1. |
Black Bird On A Wire
05:06
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Blackbird in the sun light
Rules all that he sees
Black birds are watching me
From the rookery
If I had wings I'd fly away
Fly across the sea
Until I found an unknown land
Where no one's heard of me
I wouldn't even have a name
Call me what you will
I will be a black bird
On your window sill
Black bird on a lamp post
Black bird on a wire
Black bird over valleys
Black birds in a line
Single file
Black birds crossing boarders
Black birds atop a hill
Black bird over water
Black bird on your window sill
On your window sill
Secrets are so very sweet
Secrets I keep well
I have secrets that need
Some one I can tell
She's the only girl I've loved
Now she's gone away
And I never knew until
It was too late
Black bird on a lamp post ...
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2. |
Save Us
05:06
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I am so heavy
Covered in dust
I broke down the levee
Disappeared and rusted
I followed desire
Followed rivers of fire
But they only lead down ward
And never retire
We waited so long
For some one to come
And save us
There never was
Anyone
Dreams of Orestes
Break down, rebuild
But there's miles of silos
With missiles ready to spill
Into the night, we all fade
Collapse, decay
And we're taken away
At the end of the day
But we waited so long
For some one to come
And save us
There never was anyone
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3. |
Life is Short
02:42
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Feeling lost and lonely
Faded graveyards howl
As I sing
Cherry blossoms come
Again they're blown away
By the wind
Life is short
It's half over
Misspent in bad company
And when we pretend
To end the friendships bend
As I hide
Cache the guitar chord
Send me spinning every night
underneath electric light
Life is short
It's half over
Misspent in bad company
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4. |
The Edge of the World
04:55
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What can I say but that I do not love you
No, you don't shine in my mind any more
Misery may roll in like the fog
Happiness may never come at all
At the edge of the world
What did you want me to say
I've got my back to the wind
All my words are blown away
Inviting shores caressed
By the opaque water
Mysterious child of love
Is with his sea side mistress
At the edge of the world
What did you expect to find
I've got myself in a bind this time
I wouldn't mind if you helped me out
I've got to find safe passage
A harbor home where I can live
But I hear broken voices
Singing songs but the key is wrong
Would take my reaching arms
Would you pull me out by the hand
From the depths that I have swam
And put me back on the beach sand again
At the edge of the world
Could you hear my screaming voice
Can't you see that I had no choice
I'm going over ...
The edge of the world ....
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5. |
Crop Duster
04:47
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Dare devil crop duster
Spraying a small field
Flying too near the highway
Through power lines
I am no co-pilot
Screaming to slow it down
Where did I get this feeling
I'm crashing to the ground
Crop duster
Above the world
And he's flying mad
Spraying poison
How long 'til we
Get a chance to sleep
Everything that makes me feel better
Only serves to make things worse
Do you realize the burden
It is to steer this course
You better change the things that you can
Or else they'll just stay the same
Where did I get this vision
Of crashing aeroplanes
Crop duster ....
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6. |
What A Fool
04:37
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So it seems
That you and me
Have said too much
We made a scene
But I thought that you
Belonged to me
What a fool I was
When I saw you
At the fields edge
At the farm you worked
On the northern ridge
I asked you where
Your parents lived
What a fool I was
I made for her
A daisy chain
A symbol of
My trust to gain
I might as well
Have danced for rain
What a fool I was
Soft of speech
Fair and mild
My life was hers
For a while
But daisy chains
Are foolish things
That fall apart
What a fool
I must've been
What a fool
To think that I
Could keep you warm
If you where cold
If you where hot
To satisfy
Oh I know
You're too young for me
But you looked so good
Beneath the apple tree
Where we watched the blossoms
Falling free
Free as fools in love
Oh I hope
That you recall
With kindness how
I fooled them all
To fall for you
Before you knew
Just what a fool I was
What a fool
I must have been
Who was I
Trying to kid
You where right
I was wrong
I'm just a fool
All alone
I'm just a fool
On his own
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7. |
Cast A-drift
05:06
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Sunshine sinks us salty merchants
Up the boar shone sandy ridges
Man the starboard spacecraft soundly
Keep it steady or cast a-drift
Cast a-drift
Silver streamlets strip with wonder
Black jack get back fat stack spender
Bed down for the night beside her
Sing a song and light her fire
Cast a-drift
Busted flat with no spare tire
The bitch is broke, the bastard’s buying
The wind kicks up, the sand flies high
Left behind all kinds to find
Cast a-drift
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8. |
Sunk
04:10
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Sunk
I founder on your shore
A ship wreck at your door
All my sails are torn
Sink
Like the sunset in your eyes
I never realized
How in need I am of you
So in the end
An S.O.S I'll send
But no one's listening
To the call
Until I fix the hole
In my boat I'll hide the gold
In the forest beyond the shore
Of your heart land
Deep
I cannot go to deep
For that of which I seek
And hide my treasure chest there
Gold
I've got so much damn gold
My life's worth nothing more
Than these blessings and these curses
Down, down
The weight it pulls me down
The weight of all this gold
It pulls me down
Low, low
My fortune is too low
What would you think
To see them guineas sink
Angels call my name
Devils take the blame
If I had it all to do again
I'd leave the gold behind
And swim on in
There
On your desert isle
Where I was beguiled
By your golden smile
Sink
I let that treasure sink
I came back from the brink
And you breathed my life back into me
To sing a song
A sailor on a farm
Plowing through the fields
Of your heart land
Life at sea is short
A new one can't be bought
And love of gold will only hold you down
Love of gold will only hold you down.
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9. |
Thirteen Palms
03:48
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There I was
Just thirteen palms
And nothing else is there for miles
The shack a came across
Was built with cinder blocks
The roof was tin
I looked within
The sun’s too bright
I can see only flies
Winking out
I’m looking in
I begin thinking out loud
Like a cloud turns to rain
I send my words across
This threshold to be lost
In the darkness
But I am not alone
I’m not alon
There I was
Just thirteen palm
No other man stands for miles
I came across your shack
At the end of the foot track
Through the bad lands
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Trevor Garrod San Francisco, California
Hello folks, I've been rambling around for quite some time, singing songs, playing pianos, and trying to figure it all out.
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