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June '71
05:06
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Back then we cut off the poets fingers
yeah, it was our idea of fun
but they threw us in jail - no hope for bail
back in June of 71
& Our harvest golden wild eyesight
yeah, we watch charlie take the rap
but the killer calls and the caterwauls
covered up the sound of all this crap
Oh superstar, that's who you are
you're drenched in the mirror blood
I've seen the papers and mind rapers coming
they wanna drag you thru the mud
Blind drivers fumble for the car keys
4 wheels on floats of rock and roll
Queen bitchin' peace pipes & long eyelashes
her poison denim takes it's toll
Pack up your paisley-laden profiles, yeah
put down the bowl - pick up the booze
gas up the whales and hit the tarmac
nothing to gain - no time to lose
so golden tan - wait in the van
'cause they're burning blue and red
& I've got to go talk to this nice man
you see a friend of mine is dead.
It might not hit you while you're dreaming
no babe, good times are not always fun
the fragile flowers they're out there screaming
cut down in June of 71.
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Magic Lantern
05:09
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One simple motion - that turns it on - oh magic lantern
it fills the air - with sweet communion - it takes me there
& oh magic lantern - dirty spirits - you've awakened
they see the light - you breathe upon them - before the fall
In blind dark tunnels - we need the night light - oh magic lantern
this kind of darkness - does taste of sugar - & smells of the rain
& oh magic lantern - you guide the seekers - you warm the keepers
you kill the creepers - but still they follow - your threadbare sun
Your wick of velvet - it burns eternal - it never dies out
Oil of nectar - it's always summer - sweet butterfly
oh magic lantern - turn up convection - & breath upon me
I kissed the sky - it opened up there - now prudence smiles
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Stone
04:10
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Stone, it's made of stone It's all you own
I saw you standing on it crying all alone
monsters on thrones they pick your bones
& wipe their lips with all the innocence you've shown
and When I'm cremated - smoke my ashes & you'll see the flashes
of the bridges we burned and faces we turned - to stone
& When you're frustrated - look for your brothers, with devils and mothers
push you in closets deep & shut you in - they shut you in
alone,
get off the phone now don't bemoan
your social grace has now become a dial tone
your cover's blown your birds have flown
you find you're shrinking and the horror show has grown
And when I'm cremated - you'll smoke my ashes & you'll see the flashes
of your prison birthday and the cake with a baked in file
& When you're frustrated - look for your brothers, with devils and mothers
who stole your sanity and left you standing all alone without a single trace of
Style,
it's not my style the rank and file
I'm just the crippled dog that walked a city mile
you took my smile and all the while
I was the guilty man you never put on trial
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Horrible Pilgrims
03:25
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You're dressed in black - well how 'bout that.
A tattered doormat - halloween cat
Sorry leather clown - make-up, washing down
clumsy gothic frown - in ritalin you drown
Horrible Pilgrim Son - Here is lesson one
embrace the simple pleasures
hide not from the sun
Horrible Pilgrim Son -good deeds all undone
it's raining trailer witches
put down the gun, put down the gun
Sweet dream divorces - demon horses
the magic forces - they steer your courses
night time child - white and wild
you're mother's baby mild - Mary Shelly styled
Horrible Pilgrim Girls - your black flag unfurls
denounce the greater good
shave off those crimson curls
Horrible Pilgrim Daughter
black sheep to slaughter
your family is calling
can't hear them 'cause you're underwater
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Her Normal Courtesy
04:54
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Her normal courtesy is to stop in silence
her normal courtesy is to let you speak
her normal courtesies are sad devotions
her tears are falling on the sheet
Her normal courtesies are blind perfections
Her normal courtesies just hide desire
Her normal courtesy is to set the table
Her hidden rage will set it all on fire
Her normal courtesy is to polish the silver
her normal courtesy is to make it shine
her normal courtesy has found the trigger
her slender fingers so divine
Her normal courtesies will tiptoe hallways
her normal courtesies have picked the locks
her normal courtesies are firing blindly
her courtesies have smashed on rocks
blood drips from supple corners of her mouth
it's normal courtesy you see
smoke rolls from barrel burning hot with friction
it's normal courtesy you see
the table's clean and sparkling in the great hall
it's normal courtesy you see
she's made a trail of wax across your corpse but...
it's normal courtesy you see
round lips are pursed and blow across your face
she knows her manners - and she knows her place
her normal courtesies are drenched in grace
her fallen halo stings her face, stings like mace
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Glorious In Black
05:44
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It's glorious in black
I just wish it hadn't - fallen on my backbone
and it broke down the 2 tone
but it, kept me alive
It's glorious in black
who'd of thought it would bring down the mayflower
despite all the star power
it's too much to drive
There's two ways to go
but I didn't wanna - go down the wrong way
or rewrite the knee play
'cause I forgot the lines
There's two ways to go
and I thought I should - commit to one path
we fell in the salt bath
I didn't see the signs
your credence set me up as a liar
but you set the stud out to sire
and the black coal dusted sunrise
called me back
but the glorious river of black
gets me back on track....
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When It Rolls In
04:55
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When it rolls in - it'll be alright
we'll make the fools spin
with blinded sight
When it rolls in - on fashion tension
we'll speak the words
they would not dare to mention
when it rolls in - through dark alliance
we'll pull the trigger pin
on all this soft compliance
when it rolls in - like smoke on water
our transparent skin
won't hide the secret slaughter
over the rocks, upon the shore
we don't know you anymore
when the wave rolls through the door
and all the truth lays on the floor
we've become what you deplore
brokered lies from long before
the only reason we've come here for...
to see the band that turned to whore
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Underwater
03:43
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days going downhill & my will has grown thinner
they're fishing her body now, from deep in the river
sad subject compromise, drains the white from my eyes
and I'll be the first one to admit it
snowfall it froze my mind, left only ice behind
that ice ran through thoughts of redemption
just frozen red bloodstains & gilded ankle chains
a snowman in my lonely kitchen
We swam against such tide-my pain & all your pride
we could not dry our skin to save our lives
you said I made no sense
contempt and all pretense
and so I held you underwater
there is a sailor's knot that holds the sin I brought
and sunk it with a rock deep in the river
I left a note to you - of all I tried to do
and you can take that note to heaven
I'm opening the door, the snow blows on the floor
they'll find me here inside my coffin
but answers won't be found, just questions left to drown
and now I'm on my way to you.
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You're On Fire
03:08
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Why'd you turn me into salt? when it wasn't my fault
and now it's raining
Somehow you saw my love as treason the death of reason
but who's complaining
I walked around like I owned the place & you spit in my face
that's not a kiss
I'll cut your strings you little puppet your man's above it
you're just his pet
It's my salt, they're my bones,
it's my fault, nevermind
It's no crime, they're fake tears,
your not here, I'm on time
You're on fire, It's no joke,
I'm no liar, get the hose
It's your blood, they're my hands,
we are everyone, it's a crime.
Pour gas on wounds, and light it up & set your ass down
and now get up, get up
It's nevermind time - so let it go - and run away babe
it's all just for show.
I'm not the golden boy you thought I was and you the millionaire
I didn't think so
Is she the blue-blood overachiever? did you believe her?
that's how the story go
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We All Fall Down
03:51
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We get to Kent there'll be religion
We get to London there'll be sound
We get to Bristol there's a black hole
We get to Leeds we all fall down
What's all this talk of sin and sickness?
What's all this talk of pound and pence?
What's all this talk of all mod contact?
What's all this talk of manifest?
and then she asked me have you been there?
and I said where
and then she asked me are you playing
what you saying - babe?
in Birmingham there is a spaceship
in Coventry we catch the train
in Manchester we'll lose the handgun
in Yorkshire High here comes the rain
R -What's all this talk of sin and sickness?
What's all this talk of pound and pence?
What's all this talk of all mod contact?
What's all this talk of manifest?
and then she asked me have you been there?
and I said where
and then she asked me are you playing
what you saying - babe?
can you bring that? mind your p's and q's
don't wind me up now lovely to meet you
can you sing that? you're blind and so abused
don't sign me up now it's lovely to beat you
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Shipwrecks
05:29
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You're so meticulous - & I'm fashion challenged.
You look like diamonds - and I smell like smoke.
You're wearing linen - & I'm wearing thin.
You're eyes cut through me - I'm just a joke
When you part the ocean - I fall on the shipwrecks
You laugh out loud - when you see me cry.
But I'll rise above it - with lungs full of water
I'll swim to the surface - for one more try.
Now you didn't know me. - You didn't love me.
I'm such a demon. - Destroying your mind.
OH, you're so above it. - It's all so futile
whoever said that - true love is blind.
Oh - carry me up to - the places that we knew
before I was tired - before it was through
when you were meticulous - and I was a demon
and you saw potential - and I saw it too.
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Mennonite glam rock showcasing a certain proclivity to meld the majestic with the pitifully ordinary.
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