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Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants
On the train from Jackson to Chicago
Providence is yet to be revealed
Standing on the platform by my window
Soon you will be swallowed by the fields
A sudden blur of trees
A sudden blur of trees
Rushing through the delta veins
On the train from Jackson to Chicago
Licking all the wounds that never healed
Turn around
Turn around
Now you're at the end of the line
Don't look down
Don't look down
You're standing on the shoulders
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Everyday the shadow of my father
Is painted on the walls and on the floors
It stretches out across the open waters
And crashes on the sandy Eastern shores
Searching in the dark
Searching in the dark
Looking for a clue to what's been lost
Now I see the shadow of my father
On the shoulders of the one that came before
Turn around
Turn around
Now you're at the end of the line
Don't look down
Don't look down
You're standing on the shoulders
Standing on the shoulders of giants
A clear run
Blue sky
Downhill
A free ride
Stones throw
A straight line from here
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Clockwork
04:02
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Time is a gun
Laid on the table
and you pace around
with a crazy grin
Rush of blood just in time
turn the gears in your mind
Everything just like clockwork
Everything just like clockwork
Time is a road
In a foreign country
and we drive around
and we miss the signs
the sun is shining in your eyes
the strangers on the driver's side
Everything just like clockwork
Everything just like clockwork
close to you
never been so close to you
never been so intertwined
so aligned
Everything just like clockwork
Everything just like clockwork
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3. |
Still So Far Away
03:55
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Still so far away
Canary and coal
Blackbird and wire
Circling suns
Turn the winds toward your kingdom on fire
Siren in red
A priest with a bull's head
Called you a liar
Still so far away
Still so far away
Shadow and moan
Shelter the soul
Pulleys and rope
Raise the arms of the gods in control
Columns of air
Foundation of blank stares
Is taking it's toll
Still so far away
Still so far away
Waiting in the cold gray light
On the tarmac
Every heartbeat organized
Planes overhead
Like ravens over a riverbed
Maybe see you one more time
In the blue light
Every gesture sterilized
But i saw it on your face and you knew
It was just a lie, a lie, a lie
Still so far away
Still so far away
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St. Augustine's Restless
04:09
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St. Augustine's Restless
Summer day's euphoria
I can't help feel something's just not right
Silver tomb for the kingfisher
I can't help feel something's just not right
Splinter born in the mind
Leaves a scar on the face
Shelter me from this paradise
I can't help feel something's just not right
St. Augustine's Restless
St. Augustine is Restless
Waterfall straight from the vein
I can't help feel something's just not right
Afternoon's eternity
I can't help feel something's just not right
Winter wind in the blood
Of a grey-eyed new baby boy
Wake me up from this paradise
I can't help feel something's just not right
St. Augustine's Restless
St. Augustine is Restless
We wander through the park
And float above the sea
And wish the dark could be
A lens into the deep
A string into the clouds
It's ours to keep for now
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Vale Of Tears
04:46
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Vale Of Tears
Starry eyes
Willow trees, streetlights and butterflies
In the childhood years
Open fields, bumble bees and dandelions
Materials
June bugs and bottles glow emerald
In the childhood years
Spiderwebs, thunderclouds and animals
We'll teach you how to close your eyes
We'll teach you how to close your eyes
We'll teach you how to close your eyes
Don't worry love
It's just a vale of tears
Neither found or lost
Neither frail or numb to the cost
Neither ill or well
An empty shell
Waiting 'til the end is near
Through a vale or tears
Starry eyes
Flashlights and shadows so wonderful
Don't you agree?
In the childhood years
Fireworks and sunlight so beautiful
How can this be?
We'll teach you how to run and hide
We'll teach you how to run and hide
We'll teach you how to run and hide
Don't worry love
It's just a vale of tears
Neither found or lost
Neither frail or numb to the cost
Neither ill or well
An empty shell
Waiting 'til the end is near
Through a vale or tears
Neither found or lost
Neither frail or numb to the cost
Neither ill or well
An empty shell
Waiting 'til the end is near
Neither high or low
Neither false or true when you know
Neither ill or well
An empty shell
Waiting 'til the end is near
Through a vale or tears
Through a vale or tears
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6. |
V Of Pelicans
04:18
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V of Pelicans
Taken by the ocean and the wind
Procession of broken pieces
What's left now floating like a V of pelicans
Captured by the slowly falling tide
Scattered drift wood
A doomed armada now crossing in search of the other side
With the darkness eminent
Everyone tries to find a way back home again
Nothing but a frame of skin and bone
She takes a deep breath to drown
Or baptize this river with the tears she's never known
A shadow of a wolf across the beach
Silver and black a guardian
Over the chasm that keeps us out of reach
With the darkness eminent
Everyone tries to find a way back home again
Hidden in a single grain of sand
A numinous charge of light
A sudden unveiling with a chance to understand
It doesn't matter now just what she wants
The messages drift across horizons
Half under like a flock of cormorants
With the darkness eminent
Everyone tries to find a way back home again
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One Of Us
04:20
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One Of Us
Lying in the grass
Staring at the sun falling through the trees
He tries to close his eyes
Hasn't slept in days
Hasn't slept in days
The Coney Island train
Is running through his head to 34th and Grand
He wonders what it's like
what it's like to be
what it's like to be one of us
One of us who fall
One of us who dance
One of us who choose
What it's like for
One of us who love
One of us who cringe
One of us who lose
What it's like for one of us
For one of us
For one
Waking up like death
Animated birds
Circling his head
Can't remember how
How he came to be
How he came to be here
Spinning carousel
Over by the lake
Makes the world a blur
He wonders what it's like
what it's like to be
what it's like to be one of us
One of us who fall
One of us who dance
One of us who choose
What it's like for
One of us who love
One of us who cringe
One of us who lose
What it's like for one of us
For one of us
For one
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Strange Inversion Of Reasoning
Beautiful machinery
An elegant army
And yes, now I realize
I realize it's love
No grand design
No meaning to
The scenic view
Up above
Strange Inversion
Strange Inversion of reasoning
Beautiful machinery
Enumerable agents at work
Who don't realize
Can't realize it's love
No hidden signs
No fingerprints
No filaments
From above
Strange Inversion
Strange Inversion of reasoning
See the world through a magnifying glass
The Southern wind is on the Arctic sea
The universe has been turned upon it's head
from how it was to how it seems to be
Beautiful machinery
An elegant army
And yes, now I realize
I realize it's love
No grand design
No meaning to
The scenic view
Up above
Strange Inversion
Strange Inversion of reasoning
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Empyrean
05:08
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Empyrean
Saturday died under the weight of Mt. Pendulum's Holy crown
Maybe we should play it safe
Cause when it gets bad
she scolds her heart
with the very same venomous words
usually reserved
for the everyday, everyday common fool
The chandeliers are in the trees
the grand piano thrown in the lake
empyrean shattered on the ground
The laughter echoes down the shotgun hall
the weeds are growing thru a crack in the wall
'til it's overgrown
The heavens don't shine when you're hanging your head like a flightless city swan
Maybe there's no reason why
But when it gets cold
she guards her heart with the very same animal nerves usually reserved
to survive is the only rule
The chandeliers are in the trees
the grand piano thrown in the lake
empyrean shattered on the ground
The laughter echoes down the shotgun hall
the weeds are growing thru a crack in the wall
'til it's overgrown
to survive
it's the only rule
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Echo Location
04:00
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Echo Location
Empty room
As you tear down the posters
And the shadow of your hand from the wall
At the end of the wire
The picture of you acting like you're playing
your violin
a century ago in Holland Park
a century ago in Holland Park
So when you fall in
I'll find you again
Echo Location
Learning to swim
I'll find you again
Echo Location
Signals from the white noise bloom
When you fall in
I'll find you again
Echo Location
Empty room
As you close out the airwaves
and the static from your red catacombs
Every word is a tomb
Buried in the shadow of your Manteo Orange Grove
A century away from Holland Park
A century away from Holland Park
So when you fall in
I'll find you again
Echo Location
Learning to swim
I'll find you again
Echo Location
Signals from the white noise bloom
When you fall in
I'll find you again
Echo Location
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6th And Central Park
01:35
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6th and Central Park
Every fallen soul
Is just a nickel in the street
Clumsily discarded from the fingertips of God
On his way to 6th and Central Park
Can't believe his luck
"This beautiful day!"
To lay his weary head in the grass
To lay his weary head in the grass
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