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Sweatshop crowded chapel on a Sunday
Hymns flounder on the lips of the gathered
Half cut form the night before
And everything’s spent but a penny for the plate
Everything’s spent but a penny for the plate
And everyones a drunkard and a fornicator
So prester says
Saturday’s party dress is Sunday’s best
Glory Glory Glory O
Glory Glory Glory O
Cotton Dress and bright blue shoes
Front row sinister pew
Rapt by his toffee tantalizing tongue
And tripping on her own communion
Tripping on her own communion.
In the yellow light of the mid-day pews
He knelt with her to share the good news
She laid him down and gave him some of her own
Glory Glory Glory O
Glory Glory Glory O
In the afterglow
She heard his sins
With a lusty kiss
she blessed him
In the name of the weak of flesh
and wayward hearts
And he sang
Glory for the love of an earthly heart
Glory for the love of an earthly heart
And he sang Glory Glory Glory O
Glory Glory Glory O
Glory for the love of a wayward heart
Glory for the love of an earthly heart
There’s hope every Sunday In God's Good Grace
Salvation in a friendly face
A Masquerade of faith
In the church of cardboard saints
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2. |
Poppy Came A-Calling
02:47
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Iron hull sweat
Against the cold cold sea
Poppy came a-calling
And it set me free
Fly like a sail at lightening speed
Poppy came a-calling
And you'll never catch me
Poppy came a-calling
And you'll never catch me
Thirsty thirsty
Witch of the waves
Bore me to heaven for the rest of my days
Jammed before the wind I go screaming by
Three sheets to the wind until the day I die
Three sheets to the wind until the day I die
Poppy came a-calling
And it set me free
Poppy came a-calling
And you'll never catch me
Poppy came a-calling
And it set me free
Poppy came a-calling
And you'll never catch me
Gently lull me
Enchant a mutiny
Poppy came a-calling
And it set me free
Coal dust found the poppy
and the crone broke free
So pour me through the deck
And let me be
Pour me through the deck
And let me be
Poppy came a-calling
And it set me free
Poppy came a-calling
And you'll never catch me
Poppy came a-calling
And it set me free
Poppy came a-calling
And you'll never catch me
Iron hull sweat
Against the cold cold sea
Poppy came a-calling
And it set me free
Fly like a sail at lightening speed
Poppy came a-calling
And you'll never catch me
Poppy came a-calling
And you'll never catch me
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He walked that road for thirty years
One day he lost his way
Never seen again
Abandon ship! The captain cried
But he lost his voice
And all hands died in the end
Look to them on the land
Look to them in the sea
To know yourself
Cause we all go down.
She lived her days like cellophane
Wrapped in a life no one would see
They found her diary
She followed him through battlegrounds
But she fell to the dust and the driving wind
He just kept on
Look to them in the lines
Look to them on the wind
To know yourself
Cause we all go down.
He walked that road for thirty years
One day He lost his way
Never seen again
Abandon ship! The captain cried
But he lost his voice
And all hands died in the end
Look to them on the land
Look to them in the sea
To know yourself
Cause we all go down.
we all go down.
we all go down.
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4. |
Sing Me Blue
02:56
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Sing me green baby
I see the pull and the pulse
and the push for life
in your eyes
Its like counting the sky
Where do you begin
Sing me purple
I see the pepper trees
Lining the streets
And their waving goodbye
Infusing the sky
And if you'd been there too
Sing me blue baby
Was there ever
As perfect a day
As that afternoon
You had that dress
And I had you
And it clung to your body
Like mist in the air
So thin and weightless
It was barely there.
My head in your lap
and the heat of your skin
I wished that i could just
wipe it away
Sing to me baby
Paint me all of your dreams
In a haunting lullaby
And we'll sing our lives away
Until the day
We close our eyes
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5. |
Root & Bone
02:56
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Nothing left to touch you
But the cold
Tree dreamed
I dreamed a tree
Brushing at the ground
Raking memories
Needle long and green
Half a minute
And i buried them
To fruit again
As I sleep
It flowered with the force
Of that which made it as it is
More flesh than bone
No wood
For spears and arrows
Marvel marvel wait and see
Nothing left to touch you
But the cold
Oh oh oh
Root and bone
Oh oh oh
Root and bone
Nothing left to touch you
But the cold
Brought low to be humble
To honour that which grows
I shivered on my knees
And marvelled at the wonder
Wrought upon its leaves
Sunworn and fleeting
Like waking dreams
Oh oh oh
Root and bone
Oh oh oh
Root and bone
Nothing left to touch you
But the cold
Tree dreamed
I dreamed a tree
More flesh than wood
Born From the mud of bones
And lifted high
To hold me in its shadow
And keep me by
And lifted high
To hold me in its shadow
And keep me by
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All alone
Night spills into day
Smoking with the wind
Embers flit across the bay.
Town has turned its face
To heaven for another day
And its blowing so hard
The signposts are whistling away.
Its biblical
The way the waves
Pound the shore
They embrace you
Cold but gentle
And they pull you in
And pull you down
And nights the sea
Lies final as a shroud
Nights the sea
Lies final as a shroud
Souls oh souls oh
Nights the sea
Lies final as a shroud
Boat at the edge of night
Miles away
Never out of mind
All but its running lights
Swallowed by the night
And its dancing like a dyiing star
At the edge of night
Nights the sea
Lies final as a shroud
Nights the sea
Lies final as a shroud
Souls oh souls on
Nights the sea
Lies final as a shroud
Nothing but a few square feet
Your wits and a radio
And the prayers
Of the dear to heart
To get you home
And your dancing like a dyiing star
At the edge of night
And nights the sea
Lies final as a shroud
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7. |
Another Day
03:12
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She wrote she thought she loved me
And I didn’t say a thing
But I traced her words
Like they were Poems on skin
I took the heart she sent me
And I hid it away
Wrapped in a red silk ribbon
Like a blindfold
For another day
When we stood in church together
I thought she finally found the truth
But she sang hymns
As if she never known a lie
I said I’m not that Christian soldier
And with that she broke all ties
And in return I taught her how to question
Why Why
When my world came down
She came and kicked at the debris
Found that red silk bundle
And I took to my knees
As if she’d finally found the answer
She laughed and held my head
Don’t believe everything you read
She said
Don’t believe everything you read
I took the heart she sent me
And I hid it away
Wrapped in a red silk ribbon
Like a blindfold
For another day
Another day
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Rode the railroad to the hump yard
And got chased down by some bull
You don’t ride for nothing
So they kicked me in the balls
When all I did was try to get to town
Don't let the bastards grind you down
And there’s nothing like the freezing cold
To make you a man
When the drips and traces
Of a dog's world turn your head
And they get the blanket
While you earn your daily bread
Don't let the bastards grind you down
From the forest to the town
Take a stand and do it now
Tell the priests and politicians
And the heads of industry
Tell them all
That you won't let them
Grind you down
I took a million trees out
Just to build myself one home
And I left my pound of flesh
Beside the road
And I bled and I loved
And I'm a man who truly lived
And I never let the bastards grind me down
From the forest to the town
Take a stand and do it now
Tell the priests and politicians
And the heads of industry
Tell them all
That you won't let them
Grind you down
Wouldn't buy the dogma
No matter what you hide behind
Wrong's still wrong
And ‘till they put me in the ground
I'll yell it from the forest
And I'll tell it on the town
Don't let the bastards grind you down
I'll yell it from the forest
And I'll tell it on the town
Don't let the bastards grind you down
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9. |
Cerberus
02:50
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Sundog bright
Sundog blue
Sundog light this humming sky
Laying chins upon its paw
And looking down
Cerberus
I poured you vodka hard and slow
Until the bottle let it go
Too cold for drinking
Can’t be good for you
But we’re not those other guys
So we just laugh and down it goes
You know the story
Cerberus
We set the couch before the door
And watched the pulsing sky
Cars push into the quicksilver night
All square-tyred down below
And that rhythm
Is bruised upon our bones
Bruised upon our bones
But we just laugh and on it goes
You know the story
Cerberus
You know the story
Cerberus
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10. |
The River Song
03:45
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River slip away
These Verdant banks and forest loam
River soothe this skin
Tight as Vellum baked to stone
River hold me gentle
All the day my perish bones
Blaze upon the alpine snow
Takes winter home
Follow down the mountain
Silver stitches call your name
Babble in the brooks and streams
Into this muddy vein
Great the force that rushes forth
And slowly stakes its claim
Wraps itself around you like a knot
Oh the tangle of our legs
Your salty skin
The tangle of our legs
Your salty skin
Wash me like you loved me then
Cool upon my tongue
I dip my head
Bubble prayers
You heard the thing I said
Meet me at the rubble
And the forest shade
Tie yourself to me once again.
Oh the tangle of our legs
Your salty skin
The tangle of our legs
your salty skin
Wash me like you loved me then
River slip away
These Verdant banks and forest Loam
River soothe this skin
Tight as Vellum baked to stone
River hold me gentle
All the day my perish bones
Gaze upon the alpine snow
and take me home
Gaze upon the alpine snow
and take me home
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Don't want to keep you now
though I wish i could
I know youve got to go
Strong strong as you go
Strong as you go
Who more than you
Could have wished for more
Oh What a golden path you laid
Strong strong as you go
Strong as you go
I remember hopes and wishes
Tied together to a tree
One day sure ill tie
Another on for you
Strong strong as you go
Strong as you go
You know we came to see you
But you'd already left
So we drank and drank
And drank to you and wept
Strong strong as you go
Strong as you go
So rest and dont you worry
Well get together yet
Rest and dont you worry
Well get together yet
And well be strong strong
Now your gone
Strong now your gone
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12. |
Take it Slow
03:23
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She walked like she was time itself
Those pendulums for legs
Tapped away the seconds till we met
And as i rose to meet her
She said i like to take it slow
So take it slow
And it was just a cup of coffee
But we drank for half a day
And bitter never tasted quite so sweet
And as she drew a cigarette
She said I like to take it slow
So take it slow
She sipped her cigarettes like brandy
She spilled the smoke upon the air
She exhaled like each one was a regret
And as I hung upon that moment
She said I like to take it slow
So take it slow
The saucy side of night
Had dragged its tongue across the ground
As we poured out to the road
All steaming wet
And as she shimmered in the moonlight
And said now watch how you go
And slow like an eternity she left
And She sipped her cigarette like brandy
She spilled the smoke upon the air
She exhaled like each one was a regret
And as I hung upon that moment
She said now watch how you go
And slow for all eternity she left
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13. |
Melanope
03:27
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I saw you standing there
The same spot we used to sit.
Your rust brown hair
Long as the years between us.
I couldn't catch your eye
I couldn't go back
Time and tide redrew the map
That tree we cut our names in
That pier we'd walk at night.
In the susurus of waves
We found our courage
And the comfort
That everything will be alright.
In the end they whispered it away.
The only hope we had
Was to tear ourselves apart
You'll forever be a part of me.
Melanope.
I saw you on the front page
Your face a wreck
I wished someone was there for you.
Everything we never had to say
Came back to me.
I hope some part of me
Still shines inside of you.
The only hope we had
Was to tear ourselves apart
You'll forever be a part of me.
That tree we cut our names in
That pier we'd walk at night
And the susurus of waves
Still gives me comfort
Melanope.
Everything will be alright.
Everything will be alright.
The only hope we had
Was to tear ourselves apart
But You'll forever be a part of me.
Melanope.
Melanope.
Melanope.
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George Harris Prince George, British Columbia
George writes simple yet evocative songs. They deal with aspects of our shared humanity and chew those fleeting moments that add wonder and substance to our life.
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