1. |
Lam
04:28
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Doooo...dooooo
I fled the trial, changed my name,
found a God forsaken town
But you follow me, follow me down
Oooo
CHORUS:
When the world sees you’re right
You can be known
When they blow up the lies
You can be known
I don’t run to be free, my darling, oooo
I run in the dark to protect the light of truth
REPEAT FIRST CHORUS
Doooo...doooo
Doooo...doooo
I took a wife, framed a life,
But I never gave her a child
Cause you, you never let me go
Oooo
CHORUS:
When the world sees you’re right
You can be known
When they blow up the lies
You can be known
When the sun points the light
You can be shown
When the truth burns the blind
You can be....
Doooo...doooo
Doooo...doooo
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2. |
We Come Back
04:40
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Oh, I pull back, I pull back from the undertow
Oh, you creep in, you advance with the tide again
I bathed in you – you rang me dry –
But over and over we turn to each other
And who’s to say that this ain’t right
But over and over we fuck with each other
CHORUS:
Oh, on with our lives! We have tried, we have suffered
But something makes us double-blind
We come back, we come back to the starting point
Oh no no no, you should know
Oh no no no, I let you go
I moved with you, but we collide
And over and over we’re trippin each other
But who’s to blame and who is right?
I won’t be another ambivalent lover
CHORUS:
Oh, on with our lives! We have tried, we have suffered
But something makes us double-blind
We come back, we come back to the starting point
Oh we are obliged to prove we’re right but not for each other
But something in your fuck-me eyes
We come back, we come back to the starting point
I bathed in you – you rang me dry –
But over and over we turn to each other
And who’s to say that this ain’t right
But over and over we fuck with each other
CHORUS:
Oh, on with our lives! We have tried, we have suffered
But something makes us double-blind
We come back, we come back to the starting point
Oh we are obliged to prove we’re right but not for each other
But something in your fuck-me eyes
We come back, we come back to the starting point
Let’s forget
what we know
Let’s forget
what we know
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3. |
Collusion
05:31
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Blame was a fever
“Find us a banker and lock him in jail”
Raise a glass from our aeroplanes
We rose above this terrible fail
CHORUS:
Collusion, Collusion
He could be the man you wanted
When you see him, then you got him
Collusion, Collusion
Who’s to say we saw this comin’
We believed in our own lies, Oh
[Instrumental]
Shame needs a witness
Here was a village beating the drum:
“We believe in prosperity
But never ask us to see what we’ve done”
REPEAT CHORUS
Guilt is a virus
If you don’t catch it, you’re not around
I survived - don’t look at me like that
Now you act righteous – ‘cause you were found
REPEAT CHORUS
Oh we couldn’t know too much....Collusion
BRIDGE:
See our face hold the look of surprise
See our face hold the look of surprise
“Who could know?”
“Who could see it was the sign of disaster?”
“Who could see it was the sign of disaster?”
“Now we know!”
Collusion, Collusion (4 reps)
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4. |
Turns
04:59
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Never thought I’d break with you
You were there to shore me in
Like an old familiar friend
You’d correct me to the end
But I cut the cord with you
And I swam into the sound
And I believed the waves as they lifted me
and the horizon up
I gotta feed the burnin’ light
I gotta feed it through the night
I’ll always hear my bully calling
“You won’t forget, and you’ll be back”
Freedom oh-oh-oh
Free from the prophecy I dealt
I gotta face the darkness turning
See it for myself, despite myself
“You are the son of a long line of doubt
You were born to let me in
to the hollows of your will
I consume you like a sin”
No, I’m a man of no one’s grace
I’m writing you out of every page
Believe the story of my will
on its own
Feed the burnin’ light
I gotta stoke it through the night
I’ll always hear my dearest calling
“But is it right? Make it right”
Freedom, oh-oh-oh
Free from the prophecy I dealt
I gotta face the darkness turning
See it for itself, despite myself
Hungry light, I’m feedin it yeah-yeah-yeah, oooo
Hungry light, keep feedin it yeah-yeah-yeah
“If you think ignoring me
will finally make your whole
Then you go right ahead
I’ll be right here till the end”
I accept your vile face
Just as I know I’ll set the stage
See the machinations of my will
let you go
I gotta feed the burnin’ light
I gotta feed it through the night
I’ll always hear my bully calling
“You won’t forget, and you’ll be back”
Freedom oh-oh-oh
Free from the prophecy I dealt
I gotta face the darkness turning
See it for myself, despite myself
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5. |
A Garden of You
06:01
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In the hollow souls, I see your hope (oh oh oh)
sow the seeds of art into their woes (oh oh oh )
Oh, I watch you go long into night
Oh, when will you sleep dear?
When will you save your lonely heart from your drive?
All your disco jungles
All your frescoed fields were empty lots at one time
Your love monsoon, it can free the desert life –
A city of dust –
Graffiti-bloom, a flight of beats diffused the light
You can breathe now...
Saffron moon, a dervish dreams he’s on his head
- spinning with lust -
A garden of you – a poet sings of peace transpired
Rest your feet now
Seeds of “we survive”
Seeds of “we thrive”
The seeds of hope you sow (oh oh) with your life
(oh oh oh) We ...survive
In the cresting fields, I see your touch (oh oh oh oh oh )
amplify itself through your trust...of the doers
Oh, I watch you go long into night
Oh, when will you sleep dear?
When will you save your lonely heart from your drive?
All your Butoh geysers,
All your bramble looms were empty lots at one time
We survive, I know
We survive, I know
--For Tracie D. Hall
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6. |
Stand-In Heart
06:34
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Love intentional, love immutable
Will it wait there? Ahhhh
I only know the love rehearsable,
what would be the show (oh)
Last night I held you naked
You sat up you were blue-lit, ash-marine, oh
You fed me lines to please you
except for “Can I see you, you again?”
CHORUS:
Will you be, will you be my stand-in heart?
Will you hold me till I finally get it right? Ee-oh
[instrumental verse]
I’ll keep it all barely mentionable
—the nights with you dear
I’ll carry on the love transactional
till the real thing shows
We kissed into a slumber
You held me we were total gravity
“You’re welcome to sleep over
but don’t feel any pressure
(Please don’t leave)”
REPEAT CHORUS
BRIDGE:
The past keeps building up
a debt to failed love, oh
My heart keeps playing out
the pain of never-was, oh
A love self-defeated—
what could I be to want this? Oh
I’ll save a space for you—
my temporary heart, oh
Love plausible, compartmentible
We are safe here
You say you want to go with the flow
watch me flow like a pro
Can’t promise I won’t need ya
But baby needs his freedom (will you be)
I’ll keep it under covers
I’ll be your scheduled lover (will you be)
REPEAT CHORUS
See my soul
See my soul
See my soul
See my soul
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7. |
Throes
04:52
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When the night sets down on SoMa
There’s a hole you should know
Just a drink – unless you should get trapped there
with the same low-lit souls
There’s Hank with an app, and he dances in your lap
There’s Ron, Vin, and Rose
All I can see is a pageant in front of me—
lonely men in the throes
Doooo....aren’t you one, one to talk?
I saw you disappear into the back....room
Oh you need some
I betch’you loved yourself a little more after tonight
Who’ll take me home tonight?
Who’ll take me in their arms tonight?
Ron’s a wealthy backroom loner
Helps himself to who he gropes
Vin is there – but he’s the checked-out owner
Dreams of his Palm Desert home
There’s Rose – “Rosaline” –
She’s the meanest glamour queen,
let’s Ron tear her hose
All I can see is a pageant front of me
Fits of love is the show
Doooo....why so glum? Let yourself
Be pulled by loving hands into the night
Youooo....You need some
I betch’you loved yourself a little more after tonight
Who’ll take me home tonight?
Who’ll take me in their arms tonight?
[Instrumental Verse 1x]
Hank’s the I-don’t-need-you dancer
Except when there’s cash
He’s in love with Vin who barely bothers—
Pays him in bourbon and his bed
And Rose steals the show with her cataclysmic crow
The men push and moan
All I can see is a pageant in front of me
Trapping time with their hopes
[Repeat instrumental bridge]
Doooo....aren’t you one, one to talk?
I saw you disappear into the back....room
Oh you need some
I betch’you loved yourself a little more after tonight
Who’ll take me home tonight?
Who’ll take me in their arms tonight?
Who’ll take me home tonight?
Who’ll take me in their arms tonight?
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8. |
Tent City Chorus
04:45
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We are not afraid, afraid of the nature (oh) outside
Oh, we can tolerate the blows and the clamor (oh) and get by
CHORUS:
We don’t need your life,
Don’t need a home for your conscience
Somehow we survive
Leave us alone to our chaos
Oh-oh-oh, you the stole the home
from the Native Souls
Oh, but you won’t steal ours, we’re the Last Nation
We will rise
REPEAT CHORUS
We choose the life (oh...)
You choose your life (oh...)(yeah)
We’re more afraid of your land lust
than the night
REPEAT CHORUS
When Fire and Flood come to level your kingdom
When Justice is done
We will stand in the wreckage
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
We choose the life...it’s a beautiful sun, it’s a beautiful sun
You choose your life...a conditional one, a conditional one
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9. |
State of Gone
04:34
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I could conjure up a heaven
fake an angel tongue
I could elevate your name with myth and song
But that won’t change the way
a river stone sinks in
How to love the dust you travel on
When you fall away you fall away my love
When you fall away you fall away to gone
In the way you wrung compassion
out of judgment’s heart
In the way that comfort was your shield my love
I carry your name in the face of great doubt
What if there’s no there and that is all
When you fall away you fall away my love
When you fall away you fall away to gone
When you fall away you fall away my love
When you fall away you fall away to gone
I’ll keep holding on to comfort,
to the nights with you
Dining on your laughter
sleeping in your balm
And I’ll keep holding on
to your shine and your breath
I will you carry you until I’m gone
When you---
When you---
Yeah do-do-do
When you fall away you fall away my love
When you fall away you fall away to gone
When you fall away you fall away my love
When you fall away you fall away to gone
--In Memory of Jeanne McGough Rainey
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Dylan Rice San Francisco, California
Before moving to San Francisco, singer-songwriter Dylan Rice honed his musical chops in Chicago fronting different rock and folk acts in the club scene. He has opened for Paula Cole, Shelby Lynne, Maps & Atlases, and has recorded with Wilco's John Stirratt, Styx's Chuck Panozzo, Johnny Iguana, Julie Wolf (Ani Difranco) and Grazyna Auguscik. Recently he was lead singer of Software Giant. ... more
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