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Overture // The Dream
02:48
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2. |
The Scene
02:54
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I fell face down in the middle of town
No-one was there to help me out.
A face-plant down in the middle of a crowd
No-one was there that I could tell.
But I saw you standing on the corner of my dreams
I saw you I don't really know what it means.
I fell face down for American boys, I fell face down thought I'd lost my joy.
I fell face down. All around the town: disappointed men.
And I couldn't tell you what was even said, I couldn't read in between.
I thought I'd gone down where the worries end, but just got lost in the scene.
Then I saw you standing on the corner of my dreams
I saw you
Don't really know what it means.
I slept face down with American Boys
I slept face down thought I'd found my joy.
I slept face down.
All around the town: disappointed men.
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3. |
The Fool
05:51
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Idealist: The sunrise finds me clear...new beginning's here.
The sunrise finds me clear...the end is near.
REALITY 1: demon bite
Idealist: Some day you will find me buried in snow.
Some day you will find me.
but what do I know?
REALITY 2: hierarchy of access
Idealist: The Mountain is light-years away, and the powers that be want
to kill us. The Mountain is light-years away, I will find us some honey to
heal us.
REALITY 3: plummet
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4. |
The Bright Lights
03:58
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Don't you feel the bright light, baby, when it falls for you.
Don't fear my white teeth, darlin', you've got them too.
We were wide awake on the fire escape
The sound your crying made that day.
We were wide awake on the fire escape
The choices we've made.
Don't you feel the bright lights, baby, when they fall for you.
Don't fear my red teeth, darlin', you've got them too.
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5. |
Jacqueline
03:02
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Jacqueline, Balance Beam
as the fire unfolds.
Amy leaves, Scattered Seed.
too shy to scold.
OH vampire footfalls
OH the sigh of the tide, the red cliff walls.
Couldn't sleep, stared too deep in the lines of smoke.
Petty thieves hide beneath the lies of the cove.
Jacqueline, Balance Beam
By the side of the road:
Peach Trees, Golden Leaves.
or so we're told.
OH vampire footfalls
OH the sigh of the tide
Red Cliff Walls.
Couldn't sleep, stared too deep in the dying coals.
Petty thieves hide beneath the lies of the cove.
Jacqueline, Balance Beam
as the fire unfolds.
The screen recedes.
A change of scene
or so we're told.
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6. |
The Dark Wave
03:48
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Falling down
The Dark Wave
Not a sound
Can't make it go away.
Falling down
The Dark Wave
All around
Can't make it go away
Don't step aboard the lazy susan.
Ignore the lies: "Ignore the shootings."
"Enjoy the smell."
It's just as well.
There'll be flies buzzing 'round, they're coming 'round.
tongues wag in this town
(we're going down)
tongues wag in this town
they lick the lips on the ground
but when the shit is going down:
they never can be found.
We're falling down. The Dark Wave.
Falling down
Can't make it go away.
You've got no soul to sell
It's just as well.
You've got no soul to sell
That's what you'll tell
to the men in town
They're sure to come around.
So don't you board their lazy susan.
Ignore the lies
Everybody's poopin
Enjoy the smell
It's just as well
There'll be flies buzzing 'round
They're coming 'round
tongues wag in this town
(we're going down)
tongues wag in this town
they shake the dog all around
they split its head on the ground
but when the blood trickles down:
they never can be found.
so call them out
We're falling down!
What kind of life have we found?
When better days won't come around
Until we learn
to tear it down.
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7. |
The Nightmare
10:00
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You're a horse and I'm a flower.
You steal your force you borrow power.
I'm a rose and you're a coward.
Keep changing course you steal your power.
Where do we go from here?
What is the root of all this fear?
Where do we go from here?
the moon has transformed us all my dear
I'm a whale in your bloodstream.
I send love to your heartstrings
But the nightmare keeps growing.
OH the things I've seen.
I slept outside today. The sky never went away.
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8. |
The Lark
04:01
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The Lark Alone ascends to your lofty pixilated state.
you do it just to save face
and she already knows
She'd peck and peck and peck her way
through your breastbone.
tear herself a tiny hole
with a tongue
of burning coal
The Lark Alone can't rise to occasions on a Saturday
She'd only just swing by to say:
"I made this all alone.
I'd chew and chew and chew the walls
to get through to you
I could see it wasn't in you.
I made you all from bone.
And I just called to say:
It's The 7th Day
and on the seventh day
I rest.
I wish you all the best, mama's not at home."
The Lark Alone descends past dogs
howling at the night.
Songs to get it through its twisting flight
in meadows
still unknown.
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9. |
The Reach Around
05:05
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The sirens scream around the cities.
Here the flesh comes easy
And they never want to leave.
They don't miss the ocean.
They're addicted to our souls.
Sailors are so naive.
There's no wisdom to this age.
Just the demons
And the sages
Playing with their cocks
In a parking lot.
The burning of the pages.
And the angels never save us
From the things that time forgot.
But, oh, you can feel them from the other side.
The golden wizards and the prophets
Mop their brows
Count their losses.
Crying on some shoulder
In a strip-mall bar.
Hiding in casinos.
Suffocated screens.
Can't you see how far gone we are?
There's no wisdom to this age
Just The Demons and The Sages
Playing with their cocks in a parking lot.
The burning of the pages
And The Angels never save us
from the things that our angry minds forgot.
But, oh, they can feel us on the other side.
And you try to come clean, you try to let this go.
but there's no wisdom to this age.
The Demons and The Sages
playing with their cocks
in a parking lot.
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10. |
The Next Rest Stop
08:50
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what are palm trees?
where IS alabama?
what's a tempest?
where IS heaven?
what is longing?
where's the next rest stop?
what are palm trees?
where is heaven?
Last night I fell
Into a quieter part of town
No-one was around
I left the ground.
No-one was around
They're falling down
what is kindness?
where's the next rest stop?
what is trouble?
where is heaven?
what are palm trees?
We're falling down
It's all allowed
We're falling down
We leave the ground
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Settled Arrows Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Settled Arrows (aka Andrew Mars) is a recording artist, vocalist, musician, composer and performer.
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