1.Song For The Winter Sun
well you went down quick in the early rounds,
dragging your feet through this dirty town,
looking for absolutes
and there you were perspiring, plain-spoken,
wondering why this year the winter
would never set in
but this year we will not
this year we will not
sleep our way
through the winter
over time all the rusting symbols fell away,
you were left with love,
or the lack thereof,
and over low water and under high ceilings,
within white walls with white knuckles bleeding,
you said, 'i've near become a full man'
but this year we will not
this year we will not
sleep our way
through the winter
all white with light like so many winter suns,
you make this all so much less difficult to love
2.True Believers All
it seems the ghosts of the northeast
have crept into my blood again
their restless hungry hearts
their monuments to intellect
are coursing in my veins
and through my father's rhetoric
the lines that cross his face
speak all the words he should have said
and how we found our summer in the fall
and we're still true believers all
and how these puritan refrains
conspire to steal our breath again
while through these shadow plays
an underwriter's sketch of grace
and the logic in your hands
like invisible calligraphy
while through these hallway stairs
winds the unceasing search for symmetry
and how we found our summer in the fall
and we're still true believers all
and all give their hands to god
and their voices to the suffering
their regrets to the silence
their bodies to the turning spring
while fighting tooth and nail
under the endless pull of gravity
while setting bone and sail
just like their mother's fathers did
now all that we have loved
is bound up in our epitaphs
and all your mother's dreams
lie hidden on an attic shelf
quaint monuments to time
carved from the stones she couldn't lift
these statues to admire
to provide the weight against the drift
and how we found our summer in the fall
and we're still true believers all
3.All Your Famous Friends
and the lights, are shining in the water
while the gray, it darts across the dark
and the red, is growing like a flower
while the eyes, they stare in black and white
why don't you have, all of your friends come over？
to sit and watch, the fireworks explode
I'll keep my dancin' shoes on all the while
yeah I'll wear, that lampshade thin and proud
and we live, askew just like spiders
no we never stop or slow down
crawling blind, all over each other
crawling wild, all over this town
so open the door let everyone in tonight
they'll ruin the rug and steal all your things but its alright
yeah open the door let everyone in tonight
with wine-red teeth the room will start to spin but its alright
and all the while, we hunt just like tigers
all the while, we sleep in the dirt
all the while, becoming our fathers
all the while, we're coming up short
so open the door let everyone in tonight
they'll ruin the rug and steal all your things but its alright
yeah open the door let everyone in tonight
with wine-red teeth the room will start to spin but its alright
but don't let the light hit
no don't let the light land
when everyone's in
but don't let the light hit
no don't let the light land
when everyone's in
I'm afraid I've never felt alive
I've spent too much time spent
I sit and dream of 1955
I've spent too much time spent
I've spent too much time spent
I've spent too much time spent
I've spent too much time spent
I've spent too much time spent
4.Of Vegas And Vanity
and the lights, are shining in the water
while the gray, it darts across the dark
and the red, is growing like a flower
while the eyes, they stare in black and white
why don't you have, all of your friends come over？
to sit and watch, the fireworks explode
I'll keep my dancin' shoes on all the while
yeah I'll wear, that lampshade thin and proud
and we live, askew just like spiders
no we never stop or slow down
crawling blind, all over each other
crawling wild, all over this town
so open the door let everyone in tonight
they'll ruin the rug and steal all your things but its alright
yeah open the door let everyone in tonight
with wine-red teeth the room will start to spin but its alright
and all the while, we hunt just like tigers
all the while, we sleep in the dirt
all the while, becoming our fathers
all the while, we're coming up short
so open the door let everyone in tonight
they'll ruin the rug and steal all your things but its alright
yeah open the door let everyone in tonight
with wine-red teeth the room will start to spin but its alright
but don't let the light hit
no don't let the light land
when everyone's in
but don't let the light hit
no don't let the light land
when everyone's in
I'm afraid I've never felt alive
I've spent too much time spent
I sit and dream of 1955
I've spent too much time spent
I've spent too much time spent
I've spent too much time spent
I've spent too much time spent
I've spent too much time spent
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