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Nothing / Anything
03:42
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Nothing means anything
There’s no right and wrong or light and dark
There are only in-betweens
When this world gives you no end
And you know nothing but your means
Nothing means anything
I crossed state lines and changed my name
Twenty years down that way
Still lost in song; still don’t belong
Nothing’s changed nothing’s changed
It’s how you end,
not where you start
Life is easy –
it’s living that’s hard
Dispossession, constant rejection
A world designed to keep you low
So the smartest thing you can ever do
Is let go
Nothing means anything
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Since I Heard The Sun
03:45
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It’s been so long
since I heard the sun
call my name.
It’s been so long
since I had the power to
light my way.
Dreams left me high
and lovely,
(but) in darkness
with life undone.
It’s been so long
since I heard the sun.
It’s been so long
since I became
a forgotten one.
It’s been so long
since I started spinning
into oblivion.
You can still be a refugee
in a place you can’t escape,
running ahead as lights turn red,
trying to duck fate.
It’s been so long
since I had faith
in future plans.
It’s been so long
since I had faith
in a promised land.
Dreams left me high
and lovely,
(but) in darkness
with life undone.
It’s been so long
since I heard the sun.
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Chasing Flight
04:14
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Time to make up your mind
Time never falls behind
Time to make up your mind and close the door
She drew you in, black and white
From her studio in the sky
She drew you eight times ninety-nine…
Frames in time
And you will never escape that night
Until you make up your mind
And close the door
Should’ve paid off those bills
Should’ve laid off those pills
Should’ve written one more word
Before you put your machine to sleep
What the hell were you looking for
when you opened up that door?
What the hell were you looking for,
if not time?
It’s just like Jack once said
“Bittersweet life is at best.”
It’s just like King Jack once said
You’re framed in time
And you will never escape that night
If you never make up your mind
Yeah, you’re framed in time
And you’ll never escape that night
Until you make up your mind
And close the door
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We’re surrounded by people
Who can’t think for themselves
They fear loneliness more than they feel hell
Then take comfort that they can’t even tell
Say goodbye to the world it’s just as well
We’ve gone through the looking glass
Nothing’s left up ahead we haven’t already passed
Now we’re so alone
We don’t need to turn our backs
We’ve gone through the looking glass
We’re surrounded by people
Who don’t learn for themselves
They buy into the bullshit they turn around and sell
Then take comfort in the lies they tell
Say goodbye to the world it’s just as well
We’ve gone through the looking glass
But you and me
come from a place beyond time
in the company of love
we live outside the lines
We’re surrounded by people
Who only live for themselves
They drink all the water but can’t dig a well
They say they make love but it’s just a shell
Say goodbye to the world it’s just as well
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Elena lived on Avenue X,
next to a trestle
all her life.
She dreamed of distant places
and of jumping random trains
a thousand times.
She craved a sky that let her know she was home.
An endless sky that left the stars alone
to shine.
Beyond her life,
that sky showed her some way home.
Counting the trains
to and from Coney Island
every night,
searching in vain
for salvation, in a city
full of lies.
[ch.]
I’m still here, amidst the fallout of our life.
I’m still here, living with her dreams.
She found a sky that let her know she was home.
An endless sky that left the stars alone
to shine.
Beyond her life,
that sky showed her some way home.
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That Old Guitar
03:33
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My wife comes from the South Side of Chicago,
and when she first brought me back in ‘ninety four,
down in the basement of her childhood home
I found an old guitar.
She said “That was my great uncle Bill’s,
“I guess he left it to my dad.
“I remember after Bill lost his Kentucky farm,
that Gibson was all he had.”
“But he said ‘I’m not scared of a changing world
Or losing anything we are
‘Cos I wave hi to distant good times
every time I play that guitar.’ “
For eleven quiet years after Bill passed on,
that L-1, I guess, had waited for me
‘Cos it rang one brilliant chord before the bridge caved in
Just to let me hear what it could be
You got to draw lines
Back through time
To know who you really are
Every note Bill played
Rang again that day
When we picked up that old guitar
So it returned with us to New York.
In the hands of The ‘Moose returned to life.
And the sound that it made again
returned Bill to my angel wife
He said, “I’m not scared of a changing world
or losing anything we are.
I just wave hi to distant good times
every time I play that guitar.”
So I’m not scared of a changing world.
We’ve lost nothing that we are.
‘Cos I hear echoes of distant good times
every time I play that old guitar.
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Fly This Town
04:17
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there’s a rip in the galaxy
sounds like wind through a door
it’s headed for us full speed ahead
we’ve got nothing to lose anymore
so no more running from the past
running from the dark
searching through the void
chasing love
let’s fly this town tonight
dance away from these city lights
take our cues from distant satellites
let’s fly this town
over the horizon lies
a ring of endless light
made of the dreams we carried
through our coldest nights
there’s no more falling out of time
falling for the cons
calling out in vain
waiting on love
let’s fly this town tonight
dance away from these city lights
take our cues from distant satellites
let’s fly this town
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