41: Swept Away

There is something in my eyes
I measure every grief I meet
With clocks and spoons and devils feet

With narrow probing eyes
I wonder if it weighs as much as mine
Or is a smaller size

God is growing up above
For those of us who pray
But you could look forever
and never see his face
we are swept away
swept away

I wonder if I can
Wonder if I’ll ever hear replies
If I’ll ever get it right

I’ll play my rival hand
Cover up the visions of the son
And my life a loaded gun

My faith is larger than
The hills, so when the hills decay
A wheel must show the sun the way

This is my silent end
Graceful and mechanical and cold
We watch the times unfold

lyric 40: Emily - on and on

Can we stay on holiday?
Shedding tears for repairs
Carried on her silver heels
In the night she disappears

She fumbles at your soul
As the player at the keys
Before they drop full music
She stuns you by degrees

I took the power in my hand
Twice as bold against the world
Til’ the hurricane bisects
Separates us from the dead

Was it goliath way too large
Or was myself, way too small
The province of the almost saved
Or the science of the grave

This is my letter to the world
A world that never wrote to me
The simple news of nature told
With her tender majesty

lyr 39 - the whiskey talkin'

got to stand in and play to win for the new day dawning
landing on sin, and praying for more minds like charlie darwin
no one now can save us, blame us, shame us, stain us, for the staring and gawking

justify use of the abuse all them syncophants are fawning
critics on the loose, call a truce ...they all joking and they're barking
or hiding in the bushes, staring and a-stalking


i'm over you, the ragin and the rocking and a rollling
i'm so over you and the everlasting mocking and the moaning
and i ain't got excuses like
hey ...that's just the whiskey talking


i'll take the test of no regret with the wires wrapped and liars rocking
my shadow it will cast a net as wide at it is shocking
please lay it here a sympathetic ear when i come knocking

washing dawn my fears with warm tequila to stop the choking
steaming into the station like a comatose locomotive
all those funny faces, now erased by the consequential gunning

lyr 38? supersonic rage

hey
can't you ever find a way
to allign
with the stars and half the day

is this a hummingbird alive
is this a hanging curve on the inside?

hey
it's a supersonic rage
you can f-f-find
all you troubles melt away

rock and absurd and bitter tie
tied to the envelope of speaking from the spine

hard
it is hard to set me straight
hard
it is so hard to find the way

i'll claim this mountaintop for us
if you will please just shut the fuck up

look
this way and then away
look
again and again and again

there is a rocking horse the tells
you to go to heaven or to hell

lyr 37 - gods as monkees

we must learn to turn the pages gently
grinning at what she has
let loose and trying to dance

it is a sin to push a book aside
the hands and hips and waving arms
rocking to the reggae boom

explain to him the meaning of i'm happy
the camera backing away
two left feet missing the beat

grow to love the strageness of the language
into the crowd it just looks wrong
a little man who has a plan

lhere the gods roam freely dressed as monkeys
speaker boxes block the door
more durable than england's poor

lyr 36; rain on

rain on darkness
rain on trees
rain on moon
tossed on cloudy seas
the moon was a ribbon floating in the moonlight
we felt so alone
when the highwayman came riding by

rain on children
rain down the stars
rain down on innocent
that breaks the heart
the moon was a ribbon floating in the moonlight
we felt so alone
when the highwayman came riding by


rain down on me now
rain down on you
like the seven seas now
like a sweet perfume
the moon was a ribbon floating in the moonlight
we felt so alone
when the highwayman came riding by

lyr 35: sara, sara

no matter how small
every town has got one
a miniature crime
done with a miniature gun

hard as a hammer
harder than nails
got hundreds of dogs and
cats by the tail

sara sara
let me pour you some some wine
i've got a fear
you no longer mine
my love my love
my love is so unkind
it's killing me dear
it's blowing my mind

knocking them out
place neat on the shelf
god helps those who
help themselves

a wonderful lie
makes a marvelous mess
and she doesn't move
it ain't easy...i confess

sara sara
let me pour you some some wine
i've got a fear
you no longer mine
my love my love
my love is so unkind
it's killing me dear
it's blowing my mind


i'm surrounded by dust
i'm captured in stills
i'm covered by dirt
and bottles and pills

collateral damage the generals say
nothing can chase this dragon away

sara sara
let me get you some some wine
i've got this fear
that you're no longer mine
my love my love
my love is so unkind
it's killing me dear
it's blowing my mind