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9/11
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Return of the Singer
I’m coming out like a 45
Spinning like a Wurlitzer on overdrive
Feeling like electoglide
Touch down satellite, feel alright
Tonight, return of love
Return, return of the singer
Twist me up and watch me turn
Just like a falling star about to burn
Center down and outward thrust
The curtain’s up baby, it’s now or bust
Tonight, return of all the love you get
Return, return of the singer
Chorus 1:
It’s tailor made and it’s Heaven sent
Just think about the time we’ve spent
The way we moved the words we said
If nothing else a testament
Oh my love, oh my baby
No one else can make me crazy, like you, like you
Cause we’re all about to move on
No one here without a song
Pilfering the planet’s blood
Been making up the moment from after the flood
Tonight, return of love
Return, return of the singer
Chorus 2:
I’ll tell you how it’s gonna be
We’re gonna make some history
A microphone, the truth we need
No joke, no trend, no fad of the week
Horde of angels, sing as one
You know my heart has come undone again, again
Return, return of love
Return, return of the singer
Return, return of all the love you get
Return, return of the singer
Existence
You come into the threshold of another
Starless night of fear
Your running from the demons that
Would drag you down again
Illusions of the world are spinning
Out of time and frame and synchronicity
Your so sad
You’re such a sad eyed girl
You’re so sad in your sub-plot
Chorus:
What is this, what is this, this mess
Of my existence is
All these politics of life and death
And relevance
It’s my existence
Another morning it comes running up
Your bedpost with the wind
You face yourself just like you do,
Time and time again
The mortal coil of image,
Inner peace and satisfaction
And so you keep it on the down low
Hiding all the secrets that are down below
And so you keep it on the down low
Tell me baby was it worth it all
Chorus:
Oh just take it all, make it work
and make some sense
Just take it all
You’re my existence
You’re my existence
Be
All in all we’re fading
Like a soul lost in the wilderness
We’re cold and we’re cut off from it
Not knowing where it’s gonna end
There’s a star in Bethlehem, it’s calling you
It’s a memory of One who made it
Chorus 1:
Be, be yourself
There’s no one who does it quite like you
Be, no one else
Cause if you don’t then who is going to
You’re a tribute to the best of us
We follow everybody else
Not knowing what we’re made for
The mecca of the insecure
The sign and the mark of the popular
There’s a new face on the television
It’s a new host with the same derision
Chorus 2:
Be, be yourself
Don’t let the losers tell you what to do
Be, no one else
Cause if you don’t then who is going to
And the time is now
No reason to look back
Just like an infant born
You’ve got to catch your breath
And I’m learning Father
Yes and I’m going farther
Chorus 3:
Be, be yourself
There’s no one who does it quite like you
Be, no one else
Cause if you don’t then who is going to
Light the path you’re supposed to see
Just like the salt that filters through the need
Like a star that’s falling from the sky
Just like the apple of your daddy’s eye
Angel With No Wings
I wanna a girl with a college head
Not some dizzy mind
I want somebody with some sentiment
You wanna waste my time
I wanna house in New Orleans
You wanna hitch a ride
Some come on back when
You can make some tea
And read St. Augustine
I like the way you look outside
It’s not like the secrets that you try to hide
I kind of like the way you talk so tough
Chorus:
There’s only one road to go down
You gotta take it right out of town
She’s like an angel with no wings
And don’t you know she flys
With strings attached
Who said romance is a chosen thing
Baby it chose you
Who said there’s someone perfect in the wings
Perfections isn’t you
It’s not the way you look outside
It’s not the boyfriend that you try to hide
I kind of like the way you stand so bold
Chorus
Oh my Lord, you can kill me where I lay
And it’s alright that you sing no serenade
And it’s OK baby, you’re an angel without wings
And it’s alright girl, that your flying
With strings attached
Chorus
Shaping Space
And they said we wouldn’t last
And they said the years would break our backs
So here we are again my friend
To mystify their narrow plans
You and I were meant to be
Much more then they could see
And you I were meant to stay
As they waste away
Chorus:
We are shaping spaces
And harvesting places
We’re the prince’s of the universe
We are living together
In the here-everafter
In the temple of the evening Son
We’re the princes of the universe
It’s a prophecy of long ago
It’s a blueprint for the journey home
And we’re writing as we stumble on
Making history to build upon
You and I will always be
Much more than they can see
You and I are made of clay
And we’ll waste away
Chorus
And the raven in the tower clock
Spins poetry and devil talk
And the woman by the endless well
She’s drawing water from the mouth of hell
“And these are the days”, she says and
Chorus
Dead End Moon
As the sand shifts cool beneath your feet
By the light of a dead end moon
Your haunted fingers on my skin so sweet
Your hair is the darkest loom
Like a cherub left to gather moss
Like a ship without it’s sail that tosses
Like a vassal to this kingdom lost
My soul so pale
Oh my lonely heart
Oh my soulless girl, will you ever let me go
Chorus:
I don’t wanna cry no more
And here I wander aimless
I just want to find a cure
To my growing weakness
And the one who wanders
Is not lost my friend
From on top a Moorish wall I stand
I see the valley stretching
The mist of sea’s are pulling in
From your cliff I’m stranded
Embedded in your body deep
Lie answers to the questions
Like a garden hidden from the keep
How long I’ve waited
Oh my lonely heart
Oh my soulless girl, will you ever let me go
Chorus #2:
I don’t wanna cry no more
And here I wander aimless
I just want to find a cure
To my growing weakness
Oh dark mistress, my only salvation
If only to hold you in blessed suspension
Eyes that hold midnight, smile that brings out light
Strange fascination, my only placation
Chorus #3:
I don’t wanna cry no more
And here I wander aimless
I just want to find a cure
To this infernal sadness
Union of the Soul
How can I be so despairing
When you are so fully of joy
How can I be so laser-like
And you so passively content
How can I bleed my sorrows
And you hide your accomplishments
Why must I wallow in the mire
When you fly above it all
I struggle with a word of truth
But you would wither if a lie passed your teeth
How can I be me
And you be you
It is the union that makes us whole
Separately in control of each other
The Secret Circle
Oh tell me do you live in dreams
You’re not exactly what you seem to be
Yeah, we want to follow Ellesun
But come tomorrow we run from Ellesun
Oh no, You’re so fashionably late
And you’re wearing all that black like fate
You wanna run to the forest all the time
She’s got a ring of serpents
One green, one red, entwined
She’s got skeletons in her closet
That always seems to fall in line
I wonder if she has lost it in the head
She only wants to get you into bed
Just take another prisoner, Ellesun
Oh yeah, just tell another lie until it’s done
Oh my, your name cannot be traced
And your theology is out of date
You wanna run to the fairys all the time
She offers you the ring of serpents
And she offers you her hand
It’s not like love or friendship
It’s something hidden
Oh the meetings on, it’s such a secret circle
Secret circle of, secret circle of,
Secret circle of…
Oh tell me do you live in dreams
You’re not exactly what you seem to be Ellesun
I Don’t Belong
And so we broke up
And you so decided
It was you, it’s always you
Even though we were friends
I felt uninvited
The fraternity of fools
And I’m drowning slowing (going down)
And I’m fading like ink that’s a hundred years old
Chorus:
I don’t belong, say I’m wrong
Told you that you should have know me better
I don’t belong, this is my song, this is my song
You made me a prince
You made me a pauper
Then you turned and closed the gate
Even though I messed up
There wasn’t an offer, love
No mercy or no grace
And I see right through you (see right through you)
You wanna be just like me don’t you
Chorus
(Stupid things I’ve said and done)
Oh don’t you walk away
(Battles that I’ve lost and won)
Shame, shame, shame on me
(What I used to think was wrong)
I’m for the underdog,
I like the one who don’t belong
Chorus
Blind
There’s no one stirring on my street tonight
There’s no one leaning on my window pane
No one to ascertain, or just apologize to
There’s no one to kill my anxiousness again
And if you can please take these arrows from my side
Their poison marks are like tattoos of my pride
I’m guilty, so guilty, dead guilty
Chorus #1:
Blind, I’m blind
You know I’m blind baby, say it isn’t right
So blind, I’m blind
I’m certifiable but I’m on time
No priest in midnight black can cure my itching flea
This case of stricken lust is like a tattoo of my pride
I’m guilty, so shoot me, I’m guilty
Chorus #2:
Blind, I’m blind
You know I’m losing my mind, I’m paralyzed
So blind, I’m blind
Certifiable, but right on time
I need divine intervention, Your divine intervention
You’re divine,
You’re the vine,
I’m the branch,
You’re the vine,
I’m the fig leaf,
You’re the branch,
You’re the vine,
You’re divine,
Chorus #3:
I’m blind (I’m deaf and dumb and that’s not all)
I can see now my eyes are opening
I’m deaf and dumb and that’s not all
I’m deaf and dumb to it all
I’m deaf, I’m dumb, so blind
On and On
You are the sunshine
I am the rain that falls in line
You are a candle
And I am your darkness
You are the moonlight
I am the cloud that passes by
You are a vision
And I am blindness
And so it goes
The story is far too old to know it all
Chorus:
On and on, we danced until the song is off the radio
On and on, we hold each other long after the crowd is gone
On and on, our love goes on and on
You are an island
I am the raging of the sea
You are a fortress
And I am abandoned
You are the valley
You are a bird that flies so high
You are a temple
And I am the begger
And so it goes
The story is far too old to know it all
Chorus
Take me to your drawbridge
Come take me to your door
Take me when I’m hungry baby
Take me when I’m poor
Take me when I’m sick of love
Take me when you’ve had enough
Take me when I’m lost, alone
And I don’t know the reasons why
Chorus
You are a vision
And I am blindness
Her Game
Every time she comes my way
She knows just what to do and say
Those little smiles she throws away,
They turn my stomach
If you listen close enough you’ll catch all
The divisive stuff
Those subtle moves, the way she smoothes her hair
Chorus:
And you don’t want to say
She was digging your grave
And your friends all can see it
There’s no way you’re gonna leave it
So where you gonna go
Who you gonna call
When you know it’s time to play the game
What’s your mystery
Who’s it gonna be
When you know it’s time to play her game
Is it real or Memorex
Those secrets that you feared confessed
When she was there you let it all spill out
Turning as you leave for good
You wonder if you ever should have wandered
Through her neighborhood at all
Chorus
I am all to blame
This is my parade of broken-hearted words
I feel them all and learned their shame
Please catch me when I fall
And turn me from this wall I’ve faced for far too long
This lonely sonnet needs a throng
Chorus
Cause where you gonna go when you’re all alone
Learning from history
Don’t make it a policy
To hide from your mistakes
Where you gonna go
When you gotta go
Man you gotta
Make it real quick to see
You gotta get up for me
Gotta learn from you mistakes
Deconstructing Venus
You are the center of your own private little constellation
And you are the jury and judge of every little deconstructed fable
And you like the way it is
You don’t wanna question it
You’re the wonder of God’s own handiwork
Yeah you wear Versace but you look like a dirty bird
And yeah, even the paparazzi think you’re quite absurd
Venus of your own consent,
Is there anything that you give up for Lent
OH parasite, oh peacock of pride
Will you let the little people see inside of you
And you don’t wanna question it
And you’re looking quite possessed
You’re the wonder of God’s own handiwork
Yeah, you wear Versace but you look like a dirty bird
And yeah, even the buying public think you’re quite a jerk
And you’re trapped in your little castle
Like Randolph Hearst in his fringe and tassel
Yeah you wear Versace but you look like a dirty bird
And yeah, even the paparazzi think you’re quite absurd
There’s too much information on the television
Innocent we have been srung and innocent we are
You don’t know how to feel, you don’t know
This is the eye of the storm
This is society
I Went Over the Edge of the World
Oh the hymns of angels
Suffer ove the stench of the 21st century
Nothing is black or white
Or devoid of industry
The face of monotony
The litany of popular culture
I face the microphone and fumble in my pockets for a change
A break from the deranged world of accountants and record executives ***
Plotting out the death of art
And I went over the edge of the world
And felt the sting of all it’s words
I sand the song of elves and birds
I saw you in my rear view shades
And drank from the pools of night time café’s
I stopped over just to finish up
I turned the knobs and called your bluff
I went over the edge of the world
I faced the microphone and fumble in my pockets for a change
A break from the deranged world of accountants and record executives***
Plotting the death of art
***It’s backwards…record is and play it backwardsand that’s what it says “accountants and record executives…”
You
I ran into your arms
Like Moses parted water
I ran into your arms
Like an angel to the Father
I ran into your arms
Like a soul that has departed
And you rescued me
I fell down like the stars
You picked me up so tenderly
And I fell down like the stars
My wings made of clay
And I fell down like the stars
You hold me up so all can see
And you rescued me
Oh yes
Chorus #1:
You, You are the One
You are the One
The only One
Cause You are You
You are the One
You are the One
You are my God
I stumbled like a blind man
Destined to this earth astray
I stumbled like a blind man
No redemption
I stumbled like a blind man
With eyes blacked out, a mouth of sand
And you rescued me
Oh com’on
Chorus 2:
You, You are the One
You are the One
You are my God
Cause You are You
You are the One
You are the One
The only One
Cause you are
You are the sky that holds the rain
You are my great escape
You are the drugs that kill the pain
You are everything, the teacher
I stand before your alter
Falling straight of Abrams son
I stand before your alter
Like a lamb lain to be slaughtered
Chorus #3:
You, You are the One
You are the One
The only One
Cause You are You
You are the One
You are the one
The only One
You, You are the One
You are the One
You are my God
And You are You
You are the One
You are the One
The only One
You wanna call me when I’m wandering without
You wanna come and tell me every things alright
I know You and You see every thing in me
I know it’s You
It’s because You know every think in me
Chorus (repeat)
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