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Miners Lie!
06:00
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A now a now a now or a never
A now a now a now or a never
The lines composed in sleep
Are the best that come to be
But fade, like a wave they do in the morning
Goodbye goodbye
On the family monument
Your name has been engraved
Below the welded iron crosses oh
The miners lie waiting for you to die
With your eyes wide open
You're staring at the sky
With your eyes wide
With your eyes wide open
You're staring at the sky
With your eyes wide
Now where's all the mercury
Where's all the cyanide
The poison well's inside you
The poison well's inside
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Blessed Speed
02:28
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We started out
Into the Great Starting Out again
Black habits to match the halos
Floating over our heads
And speed enough blessed speed
To keep us up for weeks
Well alright
And what of this speed
It's what you need, and I need it too
The blackness stays behind
If we just keep moving
Well alright
Lost you when I lost it
I don't know this way
But a white line runs behind me
So you can come and find me
Okay
Well alright
We started out
Into The Great Starting Out and then
My favorite blue eyed savior
Has come to me again
The late night twinings finally tied up
Into something
Well Alright
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The Lion's Share
03:38
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When I lay my eyes on you
It's like a lion meets a lamb
It's like when a lion meets a lamb
I'm hungry
You're helpless
And I don't give a damn
Caught you with one paw
Tore you open with one claw
And your blood came out in waves
Til it was drained
Came and came til you were drained
And then I took of your sweet flesh
Until there was nothing left
So reckon with me sweetie
And tell all your little friends
I've done it before and I'll do it again
I've done it before and I'll do it again
You haven't got a prayer unless
You're hungrier than me
Cause a lion doesn't share
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My Weary Eye
06:37
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It's good to stop and rest for a while
But then move along move along
I know what's waiting in these amber colored octaves
A distillation of all my best defenses
A distillation of all my best defenses
I'm worthy as a birdie in the bush with two hands
Worth less than a cat with no master
Worthy as a birdie in the bush with two hands
Two hands
You've got a clear shot at my weary eye
I know what's waiting in these amber colored octaves
It's what I sink with my battleship
It's what's kept in my graveyard
A thousand bodies buried and no marker
A thousand bodies buried and no marker
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Mercy Me
03:18
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This is the room that I once lived in
Gold carpet fake wood paneling
Worked from dark til the dawn it crept in
Stayed there until I'd been forgotten
The shop downstairs sells generic cigarettes
Lighters with tits and lottery tickets
And they got a motor on the beer cooler
That keeps me up at night
And I've seen the holes burned into these walls
By the eyes of the lonely who've long ago given up
Calling for mercy
Oh mercy me
Oh mercy me
Oh mercy
A lady lives next to me she has some family
Her hair is still blond though her body has softened
Her daughter's ashamed of her stays half an hour
On Christmas and her birthday
And I share a bathroom with the blond lady
Halfway between her and me in the hallway
And everything shakes when trucks go by on the street
It makes my head and my bones ache
And I've seen the holes burned into these walls
By the eyes of the lonely who've long ago given up
Calling for mercy
Oh mercy me
Hey ho let yourself go
Slit me up from gut to throat
And call it a victory
Oh mercy me
Oh mercy me
oh mercy
Now my key's in the door this room's fallen empty
Through the wall I hear a TV
And I'm leaving now
While nobody sees me
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Gold To Green
03:33
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The leaves upon this chestnut tree
Are making me so sorry
So sorry
Cause when they turn from green to gold
I know the summer love in me is fading
Is fading
September is but a half month
Just time enough to sweetly wave goodbye
To lives lived by golden hours on lover's isles
Just time enough to set your course
For a cold and dripping distant silver shore
Stay with me my faded angel
We'll turn the leaves from gold to green
This is no time to take your leave
The sun can live inside
Stay
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The Natural Arc
06:31
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It's all an extension of the Natural Arc
And unless you lay with me
You won't know what I mean
You won't know what I mean
Four, five, six, seven
Magnitudes of stars gone out
Now a glorious dawn is descending
A glorious dawn is descending
Do you know what I mean
Harrier hawks and prairie falcons
Take wing upon your waking
And your namesake is unrivaled
In her half light
It's not half right
Will you rise and take a stand
With a bible under your right hand
Your namesake is your rival
In her half light
You saw the fatal flaw
And carry on somehow
You saw the fatal flaw
And carry on somehow
So fall forward
The catching a sense of duty now
You saw the fatal flaw
You saw the fatal flaw
You saw
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I hate this place
Every one of us is wasted
And there's nary a happy drunk in the house
We're a wounded lot
with black holes for eyes
Making believe we're what we're not
I'm in the spotlight
I can't do nothing right
I wear all my fears here on the outside
And we're taking shots in a hospital
For wounds that you can't talk about
So you see it's time that I say
Goodbye goodbye goodbye
I'm a-gone get high
Look at the big sky
Watch the bats as they fly
Through the moonlight
It's alright
I'm a-gone down to the greenfields tonight
Here we are taking shots in a hospital
For wounds that you can't talk about
Oh I say goodbye goodbye goodbye
I'm a-gone get high
Look at the big sky
Watch the bats as they fly
Through the moonlight
It's alright
I'm a-gone down to the greenfields tonight
I'm a-gone sleep in the greenfields tonight
I'm a-gone sleep in the greenfields
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Worse & Wise
05:00
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He came again
Came to me with a new face
We all thought for sure he was done for
But older all the more
Worse and wise for the wear
And where have you been all these years
Tell me where have you been all these years
And from him comes
A waterfall of true things
Thunderstorms and torn off bird wings
He knows of my nameless ache
And how it grew to rule me
And how it all fell on deaf and dumb ears
And it'll all fall on deaf and dumb ears
He said
Darling you are here for a reason
Your only hope now is love
And if you let it it will fill the cracks
And spring the traps
That you set in circles round
You worn out broken heart
This road is so lonesome and slow
But you will be set free when you know
You've been had by savage masters
Jealousy and anger
Don't you see now
Love is all that's left
Love is all that's left
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Amy Annelle Austin, Texas
A prolific writer and interpreter of songs, Amy Annelle maps out the farther reaches of American music, while conjuring visions of our restless musical past. Over the course of ten albums & thousands of miles logged on the road, Annelle has cultivated a rarified voice and repertoire that "blooms with open-hearted, lustful vulnerability and a harrowing naturalistic solitude”(Crawdaddy). ... more
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