1.Rene, Your Country
Let them come by horse
Let them come by train
Let them send the army for the ghost of the plane
Singing, cheer up, cheer up, cheer up
Let them say these things
The lovers let us down
So we tore off their wings and ran them from town
Singing, chin up, chin up, chin up
You were right out in reign when you met me
I opened your eyes or you never should have let me
Trade all those memories for this cheap pair of wings
I've held them together with wire and strings
Some hearts crick like shut-ins
Yours is sported up real tight
I'm sure it's just out for cold
Sure, it's just out for light
Oh, you've thrown me to the wolves
You've thrown me to the wolves
Let them come by horse
Let them come by train
Let them send the army for the ghost of the plane
Singing, cheer up, cheer up
2.Year Of The Dog
She whispered and I came running like a comeback kid
Like I always did
Was I the dog(？) you wished you always had？
Quiet when you're sleeping
Kisses when you're sad
I was waiting out to save you
You were into that romantic shit
And wanted to die young
And it was plain to see
To everyone but me
There are no haunted places
Only people we still wish we could see
In the year of our love I pledged I would say to you
From all the howling shapes in the night you lay claim to
And all the jealous lovers who insisted they were true
But leave like funeral roses after they're through
But they take no note of the flowers
Sitting there only temporal(？), they last only an hour
3.Devil In The Details
I've got a feeling that the horse and the rider are the same
And if you whistle they'll come running
But don't expect too much
Or you're gonna be disappointed
'Cause the devil's in the details
And he wants you to know he was framed
For kicking over the chair of a ghost
Who never cared to shake his chains
Oh, what a lovely island
We've made for ourselves
Rene, your country is covered in weeds
And another one grows every time you speak
I'm warning your beast to be
We are not as wild as we like to think
And how can I be what she wants me to be
When I can't even rest while I sleep
Oh, what a lovely island
We've made for ourselves
I was beaten and I was tamed
Like a lam who arranged
For a fox to take her sisters
For supper in exchange
For the details on the devil
And the ghost of the planes
A look was exchanged
Clothing rearranged
You spoke of marriage
I spoke of the sea
We glanced around the room uneasily
Spoke of a flower and how she tamed you
What of the cuts and the blisters she gave you
Took an airplane to unravel the true nature of this beast
But your heart is like the prairie and you're married to the sea
Oh, what a lovely island
We've made for ourselves
4.Wraith
I was a wraith for year or more
I was settling scores
Love me tender, love me true
and I'll make a wreck of you
I was cold and wet for sure
but I was not myself before
I was cold and longed for shore
but I was not myself before
I went down with the ship
I went down pretty quick
When you say you're gone, you're gone
When I say I'm gone it's just a song
So love me cruel, wet and rotten
Say you will and I will be forgotten
I was cold and wet for sure
but I was not myself before
I was cold and longed for shore
but I was not myself before
5.Living Room
We waited out the flood
We waited through the living room
I was freaking out, freaking out
Some will hear and say
What do you need？
Some will hear and say
She's split you like the streams at the rock
In the slow sure way
It wiggles and winds its way to the cracks already made
If time is a river, you wear it like a sleeve
It's sown with a the thread of hope so short she hardly believes
Some will hear and say
What do you need？
Some will hear and say
She's split you like the streams at the rock
In the slow sure way
It wiggles and winds its way to the cracks already made
Well, I was out sailing
My true love was astray
Sure, we ended the flood but it was never the same
Some will hear and say
What do you need？
6.Bury The Cynics
Lets start from the scratch, lets make it good
This time I'll love you like a lover should
With calm eyes, calm eyes
You be the bayonet, I'll be the row
Give me the sign and we'll go for the throat
Singing, all right, all right
Lets sign a new deal
Saying this one's for the cynics and this one's for you
Every time I smile they ask me how I feel
Moving forward two in the rain
Two shapes, pasted into one space
I came for the fight, I came for the fight
I stayed for the glow but the critics were right
When they said you were great, you were bluffing
And when they said you were strange, they knew nothing
Lets sign a new deal
Saying this one's for the cynics and this one's for you
Every time I smile they ask me how I feel
You be the bayonet, I'll be the row
Give me the sign and we'll go for the throat
7.Department Of Forseeable Outcomes
I planted some trees
They were so fragile they snapped in the breeze
Said, prove me wrong
Come back in the summer when the freeze is gone
So I tossed out some seeds
Over my shoulder in the careless breeze
If I could find a careless breeze
So I called the department of forseeable outcomes
They said 'You should've known better.'
I said 'Yeah, but I moved here for the weather.'
I've held on tight, crooked hearts don't beat right
I've blistered hands in the furnace, love, and I'd do it again
If I thought I could set yours towards mine
But I have seen the days of my quite life
Put subside for the church and I don't see why
You'll bury them in so deeply
Don't bury them so deeply
Don't bury them
8.Teenage Viking
Pardon me sayin'
I thought you were a Viking
I thought you were a Viking
From the way you split
I thought you were a mystic
And I was taken mistaking romance
For wanderlust
I'm no soothsayer
I don't speak in tongues
I don't say these things
To make you run, run, run
A parliament of owls
Had seen this coming
Took you for a field mouse
When they spied you running
Crying save me
From the fires
That I have lit
Oh it was exciting
But it stung like the whip
Is there any real magic
Is there any real magic
Temporal wizards
Paint pastoral pictures
To lure you in
I put my hand up to the screen
Again, and again, and again
Save me
From the fires
That I have lit
Oh it was exciting
But it stung like the whip
Save me
From the fires
That I have lit
Oh it was exciting
But it stung like the whip
9.Prarie
No dear heart, don't cry
Sweetly I've come to realize
I am the prairie
You are the lone desert sky
No dear heart, don't cry
Sweetly I've come to realize
I am the prairie
You are the breeze blown by
I'll send the starlings out to greet you
If the distances defeat you
When the distances defeats me
Tried to feel the warm breeze
But it blows right through me
They'll hear the voice on your song
If it helps me realize
I'll wear your crooked alibis
Still I'll love the lonely desert skies
Farewell, farewell
The prairie heart
You can't hope to tame
The desert vast
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