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Babylon the Great
04:56
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She says she didn't think it'd all get this far
She's talkin' shit on me on the other end of the bar
that crazy jetter laughs while she flexes her charm
as if he hadn't heard that one before
She comes back over, pours me another beer
Says, "can't believe how much has changed in fifty some years."
"how fast and slow the world is when it moves on
I guess we're just a bunch of slow boiled frogs."
She lights herself another Lucky Strike
thinkin' about her dwindling supply
Exhales the bitterest "Jesus Christ," and starts to talk about
how if he was gonna come back he would'a come back by now
Yeah I know world's so fucked up
Lady, let's just get drunk
It's right about now she starts slurring her lines
it's either that or shaking hands all the time
as the script thins out she starts to disappear
Danny asks for another drink but she doesn't seem to hear.
She takes Propranolol, old drugs I sold her a week ago
They help slow down her gas can heart
says, "Jesus Christ, I thought these things were supposed to kill.
But it's everything else that makes me ill."
Yeah I know world's so fucked up
I'm just here to get drunk
It's not the kind of place that you can forget
All of your good ol’ days that you still regret
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Days of Ash
02:54
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See, that's her drinkin’ whisky
tattoos of gardenia
Tried quotin' Brautigan to her, she said,
"I ain't no Virginia."
"Baby I'm leavin’ in the Spring,
when the job is done,
I just thought that you should know."
She said, "I'm not lookin’ to follow anyone,
but if you stay, babe let me know."
And wish I may and wish I might
see you again tonight
The curve of your body
in the snowing radio light
"They say you can't hold the Spring back
but I don't wanna go, oh I don't know what to do."
She said, "Baby, you gotta get your self outta here,
This ain't no kinda place for you."
Now I'm back here, this is our old
ski hill bar
I'm gonna find her again.
When I got there her seat was empty
but for some old Richard Brautigan.
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Cassiopeia
06:11
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Baby, you should see
the way you look at me
steady through a fault lining
all the light and heat
in our pop song woes
will separate,
the fairy shadows
All the small and
vanished gods will break
they cannot hold
mechanically
you lean into me
the lesser commodities
and paint and tape and ink
and all the solvents, the dye,
the badger's hair,
the canvas and oil
all the world unfolds
and pulls apart
at the joints most toiled
and either side of the fault line
you haven't the money you haven't the time
you fuck like a mule, you move by design
that takes your teeth, your skin, your eyes
the continents shift between your thighs
it's okay I want you to this time
it will break you in two
I want you to(o).
Cassiopeia
oh regarde-toi
how heavy your veins are
where you burn out your stars
you hang over me,
how you hang over me.
only light only heat,
only light only heat.
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I tried to reach you by phone
Tragedy struck while you were away from home
I just want you to know
everyone's doing the best that they can
and you were right about Randy Newman
I felt a little bereft
so I sat and listened to the records you left
Took me a while but I guess,
he's a little dry sometimes but he's a clever guy
I replaced you with your Randy Newman
And I know I ain't got no 20 piece orchestra
and I know my bullshit apologies don't mean much to ya
and I know we might not see each other again
and I know there ain't much else to say that you'll believe so I'll just say it then,
Thanks for all the Randy Newman
I won't have nowhere to send
this letter when I'm finished writin' it
Nobody knows where you've been
if you come back around, I might not be in town
but your record's'll be where you left 'em
I know eventually
You'll take up residence inside of me
It might drive me crazy
I'll leave all of your lps, but Randy's comin' with me
I love you and baby, I'm sorry
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Devil's Daughter
03:42
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In hell there is no water,
fell in love with the devil’s daughter,
got a pass for my long-time truancy.
in hell there is no safety,
joined up with the devil’s navy,
shipped out on a burning flaming sea.
AND NOW MY HOME IS ADRIFT IN THE SNOW
BLOOD TRAILS TO THE HILLS
DON'T CRY FOR ME I AM A
WEAPON OF GOD
I ONLY KILL WHAT NEEDS TO BE KILLED
giant caterpillar got no eyes,
fell alseep inside its thighs,
making love to a monster works for me.
giant caterpillar got no face,
I'll leave and fuck this place,
couldn't burn so i drowned it in the sea.
SAVAGE GHOSTS SINGING IN TONGUES, TAKING MY LIQUOR
LINE THEM UP IN FRONT OF ME
OR EXPOSE YOUR NECK, JUST ANOTHER CHRISTIAN TO THE SLAUGHTER
THIS LAND IS MINE, YOU KNOW SHE DOESN'T COME FOR FREE
I KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING BUT I DON'T WANNA LOOK
I'LL BE STRONG, I AM A WEAPON OF GOD
ONCE WAR'S INSIDE OF YOU IT DOESN'T EVER GET OUT
ANOTHER BEER OVER HERE IF YOU WOULD, BUD
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Shadowboxing
06:29
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"Are you okay?
Those guys outside will kill you if they get half of a chance."
As she says this to me, her voice shaking
she puts her hand out and rests it on the cut on my head
but I am not there
I see her eyes through rainy hair, bedlight rushing down her thigh
without realizing I say it out loud
as she wipes blood away, "this is always where I should be."
Now is the time of all our great undoing
now is when everything goes away
This is how they're gonna remember you when you're gone
If anybody remembers you anyway
Jesus christ we had some crazy times
with the world expiring all around us
The old and vanished gods collide in the sky every night
and we wait on those times to come back around
“Man, you can't be castin' your shadow like that, I mean,
Danny, look at him, he's three times your size.”
I wake up again and she's holding my hand
while I lie on the ground, she says, "babe what do you mean?"
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I hear the crack of
those straighter spines
Come into the light! Come into the light!
Did you ever tell him
how well you loved him?
Step into the light! Step into the light!
The fixture sways and crackles.
What do you think's up there, in the attic and the electric brambles?
Come into the light! Come into the light!
There's nothing left to us,
after the steepening decline.
You better eat the light! You better eat the light!
That car tucked into the roadside snow,
anyone that you know?
Bring him into the light! Bring him into the light!
Was what would have killed you
already there in the scans?
Bring it into the light! Bring it into the light!
The moon's just another eye
You couldn't blind it if you tried.
Bring it into the light! Down into the light!
Any city that knows your name
will step on your neck just the same.
Bring em into the light! Bring em into the light!
I need to know
who's dying out in the snow.
There weren't any lights. There weren't any lights.
Such a skinny life
of Last Drinks tonight
Leave em in the light. Leave em in the light.
Not enough tragedy
to hold on to me.
Even in the light. Even in the light.
Hey, where'd he go?
He was right here before.
Somethin' wrong with the lights. Something wrong with the lights.
And the sky caved in
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Days of Snow
05:38
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It's been a long time
and no time at all
I've been falling asleep on your couch
and murdering your ghost,
my shepherding host.
Partially human, and partially not
I just wanna rest, I guess
I'm older than I thought
Then, I thought
He never came back in from the snowstorm last/that winter
But sometimes people aren't always what you remember.
How do you miss someone that might never have been here?
Think of the jokes he would have told/Think of the jokes he’d be tellin’ now.
It's okay if you
don't like this song.
As long as you like me
we’ll both get what we deserved all along,
but we don’t have too long.
I've heard so much
said about you.
God only knows if any of it's even true.
Was I the ghost or were you?
Maybe one day I’ll find your car out in the snow
right where you left it on the day you had to go.
I’ll look inside and find the keys still in the ignition
and I’ll drive it out to see you then.
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Well, I been drinkin' burnt coffee all damn night
playing cards on the train, what a hell of a ride
I had a panic attack but no one noticed my plight
and if I get to the old bar tonight I'll be all right
Well I love my whisky and I like my wine
but if I don't get a sip of it I'll be fine
All I'm gonna need me to have a real good time is
to find my baby tonight
Well I ain't seen 'em in so long
gonna make sure the jukebox is playin' our song
He's gonna come in for a beer or two
and find me saying, "babe I'm back and I love you!"
Spendin' every night at the Apocalypse Club
while the world outside is lookin pretty banged up
Kinda hard to worry when you're fallin in love
with someone ya never seen before
He always called me his golden rose,
he said, "babe you're the top no matter how high it goes,"
one night he left the bar and never came back no more
and I went look for him on my own
I packed up my little suit case
I met all kindsa people all over the place
not a single one could measure up
to havin’ a drink with my baby at the Apocalypse Club
Well I been drinkin' burnt coffee all damn night
I got a feeling I can't shake that I just might
find my baby again tonight
waiting for me at the Apocalypse Club
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Cory Fay Missoula, montana
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