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Planes Over The Skyline
04:40
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Walking through the Haight
Along a loud and crowded street
Disarray
The vendor’s broke again
It drives me ’round the bend
Disarray
Planes over the skyline
The east pavement opens up
And I’m left looking up
You say you just can’t try anymore
To find what you’ve been fighting for
Planes over the skyline
Walking through the rain
To a loud and crowded place, alone
Grounded to a halt
In a city built on a fault
Disarray
Planes over the skyline
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2. |
The Hitcher
03:26
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You’re never far away from my mind
Always too far away to hear
Controlled explosions wreck the train line
Just can’t believe the coast is clear
I get this feelin’
It’s such an itch, itch
You’re somewhere out there in a landslide
All hope just slippin’ through like sand
Telephone lines down in a rainstorm
And I’m like a ship moored on dry land
I get this feelin’
It’s such a bitch
You’re always far out in the midrange
All around the state boundary spillage signs
Somebody burnt down all the pylons
And you're my passport past these mines
I get this feelin’
I wanna hitch
Hitch a ride on your smile
Hitch a ride on your smile
Hitch a ride away from here
Hitch a ride on your smile
Hitch a ride away from here
I get this feelin’
End of the tunnel light just blinds me
While you weep like a willow tree
Sent out distress signals to find me
They shine so hard so why can’t we?
I get this feelin’
Wanna hitch
Hitch a ride on your smile
Hitch a ride on your smile
Hitch a ride away from here
Hitch a ride on your smile
Hitch a ride away
I get this feelin’
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3. |
Maëlstrom
04:40
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Torn away
And aching to find some feeling
It’s gone astray
Deaf are the ears of reason
Hoist me away
The cars on the street make me feel
Safe and sound
And dying to star in the sequel
I hear you say
Am I the only one?
Am I the only one?
Am I the only one?
And take me away
Deaf are the ears of reason
We’re so earthbound
On ev’ry town’s high rise ceilings
The streets we crawl
Youth at the summit freewheeling
I hear you say
I’m not the only one
I’m not the only one
We’re not the only ones
We’re not the chosen ones
I’m not the only one
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4. |
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They’re hanging me tonight
Say have you got a light?
The boat’s pushed farther out
The vultures start to pout
They’re killing off the leading part
Until the next time
Paste, cut
The only way you’ll see me
Up in the big city blues
With nothing left to lose
The last dance we know
Is raring up to go
I wish you wouldn’t throw those knives
They’re pretty eerie
Paste, cut
The only way you’ll see me
The last dance we know
Is raring up to go
It’s such a long way home
It’s such a long way home
These winding roads to Rome
Always tripping on the wires
Until the next time
Paste, cut
The only way you’ll see me
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5. |
Homeless Homecoming
06:45
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6. |
Land Of The Lost
04:12
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So lost
I can’t live without your love
I can’t live without your love
You’re so soft
I can’t live without your love
I can’t live without your love
So long
I can’t live without your love
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7. |
Straight Thru Yr Heart
04:05
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Open your closed mind up to the truth
Your head’s on the wall on a plinth as the proof
I hate yr kind with all of my heart
Sail on by you’ll find it somewhere
Left to lie at the foot of the stair
I hate yr kind with all of my heart
Shoot straight thru yr heart
With all of my heart
Left in your world with nobody there
You say to yourself Do you think that I care?
Open arms won’t save any tears
I hate yr kind with all of my heart
It’s fallen apart
Shoot you straight thru yr heart
With all of my heart
Fading away under the porch light
Spent all your days bereft of the light
Hate yr kind with all of my heart
With all of my heart
I’ll shoot this straight thru yr heart
With all of my heart
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8. |
Satansville Revisited
06:46
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You look like you’ve been losin’ sleep
Said a stranger on a train
I fixed him with an ice cold stare and said
I’ve been havin’ those dreams again
In one dream there’s this girl I love
And we dance every wakin’ breath
And in the other they’ve thrown me in a cell
And they’re tryin’ me for her death
I’m only young and young in love
As I hold that girl today
But I’m old and tired and in the cell
And I’ve nigh on withered away
Y’see my baby’ gone away too long
And I’m chokin’ back the tears
Disheveled star in a burnt out bar
And I’m talkin’ in my drink
She promised me the world and more
How could she do this to me?
And now mine’s tumblin’ down around
But at least my eyes can see
And those stars in the sky are for me
So as this fagged-out tinsel town
Waves so-long to the sun
I lay here calmly on my bed
And the trigger of my gun
And should that no good woman show up
Dancin’ from a dream
I’ll squeeze it twice and not think twice
And relish every scream
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Cars Converge On Paris
06:20
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The Kremlin flies forever
In the face of expectation
Like sunshine seen through rain
I see American cars converge
On Paris Central Station
I came to mock
I left to pray
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10. |
Year Of The Girl
05:24
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Does she wanna burn a field of four-leaf clovers?
Does she wanna find herself in need of one more?
Does she wanna subvert her own expectations?
She screams Who the hell do they think
They’re catering for?
Take a while to find the route I’m meant to be takin’
Take a while to find a way to ride it for free
Force a smile and hope to God I’m not mistakin’
The way things are for the way things should be
Does she wanna sell a field of four-leaf clovers?
Does she wanna find herself in need of one more?
Does she wanna subvert her own expectations?
She screams Who the hell do they think
They’re catering for?
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Broken English words cracked the air like a bell
She had a chateau in Virginia Waters
Free from all those culture vultures
Her car a silver cloud cloaked the air in a shroud
Her pearly author’s teeth tore the seasoned cedar-coloured pheasant
Her one rich wish is to write a book about
A venetian mother’s problems on a barge in little Venice
She peers at the portrait of her poetess grandmother
Who’s theatrical in character
Wise just like Socrates
She sinks her nails into the aged canvas
But the power from the wordster’s head was cool and shrill and frightening
Miss Drag is intermingled with the powder-blue chaise lounge
She types some acid words to her hairless Havana art dealer
Her one rich wish is to write a book about a chateau in Virginia Waters
Free from all those culture vultures
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12. |
Good Ships
04:31
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I was born on a good ship
Loose lips sink flagships
Left alone and the sea is calm
High tide and no storms
They tell me that the river’s too deep
And it’s much too wide
You can’t get across to the other side
I got a lover way over there by the mountainside
(Hold her in my arms just a-one more time)
And I can hear her calling to me
(Just like I did before)
I can hear her calling to me
(The sea’s been sailing a good ship)
She’s calling my name
Sailing home on a good ship
(I’ve been sailing a good ship)
The sea is too cold and it’s much too wide
(Much too wide)
(Sailing home on a good ship)
High tide and no storms
I was born on a good ship
Much too wide
Loose lips sink flask hips
But it’s much too wide
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13. |
Stimulini
03:27
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It’s where
It’s how
It’s near
It’s now
It’s off
It’s on
It’s there
It’s gone
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Come along
Into the city
Where the girls are pretty
And you can’t go wrong
Take your time
No need to hurry
Don’t have to worry
Cause it won’t take long
Well you can surf in the city
You can swim in the pools
Do anything you wanna
Because there ain’t no rules
Drive your super-stock carbur to the long highway
And you can drag
In the city in the falling night
The kids are hip and you can dance all night
In the city all the girls are pretty and they go
Come along
Into the city
Where the girls are pretty
And you can’t go wrong
Well you can surf in the city
You can swim in the pools
Do anything you wanna
Because there ain’t no rules
Drive your super-stock carbur to the long highway
And you can play
In the city in the falling night
The kids are hip and you can dance all night
In the city all the girls are pretty and they go
In the city, into the city
Big city, everybody I know is down here
Big city, I got my woman and I’m glad I’m down here
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