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Santa Anas
02:36
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LYRICS:
I heard the Santa Anas shake the chimes
I saw my love go through a shadow's side
I grew a palm tree on the 405
Just to see
You got a little something in your eye
It looks like dirt and feels like a lie
And if you'd loved me, we could've had a time
But it dies
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Last of May
It's snowing right on me
Dance with me now, Lady
Before the days get shady
Don't say my name
Just give me your number
It's a low road, darling
And I ain't so charming
Thought I saw behind us
Rivers in the sky
Didn't look like kindness
Raining on us from on high
I wanted once
to sever the sunshine
When I saw you flying
Like an angel dying
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3. |
Blue Vest, Yellow Dress
02:03
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Visions of a vest in blue
Mellow moon
And now I know
All the roads that lead your way and
All the lights are turning green
Wind was blowing through your sleeves
Earth was shaking,
Signal Hill slides into the bay but still I
wish these times would never leave
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4. |
Ocean in the Dark
02:34
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I pushed against the end of time
A dark rope stretched against the sky
Oh hangman, won't you slack your line?
My true love's coming by and by
I ran through El Dorado Park
It was an ocean in the dark
I don't know why it seems so hard
To live with nothing in your heart
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5. |
Horizon High
02:03
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Lyrics:
We came upon some lives we'd led
In the sun-covered snow
Two sisters ride horizon high
And something calls me below
A lake of ice in late July
Your words still hang in the trees
I slip inside the frozen tide
To get away from the breeze
Where does it leave me
With no one to grieve me
I'd lie in your arms
Instead of leaving
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6. |
Screams from Satellites
02:15
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You lost your faith on windy nights
They heard the screams from satellites
You rode away an endless wave
for someone gone astray
A sentimental kind of sky
The past comes back in floods of light
The grass grew high around my mind
I let the years go by
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7. |
Fistful of Strife
02:25
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Lyrics:
A strong wind tonight
I'll slip out of sight
Come down and tell me some stories
But don't get too proud
There's no glory in this
Oh Mary, my life
Is a garment of lies
And a fistful of strife
I haven't the time
To go chasing bad dreams
Let's fly down to Escondido
And lay in the road
As the summer explodes
The willows hang down
And the moon rises low
On the edge of the town
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Lawn Chair Pirate
02:10
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Go down, Miss Mary, to the fairground
Go like a wandering vine
I don't like this feeling, but it's there now
That you liked me until you were mine
Listen, I went down to the boardwalk
To see all the world and its ways
You looked like a Pirate in a one-piece
And you float like a radio wave
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LYRICS:
Don't go out there
Day's gone dirty
Was an old man then
Now a foolish young man
I've gone grey now
Stroke of midnight
And I know what's wrong
It's why I've done it so long
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Fields of L.A.
02:31
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The last one to fall
from out of your maze
It left me still broken
the rest of my days
It's too hot to drive
I just want to fly
To San Luis Obispo
and climb something high
This is my life, sad to say
1990, I wandered away
The walls were too high
to scare you and me
We'll knock them over
the fields of L.A.
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11. |
Faraway Feeling
02:06
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LYRICS:
Felt from you a faraway feeling
You were somewhere dancing on ceilings
Didn't mention to me you were digging
So many tunnels out
There's a monster waiting to ride me
There's a fire dying inside me
How I wish someone could abide me
But there ain't no one around
And I watched the world go by
In a million traffic lights
Trying to keep you off my mind
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Nice and Easy
01:44
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LYRICS:
Give it to me, friend, nice and easy
Tell me what to dream
I was born to resurrect mean
Tell 'em that you hurt me
Tell 'em that you feel free
Tell 'em that you can't remember anything
Don't matter what's still here in the morning
My pencil's on the page
The window's broken in the storm's rage
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Whispering Trees
01:55
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Lyrics:
Feel no seasons, got no appetite
Every thought I think keeps me up at night
Desolation, don't you know your friend?
It's no war of mine, it's the world's end
Built my homestead on a battlefied
Gave my wife and child for a sword and shield
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Coast of Maine
01:38
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Lord come see how the North Wind blows
Takes her so far away
You could blow me down this dusty road
Or lay me down deep in the snow
Made my way to the coast of Maine
Fog rolls in like a train
And I thought of you so fast asleep
And me with my face to the rain
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15. |
Monterey Pine
01:51
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In My Time of Laundry
02:00
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Lyrics:
In my time of laundry
I think of you wandering
Out there alone
Sky full of stones
What made you come back here?
To silence the laughter?
To build a home
among my bones?
Look at the sky the world ain't smiling
Look at the chains they're multiplying
I close my eyes and I see us dying
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Collapsing Coast
01:52
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I don't know the skyline
But it feels like before
When I held out my hand and
You started a war
The old songs were playing
The fiddles and bows
The ghosts of the valley
Still dance in the snow
Knew 'em once before
When the sun set on the shore
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Dreaming of Rain
01:44
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Summer sky looked frail and fleeting
As we watched the big waves receding
Saw your legs in every lawn chair
Saw your face in a foreign place
Anyway, what makes you still want this?
Two old hearts just sharing the wrong kiss
Go and bury my head in the gutter
While you're dreaming of rainy days
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19. |
Mastodon
01:58
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LYRICS:
Farewell North Dakota
It's too cold and you oughta know
To South California I go
It's like you were laughing
But more like a smile and a half
Like a mastodon dead on your path
You settled for someone
Who seemed much too corny for you
I settled for death and a screw
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20. |
Way from Me
01:32
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Saw you tonight
How did you know the way from me?
Seems like the sky
Is trying to hide everything
Tell him goodbye
He's only the man of all your dreams
Turn off the light
I'll blow you a storm to help you sleep
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