1. |
Spare Me
02:57
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2. |
The Future
03:55
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The future everything's moving
You'll start breathing hey just take a breath
And inside you'll start breathing everything's moving
Babe just take a sec
Everybody I've known has had a falling spell
She woke up in a strange new place alone and with herself
But woke up to the news and sang along with herself
Each new case of the blues only bought a brighter flame
The future everything's moving
You'll start breathing hey just take a breath
And inside you'll start breathing everything's moving
Wait just give yourself a sec
Everybody I've known has had a wall inside
One keeps it deep inside his heart and another's is hard to see
A genius on the East Coast keeps a wall up around a feast
At supper time he stares in longing oh what a sweet release
The future everything's moving
You'll start breathing hey just take a breath
And inside you'll start breathing everything's moving
Babe just give it a sec
On our way meet you there
It is not that far if you go by car
The future everything's moving
You'll start breathing hey just take a breath
And inside you'll start breathing everything's moving
Babe just take a sec
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3. |
Standing Stones
03:22
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Rain doesn't spoil my day
When I smell that tinny smell it's okay
It's the same when I think of you
Lying underneath the standing stones
I'm not sure what you would want me to feel
It's like when you built your wheel
I can still sense your pride
It is not concealed by the land
And now time is passing stranger than
How it used to pass
You're lucky that watches break
When you're underneath the standing stones
I see pictures of you as a kid
And they make wonder what I did
To deserve this tangled mess
My head is all echoed tones
But every now and then one rings out
Harmonic high above the rest
And it's like a sigh between the laughter
A sigh borne from underneath my bones
And now time is passing stranger than
How it used to pass
You're lucky that watches break
When you're underneath the standing stones
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4. |
No Matter How Red I See
03:25
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I have been angry all day
And I've been saying
Only the words that I've wanted to say
I know I'll regret them
But for now let me forget them
And have some time away
And have some time away
Let me just take a little walk
And maybe
I will set the clock off
I just want to calm down
But I won't til I've lashed out
No matter how good you treat me
No matter how good you treat me
I wish I'd yelled at everyone
And said all of the things I have done
Instead of hurting you
I've got work to do
No matter how red I see
No matter how red I see
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5. |
High On The Freeway
04:30
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I'm glad you're here
But just to be frank
What are you doing with us?
You had a life
At least the semblance of one
And you supported yourself
I heard you fought with your tooth and nail
From your cobblestone roots
And now you sit wondering what you will do
On my money's time
We welcomed you to our home
Trusting that you'd give back some
Past time you made some grown up choices
What you think
That you're better than me
Because you're scared to die?
Well let me tell that
All of your passions
Are wastes of time
You dedicate all your love to them
Cause they're ephemeral
You can't prove that you're any good
You can't prove the worst
I were you I'd think real hard
How to get out the backyard
But it's too late to start now anyhow
I'm telling you
Not because I like you
But because she does
I'm telling you
But it's not from a faith
I have in your cause
But pretty soon all our patience will run out
Along with you
You'll be running and we will be chasing
Once she gives up too
Go on get in your cheap car
We've got plans once you get far
Once you're high on the freeway
We'll be safe at home
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6. |
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Almost the first thought that I had
In Sunset Park when I felt bad
The night I arrived
Was I should have left town tonight
And after I'd made some friends
Under their wings on the weekends
I'd regret a thing I'd said or done
In the morning I'd say
That I should have stayed home last night
If a person doesn't sleep
The clocks all forget to keep good times
And what does that say for a city with insomnia?
I don't know but I've stayed
And I've stayed and I've stayed every night
One night in impulsive discovery
A star shot right out of me
Walking by grand central station it said
That you should have gone someplace tonight
You should have abandoned tonight
Now here I am on the edge of the bed
On the edge of the last words said
Wondering who would I be?
Did I make a mind up?
Am I still in the lee of the island?
Should I have left on the light?
I don't know but I've stayed
and I've stayed and I've stayed
and I've stayed and I've stayed every night
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7. |
Icy Water
04:06
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When the daylight hits you hard
And you feel the summer all over close
When the work is hard enough
But the sweat makes you comatose
When you've refused indulges
When you've refused the slow death promises
When you've seen how bad it can get
But you're not ready to give up yet
Icy water
Take a long pull
Icy water
So pure you don't even think about the blues
How come it can't be as simple as this
When you're down in the dumps in the dark
When you're there all you want is substance
Bring you up bring you down just don't leave you there
When you've given in to indulgences
When you've made some slow death promises
When you've reached how bad it can get
And you're just about ready to give up yet
There's icy water
Take a long drink
Icy water
So pure you don't even think about the blues
I will never understand the people
Who have no trouble each day
They can drink their eight cups easily
All you can do is stare
When you've fought back indulgences
When you've made and broken slow death promises
When you know how good it can get
And you're determined to reach it yet
Icy water
Take a long draft
Icy water
So pure you don't even think about the blues
Icy water
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8. |
Smaller Than A Breadbox
03:00
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Man I'm glad to see you're taking care of your health
I've been trying to do the same
Man do you believe that just a couple years
Could ever bring us so much change
We were born somewhere
Orphaned we were scared
But we ran and jumped
And fell into the hands of caretakers
Can't believe our birthday when it seems so far behind
We are much wiser than our time on earth
Suggests to the people who count such things
We don't know what time is
I have spent my days
Finding happy ways
And I know you've done the same in your own style
Brother dear
Hey do you remember when we took a cab to our first home
We were smaller than a bread box
Hey do you remember teaching ourselves to leap
Over new limits
We are still the same
Constantly in change
And we'll fight and help each other til the wind goes
Away from us
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9. |
Spare Me (Reprise)
02:51
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