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ALL IS FAIR
so many things I wanna say, still
I know that all you wanna hear
a painting of another place
forests lush and full of deer
they lead you to a rushing stream
rife with milk and honey wine
the flesh of fruits, so sweet soft clouds
golden specks, your hand in mine
all is fair in love and war
all you are and all you swore
yeah, all is fair in love and war
all you are and all you swore
the night, it draws the deer you aim
to keep seems so tender, never lost
prepare your bow and arrow, squint and shoot
surely someday soon you'll know the cost
she tries to run, becomes the storm
the river dries, the day is never born
I hold her in my arms forevermore
a doe, a deer, and nothing more
a doe, a deer, and nothing more
nothingforme
I know you’re lost, tell me, are you free?
not one word was true, not one word for me
I know you’re deaf, tell me, can you read?
not one word was mine, I need and I need
nothing you know, nothing you see
nothing you said, nothing for me
nothing for me, nothing for me
nothing you know, nothing you see
nothing you said, nothing for me
Heart of Stone
no days so grayno hours new
no seas so dry
no bones so blue
no night so dark
no room so bleak
no hearts no lies
no words I speak
no hearts no lies
no words I speak
and miles to go before I sleep
and miles to go, miles to go
before I sleep
all I wanna do is
spend my time with you
all I wanna, wanna do
and miles to go before I sleep
and miles to go, miles to go
before I sleep
HLS
it's hard to love somebody who's not loving you
hard to close the door and start with someone new
it's hard to love somebody who's not loving you
hard to believe that you don't feel it
like I do, like I
it's hard to love somebody who's not loving you
it's hard to hear when all I hear is me and you
it's hard to love somebody who's not loving you
it's hard to swallow when you look the way
you do, you do
The Way to the Sea
I keep inside me, the things I can't shake,
and I keep beside me, the things that I make
know when it's time, I hear it clear
you know in your heart when it appears
maybe it's tricky, maybe you're wise,
maybe it's you, who wears the disguise?
try and remember when I see your smile
try and record the moments for a while
but I can't bear to look, I won't be the same
dive right through your silence, forget I'm insane,
and I'll know when it's time, I know who you'll be,
and you know in your heart the way to the sea
you know in your heart the way to the sea
the way to the sea
everyplane
I dreamt I woke right beside you
the air was silk and warm and stained
you held me close, you whispered blindly
you took my hand and lost my name
the light it found your every demon
it stretched for miles, it never waned
and I saw you standing wild and
minding every road and every plane
we soared above the milky skyline
your hair ablaze, a lion's mane
and you turned to me all stars and glory
and you left me there alone and sane
kiss&tellit’s been way too many hours
it’s been thirty hour days it’s been
forty thousand minutes and I
don’t even know your name
and it must have been last winter
maybe fall or maybe spring, you
told me you’d come home in summer
said you wouldn’t miss a thing
and I see you at every bus stop
I drive by bikers and I cry
I tell myself that's you riding home
but you're just passing by
da da da da da
da da da da da da da
da da da da da
da da da da da da da
I read about you in the papers
I read you’re married and you’re well
but I still hope one day you’ll come and
promise I won’t kiss and tell
(I don’t even know your name)
promise I won’t kiss and tell
(I don’t even know your name)
promise I won’t kiss and tell
The Man That Loves Me
the man that loves me never stalls,
never lies, never falls
the man that loves me, I know I'm his
won't let me wonder if it is
the man that loves me loves me so much
can't bear to stop it, needs my touch
the man that loves me wouldn't care
about the world or their affairs
the man that loves me tells me so
the man that loves me lets me know
the man that loves me loves me so much
can't bear to stop it needs my touch
the man that loves me wouldn't care
about the world or their affairs
Always on Time
you’ll wanna be ready, cuz this is the year
the wars are all over, there’s nothing to fear
the windows all blown out, the mountains all gone
forget all the words, forget all the songs
need you to be willing, know that you belong
know that it's all yours, and that you are strong
and the people that love you and the people that won’t
and the lump that you feel in the back of your throat
high on the highway golden and rhyme
I'm always in love and always on time
I'm always in love and always on time
I’m always in love and always on time
I'm always in love and always on time
always in love and always on time
always in love and always on time
always in love and always on time
always in love and always on time
always in love and always on time
I'm always in love and always on time
always in love and always on time
I'm always in love and always on time
I'm always in love and always on time
cigarettes
all your dreams have come true
all your hopes, all your fears snapped in two
and there’s nobody coming, the army's all gone home
the train it stops for no one, you know,
you walk the earth alone
but you may stand beside me
I'll guide you through the pain
a wash, a cost, a loss, an endless acid rain
a cigarette still burning, reckless love in vain
a push through every dying
until you know my name
HK24
I wandered through the valleys
I crossed over oceans
I left my home, I left the people I love
I left my mind, I was the desert
I died in the mornings, I cried
I was the fire I was the water I
was the grass and the sky opens
because the sky opens loving
you and loving me
loving you and loving me
loving you and loving me
loving loving loving loving you
and loving me loving you and
longing, longing
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Raga
I walk alone, tend to the things that I have grown
I dress myself all on my own, nobody calling on the phone
and I walk the line
yeah you would think it’d be a crime
to leave the things that are sublime
out in the rain and far behind
dull blades and tragedy and time
no, I never said that you were mine
and if I did it’s by design
cuz nothing brings you back and I’m
oh I’m lost without you but you’ll find
me standing tall and all alive
I’m so Happy
I thank the world I found you
but I didn’t think it through
and I won’t now I’m so happy
so happy here with you
and I’m so happy, so happy I could cry
and I’m so happy, so happy I could die
but I won’t die for you, no that will be
just for me. you can trust I’ll keep on
breathing, we’ll live closer to the sea
and I promise I will brave through every
dark and countless cold, I’ll brace
the ice and kiss you twice and
never grow too old
and I’m so happy, so happy I could cry
and I’m so happy, so happy I could die
Dream
I won’t ask you no favors, no I won’t
tell you all my cares, and I won’t
see you in the morning and I won’t
tell you it’s not fair
and I won’t ask you for your secrets
no I don’t care what you did last
and I won’t greet you in the evening
I won’t ask about your past
it’s just the days are every color
and the skies are every blue and I am
sure that this is just a dream, a dream
of me and you
and I won’t ask you for your hands and
I won’t call and take your time, and I won’t
need you when the night comes and I won’t
calm your weary mind
it’s just the days are every color
and the skies are every blue and I am
sure that this is just a dream, a dream
of me and you
no I won’t ask you no favors, no I won’t
tell you all my cares, and I won’t
see you in the morning and I won’t
tell you it’s not fair
Lolita
I wanna be your little Lo, your only sweetheart
wanna be your little plaything by the pool
I wanna be your humid days, I wanna drink your lemonade
wanna follow you and follow all your rules
want you to call me dear when no one’s watching
I want your big strong hands around my face
I wanna be your silly charm I wanna give you my thin arms
I wanna be all soft and fierce and wrapped in lace
and I dream a little dream that you do love me
and it’s clear to me with every rising moon
you’ll look at me like there is nothing else, and then
you’ll come to me and say it’s all too soon
want you to cook for me and clean up all my messes
want you to read to me and erase all my cares
I wanna get down on my knees I wanna tell you baby, please
oh won’t you take me in your arms and up the stairs?
Another Day
you told me this once, that we found
all the things, choirs and wings—
and if this is that life, and our time
did collide, I’d live every year over,
oh I’d bleed in a line
and the stars will all creep into cracks
in the seams, and the angels will cry,
because everyone’s dreams, they come
true in the end, and there’s nothing that is
your mind cannot mend
a-flight in the floods, lucid, serene, just
one billion scars, and an infinite sting,
and you can’t stop it now, no the things
that you sing, they’ve already been sung,
and whenever it rings—
no, you can’t hide from the night!
you can’t shy from the brink!
you can’t run from the light! and I
know what you think! I’ll be clean,
I’ll stay loving, yeah nothing can
change the way that it feels
to be here another day
another day
another day
Maybe
maybe you feel me, awake
a beam on home, an awful ache
and no matter when, no matter
when, no matter matter matter
matter matter then
and maybe you don’t
and maybe I won’t
maybe it matters
maybe it won’t
See Me
see me, take it all
however you want it
however it falls
I scream in the hallways
shake when it calls
buildings all ivy, the
trees all the walls
over and ever, and
nobody’s call
breathe me, and
waste it all
the sun, it was lying
forever and falls
however you want it
however it falls
Up to this
you’re cutting it close, your
back to the wall, you’re feeling
shy, and a little small, and you
know I always, oh I hoped, that
you would be a little strange,
and they’re not gonna wait
for you to change, for you
to change
what if I told you it was all
for this? a quiet smile, and a
sweeter kiss? that all the roads
you walked and crashed and
burned, and all the ones you
missed, that they all led,
up to this? up to this
and you feel it coming
you feel it coming
you feel it near
and you, you feel it coming
you, you feel it near
and you, you feel it coming
you, you feel it near
Better Today
you want something else,
need something far
I wash the walls white
I wait in the car
I wait in the
is it better to hide?
better to stay?
I’m better alone
I’m better today
I’m better today
you want someone’s touch
to whisper your name
I wait on the ceiling,
I turn off the game
is it better to hide?
better to stay?
I’m better alone
I’m better today
I’m better today
just stain it all through
remember it bright
the sirens all waiting,
just turn off the lights
is it better to hide?
better to stay?
I’m better alone
I’m better today
I’m better today
I’m better today
I’m blue
I always and I coulda and I woulda
and I never but I shoulda and I’m home
and I leave and I stay and I go and I’m blue
and it’s everything that I’ve never known
and I’ll sing till my limbs are so tired that
the dawn couldn’t bring me to bed, can’t
help it, can’t shake it, won’t fight it, I live
in the things left unsaid
and there’s nothing I can say now
nothing I won’t do
there’s nothing I can say now, there’s
nothing that isn’t for you
da da da da da da da
da da da da da da da
da da da da da da
and it’s true that I’m no longer dying
and I live like I’ve never known pain
and I’m free, and I’m me, and I know
that I see and I live with the wind
and the rain, hey
and there’s nothing I can say now
nothing I won’t do, there’s nothing
I can say now, there’s nothing that
brings me to you
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10KM
I would walk 10,000 miles
and I would wait 10,000 more
and I would walk 10,000 miles
if it means I’m coming home
I’m coming home to you
Hh
I’d cut off my arms to give you my hands
cakes in the oven, ice in the sand
and I wait for you because I’m your man
blood for the batter, skin for the band
and I feel you now
I see you when you come running, running ‘round and holy, then
amen, amen
Arizona
you left your dog in Arizona
you took a burning sun straight to the face
you didn’t wince
and it told you something you couldn’t keep and couldn’t place