I can’t hold you anymore
Seems I never really was when I was yours
Should I feel some shame for hanging on in vain
to the sight of your tongue trying to catch the acid rain?
Yeah, the sight of your light
fading out and in again
Stranded in some century that we left in disrepair
Combing through the dunes like some burner angel’s hair
No mind or no matter, you’re uncomfortably kind
When your windows shattered, there was nothing much to find
Carolina, I can’t hold you anymore
Seems I never really was when I was yours
Should I feel some shame for hanging on so long
to the touch of your hand falling where it don’t belong
Out on the shivering sand as the sun was burning down
Carolina, I can’t hold you anymore
Seems I never really was since I was yours
Should I feel some shame for hanging on in vain?
Carolina, will we never meet again?
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Summer of Hell
03:36
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Summer of Hell
Your cousin sings a song
of a generation dead not gone
Drunk in a summer haze,
terror comes to me in waves
Shut the door, this is love and war
How do I know that you are no enemy?
Please believe we are gonna bleed
for a paradise we’re not gonna see
Carve our shame into the trees,
but don’t come to me on bended knee
And if you know this tune too well,
be a friend and never tell
When your cigarette burns blister
and there’s no end to July,
tell the friends you’ve never met
that your well has all run dry
Wear a costume of composure
when I say I never will
love you like you love me,
but oh you love me still
You can write it down for somedays
that you know will never come,
when you’re tired of playing poor
and I’m tired of playing young
Never mind the coming judgment,
the end’s not mine to tell
I will always be there laughing
in your summertime of hell
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The Stillness
05:31
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The Stillness
Repair, repair, but you still can see the cracks
Say you like it better, but you can’t get better back
Bow your head and ask the sisters what you must
Have you forgotten you were once of flesh and blood?
Well there’s only so much time and wine,
and I’ve taken more than mine and thine
So show me somewhere I can sleep tonight
Well we had it out and spoke in shouts
I’m not the one you would’ve thought
But sometimes in the stillness we’re alright
A life of no crimes save for those that no one minds
Always found it funny how you couldn’t swallow one good line
As I stare out the window, searching how to fly
If I fall 30 feet, it’s just to duck disappointment in your eye
Well you said your piece and shed your grief,
and gave your faith to disbelief
So show me somewhere I can sleep tonight
The candles burn, the hours turn
I know you never could be sure
But sometimes in the stillness we’re alright
In the stillness we’re alright
Don’t trace the faultlines they’ll be there by morning light
In the stillness we’re alright
I can’t help wondering, but I should just be quiet
I can’t help wondering
You can’t help wondering
No, I can’t help wondering
if maybe we just might
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A Glass of Laughter
Quiet what you want from me,
we’ve been through this before
I don’t deny your discontents,
I might even lend you more
It’s clear the days we sped away
are coming to a head
So pour me a glass of laughter,
and take me right to bed
I never learned to make amends
with all this world demands
I could not buy you winter gloves,
but I always took your hand
And now you thrust your fingers
deep in your coat instead
So pour me a glass of laughter,
and take me right to bed
And if I fight your kindness,
I need it all the same
But why you keep on coming ‘round,
well that’s difficult to name
It’s true I do not love you
for your beauty, though it’s yours
It’s just when waves surround me,
I search only for your shores
It’s just some ancient instinct,
deprived of heart or head
So pour me a glass of laughter,
and take me right to bed
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Stephanie Don’t Live Here Anymore
I know she was your friend too,
but she never let you near
And when that summer flew,
I knew she’d be ditching soon
Lilies in September rain,
I still miss my blue-eyed one
Dancing with a cocaine smile,
long after the lights came on
Sometimes I think I let her down,
and sometimes I think I tried
Doesn’t really matter now she’s gone,
and I’m just half alive
Stephanie don’t live here anymore
I held her as best I could
but just couldn’t keep it tight
Walked her ‘cross the Burnside Bridge
She’s still on that other side
Sometimes I think I loved her best,
but you know that’s not right
Now she’s as cold as April snows,
and I can’t even cry
Stephanie don’t live here anymore
I still hear her ugly laugh
when I shut my eyes
I loved her when I was too young
to ever love her right
So if you’re looking for her, boy,
it’s better not to find
Stephanie don’t live here anymore
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Your Temperate Ways
02:36
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Your Temperate Ways
I see young men walkin’ catatonic, talkin’
to the ghosts that circle their feet
The spirit realm is calling, but I’m too busy falling
in love with a swan in heat
You say you’re nothing like me, you tell it to me nightly,
and rightly and contritely I say
that you’re thinking too much of me for someone so above me,
but you think too much, anyway
Yeah, you think too much of me, anyway
So now you drag me to sleep
with a promise we’ve kept, though it’s ever oblique
And I know how Jesus died, he was a cousin on my mother’s side
But we don’t speak of him anymore
Now I’m prone to wonder what phylum I am under
‘cuz I can’t quite be your kind
Was it Catholic inaction or prurient attraction
that sewed us side by side?
Now my wilderness years appear to be here
in the deserts of the garden state
You’re asking me to stay, but there’s a Coach USA
And the Coach USA don’t wait
So now, you ask me to say
which way I’ve strayed from your temperate ways
I know how Jesus died, he was, of course, routinized
But we don’t speak of him anymore
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Wait for Me
04:08
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Wait for Me
What’s in your mouth if it isn’t the truth?
Come spit it out, I’m angry with you
You’ve got everything I need like you always do,
but you’re blue like me all the same
Have you forgot I’m nothing like you?
You’re talking ‘bout the fall like it’s something new
You’re giving me a time, February 29,
and expect me to leap on through
So wait for me on the other side of the world, my love
I got money enough If that’s what you ask
Oh wait for me on the other side of the world, my love
It’s not life where I live, ‘least you wouldn’t call it such
I hold my breath and cross myself
in the orthodox way, right to left
You say I’m a Jew, well I am, I guess
But you are my cross to bear
And I want to find out how our days grow dark
as we stumble on down through Yoyogi Park
It’s a shame to be born, but now that I am,
I will take the form of a man
Oh, wait for me on the other side of the world, my love
I got money ‘neath my tongue
if that’s what you require
Wait for me, my love
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Wintergreen
05:32
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Wintergreen
Wipe the icicles from your eyes
‘cuz the winter’s almost gone,
and I know your brother loves me
as the sunlight hits my skin
But all I want is to be a friend to you
All I want is to see you tomorrow
with your eyes like auroras
and your heart wintergreen
Oh, come along now,
come along my ragged queen
When I found you in a snowdrift,
never wanting to go home,
knew you were the one I’d die with
I think I’d die for you to know
That all I want is to be a friend to you
All I want is to see you tomorrow
with your head wrapped in halos
And your heart wintergreen
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