1.Uniform
Run the risk of being accused
You cast your lot with the self-abused
But you were honest, for once
You take ten steps futher, everyone, oh
You better speed up
Did I mention reverse？
Why get ahead when you can be perverse？
In a uniform
Of all that can hurt in a uniform
Why do yourself when you could do worse？
In a uniform
Of all that can hurt in a uniform
Why do yourself when you could be, yeah, when you could be
runnin'... ( la la la la)
Do you like my dress？ Oh, it's from '74
Ripped in the arms from the girl before
Like everything I've owned or had
Like a charity gone bad...
Lying to my phone (lying to my phone)
Cheating lines just to be alone
In a uniform
Of all that can hurt in a uniform
Why do yourself when you could do worse？
In a uniform
Of all that can hurt in a uniform
Why do yourself when you could be, yeah when you could be, oh...
Runnin', all the time
Runnin', all the time
You're thinkin' like you're drunk but you're not, you're not
You're just stone-cold blind to what you've got
And you keep takin' all your cues from Iscariot, but you keep
runnin'
You're thinkin' like you're drunk but you're not, you're not
You're just stone-cold blind to what you've got
And you keep takin' all your cues from Iscariot, but you keep
runnin'
2.The Pride
3.Sin City
Sin city
Please don't take
My lover's heart, for mine will break
It's no Pittsburgh
Please don't go
Ohio
You can take a tug there, oh, take a train
Either way, I ain't going
It's no Pittsburg
Don't you go
Ohio
And I could see her lying in the valley
Down below
I could smell the green of those hills
Those Kentucky hills
So take a tug there, oh, take a train
Either way, I ain't going
It's no Pittsburgh
Please don't go
Ohio
Ohio
4.Elsinore
Got the notice this morning,
Left me numb
You wanna shake your mind up
I want a change of scene
My face was a thousand
Shades of red
And I'll paint me a new backdrop
So we all blend in
I can still feel desire
As the cornerstone caves in
My stomach was reeling
(my stomach was reeling)
To the maritime
We'll look for peace of mind in the dark
Horizontal lines
And I saw that your finger
(your fingers were bleeding)
was bleeding dry
(coulda been more kind)
and I could have been a bit more kind
to your malady
I can still be reminded not to take so thoughtlessly
because
I'm stuck on the rainy side of Elsinore,
Picking fights and talking back
And I just wanna hold you tight
And listen long
All the strength of your quiet side
Out in the stairwell three flights down
I can hear the echo of the sound of water
My will breaking down
Well I missed it the first time,
Like the willing blind
Yeah I had my eyes glued shut,
My fist balled up tight
But I'm willing to open
Turn my song around, yeah
Time is getting wise to my ways
Maybe you'll understand
I'm stuck on the rainy side of Elsinore,
Picking fights and talking back
And I just wanna hold you tight
And listen long
All the strength of your quiet side
I'm stuck on the rainy side
5.Don't Know Why (You Stay)
Stepping along the hum of the sidewalk
A marionette, a slave
Your legs are wood and tied to the city
Who has final say
It's hard to hug the girders, my brother
It's hard to swing and waltz
With your tempo one beat less than the others
You're three times more at fault
I don't know why, don't know why, I don't know why you stay
Yeah I don't know why, don't know why, I don't know why you stay
If your silver wing is stuck on horizons
Catch it when it goes
Or they'll take a piece and pull back the curtains
And there's nothing left but your clothes
I don't know why, don't know why, I don't know why you stay
Yeah, I don't know why, don't know why, I don't know why you
stay
No
The strings are why you move to Geppeto
The daily hourglass
This match made was made in a moment
But now that moment's passed
I don't know why, don't know why, I don't know why you stay
Yeah, I don't know why, don't know why, I don't know why you
stay
No, I don't know why, don't know why, I don't know why you stay
Yeah, I don't know why, don't know why, I don't know why you
stay
No
6.Penny ＆ Jack
It never rains in New York anymore
It's always sunny there, and what's more
Penny likes it there
She's always having a good time
Jack, he'd rather be in another town
Where it's cloudy but where he can lay down
You know he'd like it there
He'd be having a good time
Don't you go, I want to go
Don't you go, I have to go
So Jack, he's just wasting another day
And the sun is shining on his face
And Penny likes him there
She's always having a good time
7.Snakes In The Grass
Two feet caught in the shadows, caught in the shadow show
(Please tell me what is going on)
Oh, I can't, it's nothing I've known
Signing shapes in the moonlight, keeping the laughter low
(Please tell me what's going on)
Oh, I can't, it's convoluted
A change of mind today for certain
I know the book, I think I wrote it
The author's dead, it's fiction
One, oh, one
Seething snakes in the grass, snakes in our own backyard
(Everyone's on the telephone)
I'll be sure to overhear them
Enter loping in Latin, the altar boys all know
(Please tell me what's going on)
Oh, I can't, it's convoluted
A change of mind today for certain
I know the book, I think I wrote it
The author's dead, it's fiction
So go ahead eight times a day
So go ahead and tell me what you want
Two keys twisted and turned, stuck in our own front door
(Please tell me what's going on)
Oh, I can't, it's nothing I've known
Leaving notes in the carpet, reading them on the floor
(Please tell me what's going on)
Oh, I can't, it's convoluted
A change of mind today for certain
I know the book, I think I wrote it
The author's dead, the author's dead, it's fiction
I can't, I can't, it's convoluted
A change of mind today for certain
I know the book, I think I wrote it
The author's dead, it's fiction
One, oh, one
8.Rue De Lis
It's been too many mornings since the mornings in the sun
The day is neverending 'til the darkness begun
Hearing from the lightman's house upon 43
Sun is breaking dust along the rusty Rue de Lis
Now he's down the Rue de Lis
He's down the Rue de Lis
We walked him down the Rue de Lis last night
We heard he was a soldier from a muskateer time
Kept all his secrets guarded in wine
Never spend his money, not a nickel or a franc
Wouldn't trust his sister any more than the bank
Now he's down the Rue de Lis
He's down the Rue de Lis
We walked him down the Rue de Lis last night
After the procession no one dared to make a sound
Counted all his money and every note they found
Came written an inscription only his hand would have seen
I live my life like my brothers at sea
Down the Rue de Lis
They're down the Rue de Lis
We walked him down the Rue de Lis last night
Walk down the Rue die Lis
Down the Rue de Lis
We walked him down the Rue de Lis last night
9.Cardinal Points
10.Rabbit
I went to see York and Carlisle,
To find what fell from me.
I walked those streets
I heard those spires.
From Chambersburg to Berkeley Springs,
To where the Youghiogheny sinks.
And as the highway rolls,
Potomac shows me the way.
In Monterey, Virginia,
My initials lay.
I drove on 33,
A rabbit next to me,
While Sandy sang.
Avella I cannot go,
All my memories your valley will not hold.
Though peoples white as snow,
All on the land of coal.
I went to see York and Carlisle,
to find what fell from me
11.Slope Song
These day of canvassing the ground
It's a careful step or two into town
Tracing one of every sign
Six million cracks don't lie
There's ice upon the veil this year
It's hard to keep one's frozen head clear
Read the color on my cheeks
Or dripping nose tv's
Gonna find out
There's a wave upon the Corney shore
That drowns the old fat lady's roar
There's a locket full of sand
And a tarot in my hand
Gonna find out
These days I look up now and then
The slope seems a familiar friend
When its lines have left my palm
In queerness and in calm
Gonna find out
Gonna find out
12.This Isn't Farmlife
We're not breaking any records yet
I stare at maps all day, a charade in the sunset
I read the news with all its angles bent
And blame my confusion on designs intelligent
Too many things, too many things to keep my mind on
I was rehearsing for the Iliad
A social siege to end the war, yeah
Arrows and bows, aiming everywhere we go
This isn't farmlife
I was sleeping in dunes at night, the southern land
By day I sail on the cannibal sea
I'm breathing in this heavy water, oh
In my kingdom in my stratosphere
My girl hustles words to fools in particular
And from the safety of an overcoat
She wears a wire that runs all the way to Stockholm
Arrows and bows, aiming everywhere we go
This isn't farm life
An eye for an eye, under the microscope a mythic paradise
Another year, another try, on we go, on we go
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