1.The End Again
Smoke down to the daybreak every time
& I am counting down to 1 from 99
The old gods are dead
Here, take mine
& we are counting down to 1 from 89
The end again mm-mm-mm
The end again mm-mm-mm
The end again mm-mm-mm
Begin again
Broke down in the gray smoke all the time
& I am counting down to 1 from 69
The gold disc is descending
Take your time
We will be counting down to 1 from 49
The end again mm-mm-mm
The end again mm-mm-mm
The end again mm-mm-mm
Begin again
I burn down to the first light every time
& I am counting down to 1 from 29
You smother me in reverie
& we are counting down to 1 from-mm-mm
The end again mm-mm-mm
The end again mm-mm-mm
I blaze again mm-mm-mm
I raze for you mm-mm-mm
Only for you mm-mm-mm
I will rise
2.The Drop
Remember they will remember you not how you lived
Remember they will remember what you could not give
Always looking out for others was my first mistake
All things to all cost us all more than you think
Mark my words, my dear
You and I have you and me to fear
Here we are at the drop
I am the cream what make your days grow sour
The hour has come I am changing your gold to lead
I should have known you were never one for fighting
I curse your virtue
How could I have trusted you?
Mark my words, my dear old friend
You and I are getting closer to an end
Here we are at the drop
You believe in taking the easy way
I believe in synchronicity
You believe in things I cannot see
I believe in the power of hypocrisy
I am the grain what make the bread go bitter
The winter has come
No more field of dreams
Your kind will delight to my demise
I curse your virtue
A curse on your virtue a curse on your virtue a curse of your
virtue
Mark my words my dear
You and I have you and me to fear
Here we are at the drop- at the drop
Mark my words my dear
You and I have you and me to fear
Here we are at the drop
Mark my words my dear
You and I have you and me to fear
Here we are at the drop
Mark my words my friend
You and I are getting closer to an end
You will have your turn at the drop
3.Elephant Head
Captain Nobody he saw the elephant
He tried to snuff it but candles like that stay lit
Up goes the looking glass
Look out world the future passes
Alibis won't save us now
Nobody listens
Nobody cares
Happened all too quickly
Happened all too fast
He cried out when she fell across the frightened creature's path
In order to control his grief and make a plea at sanity
There is no word as accident in his vocabulary
“Atlantica” is under fire
Captain Nobody has vengeance on his widowed brain
He turned his tide of panic
Nobody looks away
Up comes his ire and bile
Nobody hides away
Down where the tears surround him
Nobody stakes his claim
Happened all too quickly
Happened all too fast
He cried out when she fell across the charging monster's path
In order to avenge his love and for his child never born
His wishing well is deep and red with iron clad and hammerhead
Captain Nobody he fought the elementals
He tried to snuff us out but candles like us work it out
Down goes the serpentine
Look below the Captain has gone
Memories won't save him now
Memories cannot save him at all
Look out world
Captain Nobody he saw the elephant
He tried to snuff it out but candles like that stay lit
Up goes the looking glass
Look out world the future passes
Alibis won't save us now
Nobody listens
Nobody cares
Happened all too quickly
Happened all too fast
He cried out when she fell across the charging monster's path
In order to avenge his love and for his child never born
His wishing well is deep and red with iron clad and hammerhead
Happened all too quickly
Happened all too fast
He cried out when she fell across the line of their defense
In order to control his grief and make a claw at sanity
There is no word as accident
There is no word as accident
“Atlantica” is under fire
Her beauty fell now from hell he chips away
4.Carriage Driven Horses
The driven snow
Shows you home
A sugar cube trail
Behold her pale coat
It is a habit
You cannot run from it
It is a gamble you cannot win
I do not and so you do
I will not and so should you
I halt and so you run
I hurt and so will you
Now you are forest for the trees blind
Like carriage driven horses
You have bit off more than you can
The driven snow
Shows you home
A sugar cube promise
Behold her pale coat
You believe it keeps you
You believe it keeps you warm
I do not and so you do
I will not and so should you
I halt and so you run
I hurt and so will you
Now you are forest for the trees blind
Like carriage driven horses
You have bit off more than you can
Now you are forest for the trees blind
Like carriage driven horses
You have bit off more than you can
Now you are forest for the trees blind
Like carriage driven horses overturning
5.Apparatus in the Basement
6.Almost Imaginary
Moving forward never taking back a sense of freedom
We never stay long we can hide our tracks
Time and space mean nothing when we are
Floating on something
No it is nothing at all
Like when you dream you're falling
Almost imaginary
Dreams cannot stop us
We will slide through
Dreams cannot stop us
We will slide through
Slippy in thistles invisible
The first time was sidelong and always impossible
Almost too good to be true
This place will never be home but it will do
Floating on something
No it is nothing at all
Like where you dream you're falling
Almost imaginary
Dreams cannot stop us
We will slide through
Dreams cannot stop us
We will slide through
(Dreams cannot stop us)
Time and space mean everything
(Dreams cannot stop us)
Falling-falling-falling
(Dreams cannot stop us)
7.Kiss the Earth
Some of us have strange ways & some of us can't stay away &
Some of us have wet ways
Some of us have odd jobs & some of us have fine positions &
Most of us survive the best we can
All clay
We are all clay
Bone & muscle
Work & play
Around & round we go
Where we fall we fall alone
Clay to mud
Flesh & blood
Kiss the earth
Kiss the dirt
Some of us have leeway & some of us have gin ways &
Some of us have toffee & some of us have the fear
Some of us have shadow ways & some of us have righteous ways
& some of us used to be so good at being bad
Water to wine
Parchment & twine
Bone & muscle
Work & play
Around & round we dance
Where we fall is all that lasts
Clay to mud
Flesh and blood
Kiss the earth
Kiss the dirt hey
All clay
We are all clay
Bone and muscle
Work and play
So pull the lady from the lake
This could be your great escape
Clay to mud
Flesh and blood
Kiss the earth
Kiss the dirt
8.Lemon Lime Girls
Lemon lime girl under the street lamp
Pretty as sin all dressed in cholera
Living dead girl pretending to enjoy
Lemon lime girls live and learn lemon lime mm
Syphilis and her sisters
Jaundice and her muses
Dancers on the broken glass
Dancers on the broken glass
Lemon lime boy turn for a coin
Pretty as sin all dressed in cholera
Dolly mop babies eat you alive
Lemon lime boys live and learn lemon lime-lime
Syphilis and her sisters
Jaundice and her muses
Dancers on the broken glass
Dancers on the broken glass
Syphilis and her sisters
Jaundice and her muses
Dancers on the broken glass
Dancers on the broken glass
Lemon lime girls against the green wall
Pretty as sin bound up in cholera
Lemon lime girls are what you expect to find
In the blind love alley of crime love
Lemon lime girls
They do not have long
Line their pockets
Keep them warm
Syphilis and her sisters
Jaundice and her muses
Dancers
Dancers
Lemon lime girls
Lemon lime girls
Lemon lime girls
9.Dawn / Worst of All
Elijah the breaker boy has the black lung
Elijah is one of the lucky few
& it looks to me the rest of his story is no fun at all
The caged bird has flown
Dead and gone like all the others
All the men and the boys
All the boys in the mine
Henry oh Henry the husband of Bonnie
Oh Bonnie your man has left you
& when it feels too cold Bonnie wears her dear Henry's coat
The caged bird has flown
Dead and gone like the others
Lost in the tunnels
Their narrow coal homes
Worst of all were the children of Quincy
They have a history of wandering
When the ground fell down the twins were never found
The caged bird has flown
Dead and gone like the others
All the rain is a black veil of suffering & it falls on the
Caroline Mine
The Caroline Mine
Death and injury
Under the surface
Your sons and mine
Suddenly silent
10.One Eyed, Sleepy Eyed Cat
11.Rest Beyond the Bend
Jerry licked his lips he liked the lady at the platform of the
station
The girl with the pretty face and the thick legs
Jerry walked right over he knows her type he smiles to himself
Self-deluded dilated Jerry
Jerry is a coral-monger
He offers the platform lady with the pretty face and her thick
legs
A private viewing back at his gallery
Just she and he and poor Jerry can feel the distant quake
He knows he has lost his prize bird his turtledove at the
station
With her parasol her spectacles
The girl with the pretty legs and thick face
She must be an idiot!
Jerry yells over the roar and whistle
He believes with all his tiny polluted heart is coming
Around the bend and then recalls
Poor Jerry recalls those distant years
When a pretty girl used to stand and wait for him
Right there on the platform with her pretty face and parasol
Sad Jerry he makes his way along the tracks
With pockets full of coral and his dirty hands in bandages and
There hasn't been a train through here in years
12.Old No. 9
We walk into the desert wind along the desert rail
With bent hearts and stitched on wings
Across the Tamarisk plains we tell our tale of woe
To those who would hear such things
We are the spirits-we are the spirits
Arrived at the end of the line
We are the spirits-we are the spirits
The line that fell to earth
We walk into the desert wind along the desert rail
With bent hearts and stitched on wings across the Tamarisk
Plains
We are the spirits of the Old No. 9
We dine at the End of the Line
We are the spirits of the Old No. 9
The line that fell to earth
We look into the blasting sound along the mountain rail
With ticking clicking flickering form across the windswept sands
Where we are now
Stars pulled down
Where we are now
Stars pulled down
Gravity is slipping
The caterwaul cry
Happy as the devil in blue
Gravity is slipping
The caterwaul cry
Happy as the devil in the blue suit
Here come the devil in the blue suit
We are the spirits
Where we are now
Stars pulled down
Where we are now
Stars pulled down
13.Long Time Gone
I will be gone for awhile
Searching for my heart in the low places
I will be out in the wild, wild spaces
Hold me, child
I'll be gone a long, long time
I will be gone for awhile
Searching for my heart in the low places
I will be out in the wild, wild spaces
Hold me, child
I'll be gone a long, long time
The bread is good the stove is warm
You will be fine now you must be strong
You cannot follow where I must roam
The burden I must haul alone
Your father loves you never doubt
You will be always at my heart
Your photograph in cameo
Will keep me from the dark and cold
I will be gone for awhile
Searching for my heart in the low places
I will be out in the wild, wild spaces
Hold me, child
I'll be gone a long, long time
I will only be wrong when I am not strong enough
I will only be hated when mistakes are made
It will only be death when there is nowhere left in the world
Nowhere left in the world
It will only be cold while the storm holds
It will only go bad when that is all I have
It is only the end when there is no one left in the world
No one left in the world
Then I'll be running home to you
I'll throw my loving arms around you
I will be secure no more harm befalls you
Until then I'll be a long time gone
A long time gone
A long time gone
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