Awake to a glorious sky These bandages make me want to die Although I am old and although I'm afraid, I'm alive in my skin. Oh it's grown so thin, it's barely there. Asleep all day, I'm wasting away Touch glass, turn away.. it's another day I know where I was born and I know where I will die At the end of the hall my children call "when will you heal for real? when will you come out to play?" Come out to play the Queen is town Lean up your crutch Life wants your light Kick out your devil Call in your clown and come out to play There's grass on my knees there's blood in my mouth I'm scarring up, I'm molting out. If Life wants me to be, surely Time will set me free and the end of the hall won't seem so far maybe I'll awake and rise, maybe I'll go outside Go out and play the Queen is in Town Lean up my crutch Life wants my light Kick out my devil Call in my clown and come out to play

I've been following you for weeks now as you ride towards the golden sun. I drop a feather down now and then in the hope that you'll pick them up. All the dark of all the nights can't pull me from this Love... J'aimerais être un hibou à la fenêtre de mon amour I see you down in the meadow riding on a proud Caribou. The trail is covered in brambles, let me be your eyes I'll guide you. All the dark of all the nights can't pull me from this Love... J'aimerais être un hibou à la fenêtre de mon amour It's dark, I cannot see you but oh how I can feel your heart as it beats against the forest floor J'aimerais être un hibou à la fenêtre de mon amour

Keep on pourin papa you've got a long ways to go from nowhere to somewhere in the biting cold The wine it keeps you warm but the wine makes you slow Keep on pourin papa you've got a long ways to go There's water on the wheel The creek is running high Daddy your luck is like a lady Don't leave her in the night Keep on pourin papa you've got a long ways to go from nowhere to somewhere in the biting cold The wine it keeps you warm but the wine makes you slow Keep on pourin papa you've got a long ways to go There's a tremor in the mountain a shimmer in your sluice Daddy your dream is tremblin 3 feet underground don't let the landslide loose Keep on pourin papa you've got a long ways to go from nowhere to somewhere in the biting cold The wine it keeps you warm but the wine makes you slow Keep on pourin papa you've got a long ways to go

Here I lay on your couch listening to your records play. I've been running for so long, I'd like to stay. He killed the bees right in front of me and hung the bloody washing on the line. Oh, leave me ghost! I'll walk alone Taste the salt out where lay your bones. I once was lost but now I'm found belly up out in the sound. I had sold all my gold, not 1 ounce did I still hold. Lord give me my alchemy, make light this leaden weight in me. Gonna keep it easy this time around I'm gonna keep my ghosts planted int he ground Aint's gonna listen when my mind spins around Gonna keep it easy this time around Earthquake deep in the belly of the beast out of the chasm, Daffodils. Tie this broken uncertainty to feathers and loose them on the wind. He lured the jay, then stole its nest and then he laughed at his cleverness, while the jay was left to wander homeless. He killed the bees right in front of me and hung the bloody washing on the line. Oh, leave me ghost! I'll walk alone Taste the blood out where tide is low. I once was lost but now I'm found belly up out in the sound. I had sold all my gold, not 1 ounce did I still hold. Lord give me my alchemy, make light this leaden weight in me. Gonna keep it easy this time around I'm gonna keep my ghosts planted int he ground Aint's gonna listen when my mind spins around Gonna keep it easy this time around

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Well the streets are about to burst Take me away from here The sky couldn't get much worse I've lost all control, I fear No inflection in this text, every day into the next, a story with no plot, What's the point? I forgot. Take my away from here. All I need is good food in my belly and dirt on my feet from a path that leads to a stream There ain't no such thing as asking for too much and Simple is all I need The people around here don't care what's all this mess about? They don't smile, they don't even stare our time is running out. Pretty sure I ain't afraid but I'm surrounded by it every day It's become the norm, a perpetual storm Take me away from here All I need is a lover who is happy and a good book to read the shade of an oak tree There ain't no such thing as asking for too much and Simple is all I need The birds on my block have gone tweet tweet tweet tweedle-dee-dee My cellular telephone is always on - it goes Ring ring ring ring-a-ling Always something new to do some great thing I cannot miss but my mind's bent out of shape and my body's a mess Take me away from here Cuz all I need is good food in my belly and dirt on my feet from a path that leads to a stream There ain't no such thing as asking for too much and Simple is all I need Give me a lover who is happy and a good book to read the shade of an oak tree There ain't no such thing as asking for too much and Simple is all I need Simple is all I need!

How can I know you dear? Yur whispers are sweet but I can't draw you near with this wild, wild heart Come to me my sweet child feel my waves slow your pace hold your hand to your heart and know But I can I know it's real, when time won't stand still? It keeps runnin round in my head, my weary head... will it ever stop before I'm dead? It keeps running away with my wild, wild heart. When, child, will you let go? Be carried away, with the river flowin she wants to carry you down down where love is real down where love is all How can I know you dear? Yur whispers are sweet but I can't draw you near with this wild, wild heart You are the golden sun and all is well all is Love all is Love all is Love hold your hand to your heart, and know.