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Do You Remember My Death
02:55
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Do you remember my death
It was pretty
You were there
Soft and quiet in the aftermath
Cold and starry
In the air
I probably won’t love you very long
You’ll want me to and I will too but
I probably won’t love you very long
Sorry to say
Blood from bark and voice from that
And the harpies
All around
I could’t keep from going flat
I’m unworthy
Of what I’ve found
I probably won’t love you very long
You’ll want me to and I will too but
I probably won’t love you very long
Sorry to say
And if it goes so far that I don’t know my friends
Then you can find my dreaming tree inside the end
I’m just beyond eternal sands of fire and meant
To live within the wood of suicides as a plant
Do you remember my death
It was pretty
You were there
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2. |
Hope Princeton
04:07
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I’m dreaming of the Hope Princeton
Just past Manning Park
About now they’d be misty mountains
Man that mist is around my heart
But I’ve no right to miss them
Cause I wanted to leave
Guess I don’t know how to love then
I guess I only love in dreams
I guess I only love in dreams
I’m thinking of Mayne Island
And a little cob cook house
My friends and I’d walk to the ocean
Oh, how I’d like it all right now
But my friends and I are busy
Gotta keep moving you know
Can’t spend all our time just talking
Or sharing dinner by the wood stove
I remember my first record
Recorded it in Abbotsford
I remember laughing so hard
And hearing The Bends in the car
And hearing The Bends
Are we meant to keep on moving
Or is that something that we learn
Cause I don’t know where I’m going
I’m just trying to keep up with the turns
I’m just trying to keep up with the turns
I’m just trying to keep up with the turns
A good memory is not so helpful
Maybe I ought to hit the road
Loving things is so painful
But I don’t want to let them go
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Silence On the Moon
03:54
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I am here
I’m the writing on the walls
That you are the first airplane to fly
But where is mine
Oh, where are my markings
To show me
That I’m the tiger in your sky?
Oh, believe me
I’m trying to see it in myself
To be the stream that won’t steam up in hell
To not need no
Philosopher’s stone
From anybody else
To need nothing but my wings to thrive so
You can tell
That I’m worth it
Cause I’m worth it
Here am I
I’m young and smooth and bright
Mane of lion skin
And an elephant inside
I’m far and wide
I cross the mountains in a stride
Are you blind
What’s in the ground that’s not in my eyes
Believe me, my speech is silence on the moon
Compared to all the things I want to say to you
Believe me, my speech is silence on the moon
Compared to all the things I want to say to you
Oh, believe me
I’m trying to see it in myself
To be the stream that won’t steam up in hell
To not need no
Philosopher’s stone
From anybody else
To need nothing but my wings to thrive so
You can tell
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Easy On The Eyes
03:26
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Waiting down by the water
Where it’s night time
Where she is
Call me on the freeway
When your light is
On the dim
You’re easy on the eyes she said
But don’t get carried away
So long gone in the darkness
In the soaring
Of a thought
Touch her hair and touch her skin too
But you can’t have
What you really want
You’re easy on the eyes she said
But don’t get carried away
I’ve been driving in my car alone
With my head in the clouds and my heart in my home
West as far as these borders go
With the stars in the mountains and the sky in the road
Waiting, waiting to hold her close
And show her, show her what I love the most
But I’m just easy on the eyes, she said
So I won’t get carried away
Watch the trees through the window
Watch the wind blow
Through the world
Feel your song a street light
Hear a wish sigh
Then unfurl
You’re easy on the eyes she said
But don’t get carried away
Leave it all by the sidelines
So that you can settle down
Leave it all by the wayside
So that you can settle down
Leave it all by the side
So that you can settle down
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5. |
Between Us
02:23
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Look up the dandelions now daisy
And count the ways that separate
All I feel
Has come between us
And I need
Some help to ease us
I hurt myself
Again
I hurt myself
Again
Waste the hours on suffocating
You can’t deny the race is changing
All I feel
Has come between us
And I need
Some help to ease us
I hurt myself
Again
I hurt myself
Again
When it comes to what I’m thinking
Not to tell feels like a pain and
All I feel
Has come between us
And I need
Some help to ease us
I hurt myself
Again
I hurt myself
Again
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6. |
Brett Ashley
03:05
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Brett Ashley
Calls me up
Late evening
She’s drunk
‘Come with me’
I’m done
She has always been what I want
Needing you has
Done me wrong and
It’s time for me to get
Strong
St. Vincent
Milay
Has left me
Again
And I stare as
I wait
She can never be replaced
Needing you has
Done me wrong and
It’s time for me to get
Strong
I have followed you
To the end
Of my rope
I have followed you
To the end
Of my rope
And now
I’ve gotta go
My mistress
Her eyes
Have burned me
Alive
She never
Satisfied
Needing you has
Done me wrong and
It’s time for me to get
Strong
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The Mogul
02:49
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I am a parasite
I feed on other’s joy
To keep my misery
In good employ
I build my empire
In shadows of despair
Call it deplorable
At least it’s there
Unlike you
Who took all my sense of glory
And cast me in D-listings
Low and smaller than you
You
I see hypocrisy
In everything I do
But I want everything
If not for you
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8. |
Veil Of Love
03:00
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The veil of love
I wore so well
You made it easy
You were dressed in a fairy tale
Skinny blond hair
And blue eyes
Society would approve (everyone around would sure like you)
My buddies would sure like you
It’d be easy with a picture perfect lover in my corner
Cheering me on
It’s nice to think about
Even when I know that it’s all fucked up
The veil of love
Convinced myself
It’s amazing what impatience and fear
Will make you tell
I should really say I’m sorry
For speaking those words
It was easy out of view (no one could see me and you)
In my hiding place with you
Where all I lacked was hidden underneath
My lover and her cleavage and her holding
I want her somehow
Even when I know that the kisses won’t make us fly
I know that the kisses won’t make us fly
We’ll just fall
I know our bond is just a rock with wings
I know this bird won’t ever sing
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9. |
Blue and Black
02:54
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And when you say my name, say it low
I’m gonna catch it moving fast and slow
And when you feel me don’t forget to ask
Before I walk away all Blue and Black
Is it me or has it all gone wrong?
Is it you just wanna get it on?
And if I listen I’ll take off my mask
And even underneath I’m Blue and Black
Ah oo, ah oo, ah oo,
I’mma get it all, get it all
Ah oo, ah oo, ah oo,
I’mma get it all, get it all
And here’s the circle still a going strong
So I’mma giving up I’ll go along
I’ve been a die-hard, I’ve been stuck in line
That’s why I’m moving to the quickest find
If you’re a poet, you’re a dinosaur
You’re a baby crying give me more
And if I’m honest what I think about that
I thought I told you babe, I’m Blue and Black
Ah oo, ah oo, ah oo,
I’mma get it all, get it all
Ah oo, ah oo, ah oo,
I’mma get it all, get it all
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10. |
All It Does Is Change
03:33
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You tread through rock
You tread through time
Your life in death still climbs
To lose, forget
To pass you by
Is not to see the sky
I hear you in the songs you sang
I feel you in those vintage things
For nothing really goes away
All it does is change
All it does is change
To lose, forget
To pass you by
Is not to see the sky
And though my heart cries
To be with you
In the way that I met you
Your hands don’t have to
Hold onto mine
To know that you are here
I hear you in the songs you sang
I feel you in those vintage things
For nothing really goes away
All it does is change
All it does is change
So you have only changed
So you have only changed
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11. |
Slow Down Fast One
03:18
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Slow down fast one, it’s okay
You’ll make it there someday
Lucky stars will hold out for you
Just don’t push too hard
You’ll become who you are
You’ve put in time and tried your best
But you don’t seem to shine like all the rest
Your pretty heart is only starting
To see its own bloom
Don’t let it get to you
It seems like everything will pass you by
Like you’ll be standing still for your whole life
But you are moving you just can’t see it now
Good is coming you just gotta let this turn around
There’s always something good to love
There’s always someone loving you
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Lucas Penner Penticton, British Columbia
BC-based result of a Bon Iver and Tom Waits collab.
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