1. |
Hymn for the Corner
03:22
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in this corner I am r u i n e d
quieter than I believed it’d be
I have tried to burn the p a g e s
It’s not enough to turn away from them
the birds at night feel like the wrong thing
walk in the road saying words only I believe
tired of heaven
tired of chemtrails
signing the papers
for a house in this dark land
no one could tell me
how to sing all my songs
it’s a hymn that will show me
that I’ve got it all wrong
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2. |
For the Outside
04:06
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I drink a beer next to the big old parish
Lose the essence of the cross next to the camera flashes I
lose my faith again, walk to the river
listen to the old familiar songs and cry
Heaven’s empty
there is no god here
Belief is cooling down by the river
I’m so far away
Made myself a stranger
I’m in danger of losing my way home
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3. |
So Much Depends Upon
04:56
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If I could find you any way
I know my brain would rot
And I’ll resist my choice
and you can kick me off of the barrow
and I’ll fall into the grey and the green
and eat it again and swear I didn’t
all the cherries all the lemons
my fingers are covered in all of it
all the voices telling me not to fall back asleep again
time to go now
you don’t have to wait with me
time to go now
the car is coming
my feet are warming
oh won’t you come with me
I’m making joy all by myself
you said it wasn’t possible
cause nothing here is meant for you
but I don’t believe in that
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4. |
Hymn for H
02:59
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When I got home
My phone rang
You said you had enough
We’ve been playing god for too long
We weigh our troubles on the scales of grief
you decided yours weighed more than mine
I pull my heart up just to watch you fall again
I kill that old thing and let it fade with gentleness
I watched you be so alive
now you breathe without me
The sun used to hold me
now I have the cold and overdrink
no singing
no need to need
I’m still singing
I need to need
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5. |
Good Lie
03:36
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I'm not longer trying to be better
I want to watch myself whither
I'm running every red light
I'm want to tell myself a good lie
I catch myself saying too much
I have a taste for things that destruct
everyone will go into their green
and I will settle for my old dream
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I find it hard
It’s not enough
I’m difficult to love
I will always give up
I will disappear again
You will never see the end of it
Go ahead and try
My body still will change
To another tide
A needless endless taste
I have tried to change it
But it calls to me
And I want it
I want you in the comedown
in the parking lot
In all the ways it doesn’t suit us anymore
Strength is a weapon getting sharp by necessity
But these days I forget what we’re fighting for
I’m drinking the tap like my life depends on it
It does but slower
I want the morning to come back
When everything is
Immediate and prettier
You are not a cold god
But a maze I forget to learn
And I’m a workday that lets up for no one
If all this growing finds me somewhere unrecognized
I’ll walk against, against the land lines
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7. |
Disappearing
02:59
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Spend my days
disappearing
on the street
can you see me?
Hear my voice
always saying things
asking who
who has forgotten me?
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8. |
Be Thou My Vision
06:08
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(Be my everything)
Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art
Thou my best thought, by day or by night
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light
Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou my true word
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord
Thou my great Father, and I Thy true son
Thou in me dwelling and I with Thee one
Riches I heed not, nor vain, empty praise
Thou mine inheritance, now and always
Thou and Thou only first in my heart
High King of heaven, my treasure Thou art
High King of heaven, my victory won
May I reach heaven's joys, O bright heaven's sun
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall
Still be my vision, O ruler of all
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9. |
Yellow
04:15
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Say I’m not afraid
and I’ll jump off the edge of it
Say I’m not surveyed
ill mark all the score sheets wrong
tell me now is my ending
and I’ll live for 50 years longer
oh now is my time
Take it all down
The wallpaper and all the women inside it
I’m putting myself on a rest cure
I’m so tired
of all this importance and self-inventing
I want to go down to the green
Tell me it’s not too late
I spent too many years in that cave
The shadows were quite convincing, weren’t they?
They were just a party trick I played with my limbs
Now I need them to stand
Take it all down
The wallpaper and all the women inside it
I’m putting myself on a rest cure
I’m so tired
of all this importance and self-inventing
I want to go down to the green
There is no peace
That is beyond understanding
There is only peace
That comes with understanding
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10. |
Hymn for the Spire
06:44
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all my strings fall to the unknown
no more wells for my gold to go
a plain spire, love is a mystery
a card game I have the chance to win
sitting on a ledge
pulling apart the bricks
it’s hard to know how far the depot goes
if at all, it goes for you
I hope it doesn’t change
The you I sing to
I wake up with my head above me
moving through like an RPG
Please be slow
None of that rushing with me
I know how I should break free
Master of all wanting lies down
in the valley of the undecided
all the green inside me turns my desire into rust
and it’s enough
I sit in my house of guts
I will leave the armor up
We sit in our tender gleam
Be easy don’t ask too much of me
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