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"Beyond The Fence"

"Beyond The Fence"


Two flat tires on the Model T
Two birds fightin' for a bug
Faded squares like snowy TV screens
Where your photographs were hung

Keep Old Glory folded on a shelf
In a cabinet full of guns
Sell that engine block to someone else
Maybe they can make it run

How'd that calf get out beyond the fence?
How'd that hole get in your jeans?
Movie show was once but twenty cents
That mud there was once a stream

The moon is high, your nose is burned
Your dog is gone
Your mouth is dry, the milk is turned
But Barbara's home

Hand in hand you watch the sun go down
Colored lullaby of God
Barbara wears her mother's old nightgown
Sleeping with a nightlight on

White sheet blowin' on a short clothesline
New tree bendin' to the breeze
This clock's beautiful but can't keep time
What's that scar on both your knees?

The moon is high, your nose is burned
Your dog is gone
Your mouth is dry, the milk is turned
But Barbara's home
 
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"Big Burned Hand"

"Big Burned Hand"


When the arrogant goddess of love came to steal my shoes
She had a white-hot pistol and a homemade heart tattoo
Singing, "One's to give and one's to take away
But neither of them will keep you off your knees."
The children bowed and bolted off the stage
While the lion and the lamb kept fighting for the shade tree
When the winsome god of war came to set me free
He had a couple of Coke bottles full of gasoline
Singing, "All I love is all that I allow."
He blew me a kiss off a big burned hand
Nearly choked with smoke and fell down
While the lion and the lamb kept shooting at a tin can
When the gun-shy goddess of love came back to patch things up
She had a Purple Heart and mother's milk in a plastic cup
Singing, "One's to lay you gently in the grave
And one's to flag you fold before you go."
When the curtain rose the crowd was blown away
While the lion and the lamb kept fucking in the back row
 
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"Bird Stealing Bread"

"Bird Stealing Bread"


Tell me baby tell me
Are you still on the stoop
Watching the windows close
I've not seen seen you lately
On the street, by the beach
Or places we used to go
I've a picture of you
On our favorite day by the seaside
There's a bird stealing bread
That I brought out from under my nose
Tell me baby tell me
Does his company make
Light of a rainy day
How I've missed you lately
And the way we would speak
And all that we wouldn't say
Do his hands in your hair
Feel a lot like a thing you believe in
Or a bit like a bird stealing bread
Out from under your nose
Tell me baby tell me
Do you carry the words
Around like a key or change
I've been thinking lately
of a night on the stoop
and all that we wouldn't say
If I see you again
On the street, by the beach
In the evening
Will you fly like a bird stealing bread
Out from under my nose
 
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"Bitter Truth"

"Bitter Truth"


Our missing pieces walk between us
When we were moving through the door
You called 'em mine, I called 'em yours
You make me get so angry
And I'd stay there on my own
We both make peace but all alone
Some call it talking blues (talking blues)
Some call it bitter truth
Some call it getting even in a song
I can't read it, didn't mean it
As you would rage how I was wrong
Life is too short, and you'd stay too long
Let's be honest, we were strongest till I let you drag me down
I was sorry then, I'm not now
Some get a golden heart
Some get a riverside
Some get a house that lets the years go by
That life is ending, you seem contented
While the graveside flowers die
I call 'em yours, you call 'em mine
Nothing makes silence like experience
There's a message in my eyes
You'd better love yourself, 'cause I tried
Some call it talking blues (talking blues)
Some call it bitter truth
Some call it getting even in a song
 
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"Boy With A Coin"

"Boy With A Coin"


A boy with a coin he found in the weeds
With bullets and pages of trade magazines
Close to a car that flipped on the turn
When God left the ground to circle the world

A girl with a bird she found in the snow
Then flew up her gown and that's how she knows
If God made her eyes for crying at birth
Then left the ground to circle the earth

A boy with a coin he crammed in his jeans
Then making a wish he tossed in the sea
Walked to a town that all of us burn
When God left the ground to circle the world
 
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"Bright Lights And Goodbyes"
(with Jesca Hoop)

"Bright Lights And Goodbyes"
(with Jesca Hoop)



Fish don't care for a quiet sea
The trees won't hear the lightening sky
Bo died right from living thin
We'll throw our gold where water's wide

When the world blows love in between the words
Hell, beneath your tongue they sound strange
When we listen there's a heartbeat singing 'bout the need for leaves
When within the wind and change

Nameless days and a memory like stone
Snow folk coming and a warm walking home
Bright lights and goodbyes
Bright lights and goodbyes
Bright lights and goodbyes
Bright lights and goodbyes

When we listen there's a rain folk calling us ground for green
Ways beyond the waves like heart stars
We can hear fear like fire in the river blood
Hands for pulling through
I'll pull you hard
 
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"Bullet Proof Soul"
(originally by Sade)

"Bullet Proof Soul"
(originally by Sade)



I was so in love with you
You rarely see a love that's true
Wasn't that enough for you
Wasn't that enough for you
I would climb a mountain
I wouldn't want to see you fall
Rock climb for you
And give you a reason for it all

You keep on thinking
You were the only one
Too busy thinking
Love is a gun

Hit me like a slow bullet
Like a slow bullet
It took me some time to realise it

You keep on thinking
You were the only one
Too busy thinking
Love is a gun

I know the end before
The story's been told
It's not that complicated
But you're gonna need a bullet proof soul

You were trigger happy baby
You never warned me let me free
It's not that complicated
But you're going to need a bullet proof soul
I think you got it
But you got all the trouble you need
I came in like a lamb
But I intend to leave like a lion

It hit me like a slow bullet (like a slow bullet)
It hit me like a slow bullet (like a slow bullet)
It hit me like a slow bullet (like a slow bullet)
It hit me like a slow bullet (like a slow bullet)
 
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"Burn That Broken Bed"

"Burn That Broken Bed"


How do you bust the clouds?
Grass on your back been hanging in the air
I wanna scope you out
I wanna touch your mouth when you're up there

When are you coming back?
Bird on a branch will come back home to sing
When are you coming back?
Bringing it back and singing what you bring

How do you bust the clouds?
Head on the ground and feeling what you've seen
I wanna scope you out
I wanna be your eyes and show you me

When are you coming back?
When are you gonna burn that broken bed?
When are you coming back?
I wanna see you drifting overhead
 
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"Call It Dreaming"

"Call It Dreaming"


Say it's here where our pieces fall in place
Any rain softly kisses us on a face

Anywhere means we're running
We can sleep and see 'em coming
Where we drift and call it dreaming
We can weep and call it singing

Where we break when our hearts are strong enough
We can bow 'cause our music's warmer than blood

Where we see enough to follow
We can hear when we are hollow
Where we keep the light we're given
We can lose and call it living

Where the sun isn't only sinking fast
Every night knows how long it's supposed to last
Where the time of our lives is all we have
And we get a chance to say
Before we ease away
For all the love you've left behind
You can have mine

Say it's here where our pieces fall in place
We can fear 'cause the feelings fine to betray

Where our water isn't hidden
We can burn and be forgiven
Where our hands hurt from healing
We can laugh without a reason

Where the sun isn't only sinking fast
Every moon in our bodies makes shining glass
Where the time of our lives is all we have
And we get a chance to say
Before we ease away
For all the love you've left behind
You can have mine
 
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"Call Your Boys"

"Call Your Boys"


Call your boys now that the table's set and shining
No one's seen any of them in many days
Call your boys, they shot a buzzard off a Chrysler
And you still taste all that you swallowed before grace

And you'll forgive even the time they burned the hen house
And ran from you ran to the hills with burning hands

Setting sun framed in the doorway right behind you
Several chores, surely some lessons left to tell
Setting sun, wolves in the hills and now before you
Sit your boys each with their shining silverware

They'll bury you under the wood beside the carport
They'll bury you some neon stop along the way

Radio fuzz on the fence post by the pasture
Long ago Liza and you would dance all day
Now you lay buried, the stern and sacred father
In sacred earth under the billboard in the rain

But one last toast, here's to the brave who went before us
Who died in vain, died in a movie for a dream
 
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