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The Mainline
03:31
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Born like birds, we fly away, we’re made to stray
Save your excuses when the sun shines
On the mainline
Now open up those eyes, you'll recognize
You'll see it rising in a straight line
Oh the mainline
Oh but I remember in a passing way
When you would shine
you'd have the whole world wanting you at your display
But who would know the truth
if everyone gets answered at the same time
by the mainline
How was I made for this, devoid of bliss
The emptiness within the same lines
Of the mainline
Go wander through the sand, travel the land
Your shadow stands, but what did you find
of the mainline
Oh how I longed to take you dancing in the rain
The music played
with me unsurely stepping blindly into pain
How long I'll suffer
until I'm released of everything that is mine
Oh the mainline
The sun got in our eyes, we lost the prize
We never saw until we went blind
Oh the mainline
No shelter for the sky where we will fly
All flapping feathers of the same kind
Towards the mainline
And as the wind blew through your hair upon the beach
I mourned your face
as it was clear that you had grown out of my reach
There were no words to say
and it only gets harder seen in rewind
Oh the mainline
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2. |
Sun Spots
04:33
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And I keep tastin' the sun
Could be an ocean of fun
All comes undone
In a cloud a drop runs down beside me
Cause I remember your eyes
The windows of your surprise
Horizon skies like vapor
You hang instilled inside me
We light our candles in the wind
In bitter means to the end
The will just bends
All is fiction so let us be pretending
If you fly too high
Your wings will burn
Each lesson learned too late
Heavies the weight upon you
Shine down to me
Shine down to me
Come down to me
And please release the chains upon me
And I'll fall down to the bottom of the ocean
The sun will scream unheard this far past the surface
Shine down on me
Shine down to me
Come down to me
Your lowly meek and unworthy beggar
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3. |
Transfer
02:19
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Above the wishing well
I wish my wish had fell
To sounds of movement in the fluid
Here it's just a wasteland
All roads will lead back to graceland
To let me know that you were never here
On and on we wait to transfer
Everyone gets old
And the wait is on
The weight is on
It's on my head
Too much here to miss
To seal it with a kiss
And drop the weight, my hands tied to ruin
I fell into the water
Gather round all mothers, daughters
I break the glass I fall into my tears
On and on we wait to transfer
Everyone gets old
And the wait is on
The weight is on
It's on my head
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4. |
Point of No Return
03:55
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Spit out the cloud; I'm rainin' down
And filling your void
Guess I'm at the point of no return
The memories, the injuries
The mountain to destroy
Guess I'm at the point of no return
Oh but I'll say it just to make you sorry
You say you're not sorry?
The sacrifice that paid my price
The blood of the lamb
Guess I'm at the point of no return
What never was was all because
And who could understand?
Guess I'm at the point of no return
Oh but I'll say it just to make you sorry
You say you're not sorry?
Remember when the safety pin was holding?
Guess I'm at the point of no return
The heads all shake
The fingers are all pointing
Welcome to the point of no return
I'm at the point of no return
Oh but I'll say it just to make you sorry
You say you're not sorry?
I'll take it once and do it all over again
Sorry
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5. |
Sugarcane
02:01
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Relapse in sugarcane
Sunny skies begin to rain
I don't know where you parked the car
But I'm sure it's not too far
The tower is all shiny-like
But that's okay, that's what you do when you're away
Everything is coming down
Everything is fading out
Everything is glistening
Nobody is listening
The tower is on fire now
But that's okay, that's what you do when you're away
Glance on your idle stare
The soft curl of your hair
Your skin against my cheek
I would stay like this for weeks
But the tower burnt down to the ground
But that's okay, that's what I'll do when you're away
The sun goes down, skies are returning back to grey
You flickered here but I knew that you couldn't stay
But that's okay, that's what I'll do in sugarcane
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6. |
Ivory Saint
02:57
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You're my ivory saint
Piece of work from yesterday
Hair sticks to you like glue
You're my ivory saint
Smiling as you sail away
Away to some place new
You're my ivory saint
Memory long gone astray
The light that's shining through
You're my ivory saint
Country side of a maiden stay
I'll excite the morning dew
Christened to stars of light
There is no adultery
I can only hope to be a penny's worth
When I feel the way I do
You're my ivory saint
As silently you drift away
Scattered shards coming back to one
You're my ivory saint
Brushed my teeth
Took the knife away
Always shaken, never done
Christened to stars of light
There is no adultery
I can only hope to be a penny's worth
When I feel the way I do
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7. |
Ceremony
03:10
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Hope, I've got it in spades
I've got it in pain
I hope it can stay
To fall so far away
I'm wading in the shade
A needle in the hay
I let you slip away
We'll have no ceremony now
Time got in our way
We'll have no ceremony now
Nothing is repaid
We'll have no ceremony
You are too precious to me
Just know that to be
Wherever you go
And I will thank you heaven that you found me
Till I'm being lowered down
Till I'm six feet underground
I let you slip away
We'll have no ceremony now
Time got in our way
We'll have no ceremony now
Nothing is repaid
We'll have no ceremony
You will never be forgotten, not by me
I just want you to know
I let you get away
We'll have no ceremony now
Time just gets away
We'll have no ceremony now
I let you get away
We'll have no ceremony now
Life just slips away
We'll have no ceremony
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8. |
If She's Leaving
01:48
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With your hair down you're wild and free
You run around away from me
I chase you down and up a tree
You shake me down, you get me high
Your shapely sounds will get me by
Yes everything must have a try
I look into your eyes
Is she leaving on the train again?
If she's coming back, I won't pretend
But does she hear my whispers in the wind
I'll miss you more than you will know
But I have nothing more to show
I'm emptied out, my covers blown
Now that's it's time to wave goodbye
The heart won't mend, the eyes won't dry
But nothing's giving and nothing does
Endless time to view what was
Is she leaving on the train again?
If she's coming back, I won't pretend
But does she hear my whispers in the wind
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Animations
02:33
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Go and tell your children, don't lose yourself in words
All ages are to have their place and time
You connect your worries
And looking for the signs
Don't lose the road and fill your face with lines
Your animations color up the world
Closing to unfurl
The connotations as I see you twirl
Everyone's a world
Every boy and girl
Everyone's a world
Like a light that's shining and beamed from outer space
Somehow in the darkness you get through
When you're really smiling
I fall away from earth
And in the black, all I see is you
Your animations color up the world
Closing to unfurl
The connotations as I see you twirl
Everyone's a world
Every boy and girl
Everyone's a world
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10. |
Doldrums
01:57
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11. |
Treble Clef
02:05
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I'll wait forever just for you
Don't make me shiver in the blue
I'll wait for you baby
Cause I can wait, maybe
I'll wait for nothing to be turned
If the tide won't learn I will teach it good
Nothing is left for me now
Nothing is left
Treble clef
You take the tired train
I won't let you go run away in a race
to make it snow in the clouds when it's cold
You know I know what it takes
to be a-racin' in this world
I'm leavin' to the corner lands to see
what you promised, what you promised me
I've got nothing left
I've got nothing left
Treble clef
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12. |
GraceLand
04:14
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Let me see your hands and I'll show you the world
If you wanna know, everyone can come back to life
If there's any grace then I would see your face there
I would know if you would know, now everyone wake up
Down by the river, forever I will shiver
There's a home on the land if you send forth a dove
Let me know you wanna know, let me know you wanna go
Lesson learned, lesson learned - now please let me wake up
It's a place to go if you wanted me to know
It's the reason I'm given if you wanted me to show
It's a place you can go if you wanted it to work out
I know you do
Babies all but being born mourning with a crown of thorns
Aching at the fingertips, frothing at the mouth
You will know your age when the letters fill your page
But for your life of flesh all you'll know is pain
Guilty in my penitence, a requiem of innocence
Flickering in images that come from where you came
Practice makes the best of me, if you want the rest of me
I'll wait for your command while I'm lying belly up
It's a place to go if you really want to know
It's the reason I'm given if you wanted me to show
It's a place you can go if you wanted it to work out
I know you do
Go to where the light is, where the white knight lives
Follow broken roads, fallen trees in the pass
I'll ask for direction where there's no protection
Bodies lying dead, men are nursing injuries
The path will only narrow, bones will lose their marrow
Darkness will prevail, nature's armies storm the sky
All alone and naked, noone ever makes it
Beaten out of body, out of mind, and out of time
It's a place you can go if you wanted seeds that grow
There's a reason once given is it worth for you to know
It's a place you can go if you wanted it to work out
I know you do
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I have foraged in the meadow with the old country's widow
Taken little of little and left with her name
For this queen of the clover, no drop hath run over
Brim full just to know her, spilt out in the rain
For the heart she's a breaker, in the night she's a waker
Born again undertaker, blowing kisses at death
She's a token collector, a soft light projector
A sure hand protector, sweet salts on her breath
And as reddening skies bleed into the night
I'll awake with a fright but she won't be there
In a cold haunted wind, no feeling will send
And I'll break and I'll bend and I'll feel for her hair
Oh to walk on the water with the emerald's daughter
Sea-tamed and sea fathered, she's worn in her dress
With no prelude to entrance - delight of a new sense
Entranced and belittled, made known to the flesh
No picture could prove her, no charm could exude her
The sun will not lose her so shine ye of light
Make her presence known, prepared to be sown
In gardens of Eden and origins of sight
But it wasn't all maybe cause I did love your baby
Took two scales to weigh me, heavy on my feet
And without an answer, too clumsy a dancer
My shame was my cancer - impatient on your seat
No charms are exacting on her nature's reacting
No light so refracting as to pierce through her will
Her blemishes shimmer, her dead eyes still glimmer
And as she grows dimmer, the emptiness to fill
The horror in the twilight, innocence in the dawns' bright
All mirages to my sight, and left with her mark
The days linger foul, the cannibals all howl
The age in the owl unknown in the dark
Got stuck on the latter, unlaced, torn to tatter
and I'd shatter the matter and I'd bend back the spoon
No shortcut to heaven, our bread went unleavened
I could've been, should've been, could've been you
I'll find you in pining, in death's silver lining
My face will be shining, my heart full to bust
The mourning of diamonds born of the new hymen
As once was alive then, now's chasing the dust
Just harvest me whole, take a lock off my soul
All I want you to know is that we didn't just try
And as all hope is gone still your eyes linger on
So I made you this song when I was too dry to cry
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