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howcatchem
02:00
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the bed that can't be unmade
the cards that all bear your name
the mourners aghast
at my humour:
I can see yer house from here, man
and I can see the fire that will claim it
and I can smell the smoke in my hair
and I can see the fire running through it
if slow death is coming
and fast death is coming
no wrong or right about it
if slow death is coming
and fast death is coming
come crush my skull
and break my bones
so bears can run
so bears can run
come wipe my mind
and stop my heart
so bears can run
so bears can run
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2. |
grand orbit
02:04
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sorry I left you
a sorry IOU when
finding my way
heaven looked homely and
heaven looked frightening
the choir called my name
some of them lovely and
some of them like me
but all in my way
up here, there's only me
the clouds they seem so unreal
little fish following whales
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pastoral drag
02:02
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i was a raver then
or some sad lapsed goth
you were a phase of the moon
an absence of light
horse is a horse, of course
except when it's not
you were more equine than most
if only in mind
so help me, god
if i get one thing right
i will lay down in ashes
and grow out my hair
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4. |
opera seria
01:41
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some people, like planets
can't handle henri and me
his heart and my mind games
or how our cloud power
grows stronger by the hour
his heart and my mind race
and my own heart
sprouts a tail
and some wings
the violins sound a febrile warning
the orchestra is giving up
or hoping to
you want it, too:
the opera's ephemera
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5. |
so animal
01:53
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in the passing light of a car tonight
how the world at once seemed
so animal
all the lords of light and the princes high
and the maids-in-waiting
so animal
animals, while they object to the comparison
have noted that the sky is falling and
the bees are leaving and the birds are dying
and the towers climb into a sky that yet is falling
they nod their heads in wonder
at my animal blunder
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6. |
henry the bear
01:41
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henry the bear
wakes up in heaven
smell of a world in his skin
balks at the clouds
gets bored of heaven
heads off to war with his friends
well there goes a man
there goes a mandible too
yeah there goes a man
there goes a mandible too
and when he walks the land
we drink to his good health
and when he's born again
we drink to that as well
and when the lightning
finds us in our beds
we'll go back to ashes
and to his good home
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7. |
kate bush
02:40
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if all you care about is sunshine
and not the fires that here burn much brighter
that hill will run you down
if you're upset about the violence
and you go crying to the snake-oil sky-man
that hill will run you down
in the end you fantasize
you can do no wrong
in the end you fantasize
the deal is honoured
in the end you'll wonder how
you could be so wrong
in the end you'll wonder if
the deal was honoured
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8. |
moths
02:39
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damie's gone mad
now he walks like a cat
here in heaven
we're in heaven
i chipped my teeth
on the garden he keeps
here in heaven
we're in heaven
dan spent three weeks
just admiring the trees
here in heaven
we're in heaven
i broke my wrist
on the flowers he picked
here in heaven
we're in heaven
and i'll be perched on your shoulder
an army back from the war
and i'll be best when i'm older
in arm's reach, deaf to the roar
and if i should fault my brains
or take up with moths
would i rather heart or wings?
would i feed the stars
watching me watching you?
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there are stars in heaven
going dark in heaven
some have up and gone blind
some have lost their damn minds
maybe when i join their ranks
you could play me out
(calamity requested a sky funeral
complete with vultures
and one hopeful dove
he asked that all who came to see him off
give alms to the weary pigeons)
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11. |
grief station
01:38
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henri is hanging by his hands
and thinking hard about the plan
his father said there would be light
he left a bed that knew his shape
and a good woman, knew his name
his father promised food and wine
and men to help him pass the time
not if the body breaks
but when the body breaks
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