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Table of Contents

TWO WRECKS ..................................................................................................................................... 4

SONGS FROM THE TOP....................................................................................................................... 5

BITTER HALF ...................................................................................................................................... 6

LITTLE JOY........................................................................................................................................... 7

MODERN MAN..................................................................................................................................... 8

CUT THROATS ..................................................................................................................................... 9

BAD SEEDS ........................................................................................................................................ 10

SEEING STARS ................................................................................................................................... 11

ROMANS............................................................................................................................................. 12

FOLLOW ME AROUND ...................................................................................................................... 13

YOU GET CARRIED AWAY ................................................................................................................ 14

SEASONS TO GHOSTS ....................................................................................................................... 15

UNCERTAIN WEATHER.................................................................................................................... 16

END MILES......................................................................................................................................... 17

COUNTRY ELECTRIC......................................................................................................................... 18

DEATH IS HOME................................................................................................................................ 19

CURE FOR THE CURSE...................................................................................................................... 20

THE QUIET LIFE ................................................................................................................................ 21

SHARKS .............................................................................................................................................. 22

THE NEW TWILIGHT ........................................................................................................................ 23

WHERE THE MONEY SPENDS ......................................................................................................... 24

WITCH POLITICS? ............................................................................................................................. 25

MY PANOPTIC NIGHTMARE............................................................................................................ 26

WAITING TO FLY............................................................................................................................... 27

(DEVIL) BEYOND THE SEA .............................................................................................................. 28

AT THE BOTTOM .............................................................................................................................. 29

AMY GRANTS TOMB ........................................................................................................................ 30


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HOUSES ON FIRE............................................................................................................................... 31

CITY HALLS........................................................................................................................................ 32

AS WE SLEPT THROUGH THE WAR ................................................................................................ 33

GHOSTS OF TWO ............................................................................................................................... 34SHOTGUN FUNERAL ......................................................................................................................... 35

HEAD IN THE SAND .......................................................................................................................... 36

ALL IS FAIR ........................................................................................................................................ 37

BARE MINIMUM................................................................................................................................ 38

SUPER CONSTELLATION.................................................................................................................. 39

THE SWAMP ...................................................................................................................................... 40


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TWO WRECKS

I want to run from your modern age

All your friends are gone and my habits are tooDont you tell me who or what to believe in

I know it all but all I want is some truth

Theres no point of view I missed

I saw the spoils

I saw the mess

I wasnt born to live in bliss

If theres a point to all of this

Please tell me what the hell it is

I was born into ignorance

Keep your hands off my golden age

All your words are lazy and your body is too

Never met a man more blind to history

Ive known it all so just give me some truth

Theres no point of view I missed

I saw the spoils

I saw the mess

I was born to live in bliss

If theres a point to all of this

Please tell me what the hell it is

I was born into ignorance

I live in color and dream of you in black and white

I lost an hour to watch you waste your whole life

I am an artist

You don't have a fucking clue

It doesn't take a prophet

to see there's no future in you


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SONGS FROM THE TOP

Songs from the top

Don't tell me to stop

Pushing and pulling

The hours from a clockIt goes tick

It goes tock

Ten years of good luck

Waiting for the other shoe to go drop

I'm not in love with my life

Enough to make it go stop

Songs from the top

Stop running in placeBring back my body

Rearrange my face

I'm not in love with my life

Enough to make it go stop

Were you looking for me

I went looking for you


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BITTER HALF

If love is the blues

My better half

Come home to me

As the moon to the tideIll open wild

If you come home to me

You left when you held a breath

Cheated the blues to death

Now I wait on wasted breaths

I dont know why

My life is at sea

Carried far from me

By the moons bitter tide

I know that you wanted more

But this is hell and nothing more

I know that you couldn't stay

The blues just carried you away

Youre the better half of it

But you dont know the half of it


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LITTLE JOY

There's no little joy

At the end of it all

Just your last call

There's no little joyNo winter to fall

Just a slow crawl

So take my hand

Never let me go

Never let me go

Someday

We'll be buried

In the back pages

Of some torn, bent apocalypse

One day

We'll be carried on our way

To the end of our long, lost apocalypse

Some day

We'll be buried

In the back pages of 100 years ago


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MODERN MAN

Found my body calling me a bad streak

Destroyer sang

Nostalgia left

I wept for days

Its been far too long in New York CityThe times are hard and people change

I was never there to mend a flower

I never gave a damn to your little cause

Because that song was sung for better reasons

I didnt know I was half the man I was

I was being real modern

You didnt know

I was being real modern

A hundred years agoI was being a role model

For no working class

Memories don't last when you're making them alone

She paid back none of her debts on time

I was pulled into her dark sway

Though the winters are all the same

I still miss them anyway

I wasn't breaking your heart

I was breaking down

Found no peace of mine in New York City

It was 1984 all over again

I was touched by a woman that struck white lightning

Ill never be shocked like that poor me again!


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CUT THROATS

Will I always find sorrow at the foot of my bed

Will I be cursed with nothing

For not knowing what I had

I wrestled with winterThat cold bitch won

I laid down my weapon

And headed for the sun

I was born to disappoint you

You were born to be free

I'll never give up

Tried to make you my own

If you ask me to baby

In the winter of the night

I still won't give upI danced like a fever

While you slow dance with bad luck

You shook like a cold

Across the nape of the night

Now I wait for no seasons

I lie still with my demons

I don't put up a fight

Some people dying to find Jesus

Some people drowning in the mud

I searched for her love everywhere

Found nothing but bad blood

I'm done waiting for a reason

To let the rain flood my bed

I'm not sleeping much these days

Anyway

They say I'm in over my head

I wrestled with winter

But that cold bitch won

So I packed up my body and went on the run

It's been thirty-one years coming

And even more time gone

I sing this old, crooked tune

Because I can't find the one


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BAD SEEDS

I am a bad seed

Planted in your night sleep

You'll dream of me awakeAnd living off the city grid

You are a wallflower

Withering by the hour

Goddamn all that they don't understand

I'm not the kindest

I'm not a bleeding heart

I'm not the waves

That tore your bodies apart

I'm not the sweetest candy

You ever tookBut I'm enough to make you dizzy

And I'm enough to make you realize

I am a bad seed

Planted in your night sleep

You'll dream of me awake

And living off the take

I am a vampire

I drain you by the hour

Goddamn them

And all that they don't understand
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SEEING STARS

I've been seeing stars all night

Waiting for the morning light

It's you

A hundred reasons that I knew

A thousand ways to say I do

It's you

You're the reason that I stay

You're the fiction that I say is true

No more bright lights

No more thin air

No more waiting rooms to see what isn't there

It's you

I've been seeing stars all night

Waiting for the morning light

It's you


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ROMANS

Where the hell are you my love

Could you tell me what to think

I made a mess out of every second guess

So I guess Ill have another drink

Finishing school is done and all the Romans laugh

It's not that I found you in your sleep

It's not that I stood between you and your dream

Everyone these days is a little cruel

Darlin' you're a bitch

I got bridges to burn and money to turn

Could you help me

Finishing school is done and all the Romans laugh


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FOLLOW ME AROUND

Your eyes catch a surface

Follow me around

With a killer smile

A new pair of perspectivesIf you look into the sun

You might learn not to stare

The cost of the loss

Is more than what was there

From the sheets that I've bedded

Comes the moment that you've dreaded

I come clean in the morning

When the night's been beheaded


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YOU GET CARRIED AWAY

I don't mind sleeping around a bit

But it's the last time I'll sleep alone

I don't mind hearing a single word you've said

But it's the last time I'll sing along

You get carried away like the sea

You get carried away from me

I don't mind sleeping around the bend

Following you I'll take my time

I don't mind hearing a fucking word you've said

But it's the last time I'll sleep alone

You get carried away like the sea

You get carried away from me

Please don't get carried away like the sea

Please don't get carried away from me


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SEASONS TO GHOSTS

As soon as the snow

Lets me know what you're taking

The winter of god's plan

Without ever asking

I'll hunt all you're gathering

While ghosts lie there freezing

Like diamonds you're concealing

Beneath the skin of your eyes

It hardly seems fair to compare

Seasons to ghosts

For reasons you won't

It hardly seems fair to declare

That you wouldn't care

If the seasons were ghosts

How long was I sleeping

So softly not dreaming

As winter kept singing

Two histories apart

I watched none were moving

The armies conceding

As the winter kept screaming

Two histories apart

It hardly seems fair to compare

Seasons to ghosts

For reasons you won't

It hardly seems fair to declare

That you wouldn't care

If the seasons were ghosts

The weight of my lungsThe weight of my song

The weight of my breath

On the weight of your soul


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UNCERTAIN WEATHER

Its not what was said

Its what was meant

That old gang of pricks

Keeps crashing our party

This is the kiss offPlayed by a rock n roll band

That wakes in the morning

Chained to past tense

I set the wolves on my memory

Under a night slashing moon

Before you laugh it off baby

No jokes too soon

All these impending storms

Youre building your homes on bad flood waterConfusing the ends and the means

Tearing the seams of your stitched up daughters

Sold improbable schemes

Feeding the dreams of these bad blood martyrs

Born to uncertain weather

Forever building tunnels underground

I killed the life of the party

Under a house crashing moon

Before you laugh it off baby

Im at the top of the world

In a room with a view

At the end of the world


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END MILES

Oh my feet are so tired

There are miles to go

My baby's got the blues

My baby got bridges to burn

We're nowhereTill we get there

Beneath an evening prayer

Lord my feet are so tired and there are miles to go

I'll wait for the last train

The broken night

The heavy rain

The tired tracks of empty veins

Lay down my heart

How do you sleepHow do you sleep when I'm alone

How do sleep so all alone

End miles and miles and miles and miles and miles

Oh my feet are so tired of them miles to go

Don't keep the body in the bed all day

My baby got picked up and dropped like a needle in the road

You know there's got to be a better way

You'll know where when you get there so don't you despair

Don't let the morning see the light of day

Lord my feet are so tired of all these miles to go

How do you sleep

How do you sleep when I'm alone

How do sleep so all alone

I'll wait for the last train

The broken night

The heavy rain

The tired tracks of empty veins

Lay down my heart


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COUNTRY ELECTRIC

Birds fly south

This country electric band

Gathers dust

If I mustI must

But it's a hell of a way to get lost in sunshine

All country electric

Those folk grow old

I know

I know

It's a hell of a way to let go

Of miles to go

Retiring the cold jokes and crooked smiles

If I want you

You're mine

Retiring the old joke and crooked spine

If I want you

You're mine

You know how this fits you've worn it to bits


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DEATH IS HOME

Were we wrong

For fearing old haunts that roam

I dont care if you dont mind

Its all a waste of timeDeath is home

So I spilled my guts

I puked the night

I found you out

I dont care if you dont mind

Its all a waste of timeDeath is home

Im so tiredWrapped up in desires

Its a long, long way to go

When you're traveling slow

Im so wired

Caught up listening to liars

Its a long, long way to go

When you're traveling slow

And Im home

Haunted by ghosts

Making the most

Of a bad set of hosts

And Im old

Waiting for ghosts

Making the most

I dont care who haunts this air

Id rather sleep alone when death comes home


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CURE FOR THE CURSE

Oh once I was here

Awash in a sea

Waiting for the storm

You crawled out to meWanting to be near

The mouth of the war

No more dreaming allowed

You've got the maps and I've got the highway

We're somewhere we shouldn't be

In the guts of the night I go looking for sunshine

I'm waiting for you dear

To come back around

There's no name in your blame gameSo I keep hanging around

I've got a cure for the curse dear

I got a fix on it now

I'm waiting for a new year

Outdated for the sound


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THE QUIET LIFE

Lover

Are you going to leave me high

For the Quiet Life

AnotherTakes me back to where I was

In the Quiet Life


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SHARKS

All of these Sharks circling my sea

This city wasn't built for speed

Towers to the sky for miles and miles

Baby you're alive so well

All of these Sharks armed heavily to the teeth

The city won't sleep and so you won't let me

Build towers to the sky for miles around

You're not alive and well

When you say that you're sorry

Honey don't you blink an eye


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THE NEW TWILIGHT

The aging collapse of futures and pasts

Has placed our love into cold winter hands

Still I want you to know

That I want you to know

I want you to know

How I want you to fall into me

We were married in a fever of a dream

We were married in a fever

The snow will come soon

I will come to

The nights will consumeSpring will come too

The seasons bloom for you

So I will bloom too

The seasons bloom for you


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WHERE THE MONEY SPENDS

I know which way the money goes

I know which way the body folds

I know every way you're taking me

I know how things will always seem

All rise

As the money spends your life

All rise

As the money lets you down

All rise

As the money digs your grave

All rise

As the money never saves

I know which bed is safe to tame

I know which lie could bring the end

I know where the money spends

I know every thought that's in your head


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WITCH POLITICS?

We dream of foreign cities

Then we dream of walking away

No I didn't see it coming

Sunday's just another dayThe armies have armed and gathered

Now we just wait patiently

You're not the one I'm after

The one I'm after is after me


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MY PANOPTIC NIGHTMARE

In dreams they watch us slip into sleep

Surveillance on and cutting in deep

There is no hope

There is no dreamThe careful eye sees everything

I can't call this dreaming so I guess we're awake

I can't say it's real so I guess that it's fake

I can't call it freedom so I guess that it's death

I can't fall asleep in a prisoner's bed

Goodbye and goodnight they've captured our lives

The devils will roam and the angels will hide

As memories fade into morning light

I wake up from a sleepless night


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WAITING TO FLY

All the way I'm waiting to fly

Take a stand

As I stumble to the ground

Bad luck stay away

Bad luck stay away

Bored

Waiting for the rain

Beauty always cost me pain

Too late to scream about it now

The neighbors never hear a sound

Sound on sound

Waiting to fly

Tried to stand

Stumbled to the groundBad luck stay

Bad luck stay

Bad luck stay

Away

Bored

Waiting for the rain

Beauty always cost me pain

Too late to scream about it now

The neighbors never hear a sound


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(DEVIL) BEYOND THE SEA

In light of the season

The nights and the treason

All eyes are my eyes

Nothing escapes me

Beyond the sea waits the devilBeyond the devil waits the sea

Nothing that happens

Ever escapes me

So long

Farewell

Goodbye forever

I promised this season

Id never forget her

Why did I choose to surrender

The place beyond the seaWhere the Devil waits for me

All eyes are my eyes

All words arent free


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AT THE BOTTOM

I cant see

The forest from the trees

Everywhere I look is at the bottom of the sea

Its a great big height

Its a great fallIts a great big mouth at the middle of the world

No more white robes

No more thin air

No more pleasant fictions

No more I dont care

No more drowning worries

No more life is good

No more sins of sorrow

No more dirty truths

I cant see

The forest from the trees

Everywhere I look is at the bottom of the sea

Its a great big height

Its a great fall

Its a great big mouth at the middle of the world


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AMY GRANTS TOMB

Some men dream of hollow schemes

Then they dream of walking away

I pray against the night and dream against the morning

I dont mindI dont mind

Waiting here for a long, long time

I dont mind at all

Some angels bind their captives across a dirty floor

My angel laughs because shes found what shes been looking for

I dont mind

I dont mind

Waiting here for a long, long time

If I cant fall asleep beneath your sleepy company

I wont fall asleep at all

If I cant fall asleep between lovers and enemies

I wont fall asleep at all


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HOUSES ON FIRE

When I was young

I looked to the future

Everything else

Was just a house on fire

Now everybody knowsWhich way the winds blow

Does anybody know

Which way they die

How long were the summers

How deep was the cut

Just how wild is the river

I've only seen it from above

Now I'm old

And I feel like the winterColder than the city at night

Everything I touch

Is a room on fire

Even Midas

Never had such luck

When I was young

I held to my mother

Everyone else

Was just a house on fire

Well just because you think it's over

Does anybody know

How hard I tried

Does anybody know how hard I tried


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CITY HALLS

I know this is wrong

I know you couldn't wait to find out

I know the floods are coming

I know the tide is wild

I've got a secret

I've got a plan

I've got the whole twisted mess

In the palm of my hand

Didn't the city crumble

Didn't they find their ruin

Didn't the stars conspire

To keep us in a room

I've got a secretI've got a plan

I've got the whole damn world

Eating from my hand


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AS WE SLEPT THROUGH THE WAR

There was a fire

Before there was a storm

There was a calm moment

But we slept through it all

We danced around circumstanceAs we danced around you

As we slept on our ageing wrists

They were ready to bloom

I'm thirsty for answers of which I have none

I've drank all the poisons

A fool can put down

There was a fire

Then there was a flood

We slept through the whole damn war before we finally woke up

There was a fire

Then there was a storm

Another woman's lips

There was a calm moment as we slept through the war


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GHOSTS OF TWO

Long nights

I betrayed my teachers

The ghosts of our longing have left us behind

I warned you across the ocean

Under the knife of our little life

I speak till my mouth hurts and your eyes are wild

I sing when my teeth ache and that's all the time

I warned you but you wouldn't listen

The ghosts of our love are not hanging around

We're more than sick patients across an ocean

Still stitching the past for an explanation

You were so right when you said

I had no right to confessYou were so right when you said

I fucked it up and left it a mess

You were so right

You were so right


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SHOTGUN FUNERAL

Baby when do I get to take my place

In the armies of her majesty

Among the lines across your face

I miss the nights that held us tight

And the days that drew me inI spent my fortunes long before my eyes met your face

Baby where did you think that this was heading

when we spent the whole night talking

about funerals and weddings

The stars have made it hard for us

To believe a word I'm saying

I said my vows long before I ever had your blessing


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HEAD IN THE SAND

If up to you

Youd have your head in the sand

Your body on the fault line

If up to youYoud have no reason to doubt

Your head in the clouds

Why dont you just leave and let me dream about it

I got old

Waiting around

I got old

Waiting around

I got older tonight

Im gonna make it right

Im gonna make it

You better shut your eyes

Still seeing things I guess

I thought Id see you on the other side

You better shut your mouth

Youre digging holes again

I heard you calling from the other side

A thousand points of light

What makes you think youre the one

I saw swimming to the other side


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ALL IS FAIR

All is fair

In love and war

I was waiting for the night to disappear

All is goneRabbits outrun us

Still waiting for the night to disappear

I got tired of the midnight choir

Keeping me up underneath your shirt

Singing sad songs at the end of the world

Come down to me lets unravel this hurt

In modest times

I pick you up perfectly

Everything sweet and complete

In my time

I fall at your feet

Like some desperate last sip of wine

When I sing do you listen

Do your teeth sharpen and glisten

Do you count the days away like there were none

All is fair

In love and war

So they say when they dont have their way

Im so bored of this still life sketch

My heart is a bomb

My appetite is whet

Counting the breaths from your last set of steps

Come down to me lets unravel this ache tonight


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BARE MINIMUM

You live a little

Then you get high

The bare minimum gets you by

You drink a littleThen you get dry

The bare minimum gets you by

Had some drinks

A smoke

Let myself go

Tried to hit the bottom

The bottom was too low

You give a little

Then you get brokeThe bare minimum makes you choke

On the death of another daydream

You shake the night but you cant shake the scream

You make plans for the quiet life

You make plans for a better life

You live a little then you get high

We wave flags of distress

Blame the winter

Blame our mothers

Find another same road

Take another same road

We wave our hand in the air

Blame our fathers

Blame the others

We dont care

We dont care

We dont care


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SUPER CONSTELLATION

All in a day

Watching the night

Fall from the sky

Im hooked on a feelingSo high

I shoot through the ceiling

Money never made it better

Nothing ever made it settle down

Nothing ever made it any better

I thought what passed

For old superstition

Would never cross our tracks

From station to stationWe lost our way

On a super constellation

Falling from the sky

Waiting for something

What in the world were we waiting for?


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THE SWAMP

You crawled from the swamp

Into modern times

This winter I remembered

Nothing of my crimes

The wild strains of bad luck

That never add up to very much

Chasing old ghosts through the rain

Again and again and again

You go hiding in the world

Taking only left turns

And while the city burns

Youre out looking for the proof

Then you crawl back into the swampLeaving our bodies dead and wrecked

When I tell you it over

You say its all in my head

The high hopes of this town

The spoils of her battleground

Chasing your tail through the rain

Again and again and again

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