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Desert sunrise six twenty one
Rising just like fate
Baby you know this is never the end
If you trust the world
All I can do is smile
As you soften your eyes
And draw curves with your questions
‘Til there’s nothing left to say but someday
Infinite destination
You’re every dream I ever had
We’re just pilgrims dancing unstuck in time
Infinite destination
Any life you can have
Dancing forever free from time
The future has its enemies, too
They don’t like people like me; they don’t like people like you
In other words, you got a beautiful attitude
I never take it for granted
How your eyes reverse time
Soft as day breaks and fades the night away
Infinite destination
You’re every dream I ever had
We’re just pilgrims dancing unstuck in time
Infinite destination
Every life you ever had
Dancing forever free from time
Infinite destination
(You’re) every dream I ever have
Just a pilgrim dancing unstuck in time
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Today I am not turning on the radio
All the talk is right vs black and wrong vs white
I’m gonna head out into the neighborhood
I’m gonna see some friends
I’m going to try to live beyond every mistake
I am not going to fall in love today
I don’t feel like saving a tree today
I refuse to be a ritual
Jellyfish come to mind
In winter
Something about swarming wet snow
The cold of a thousand needles
Poison slowly breaking synapses
To the jellyfish, it's like a peaceful drift
Through an addavan cupcake
To write in silence is impossible
Even with the radio off
The Internet is sitting in a window
Behind the window in which I write
I don’t have a typewriter
Or enough paper to write off grid today
So I’m going to enjoy my addavan cupcake
With its rainbow sprinkle arpeggio
And <del>moist</del> chorus filling
Today I am not turning on the radio
That’s what @averagecabbage would do
I’m gonna head out into the neighborhood
I’m gonna see some friends
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I want to take a zipline
Through my mind
(But) no one speaks our language
Down here
Where’s that number?
I need to call The Doctor
We wanna get draddled
And set fire to the beach
But the dolls are at the border
And the pilot’s getting screened
I need to call The Doctor
Where’s that number?
There are shooting stars
In Orion’s Belt
Swinging high from a chandelier
It would be such a waste
To be out in space
Without a doctor
What’s that number?
We need a zipline
Baby you are so fine
Caressing my mind
You see forever
You see through me
But there’s no contradiction
Between what I’m feeling
And what I’m seeing
In your eyes
There are shooting stars
In Orion’s Belt
Swinging high from a chandelier
It would be such a waste
To be out in space
Without a doctor
Without your number
w/out a zipline
w/out your number
w/out a zipline
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Postcard Sorceress
04:30
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Nina had a dream when she was younger
Scorpions came over to play
She awoke to find herself with a daughter
And 2 tickets on the Punta Mita train
She’s got a life
Making jewelry for tourists
Working out of the Revolution Café
She knows there’s no where left to run away
There’s nothing to lose where there’s nothing to gain
Every day Nina stopped to read a notice
Behind a rack of postcards at the café
It said “I will exorcise any demon!”
It showed a path through the jungle to a cave
A couple years later Nina gave her
Daughter to a neighbor
Said she’d be back in a couple of days
“I’m taking a walk into the jungle hills
So my baby never knows of my pain.”
She packed a bag with money and cigarettes
And her grandmother’s knife just in case
She disappeared into the canopy
Leaving the dusty outskirts of town in her wake
The sorceress used the knife to mix an elixir
Said she’d seen this pain before
She said “Nina, the truth floats over time.
Drink down, and you’ll dream no more.”
Nina spent her life
Making jewelry for tourists
Working where everyone else escapes
She knew there was no where left to run away
She had nothing to lose when she jumped this train
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Drink In The Sky
03:33
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You say
Breathe. Dream.
And as you fall away
Drink in the sky
Everything about you just shines
You and I get unstuck in time
There is no line between you and me
The way you float over sand
The way you live without a plan
If I could only use your eyes to see
You say
Breathe. Dream.
And as you fall away
Drink in the sky
Feel free
as you walk so soft into the light
With you I’m lost but not alone
like a mariachi saxophone
I want to hear every note you play
You say
Breathe. Dream.
And as you fall away
Drink in the sky
Leave time.
Fly so soft
Into your life
You say
Breathe. Dream.
And as you fall away
Drink in the sky
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Only Falling Rain
03:38
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I will leave it to you to guess what I am thinking
I’ve got a secret and you know I never spill
Maybe I’m a spy. Maybe I’m undercover
Keeping enemies of freedom on their guard
Justice and fairness are not the same
Crashing cars and crashing waves
Don’t you know that only falling rain makes us all the same?
Rules always fail to erase what can’t be burned
Only practical wisdom rebuilds the world
In times of desperation everyone rides an underground
Beautiful people start to disappear
All around
Justice and fairness are not the same
Crashing cars and crashing waves
Don’t you know that only falling rain makes us all the same?
Tomorrow I’ll protect a movement
Tomorrow I die for a friend
Justice and fairness are not the same
Crashing cars and crashing waves
Don’t you know that only falling rain makes us all
Crashing cars and crashing waves
Justice and fairness are not the same
Don’t you know that only falling rain makes us all the same?
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ok
03:45
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You never know just how long you have
Before you go
Away
So take back life; hide it from view
It will only be us and
the wind
Times are down but we’re ok
Lines are down but we’re ok
We’re ok.
You never know just how many times
You get to say
Hello
Come out with me take the f-train
Into the night
We’ll disappear
Times are down but we’re ok
Lines are down but we’re ok
We’re ok.
When you send light into the world
It scatters and reflects
But it never dies
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AustinTown
03:48
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When they dig us up – they might never know
We dug deep – and left evidence as far down as they will go
They might even think we were older than dinosaurs
Arrogance thinks we’ll see the end of the world
That we’d be last ones – to ever see
the truth/the truth
it’s just funny how much truth
you find
½ way between here & there
so many secrets you can’t begin
to dare to leave
escaping only in dreams
looks like it comes down
tonight to AustinTown
They’re gonna say we went backwards – all the way back
Before we went forwards again
Here it comes around again
And there goes the
the truth/the truth
it’s just funny how much truth
you find
½ way between here & there
so many secrets you can’t begin
to dare to leave
Escaping only in dreams
looks like it comes down
tonight to AustinTown
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Sayulita
04:09
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Back in Brooklyn under sleeping trees
And all these thoughts of Mexico
All my dreams they have more meaning here
Cause I’m all alone
With my sleeping trees
We flew into the stars
In you I found faith to let go
And in some other time and space
We’re never apart
We wake up stars
I was thinking about how we say good bye
Too few words to cover the truth
You know I will always get lost in your eyes
I want you to know
That I miss you
I want you to know
I know one day you’ll hear this song
Drawing lines that feel the same
We’ll still be riding an endless wave
To a little surfing town, my Sayulita
I was thinking about how we say good bye
Too few words to cover the truth
You know I will always get lost in your eyes
I want you to know
That I’ll always love you
I want you to know
Everything that’s true
everything that's true is you
everything that's true is inside you
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Nina tuvo un sueño cuando era joven
Escorpiones llegaron a jugar
Ella se despertó descubriendo tener una hija
Y 2 tickets para el tren de Punta Mita
Ella se pasa la vida haciendo joyas para turistas
Trabajando en el Café Revolución
Ella sabe que ya no se puede huir
No se pierde nada cuando no hay nada que ganar
Cada día Nina se detuvo a leer un anuncio
Detrás del estante de tarjetas postales en el café
Decía “Puedo exorcizar cualquier demonio!”
Mostrando el camino a una cueva a través de la selva
Un par de años más tarde, Nina dio su hija a un vecino
Dijo que volverá en un par de días
“Voy a dar un paseo por la colinas de la selva
Para que mi bebé nunca sepa de mi dolor.”
Empacó una bolsa con dinero y cigarrillos
Y el cuchillo de su abuela, por si acaso
Ella desapareció en el dosel de la selva
Dejando el pueblo polvoriento en su estela.
La bruja utiliza el cuchillo para mezclar un elixir
Dijo que ya había visto este dolor
Ella dijo: “Nina, la verdad flota en el tiempo.
Beba, y ya no soñaras más.”
Nina pasó su vida haciendo joyas para turistas
Trabajando donde todos los demás se escapan
Ella sabe que ya no tiene que huir
No tiene nada que perder cuando elige otro tren
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