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1. _ Reach Down
I had a dream the other night
You were in a bar in the corner on a chair
Wearing a long white leather coat
Purple glasses and glitter in your hair
And you said hey this is where i'm gonna sit
And buy you a drink someday
You were going to the dog shows
But you kinda lost your way
You say now i got all this room
And no money to decorate it, so some
Local customer put me in touch with the man
Upstairs, he said little man
You got no business gettin' frustrated, you gotta rest
You gotta rest you gotta reach down
And pick the crowd up
Carry back in your hands
To the promised land
Now i had some angel shine my wings, she said
Nothin' but the best for the golden boy
She made me promise not to tell i had her under
A spell singing golden words in a broken voice
And i caught some blessing on the wind
I'm feeling lighter than a whisper from a dove
I've got no hands to tie behind my back
And i'm sparking like a heart attack,
Now i've got room to spread my wings
And my messages of love, yes love was my drug,
But that's not what i died of,
So don't think of me crying louder
Than some billion dollar baby cause i gotta rest i gotta rest i gotta
Reach down and pick the
Crowd up, carry back in my hand to the promised land
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2. _ Missing
Here come the signs
Of early-warning misery
Here come the sounds
It looks like a river up to here
Underneath my head
Here comes the sight
I might just lose it ?
Here comes the part
Where you ask me for my sympathy
I just might lose my head
Have you seen me
Can you hear me
Did you think you could win me over
I've been hard to hold
I've been hard to hold
And i'm missing
I made you get down
I made you get down on your hands and knees
But i made it up
I took you away from your misery
And you can't say it's ?
Now here comes the past
It looks like what's in front of me
This may be the last
This may be the last thing you'll see of me
And it might be your key to rest
I've been hard to hold
And i'm missing
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3. _ Spoonman
Feel the rhythm with your hands
Steal the rhythm while you can, spoonman
Speak the rhythm on your own
Speak the rhythm all alone, spoonman
Spoonman, come together with your hands
Save me, i'm together with your plan
Save me
All my friends are indians
All my friends are brown and red, spoonman
All my friends are skeletons
They beat the rhythm with their bones,
Spoonman
Spoonman, come together with your hands
Save me, i'm together with your plan
Save me
Feel the rhythm with your hands
Steal the rhythm while you can, spoonman
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4. _ Sunshower
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Dark as roses, fine as sand
Feel your healing and your sting again
I hear you laughing and my soul is saved
On forgotten graves you cry
Crawl like ivy up my spine
Through my nerves and into my eyes
Cuts like anguish
Or recollections of better days gone by
But it's all right
When you're caught in pain
And you feel the rain come down
It's all right
When you find your way
Then you see it disappear
It's all right
Though your garden's grey
I know all your graces
Someday will flower
In the sweet sunshower
Eyes like oceans so far away
A feather trail to a better way
Worried mornings turn into days
Then into worried nights
But it's all right
When you're all in pain
And you feel the rain come down
Oh it's all right
When you find your way
Then you see it disappear
Oh it's all right
Though your garden's grey
I know all your graces
Someday will flower
Oh in the sweet sunshower
Oh in the sweet sunshower
In the sweet sunshower
I know all your graces
Someday will flower
In the sweet sunshower
And it's all right
All you'll be you are today
Are today
It's all right
All you'll be you are today
Are today.........
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5. _ Angel On Fire
She stands on her suitcase
And looks out her window at me.
The smile leaves her face,
The mirror don't like what it sees.
So she hides all her secrets.
She's thinking i'll never know
That she burns like an angel
Into her fire she goes.
She don't miss nothing
Even though she pretends she don't see
Everything she's "watching" (?)
She puts her hand next to me
She says give me one reason
Why i should be here again.
But then she blows out the candle
And shows me the reason again.
Cause she loves like an angel
She burns like an angel on fire
On fire
After the movie,
She walks in the park with a friend.
She tells it to her straight.
He don't mean nothing to me.
She says i can't believe him
If i gave him enough rope he'd hang me.
But when she turns to him
There's no place she'd rather be.
Cause she burns like an angel.
She burns like an angel on fire.
And she's stuck
When she comes on so hot.
And you have never felt
A heavenly slow burn.
I'm so hot,
When i leave her cold,
Frying in her room
Like angels always do.
And did you really think i loved you
Just cause i said so?
Butterflies "shiver" (?)
She learns all the things that i've known.
She's thinking her diary
Convincing her words as she goes.
She says heaven forgive me
Am i going to pay for my sins?
Cause she burns like an angel
Everytime she lets me in.
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6. _ Heartfist
Love me to death cause i need the sleep
I've been wide awake
She hit me with a hand of broken nails
It hurts to give
When my heart has had too much to take
Another blow
Another broken spell
And it hits so hard
Heart fist
Love me to the head and hurts too bad
You're going all around
(i don't know why you can be so cold)
Oh yeah
It beats so hard into my chest
I prop my feet against the ground
(you've got to bite the hand that feeds you)
All right
I'm going down so why put up a fight
It's gonna hit me
It's gonna hit me
Heart fist
Don't leave another bomb to blow my head
It's gonna hit me
It's gonna hit me
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Love me to death cause i need the sleep
I've been wide awake
She hit me with a hand of broken nails
It hurts to give
When my heart has had too much to take
And you know how to hit it
Heart fist
Heart fist
Heart
Heart fist
Into the way of pumping blood from me
Alive before i drown
(i don't know, how do you think so cold)
All right
You lure me to your bed of nails
And then hit me when i'm down
(you gotta bite the hand that feeds you)
All right
I'm going down so why put up a fight
It's gonna hit me
It's gonna hit me
Heart fist
Don't leave another bomb to blow my head
It's gonna hit me
Yeah, it's gonna hit me
Heart fist
You love to hit me when i'm down
And set me up again
(it's like never getting up from a bad dream)
(chorus)
I feel the pain that brings me to the ground
I feel another fist begin to pound
Bleed everything and love into submission
Cause i will hit you like a heart condition
(chorus)
When it all adds up
You don't mean that much to me
Just another kiss to leave me when i'm down
And it hits so hard
Yeah it hits so hard
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7. _ Ave Maria
Ave maria was particularly difficult to decipher since it was written in shakespearean english, sung to the melody of the latin version, with traditional english verses mixed together, and alter
Ightly to fit cornell's rhythm (presumably).
I've included the traditional english verses parenthetically.
Ave maria! maiden mild!
O listen to a maiden's prayer!
For thou canst hear amid the wild
( for thou canst hear though from the wild)
Tis thou, tis thou canst save amid despair.
We slumber safely 'til the morrow,
(safe may we sleep beneath thy care,)
Tho' we, by men, outcast, reviled;
(tho' banish'd, outcast, and reviled;)
O maiden! see a maiden's sorrow -
O mother, hear a suppliant child!
Ave maria!
Ave maria! undefiled!
The flinty couch whereon we're sleeping
(the flinty couch we now must share)
Shall seem with down of eider piled,
If thou above, sweet, watch our keeping
(if thy protection hover there.)
The murky cavern's air's so heavy
(the murky cavern's heavy air)
Shall breathe of balm if thou hast smiled;
O maiden! hear a maiden's pleading!
(then, maiden! hear a maiden's prayer;)
O mother, hear a suppliant child!
Ave maria!
Ave maria! stainless styled!
O fiends of air and earth the essence
(foul demons of the earth and air)
From this their wonted haunt exiled
Shall flee before thy holy presence
(shall fee before thy presence fair)
We bow beneath our care so laden
(we bow us to our lot of care)
To thy dear guidance reconciled;
(beneath thy guidance reconciled;)
Then hear, o maiden, simple maiden!
(hear for a maid, a maiden's prayer;)
And for a father hear a child!
Ave maria!
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8. _ Seasons
Summer nights and long warm days
Are stolen as the old moon falls
My mirror shows another face
Another place to hide it all
Another place to hide it all
And i'm lost, behind
The words i'll never find
And i'm left behind
As seasons roll on by
Sleeping with a full moon blanket
Sand and feathers for my head
Dreams have never been the answer
And dreams have never made my bed
Dreams have never made my bed
And i'm lost, behind
The words i'll never find
And i'm left behind
As seasons roll on by
Now i wanna fly above the storm
But you can't grow feathers in the rain
And the naked floor is cold as hell
This naked floor reminds me
Oh the naked floor reminds me
And i'm lost, behind
Words i'll never find
And i'm left behind
As seasons roll on by
If i should be short on words
And long on things to say
Could you crawl into my world
And take me worlds away
Should i be beside myself
And not even stay
And i'm lost, behind
Words i'll never find
And i'm left behind
As seasons roll on by
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9. _ Unholy War
From the start of life
To your dying day
In the dark of night
And in the burning light of day
It's a bloody fight
And you can't walk away
There's no rest in sight
And i struggle just to slave
I'm tired of living on the front line
Of this
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Unholy war, unholy war
We try, we fight, until we die
Unholy war, unholy war
You see, you know, you'll always be
Unholy
I see your burning fuse
From a mile away
You take the world's abuse
Then you bow your head in shame
You gotta learn to bite the hand
That pulls your chain
There's too much sanity
It will make you go insane
I'll fight when we're all on the same side
Of this
Unholy war, unholy war
We try to fight until we die
Unholy
When you're all alone - unholy
With your thoughts of pain - unholy
You're a burning fuse - unholy
Can you break the strings? - unholy
You're shaking in your boots
You met your end today (?)
Try walking in my shoes
You'll see we've all got hell to pay
And we got battle wounds
In the lion's cage
We'll all be w's
Beneath the numbers on the page (?)
As we cry til the battle is over
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10. _ Black Cat
Black cat, black cat's gone
Gone for good, gone for long
Don't believe that he left me alone
And i hope he don't come home
Looking back, the black (past)
Trust him once, lost my map
Trust again to save my bones
And i never made it back
Black cat, black cat's gone
Gone for good, gone for long
Don't believe i made it home
And i hope he don't come home
Never had anything
Never lose and i never win
Lost my only love, never get her back
There's a black cat on my back
Black cat, black cat's gone
Gone for good, gone for long
Don't believe that he left me alone
And i hope he don't come home
Beg for mercy, laying low
Down where the poor dogs go
Lick my wounds, when (i go home)
Death is spiriling down
Death is low
Black cat, black cat's gone
Gone for good, gone for long
Can't believe that he left me alone
And i hope he don't come home
Every day, every hour
Another baby's born
Going to hang my head, (dry and blind)
'til the black cat drags it home
Black cat, black cat's gone
Gone for good, gone for long
Can't believe that he left me alone
And i hope he don't come home
Beg for mercy, i'm laying low
Down where the poor dogs go
Lick my wounds, when i grow old
The sun is down and gone
The sun is down
The sun is down and gone
The sun is down
The sun is down and gone
The sun is down
The sun is down and gone
Black cat
The sun is down and gone
Hope he don't come home
I hope he don't come home
I hope he don't come home
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11. _ Nowhere But You
Nowhere but you
I'm gone until i'm within you
Nowhere but you
There is no (better) place that i've been to
And if i'm condemned
Let me rest on my pillow
And dream of those moments so few
And if i'm blessed
I'll be chasing your shadow
There i go
Nowhere but you
Nowhere but you
Nowhere but you
When you were here
I thought that i would never miss you
When you were gone
I felt that i had never lived here
And if i'm condemned
Let me rest on my pillow
And dream of those moments so few
And if i'm blessed
I'll be chasing your shadow
There i go
Nowhere
Nowhere but you
Nowhere but you
Nowhere but you
Nowhere
But you
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12. _ Stolen Prayer
stolen prayer - the last temptation, 1994
I walk the streets alone
On feeble bones i ride
My sins are etched in stone
I got no place to hide
Well, i was unshakable
In what i did believe
I feel so breakable
But have i been deceived
You showed me your paradise
And your carnival of souls
But my heart keeps telling me
That ain't the place to go
Well, i'm not invincible
So i want you to leave
Well, i'm so convincible
But have i been deceived
I take your words and try them on
Yeah, it's a perfect fit, boy
You tell me one size fits us all
Yeah, like an old straightjacket
Well, tell me why i'm so afraid
All my words are spoken
All my words are spoken
All my words are spoken
In a stolen prayer
I remember yesterday
When things were black and white
Never thought i'd get confused
On what was wrong and right
Well, i'm not unbreakable
With armor on my skin
Well, it's not unthinkable
I could be fooled again
I take your words and try them on
Yeah, it's a perfect fit, boy
You tell me one size fits us all
Yeah, like an old straightjacket
Well, tell me why i'm so afraid
All my words are spoken
All my words are spoken
All my words are spoken
In a stolen prayer
You steal another minute from my life
You cut a little deeper with your knife
You steal a little breath from my air
And you don't care
And even though i'm chokin'
All my words are spoken
I take your words and try them on
Yeah, it's a perfect fit, boy
You tell me one size fits us all
Yeah, like an old straightjacket
Take this world and try it on
Man, you're lookin' good boy
Stick your neck out on the block
So you won't miss nothing
Stretch your finger, grab your hair
Don't you feel like screaming
Feel the blood rush from your veins
Now you're a perfect zombie
Now i'm on my knees
All my words are spoken
All my words are spoken
All my words are spoken
All my words are spoken
All my words are spoken
In a stolen prayer
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