Burning The Daze

I can see the sunshine
Coming through my room
Breaking down the winter of my discontent
Looking out my window
At the people passing by
I keep wondering where my old companion went

On the steps of the museum
I wrote a line or two
But it took a while to find my way
Back to something true like

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This is where i lay my hat
This is where they know my name
This is where they show me that
A man's not so alone
Maybe i'm already home
(sometimes you've got to go back)
Maybe i'm already home
(sometimes you don't know why)

Rolling down the window
Burning up the daze
Cutting through the veil that keeps on blinding me
I was only sleeping
Waiting here for you
Waiting for your touch that keeps reminding me

Well i've seen the world of wonders
Been underneath it too
But it took a while just to find my way
Back to something true like

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Why it had to take me so long
Just to find a place that really feels
This must be where i belong
Thinking about it
All i had to do was click my heels

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I was driving down ninth avenue
As the sky was getting dark
Didn't have nothin' else to do
So i kept on riding to battery park
I stepped out in the damp and misty night
As the fog was rolling in
Man said, "last boat leaving tonight
Is the boat for ellis island"

As my feet touched solid ground
I felt a chill run down my spine
I could almost hear the sound
Of thousands pushing through the lines
Mothers and bewildered wives
That sailed across the raging sea
Others running for their lives
To the land of opportunity
Down on ellis island

"what is this strange paradise?"
They must've wondered through their cries and moans
After all they've sacrificed
Their faith, their families, friends and homes
Then on the inspection stairs
They were counted out or counted in
Frozen while the inspectors stared
Down on ellis island

Now me i only stumbled in
Just to wander around that empty hall
Where someone else's fate had been
Decided in no time at all
And cases filled with hats and clothes
And the belongings of those who journeyed far
They're strange reminders i suppose
Of where we're from and who we are

But as the boat pulled off the shore
I could see the fog was lifting
And lights i never seen before
Were shining down on ellis island
Shining down on ellis island

I talk to you in turbulence
That's when i see the light
But she has visions on the hillside
Then she speaks in tongues all night

You've got such a faithful little servant
Why don't you pay her no mind?

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She prays for providence
She needs a little more of your attention
She waits for providence
Just a little intervention

She was driving out on highway 1
She felt the presence of something strange
She could not tell if it was alien
She only knew her life would change

If you were sending down a message
Why do you hang her on a line?

She prays for providence
I don't know why you cannot hear her
She waits for providence
Are you just waiting to be near her

Are you thinking something
And not letting on?
Will she understand what you planned
Before she's gone?

Down along these hillsides
Many miles ago
Lived a man of vision child
But little did i know
He was always talking child
About the heart and soul
'til one day some pharaoh came
And offered up his dole

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In the valley
In the valley of the kings
In the valley
The valley of the kings
The kings

Well he lives up in a tower now
High upon a hill
People come from miles around
Hoping that he will
Turn their dreams right into gold
Turn their worlds around
And if he does he'll keep it all
And stash it underground

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I could hear the shutters banging
In my mother's house
And the wind just kept blowing off the lake
I ran down to the front door
And told the ambulance man
"everything's all right here sir
There must be some mistake"

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Saints preserve us
We're all going down
This ship is sinking in the sea
Saints preserve us
And carry us along
For we may be together in eternity

My father was staring off into another world
And my mother she was laying very still
The baby was crying
And i tried to block it out
Then from somewhere deep inside me
Came a deathly chill

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Saints preserve us
Wherever we might fall
This is all too big a mystery
I remember i was standing in the corner of the room
Saying "look at how she's leaving us
So quietly so soon"

And in her final hour
I saw her reaching up her hands
Like she was asking to be taken high above us
Didn't she love us?

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Saints preserve us
Saints preserve us
Wherever we may fall
Saints preserve us
Saints preserve us
And carry us along

Fallen angel
Come to me
Give me something to believe
Before i turn on every vow
Turn to me if you still know how

Spent my share of restless days
Coal black suitcase
Fall from grace
All the while i was breaking down
Turn to me if you still know how

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I tried to tell you but i don't know how
Every smile's turned upside down
I'm a freakshow in a one joke town
So turn to me if you still know how

Change comes slowly it's just
A little hard to see
I know some of my demons
They're still haunting me
Wanting me

Fallen angel
Comfort me
Help me get back on my feet
'cause i can't keep myself from falling down
I just can't keep myself from falling down
So turn to me if you still know how

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