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Spellbound
03:54
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There's lipstick on the microphone, so now I think I better go.
Too many shades of black and white, so like a dog I bite that bone
But we've been through this so can we please just move it along?
I've tried to tune in but there's just something wrong.
They're sending signals out to sea, but they're out of reach, just like me.
A Thousand pawns call out in distress well They're in need, but I can barely breathe.
I didn't choose this my options were just 1 or 3.
Now I can't prove this, but I think you cast your spell on me.
Oh you cast your spell on me,
I wont escape with my life it seems,
on the seventh hour, of the seventh scene,
I will rise to dance with thee again.
No colors fill my eyes I am blind and diseased.
First time you crossed my mind, the sun it rose not of the East.
And when that new day rose I was lost to your heat.
I tried to break this mold but this spell is beyond me.
Oh you cast your spell on me,
I wont escape with my life it seems,
on the seventh hour, of the seventh scene,
I will rise to dance with thee again.
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2. |
Dead Bird
04:21
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Dead bird, dead bird, dead bird lying in the road
under red moon, under red bone, dead bird lying in the road.
And it happens, it happens, it happens I am told
when you try to live a lie and the trying just dont hold it happens I am told.
So I remember, I remember, I remember you the most
as the one who eased my pain my one true holy ghost I remember you the most.
And bare witness, bare witness, bare witness wont you please?
I'm a faithless son of a bitch prayin on my hands and on my knees bare witness wont you please?
And to glory, to glory, to glory which ive never known
I shall know you in another life another place another time oh glory which I have never known.
And I've married my satisfaction, my satisfaction I suppose
to the hit of my next fix, my next fix so quick it goes my satisfaction it come so it goes.
Dead bird, dead bird, dead bird lying in the road
wont you put my sins on trial would you try to make me whole dead bird lyin in the road.
Because it happens, it happens, it happens before you know
you drink up all your tinctures bought at that traveling medicine show it happens before you know.
So you best remember, remember, remember all of those
who died with empty pockets in the gutters of the fold remember all of those.
So dead bird, dead bird, dead bird, lying in the road
we shall meet again my friend when the next church bell it tones
dead bird lying in the road.
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3. |
Scarlet Eyes
03:49
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You walked up and asked me to dance,
but no dear I won't take the chance.
I won't get caught up in your stare,
and no this ain't love don't go there.
You smiled from across the room,
your teeth barred so elegant too.
Your haunches were ready to pounce,
taking me in ounce for ounce.
As you sink your teeth into my skin,
ivory knives breathe it in.
When pearly white becomes dim
your scarlet eyes draw me in
to a place so tenuous too,
as far as the sun and the moon;
where I cannot come back so soon,
without damages brought on by you.
la da da, da da da, da dum
la da da, da da da, da dum
You're the tumor in my side.
The widow to my bride.
The feeling that I felt inside,
the one that I felt when I died.
la da da, da da da, da dum
la da da, da da da, da dum
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4. |
The Bottle
03:40
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Sometimes I can't tell if I'm losing my mind this pain in my heart it shows through these eyes and this feeling that I got it works its way up my spine leaves me cold and alone out of sight and out of mind.
Yes I'm out of sight and out of mind my friend, I'm out of sight out of mind again I'm a nowhere man theres no place where I belong so I just keep on keeping on til the feelings not so strong
I sit alone in a darkened room head hanging low, I drank myself til I got drunk and then I drank a little more, with this bottle in my hands he's my only friend but he's got to go, tonight I'll find some comfort in forgetting what I know
Yes I'm out of sight and out of mind my friend, I'm out of sight out of mind again I'm a nowhere man theres no place where I belong so I just keep on keeping on til the feelings not so strong
Well I've burnt all the bridges I came here on
no getting back through currents mighty strong
but there's somethin' tells me I gotta find my way around
breathless as I cross speak weakly as I drown
Yes I'm out of sight and out of mind my friend, I'm out of sight out of mind again I'm a nowhere man theres no place where I belong so I just keep on keeping on til the feelings not so strong
la da da da la da da
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5. |
The Family Name
04:36
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Oh, my friend, I see you got yourself in a state
you're in a bind you got your tongue twisted in your teeth
yes I see you id like to offer you a hand but I don't know if you'll retreat
and oh dear father bless you in your ways
you are sick man everyone knows its on display
but the world is not as simple as make it in your mind so please come over to the light
I don't know I don't know I don't know how to help you find
I don't know I don't know how to help you get yourself a clean and quiet mind
Well I see your ship is sinking you're fighting for your life
but you're struggling just trying to get yourself by
and as you breathe you are burdened I see ur weighted sighs an exaltation of what your feeling day and night
I don't know I don't know I don't know how to help you find
I don't know I don't know how to help you get yourself a clean and quiet mind
And yes I know your suffering I know it far too well 10 years you've resided in your self-imprisoned cell but to the ways which you abandoned reality and faith we don't speak of that and don't relate
so come out of your hiding and sit down on the chair tell the doctor of whose who and when and where
theres a method to your madness let us crack the code and ill try to lead you back home
I don't know I don't know I don't know how to help you find
I don't know I don't know how to help you get yourself a clean and quiet mind
I don't know I don't know I don't know how to help you find
I don't know I don't know how to help you get yourself a clean and quiet mind
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There are ghosts in these walls and I see them in the mirror
and they walk through these halls as I am sleeping
with all my curtains drawn and my doors all bolted
I wonder how long I got til I see the light of day
And as I try to close my eyes they call out my name and my number
like some apparition summoned in led loaded long chains
they gossip and scream and preach to the choir inside my head
as my conscience holds its sweet refrain
And I know this house is haunted but I still cannot hold the ghost of you
although I have tried for these endless numbered days you have escaped me to the devils blood red moon
And I killed you while you were sleeping,
Annotations of a world only the inner could have foretold
As you gazed into that crystal ball at the tender age of 17
I took the knife right through your skull
And there was never a scream and the blood it did drip oh so slowly
As I tied that makeshift noose
I'm gonna hang gonna hang gonna hang gonna hang my body
To meet your soul in the very next room
And I know this house is haunted but I still cannot hold the ghost of you
although I have tried for these endless numbered days you have escaped me to the devils blood red moon
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7. |
Razor Wire Death Song
05:23
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Help me my friend I'm going down for one last farewell a final goodbye
I've seen my future and what I've seen its clear man and it's not worth the light in my eyes
For there's a shadow that's stretching over this jagged land sitting fine on the edge of a knife
and behind these rolling hills and under that there mountain there's nothing but a razor wire
I'm going down to that fair river I'm going down to take a dive
For I've seen our future and I know and I know and I know there ain't too much time
In this life, I've been a witness to such poverty turmoil and strife
and I've known the answer the solutions always weighing on my mind
but I see the reaper grim and tall scythe and cloak and horse and all
he's not a specter on a hill to be feared he's standing right in front of me beside this mirror
I'm going down to that fair river I'm going down to take a dive
For I've seen our future and I know and I know and I know there ain't too much time
I'm going down to that fair river I'm going down to take a dive
For I've seen our future and I know and I know and I know there ain't too much time
And oh, oh glory, where is it, where does it lie?
I only ask, and I beg of you please have an answer tonight
I'm going down to that fair river I'm going down to take a dive
For I've seen our future and I know and I know and I know there ain't too much time
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8. |
Like Fruit From A Tree
04:10
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I want to pluck you like fruit from a tree
I want your pleasure please devour me
I wanna take you on the tip of my tongue
I wanna love you til the daylight comes
I wanna hold you in my arms like a crook
stealing your love as I look
into the fire of your omnipresent eyes
I wanna know what your body feels like
and does your heart beat a syncopated rhythm
does it quiver when I'm around
I wanna know where your thoughts go when you're above me looking down
I wanna know the softness of your lips
trace your figure with these jealous fingertips
I wanna memorize the curve of your spine
I want you to cut me with your sacrilegious knife
I wanna dance with you in the moonlight
we'll build a fire that's a thousand feet tall
I wanna feel the heat from your breath on my neck
I wanna take you where no one else has taken you before
and does your heart beat a syncopated rhythm
does it quiver when I'm around
I wanna know where your thoughts go when you're above me looking down
and does your heart beat a syncopated rhythm
does it quiver when I'm around
I wanna know where your thoughts go when you're above me looking down
I want you to pluck me like fruit from a tree
I want your pleasure please devour me
take me on the tip of your tongue
I wanna love you til the daylight comes,
til the daylight comes
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Kathleen
03:03
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You said you had a loss for words well tell me honey how is life with no tongue
You said you had a feeling then but that feeling's just like you, you've gone on
and I saw you dancing in my shadow with your fingers running through my thinning hair
and there was a word I tried to find and I remembered it while I was sitting there
Kathleen, you haunt me in my sleep
Kathleen, I get no rest from the things you do to me
Kathleen, you're the specter in my dreams
Kathleen, stay away from me Kathleen
I'd sooner sell my soul to pay back the debt I owe to your mother
and your father he told me once I needed an education to be your lover
and those words I took to heart but surely paid no heed to them
and it was truly a mistake on my end for I found out I needed so much more than wisdom
Kathleen, you haunt me in my sleep
Kathleen, you don't know the things you do to me
Kathleen, you're the monster in my dreams
Kathleen, stay away from me
Well you're singing in your velvet gown and I'm wondering what has got you down
for I know we have been in this place before
and you told me how you felt so heavy like you were just a friend
and I was leaving you out in the cold
And if your tongue is broke tell me how do you still sing with a broken tongue
And if my hands are broke tell me how do I still keep strumming along
And if my heart is broke tell me how I can spend it, yeah, on your love
And tell me now that you feel broke and broken down just like I had felt before
Kathleen, you haunt me in my sleep
Kathleen, I get no rest from the things you do to me
Kathleen, you're the specter in my dreams
Kathleen, stay away from me Kathleen
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10. |
Wayfaring Stranger
04:56
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I am a poor wayfaring stranger traveling through this world alone
There is no sickness, no toil, or danger, in that fair land to which I go
I'm going home to see my mother, I'm going home no more to roam
I am just going over Jordan, I am just going over home
I know dark clouds are gonna hover over me I know my way is dark and steep
But when I see that heaven for me, well in god's land my soul shall keep
I'm going home to see my father, I'm going home no more to roam
I am just going over Jordan, I am just going over home
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