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"Such Great Heights"

"Such Great Heights"


I am thinking it's a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images and when we kiss
They're perfectly aligned

And I have to speculate
That God himself did make us
Into corresponding shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay

And true it may seem like a stretch
But it's thoughts like this that catch
My troubled head when you're away
When I am missing you to death

When you are out there on the road
For several weeks of shows
And when you scan the radio
I hope this song will guide you home

They will see us waving from such great heights
Come down now, they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
Come down now but we'll stay

I've tried my best to leave
This all on your machine
But the persistent beat
It sounded thin upon listening

And that frankly will not fly
You'll hear the shrillest highs
And lowest lows with the windows down
When this is guiding you home

They will see us waving from such great heights
Come down now, they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
Come down now but we'll stay
 
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"Summer Clouds"

"Summer Clouds"


Summer clouds blowing up and down the stair
By the end, we'll take music them both
Give it back, shining broken glass
Wedding coat, I was waiting there for you
You raised your glass and the scars fell of my heart
We threw a stone, but we never heard it land
There are clouds keeping quiet every night
By the end, we hold something too high to ever come back down
By the end, there's a song we will sing meant for someone else
By the end, we leave somewhere too long to ever wander back
By the end, we give someone too much to ever close their hand
Summer clouds doing good for gold and gray
Tell me where all this love fits in the world
You can lie, give me all the rain you want
 
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"Sundown (Back In The Briars)"

"Sundown (Back In The Briars)"


There go the cops with the tomcat teeth
Here come the church mice trying too hard
She had a way to be kind with words
I had a knife in the back of my car

Nobody knows when the rain may come
Nobody wants to wake up and be cruel
She locked the door and the sun went down
In South Carolina with nothing to lose

All of her naked boys
And not even I was true
 
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"Sunset Soon Forgotten"

"Sunset Soon Forgotten"


Be this sunset soon forgotten
Your brothers left here shaved and crazy
We've learned to hide our bottles in the well
And what's worth keeping, sun still sinking
Down and down
Once again
Down and down
Gone again
Be this sunset one for keeping
This june bug street sings low and lovely
Those band-aid children
Chased your dog away
She runs, returning, sun still sinking
Down and down
Once again
Down and down
Gone again
 
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"Swans And The Swimming"

"Swans And The Swimming"


"Take me again," she said, thinking of him
"To the pond with the swans and the swimming"
Far from his room the familiar perfume
How it felt to her when she was naked
Lessons she learned when her memory slurs
As they marvel with love at the sunset
Walking away at the dark end of day
She will measure and break like a habit
Oh how the rain sounds as light as a lover's word
And now and again she's afraid when the sun returns

"Take me again," she said, thinking of him
"I don't care for this careful behavior"
A brush through her hair, children kissing upstairs
Keeps her up with her want for her savior
The sun on the sand, on her knees and her hands
As she begs for her fish from the water
But turn them away, she's a whip and a slave
Given time she may find something better
Oh how the rain sounds as loud as a lover's words
And now and again she's afraid when the sun returns
 
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"Teeth In The Grass"

"Teeth In The Grass"


And when you give me your clothes
And when we're lovers at last
Fresh air, perfume in your nose
There will be teeth in the grass
And when you give me your house
When we're all brothers at last
There will be food in our mouths
There will be teeth in the grass
And when there's nothing to want
When we're all brilliant and fast
When all tomorrow's are gone
There will be teeth in the grass
 
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"The Desert Babbler"

"The Desert Babbler"


It's New Year's Eve
And California's gonna kill you soon
The Barstow boys
Buckeyes in the shadow of the moon
Black houses in the hills and roadside hearts
Dying for a place to fall apart
Who knew what you could learn to live without
Mother Mary's lying in your mouth, now
Back home the kitchen's warm with Christmas wine
And every girl has got an axe to grind
You live to look for heaven
But you're far from that hard light tonight
So quietly we've lost another year
The desert put a babbler in your ear
Mean fireweed and I miss you again
Barstow boys are spit into the wind
Back home the hammer always has to fall
Crosses barely hanging on the wall
Someday I know you'll never leave me
But we're far from that hard light tonight
 
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"The Devil Never Sleeps"

"The Devil Never Sleeps"


Dreaming again of a train track ending at the edge of the sea
(Big black cloud was low and rolling our way)
Dog at the barbed wire barking at my buzz cut friends and me
(Sound of a switchblade shining in the summer rain)
No one on the corner had a quarter for the telephone
Everybody bitching, "There's nothing on the radio"

Dreaming again of a city full of fathers in their army clothes
(Chattering boys and a chicken at the chopping block)
All of us lost at the crosswalk waiting for the other to go
(Didn't find a friend but, boy, I really bought a lot)
Someone bet a dollar that my daddy wasn't coming home
Everybody bitching, "There's nothing on the radio"

Dreaming again that it's freezing and my mother's in her flowerbed
(Long dead rows of daffodils and marigolds)
Changing her face like a shadow on the gravel, this is what she said,
(Blood on my chin, still chewing on a red rose)
"No one lives forever and the devil never sleeps alone"
Everybody bitching, "There's nothing on the radio"
 
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"The Lamb You Lost"
(with Jesca Hoop)

"The Lamb You Lost"
(with Jesca Hoop)



Oh the pin fixing the sea
Was a pillar in my spine
Until the tempest embraced me
In its still and quiet eye
When my hand reached out to skim
Bluer water than your eyes
I was ripped into the spin
I was torn into the tide
Hear the waves hit the cliff
Like our names engraved
Silhouetted you and I kissing
Moon in a tidal lock
And I was born to love you
Like the king who gave his name to Carolina
Know when the sky is dark
The light will come tomorrow
And the lamb you lost is following behind you
There's a lamb you lost still following behind you
Feel the cold on the cliff
With our names engraved
There is music in the sea
And we swim into the sound
Far adrift like I am free
When your voice turns me around
Any heart could burst its shell
Love is made for broken things
Bring your hands to know me well
Know my heart for what it sings
There are names on the cliff
That the waves won't take
Silhouetted you and I kissing
 
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"The Night Descending"

"The Night Descending"


Black hair, the night descending
Baby never puts her trust in
Tight black tie too quick to laughter
Ain't no telling what he's after
Found a friend without religion
Riding on a stolen engine
Far too fast to pacify you
Ain't no telling what he's up to
In time, the night may soften
Trust that I'm still hoping, darling
Wooden coin, he called my daughter
No good knowing what came after
Met a man with missing fingers
Shaking hands with shaded strangers
Far too strong to pacify you
Ain't no telling what they're up to
Late night, the cock crows shortly
Morning through the open doorway
All us servants beg the master
Ain't no knowing what he's after
In a year of fallen angels
Broken hands and boys in danger
Pray the lord might pacify you
Ain't no telling what he's up to
 
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