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Change Shape
03:40
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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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Umbilicus
03:24
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Burning
03:55
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standing alone on a windy night
incandescent tree forms a signal light
burning clearly through the air
burning till the world's laid bare
bird in the night, won't you call you call
these exhausted leaves burn away & fall
now through night i strain to hear
whispering from year to year
bird of love, can't you hear my heart
beating out of time as it falls apart
one more siren song is done
one more endless journey done.
then at last comes a single voice
burning through the trees in a shrill rejoice
flying through the easter dawn
waving till the world goes on
flying through the dawnlit sky
singing circle over i
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Uh-huh
04:41
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well, he's a very lucky guy to have a girl who'll dress like that
but it's obvious she thinks of him as so much baby fat
that's burning like her lover's-lips
locked in reptilian embrace with the man with the frozen face, uh-huh.
well, i tried to catch her eye from far across the crowded room
but it somehow got mixed up with someone else's cheap perfume
i see her in a bag of chips
wherein she smiles & sits & smokes and suffers patiently my jokes, uh-huh.
she got me charging from the gate like a mechanical bull
she gave me food for thought until my brain was nearly full
regurgitating party dip
though my rejoinders were lame they were enough to whet her flame, uh-huh.
well, i met her some years later when the issue was long dead
she asked me, did i miss her? like a gutterball, i said
i watched her gently swaying hips
she said, there's plenty of fish in the sea but there is only one of me, uh-huh.
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Dragons
04:08
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Sunrise looks much brighter when I stay awake all night.
Ideas flow more freely when I don't know what to write.
My station makes me restless, and I know it's time for flight.
Words come out like dragons, taking shape upon the page,
Incredible embodiment of all subconscious rage,
Insinuating gracefully, like dancers on a stage.
I wish that I could teach these dragons all the things that I have learned.
Furiously dragons all leave pages black & burned.
The ones I love the best are on the pages I have turned.
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New York Sails
03:41
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when the city lights up
like the fourth of july
you slip into the crowd
and you feel so good
and the people you see
passing by on the street
they don't see you at all
they don't know you're on fire
and the city becomes
like a gelatin print
like an old photograph
that it took of itself
and the buildings become like the masts of a ship
sailing out to the sea
and new york sails
cross the sky.
the diminishing streets
are eclipsed by the air
turning black where it hangs
from a gallows of sky
and the night wraps around
your gelatin frame
and the city becomes a picture of itself
and the buildings become like the masts of a ship
sailing out to the sea
out to where you're free
new york sails
cross the sky.
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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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