1. |
Everyman
04:44
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Well, my days go like smoke
I want to laugh but I choke
Must I be the punchline in some cosmic joke
While just around the bend
Another fire starts smoldering
It flummoxes my ass to no end
I got a chronic condition
But I mount my resistance
In the rest stops on the way to perdition
I nearly found it just today
Held hysteria at bay
But all I can recall is my mother sayin:
Every man rides the horse that he deserves
One nation we all plod
Under the scrutiny of god
My brain keeps saying no while my head just nods
And the resentment that I stowed
In emotional escrow
Has got to be released before I fold
See I keep swallowing
The high note I can’t sing
Gotta bend it like the spoon in my kitchen sink
And as the sun sets in the west
There’s a fuck beneath my breath
All my favorite singers met an early death
But every man rides the horse that he deserves
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2. |
A Sea of Grass
05:14
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If I could be the space
The space where I am
I think I’d lie behind some
Blade of grass
Some out there in wild
And wide open sky
I’m gonna wait and lie
And keep one eye on the light
Casting its shade of truth
While the smell of old silence
Draped round me like dust
It’s right there on the tip
The tip of my back tooth
While death perched on my shoulders
And every day that pale line moves
A little bit closer
I remember when you said
Maybe the Earth is just a bone
But it’s so goddamn pretty
When the light is going down
Like a flame across town
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3. |
Lone Wanderer
03:46
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I’m alone
A lone wanderer
I hitched my wagon to your star
I’m a slow
Slow traveler
Somewhere out there in the dark
Someday we might collide
In a sea of flame and rising tide
But I’ll stay that lone wanderer
Til gravity decides
I’m a tired rider
The spirit has abandoned me
And I was cast outward
The end will end in entropy
I feel the pitch of chaos rise
Upon its ragged back I’ll ride
When that star explodes and dies
It’ll take a million years to reach my sight
In my final offer
I’ll trade the shrink in for a priest
And ask that soul composer
To harmonize the ghosts in me
And if fate should break my stride
If melancholy stings my side
I’ll find your light up in the sky
A memory still burning bright
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4. |
Zeibright Road
02:22
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5. |
Hangtown
05:28
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All my life
I lived beneath
The dear old western sky
It never had occurred to worry me
And now the time has come at last when I must say goodbye
I hate to go but it just has to be
And the one thing a motherfucker oughta learn
Is how to burn when the wheels start to turn
And the one thing that you never got know
Was how to go when the wind start to blow
Uncle George is swinging from white oak tonight
He stole a poke of gold with the broad end of a knife
Uncle George, I’m sorry you had to settle down
In a hellhole place like old hangtown
And I have been waiting my whole life
To fuck up like this
And ride into the night
I never could catch up or pay it down
In a place with a name like old hangtown
And the one thing a motherfucker oughta learn
Is how to burn when the wheels start to turn
And the one thing you never really got to know
Was how to go when the wind start to blow
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6. |
Wild Desperation
04:25
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Chaos are you bound
To follow me down
Every road
Cause of a wild desperation
Sewn to my soul
I know the water has no mind
To reflect such images of mankind at all
Seeking romance in the struggle
And love to work toward
Found a hut out on the horizon
Where my problem kept multiplying
As the morning star was rising
I took sevens and manna from heaven for dumb luck on the run
And if you hit that old rock bottom
You gotta save your ass on your own
With good times
Now what was it you said
You wanted from me
Can you hold that thought for a second
While I take a knee
OK
Go right ahead
Here’s the back of my head
Let your tongue be the gun
But be sure that I’m dead when you free me
Such a fine display of managerial legerdemain
Ensured I’d never second guess
That your intentions held my best
While the poetry of love turned to prose
And then just words on a page
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7. |
Dream Wine
05:28
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8. |
Just As You Are
05:17
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It’s the look in your eyes
Telling me lies
So many promises broken
What can I do
What should I do
I’ve tried to love you just as you are
And I never tried to change a thing about you
I’ve always loved you just as you are
Should I leave
Should I stay
Should I call you today
There’s so much to say that’s unspoken
In your way you’ve been true
And all I can do is try to love you just as you are
And I know I’ll never change
Never change a thing about you
So I love you just as you are
It’s the look in your eyes
I know you despise me
For not being stronger
What can I do
What should I do
I always loved you just as you are
And I’ll never try to change anything about you
I love you just as you are
Will you leave
Will you stay
There may come a day
When I’m weak and I’m stupid no longer
In my way I’ve been true
I’ve lived just for you
And always loved you just you are
I never tried to change a thing
Never ever tried to change a thing about you
Always loved you just as you are
* written by Robert Wyatt
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