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Grounded 5 a.m
The nightlite is comforting
But gravity is holding you
Once settled into sleep
You have watched on repeat
The story of your life
Across the ceiling
And in review
You've said the air was singing
It's calling you, you don't believe
These things you've never seen
Good morning, how are you?
The weather's fine, the sky is blue
It's perfect for our seminar...
Now close your eyes,
And start to breathe
Allow the noise to recede
Allow yourself to drift and fly away
But you just stay
You've said the air was singing
It's calling you, you don't believe
These things you've never seen, never dreamed
Did you hear these voices calling
Did you hear these voices calling
Did you hear these voices calling you
Locked into a conference room
We're only what our minds assume
And rationale is leaving you
This conceit these systems of belief
Your counselor agrees
You've always mark these boundaries now you're free
And with relief
You've said the air was singing
It's calling you, you don't believe
These things you've never seen, never heard, never dreamed
You said the air was singing
It's calling you, you don't believe
These things you've never seen
Never never never never never never never never never never
Never never never never never never never never never
Once you had a dream
Of oceans, and sunken cities
Memories of things you've never known
You have never known
Have you seen?
Have not, will travel
Have I missed the big reveal?
Do my eyes
Do my eyes seem empty?
I've forgotten how this feels
I've been high
I've climbed so high
But life sometimes
It washes over me
Have you been?
Have done, will travel
I fell down on my knees
Was I wrong?
I don't know, don't answer
I just needed to believe
I've been high
I've climbed so high
But life sometimes
It washes over me
So I dive into a pool so cool
And deep that if I sink I sink
And when I swim I fly
So high
What I want
What I really want is
Just to live my life on high
And I know
I know you want the same
I can see it in your eyes
I've been high
I've climbed so high
But life sometimes
It washes over me
Washes over me
Close my eyes so I can see
Make my make-believe, believe
In me
Humming
All the way to Reno
You've dusted the non believers
And challenged the laws of chance
Now, sweet
You were so sugar sweet
You may as well have had 'kick me'
Fastened on your sleeve
You know what you are
You're gonna be a star
You know what you are
You're gonna be a star
Wing
Is written on your feet
Your achilles heel
Is a tendency
To dream
But you've know that from the beginning
You didn't have to go so far
You didn't have to go
You know what you are
You're gonna be a star
You know what you are
You're gonna be a star
You know who you are
You know who you are
You know who you are
Humming
All the way to Reno
You've written your own directions
And whistled the rules of change
You know what you are
You're gonna be a star star
You know what you are
You're gonna be a star star
You know what you are
You're gonna be a star star
You know what you are
You're gonna be a star star
Humming
All the way to Reno
All the way to Reno
All the way to Reno
You're gonna be a star, you are
You're gonna be a star
You're gonna be a star, you are
You're gonna be a star
It's not that she walked away
Her world got smaller
All the usual places
The same destinations
Only something's changed
It's not that she wasn't rewarded
With pomegranate afternoons
Of Mingus, Chet Baker and chess
It's not the stampeding fortune
Or prim affectations
She's off on her own
But she knows
Now is greater than the whole of the past
Is greater, and now she knows
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be
It's not that the transparency
Of her earlier incarnations
Now looked back on, weren't rich
And loaded with beautiful vulnerability
But now she knows
Now is greater
And she knows that
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be
Now is greater, now is greater
And she knows that
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be
It's not like if angels
Could truly look down
Stir up the trappings
A light on the ground
Remind us of what, when, why or who
That how's up to us, me and you
And now is greater than the whole of the past
Is greater and now she knows that
Now she knows
I've dragged my feet
Across a seat
And jumped out the passenger side
The only thing worth looking for
Is what you find inside
But that had not yet appeared
Lost, invisible, here
Tel Aviv and Agadir
Taroudant or Olomouc
Before I learned to see
The vanishing point appear
I looked for you and everywhere
I looked for you and everywhere
There is a calm I haven't come to yet
I spent half my life figuring what comes next
I telescoped in
I'll finally win
I'll finally win the prize
That now my eyes see
A comic's perfect timing squeezed
I'm headfirst fighting everything
The crushing force of memory
Erasing all I've been
The vanishing point appears
I looked for you and everywhere
I looked for you and everywhere
Tell me why you're here
I came to disappear
Look at this face
Can you believe it?
Am I living in the beautiful vacuum?
Because I can't see it
The vanishing point appears
I looked for you and everywhere
I looked for you and everywhere
Tell me why you're here
I came to disappear
Tell me why you're here
I came to disappear
I came to disappear
Easy to poke yourself square in the eye
Harder to like yourself, harder to try
These Elvis poses, postcards and neopryn
Roses a dollar a stem
Everyone's sleeping or pulling a long haul,
The keys in the cooler, it's 3 A.M
And saturn is beckoning no-one
Is off on it's own
Is offering up
Late shift convenience store
Cut out the lights
Telescope roof towards the
Northwestern sky
You pulled the ladder up
No one's the wiser
You find your sights and discover
That Saturn is orbiting nothing
It's off on its own
It's breaking from home
Harder to look yourself square in the eye
Easy to take off
You found the ladder in the pattern of your wrist
You've seen and you've marked horizions
Mother was difficult, she made you cry
Cover the mirror, look to the sky
You climbed into your rocketship triumph
Lift up and hold out your hands
Saturn is orbiting nothing
It's off on its own
It's breaking from home
Saturn is orbiting nothing
It's off on its own
It's breaking from home
Saturn returns when you chase down its moons
Throw them into a new gravity
Harder to look yourself square in the eye
Easy to poke yourself, easy as pie
Easy to take off, harder to fly
Harder to wake Galileo
The sun reflected in the back of my eye
I knocked my head against the sky
The dragonflies are busy buzzing me
A seahorse as if we were in the sea
Halfway from coal, halfway to diamond
My fall knocked a mean chip out of me
I'm gathering as far as I can reach
We're perched up on a precipice
And this is what I've seen
This is all I want, it's all I need
This is all I am, it's everything
This is all I want, it's all I need
A bluejay hectors from the felled Catalpa tree
A doctorate in science and a theologian's dream
The dragonflies are trying to lecture me
The seahorses if we were in the sea
This is all I want, it's all I need
This is all I am, it's everything
This is all I want, it's all I need
Beat a drum for me, like a butterfly wing
Tropical storm across the ocean
Don't explain, I'm sure I'll want to know
Don't forget, we're just halfway from coal
This is all I want, it's all I need
This is all I am, it's everything
This is all I want, it's all I need
Charades, pop skill
Water hyacinth, named by a poet
Imitation of life
Like a koi in a frozen pond
Like a goldfish in a bowl
I don't want to hear you cry
Thats sugarcane that tasted good
Thats cinnamon, thats Hollywood
C'mon, c'mon no one can see you try
You want the greatest thing
The greatest thing since bread came sliced
You've got it all, you've got it sized
Like a Friday fashion show teenager
Freezing in the corner
Trying to look like you don't try
Thats sugarcane that tasted good
Thats cinnamon, thats Hollywood
C'mon, c'mon no one can see you try
No one can see you cry
That sugar cane that tasted good
Thats freezing rain, that's what you could
C'mon, c'mon on no one can see you cry
This sugarcane
This lemonade
This hurricane, I'm not afraid
C'mon, c'mon no one can see me cry
This lightning storm
This tidal wave
This avalanche, I'm not afraid
C'mon, c'mon no one can see me cry
That sugar cane that tasted good
That's who you are, that's what you could
C'mon, c'mon on no one can see you cry
That sugar cane that tasted good
That's who you are, that's what you could
C'mon, c'mon on no one can see you cry
Mercury is rising still
Turn the fan on high
I won't step on my own shadow
No one wants to cry
Someone put a pox on me
I'll spit in their eyes
Summer turns to high
With my bed-sheet cape and sandals
Circle citronella candles
Summer's here, the light is raising
Hopes and dragonflies
If those hopes are overshadowed
Cotton candy, caramel apple
Summer turns to high
Summer turns to high
Summer turns to high
Summer high
After wine and nectarines
The fireflies in time
Move like syrup through the evening
With a sweet resign
I won't pine for what could have been
I'm preoccupied
Summer turns to high
Summer turns to high
Summer turns to high
Summer high
Hey there now young Wholly, sing along
Quote the scriptures, keep them guessing
Which pit you crawled from
Just defy it, just deny it, was it fun?
Your time has come
What have you done? What have you done?
That's when the insults start to sting
You can't remember anything
The chorus chime in, the Greek chorus
The machine of god singing
It's the poison that it measures brings illuminating vision
It's the knowing with a wink that we expect in Southern women
It's the wolf that knows which root to dig to save itself
It's the octopus that crawled back to the sea
That's when the insults start to sting
You can't remember anything
The chorus chime in, the Greek chorus,
The machine of god ring!
Hammered shooting plywood in the backyard
Laughing 'cause the racket makes the blackbirds sing
Write the holy terror, suck the marrow from the bone - singe
Your own wings burning books, you got the chorus and the ring
That's when the insults start to sting
You can't remember anything
The chorus chime in, the Greek chorus
The machine sings
That's when the insults start to ring
You can't remember anything
The chorus chime in the Greek chorus
The machine sings
That's when the calibration brittle as a stick gets you the gold ring
And the tar museum Che Guevera wink, gold ring
Gold ring
Sing, sing, sing, sing
The rain came down
The rain came down
The rain came down on me
The wind blew strong
The summer's song
It fades to memory
I knew you when
I loved you then
In summer's yawn, now hopeless
You laid me bare
And marked me there
The promises we made
I used to think, as birds take wing,
They sing through life, so why can't we?
We cling to this, and claim the best
If this is what you're offering
I'll take the rain, I'll take the rain
The nighttime creases
Summer schemes
And stretches out to stay
The sun shines down
You came around
You loved the easy days
But now the sun,
The winter's come
I wanted just to say
That if I hold
I'd hoped you'd fold
And open up inside, inside of me
I used to think
As birds take wing
They sing through life, so why can't we?
We cling to this, and claim the best
If this is what you're offering
I'll take the rain, I'll take the rain, I'll take the rain
This winter's song
I'll sing along
I've searched its still refrain
I'll walk alone
If given this,
Take wing, and celebrate the rain
I used to think
As birds take wing
They sing through life, so why can't we?
We cling to this, and claim the best
If this is what you're offering
I'll take the rain, I'll take the rain, I'll take the rain
Tonight's alive
The beach ball's set to fly
Those well tequila'd guys
Who smile at strangers
À tes souhaits
À tes amours chéri
You give a little squeeze
And dance the rhu-rhu-rhu-rhumba
This life is sweet
You're dancing in the street
Who knows who you might meet?
You'll do fine
The little weekend's here
Thursday has an ear
The coffee klatch career
She talks to strangers
And kissing by the sea
Particular to me
'ti punch, mojito, sling and
Dance the rhu-rhu-rhu-rhumba
This life is sweet
You're dancing in the street
Who knows who you might meet?
You'll do fine
We flash the seaside sky
With starfish butterflies
To cast a spell and welcome locals
Weekenders and strangers
You'll do fine
You'll do fine
You'll do fine
