1.Animal Life
Born inside the gates of the family
Hardened by a Roman machinery
Cast among the building sights
The calling wives, the shards collected.
Called out in the wake of the lottery
Hurled inside the family gathering
Mirrored beams and doglike stretch
The wandering association
Marbles in the dark confessional
And the rides along the road ephemeral
As an animal life!
Rustling in the shade of the batteries
Hanging from a rope in the gallery
Pacing down the balance beam of half remembered holidays
No rush of light, no sign of belonging
No joy in building love in the finishing
Chasing down an anodyne and half reflected radiance
To high below the ancient barricade
In chambers like the rooms a swallow made
For an animal life!
Charging down the mall with the ..
I wanna come close, I wanna come closer
I held your name inside my mouth
Through all the days out wandering
But called out from the mouth of …
Cast away like dogs from the shelter
… that once collected radiance
Searching at the light's perimeter
The half remembered wild interior
of an animal life!
2.Breaking The Yearlings
Change
The river is blocked
The road is hot
The sky is blazing
Black smoke on the rise
The weather rolls until it's on you and suddenly breaks
I come right back into the sound
I take one breath and spiral down
And you, more watching the road
Or watching the flood stage rise
We are yearlings
Now watching the tide run out
To what the daylight hides
Is among
Yearlings
Now watching the tide run out
We are yearlings
(I come right back into the sound)
Feeling the flood break down
Yearlings (I take one breath and spiral down)
(Change, the river is blocked)
Now watching the tide run out
(the road is hot, the sky is blazing)
(The weather rolls until it's on you)
We are yearlings (I come right back into the sound)
(Black smoke on the rise)
Feeling the flood break down (and suddenly breaks, and suddenly
breaks)
Yearlings (I take one breath and spiral down)
(Change, the river is blocked)
Now watching the tide run out (the road is hot,
the sky is blazing) (The weather rolls until it's on you)
We are yearlings (I come right back into the sound)
(Black smoke on the rise)
Feeling the flood break down
(and suddenly breaks, and suddenly breaks)
3.Dread Sovereign
Maybe I'm lost
Maybe I'm not ready
Maybe I was not properly socialized
But when you drag me under
When you pull me over the line
That's when you really reach me
No
I know the night drives
I know the afterglow
I know I look quieter than I feel.
I wanna fight like lovers
Wanna pull you over the line
Dread sovereign!
(Where do the lonelyhearts go
We of the lonely hearts knowing)
Another white-flag waver
When you were drowning under the lights
In the ever-black tide
Dread sovereign!
(Where do the lonelyhearts go
We of the lonely hearts knowing)
Dread sovereign!
(Where do the lonelyhearts go
We of the lonely hearts knowing)
4.You As You Were
when you fall on the rocks
at a bend in the river
with the blood from your nose
running hard on your fingers
and for the rest of your life
the electric charge
of a change in the weather
you were touching my arm
you were holding a feather
and then I opened my eyes
and the world goes racing, suddenly changed
as the shock of the axe, it leaves you trembling
like a busting shell in the small of your back
or a drop that's hard on the cast of your little lie
and an animal life will serve you away
and you were back on the road
through the worst of the winter
through the valley of light
passing through like an arrow
oh, if your vision collapsed
and a storm from the river
like a pull in the
clutching tight in your fingers
but on the slope at the edge
when you recover your life
you can stand on the back of a shuddering beam
with a pistol firing shots into the air
you could run in the blood of the sun's hard rays
you could drive the mountains down into the bay
or go back to the east where it's all so civilized
where I was born to the life
but I am leaving the life
I am leaving the life
I am leaving the life
I am leaving the life
I am leaving the life
I am leaving
5.Insolence
Sometimes I think I welcome it,
what you are frightened of.
My thoughts become undisciplined
And then I slip away.
It is effortless.
Effortless.
In the glow along the barren road
I see you shivering
My heart begins to separate
From the signs that would bury our lives
With an insolence. (Once beats and the light is close, close.)
Insolence.
Effortless ranging and diving. (Once beats and the light is
close, close.)
Effortless as fire.
Oh, child.
Where were you？
Where were you all your life？
All your life inside a chrysalis writhing？
And it's real.
It's real.
Joy is real.
One more time.
It's real.
Joy is real.
Joy is real.
One more time.
It's real.
Joy, it's so real.
6.Immaculate
Johnny get a hold of your life
Wherever I go your face is in front of me
But you won't believe it.
Holding up the end of the line
There never was a crack in the ice
You won't believe in it.
You are a diamond set
On an immaculate height, set.
Bury your end of the wire.
Lying awake in the hours and the emptiness
Want me to run from the days we are living in？
You'll only get a look at your life when you're leaving it.
And then the silence says
When you wrestle your plight
When you lie on your back with your eyes on the firmament
Your burning mouth, your blazing eyes, c'mon.
If you believe in it.
It's a respectable life.
The police on the beach will find nothing is innocent.
Johnny get a hold of your life.
Stop on the edge till the animus drains away.
Or follow the loneliest road
Run in the dark til the light comes screaming in
Through the silence says
You are alone on the ice
And you stand on the banks to find nothing is happening.
7.Open Your Houses
I was still life.
I was pinned inside of a photograph.
When I realized
You had slipped outside of the scenery
With only what you need to survive
So why did you come to me
If you looking at the enemy？
Open up
Open up
Open up
Open your houses
I was waiting.
I was reconstructing the memory,
Unbelieving in the changes looming inside of me,
The pulse of an irregular life.
But why did you turn away
Before the horn sounds
Over the dark terrain
And the weapons of the enemy？
Open up
Open up
Open up
Open your houses
And let in the eye
8.Run The Banner Down
9.Pushing The River
I could see by the way you were living
You are gone on the other side
You were the flashing winds of the slow
You were the light in land's eye
And you were standing there alone in the river
Where do you go, the words dry
But you could summon up another religion
But you could summon another lie
But if you survive,
Can you see my eyes, can you see me eyes？
Let's go back alone on the river
I wanna swim to other side
I could see by the way you were suffering
Whoa, what you were really like
I ain't talking about ... in the shadows
I'm not living there anymore
You can spend your life fighting the river
Or you can look my right in the eyes
But you're left to decide
Can you see my eyes, can you see me eyes？
10.Believing Makes It Easy
11.Star Of The Age
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