1. |
Signal Fires
02:52
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Signal Fires
When the sun is buried again
My thoughts, like moths, are drawn into my heart
By the lantern that you left there.
My celestial guide, darling, I hear you from afar.
The notes of love you’ve hidden along my path:
All made of stars
These signal fires
These signal fires.
Your love is burning like the pyre
Burning like the pyre
All made of stars
These signal fires
These signal fire
Their semblance on the black surface of the water.
My darling
Where would I be without you?
I’d waste years trying to find myself upon a map.
All made of stars
These signal fires
These signal fires.
Your love is burning like the pyre
Burning like the pyre
All made of stars
These signal fires
These signal fires.
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2. |
Sleeptalking
03:19
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Sleeptalking
Keep talking,
I’m listening
like a deer caught in your brights
(so this is where they go on the highways at night;
So far from the body
So near danger and the mundane
Floating like the low lying clouds
Just above the terrain.
I know I should float back down
But the truth is that I can’t complain.
Lately I’ve been sleep talking with a stranger on the phone
Late night, sipping something stiff, trying to hum the dial tone.
Baby it’s easy
when you’re not the only one
Baby it’s easy
To never get anything done
I just can’t
can’t shake it
The feeling when I get home
All day I’ve been so lonely
Now I’m finally alone.
We’ll never admit it
But maybe I’m a lot like you:
We’re just a couple of aliens
Undercover, with nothing to do.
People that make me feel human
Are so very far and so few.
Lately I’ve been sleep talking with a stranger on the phone
Late night, sipping something stiff, trying to hum the dial tone.
Baby it’s easy
when you’re not the only one
Baby it’s easy
To never get anything done.
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3. |
Stop Motion
03:43
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Stop Motion
Who were we so reckless
Winged in our youthful hours?
Stop motion stars across the night.
Who were we so self assured?
Captains in our bottled ships
With gullible hearts
Leaning toward the light.
Honey
Are we still the young ones that we used to know?
So careless
Careless with love all of those years ago.
I think I lost something that I won’t get back
Maybe I’m better off without it
Looking back.
Honey, will you be my host when I come home again?
Walk me through that golden gate I’ve always known again?
Sit with me and remember what I has always been
Where we started from
Started from.
Year after year I think I got it all figured out
Year after year I think I got it all figured out.
Honey
Are we still the young ones that we used to know?
So careless
Careless with love all of those years ago.
I think I lost something that I won’t get back
Maybe I’m better off without it
Looking back.
Maybe I’m better off without it
Looking back.
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4. |
Alexandria
04:02
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Alexandria
This I’ve learned
so this I’ll tender:
Memories go
When not remembered.
So amidst the chatter
And shuffling feet
My thoughts calm and take their seats
The lights dim
In my mind- the theater
Curtains draw as you draw nearer
Each step makes the image clearer
Each step makes the image clearer…
This silent wood
This glowing snow
We’re alone now
Nagano
If I don’t return
Here to visit you
Just because the world is turning
I can’t keep the memories that I’ve earned
Can’t keep Alexandria,
Can’t keep Alexandria from burning.
This silent wood
This glowing snow
We’re alone now
Nagano.
Can’t keep Alexandria
Can’t keep Alexandria
Can’t keep Alexandria from burning...
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5. |
With Me When I'm Gone
04:24
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With Me When I’m Gone
If the flowers in the window
Catch the light but still need more
Because the sun is passing faster
Than the doctors by the door
Let me take that with me
With me when I’m gone
Let me take that with me
With me when I’m gone
Won’t you tell me about the hours
Like they were breathing soft and low?
Bring the day safe to me in your arms
Like a child that won’t let go
Let me take that with me
With me when I’m gone
Let me take that with me
With me when I’m gone
If my memories are fleeting
Like dreams that only linger
As long as I hold on
Won’t you put them down on paper
So I don’t take them with me when I’m gone?
Let me take that with me
With me when I’m gone
Let me take that with me
With me when I’m gone
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6. |
Interlude
01:54
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7. |
Ketchikan
03:16
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Ketchikan
Most things that I know
I don’t know what they mean-
There’s just a grey sky and a wet forest,
And a shelter, warm as its color
Like a tangerine
“What’s the future like?”
People ask you
“It’s like the colors of the houses in Ketchikan, Alaska”
Most things that I know
I don’t know what they mean
Sometimes you just trust it
You trust what you feel
Dream a future
That won’t happen
Trust it to be real
To be real
I have all that I need
But what I want most
is to see your reflection
in a triangle window
on the Big Sur Coast.
I’d have to look back on a very different life
to have arrived there.
Sometimes you just trust it
You trust what you feel
Dream a future
That may not happen
Trust it to be real
Sometimes you just trust it
You trust what you feel
Dream a future
That may not happen
Trust it to be real
To be real.
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8. |
Lighthouse
04:01
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Lighthouse (lyrics by Blind Willie Johnson)
I don’t got religion,
And I ain’t ashamed-
Let your light from the lighthouse shine on me,
Let it shine on me,
Let it shine on me,
Let your light from the lighthouse shine on me
All the angels up in heaven,
They have called my name
Let your light from the lighthouse shine on me,
Let it shine on me,
Let it shine on me,
Let your light from the lighthouse shine on me
I don’t got religion,
And I ain’t ashamed-
Let your light from the lighthouse shine on me,
Let it shine on me,
Let it shine on me,
Let your light from the lighthouse shine on me
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9. |
Secret Song
04:29
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Secret Song
I’m still with you
Even now
I’m still with you
Even now
Still as the gust plucks at the older bough,
Still as an hour, breached by the world, will allow.
Taken by the wind
Lost in the undertow
Somehow you know
Somehow you know.
You move to a different city
I move to a different room
You move to a different city
I move to a different room
But our bedroom lights still dictate the hue
Even here—out here—with all of these headlights retreating
Somewhere it’s just evening
There’s no care that the day needs
There’s no care that the day needs
Somehow you…
Somehow you know
There’s no care that the day needs
Somehow you know.
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10. |
Jonestown
05:14
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Jonestown
Keep your ears close
And hear past the commotion
Past all the history and the hiss of the tape
As you draw closer, like images in the fog
These voices and sounds begin to take shape
In Jonestown.
How far am I from?
Witness the happenings
We never thought would happen
Permit the words that we thought we would not say
These places- how will we ever get back again?
Decades to forget what arrived in just days
In Jonestown
How far am I from?
You just need someone
To make sense of this madness
You just need someone
To make it a story that you can believe
Forget the facts, and hand you an atlas
You’ll follow their story wherever it leads
Wherever it leads
Wherever it leads
Jonestown
How far am I from?
how far am I from?
Keep your ears close
And hear past the commotion
Past all the history and the hiss of the tape
As you draw closer, like images in the fog
These voices and sounds begin to take shape
In Jonestown.
How far am I from?
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