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Bird Cage
03:34
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He smiles like a mosquito coil, his smile wraps around your heart.
Your heart becomes an interesting scar every time that you part.
He smiles and he burns and he sings you his sad love song
Till there's nowhere you belong.
His face becomes a bird cage looming large like a projection on a screen.
His face becomes the inside of a mask of someone you've never been.
And you want to believe that he's all you've been needing.
And the bird never sings.
Birdy, please. Fly away. His disease takes your freedom away.
He'll soon become a child that watches you watching him while he cries.
He watches your face & changes shape right in front of your eyes.
And he plays on your fears and your longing for belonging.
And it don't mean a thing.
Birdy, please. Fly away. His disease locks the birdy away.
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2. |
Cars in Rain
02:44
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Empress
03:21
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Silken in sundress, she stands like an empress
Afraid of her subject, she hides on her throne
She walks on her shadow, so no one can follow
Askance in the sunlight, she turns into stone
I am her subject, my worship is abject
I must build a bridge to her, stone to her stone
I build my bridge half the way, she lets me walk away
When I get discouraged, and turn back alone
These are the days that I must keep together
These are the words that I must use to win her
This is the bridge that I must build to get there
These are the things I must try to remember
This is no way to live, we both have so much to give
If we'd bridge the river that keeps us apart
But bridges refuse to stand, sinking in quicksand
Yet I feel the pull of your heart
These are the days that I must keep together
This is the bridge that I must build to win her
These are the things I must try to remember
must try to remember
must try
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4. |
Mucksavage
04:19
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5. |
Change Shape
04:04
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You rise up to the skies
Anchor yourself with a chain of lies
Will she throw rocks through your thin disguise
When she finds herself alone.
No sound, no one's around
How does it feel when you can't get down
Lost the only game in town
Peering out through a face of stone.
I think I'd like to change my shape.
You swim make yourself him
Spiraling down where the light is dim
Have to break out of the aquarium
And make for the open sea.
Swim fast danger can't last
Nothing is real when it's in the past
Nearly broke free of the sea at last.
I'd like to change my shape.
You do just what you do
Hanging around in a public zoo
Will she get wise to the monkey-do
when she sees that awful tail.
Change shape change shape
People walk by with their mouths agape
"How could she love such a hairy ape?"
And I'd like to change my shape.
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Clothes
04:16
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I see no reason to be wearing the clothes that I wear
But my clothes are in season and I'm wearing no more than my share
And if clothes make me happy then I'll probably wear a big grin
And if you buy me clothes then I'm wearing you next to my skin.
I took my clothes off and I forgot to be shy
You saw me naked and though I'll never know why
You fell into my arms and now you're naked too
But we're always in fashion, to our own fashion sense we'll be true
Whatever we do.
Naked we walk and naked together we stand
Naked we smile and naked you're holding my hand
And in time we'll go on to our own hideaway by the sea
We no longer wear clothes, and we're happy as people can be.
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(blessing)
02:37
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9. |
Blessing of the Fleet
04:03
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prepared to meet the open boat
to see how broken pieces float
air has got us tight around the throat
the sea a rolling cenotaph
a thousand broken seagulls laugh
the sky was running out we sinking fast
and it feels like something's pulling us to sea
to scatter our emotional debris
and it's funny that it's anyone but me
always the same
i'll take the blame
so waterlogged we sun go down
beyond the point where sailors drown
the current rough and so we turned around
clouds like brawling seraphim
the skies grow dark the forecast dim
familiar patterns soon are closing in
and it feels like things are out of symmetry
like cargo falling backward to the sea
and as usual it's anyone but me
i'll take the blame
we sailed along the open bay
i didn't get a chance to say
goodbye goodbye i'm leaving you today.
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Tutu
06:50
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Big Ocean
04:36
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Daisy the Spaniard knew just what to do
She open her mouth and she point it at you
You must be crazy to stay here
We've all had the big ocean
We've all had the big letting down
We've all had the big ocean
Lady the stallion was just gonna leave
Even announced there was nothing to grieve
Driving you out of her mind
We've all walked upon water
We've all walked without getting by
We've all walked on the water
Hazy vermillion has just gone away
Leaving you here like an empty cafe
Is this the end of her line
Was all strawberry filling
Was all straw for the camouflage
Was all straw for the filling
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12. |
(storm gathering)
00:05
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13. |
Storm
07:09
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Sleeping Cat
05:10
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Another blanket of sleeping cat, said the man as he sat at the end of an evening. It can't be as hard as all that. It's just that it had to be just as I'm leaving. And when I go I'm off to Hell, and maybe it's just as well.
If on a dark night I turned the blame to you as you stand like an ant on a bonbon, well, that would be just a shame. And this from the man who is already long gone. Restrain yourself, or I'll have you ejaculated! Just then he hesitated.
And look down from the edge of the infinite faultline, and just call me Fräulein.
If at the end of your windowpane stood a scientist crossing himself with an oyster, and he took you inside his brain, like a nun revealing herself to the cloister, we'd all be true to the things we believe in. And all would be even steven.
And all through the night, how the stars dance & scream, like pop rocks in sweet cream.
And that's when I turned away.
And that's when I turned away.
And that's when I turned away.
And that's when I turned away.
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Sensible Weather Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sensible Weather (formerly Bile Greene) is the music of Bill Greene. Bill writes songs & plays music in Philadelphia. He has been lots of places & met lots of people, and these songs are probably meant to be his take on all of that. The music is all available to be downloaded for free (or you can pay what you want to), except for some unfinished items which you can listen to, but not take home. ... more
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