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Throwing Copper

The Dam at Otter Creek
Selling the Drama
I Alone
Iris

Lightning Crashes
Top
All Over You
Shit Towne
t.b.d.

Stage
Waitress
Pillar of Davidson
White, Discussion
Horse

1: The Dam At Otter Creek

when all that's left to do is

reflect on what's been done

this is where sadness breaths

the sadness of everyone

just like when the guys

built the dam at otter creek

and all the water backed up

deep enough to dive

we took the dead man in sheets to the river

flanked by love

deep enough to dive

deep enough to dive

be here now

we took him there and three

in a stretcher made from trees

that had passed in the storm

leave the hearse behind

to leave the curse behind

be here now

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2: Selling The Drama

and to love: a god

and to fear: a flame

and to burn a crowd that a name

and to right or wrong

and to meek or strong

it is known, just scream it from the wall

I've willed, I've walked, I've read

I've talked, I know, I know,

I've been here before

hey, now we won't be raped

hey, now we won't be scarred like that

it's the sun that burns

it's the wheel that turns

it's the way we sing that makes 'em dream

and to Christ: a cross

and to me: a chair

I will sit and earn the ransom from up here

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3: I Alone

it's easier not to be wise

and measure these things by your brains

I sank into Eden with you

alone in the church by and by

I'll read to you here, save your eyes

you'll need them, your boat is at sea

your anchor is up, you've been swept away

and the greatest of teachers won't hesitate

to leave you there, by yourself, chained to fate

I alone love you

I alone tempt you

I alone love you

fear is not the end of this!

it's easier not to be great

and measure these things by your eyes

we long to be here by his resolve

alone in the church by and by

to cradle the baby in space

and leave you there by yourself chained to fate

oh, now, we took it back too far,

only love can save us now,

all these riddles that you burn

all come runnin' back to you,

all these rhythms that you hide

only love can save us now,

all these riddles that you burn yeah, yeah, yeah

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4: Iris

I liked the way my hand looked on your head

in the presence of my knuckles

but the beauty of this vision alone just like yesterday's sunset

has been perverted by the sentimental

and mistaken for love

the felix of your truth will always break

it and the iris of your eye will always shake it

and the armies, the armies I have created

will always hate it

will always bait you on

I liked the way my hand looked on your head

in the presence of my struggle

but the beauty of this vision alone I can't shake from my tree just yet

it keeps invading all my private moments

listen to me now

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5: Lightning Crashes

lightning crashes, a new mother cries

her placenta falls to the floor

the angel opens her eyes

the confusion sets in

before the doctor can even close the door

lightning crashes, an old mother dies

her intentions fall to the floor

the angel closes her eyes

the confusion that was hers

belongs now, to the baby down the hall

oh now feel it comin' back again

like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind

forces pullin' from the center of the earth again

I can feel it.

lightning crashes, a new mother cries

this moment she's been waiting for

the angel opens her eyes

pale blue colored iris,

presents the circle

and puts the glory out to hide, hide

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6: Top

this is not helping me at all

what you are doing here

in the name of god and love

it's the distribution of fear

pyramids, healing wires, analysts with fame

I haven't got your degree

and I forgot your name

pick me up and put me on the ground

set me up and spin me all around

no, you are not the one I wish to see

this is not helping me at all where did we get this plan?

that you could give to me what I might already have

pyramids, healing wires, a musician's fame

I volunteered you my eyes

in place of facing me

oh Hitler, in a robe of truth

my emptiness has built your altar

and I've worshipped myself in you forever

until now!

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7: All Over You

our love is like water

pinned down and abused for being strange

our love is no other

than me alone for me all day

our love is like water/angels pinned down and abused

all over you, all over me

the sun, the fields, the sky

I've often tried to hold

the sea the sun, the fields, the tide

pay me now,

lay me down

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8: Shit Towne

the weavers live up the street from me

the crackheads, they live down the street from me

the tall grass makes it hard to see

beyond my property

hey man, this is criminal,

this hard line symmetry

of people and pets

we don't bother anyone

we keep to ourselves

the mailman visits each of us in turn

we don't bother anyone

we keep to ourselves

the mailman visits each of us in time

gotta live, gotta live, gotta live

in shit towne

gotta live, gotta live, gotta live

in our town.

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9: t.b.d.

in the moment I was losing my head

readin' too much and losin' my head and I was

reachin' forward, I was already there

readin' too much and losin' my head

this information caused a cut in the line

now I'm remembering God and readin' too much

it's so nice

the print is smaller than the ants in the grass

I'll have to put it away now

in the morning there are things to be read,

words to be said, and food to be fed,

but I won't be there.

I'll be clutchin' on a megaphone pointed at my head,

would you be there,

would you kindly, read this word for word

so loud and clear,

I can't remember it all,

it needs to be clear, I tell you,

if the feeling drops out of your voice,

would you kindly pick it up

this is how, I'll go out tonight

dressed in blue, by the book tonight

this is how, I'll go out tonight

but I don't need a book.

we're talkin' anchors, talkin' ships, we're talkin' seas,

we're talkin' everything you need

you should be workin' now,

not only askin' how

and the whereabouts of where you'll be.

I don't suspect you will be thinking

when the brain is dead

and the mind has taken over,

this is a skill, this is not a game,

where have you been,

are you with us?

can you hear us?

got the megaphone pointed at you

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10: Stage

I wanna feel

I wanna try

I wanna rock in the city tonight

I wanna deal

don't wanna die

I wanna bring my captain hook into the light

people I've seen my day

ranting and raving this beauty away

we are by and large the same

but words are too feeble, they cannot contain

he was a "rock and roll messiah"

she was known for her childcare

the truth is gonna give up the world

if you can give up the stage

if I can give up the stage

if we can give up the stage

come to this,

I can't come to you don't do this,

wake me up tonight

come to this,

I can't come to you don't do this,

wake me up tonight

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11: Waitress

come on baby leave some change behind

she was a bitch, but I don't care

she brought our food out on time

and wore a funky barrette in her hair

come on baby leave some change behind

she was a bitch but good enough

to leave some change,

everybody's good enough for some change

the girl's got family

she needs cash to buy aspirin for her pain,

everybody's good enough for some change

we all get the flu,

we all get aids

we've got to stick together after all,

everybody's good enough for some change,

SOME FUCKING CHANGE!!!

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12: Pillar Of Davidson

warm bodies, I sense

are not machines that can only make money

past, perfect, tense

words for a feeling and all I've discovered

I'll be along son with medicine supposed to,

designed to make you high

I'll be along son

with words for a feeling and all I've discovered

old, bad eyes

old, bad eyes

old, bad eyes

on loneliness comes

go see the foreman, go see the profiteer

on loneliness drives

we're takin' our time movin' shit for this holy slime

old, bad eyes

old, bad eyes

old, bad eyes, almighty fear

the shepherd won't leave me alone

he's in my face and I

the shepherd of my days

and I want you here by my heart and my head,

I can't start till I'm dead

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here I am locking horns with the stallion

failing to hold my head up, I'll go back again

pillar of davidson feeling to hard to go down

cheaper than all souls he will walk upon

deeper and deeper in love so I hold my head up

cheaper than all souls he will walk upon

pillar of davidson feeling to hard to go down

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13: White, Discussion

I talk of freedom

you talk of the flag

I talk of revolution

you'd much rather brag

and as the decibels of this disenchanting discourse

continue to dampen the day

the coin flips again and again, and again, and again

as our sanity walks away

all this discussion though politically correct

is dead beyond destruction

though it leaves me quite erect

and as the final sunset rolls behind the earth

and the clock is finally dead

I'll look at you, you'll look at me

and we'll cry a lot

but this will be what we said

this will be what we said

Look where all this talking got us, baby.

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14: Horse

all the things that they make you say

and all of the love that you hide away

I'll pick you up and it will be all right

I'll pick you up and it will be tonight

she rode a horse into my head

she won't discipline the children

and now they're running wild on the beach

and I don't care

oh, I don't care

no I don't care hey, hey, hey

it's the middle of the night and you're here

playing dominoes and drinking beer

I tried to think of something deep to say

but my well is dripping dry today, hey

hey, hey, hey

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