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Once Had A Dream
01:39
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I once had a dream it was morning
Everything just like today
Just when I turned to look away
I had become everything
I once had a day like a dream
Everything rough as the sea
Just like a nightmare it washed over
And I disappeared into sleep
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2. |
Stained Glass
05:33
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I find myself again in the windowpane
They told me 'bout the way you and I relate
And it's so strange
It's such a fragile place
The days dissolve away
And photographs remain
It all could blow away
One sigh is all it'd take, but it remains
It's such a fragile place, but it stays
The harvest was a waste, what a shame
The cellophane remains, and now I'm stained
Did I make a mistake?
I never knew what happened to you
The fallow season came
You know I'm not a saint
Something's gone away
I gotta dig a grave, but it's OK
It's what I want, oh my god, so it's what I got
I got off, oh my god, and I got tossed
I'm never naught, and now I'm turned off
I saw the world fresh
I saw the word made flesh
It came and it went
And it's burning up my nest
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3. |
February
03:44
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You know well my dear we're always on the run
With somebody else
Feeling all the fear
When everybody's gone
And no one feels the same
Who could hold a gun to February?
All the other kids on all the other streets
Named after numbers, provinces, and trees
And all the other girls, never on my line
Who could never give a kid like me the time
You're so cruel, you're so kind
I'm no good, I don't mind
You're alright, I'm just fine
You're so cool, how am I
I could never change is all you're really saying
But everything is gone and nothing feels the same
I could never give ever quite enough
A bottomless pit swallowing you up
You're so cruel, you're so kind
I'm no good, I don't mind
You're alright, I'm just fine
You're so cool, how am I?
I could never give you all of my love
But all the other kids have surely got enough
When all of them are gone, an you're not quite the same
Are you gonna run from temporary?
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4. |
Dusk
06:21
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The way the day met night, it fit together nice
We cut through strangers' yards just to feel alive
I never thought to ask much about you
You told me 'bout a place for us to run away
It was the end of the world
And suddenly the night seemed fake
I'd never seen the Devil's face
You smiled as if to say "the world's ending anyway
it's just a little down the lane"
The way we met the day I never felt the same
I caught a cab to town and I never saw you again
It didn't feel like what I would do
But one day I know I'll be as open as the sky
Free to bear a cloud, free to empty out
I was never one to say Amen
But I said it all before
I didn't know what for
I said it all before
Though I didn't know what for
No atheists in, well... you know how it goes
Do you ever wonder how someone could care so much for you?
Hey friend
Do you ever wonder how someone could care so much for you?
Amen
Do you ever wonder how someone could care so much for you?
You smile at me and say "you're worried I can see"
I can't believe my feelings are betraying me
You smile at me and say "you're worried I can see"
But I can't say just what I'd seen except it was a dream
You smiled at me and said "you're worried I can see"
I'm trying to keep my face straight, I'm just trying not to leak
You smiled right at me and said "you're worried I can see"
But that's the least you could say when a nightmare is chasing me
The only bough to break is the one the wind won't shake
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5. |
Lucky Stars
04:20
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I'm tired of my hands moving when I'm not thinking
And I'll give all of my days just to know where I'm going
And I don't know what I want
Save for what I want not
If I should fall before the victory line
Don't think less of me now ma
Don't think less of me dad
I'm tired of my mind running off away from me
And my heart's getting tired of trying to keep up endlessly
And I don't know what love is, so how can I want it?
If I should fall before the victory line
Don't think less of me now ma
Don't think less of me dad
You and me and the Devil make three
And we keep running away
And we keep finding that I got all my luck charms
And I got all my lucky stars to thank for this one
If I should fall before the victory line
Don't think less of me now ma
Don't think less of me dad
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6. |
Heart Of
02:05
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(instrumental)
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7. |
Free Energy
04:19
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How does it work, the mechanics of it
I don't know how it happened and I don't know if I care
How does it work, I think everyone stares one minute
And then I'm not sure if you're aware
I had a dream that I finally worked up the nerve
But when I told you you laughed and it hurt
We're in a dream whether or not you see
And my lucidity is bringing you to me
It's a free energy
Lucidity, it's washing over me
How does it work when you walk through the room
How do you make it to the other side
Without tripping over some other guy
Who's just trying to find a little tiny piece of your time?
What does it mean to be into a thing
Am I just projecting or are you the girl of my dreams?
I'm thinking 'bout it all too much and not telling you
But you told the room
That you had a dream someone was knocking at your door
And you didn't want to let them in but I think I know more
We're in a dream whether or not you see
And my lucidity is bringing you to me
It's a free energy
Lucidity, it's washing over me
Lucidity
It's a free energy
You and me, let's go down in history
Now in my new dreams you blush and you look at the floor
Now in your new dreams you don't want to close the door
I had a dream back when I was asleep
But I've still to this wide-awake dream of you and me
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8. |
Diagram
06:45
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I'm so nervous, I'm so tense
I'm so unprepared, I'm so on the fence
I've been trying to find just what I am
And I can't seem to find a satisfactory diagram
What I've got so far, though it needs some revision
Between me and the universe there is no division
I believe it but my mind won't
I want it to disappear but it just don't
The trouble is that I'm trying to erase
Something that never was there in the first place
What is life, what is death?
What stupid questions I fill my head with
Now I've got a good one, what does it mean
For you to be human, for you to dream?
And I've got an answer for anything you say
But I'm never right, I'll warn you right away
And I don't mind, but my mind does
There's always an answer it's trying to think of
What could it tell itself to make it disappear?
It's like stomping on a lake to make the reflection clear
The trouble is that I'm trying to fix
Something that never was problematic
All of my pleasures are grasping at smoke
But this one's so tangible, I gotta see it up close
I know that it's ghostly, I've just got to prove it
And I'll only know for sure once my hand has passed through it
And only then will I stop reaching
Once everything's disappeared
Translucent, each thing
Fully alive as if you were on acid
But that's just the way it looks when you look right at it
The trouble is that I think I exist
When nothing ever ever did
You're not what you think you are
I'm not what I think I am
I just can't seem to find a satisfactory diagram
You're not what I think you are
I'm not what you think I am
I just can't seem to find a satisfactory diagram
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9. |
I Feel Like Today
03:32
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Try the lock, try the latch
Shake off the loose bits, see how deep the skin goes
I lost a bet but I made it
I was looking for some magic but instead I found this
I feel like committing the crime of the century
I used to think 'did someone invent me?'
I still like the look of the view from the belfry
But I feel like today and today's ordinary
Climb on up, dive on in
I'm wading in the waters that the loose screws drowned in
Light a match, lighten up
It's like everybody's doubting you can ever rise above it
But I'm here and I can touch it
Have a taste, I know you'll love it
I feel like committing the crime of the century
I used to think 'did someone invent me'
I still like the look of the view from the belfry
But I feel like today and today's ordinary
Trading up wasn't working out
I tried to warm up but I just got worn out
You can make my day, but I can't make you
I'm making up for lost time
And I'll make it up to you if I have made you anything
That's made you make me want to change my mind
I feel like committing the crime of the century
I used to think 'did someone invent me'
I still like the look of the view from the belfry
But I feel like today and today's ordinary
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10. |
Once Upon A Time
05:55
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I was a garden in a past life
And I slept with the birds who sang me to sleep at night
And I was I handshake on the tip of your tongue
And once upon a time I was your father or son
And I will be with you once upon a time
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