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Slouching toward bethlehem
Giving birth to myself again
Wondering where my body begins
And where the bacteria ends
Lord, if i find the way
To your superposition
Promise you’ll whisper to me
The number i’m thinking
Surely stranger things have happened
Surely stranger things occur
Surely stranger things have happened
Maybe in another world
Surely stranger things have happened
But if they have i haven’t heard
Just one word
Spoke so soft
Deafening the whole world
Rolling the stone from my tomb
Into a pornographic sunrise
Empty blossoms in my empty womb
Tender bodies smeared across the sky
Lover when you comfort me
Wild horses and women
Gallop on the froth of the sea
Taking me with them
Surely stranger things have happened
Surely stranger things occur
Surely stranger things have happened
Maybe in another world
Surely stranger things have happened
But if they have i haven’t heard
Just one word
Spoke so soft
Deafening the whole world
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I finally understand it lord
The tree of life, the flaming sword
I know now why you turned us both away
But eve and I we’re getting bored
First we die and then we’re born
Still we don’t know what to make out of this clay
This is paradise (but not for us)
It’s for rays of light and specks of dust
The black and white piano keys of days
We sing between your ivory teeth
Our voices rise and fall beneath
The sweet psychotic melodies you play
Eve’s got grass stains on her clothes
I’ve got dirt all over me
We don’t know where this river goes
Still we follow where it leads
Jesus was a genius
But I prefer his early stuff
No one talks that much ‘bout carpentry these days
But there’s plenty you can do with wood
I’d build a cabin if I could
Someplace where the trees aren’t filled with snakes
I saw a snake once in a tree
I swear to god it spoke to me
Said ‘I’ve got something you and your lady both should taste’
Well back then we were down to try
Anything, thought we’d never die
Never knew a fruit could make you feel this strange
Eve’s got grass stains on her clothes
I’ve got dirt all over me
We don’t know where this river goes
Still we follow where it leads
Well knowledge is as knowledge does
And good and evil’s relative
But beauty’s something that’s beyond belief
A garden’s a good place to grow
But i prefer a wild rose
The kind that once you pick you’re bound to bleed
Now, eve and I, we walk toward
A sunset painted on cardboard
Like a couple cut out from a magazine
I finally understand it lord
The tree, the snake, the flaming sword
And I thank you for the fruit you offered me
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3. |
Bored Of The Apocalypse
03:36
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Kate moss in a dream i walked
Her home through chinatown
Her eyes were sad and brown
She said, ‘god knows how i get so lost,
I never will be found
But no one’s looking at me now’
She said ‘i’m so bored of the apocalypse
Time don’t stop, its just endlessly carrying on
Like nothing in the world was wrong’
‘When we speak,’ she said, ‘we wake the dead,
But they won’t be resurrected,
Cuz nothing in this world in perfected’
So we walked on in the carcinogens
From the tree of life to the river of sin
Cuz nothing in this world is rejected
She said ‘I’m so bored of the apocalypse
There’s no antichrist, just this anticlimax carrying on
Like nothing in the world was wrong’
In a tower made of iron ore
She told me ‘get down on all fours’
I said ‘lady, anything to please you’
She said ‘maybe i’m the whore of babylon
And you’re the beast i rode in on’
I said ‘lady i could never defeat you’
So i crawled out on the window ledge
And i looked down at the water’s edge
And i leapt out into the wounded sky
As the scales fell from our eyes
I said ‘nothing in the world feels right’
She said ‘i’m so bored of the apocalypse
My heart don’t stop it just beats and skips
It’ll bleed out now, it just drips and drips
Til every last drop is gone
And nothing nothing in the world feels wrong’
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4. |
All Is Holy (A432)
04:32
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Ha-lalala-lala-lala-hallelujah
I took the garbage out
Ha-lalala-lala-lala-hallelujah
I had a dream about
Nothing worth remembering now
But everything changed somehow
I’ll never be the same
Ha-lalala-lala-lala-hallelujah
I took the train downtown
Ha-lalala-lala-lala-hallelujah
I felt like kneeling down
Kneeling in the aisle to pray
No god, nobody to save
Just people hanging round.
I fell under your protection
Hungry as a ghost
You showed me perfection
Tied the rainbow
Around my throat
Holy, all is holy here
Ha-lalala-lala-lala-hallelujah
I’ve finally got nothing to say
Ha-lalala-lala-lala-hallelujah
I’m drinking the black champagne
Sipping up empty space
Nothing lost, nothing to replace
Your cup is always full
I was under the impression
That you were gonna be nice
Well, now that it’s out of the question
I’m gonna run for my life
Holy, all is holy
Honey there’s a hole in every living thing
Holy, all is holy, there’s a hole in the sky where the sun used to be
Holy, all is holy, there’s a hole in the earth where they empty out the sea
Holy, all is holy, we got holes in our hands and holes in our feet
Holy, all is holy here.
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Dreamer,
With your head in the clouds
With your foot on the stairs
As they spiral around
Dreamer,
with your heart in your mouth
you keep climbing
you keep diving down
i was amazed
when you lifted your gaze toward me
such a strange loop
to see and be seen
you turned away, something ghostly remained in my mind
such a thin line
between yours and mine
drifting on the water
like the skies reflection
falling like a curtain
in the ten directions
i’d like to
surround you
so that you feel
completely held
completely here
completely real
dreamer,
we’re like fog on the mirror
it gets clearer
when we disappear
dreamer,
i can see it in your eyes
flash of lightning
in a clear blue sky
i was amazed
you reflected the rays of light
such a bright moon
stainless and pure
you turned away
and I saw my true face in the night
such a thin line
between mine and yours
drifting on the water
like the skies reflection
falling like a curtain
in the ten directions
i’d like to
surround you
so that you feel
completely held
completely here
completely real
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6. |
Ephemera
03:50
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I was weary
And you took me in your arms
In your arms
I couldn’t see you
But you held me like the light
Held the dark
Strangers
Terror on the verge of joy
Ephemera ephemera
Dreamers
First we’re here and then we’re gone
Ephemera ephemera
We go
The way we come
I was screaming
Like a baby to the void
To the void
I couldn’t hear you
But you held me like the silence
Held the noise
Strange strangers
Does the black cat got your tongue?
Ephemera ephemera
Dream dreamers
Turning nothing into one
Ephemera ephemera
We go
The way we come
The pavement
Rippled like water
When she walked
In sandals of light
The words felt
Strange in my mouth
Falling out
Like teeth in a dream
I was dreaming
‘Til you shook me by the arm
By the arm
Now i see you
And i know we’re sleeping
And we’ve never come to harm
Strangers
See how we shimmer in the sun
Ephemera ephemera
Dreamers
Like angels sleeping on the lawn
Ephemera ephemera
Strange strangers
Turning nothing into one
Ephemera ephemera
Dream dreamers
First we’re here and then we’re gone
Ephemera ephemera
We go
The way we come
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7. |
Winter’s Come
04:48
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i can’t remember a word you said
but you’re rattling around in my head
as i walk on this misty lane
lights going out in my brain
i can’t remember a single word
but your voice was all that i heard
i know we never saw eye to eye
you saw the color of an empty sky
you know the thing about the past, angel
is that it never passed at all.
and i’ve been wishing you were here, my dear
oh haven’t we been here before?
your shadow’s at my door.
winter’s come
my springtime lover
autumn’s kissed our
summer lips
we were born
for the end of the world
we’re so bored
of the apocalypse
i can’t seem to recall your face
the images warp and fade
but in the night your deep green eyes
flicker like fireflies
you know the thing about the past, angel?
is that it never passed at all.
and i’ve been wishing you were here, my dear.
oh haven’t we been here before?
your shadow’s at my door.
winter’s come…
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8. |
Since I Fell
05:51
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since i fell
from the tree
i’ve fallen in circles
trembling like a leaf on the wind
the wind blows
fire burns
the forest is gone
i can not return where i’m from
by your willow tree
let me land
on the banks of your river
i’ll watch the moon dance on the water
oh lord
your heavenly light
everything everything everything
held by the night
oh lord
your haunted mind
nothing no nothing no nothing
escapes from your time
oh lord
your holy breath
everyone everyone everyone
loves you to death
oh lord
your infallible hands
nothing no nothing no nothing
can slip from your grasp
oh lord
your beautiful face
everything everything everything
falls into place
oh lord
your immaculate heart
everything everything everything
falling apart
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9. |
Deer Park
01:49
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