1. |
Positive Nihilism Song
02:21
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I don't know everything about it
I don't wanna hear every detail
I don't need to climb high and shout it
Doing just fine keeping to myself
I'll go slow, all alone, I think
Falling into love ain't in the cards for me
I'll live a life of my work and maybe
Leave something behind that'll help someone
I don't wish harm on anybody
Except sometimes myself in my bed
One day I will inherit soil
I don't believe in an afterlife
I don't live the way I'm supposed to
I don't even know what that means
I'm a failure by lots of standards
Except for mine, I'm a mean machine
Uh-huh
I like some people more than others
It's a claw that I can't get rid of
I like you the way I like music
You don't get to choose, you just get to feel
I keep thinking and it's the worst thing
I wish I could just stare at nothing
I'm a dropkick inside my own mouth
Made up my mind, guess I'll stick around
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2. |
How I Look At You
02:39
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Red conglomerations that withstand, uphold, endure
Cite the Ten Commandments, We the People are Not Sure
Through the futures past if we'll chart out to some place new
I wish that you would look at me like how I look at you
Dead men thank their lucky stars for one last heaven meal
White men walk in khakis when they know no need to steal
New men don't exist, there is no picture, just a clue
I wish that you would look at me like how I look at you
Fed a real battalion to the lion in his den
Might be rough to stomach, sought electable, but then
Blue rings connect yin and yang, leave little left to steal
I wish someone would look at me and tell me what to feel
Hardiness makes me a mess like 105 North Tower
Purity, in a sense, dyes dynamic by the valour
The color of the Chief suggests in something wise and true
I wish that you would look at me like how I look at you
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3. |
Lord's Day Blues
03:21
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I don't wanna leave
I already know
I don't wanna dream
Of heaven anymore
It keeps coming through the shades
I'm trying to keep it out
It just wants to stay
But I don't have a doubt
It's coming on anyway
But I can do this
I sure can
The longest day of my
whole entire life
Was standing at the gate
Staring at the light
Waiting at the gate
Trying to say goodnight
Dead in the water, I feel
By fault of the alter we kneel
Before
But you're more
Stumbled upon a bell to ring
It could've been the eyes
Could've been the king
Could've been disguised as some other thing
Coming on anyway
Coming on anyway
We will get there
We sure will
I know where it is
I've been knocking on your door
I'm not gonna dream of heaven anymore
I cannot relax
I told you before
I'm not gonna dream of heaven anymore
I'm not gonna dream, but I'll show you what it's for
And we can go there
Hand in hand
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4. |
Patience, Like a Willow
03:13
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Patience
Like a willow
Stumped in the interest of time
I never asked
For one prayer to last
I am only a passerby
Young hope
Like a orphan
At the train with a ticket in hand
"Hey porter man,
Have you seen my home land?
It's a suitcase with my name on the tag."
Love
Like an ocean
Giving and taking away
Or this hate as deep
As the sky is wide
May slowly lead us astray
Don't sweep my tomb
While I'm still in the hospital room
I'm wasn't looking for treatment
Out of you
The lighthouse I've built
Is the image on this quilt
To keep us warm in the cold months
When nothing feels true
God help us through
Love
Like an ocean
Giving and taking away
And this hate as deep
As the sky is wide
Is only here for a day
Patience
Like a willow
In a swale I can see from my door
Cat tails and frogs
Where I buried my old dogs
And a willow standing there
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5. |
Fords of Jordan
05:07
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Death where I'm walking
Death where I stand
If you think you're talking to me
Raise your hand
'Cause there's so much yakking
In these barrooms
I can't hear myself think
And then, when there's silence
I'm faced with a voice
I wish to deny this
But I have no choice
It's made up of my father's
Father's father's
Names I barely know
I'll see ya when I see ya
There've been all kinds of signs
Of a winter regret
I tell you remember
How I could make you forget
The droves it comes in
The cloud it plummets
Leaving not much room for air
Now you're breathing heavy
Of worry and care
Of the open wound
Still left on your stare
That's begun to fester
And heal up all wrong
Walking like a three legged dog
I'll see ya when I see ya
I'll see ya when I see ya
If I ever saw you at all
When I crossed over the Fords of Jordan
I thought I could go forth and back
I never knew these holy waters I drink of you
Were under attack
Death where I'm walking
Death where I stand
I'm leaving tomorrow
and I'm forcing a hand
Through ageless shadows
Of months we rattled
Now it just looks like one big excuse
I'll see ya when I see ya
I'll see ya when I see ya
If I ever saw you at all
I never knew these holy waters I drink of you
I never knew these holy waters I drink of you
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6. |
We're On The Move Now
04:12
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When we walked from Marion, AL
They shut the lights of Jimmy Lee Jackson down
With hardly a penny or gun in hand
They lowered his body 'neath the ground
Took 45 years to convict the trooper
He claimed he felt bad
No matter how hard the guilt he felt
You can't really take a life someone never had
We're on the move now
Up from Marion
We're on the move now
And these truths are marching on
When we crossed the bridge to Dallas County
We were stared down by John Cloud
When there was nothing to discuss
He threw tear gas bombs into the crowd
You can burn our churches and bomb our homes
You can beat and kill our young
No mighty army can stop us now
Like a grand idea whose time has come
We're on the move now
From Selma to Montgom'
We're on the move now
And these truths are marching on
Women walked on every continent
To make mind and body clear
'cause the chief was changed to a diaper stain
And needs changed again for fear
There's a guy reclining for his hard-earned pay
Says he don't wanna hear
The suburbs act as bubbles of light
Where the deaf let the green blind steer
We're on the move now
Through the District of Colum'
We're on the move now
And these truths are marching on
When he walked the Via Dolorosa
and up to Calvary Hill
He carried the cross that bought our sins
And bled His Father's will
When the last dollar bill is spent and gone
When the final song is sung
I'm gonna scorch the overgrown White House lawn
and no alternative fact shall leave my tongue
We're on the move now
To the land of promise won
We're on the move now
And these truths are marching on
We're on the move now
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7. |
Your Sweet Smile
02:23
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Saturday's last thoughts are Sunday's first song
I'm thinking of things that may never be mine
and your sweet smile
I stole a glimpse of the northernmost lights
In a split second snapshot behind my two eyes
of your sweet smile
The deepest trenches under the ocean
The highest skyplanes up in the sky
From the earth's core to the aether
I have not found it, quite as much wonder
as in your sweet smile
your sweet smile
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