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Shine
02:57
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I tried everything I tried heroin cocaine
But the sun came down the sun came down the same
I dreamed clouds and trains beautiful castles in the rain
But the sun came out and dried it all away
And if you look in every place hope you find somewhere safe to stay
Where the sun can't come and steal your joy away
I tried water I tried wine I tried to run a million miles
There's nowhere the sun don't come and shine
I tried to find another life tried to tell a million lies
But the sun just shook his head and said goodbye
And when all the clouds had cleared and the moon had disappeared
The sun came up and everybody cheered
Well if you reach the other side and you kiss the sunny skies
I hope a rainbow comes and wraps you in the night
I tried water I tried wine I tried to run a million miles
There's nowhere the sun don't come and shine
Additional guitars and vocals: sarahtonin
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2. |
Untitled
03:35
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For every every person you help there's someone else that you hurt.
For every thing that gets better there's something else getting worse
So you embellish your story and you bask in your glory
And you get what you can 'cause there's no reason or hurry
They're ripping out fingernails and chewing up the entrails
And doing all of the things getting by might entail
While some others it seems live in trickle down dreams
And it all comes so easy happy joyous and free
For every person who wins there's someone mad in the street
For every house on the hill ten trampled under their feet
For every blissful high there's a crash or you die
Sometimes it seems like everything that's good has abandoned me
The ocean swallows all the stars explode and fall
The hand that winds the clock has gone to sleep
The eye that watches hell looks the other way
The powerless and blind the crippled and betrayed
They sing and cry and scream
To something that was never there or has long since gone away
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3. |
Swan
04:27
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The sentence has been handed down
Delivered by a sad eyed clown
It is not fair it is nowhere it is dry and brown
But it is final
The executioner pulls on his robes
Tired and old he moves a little slow
He's lost the thrill but it pays the bills on his crooked home
And it's better than starving
We've all seen better days as the moon shines through a sickly haze
And there is never a reason it's just something that happened
Everything just fades away
Stop asking why it's just an excuse to tell another lie
We love to make up stories to explain and describe
There isn't a secret there isn't a pearl or a happy ending in the whole wide world
But at least they get over
We've all tried to toe the line but we lose our minds
In the pouring rain
And there is never a reason there's no hell or Edens
Every day just fades away
Bass: Kira
Guitar: Glenn Brown
Violin: Petra
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Tobie
04:00
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Tobie's in airplane took an all night train
Took a break from cocaine Tobie's on her way
She's flying home to me
Made herself look pretty she's moving to the city
Wondering if she's forgotten anything
To be with me
We know it will be perfect if we survive it
But nothing's ever free
She's a little bit obsessive, bipolar and aggressive
Jealous and possessive and she loves me
She loves me Tobie loves me.
Waiting at the curbside wasted for the last time
She searches for my face in a wood sprite roller skate
A little late
We know it will be perfect if we survive it
But nothing's ever free
Everybody hates us but we don't care
The little fishy's drown in air
No one wants to be our friend so we just snuggle in our bed
There's always more love
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5. |
Reptiles in the Sun
04:20
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Hey I'm sitting here with the door unlocked
Hoping and wishing you'll come in and start and never ever stop
We are numb we are dead our lives are lost
The grim unending necessary drugs
In their dozens and dozens of lovely forms
Potions and powders and pretty pills
The telephone and the cable and the doctors bills
The blood flows through our veins like mud
Brains shift like reptiles in the summer sun
But under our moon this is love
Somewhere a schoolgirl sits with her legs apart
And a crooked old man with a purple heart
Is forgiving and forgetting everything he ever taste
Uppers and downers and inside and outers
And all you ever do is stay in one place
Our blood flows through out veins like mud
Our brains shift like reptiles in the summer sun
I remember a boy that would fly
Breathlessly through an ocean sky
But under our moon this is love
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6. |
Treefall
02:51
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The moon came up out of the fog
Full and round and landed in my hand
Kissed each finger like a blessing
Settled like a crown on my head
Like an angel resting
Stayed with me the whole evening
But you weren't there to see this thing
It might as well have never been
It might as well have been a dream
The dream came true as true can be
Blindingly white magic heaven sent
Like silver rain falling on a child's head
Unexpected and unending
As if the darkness had surrendered
Like every memory was remembered
But you weren't there to see this thing
It might as well have never been
It might as well have been a dream
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7. |
Match Girl
04:43
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"I'm a Match Girl!" she screams, "Not an angel don't scorn me!"
And bursts into flames
She lights fires in the garden pyres in the parking structure
Between her legs
She burns everything green in her wake
While all the boys burst into match girl flames
She's a match girl she shivers dipped in the river
She floats down stream
Dreaming of summer when all of her lovers
Were taking turns
She burns everything in green in her wake
While all the boys burst into match girl flames
It's a shame all of the miles that it rained
All of the lions that were caged
She told me how loudly she came
from a poem by sarahtonin
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8. |
Lifeline
03:27
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Lifeline I'm holding on
Starlight all my dreams are with you tonight
Shine bright stay alive
Stay with me I will be the air you breathe
I know your heart and it's mine
Throw yourself into the sea
Swim to me and we will meet beneath the waves
'Cause I'm a ghost and you're a grave
And lost in time we'll find a way
Bass: Kira
Guitar: Glenn Brown
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The angel wept the summer slept
Her eyes streamed tears of moonlight falling on the bed
Maybe these cold hard chains are the price you pay for wings
Or just for breathing
And though the pain has washed away everything that you believed
The truth is that you are free
When there are dogs out in the fog
Howling their mourning songs at their ferocious gods
Then the fingers brush away the pain you saved
Everything is okay
And though the pain has washed away everything that you believed
Remember that you have me
The rags that you wear are your wings
Everyone's afraid
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Ivory Coast
05:51
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On the Ivory Coast it's snowing
And the saints and slavers are going into gold
The lovers have been fighting
It's a sign of things to come
Lost inside the golden ring
The ravens on the lawn
Retrace your errant path the hope of man is gone
They have found the answer and the answer was not lost
Row your boat gently down the stream
Merrily life is but a dream
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11. |
It's a Slow Death
04:27
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Finally the tears long time coming
Cry angel cry, the world is ending
Standing at the gate with all time before us
We fall to our knees and the gods ignore us
Always know I'm with you
Like the silent shadow of doom
The broken angel that shared your cluttered rooms
Until he flew
Hold on to me and let me slip away
All the things that we lose come back changed
Always know I am true
Like the bright cold heartless moon
The same lost child who found and clung to you
You'll never lose
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12. |
Panis Angelicus
03:28
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Pannis angelicus
Fit panis hominum
Dat panis coelicus
Figuris terminum
O res mirabilis
Manducat dominum
Pauper, pauper
Servus et humilis
Pauper, pauper
Servus et humilis
Panis angelicus
Fit panis hominum
Dat panis coelicus
Figuris terminum
Vocals: sarahtonin
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Paul Roessler Los Angeles, California
Paul Roessler is a musician, composer and producer who lives in Los Angeles
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