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The Wimp (stream) Hello City Glow Cutaway Kid San Francisco, 1906 Soft Happiness / Let Child Roam Magpies Dynamite Dare Birthday Song for Bridgegirl (stream) Waves in the Wire
1. THE WIMP:
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Feel so summer back, sweet for sure
Is a kiss from her, double penny in
Double back, clap for sure
With a string-tied ring there on her finger.
There I go, four v four
Shoulda let go lo and behold, that stunner hen
There I go look to the left
With a race day pace like pine car derby
The wimp woke up,
Then realized he had affinity for her,
The wimp woke up,
Played football, had to put a sling to shoulder
Can’t go, can’t go – uh oh.
Can’t go, can’t go – uh oh, no!
Feel so summer back, sweet for sure
Is a kiss from her, double penny in
Double back, clap for sure
With a string-tied ring there on her finger.
The wimp woke up,
His whole life was a mighty thing to shoulder
The wimp woke up,
Then realized he had affinity for her
We wait all week and we head straight for the beach
Can’t go, can’t can’t go – uh oh.
Can’t go, can’t go – uh oh, no.
(Gimme quite a bit that fun and running, running, running)
The wimp woke up,
His whole life was a mighty thing to shoulder
The wimp woke up,
Then realized he had a thing for her
The wimp woke up, the wimp woke up
2. HELLO CITY GLOW:
In the busy, dimming city
We see the light so pretty and clean – hello.
Came with the light so pretty and sweet
City with the sights so pretty, opposite me / hop beside me / hot beside me
Going back down to the neighborhood I knew
Not very long I carry on, I carry on
In the busy, dimming city
You never get too near or alone
Looking back out now, looking back out now, looking back out now
I travel to get away, I travel to the woodland
Carrying my kindness, I’m not sad,
I’m not carrying it all.
Oh, the spring, the sun, the fire,
An entire year long gone
Leave it alone, and turn around
You know you’ll get it right some day
Right feel, it all set in jacket overcoat
The train we take to
Take now, aloud fill it up, belly out
Walk tie and turn we will mingle in the night and make our memory
Mark my words early on you were right
Let go the old over ended here tonight, your heart is naked
Right now, the night pulling on is enough
3. CUTAWAY KID:
you say you’re a cutaway kid,
that you swim in the snow,
let’s see you drink whiskey and milk
let’s see from my hand-painted cereal bowl
you gave away all-a-your clothes,
took a trip for the store
i knew you then when we were still young
i knew the kid with hope and little to spare / despair
turn around, cause you can’t stay
my heart skips a beat and later we’ll work it out
the thicker my jeans,
the colder the winter it seems
you left on your way to big york
with a friend led by yourself
i saw something yeah you were grown up
i saw your heart raw glow with energy in
i decide stay in a rent-a-bed room
and i don’t say a word
let’s see what there carefully will age
let’s see the kids paint up our sky-a-new shade
turn around, cause you can’t stay
my heart skips a beat and later we’ll work it out
the thicker my jeans,
the colder the winter it seems,
water drops from our top floor,
night cat come looking for more
water drops from our top floor,
i can’t come looking for more
4. SAN FRANCISCO, 1906:
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Left alone outside -
The field overgrown, in time
One day, a passerby
would expose, what there, there lies:
San Francisco, 1906
Picture takers get a fix of storymakers’ dreams
To feed the ruthless magazines
Fires fueled by gasoline and propane
An earthquake like the world had never seen
You know it split them like a seam
They weren’t the makers of a dream
Auspicious everything we read
They weren’t the makers of a dream
Auspicious everything we read
And so, we are offended by the things we learn to be true
Christmas coming, 1941
Zeroes humming, take the air – 400 kettle drum
A mother makes another bed
The pillows found of green and red
Smoothing wrinkles in the dark – is he dead?
What there, there lies
All our troubles
Where is there veritas
Give me all our troubles
Mend them with naked truth
Nations rise and swell to sizes, unmanageable
Nations rise and swell to sizes, unimagineable
What there, there lies
There lies, there lies!
5. SOFT:
How soft we ache,
Bleeding with a friend, alleving pain
All my thoughts that further lost, once so vivid
The candle sits, and window spits
Light came at last!
We ride in the same old seats
Cut the wide country side away
Those were lovely days!
Flat shoes and gravel cramp your style
That one, that one, that oh so cheerful grin
Memory love is a language
We speak when we want some
How soft we ache,
For a feeling we cannot recall
My heart with gain and loss gave sweet away
I feel my heart adore uptake
Invite with fire bright
Like leo shimmer long
I know I can’t live it over,
So I lay my back in the clover
We cut a path to the cliffside
Our eyes saw right to the horizon
Our eyes saw past the horizon
6. HAPPINESS / LET CHILD ROAM:
Do you let the ones you love be happy?
Is there selfless core love inside your winter dove?
Don’t ignore or look away, HEY!
We’re not to blame for why we are
In the cold Michael
Down the sled hill slope
We’ll see you at home
Carry on Michael
We have been there too
We have been there too
Long before lightning
Bolts crack down with white
Light right through a tree
There is a moment
There is a picture
Undefined and pure
In the coldest night, we call
Oh, this time cannot last
Cannot / Can I face back
Toward the nameless happy past?
7. MAGPIES:
In fall we see how sadness meets our life,
Blackberry patches in the light
Shrivel up and die, shrivel up and die
Winter fits our mood
Because our mood was fixed and filled
By stormy ages long ago
We came across at least it took
the better of our emotions
and then we learned to sleep
Winter finger, wet hot stinger
Get burned, cold water
Come spring we change our ways
and shake off your cessna can now take off
(all greeeeeen)
One magpie, they say is for sorrow
Two for mirth
Three for a wedding,
Four for birth
Five silver
Six gold
Seven for a secret not to be told
Summer sends the moon
And we agree to get up, stay up late
Go outside to get our eyes adjusted
Tired but we run on potent fumes
Story lines, alike
We colorize, colorize
Uncover eyes, colorize
With a summer sunrise painting in the sky
8. DYNAMITE DARE:
Take a minute now – figure out the route we go
For a minute now – figure out the route we go
Within a minute wow
The pantheon of life behind
The skies come ready to roll
Underneath a thousand years another cave of air
The pillared fields have overgrown beyond the river there
Vacant hills they shake and stir beneath a cloud of heat
Daylight flooded roots of trees that settle in the street
Its all here, between the rarely seen dynamite dare
Its all here, between our only two hemispheres shared
9. BIRTHDAY SONG FOR BRIDGEGIRL:
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Cross that bridge if it moves you,
Pacing steps for missing boards
On the other side
There is always more road
There are always sinking bridges
Can’t breathe, this air, for long
Took her shoes off
Goodbye, old things, you can’t come along
Like a funeral, she left so quiet
Like a birthday song, she sang
Oh, oh, I am here with the welcome trees
And they know my first name
Come to wave your arms at us,
come to wave your arms
Set on the fleece side wall
with gold bricks and black holes
Won’t she come back?
Said those black shoes, that sit by a bridge
A forgotten man he sinks alone
Like a crushing blow, it said,
No, no, she’ll die there, with her welcome trees,
Where they know her first name
10. WAVES IN THE WIRE:
we came out of every hole,
played along, we’re nowhere near
we let it get out of control,
why we so cavalier?
we come, we try,
to align our lives,
with love, with love
trees of life, keep us ever
waves in the wire, keep us ever
save our lives, keep us ever
hello wary fellow eyes,
with hope we will, we wait it out!
before i die, and go,
i hope i live enough
we come out of every hole,
don’t play along, we’re nowhere near
we let it get out of control,
why we so cavalier?
the limits of our mind,
the tragedy of our kind
like light makes a shadowy wake,
a flowery st. patrick’s parade,
wrinkly eyes meet the gray,
dead leaves at the foot of a tree,
an avalanche that covers a lake,
forgiven honest mistakes
the limits of our mind
the tragedy of our kind IS
simplicity overtaken
by the sum of our, the sum of our lives
we come, we try,
to align our lives, with love
