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Duessa
04:58
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I give in to you my queen
please accept this gift
this peaceful offering
the crown is yours to keep
now that I have found this hiding place
I can forego the urge to seek
So stay with me Duessa
it's not you, it's me
who wanted us lost
and now that we're lost
we will have a way
of keeping the truth
from finding out our whereabouts
our hiding places look the same
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2. |
Hide & Seek
04:05
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now that you're asleep
all wrapped up in limbo
are you torn between
cerulean dreams
and the comforts of acedia
no daylight can reach out
and pull you from inside
a soul, split in two
plays hide and seek
in limbo
til' underneath a canopy of grafted trees
it sleeps
will you hide
or will you dream yourself awake
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3. |
Spiderdream
03:07
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4. |
Carnival Fata Morgana
02:38
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the candle flickered out while you were asleep
deeply dreaming of a carnival
in the distance, on the sea
it is real if you believe
you're back, awake in the pitch-black forest
with the colors of the carnival
invading your memory
the only way out is to leave
behind the crown
and follow the sound
to find your way out of the forest
to the station, your carnival awaits you
there you will find the color
in your dreams
it is real if you believe
that such a place
built on love and art
could possibly exist
it does so follow the rails
those parallel balance beams
to the edge of cherry street
the intersection of our dreams
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5. |
Leaving
02:36
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the train out of acedia is leaving
temporarily at least
you'll be back, but for now
you're sharing the paint from your dreams
with your family of freaks
you're gonna need an exceptional gate-keeper
cause once the gates open
anything can crawl in
I think we're ahead of ourselves
we've come too far too fast
we don't have our own gravity
it's getting pretty dizzy
so stop, stick your thumb
in the earth
to slow down the spinning
the threads snap, my eyes open
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open up your eyes and see the writings on the wall
you're gonna need a more efficient world
to catch up with your own imagination
you can turn it upside-down but be aware
that the further you journey
away from the station
the harder it is to get back
from the truly surreal
and you must be so excited for the carnival but know
that the ticket may cost you
whatever was left of your mind
choose carefully the pieces you spare of your mind
keep a piece of yourself to yourself kid
though the colors sing beautifully blended-together
there's value in a color
in a corner by itself
so now that the candlelight freaks have turned the world upside-down
the children of hotel broslyn can play
they can make all the noise that they want
this magi-nation of careless magicians
keeps pushing the limits
to reach the next clive
has the moon's light
gotten far too maddening
go back to the drawing board
find a basement and set yourself free
here comes the clive
in the form of hindsight prophecy
even here in the upside-down
the world of men
wants a king
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7. |
Medicine Woman
04:52
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I searched around the room
found a corner
where a woman speaks in pictures
and subtle looks more meaningful than words
saw a vision of myself
as a student and a teacher
in this dizzying house of mirrors
I need a lover and a friend
the medicine that keeps me believing
that there is joy in a pot at the end of our double rainbow
though it rains with the sun
don't cloud up the possibility
of a world with no need for a king
so let's smoke the moment down to the filter
godspeed to the great unknown
with a whiskey bottle kiss
we'll pack our vices, our virtues, our dreams
in the same bag of tricks
cause we create the gods we struggle with
arriving to the medicine of the moment
the imperfect paradise, we worshipped and created
old souls in a young-soul world play music
the music of dead angels
not all good things, have to last forever
so record your dreams
cause sometimes, sometimes we forget them
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8. |
Dear Love
03:12
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dear love, here are the parts that I'm proud of
so do what you must with the rest
I trust your more careful disposal
cause you found the charm in the refuge
so wear it like sin from your neck
til your chest beats against it
becomes a virtue
you looked inside of the basket I locked myself into
so here we are
learning to love how we suffer
learning to follow the sometimes eyes
that look past mine to the medicine
for the too-fast mind
for the razor-sharp
for the tongue-in-cheek
and the whole of heart
there is nothing
shameful about asking
according to recent diner theories
theories on fire-building
you and me can be free together
learn from each other and dream better
nosotros todos nosotros
juntos podemos ser libres
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9. |
Cemeterian Spring
04:08
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new friend, shake my hand by the eyes
I would like to know what kind of magic you play
an impromptu visit to the devil tonight
could be more than my ego can take
the brownie is feeding the frenzy
my hands become involuntary
scratching songs like spells on the walls of the cave
now I'm busy spelunking
a very old soul that I found buried in the grave
where my ancestors wait
it was a very old soul, and it needed to die at some point
but I'm a cemeterian spring
where death and life are born together simultaneously
I am just across the street
grab a candle, hop the fence, and you will see
cause after all we're always only
a lung collapse away from the after party
after all we're always only a lung collapse away
now alone with the spider in limbo
I better not stare too long
at the world inside of the center
where me and the spider can both be free
and on my way out of my mind
and into the universe
I found an ugly truth
I needed to struggle with
my devils are planting seeds too
and I get to choose which trees to water
and I chose to eat from them all
I am finding out some of the sweet make you nauseous
sometimes the ripe isn't obvious
and sometimes a creature is living inside of another
we are a basket full of different kinds of similar fruit
and I'm yet to choke to death on what I've learned
but someday I'll choke to death for what I've learned
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10. |
Suffer Well
04:13
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suffer well for there is color
running underneath each and every storm
suffer well if your strength toward your love makes you weak
suffer well when you hear
that there is an ocean somewhere
quiet your wandering heart
for you are made of water and the ocean
the ocean is within you
so what happens now that my paradise is sinking
the snowglobe has been leaking
the record is repeating
thankfully the medicine is healing
the damaged threads I'll need to build this air belle under water
to breathe, to dream
dream in search of yourself
because without a self to be discovered
you'll become no contribution
you'll become bereft of meaning
you'll become anyone else
cause everything you need to be found
will find you when you get lost
in search of the center
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