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Heart spilling over
Checking all emotion
Motionless, I wait for a sign
Am I the biggest fool
With my face turning blue?
I may as well be hanging bells in the sky
Falling in love with an octopus
She will love you, she will leave you, she will fly
Falling in love with an octopus
She will capture your heart in the blink of an eye
Hiding there in the coral
Camouflaged, you would never know
Emotive, effusive, evasive, elusive
Holding you not so very long ago
Feel the push-pull of the waves overhead
Carefully -- no sudden moves
Reaching out to touch her, getting seaweed instead
Giving up 'til my surrender improves
I try to fall asleep
As she beckons from the deep
Visions of our bodies entwined
Unbelievable, it seems
Or was it all just a dream?
Am I losing her or losing my mind?
Hiding there in the coral
She's calling the shots with her silence
Feel the push-pull of the waves overhead
Carefully -- no sudden moves
Reaching out to touch her, getting seaweed instead
Giving up 'til my surrender improves
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A Kiss Goodbye
04:56
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I've been hungry down in Texas
Where the sunsets will break your heart
And I've been swimming in Puerto Rico
Where I counted a million stars
Motorcycled the San Juan Skyway
Thought that I could almost fly
Riding horseback in the mountains
Taste the rain hangin' in the sky
CH
And oh, what a life it's been
Oh, what a life
Am I sure I was ever here?
Oh what a life it's been
Oh, what a life
A kiss goodbye to all the ones I've loved so dear
Watching bullfights in Tijuana
Just sixteen and she's all in
Weekly bar fights, dodging bottles
Now 85 she tells it with a grin
And I've known love; I've tasted heartache
And I've held on when I should've let go
I've been determined to find the answer
But I confess that I still don't know
CH
I've been drunk in Takamatsu
Where my friends helped me off the floor
And I have flirted more than I ought to
Pretending I don't know what's in store
And I have tried to be a hero
A man with a heart so pure
Then I have lied and come up zero
When the mirror's more than I can endure
CH
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Quartering Sea
03:42
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The clouds are getting dark
There's a black flag waving
I doubt this broken ship
is even worth saving
Not a trace of my crew
now that we've run this beast aground
The lapping of the waves
is the only sound
Out at sea on my own
It looks like, for awhile
I'm not going out to sea
I don't think that I could brave
another mutiny
Everything I need
Is right here within reach
Guess it's time to get to work
on my little beach
Out in the distance, up on the shore
There where resistance meets a hunger for more
It's time to build my own boat
I need to know that I can be
Out at sea on my own
Out at sea
Out at sea on my own
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4. |
Safe Dry Land
05:04
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Ten thousand red flags
waving proudly in the breeze
Facing the gun I run to the one
who promises to bring me to my knees
Safe dry land
Wouldn't it be nice to live a life on safe dry land?
Reach into my bag of tricks
Pull the pin and throw my grenade
Find cover before the pain begins
Isn't this how love is made?
Safe dry land
Wouldn't it be nice to live a life on safe dry land?
Advance, vanish, repeat
Got to keep on kicking your feet
Rhythm of the endless waves
and the heart you long to save
Sensing movement, predictably you leap
Advance, vanish, repeat
Have you finally met your match?
Offering your deepest wants, elicit the desired response
Will you ever see the strings that are attached?
Ten thousand red flags
waving proudly in the breeze
If I let you come near, my deepest fear:
There will never be a cure for my disease
Safe dry land
Wouldn't it be nice to live a life on safe dry land?
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Coffee With The Dead
06:18
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Outside the sun shines brightly
Trees move in the wind
But your blinds are drawn so tightly
Ending the dance before it has a chance to begin
Spitting out facts and figures
Wise man in the room
Each story makes you bigger
Tell us: what went down, where, and to whom
What a lovely way to avoid saying anything
Another book of photographs
The good old days in sepia tones
The hall of mirrors reflecting fears
Confirming you truly are alone
We sit, we chat, we interact
Follow a scripted course
I've traveled far to genuflect
In homage to the source
What a lovely way to avoid feeling anything
Sacrament of emptiness
Chalice of futility
The dead are holding forth again
Enjoy your cup of coffee
What a lovely way to avoid saying anything
When I was younger I did not understand
That you were already dead
I kept on trying to make my life match up
With your stories in my head
But the fear in your eyes speaks volumes
Pretzel logic wearing thin
You've never learned how to smile
And now your twilight is setting in
What a lovely way to avoid feeling anything
What a lovely way to avoid living at all
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Starfish
04:56
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The map ran out 20 miles back
and the real world disappeared from underneath our wheels
No towns, no sounds, no telephone wires
just the rolling of our tires
I've never been this far before
farther than I know
As we approach the water's edge
bioluminescent glow
Don't you pay that old car any mind
we're gonna leave the black and white world behind
They can have whatever they may find
me and you swimming deeper into the blue
Looks like storm clouds up ahead
don't you worry, just try to get some sleep
Down below the raindrops will never reach us
Holding my breath, holding you close in the deep
Starfish, with you I go
I've never been this far before
farther than I know
As we approach the Great Barrier Reef
bioluminescent glow
Me and you swimming deeper into the blue
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8. |
Savage Love
04:56
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Voices in the night
As you try to go to sleep
Gift of second sight
Another secret that you keep
You see more than meets the eye
Not a single soul to tell
You spend your days staying in your lane
Catching daylight from the bottom of a well
Clown Fish floating up above
Dreams of technicolor love
Taste of copper on your tongue
Here where mothers eat their young
Aching for the one who takes you down
Feel the seaweed gently brush against your cheek
Look there! The passing shadow of the Clown
From the safety of the dark, maybe just a little peek
Chew me up and spit me out
Beyond a shadow of a doubt
There is nothing I can do
Can't imagine losing you
Clown Fish floating up above
Dreams of technicolor love
Taste of copper on your tongue
Here where mothers eat their young
A train wreck on the loose
But survival is a delicate art
If I but hope to slip the noose
Savage love will ravage my heart
Clown Fish floating up above
Dreams of technicolor love
Taste of copper on your tongue
Here where mothers eat their young
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I know we all go
None of us gets out alive
Still, I thought you were larger than life
You would never die
You were someone I could lean on
And you called me on my b.s.
I figured you would always be there
To help me figure our this messy life
Ten thousand men around the world will call your name
Countless hearts around the world remember your face
Ten thousand men around the world will call your name
And so will I
Hearts are breaking
And the world goes on
Beer truck deliveries
Joggers in the dawn
You've been a true leader
You have inspired
You are a man among men
With a beautiful heart on fire
Ten thousand men around the world will call your name
Countless hearts around the world remember your face
Ten thousand men around the world will call your name
And so do I
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I want to kiss you
In the glow of paper lanterns on the beach
Love has a way
Of calling Shadow out to play
Let's make romance
And give ourselves half a chance
To love before we die
Death has a way
Of inviting Shadow out to play
Let me laugh and dance
And give myself half a chance
To live before I die
I want to kiss you
In the glow of paper lanterns on the beach
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