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Sunbeat
02:53
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The Friend Bend
04:38
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It's the one thing that
everybody wants to know-
What happens when you let go?
What takes over your body?
You travel to keep the blood from getting viscous
To see your love from a distance
And I see nothing that could come between us
I do the friend bend
but man, I gotta go
Could really use some time in the soft glow
To pound some laments into songs for
something useful I hope
I drift to somewhere
to a place I've never been
Sometimes in the middle of a conversation
But when the spirit talks, I'm listening
I'm gonna float away and never come back
I know it's a friendly town but I float up and I can't come down
making space for my old knapsack I'm gonna float away
and I wont be back
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Plateau
04:38
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When we make it
To the Plateau
We stop to look back
At the farmers below
Groves of citrus
Little Highways
I'll walk with you, love
Any which way
It's getting better
Every minute
we walked clear to the ocean
and then pissed in it
Let it all come to me
Your love runs through me
I guesss I found you
because everything new
I must have found you
because everything true
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Underneath A Willow
05:18
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If I have something to hide
You are the first to know
the first to call for the gallows
In the morning light, the air glows
Lazy sun, lazy moon
an eventful night...is eventual
I'm always inclined to watch the others
but lately, more so to watch the watchers
And the watchers of the watchers are amusing too
until you're watching one of them watching you!
Surely, I've got better things I could do
Dull are the nights
I've no secrets good enough to hide
Whats left for the gypsies?
Whats left for the wanderers nowadays?
Even the roads to nowhere have been paved
Pretty soon, all the magic will be explained
in the age of
The great mystery fade
Well, I heard you in american say, "it's not my native tongue"
Well, I'm not american so much these days. Im just a human
Taking shade from the sun
Underneath a willow
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Can't Say How I'll Feel
05:12
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Canadian geese are heading south
You said, "they're gettin the fuck out"
Well nature has no contempt for routine or duty
it just turns and turns and turns and keeps on changing
Sailing off-it's risky, love
I can't say how I'll feel
when the seas become placid and still
and I need to be turning some wheel
and turn and turn and turn
and keep on changing
--and new love stings your tongue
and the shriek of new borns
by the lakes I call home
could i be here alone?--
///If theres an afterlife
I just hope that i can memorize
how good this feels///
pretty bold of you to show up late
for your meeting with the gods
the tail of the last note you sang
still ringing from your mouth
but its all theatre
its all for show
folly, its all i really know
in a room where the echos only grow
into new words
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Sorrow Is a Soft Bed
03:22
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Blackberries dried on the bushes
The wells full of mud
I'm on the pint for a day
Well I'm down here and I'm sane
I'm down here and I'm sane
Water is gone but I'm not worried
Sorrow's a soft bed to lay
Well I'm down here and I'm sane
I'm down here but I'm sane
Just like the evening sun
it's a slow death for tradition
You killed one and I killed one
Make your own tradition
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