1.Straightface
Lyrics：Jay Farrar
Music：Jay Farrar
Call out your castaway
You'll wake up to carry in the new day
Send 'em out from the castle on high
Talk is talk, solely in your mind
Claim-stake the final words
What goes around is knocking at your front door
Straightface, you're rapt and
High-flown for hire
Make believe you breathe out
Every one you take
The viewpoints slam,
Mates just look around to know you're wicked
Proclaimed from protected stances
Who, wallowing, wear what you've fallen into
You demonize what you don't understand
Darts surround your heavy, heavy hand
Straightface, you're rapt and
High-flown for hire
Make believe you breathe out
Every one you take
Better keep the bags packed
Keep your nose clean
Check the shelf life and date
Reticent gonna soon realize
Showgirls magazines define your minds eye
You're a rough draft you're old news
You're a grifter with a funny little hat
Straightface, you're rapt and
High-flown for hire
Make believe you breathe out
Every one you take
2.Driving The View
Lyrics：Jay Farrar
Music：Jay Farrar
From different levels
Just pieces together
Never had a fall
That didn't burn wih laughter
Living it down
Just enough time to revel
All this talk about
The machine and what it means
On the street side walking
Faces wearing different dreams
Living it down
Just enough time to revel
When you're driving the view
The pace looks up when the burn goes down
Time and again when you're driving the view
Another non-issue
In around that commonplace
Free loose dirt
Free the minds of those who gainsay
Living it down
Just enough time to revel
3.Jodel
Music：Jay Farrar
4.Medicine Hat
Lyrics：Jay Farrar
Music：Jay Farrar
There will be droughts and days inundated
unveilings free from saturation
departures raised with no masquerading.
There will be teachers that die by their own hand
pundits that push headlong for atonement
friends and followers devoted to living.
There will be watchers that plot from in confines
and those committed to society's circles
unwary cogs with no cadence or virtue.
There will be right, there will be wrong.
Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for the hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run.
There will be machinations unforeseen
sleepwalking sense from a bad dream
no promenade walk in the parkway.
There will be catchwords filled with infection
circulars to prop up occasion
a golden mean to guide the footsteps.
There will be levels on high hills that appraise
there will be unchanging certainties
barometers that follow the stampede.
There will be right, there will be wrong.
Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for the hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run.
There will be signposts of indication
semaphore ghost signs and warnings
hailstone halos and country-blues wailings.
There will be strains that break out of straight time
but paid with grace, taking roads to the same place
with consequence to repay what's been given.
There will be layers of means to an end
drawn-out days before resolution
dregs will rain down from all directions.
There will be right, there will be wrong.
Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for the hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run.
5.Strands
Lyrics：Jay Farrar
Music：Jay Farrar
There is a slowness on the throttle
a civility at an end
Painted out of a corner
breaks to bind the strands
To decide within the barnstorm
or shadows feeding in the lurch
Just survive by a stone's throw
the decision wheels at work
Peace be found, if temporary
sirens stir the seeds of regret
Gathered clouds are unleashing
signs to walk, then place your bet
The squatters on high stations
the talkers that hold sway
Verbal backslide rushes out
like grapeshot fine spray
No anchor-drop sanctuary
No finding it uncovered
just a wide swing tremolo
Broken down, lessons learned
redeemed on epitaphs
By blindfolded regulars
with countenance to switch back
Echo farewell to midnight
to the loneliness of the chase
To the minutes past his red-letter
to Elysian Fields defaced
No pangs provide delivery
breaking out of the throes
No reverie decided
just a wide swing tremolo
No mercy in pokerface
lend an ear before you go
No sentence yet decided
just a wide swing tremolo
6.Flow
Lyrics：Jay Farrar
Music：Jay Farrar
Wasted air, breathe so low
Same old politics of show
Just don't find the same as I leave it
Still in the flow
Still in the flow and I'm low to the ground
Just wanna bring it about
Already seen from the inside out
Varied change, in the words of the weatherman
Still in the flow
Still in the flow and I'm low to the ground
All control is out, spinning
A new beginning, tracking and finding
Look what we have
Talks resumed, strike avoided
Political mood winding down
Hearts and minefields and three's a charm
Still in the flow
Still in the flow and I'm low to the ground
Still in the flow and I'm low to the ground
7.Dead Man's Clothes
Lyrics：Jay Farrar
Music：Jay Farrar
Who do you answer to？
no one there, just pride.
Will that water mix with blood
to make the hollow man decide？
No more dead tides, or red tides
wash over in this dream.
I'm going, going downtown
in a dead man's clothes.
Just hollow legs, hollow platforms,
kickback parties and raising dimes.
Exit left number 65
this nightfall's made up my mind.
No more dead tides, or red tides
wash over in this dream.
I'm going, going downtown
in a dead man's clothes.
8.Right On Through
Lyrics：Jay Farrar
Music：Jay Farrar
Waking brow, descending sun
to scenes that strum, still sawing away
break for the wayward and for the stranger
we're all in this danger, said the screed on the wall.
Through it all, through it all
Force of will and wishful thinking
Straggled and strayed, we've sawed
right on through
Here's to plotting the true
Here's to the string player lament
Here's to a marching slow pace
Here's to the last funeral song
Through it all, through it all
Force of will and wishful thinking
Straggled and strayed, we've sawed
right on through
9.Chanty
Music：Jay Farrar
10.Carry You Down
Lyrics：Jay Farrar
Music：Jay Farrar
What has been given
to this unforgiving surrounding？
No contribution save
an unwanted coffin.
Can you share the news,
the lowdown, what has happened？
There's intrigue and passion
of a murdering sort.
Carry you down, carry you down
carry you down, lose your ashes along the way
Carry you down, carry you down
carry you down, lose your ashes along the way
Sister can you tell
is this now a warning？
Sure to be and then some -
few will take heed.
Travels and trials
from forsaken thinking,
just breeding poison
till none shall prevail.
Carry you down, carry you down
carry you down, lose your ashes along the way
Carry you down, carry you down
carry you down, lose your ashes along the way
11.Question
Lyrics：Jay Farrar
Music：Jay Farrar
My mind's made up to pacing across the floor
no point in staying if wee not saying war
I don't mind hanging around
whatever now and what else can I do？
It's a question of you.
Thoughts careen till I can't stand up
where's the crime in a streak of bad luck？
words to pick at, retreat from
words that fester if only to get at the truth -
It's a question of you.
What it all comes down to
is a different set of values
to throw away or mobilize to use -
It's a question of you.
No time to be singular
here's hoping that the feeling gets through
the sound of sound beginning leads to places
where reflections break anew -
It's a question of you.
What it all comes down to
is a different set of values
to throw away or mobilize to use -
It's a question of you.
12.Streets That Time Walks
Lyrics：Jay Farrar
Music：Jay Farrar
The beliefs from the status quo picture
Drop down like from a drip dispenser
Leaving too many paths that lead to
One-way talk with only the darkness
Sun breaks on a buffer-zone madness
Fleeing ghosts for all the wrong reasons
Apathetic eyes to the future
Complacent to the last broken pieces
No conspiracy to deny you
Or push you astray
You've withstood the streets that time walks
Still treading on a hallowed gone heyday.
Your grievance is wrapped in
Just simple surviving
Points raised, points abandoned
The big dream is hollow
Hereafters have not been chosen
The flame will find the oxygen
Stopgap measures down
Just take it for another spin
No conspiracy to deny you
Or push you astray
You've withstood the streets that time walks
Still treading on a hallowed gone heyday.
Walked into a field of vision
Coldhearted steps of perception
Closer to other eyes
As distant stood the fall
Homesick along with a hometown state
Pack it up or pack it in
Promise of days gone past
Is a foregone situation
No conspiracy to deny you
Or push you astray
You've withstood the streets that time walks
Still treading on a hallowed gone heyday.
13.Blue Side Hanging
Lyrics：Jay Farrar
Music：Jay Farrar
Say hello to
the blue side hanging around
Didn't think it mattered
just force of habit
With room to roam
the wayside heals all that wrong
Didn't think it mattered
now the writing's on the wall
Been sidetracked blind
Different point of view from far away
Sidetracked blind, strung out
Just living between the lines
The blues have shown
and kidnapped your heart away
Didn't think it would happen
now I know you better
With ground to gain
the soapbox stairs bar the way
Safeguards to sacrifice
for a clear resolution
Been sidetracked blind
Different point of view from far away
Sidetracked blind, strung out
Relations, take the Fifth, ask questions, arrive
No sign of evolution
From the hole in the wall inside
Not even
the cool winds whipping through this town
Would ever be enough
to tear the world down
With limits unknown
the time to spare for a spare idea
The pull to wander
is pulling out of here
Been sidetracked blind
Different point of view from far away
Sidetracked blind, strung out
Just living between the lines
14.Blind Hope
Lyrics：Jay Farrar
Music：Jay Farrar
Spend a million dream days
Shook the hand of time, served gods
Waited around the display
Saw no revelation
No good to go feet first
All distraction and hesitation
With a bucket for the leakage
Brackish feelings to bail out
Living it up on the downside
Living out what's inside
Taking it at full stride
Taking it
Here's one for you
Leave one for me
Don't mind and don't regret it
Forget what's gone and here's your warning：
Bring it down and break it in
Casting it out, reeling it in
Living on blind hope again
Casting it out, reeling it in
Living on blind hope again
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