All these buttons are waiting for the push
All these latent pulses resonate
And it’s not long till the bomb drops out
Till the Titans can’t stand any longer
If you think you got the goods step out
And watch your love explode
Oh, ho don’t you know
It’s underground and outta sight
Derelict and brown you fumble round
In the night that cursed your righteous dream
All these flooded are waiting for the current
All those bubbles echo in a ring of fire
And it’s not long till the bomb drops out
Till the Titans can’t stand any longer
If you think you got the goods step out
And watch your love explode
Your knees shaking
The force breaking
My life slipping
Your heart aching
There’s a rift between us
And it shifts tectonically everyday
It takes a little something extra to keep the monumental sadness away
Back against the wall is the angel with the scarlet taste
Would you like some tea?
To settle your topography, and level your tight-wire act?
Tell me what’s inside of you in this solemn breeze
We’ll talk about the things that bring you down
Stay the course; stay the course help is on the way
The undecided remain divided and cannot explain
The ones who choose will surely tell that doesn’t mean they’re not afraid
Oh, don’t you see (as long as we pretend it’s a junior high dance)
We’ll never come to be (the Voltron seismic beast of beauty)
It’s at the top of the stairs
It’s always in the air
I don’t know what you’re talking about
I think you’re playing deep
I think you had too much heat
Just relax and stay off the stuff
Oh hey whatcha been bringing round these parts of mine
Oh baby think you bring me some next time you find
A little piece of culture and some long term advice
Adventures with boulders and interstellar compromise
Oh yeah I love this sundown town
Oh yeah let me take you round let me show you how
What’s that you got sittin’ on your bedroom window
A Dixie cup and string attached to some fat armadillo
I hear he’s got the latest cheese and fluffs up your pillows
And when he leaves he takes the bus back to San Francisco
Oh yeah I love this sundown town
Oh yea let me take you round let me show you how
Said one more time, one more time I said I
Days stride on borrowed time
The lens cut down to reap the tide
But Sunday calms the way
Shadows light the fields
And look down upon the burning sea
Climb back into space.
Trying to get back to better, to bide my time for you and me.
Jump through loop around time’s constraint
And compromise
That your words won’t save the day
Twilight on Mercury we’ll dream again
In deepest sky
But sunshine, sunshine always.
Trying to get back to better
To bide my time
Oh yeah, amplify the sun and moon
Oh yeah tangible
Oh yeah, sandy lines to melt the sky
Oh yeah flexible
Oh yeah beautiful
Oh yeah beautiful
C’mon, let’s go, amplify the sun (2x)
There’s a place, sun and moon
Across the lake, shadows loom
Cast me south, beneath the trees
Shining down, to rise (Mercury falls down)
There’s a place, sun and moon
Shining down, valley strewn
Across the lake, shadows loom
Cast me south, to rise (mercury falls down)
To rise (mercury falls down)
There’s a poem about a bird in flight
The mallards freeze but the eagle strives
Leap from cliff to the precipice night
We’ll stay till dawn then I will pass my life, to light
The battlefield chosen and the cavalry drawn
I reach for my sister but she ran for the hills
I know it would please her if I didn’t get killed
When it’s better to love or better to fear
This wisdom struck down my horse and blazed a path to here
Oh yeah, on bluegrass porches
Oh yeah, on Sunday mornings
Oh yeah, on crisp fall evenings
Barely breaking thru the sound of trains
The valley below shows a way out
But the fight’s right now and I owe it to myself
So I pull at my pistol and I shake it with might
And the train nearby whistles and I’m suddenly alright
I’m alright
Projectiles whizzing by at incredible speeds
And musk ox laden with missiles and disease
My steed it slices thru the fiery field
And then that whistle brings me back to my heels
Gonna drown the northern stars and float upon the lake
Diving into melody like wheat beneath the sand
November days seem all too real, like life upon a strand
Gravity repeats itself, there’s no one left that’s real
We’ll Twirl
I’m gonna arrive this time
You know I’ll dive in time and twirl
All the days fly by like air and stretched beyond our minds
Our mission’s changed and rearranged and all is left to bear
Like summer time on Bleecker street when we tried to solve the world
Now trains fly back to gravity descending in the trees
We’ll Twirl
I’m gonna arrive this time
You know I’ll dive in time and twirl
The lake floods up, the dog’s had enough
We’ll float away and pretend that we’re young
But, when? There’s nothing left, we’ll die in the lights
Conceal in depth, and twirl away
All the stars posses the tale that filter thru our minds
I want to taste mid summer moon until it’s shown the door
But passing breeze down Holland drive persuades us both to glance
And when we tried to speak of it we both flew toward the sun
We’ll Twirl
I’m gonna arrive this time
You know I’ll dive in time and twirl
The lake floods up, the dog’s had enough
We’ll float away
Until then, we’ll drink the light
Forget the depth, and twirl away
It’s so good to hear your voice
Childhood playground divorce
Buried in the yard is a capsule
In fifty years I hope you still dig
Me up, dig me up
In the hallway there’s a lightswitch for the bathroom
On the back porch we discussed in December
And it’s all coming back like a flood…and I miss you
I walked up to you scratching my nose
I climbed the school so you’d see me
I pledged my love on the tire swing
In fifty years I hope you still dig
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