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Lucky Guy
04:13
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Living and loving at times are such a selfish endeavor
just by doing your knowing that you’ll hurt another
The heart has always been a waste land
Between the savages and pilgrims
in love there ain't in room for wise men
A little about myself
I’ve always been a lucky guy
never really had to try
a blessing and a curse at times
But I'm afraid I must confess see I don’t really mind
For I always have a place to lay my heart
CHORUS
you call this love and say that I’m the only one
you'll never need no love from another’s heart
Then you rise to see that the sun has turned towards another
And now you feel so cold and all alone
SOLO
Love At times such fruitless labor
We plant the seeds but nothing grows inside
Then the pendulum swings back in your favor
No more broken heart and empty hand
CHORUS
you call this love and say that i'm the only one
you'll never need no love from another’s heart
But Then you rise to see that sun has grown a little colder
And now you feel so cold and all alone
I am not as smart as i'd have everyone believe
and you have always been a bitch if I am speaking truthfully
but you are still the girl of my dreams and will always be
I wouldn't have you ant other way
CHORUS
you call this love and say that I’m the only one
and i'll never need no love from another’s heart
Then you rise to see that the sun has grown a little golder
And now we know we'll alone
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The honeymoon over
now the lights are on
The shadows retreat into the corners of the room
the romance over what once was
is now dead and gone
America
A love affair is lost
The king and queen of the bourgeoisie
asleep at the wheel of the American Dream
wake up sleepy head and open up your eyes
To see an America you wouldn’t recognize
CHORUS
A flaccid flag is waving
Over a house of white
Lock your doors we’re safe inside
While the city is alight
All the colors run into black and white
America say good night
Lady liberty has turned and headed out to sea
Justice tipped her scales in favor of greed
And left the huddled masses fighting for their lives
And returned this country back to 1955
CHORUS
A flaccid flag is waving
Over a house of white
Lock your doors we’re safe inside
While the city is alight
All the colors run into black and white
America say goodbye
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3. |
A Vampire Love Story
03:37
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A wave of emotions Return
as the change of the seasons come
which make it feel worse than it really is
And you know you’ll never breathe again
The disbelief that this is happening only now just started sinking in
And now love will never be the same
Oh darling can I have a little taste
CHORUS
It is a cautionary tale
This is no way to treat a friend like me
It’s late at night won’t invite me in no regrets I’m just trying to keep you awake and keep away from him
How strange is the night now moonlight on pale skin
And the dawn is just some distant memory
My the lust for life is stronger now than its ever been
Oh The links we’ll go just to find a friend
A constant calculation of the distance between lust and love I still remains to see
And it’s flowing through your veins
Oh darling can I have a little taste
This is a cautionary tale
This is no way to treat a friend like me
It’s late at night won’t invite me in
my lust for life is stronger now than it's ever been
This is a cautionary tale.......
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The Montauk Kimono Club
03:51
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Somewhere
East of
Old New York City
There's A place where people
Still fall in love
In analog
Singing songs melodies so pretty
Welcome to
the Montauk Kimono Club
Murder mystery’s have been set in far less romantic places
At first sight
Eyes will gleam like moonlight through the pines
A torch singer set the sky on fire
Like Roman candles
While Pretty boys press the gentleman
For a light
Welcome he Montauk Kimono Club
Grab your coat
We’ll take a ride
and catch a fire island show
Seductive glances
through empty glasses
The elixirs for letting go
all attachments to
the city lives that we so eagerly leave behind
to which at summers end we will return
But we always know
That somewhere
East of
Old New York City
There’s a place where people still fall in love
Welcome to the Montauk Kimono Club
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The Stargazers Companion
03:49
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Moon glow is settled down on me
so long I say to indigo
oh Rise I pass from the deep citrine
and only the circle can save me now
I feel a thin web is binding me
With seven chords in unity
A triple light my path divides
All In Harmony
With the sound of mighty forests murmuring
I see the pale moon is shivering
That answer in the shaken sky
My awful hands to bless,to curse
I wove her golden hair
The shriek of startled birds I sob a final tear
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6. |
To Cast a Deadly Spell
03:52
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Strange days in LA
Everyone's using magic to get their way
but not I i'm that old fashion type
light and laughter sweet and sage
till he darkling day expires
CHORUS
Then she cast that deadly spell on me
now I've fallen into a dream
Beautiful hardly all that it once was
since you cast your shadow all I see now are stars
as LA breaks into the golden dawn
the scarlet woman blushing brighter than the scaring sun
you the even I the odd becoming one \
CHORUS
Then she cast that deadly spell on me
now I've fallen into a dream
Then she cast that deadly spell on me
now I've fallen into a dream
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7. |
After Hours
04:24
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I've lived in the half light
Half of my life
I tell half truths
Half of the time
But each in our own way
just afraid to say
What it is that we really like
I have to laugh to myself a little
What even brought us here at all
a twist in a memory?
or a broken heart and a long long fall
CHORUS
I don’t know who you when you’re near
and I can’t tell who I am when you’re gone
but after hours is such a strange and lonely time
i can’t see very clear with my eyes close tight but I no know that it’s Time to jump
Now I'm glued to this tiny screen
waiting for a sign of life
to tell me everything will be all right
I feel I'm only watching a machine
a conceptual romance
And somehow the plot still eluding me
CHORUS
I don’t know who You when you’re near
and I can’t tell who I am when you’re gone
After hours is such a strange and lonely time
i can’t see very clear from up here
With my eyes closed so tight
but I no know that it’s Time to jump
What do you really want
Someone you say that you once loved
Is there not a chance for sight
or honesty to befall me now
You can eat alone again tonight I will go without
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