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Death of a Heart
06:22
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Outside
I hear the river raging
The streets are filled with thieves not worth saving
My heart now rides a hearse
The poor thing died of thirst
And now it's raining
Inside
I wish your face forgotten
You're memory from me is barred from top to bottom
I'm searching for a trick
To somehow spin your silk
Into cotton
Bring me a surgeon not a priest
Or this hurt will never cease
Draw the curtain
But there's no such thing as peace
It's war from west to east
And that's for certain
I'm weary
And the road is endless
Broken down, penniless, and friendless
If it wasn't for my doubt
If I found a cowards way out
I'd end this
Shame
And humiliation
And the distance between the tongues of every nation
It's the heart that must be slain
To kill the phantom pain
Of separation
Bring me a surgeon not a priest
Or this hurt will never cease
Draw the curtain
But there's no such thing as peace
It's war from west to east
And that's for certain
Love
Offered no resistance
The sky's alive with gunfire in the distance
The kiss didn't leave a scratch
Tenderness is no match
For deaths persistence
Still
I love you more than ever
I could no more change my heart than change the weather
This head will always need
This heart will always bleed
To be together
Bring me a surgeon not a priest
Or this hurt will never cease
Draw the curtain
But there's no such thing as peace
It's war from west to east
And that's for certain
Outside
I hear the river raging
The streets are filled with thieves not worth saving
My heart now rides a hearse
The poor thing died of thirst
And now it's raining.
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2. |
Midnight Talking
04:58
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For the gentle midnight talking
Where the bright moon lifts the lovers tide
Through old dreams their walking
Where the sweetest fallen memories hide
I live in a silent land
Where time and death sleep side by side
The lovers mouth is filled with sand
And all the stars in darkness hide
My captain he's a dying man
He's praying that his love will last
He met his destiny too late
The wind has changed, his fate is cast
His prayer is answered with a laugh
Your love was just your foolish pride
A peacock struts the aftermath
And all the stars in darkness hide
The wrong girl she's in love with me
But all I see are bitter eyes
My brother he's the better man
And always sees the truth in lies
If I knew how her thoughts were sown
If I knew deep in night she cried
A chain gang sing we're all alone
And all the stars in darkness hide
I've see through a million eyes
Through oblivion and back
I no more know ice from flame
Or what I have, from what I lack
But I still know my wrong from right
Tattooed in darkness down inside
Taught by the touch of empty night
And all the stars in darkness hide
Take me in your tender arms
I've had enough of fools and lies
Who build a bridge to doom and make
A waste land of paradise
Hold me close the end is here
The time when ending dreams collide
The lovers tender arms are torn
And all the stars in darkness hide.
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3. |
Every Angel Falls
04:40
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Spring came crueler than winter
The sun went dim through the sky
And the birds all choked on a tree of smoke
Where the branches reached a mile high
Wont you look at the view my darling
Doesn't it look so calm
And you'd have given them an early warning
Though they meant to do you harm
Knee deep in blood with two blinded eyes
That's when his visions start
All too late he regrets his fate
Just like every human heart
I never pictured us living
Just to survive inside of a life of crime
And you were always too forgiving
But every angel falls it just takes time
See the fireflies above the river
They're not the kind we used to know
But close your eyes, see our fireflies
They'll be with us wherever we go
Don't you know I heard you crying
In the darkness where you curled
In my dreams were always dying
And it's always the end of the world
Spring came crueler than winter
The sun went dim through the sky
And the birds all choked on a tree of smoke
Where the branches reached a mile high.
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4. |
On the Moonlit Sands
04:00
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When the lights go out
And the night is cold
And the air is still
And all time is old
And your fingers reach
But there's nothing there
And you'd sell your skin
Just to touch her hair
And you tell yourself
You've done nothing wrong
All things will go
And she's just gone
Well it happened the way
That you dreamed it would
They came for you sleeping
With a leather hood
And they gagged your mouth
And they bound your hands
And they took you down
To the moonlit sands
They couldn't make you beg
They didn't make you cry
But for the way you lived
They made you die
But they'll live on only in the shame you made them see
For what you meant to them, what you mean to me
You suffered in sun
And you suffered in rain
And you suffered for a reason
And you suffered in vain
When the lights go out
And the night is cold
And the air is still
And all time is old
And your fingers reach
But there's nothing there
And you'd sell your skin
Just to touch her hair
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5. |
Midnight Blue
04:24
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Midnight Blue
I've been walking
All alone at night
I find my way by the blue moon light
I've been thinking
Do you think of me too
Are you alone like this all alone in this midnight blue
Midnight blue
Midnight blue
I've been bleeding
But my bloods run dry
And my hands are broken or I'd wipe my eyes
I can't tell anymore what's fake from true
It all looks the same out here in this midnight blue
Midnight blue
Midnight blue
Midnight blue
Midnight blue
That's all I ever see when I see you
And all the lonely while I was without you
Like that north star you never gave me Cause to doubt you
And like that star I'll just keep sailing Through
These lonely nights of endless
Midnight blue
Midnight blue
Midnight blue
So your heart bleeds
That's been done before
We've been down that road and we've Closed the door
It's an old idea
I'm just trying to make it new
I found it written on the heavens in the Ink of that midnight blue
Midnight blue
Midnight blue
That's all I ever see when I see you
Midnight blue
Midnight blue
That's all I ever see when I see you
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6. |
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As I went out one morning
To breathe the air around Tom Paine's
I spied the fairest damsel
That ever did walk in chains
I offered her my hand
She took me by the arm
I knew that very instant
She meant to do me harm
"Depart from me this moment"
I told her with my voice
Said she, "But I don't wish to"
Said I, "But you have no choice"
"I beg you, sir", she pleaded
From the corners of her mouth
"I will secretly accept you
And together we'll fly south"
Just then Tom Paine, himself
Came running from across the field
Shouting at this lovely girl
And commanding her to yield
And as she was letting go her grip
Up Tom Paine did run
"I'm sorry, sir", he said to me
"I'm sorry for what she's done"
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