1. |
DOWN FROM THE MOUNT
05:07
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Down from the mount,
back on the ground
I took a look around
went into town
Ran into Job
We compared notes
I finally concede he must be in the lead
My sores don't bleed
It doesn't matter
what you think of me
It only matters that it's true
I dreamt the stars, they all bowed down to me
And so did you
Down from the mount
I was lost
I wondered where I was
I found a cross
I tore it down
Or put it on
I don't remember - must it only be just one?
I won't be wrong
It doesn't matter
what you think of me
It only matters if it's true
The sun & stars, they all bow down to me
And so will you
So will you
*
Why must you always bring the world in here with you?
Why must you always leave so soon?
There's a cloud, it follows
you around, it follows
you around into my room
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2. |
THE BUTTERFLY SONG
06:22
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She's in the woods
She's on her way
She's in the woods
She's on her way
Coming to see Mahalia
He's in a band,
they're called
slumberwall
She finds a place
where she makes her home
& she gets her head together
living on her own
There in the woods,
while he's getting lost
& she's smelling blood
& what big eyes she's got
What big eyes she's got
She's in the desert
He's still in bed
It hurts to read her letters
He's not mended yet
So she's on her way
coming to sing
The Butterfly Song
in the hopes it brings
them all round
& down to play
every time she plays
on sunny days like these
εiз
He's in the snow
in his stockinged feet
I've nowhere to go
Won't you make me sweet?
Like you've always been?
εiз
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3. |
SNOWBOARD
07:46
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There's a boy up there I hardly know
He writes me from the snow
Smokes himself a pipe & down he goes
There he goes
There he goes he knows I know
He knows me from a long, long time ago
He knows me from a long, long time ago
Ninja jungle rattles round his brain
& wombles down his veins
He's so dreamy draming in the day
He trips again
He lives on grapes
He puts on weight
He gave away the snowboard shades I wear today
And a drawing:
Him flying
Falling
Smiling
Falling, flying
Always smiling
And he knows me from a long time ago
He says so in his post
Why I'm so taken with someone breaking
so many bones
all his own
I don't know
I don't know
There he goes
There he goes
A drawing:
him flying
falling
smiling
Falling
Flying
Always
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5. |
MAD ROSE
07:05
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In the mud & Rosie's there
In the wood & Rosie's there
Where I'm stood & Rosie's
always there
If I could I'd claim your tune
Ride it thru the night to you
but all I really do is
croon Blue Moon
And I'll go to sleep without you
If I make it up my tree
& the snow will fall about you
underneath
I could stop all my thinking
wouldn't need to go on drinking
If i only weren't so sane
I would always let my conscience
be my guide
instead of nonsense
if I only weren't so sane
Try be my little boy & fail
next to you he looks so pale
always hanging onto
somone's coat-tails
By the fire I say your name
I'm the moth come to the flame
here i go i know
i'm off again
but i'll go to sleep without you
if i make it up my tree
& the snow will fall about you
just like me
Don't go away
Don't go away
Mad Rose
Won't you stay now
Whatchoo trying to say now
If we're all just the same then tell me
i could stop all my thinking
wouldn't need to go on drinking
if i only weren't so sane
i would always let my conscience
be my guide instead of nonsense
if i only weren't so sane
if i only weren't in pain
if i only
had no brain
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7. |
ORPHEUS BLUES
10:55
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Singing in the river,
in the river for so long
singing in the river,
in the river for so long
that the birds fly by above me
& they don't come back to hear my song
When my baby left me,
i went down to get her back
when my baby left me,
i went down to get her back
but i came back up without her
& then all i was was cold & black
I wasn't drinking
but the party carried on
i wasn't drinking
but the party carried on
and they threw me in the water
tore my body til it all was gone
you should never look behind you,
you're not to see what's coming up
you should never look behind you,
you're not to see what's coming up
if i'd never looked behind me
i think i could still believe in luck
if i'd never looked behind me
i think i could still believe in luck
So i'm drifting here forever
& the riverbank goes by
drifting here forever,
& the riverbank goes by
but my head just keeps on singing
& it still can make the mountains cry
but my head just keeps on singing
& it still can make the mountains cry
but my head just keeps on singing
& it still can make the mountains
cry
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I wake up in the darkness & I slide down off the train
Had to haul myself off there before the cleaners came
On every side of me there was a snow-capped mountain range
And all I did was think about you
Somehow I found you in my life & I got filled with love
I don't need to keep you in my bed past waking up
I don't know quite what happened
& it might well just be luck
but I think fate left me around you
Now I don't need to have you here beside me all the time
But every now & then I stop & make a highway shrine
I've only got good things to say 'bout how we spend our time
Sometimes I have to stop & thank you
So you & me we sing our tune & dance along in time
I hear god is there & humming harmony behind
And Zwee, that simple melody is always on my mind
& all the birds have songs about you
And when it's time to say farewell then I will help you pack
If the leaving's easy then it keeps us coming back
All my love it stays with you when the night is cold & black
& I will find you when i find you
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9. |
free jazz
02:39
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