1.Star By Star
What makes a man but tiny little spirals
Read my palm read my blood
Torn apart and slowly reassembled
Flip my switch start me up
Mystery is holding us together
Shadows protect our sight
So don't talk to me about the changing weather
'Cause rain or shine we'll be alright
'Cause star by star we paint the ceiling of
Our childhood better till we see the sky
So open the door and watch the heaven
Hold the dying sun up until the mountains rise
'Cause I , I don't want my fortune told
Heartattack or simply die of growing old
Don't tell me how it is
What makes a man but tiny little spirals
Read my palm read my blood
Torn apart and slowly reassembled
Flip my switch start me up
'Cause star by star we paint the ceiling of
Our childhood better till we see the sky
So open the door and watch the heaven
Hold the dying sun up until the mountains rise
'Cause I , I don't want my fortune told
Airplane or simply die of growing old
Don't tell me how it ends
2.Elsinore
Throw your mattress on the sidewalk and keep moving on
The streets are caving in there's not much time for getting gone
Leave the note and semaphore scattered corns around the shore
I don't know what you're waiting for
It's coming to an end my friend it's holyday in Elsinore
Wearied steps and salty air you keep , you can't relief
The sea has swallowed your good man you might as well as me
But you got a cousin in New York you're still pretty that's for
sure
Don't know what you're waiting for
Unclench you worried hands and let it's holyday in Elsinore
Winter's falling branches bolding dark in afternoons
If it helps to keep you company we'll sing a worry tune
But just when you start to eulogize life will creep back in your
eyes
And all in once you'll realize
What these nights sub doubt before it's holyday in Elsinore
When you start to eulogize life will creep back in your eyes
And all in once you'll realize
What these nights sub doubt before it's holyday in Elsinore
In Elsinore,in Elsinore
3.Fairytales and Other Forms of Suicide
You let me down the winter heavy forest trail
I introduce myself again to know of you
But then the spring arrived
All red and full of life
You laughed and all the birds all align
Now fairytales and other forms of suicide
Can feel your head while poison gases cloud your eyes
But I for one can't see I found the one for me
The one to make me love the night
Well alright,alright,alright it's alright
Well alright,alright,alright it's
Now when you fall asleep and start to worry babe
And throw away everything you meant to save
Well I will wake you up and fill your coffee cup
With grateful tears and love unchanged
Well alright,alright,alright it's alright
Well alright,alright,alright it's
4.Sink or Swim
When all these people talking like they know something that I
don't know
By helping out your brother looking out for each other it's
everywhere I go
Now I was never poor myself
But I feel poor and I'm gonna give you some advice
'Bout making something of your live
You know it's sink or swim
You've got a choice to make my friend
'Cause God bless the child
But if it ain't blessed
It better learn to sink or swim
'Cause I'm not diving in
Well all you half steppers
Step aside let me show you where you got it wrong
If you don't got nothing
Well that should tell you something 'bout where you belong
Now I was never black myself but I feel pain
And I'm gonna give you some advice
'Bout making something of your life
You know it's sink or swim
You've got a choice to make my friend
'Cause God bless the child
But if it ain't blessed
It better learn to sink or swim
Sink or swim
You've got a choice to make my friend
'Cause God bless the child
But if it ain't blessed
It better learn to sink or swim
I said God bless the child
But if it ain't blessed
It better learn to sink or swim
'Cause I'm not diving in
I'm not diving in
I'm not diving in
5.Day That I Was Born
I could let go of the will tonight
And surrender to the gears and the motors
I set all in motion until they find
A splintery bed on which to lie
I can almost smell your hair tonight
The hypnotic poison a stand liar
I water and set you out in the sun
But you closed your pedals to everyone
We built to rickety bridge of size
And we nestled and watched as the rivers rise
For every new creature an old one dies
And washes out into the foamy skies
'Cause you knew the poetry
I just knew the poem
You woke up next to me
The day that I was born
We traded water and greens and blues
And you clumped to my neck as if you knew
That we watch this scene from the basement wall
And our faces would stutter and rise and fall
And I held a rob in up to my chest
But his heartbeats so loud out of fear I guess
So I let it go a lesson learned
Now I haunt my window for it's return
'Cause you knew the poetry
I just knew the poem
You woke up next to me
The day that I was born
Well there's only so much that I can say
Without stealing the words from your dog year pages
'Cause I only started to bend my spines
The ghost of your fingertips lawn my lines
6.Beebe Arkansas
Five thousand black birds raining down
Over Beebe, Arkansas .Beebe, Arkansas
It's a hard way to end the new years eve
Black feathers everywhere cold in the midnight air
Beebe, Arkansas .Beebe, Arkansas
The Arkansas river looking like a big city traffic jam
And if five thousand foreign fish giving up on that parent lane
Tornis are puzzled but they feel quite sure
There is no connection to the raining bird
Church peels often we're finding words
Five thousand black birds raining down
Over Beebe, Arkansas .Beebe, Arkansas
Beebe, Arkansas .Beebe, Arkansas
7.The Royal We
The royal we decided to declare the hard a day
For flooding down the Amazon and shooting disks of clay
Yeah the royal we is much better now
We've almost found our minds
Though we are still not amused by the emptiness sometimes
The royal we is hardly ever known to think of you
And ivy covers up our home obscuring it from view
Living in a splendid isolation we've become a custom too
We take our meals and read our books
In solitude sublime
Not like the days when you would make
Us laugh to rewound crime
Yeah the royal we never lacks for company nor care
For though our house is empty now
We are always there
The royal we is hardly ever known to think of you
And ivy covers up our home obscuring it from view
Living in a splendid isolation we've become a custom too
Oh what the hell I pretend
Who are we trying to kid
I never got your letter
Are you sure you mailed it
No I never got your letter
Are you sure you mailed it
8.Catbird Blues
Walking down Saint Peter
In your summer buttons
Waiting for the snow to go for ever
I know you're disapointed
Can barely scream to coins
To gather shouldn't life be kinder to you
Losing yourself in a foreign city
Nobody understands these catbird blues
While you are trying to blend your getaway
Take a moment to sing these catbird blues
And I will sing them too
Boxing with the ghosts of
Late nights you've almost forgoten of
You know they'll never leave you
Hidden from the daylight
Breathing underwater
Swimming in a land locked ocean
Losing yourself in a foreign city
Nobody understands these catbird blues
While you are trying to blend your getaway
Take a moment to sing these catbird blues
And I will sing them too
Losing yourself in a foreign city
Nobody understands these catbird blues
While you are trying to blend your getaway
Take a moment to sing these catbird blues
And I will sing them too
9.Middle Child
You were born in between
Middle child, middle child
Never heard Seldom Scene
Middle child, middle child
You are strong,long and lean
Middle child, middle child
In a world cold and mean
Middle child, middle child
Rest a while , float down stream
Middle child, middle child
Wanna hear all your dreams
Middle child, middle child
You were born in between
Middle child, middle child
In a world cold and mean
Middle child, middle child
Middle child, middle child
Middle child, middle child
10.Feet Touch the Ground
When your feet touch the ground
You send up a flare
To let me know that you still care
'Cause I've been hoping so hard
You might call it prayer
If I knew where you'd lay
I'd be waiting right there
'Cause we've been floating high
Above the city lights
That look just like stars
But sooner or later we'll find
That the air's too thin
For us like an old satellite
On it's final go round
We will burn through the sky
Moving faster than sound
We will land in the sea
Run to our house
Where our family sleeps
Unsafe unsound
'Cause we've been floating high
Above the city lights
That look just like stars
But sooner or later we'll find
That the air's too thin for us
Such a sorrowful sound
When your feet touch the ground
When your feet touch the ground
When your feet touch the
When our feet touch the ground
And we wake in our rooms
And we grope for the light
The indifferent blue
When we find that we guess
At the ending too soon
When our feet touch the ground
Will it break us in 2
'Cause we've been floating high
But sooner or later we'll find
That the air's too thin for us
Such a sorrowful sound
When your feet touch the ground
When your feet touch the ground
When your feet touch the ground
When your feet touch the ground
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