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Talking Cotton (Song 01)
03:58
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This is where creation begun
A knoll rises
The prairies like an anvil
Hot as the sun
green belts along the rivers and creeks, linear groves of hickory and pecan, willow and witch hazel.
All things are isolate On the plain
Loneliness is an aspect of the land.
While we’re talkin cotton
I returned when My grandmother had died
In the summer the hills seem to writhe in fire
The grass brittle brown cracks beneath your feet
Winter brings blizzards,
hot tornadic winds arise in the spring
there is no confusion of objects in the eye
A tortoise crawling the red dirt
nowhere to go an the plenty of time
While we’re talkin cotton
The Rainy Mountain of the Wichita Range
the stars of the Big Dipper
I saw for the first time how small it all was.
It was late at night,A warm wind rose
I could hear the frogs the river and feel the motion of the air.
High in the sky a white moon, nearly full
Now there is a funeral silence
An those high gray walls have closed in
While we’re talkin cotton
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When the darkness came for an eternal night time
Stealing everything from my forever empty heart
The stars that once dotted the sky of space and time in this place and time
Remind me of my missing counterpart
You took my heart an ran down the highway
It will haunt me til the day I die
Love is just a memory of the hymns of the years gone by.
I wonder If this is how it must always be
The endless sleepless dreamless nights
The music still ringing in my head
Echos of all the time I shared with you
When I think back to the beginning
Anything you could imagine seemed a possibility
But not it seems back dated and faded fated
Is this my only solace
the memories of melodies
In a park beside the water were we met
Where the lost highways no longer go
You first took my hand
The crows sang the of legends of the ages of old
Of all that came and went an will be
dreams in the city of rain
To the wind our earthly remains
In the memories of melodies
and a river of tearstains
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Tridevi (Song 03)
03:23
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There she is among the white lotus
With the moon in her hair in the autumn sky
I know she’s waiting there
Playing her song
surrounded by swans
Her words flow
To the sea an sky
In a rhythm as oldtime
Her aim is true
Destroying the darkness in your mind
the ultimate truth
Quenching the fire in the sea
She is river
She is a tree
She is part of all that is
all that was
and all that will ever be
Forever grateful for what she gave to me
I could never repay
There she is among the white lotus
skin glowing like the gold embrodierd in her red dress
surround by owls
helped her find her way through the night
All The men & gods worship at her feet
All women are an embodiment of her
Mother Earth an Mother Spirit
She came from the depths of the oldest deepest sea
born to this mortal body
at the beginning of the universe
She drank from the cosmic ocean of milk
She is part of all that is
all that was
and all that will ever be
Forever grateful for what she gave to me
I could never repay
There she is among the white lotus
skin glowing like the gold embrodierd in her red dress
surround with lions and tigers
She is the girl of 1000 names and faces
They called her the daughter of the mountain
the golden one,
the dark one
The goddess of destruction
mother of the world
She is the voice of reason, freedom, resistance. strength, power, action and justice
She said "do not fear anyone or anything"
became a God born a human being
She fought like a devil and cried like a baby
She is part of all that is
all that was
and all that will ever be
Forever grateful for what she gave to me
I could never repay
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Like a child, I am happy inside these days
This love is crazy when I feel it with you
I used to be the rebel that had to hide
There was a time when I was happy alone
Now I finally see the one who knows for the truth
In the ways that I use the world
Like no one really anything can do
We step into a fading sunshine
all my happiness, is found in your arms
The sweetest sound is the sound of your voice
When you speak, it lifts my heart to higher ground
To feel my feet, get back on the ground
You got me feeling a little crazy
Came to in my dreams and I knew it was you
Gave my heart, gave my word
Gave my life to you
Love, love, love is crazy
Numb my heart baby
Love, love, love is crazy
You define me baby
Love, love, love is crazy
No one has ever known to love me like you do baby
Love, love, love is crazy
No one has ever known how to love me like you do baby
And its crazy how I never knew what love was
I got a crazy heart
You smile and I see inside
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Dressed in ermine
a murderer from the beginning
not holding to the truth
for there is no truth in him
lies are his native tongue
the father of lies
prowls around like a roaring lion
looking for someone to devour
the invisible ruler of the world
up and down,
to and fro the earth around,
seeking to destroy the souls of men
The world is his farm
and its people are his plowmen
a Lying Spirit in the mouth of all his Prophets
The ancient serpent
Throws no stones
the angel of the abyss
who holds the power of death
The dragon
Fell like lightning from heaven
morning star
Son of the Dawn
He does as he may care
The fallen angel
Brought death to the world
Flaming arrows
From The prince of the power of the air
the destroyer
The ruler of the abyss
His finest trick is convince you that he does not exist
The adversary
the accuser
The tempter
The demonic trinity
Then cometh the Wicked one
Prince of Demons
sons of Belial
The god of this world
His original nature was Darkness
His smoke has made its way into the Temple of God through some crack
the cause of illness
humanity's three enemies
Death the world and self
the prince of darkness
I saw him fall
prince of this world
He’ll make you a deal
Give him his due
JustSpeak his name and he is sure to appear to you
He looks after his own
An empty mind
And idle hands
Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven
The devil may care
The flames of hell never bothered him
And walked away
A smile on his face
He is crouching with his arms held up
he has only four fingers and toes
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires
Your enemy the
the evil one
Witches flying on broomsticks
Sexual rites in the forest
Murder human infants
Devoured in ceremony
Demons
Fever leprosy arthritis
a distant land of no return,
a house of dust where the dead dwell
a sealed fortress,
seven gates,
barred against invasion or escape
the pit
the grave
death
where both soul and body are destroyed
unquenchable fire
Serpents, brood of vipers
corpses of criminals
Worms bred and fed in the smoke filled filth
cast out into outer darkness
the darkness
flames continuously burn and rain from the sky
rivers of molten metal flow freely
heretics are locked in flaming tombs
Weeping And Gnashing Of Teeth
Place Of No Rest
fiery lake of burning sulfur
lake of fire
Chamber of Tongue Ripping,
The Chamber of Scissors,
The Chamber of Iron Cycads,
the Chamber of Mirror,
Chamber of Steamer,
Forest of Copper Column,
Mountain of Knives,
the Hill of Ice,
Cauldron of Boiling Oil
Chamber of Ox,
Chamber of Rock,
Chamber of Pounding,
Town of Suicide,
Chamber of Dismemberment,
Mountain of Flames,
Yard of Stone Mill,
Chamber of Saw
Pool of Blood,
It's better to rule Hell than serve in Heaven
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All the snow has given way to the rain
the sun is shining
it's a brand new day
as sure as
the black faded to blue
gave way to grey
If the Heavens were to spill open
and give you back
if forever was a time that could spent
there's no way of our love I'd ever repent
It's always the same do you believe in change?
Don't call this world my home there's now place else to go
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In the pages of the stories of ages i was searching in the witching hour
The words were written of an Ancient windowless Tower
And a city said to reach to heaven children of man given birth
The peoples language were confused an they were scattered about the Earth
From the Holy Sepulcher old city Western Wall in the east
To the pantheon where all the saints feast
Pilgrims
The people of all religions
came from around the globe
To try to touch the hems
lay down their heavy load
All the musicians had come together under the sun
For Cecilia,John and Job liberata for every one
From the cloud came Heavenly sounds
Across the river from the Howling of the Hell hounds
All the angels began to arrive
Gifts and wounds the great mysteries all in five
Here comes the saints again
Confess your sweetest sin
goodbye to you my friend
we’ll never meet again
hide the light within
a story to tell
Down by the wishing well
Here comes the saints of hell
magic fairy spell
a story to tell
Down by the wishing well
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Truth to your own spirit
Loved beyond the stars
We live to love you more each day
Grief is the price we pay
I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
She did it the hard way
the world was not enough
Farewell vain world I’ve known enough of thee
Shall I be gone long?
Weeping for the living and the dead
that blessed angel’s face I now deplore
that hollow part of your chest
It takes a piece of you
Each time you pass a coffin
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LOSS
02:04
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“He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.”
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.”
“Gone from our sight, but never from our hearts.”
“As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us, as long as I can, I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us.”
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Uniform Objections
03:31
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The false sciences of economics and politics
People don’t trust their own judgment of what something’s worth
Think they need an outside arbitrator, who fixes the value
which is what the dollars actually are – money just buys time
Its poor communication
Capitalism itself in itself is a bit of a rip-off, as far as I’m concerned
The people who want to be leaders are the less qualified
the people who are the best won’t mess with it
So we always get the 2nd best
you won’t find me playing for any peace candidates – or any candidates
It’s not just the networks; it’s a lot of corporations.
But it’s strictly an economic colonization of America,
a vast dumping ground of products, the backyard of the world.
So 4000 people are killed, what the hell? You sell a lot of planes and bombs, and for a religious cause, which people are prone to accept – the logic of the situation demands a different line of thought – but religiously, with God on our side, they don’t feel bad about $657,534,246 million a day toward the war. Because it’s protecting territorial boundaries, or it’s protecting some sort of religious vagueness. So they allow it to go on.
but what are you going to do
Im no politician going to change it in our out of the system
I’m just going to sing my songs, because that’s what I do
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Each month is a note in the solar year
If the world is led astray
An there’s a voice of a thousand thousand
And Silence in heaven
An all the gods on their mountain
And there is no room
If the band breaks up and many years ensue
If you get cast out from the war in heaven
To wander the Earth
with the falling stars and angels
And the devil and the deep blue sea
You were the brightest of the wandering stars
Wearing a crown of 12 stars, a gown made of the sun
And the moon at your feet
May your bliss open the doors of the universe
May you find the peace within you to change the world around you
May you be harmonious in you difference
They say its better to have loved an lost but if you were to live too 100 I would want to live to be 100 minus a day
The more we expand our world view the more we understand ourselves
empathy is the quality of character that can change the world
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality
The stream is purer at its source
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Kindness is about the best we can do
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Transhuman Oblivion
03:45
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Merge with you
Merge with me
Merge you with me
robotic technological singularity
Duplicate personality
Electronic brain wave beat
Psychoactive retreat
Pseudo emotional
Synthetic empathy
Replicated personality
Replicated sincerity
Join us in
Oblivion
emotional a technological wasteland
Join us in human oblivion
Join us in infinity
Relativity
supersymmetry
supergravity
10 dimensional theory
Cosmic string
Quantum gravity
Infinity density
General relativity
Biological machine
Nanotechnology
Join us in
Oblivion
Digital ascension
Extinction
Artificial sincerity
Transhuman horizon
intelligence amplification
Balance within the laws of physicality
Limit to as fast as we can run the speed of light
Join us in transhuman oblivion
Join us in
Oblivion
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What Tomorrow Brings
03:01
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Maybe you can here the band Playing
Maybe its a new song to sing
Maybe a diamond wedding ring Sparkling
Maybe a new feeling uprising
Maybe its a sense all your dreams are Becoming
Maybe a sweet dream while You’re catnapping
Maybe perfect accord your life Composing
Maybe the love you’re daydreaming of
Maybe a beam of new hope on wings Flittering
Maybe the sounds of your love laughing
Maybe a new lovers smile Glowing
Maybe a ferriswheel spiraling
Maybe all ever imagined Stargazing
Maybe the light all embracing
Maybe a love Everblooming
Maybe all comes true you’re imagining
You never know what tomorrow my bring
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Almost Over
03:04
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Is it true were walking on thin air on the top of the world
With this God forsaken Gamble
turn of phrase in a vow
Chasing after a mirage
Of reason
Astray in a charade
Faint of heart
So far away from the beginning
Burned the hash out
It sounded to so cliche
Astray in a charade
Thoughts of leaving disappear
Convictions dematerialize
Whenever I look into your eyes
It gets harder the more I try
To comprehend the cause
We hang on
Astray in a charade
We could turn over a new leaf
But all the trees are evergreens
Astray in a charade
It’s almost the end of this masquerade
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The Last One
03:59
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Muddy red river, where does it ever end
Swirling out in the dark
The bars are full, but it seems so dull
Fading away in the broken neon light
But now that I’m the last one,
I don’t need no one
All in all in the light of
Red River Sunrise
Everything's alright
I see the world through a magic mirror
Its cool an quiet now In the late phase
in the Witching hour
The Red River Sunrise is alright
Leon and Benny
From the Box Elder depot
Played Every Saturday
I’ve got no ambition
In the 2nd story twilight
But now that I’m the last one
I don’t need no one
All in all in the light of
Box Elder Sunrise
Everything alright
I see the world through a magic mirror
Its cool an quiet now In the late phase
in the Witching hour
The Box Elder Sunrise is alright
Now I’m In the city of a million mortals living souls in a thunder cloud
An I’m still underground
Leon and Benny
crossed over that river
Now the Wagon Wheel bridge is down
Permanent shelter And I’m still here in the Pudget Sound
But now that I’m the last one
I don’t need no one
All in all in the light of
The Seattle Sunrise
Everything's alright
I see the world through a magic mirror
Its cool an quiet now In the late phase
in the Witching hour
The Seattle Sunrise is alright
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Train Graveyard
03:23
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Train comin' down the track
buy the ticket won't be coming back
Train comin' down the line
about 20 mins all board track 9
Train, comin' round the bend
going to see that sweet girl of mine again
SMOKE KEEPS ON RISING FROM THE GRAVEYARD TRAIN
smokestack rising from the graveyard train
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49
03:57
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Rolling down highway 49
You know who I’m trying to find
Going to hit highway 61
Then I’m going to have some fun
Night falls on everyone
The way it falls on you then it falls on me too
Can’t you hear the wind howling
Howls round you and it howls round me too
Rolling down Highway 49
Going to bring a jug of wine
When I hit highway 61
Going to get my job done
Rain an sun falls on everyone
The way it falls on you then it falls on me too
Can’t you hear the wolves howling
Howls round you and it howls round me too
Rolling down Highway 49
You know I’m gonna get whats mine
Going to hit highway 61
When you see me you better run
Shadows fall on everyone
They way the fall around you they fall around me too
Can’t you hear the banshee howling
Howls round you and it howls round me too
Going to find an drink the midnight sun
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If 16 Were 39
04:03
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The twinkle in your eyes was like the sun in the sky
All the words from your lips have run dry
I’m afraid it’s the end of our charade
The torch has burned out of the parade
Ashes are falling in the ticker tape parade
The words came out the same but don’t say the same thing
20/20 after sight
(I’m afraid) it’s the end of our charade
The torch as burned out of the parade
Ashes are falling in the ticker tape
Paint my face like Pagliacci
Suffering master of the art
Paint my face like Pagliacci with the tears burning in my heart
Paint my face like Pagliacci
Laughter from a broken heart
Laugh like Pagliacci
You haven’t seemed to age a day
But somehow I can’t see you the same way
I’m afraid it’s the end of our charade
The torch as burned out of the parade
Ashes are falling in the ticker tape
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Nothing To Waste
03:29
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Going to cruise down lake view
Going Find something to get into
Were Going to drink an smoke all day
Going to blow all our problems away
Gonna blow up the radio station
Going to start a new generation
Going to shut down all the boring frustration
Going give rise to the new united nation
Got no time to waste
Going to get down in the haze totally spacin
Going to invent the new location
Going to reinvent the old locations
Not going to pay any parking citation
Going to break all the rules of probation
Going to get it on without hesitation
Got no fear of eternal damnation
Going get higher than a space station
Get with the revolution or your in violation
Not going to stand for any taxation
Tune in to the universal Vibration
Were like stars in a constellation
Burning down the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Talking about depoliticization
Step on the gas rate of acceleration
We’re the source of illumination
Radical deinstitutionalization
Got no time for correctional rehabilitation
Freedoms self justification
Got no time to waste
Got to find a way
nothing to waste
nothing to waste
Going to find a way
Going to find a day
Going to find a lay
nothing to waste
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Hear Jazz comes!!!
Are you ready for the new sound?
Jazz had a ribbon in her hair
Cause her heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart is broken
And every night, sunset, street lights are shining bright
I gotta speak to her
There, Jazz found friends and beauty for a heart of gold
Raised by wolves, but beautiful and wise was Jazz
With courage Jazz would not bow, there for her cause Jazz would prove
Like a dream, the good life Jazz always shows
My long drink when Jazz walks in the room
You give me shivers down my spine
And then I met up with super magic mistress
Jazz can make me kiss you so good
And super luck grows from you
Jazz crucified my heart
That's how Jazz touched my heart
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I split the deck and it’s the first card I drew
But still there’s no direction an the question is what to do
I could be anything
I could do anything
So many faces
So many masks
In this masquerade
The fool laughed as he stepped into the sun
The fool had no fear and nowhere to go
Sometimes you just can’t win no matter what you do
And when you get everything you want is what you thought it would be.
The fool laughed knowing what he must do
Take a chance
take the risk to dance
the spirit of the Ether
As free as the air you breathe
As free as the breeze
Without any care
In this world
Without a care
In this life
And don’t know why I should carry on
The way I carry on
But I have no choice
My hands are tied
To the wheel of the world
But I never wanted to take these steps without you
I never wanted to face this change without you
I never wanted to take this dare without you
I never wanted to be here without you
Like the joker of the 52 without you
What good is this hand without you
I can’t believe there’s a me without you
I’ve got my health my peace of mind what more could I want
Still he did not know who he was within
It all came so easy to you , you don’t even have to try
Letting life unfold is all you’ll ever need to do
Just waiting for the wind to blow the right thing around again
Like flipping pages in a book of open ends
Choose not the life of limitations
Its the world you loved
Its going to be a close call
Ten good reasons to continue
All the positives you wrote down for me
But can they really out weigh the negative
I know you said you might not be around for it
Its bigger than I ever knew
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Wild
03:09
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It was so easy and there was nothing to do
If there was anything we ever wanted you know we stole those too
At the time it didn’t matter we couldn’t care less
Those times were hard to hold onto an slid Through the worlds hands like sand from a half broken hour glass
Then one day the end of that summer came
The way it was then it left us shattered it would could never be the same
There’s nothing anyone could to do to stop the change of the time
High into the sky like dust from the trade towers
The nuclear winter blues blue age hue hue into the sky they began their climb
An now all our dreams in the fractured sunset was never a lie
An im still getting high But were running out of time
I was never untrue but there my never be a sunrise
But its the spirit of all generations never dies
If the train comes an takes me away
That same train will bring me back someday
Its the train that takes me away
That same train will bring me back someday
An if its a train of memories that takes me away
That same train will bring me back someday
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Of a Time Remaining
04:01
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This is the end begin
New york style clothes pin
One late night in Brooklyn
What secret lies herein
Over a drink of sloe gin
Left overs from the parts bin
To dumb an thick skin
Or to smart to give in
Like an alien
Looking for a motor inn
With some Christ within
Looking for a deadly sin
Notify the next of kin
Like a severed conjoined twin
Light within the firing pin
Lost within the underpin
Of a time remaining when
That the losers might win
To take it on the chin
Flowers to the trash bin
Not much to anyone's chagrin
Still the bittersweet medicine
Numbered with Suboxone
Cleaned mouth with Erythromycin
Da da da da da da
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Somewhere in the sands of time
The feeling so sublime
That it lasts for all time
forever in my mind
Moving forward
From all the past left behind
Its just a grain of sand in time
So real in a capsule
Nothing will ever forget
As sure as all times pass away
It will still be as strong forever and a day
As light from a star speeds in all ways
Even if in the world does pass away
Even if all the stars in heavens should fade
If forever all the days lite away
my love for you shall never sway
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hey I see you
see through
start a new
I'm so blue
I'm so through
without you
without you
I'm so through
I'm so blue
I see through
Icey blue
I see new
nothing to do
nothing new
I'm just like glue
I stick to you
don't want what's new
how I grew
into what I am without you
living with your clue
such a vacant view
I still hold true
I alwasy knew
you always knew
on our hearts it drew
one day to breakthough
the sorry to ensue
the town to pass through
the loss of tissue
it's so undue
there's no way to undo
can't be what used to
so cold I withdrew
a collage of your tattoos
everything seems so untrue
inequivlant to you
into my world view
no way to renew
driving a long Lakeview
rendezvous Bellevue
look into
live up to
overdue reisdue
luck into voodoo
i owe you
out of view
fall into
collecter of internal revenue
like a montague
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27. |
End of the Year Blue
04:38
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Goodbye to another year
Goodbye to another fear
Goodbye to another tear
Goodbye to you my dear
ICU
I NEED YOU
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all is dark until exposed to the light
begin again in the black in the dark as all things in nature
Begin anew adventure looking into the dark
Never looking back
There will never be enough time to do all I want to do
There will never be enough time to start everything a I want a new
To paint things as they ought to be
Not the monstrously cynical unconcouslly naive society
Playing the game of seriousness to hide its madness
I am not the clown
Though time steals the beauty of our former selves
What you give you will recieve
may it be I desire more than I achieve
Not to aim to high an miss but aim to low an attain
All there is is never tiresome
Only we cease curiosity appreciation
a new point of view
you’ll forever walk the earth with your eyes to the sky
longing to return if you ever flew
All The universe is in our minds and hands
I am proud but tired
Take the paint an create your own
What you give you will recieve
Speak damn you speak
Draw, draw, draw and don’t waste time
Take the paint an create your own
Speak damn you speak and don’t waste time
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Far far away in the distant morning there’s a place peaceful valley where everyone belongs
Along a Sparkling calm coastline from in the children's songs
Far far away in the distant morning, our days aren’t like the morning dew
There's reverie a reverie of you
A Never ending rendezvous
I’ll play my last notes on my guitar
And wake up where you are leave it all behind me
Where are all the worlds problems dissolve like castles made of sand
Into the sparkling flawless turquoise bottomless an boundless sea
And I’ll Stay Forevermore you’ll be (stay) forevermore with me
together forevermore we’ll be
Far far away in the distant morning, flowers bloom
flowers bloom in the distant morning
Why cant I too?
If , flowers bloom can bloom in the distant morning
Why can’t we too?
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Keith Cook Seattle, Washington
Solo artist, guitarist for Debris, bassist for Sammy Drain and then some, former bassist for Captain Eyeball. His next album will be out soon and feature members of Nirvana, the Muffs,the Vains, the Wipers, The Stooges, and Flipper.
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