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Sing Sing
05:09
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Sing
Sing
Thanks for the rain
The secret explosions
That start the day
Forget about the ocean I’ll
Forget about the waves
With a mind full of rain
A mind full of rain
Where were you born
What does your shirt say
Are you miles away
Are you miles away
From the paper skyscrapers
The stickfigured neighbors
The dead and the endangered in the sun
Sing
I pray to stand stand up straight
To stay on my feet
Get out of the street
Where are you bound
what does your sign say
Are you miles away
Are you miles away
From the water photographers
The zombie biographers
The hollywood astrologers too
The license plate says
Sing for bread
For the life and for the dead
For the living and the dying
Sing
For the day you were born
And a day just like today
Happy half birthday
Happy half birthday
From the future archeologist
The broken cardiologist
The anesthesiologist in you
Sing
Sing
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I.
You can save your money
and your negatives
but spend your soul right here
You can leave your shoes
In the river bank
There’ll be nothing more to fear
You’re the cloud who rose
from the manhole
The man whose thinking aloud
Got in the way
Of the thought of it all
Who blends in with the crowd
You can laugh yourself to tears
If you want to my love
but why are you crying for dead?
There’ll be no point in naming
Comparing my love
Where we humans fear to tread
You can dream yourself to sleep
If you want to my love
But try not to wake your dead
Remember their names
And their numbers my love
They are losing interest
Quickly in your waking head
II.
You’re the tire who’s retiring
to the rubber tree
Who’ll hang himself no more
The windows and snowmen
The bottles and the tears
Winding up on the shore
You can spend your time with a see monkey
And expect something in return
Maybe you go blind
Lose the keys to your cage
With some time in your pockets to burn
You’re the glue who’s come undone
Underwater
Made into horses again and again
The hydrant in the stars on fire
The water breathing dragon again and again
And again and again and
Again and again and
Again and again and
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3. |
I Know You Know
04:22
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I know you know
I know you
I know you know
I know you
I know you know
You know me
I know you know
You know me
But does anyone
ever know another
if I know myself
only like a brother
Does anyone
ever really love
another
You say you’ve always
loved me
like no other
no other
no other
I know you know
I know you
What does anyone want
from another
other than the time
and the secret number
Does anyone
ever really love another
Are we heliocentrics
Like the summer
The summer
The summer
The summer
Why can’t you belong to me
Why can’t you belong
Why can’t you belong to me
Why can’t you belong
Why can’t you belong to me
Why can’t you belong to me
Why can’t you belong to me?
Why can’t you belong to
I know you know
I know you
I know you know
I know you
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4. |
Mrs. & Mr. E
04:58
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Only for my life could i remember you
I could use a good talking to
why can’t you be
closer to me
why can’t you be
My muse has gone away for the Summer today
I’m off to meet my Prodigal Son half way
Why it’s far beyond me
Why he can’t be
Closer to me
My long lost son
my long lost son
My indoor sun
my indoor sun
I found you chipping stones
On Trout Pond Road
Answer this for me
and I’ll go:
Why can’t you be
Closer to me
Why can’t you be
Closer to me
Old Queen Anne
Old Queen Anne
Lonely queen Anne
Lonely queen Anne
Well baby come see
What’s happening to me
Maybe I’m just lazy
but tonight the drive seems crazy
It’s a 40 minute drive
for 15 minutes to be alive
Only for my life
I drove a while to take my thoughts from home
However good the getaway there’s still that snow dome
All around me
& why can’t I be
closer to thee
Miss and Mr E
Miss and Mr E
The E’s
The E’s
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5. |
Iris
03:50
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Disco ball of a heart
Ring around a supernova
the moons in your eyes
see your sons in you
the moons in the sky
say a daughter too
Named Iris
Such a sweet pain
At the thought of losing Iris
The suns in your eyes
see the earth in you
The suns in the sky
are my diamonds to
Iris
Iris I have been
Outside looking in
Iris I have been
Outside looking in
At the black holes
in your eyes
It’s always long goodbyes
At your event horizons
The earths in your eyes
may they see through
The cataract skies
Keeping you
From Iris
Iris I have been
Outside looking in
Iris I have been
Outside looking in
At the islands in your eyes
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6. |
The Half Life
04:12
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Half of the time
I think twice to myself
Am I halving the time of my life
Am too much for you
And hardly anyone to me
Am I only here half of the time
I’m half off today
Can you turn me all on
Do you have a half life
of your own?
And if you say it’s true
I do, I do
Do you think that maybe
We could make one out of two?
Let me check back with the mirror
I’ll try and pull myself together
Though I must say I feel I’m
Coming undone
Will two halves make a door
or will we fall through the floor
Or take away one
And get the lone sum
The moon is half empty
the sun is too bright
How do you stand all the light
We’re all overdone
having so much sun
They’ve hidden the night from us
Are you half off today
Can I turn you all on
Do you have a half life
Like my own?
And if you say it’s true
I do, I do
Do you think that baby
We could make one out of two?
Would it ever do
A me and you
A me and you
A me and you
A me and you?
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7. |
Promo
04:53
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In their boardrooms
in their ties
the mere moral
decides
What will live
Who will die
From the deathless high-rise
What will live
Who will die
Oh my
The goddess in black she mourns
the exposure of her skies
Zips up the gods in their body bags and ties
Traveling west with the newborn sun on the rise
the kids these days they’re well learned and they’re wise
and it ain’t no surprise
it ain’t no surprise
Thunder blurts
Lightning sells
To the Styx
Fishermen well
Rain fell for a spell
on the shoulders down in hell
Factory bell will break your spell
til tomorrow
I dream my way through Mall-lands marbled floors
whats the point in ever going outdoors
When all that you need is fat in the stores
and the fire outside softly pours
And I can’t ignore
the people who snore
And I can’t ignore that…
Promo goes
On his toes
to the tips of
Mount O
Theres no higher
but there no fire
So he turns to go
the sun rises
in his eyes has he turns
to go
Everybody gather near
Theres something you really all ought to hear
The Spirit watches football and the Spirit drinks beer
I seen it with my eyes so clear
You got no one to fear
There’s no one to fear
There’s no one to fear
except…
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8. |
See Through
03:14
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You and me
We’re see through
Homesick and heartbroken
Would you turn me away
If the walls were all I could
see in your place
Leave me alone
with my headphones
I’ll be alright
I’ll leave you alone
with your headphones
We’ll be just fine
Hearing what
We want
You and me
We’re see through
See through
You and me
We’re see through
Homesick and forgotten
Would you turn me away
If the walls were all I could
see in your face
Leave me alone
with my headphones
I’ll be alright
I’ll leave you alone
with your headphones
We’ll be just fine
Hearing what
We want
You and me
We’re see through
See through
You and me
Right through
You can see
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9. |
Anonymous
05:50
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you are the sun
the faded can
that satellite
in the sand
you are the brain
coral washed
whose mind was swayed
by the sea
you are my
opinionated love
who says yes no
the pinioned dove
you are the calendar girl
the spaced out two faced singer
you are the one
who’s gone crazy
you are the rain
who fell out of love
we are the lone
the vacuous
the wind applauding
in the trees
the lightning flashes
matches thoughts
the shade in the shade
with mismatched socks
the son of the sun
the heir of the air
who does not know
who does not care
to be the cloudburst guitar
the one you know you are
my love
I know who you are
but who am I?
oh I want you
oh I want you
oh how I want you
oh how I want you
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Elvis Perkins Hudson, New York
Elvis Perkins is a songwriter, performer and composer.
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