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JCRBN
03:24
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Hey! Won't you come to the window!
If you can get up...
I'm soon to be passing by on a bike
of my own devising
The frame is made of stainless steel
And several paper towel tubes
The handlebars are acres wide
The wheels are the past and future
Hey! Put your sunglasses on and crack the front door!
I'll leave a streak across your eyelids
When you blink your eyes!
'Cos you've been sobbing on your phone
and crying for chemicals every day
You're just waiting on your couch
For love to come cart you away
You're about to miss out on a sight
Some people rarely get to see
The frame is made from stainless steel
and several paper towel tubes
The handlebars are acres wide
The wheels are the past and future
The people stand on either side
To cheer me on as I come through
And every tulip in the State
Is in my pannier just for you
'Cos you've been sobbing on your phone
and crying for chemicals every day
You're just waiting on your couch
For love to come cart you away
You've reduced yourself to T.V. shows
And bad proclivities
You're about to miss out on a sight
Most people rarely get to see!
Jesus Christ riding a bicycle in the nude!
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2. |
Leaving Port Townsend
04:21
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Now that you're gone, are you going to haunt me?
Walk into my dreams? Or are you going to guide me
Home through the forest, with someone to drive me
Everything shattered, all of my stories
About who we are and what we're doing
And what we think and what that means
In this direction the ferry is free
Lucky me.
Seattle Airporter, you pay as you get off
No change for my 20, and the driver just waves me on
Curbside check-in, no checked baggage
It's like going downhill this coming home
Borne on silver wings and talking to no-one.
I've got a notebook and a pen
I'll write it down all over again
Over Shasta and Mt. Lassen
Where are you now? Where were you then?
It should have meant something, the sight of you dying
We shouldn't be groping, we shouldn't be lying
about who we are and what we're doing
and what we think and why it matters
we all stood there, we watched you change
and we are still the same.
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3. |
22 Cats to Fiji
03:35
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You see, life is full of choices
And some of them are important
You think you know what you're here to do
Here's this one who cares for you
You're going to make her dreams come true
You think you get to drive the car
But you really couldn't be more far
From knowing where this all is going
You'll be sending
22 of your true loves
Feral cats to Fiji
Money's what your saving up and
Money makes it easy
To take them to a big airline and
Quarantine them 2 at a time and
Life is full of choices...
You've never met someone like her
You'll follow her to the ends of the earth
For whatever that's worth
And no-one had the heart to say
That all your dreams would fly away
Sleeping kitties in the cargo bay
22 of your true loves
Feral cats to Fiji
Money's what your saving up and
Money makes it easy
To take them to a big airline and
Quarantine them 2 at a time and
Life is full of choices...
A year since this all went down
They say you've limped back into town
And don't want to talk about it
Your heart is broken and your back is sore
We can rebuild you, but it will cost you much more
more than it costs to send
22 of your true loves
Feral cats to Fiji
Money's what your saving up and
Money makes it easy
To take them to a big airline and
Quarantine them 2 at a time
The astonished natives stand and blink
“Vinaka Bula for the cats, we think...” and
Life is full of choices
And some of them are important.
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4. |
In the Shaky Grass
04:28
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I go to places that you never go
What does that say about me?
What does that say about you?
Been standing in the street to watch the sky
I think of things every minute that might not occur to you probably
Been cherishing things that you walk by
'Cos I'm a cherisher
I know a place by the ocean where the shaky grass grows
You've never been there
The wind makes it billow as I lie
Gonna sit and lay in the sun
Wait for the people to come
Wait for the people to come and say:
"We realize now that if you were annoying
I was because you were lonely and socially awkward
You have so much to share and it was hard to bear
And we didn't have time for it
But now we're coming to where you are
We missed your being around and wondered how you were doing.
And we will stay with you 'til we hear what you hear
In the shaky grass
"May we join you in your grassy place?
We brought a thermos of soup and some fruit and some crackers
Is this the place you meant at which we now consent
To sit and do nothing?
We see now what we failed to see before that
For you to be outside there has to be a door we can come through
It wasn't difficult for us to come to you
So that's what we decided to do."
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5. |
Two Weeks After
04:18
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It seems that a bus was here by the
Tire tracks now washed out by the rain
It seems there was a party
It must have been insane
Now the Production crews have gone
Picking up paper plates out of your overgrown front lawn
'Cos it's two weeks after your extreme makeover
And the party's over, where do we go from here?
They tore your old life down and
Bought you one inclusive and complete
The tears of joy you shed are
Long since buried in the muddy street
A brand new kitchen full of flies
a brand new nose collapsing before your eyes
And it's two weeks after your extreme makeover
And the party's over, where do we go from here?
Shalalalalalalalalalala
Drink of this dispair and taste it well
The hole in the ceiling, thru which wisdom will repel
Two weeks after your extreme makeover
And the party's over, where do we go from here
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