Citadel


Men are armed shout who goes there We have journeyed far from here Armed with bibles make us swear Candy and Taffy, hope we both are well Please come see me in the citadel Flags are flying, dollar bills Round the heights of concrete hills You can see the pinnacles […]


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Lull


You stop the crowdI cried out to break the spellYou wake and smileI just snapped and lost control Distracted by irrelevanceThe stress and the tensionThe stress and the tensionI’m in a lull There’s nothing so dullAs talking, talking ’bout yourselfBut what I meant to sayI’m sorry that I lost control […]


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Stop Breaking Down


Ev’ry time I’m walking all down the street Some pretty mama start breaking down on me. Stop breaking down, baby, please, stop breaking down. Stuff is gonna bust you brains out, baby, Gonna make you lose your mind. You Saturday night women, now, you just ape and clown, You don’t […]


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Everybody Hurts


When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone, When you’re sure you’ve had enough of this life, well hang on. Don’t let yourself go, everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes. Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it’s time to sing along. When your day is night […]


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King Of Birds


A thumbnail sketch, a jeweller’s stone A mean idea to call my own Old man don’t lay so still you’re not yet young There’s time to teach, point to point, Point observation, children carry reservations Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold, leaves me cold. A mean idea […]


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Dancing With A Rich Man


EntreaAy, tantas cosas que quieroDecirte yo quiero Hacer por tiBut first we must dancce Private cotillion styleOne lady’s fantasy Trip to Milan tonight Exclusive shopping spreeMansions await, your scent That smells just like treasure Dining with me in suitesThat overlooks the shore [1] – As we move, then we touch, […]


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Calm Like A Bomb


I be walkin’ god like a dogMy narrative fearlessMy word war returns to burnLike Baldwin home from ParisSteel from a furnaceI was born landlessIt’s tha native sonBorn of Zapata’s gunsStroll through tha shantiesAnd tha cities remainsSame bodies buried hungryBut with different last namesThese voltures rob everythingLeave nothing but chainsPick a […]


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Higher Ground


PeopleKeep on learnin’SoldiersKeep on warrin’World,Keep on turnin’Cause it won’t be too long.PowersKeep on lyin’,While your peopleKeep on dyin’World,Keep on turnin’,Cause it won’t be too long. Chorus: I’m so darn glad He let me try it again,‘Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin.I’m so glad […]


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2000 Man


Well, my name is a number A piece of plastic film And I’m growin’ funny flowers In my little window sill Dont you know I’m a 2000 man And my kids, they just don’t understand me at all Well my wife still respects me I really misused her I am […]


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My Back Pages


Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin’ high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We’ll meet on edges, soon," Said I Proud ‘neath heated brow Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth […]


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Ashes In The Fall


a mass of hands press on the market windowghosts of progressdresed in slow deathfeeding on hungerand glaring through the promiseUpon the food that rots slowly in the aislea mass of nameless at the oasisthat hides the graves beneath the master’s hillare buried for drinkingthe river’s water *unfinished*


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Old Before I Die


She’s taking me placesI should never have beenShe’s showin’ me facesI should never have seenWell these are strange days we’re livin’ in todayCest la vie I say I hope I’m old before I dieI hope I live to relive the days gone byI hope I’m old before I dieBut tonight […]


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Brand New Song


i’ve got a brand new girlfriendshe is so lovely lovelyi’ve got a new ex-girlfriendshe is so fat and uglyoh not you again it gets worseeverytime and one plus two againwon’t work i can’t divide itwell i let it go, i don’t carei love you when you’re not therebrand new song […]


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2000 Light Years From Home


Sun turnin’ ’round with graceful motion We’re setting off with soft explosion Bound for a star with fiery oceans It’s so very lonely, you’re a hundred light years from home Freezing red deserts turn to dark Energy here in every part It’s so very lonely, you’re six hundred light years […]


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