1. |
For The Key
04:28
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Pull at the thread
Watch it unravel
Pull at the thread again
Watch it unravel
You know I know this thing is fragile
Just like we’re like the best kind of magic
Foolish heart, foolish heart
I feel backed into a corner
I feel backed into a corner
Look at the end of the string
Thread the needle
Can you remember how to
Sew it up again
Making the same stitch over and over
We’re losing sight of how well it’s holding
Foolish eye, foolish eye
I feel tangled up, lover
I feel tangled up, lover
Let’s go hunting for the key
Lover
Let’s go hunting for the key my love
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2. |
Girl Of An Arc
04:18
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Low hanging fruit
Bears a tune
That doesn’t sound, doesn’t sound
Might I have two
To satisfy
Deeper hunger, deeper hunger
That’s the only way
Some know how
That’s the only way
Some know how
Branch snaps
Far too quickly
Branch snaps
Far too quickly
For me to catch myself
For me to catch myself
Step on these coals
So you can
Walk through fire, walk through fire
When I get old
I will be like the
Girl of an arc
Girl of an arc
Girl of an arc
Watch it unfold
As it has
Time and again, time and again
When we get old
We will be like the
Girl of an arc
Girl of an arc
Girl of an arc
Heavy history repeats
Heavy history repeats
Heavy, heavy
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3. |
Witness
05:24
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When you witness someone loving someone
It awakens something inside yourself
When you witness someone loving someone
It awakens something inside yourself
I see my own time
Floating harshly
Away, before my eyes
Broken reprieve
And I’m on my knees
Begging
Let me do it better, let me do it better, let me see that
When you witness someone loving someone
It awakens something inside yourself
When you witness someone loving someone
It awakens something inside yourself
I feel a dream
Crawl up my throat
And I spill from my tongue
Sweet liquor
Liquor you up
Glaze your whole cup
Empty or full
It’s the color of honey now
Honey now
We’re all honeys now
We’ve seen it
And we wanna be a part of it
We wanna be a part of it, wanna see that
When you witness someone loving someone
It awakens something inside yourself
Hold on for you
Soon will
Know it too
Stay here
For dust
Turns gold
Within the rust
And I’m off the cuff
And a touch to your wrist
Tells me your heart is beating
And your love is bleeding
Yeah your love is bleeding
Tell me what you see
Tell me what you see
When you witness someone loving someone
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4. |
Blue Smoke
04:37
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My friend
Has got
A smoke and mirrors heart
A room full of mirrors heart
Reflects upon
Herself always
Reflects upon
Herself always
Blue smoke
On every note
Blue smoke
On every note
Blue, blue
A grain
Of gold
In a husk
Of thick perfume and cigarettes
Of frankincense and cigarettes
Reflects upon
Herself always
Reflects upon
Herself always
Blue smoke
On every note
Blue smoke
On every note
Blue, blue
The ground
Beneath your feet
Is imagined
It’s imagined
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5. |
Oh Delila
01:52
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Oh Delila
You know I like you
But you don’t hear me
You fill with fear of me
Set your eyes on me
I’ll be your prize today
Win me over
A little slower
We become small things
Resting in the other’s palm
Each one feeling unseen
As our eyes do fall
Honey baby
These things I’ve named you
Hold no meaning
Only surface
I’m a real mess
Refusing a witness
You’re taking me over
Over and over
We become small things
Resting in the other’s palm
Each one feeling unseen
As our eyes do fall
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6. |
The Cage
04:42
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Up, up there on the dome
While, while the silver light takes form
You’re high, higher than you’ve ever been, no
High, higher than you’ve ever gone
A red desire
Does pull your tired
Legs further still
Begs the question
Do you know when you’ve had your fill?
You came to this place
To feel like your face
Is part of the sky
And melting away
Leaving nothing but
Your bones for the wind
To rattle and shake
Your brain in its cage, uh huh
In its cage, uh huh
Cage
An echo
Sonic mirror
Serves as
Affirmation that
You indeed, do reside
In your body
In your body
You came to this place
To feel like your face
Is part of the sky
And melting away
Leaving nothing but
Your bones for the wind
To rattle and shake
Your brain in its cage, uh huh
In its cage, uh huh
Cage
Cage
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7. |
Black Mountain
05:16
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She fell from a star
Or rose from the sea
I’m really not sure
Weaving a saga
From the light of the moon
Then letting it burn
She often touches the flame
Seared skin and heart ablaze
Braver yet she forever becomes
Soaring closer to her brother the sun
Her heart breaks
A thousand times
Each day
The pieces turn
To a thousand golden ravens
Calling to their young, calling to their young
And as she sings this gilded song
Black feathers encased by her golden tongue
The spirits awake to a clear melody
As clear as the water she came from
As clear as the water she came from
She often touches the flame
Seared skin and heart ablaze
Braver yet she forever becomes
Soaring closer to her brother the sun
She gives her heart
Wholly, unfettered
To her garden
Wholly, unfettered to her garden
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8. |
Bad Medicine
05:53
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While my heart was breaking
And I turned my head away
Parts of me were aching
So you gave me that
Bad bad bad bad medicine
Bad bad bad medicine
Bad bad bad medicine
Bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad!
I know it’s ever-changing
It’s like quicksand
But this taste still lingers on my tongue
That bitter sting of
Bad bad bad bad medicine
Bad bad bad medicine
Bad bad bad medicine
Bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad!
Hold it back
So that you can keep your head
Foolish feelings for trusting it again
But you know that, you gotta
Gotta trust in that
Bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad
Wouldn’t you say
This love is like the turn of the seasons
This love is like
Winter comes, it’s buried deep in the ground
And it thaws slow
But the yellow bloom
Is triumphant
Watch it bloom
Triumphant
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9. |
Dream Song
04:13
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Fall into the cloud
Fall into the cloud
I fall, I fall into the shrouded night
I’m falling, I’m falling towards
The morning light
Fall into the cloud
Fall into the cloud
And now he comes to me
Adorned in a sage’s green
His hair is blonde and blue
And now I see that mine is too
He offers me a bowl of fruit
And tells me how he plays his flute
Fall into the cloud
Fall into the cloud
I fall, I fall into the shrouded night
I’m falling, I’m falling towards
The morning light
Fall into the cloud
Fall into the cloud
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