1. _ Reunion
I had guards like watchdogs, dogs in a manger
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2. _ Ghost
There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer
The last truce we ever came to from our adolescent war
And I start to feel the fever of the warm air through the screen
You come regular like seasons shadowing my dreams
The Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota
At a place where you can walk across with five steps down
And that's just how you started like a pinprick to my heart
But at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown
There's not enough room in this world for my pain
Signals crossed and love gets lost and time passed makes it plain
Of all my demon spirits I need you the most
I'm in love with your ghost
I'm in love with your ghost
Dark and dangerous like a secret it gets whispered in a hush (don't tell a soul)
tell a soul)
When you kiss me like a lover and you sting me like a viper
I go follow to the river play your memory like the piper
And I feel it like a sickness how this love is killing me
But I would walk into the fingers of your fire willingly
Dance the edge of sanity I've never been this close
In love with your ghost
oooooh-oooooooh-ooooooh-oooooooooh
oooooh-oooooooh-ooooooh-oooooooooh
Unknowing captor you'll never know how much you
Pierce my spirit but I can't touch you
Can you hear it a cry to be free
Oh I'm forever under lock and key
As you pass through me
Now I see your face before me I would launch a thousand ships
To bring your heart back to my island as the sand beneath me slips
I burn up in your presence and I know now how it feels
To be weakened like Achilles with you always at my heels
This bitter pill to swallow is the silence that I keep
It poisons me I can't swim free the river is too deep
Though I'm baptized by your touch I am no worse at most
In love with your ghost
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3. _ Three Hits
(Dedicated to the memory of a great poet, Frank Stanford)
Three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion
One could send you down the river three's a strange way to be delivered
Would you trade your words for freedom that's a barter for a blind man
Three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion
Are you leveed like a treasure only words can help me find you
And this world's a fickle measure I will painfully remind you
From a wise man to your red hand you lay covered in our best sins
Three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion
Well I dream you constant stranger with your best bloods and your anger
You say mother do you claim me my beloved do you blame me
Well the first two might release you but the last one sings in me son
Three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion
Three hits to the heart son and the last one sings in me
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4. _ Least Complicated
I sit two stories above the street
It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep
There's life down below me though the kids are walking home from school
So long ago when we were taught
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5. _ Trouble
Trouble came around here
Here in the South we fix something to eat
Steam risin' up off the greenery and
We welcome the strangers we meet
Alien sick growing in these walls
Like moss in a crack that time made
I brush a guy in the airport whistling it's a small world after all
And the prices are higher but the kid's still selling lemonade
(Chorus):
Get to the point of it
Get to the sense of it
I'm in a hurry to get through it
Hurricane flag falppin' in a bad storm
Same color as the spider underneath my nail that bit me in my dream
And who would take out the Dominican Republic
And send God's sweet children floating down a poison stream
Secret society of conference rooms
I pledge my allegiance to the dollar
And when the clergy take a vote all the gays will pay again
Cause there's more than one kind of criminal white collar
(Chorus)
One day the war will stop
And we'll grow a peaceful crop
And a girl can get a wife
And we'll bring you back to life
Sacks of flour and rice or poker chips
Greasy palms of systems underhanding
And maybe we'll take a walk on Pluto
But be no closer to the understanding
(Chorus)
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6. _ Go
Note: This song is a reincarnation of Problem Child
Through the dustbowl through the debt
Grandma was a suffragette
Blacklisted for her publication
Blacklisted for my generation
Go, go, go
Raise your hands, raise your hands high
Don't take a seat don't stand aside
This time don't assume anything
Just go, go, go
So feed the fire and fan the flame
I know the kids can stand the rain
I know the kids are still upsetters
Cause rock is cool but the struggle is better
I said go, go, go
Raise your hands, raise your hands high
Don't take a seat don't stand aside
This time don't assume anything
This time don't assume anything
I said go, go, go
The truth is I was afraid . . .
. . .I felt inferior. . .
. . .I felt I excelled in competing with others
And I knew instantly that these people
Were not competing at all, that they were acting in a
Strange, powerful trance of movement together.
And I was filled with longing to act
With them and with the fear that I could not.
Did they tell you it was set in stone
And that you would end up alone
Use your years to psych you out
You're too old to care, they're too young to count
Did they tell you you would come undone
If you tried to touch the sun
Undermine the underground
You're too old to care they're too young to count
I said go, go, go
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7. _ Kid Fears
Pain from pearls, hey little girl
How much have you grown?
Pain from pearls, hey little girl
Flowers for the ones you've known
Are you on fire from the years
What would you give for your kid fears?
Secret staircase, running high
You had a hiding place
Secret staircase, running low
They all know now you're inside
Are you on fire from the years
What would you give for your kid fears?
Skipping stones, we know the price now
And any sin will do
How much further if you can spin
How much further if you are smooth?
Are you on fire (Are you on fire)
From the years (From the years)
What would you give for your kid fears
What would replace the rent with the stars above
Replace the need with the love
Replace the anger with the tide
Replace the ones the ones the ones that you love
Are you on fire from the years
What would you give for your kid fears
Hey kids
Hold on
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8. _ Galileo
Galileo's head was on the block
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9. _ Devotion
I pulled out with the mountain laurel blooming
On a dirt road that is soon to be paved
Down to the site of my original establishment
And the west end family grave
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10. _ Watershed
Thought I knew my mind like the back of my hand
The gold and the rainbow and nothing panned out as I planned
They say only milk and honey's gonna make your soul satisfied
I better learn how to swim cause the crossing is chilly and wide
Twisted guardrails on the highway broken glass on the cement
The ghost of someone's tragedy how recklessly my time has been spent
And they say that it's never too late but you don't, you don't get any younger
I better learn how to starve the emptiness and feed the hunger
Up on the watershed standing at the fork in the road
You can stand there and agonize till your agony's your heaviest load
You'll never fly as the crow flies get used to a country mile
while
And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path
Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good laugh
You start at the top, go full circle round catch a breeze take a spin
But ending up where I started again makes me want to stand still
Up on the watershed standing at the fork in the road
You can stand there and agonize till your agony's your heaviest load
You'll never fly as the crow flies get used to a country mile
while
Stepping on a crack breaking up and looking back
Every tree limb overhead just seems to sit anyway
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11. _ Leaving
Jet fuel and traffic lines
Pulling up to the delta signs
Distant shape of my hometown
Black stain where the wheels touch down
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12. _ Closer to Fine
I'm trying to tell you something bout my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
And the best thing you've ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously
It's only life after all
Now darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
I'm crawling on your shores
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains,
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin, and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry, or see a b-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
I got my paper and I was free
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains,
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
*whistle*
I stopped by the bar at 3 am
To seek solace in a bottle, or possibly a friend
And I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before
I went in seeking clarity
from the fountain
from the fountains
up for the lookout
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
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13. _ Strange Fire
I come to you with strange fire, I make an offering of love
The incense of my soul is burned by the fire in my blood
I come with a softer answer to the questions that lie in your path
I want to harbor you from the anger find a refuge from the wrath
This is a message, a message of love
Love that moves from the inside out
Love that never grows tired
I come to you with strange fire
Mercenaries of the shrine, now who are you to speak for God
With haughty eyes and lying tongues and hands that shed innocent blood
Now who delivered you to power to interpret cavalry
You gambled away our freedom to gain your own authority
Find another state of mind
Reach out grab hold
Strange fire burns with the motion of love
When you learn to love yourself, you will dissolve all the stones that are cast
You will learn to burn the icing sky, to melt the waxen mask
To have to hold of true relief this is the peace that's gonna take you higher
I come to you with my offering, I bring you strange fire
This is a message, a message of love
Love that moves from the inside out
Love that never grows tired
I come to you with strange fire
I come to you with strange fire
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14. _ Shame On You
My friends they wash the windows they shine in the sun
we've done
I said, "let's put on some tunes, sing along, Doolittle all day"
Go down to the riverside take off our shoes and wash these sins away
The river said, "la la la shame on you"
River said, "la la la" it said "shame on you"
I go down to Chicano City Park cause it makes me feel so fine
And when the weeds go down you can see up close in the dead of the wintertime
But when the summer comes everything's in bloom and you wouldn't know it's there
And the white folks like to pretend it's not but they're music's in the air
You can hear 'em singing la la la shame on you
And you can feel 'em dancing la la la shame on you
My friend Tanner she says, "y'know me and Jesus we're of the same heart
The only thing that keeps us distant is that I keep fuckin' up"
Come on down to Chicano City Park and wash your blues away
them
And they say ooooh la la la la la la la la la shame on you
And they'll be dancing la la la they say shame on you
Shame on you
Let's go roadblock tripping in the middle of the night up in Gainesville town
step out
They say, "we're looking for illegal immigrants can we check your car?"
I said, "it's funny I think we were on the same boat back in 1694"
And I said ooooh la la la la la la la la shame on you
and they'll be dancing la la la they say shame on you
And I said ooooh la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la i said shame on you
And I said, I said, shame on you
They'll be dancing la la la they said shame on you
Shame on you
Roadblock trippin' in the middle of the night in Gainesville town
(Blue lights flashing down the long dirt road)
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15. _ Power of Two
Now the parking lot is empty
Everyone's gone someplace
I pick you up and in the trunk I've packed
A cooler and a two-day suitcase
Cause there's a place we like to drive
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16. _ From the Firmament
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17. _ Unworthy
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18. _ Roquentin
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19. _ Becoming the Truth
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20. _ Dear Dad
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21. _ Corona and Lime
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22. _ One Dying Wish
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23. _ Sweetness and the Light
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24. _ Travels With Mr. Watson
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25. _ Venus and Bacchus
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26. _ Closed Hands
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27. _ The Under Achiever Song
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28. _ Poet You Never Were
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29. _ Woodwell
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30. _ Corporeal
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31. _ Burden of Reflecting
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32. _ Some Natures Catch No Plagues
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33. _ Ariadne's Thread
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34. _ Shame, Shame
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35. _ It's Only Right
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36. _ Shannon
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37. _ Say Whatever
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38. _ Who Am I (Mysterious World)
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39. _ 50 Years
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40. _ Ocean Woman
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41. _ Notres Langues Nous Trompent
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42. _ Secret Song Intro
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43. _ Remembering Rodao
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44. _ Rockstar Superman
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45. _ 20th Century Minstrel
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46. _ What Price Freedom?
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47. _ Nicole [2010 Version] [Version]
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