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Shipyards
03:46
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In a winter wind, a west county shore
An old man sleeps no more
Staring out to sea
Now he's only seeing
Memories... memories
The shipyards of the four
Countries sending war no more
Sending war across the sea
Now they're only sending
Dreams.... dreams
The newborn opens her eyes
A promise is a flower of things could be
The old man rows back with the tide
No longer lost ... in his reverie
No longer lost in a dream
No longer lost in a dream
And the factories of forgotten countries
No longer anymore
Launching ships into the lee
Now they're only sending
Dreams....
Dreams....
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The Periphery
02:58
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Ooo-oo-oo, sha sha, oo!
Ooo-oo-oo, sha sha, oo!
On the periphery
Galaxy's end
Let me tell you true, my friend
On the periphery
Headed for home
No matter how we roam
Always find we're never quite alone
Earth's within our sights
On the galactic rim, lookin in
There's naught ahead but light
TIme will come
When everything you know
Is gone
Ooo-oo-ooh, sha sha, ooh!
Ooo-oo-ooh, sha sha, oooh!
The periphery
Bleeding edge of now
But I get to sleep somehow
There's naught ahead but life
On the galactic rim, lookin in
Earth's within our sights
The time has passed
Everything is gone
At last
Ooo-oo-ooh, sha sha, ooh!
Ooo-oo-ooh, sha sha, ooh!
Ooo-oo-ooh, sha sha, ooh!
Ooo-oo-ooh, sha sha, ooh!
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Falling Star
02:33
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Sometimes the brightest star
Sings the saddest song
Cause every morning
With the Dawn
They say goodbye, and they’re
Gone….
I can feel it coming down on me
What’s your hurry,
Got nothin to worry about now
Used to worry I got no one to worry ‘bout me
No need to hurry,
Got nothin to worry about now
I can feel it coming down
No need to hurry,
Got nothin to worry about now
I can feel I’m falling down
What’s your hurry,
Got nothin to worry about now
Can you feel it fallin down on me?
What’s your hurry,
Got nothin to worry about now
I can tell it’s comin down
What’s your hurry,
Got nothin' to worry about
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Ocean
03:58
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Fell into the ocean
Sank into the sea
Undulating motion
Washing over
Down on the bottom
You can be free
So if you get the notion
You should come with me
Come with me
The ocean heaves
The world breathes
And everything is floating fallen leaves
Under the surface
There flows a river
Cool, clear life-
Giving water
And on the bottom
That river is a tree
And I got the notion
That you were just like me
You were just like me
Just like me
Here we go!
The ocean heaves
And the world breathes
And everything is just floating fallen leaves
I fell into the ocean
I sank into the sea
Undulating motion
Washing over
Down on the bottom
We can all be free
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Raze
03:43
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A thousand legions deep
(Destiny to fulfill)
Smash your love into the keep
(High on a hill)
The precipice is steep
(Take that bitter pill)
Don’t look before you leap
Raze… the flag
A thousand stories high
(The eagle flies with the dove)
Launch your love into the sky
(Raining fire from above)
Eye
For bloody Eye
Blood will be spilled
The gutters flow with the kill
And flowers will bloom in time
To cover up the crime
A thousand stitches wide
(Banners blow in the breeze)
Sew your love into its hide
(It brings me to my knees)
Burn it down
Burn it down
Burn it down
Burn it down for those who died
Burn it down for those who died
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Killers
03:38
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Don't take a silver bullet
To lift this dreaded curse
Or a magic potion
That'll leave you feelin' worse
And it don't take a spooky woman
With a tarnished lamp to illuminate
It just requires madness
Just for you to feed your hate
Cause we are all killers
On the land and on the sea
Bonapartes and sharks included
And of course there's you and me
Don't take a wooden stake
Driven through a dusty heart
Or the national army
Firing missiles into the dark
It don't take a steady hand
To get off that perfect shot
Just requires madness
And I know you've got a lot
Cause we are all stupid
Despite our massive brains
Einstein included
Cause we only use our smarts to dole out pain
So stop what you're doing
Just give up without a fight
And please stop your talking
Cause you've said too much tonight
Lay down that heavy cross
And learn to walk away
You think you're doin' nothing
But you've done too much today
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Around Again
04:48
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Glowing pearl, faerie fire
Looming world, shining sapphire
Blooming swirl, an astral gyre
Stellar road in the dead of night
To our own embryonic mind
Let go
Loose the tether
One more time
Around again
Spinning star, orbiting wheel
Floating far in a nucleic field
Burning heart, to be revealed
Embers flow in the dead of night
Celestial stone like a fate entwined
Static snow, be sure to say goodnight
To your embryonic mind
Let go
Light as a feather
One more time
Around again
Let’s go
Loose the tether
One more time
Around again
Floating world, unidentified
Shining pearl, so beautiful and wide
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8. |
City of Rabbits
03:48
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We were born underground
In this city of rabbits
And we don't make a sound
When there’s a knock on the door - oh oh, oh oh
There’s always a shakedown
In the city of rabbits
And this is what I found
We can't take it no more. No more! No more!
The heart of a rabbit
So hard to control
They just want to stab it, grab it… grab it...
Pull you out of your hole
The ebb of the springtide
In the heart of a rabbit
The sway of the plumbline
Beats a pulse in your soul. Oh oh, oh oh!
All day into night time
In this city of rabbits
A feeling so sublime
We can’t take it no more. No more! No more!
The heart of a rabbit
So hard to control
They just wanna stab it, grab it... grab it....
Pull you out of your hole
I was born underground
In this city of rabbits
And this thing that I've found
We can't take it no more. No more! No more!
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As We Fall Apart
03:16
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There's a bend in the river
Where the lifeforms tend to start
In a furrow that's been etched
Across my secret heart
I will stand tall beside you
With a quiver full of darts
That are holding us together
As we fall apart
Holding us together
As we fall apart
There's a chance that is given
To each and every passing mark
In a game on the midway
Of the amusement park
And I'll walk home beside you
Nursing our tattered purple hearts
Holding us together
As we fall apart
Holding us together
As we fall apart
There's a point in every story
When the lifeforms disembark
When the secret name I call you
Forms a watermark
In the shroud of all our days
And nights wrapped up in the dark
That are holding us together
As we fall apart
Holding us together
As we fall apart
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Cayenne
04:16
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We ran through the clouds
Oh! Such a perfect day!
And we’re never coming down
From the palisade
Rain falls in French
On the holiday
But the heat of Cayenne
Will melt us all
The river rushes past
Out to the sea
Where nothing ever lasts
We are true
We ran through the crowd
Oh, such a perfect day
Danced in motley gowns
For the big parade
The crumbled ruins
From the colony
Catch the sky’s deep blue
And you give it back
The river rushes past
Out to the sea
Will nothing ever last?
And we are true!
Nothing ever lasts
We are true!
We brushed through the clouds
Oh, on a winter’s day
The buildings on the ground
Form a colonnade
Snow falls in New Amsterdam
For the holiday
But the heat of Cayenne
Melt it all!
River rushes past
Out to the sea
Nothing ever lasts
And we are true….
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Wash Away
03:12
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Wrote a letter to an old friend
Thinkin bout those late night sessions
But I didn't need to send it
Cause memories don't fade away
See how they shine on?
We marched against the king
Fighting for common decency
But it don't change a thing
When he can just turn away
Throw your words into a forest
You climb the highest tree
From there you can see forever
That song is such a gold friend
Brings to mind those late night sessions
And those seeds we need to tend
Before they wash away
Throw your words into a forest
Grow your forest on the mountain
Throw it all into the ocean
And watch it wash away
It'll never fade away
It'll never fade away
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Blue
04:08
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Seconds trip, trip, tripping
For the listing ship
Slipping slowly down its spine
And fate is sipping
At a fatal clip
As we sink into the brine
But who can resist the Siren's call?
Her chorus whipping
Like a pistol grip
Chipping sweetly at my mind
And sweat is drip, drip, dripping
From my upper lip
And I'm surely out of time
But the blue... enraptures me
The blue... embraces me
The blue... captures me
The blue... defaces me
Fish are snipping
At my fingertips
Unzipping me from my rind
And my skin is ripping
Sharks take a nip
Stripping me
Of what was mine
And the blue... welcomes me
The blue welcomes me
Who... can resist?
Tell me, who....?
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Under The Waves
04:38
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Let the brine kiss thee like the strongest wine
“Take me away in you,” she cried
Rejoice and delight in this night
Til dark and lovely jewels glitter the tide
“Arise my beautiful one
Now the winter rains are over and done.”
And now we must face the dawn
Pale like the moon, bright like the sun
With this salt I thee wed
An ancient red dowry
My left arm is under your head
While your right arm doth embrace me
Even the carrion birds have flown
Dark and lovely jewels litter their graves
A silver and blue chariot is drawn
Bright like the sun under the waves
Under the waves
Step into my water
There to give you my love
Under the waves!
Bright like the sun
Under the waves
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14. |
Float On By / Fly Away
06:15
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Can't see the shore
And I don't want your
Land no more
I know for sure
Float ... on ... by!
Float ... on ... by!
Float ... on ... by!
I don't want war
And I ain't gonna score
Myself no more
I know for sure
Float ... on ... by!
Float on by
Float ... on ... by
Since the beginning of time
We have dreamed of moving
Slicing through primordial seas
Brachiating trees
Scanning the savannah for food
We try to run, and we fall, we trip
Hovering in the air like the pear
In your mother's favorite gelatine dessert
We scurry through tunnels
Beneath the ruins of ophidian cities
Ancient and weird
But now we no longer run or walk or fly
We only move in shiny metal boxes
stretched to the horizon
to sit within room within room
Within room within room within room
Within room within room within room
Before hurrying home
To drink our boxed wine
And prepackaged meals
And once again I find myself in strange cities
navigating a network of bridges, tunnels
And roads and rivers
On a rendezvous with old friends
Whose faces I've never ever seen
And I wander
But then I remember
I wonder
But then I remember
Every morning waking up with the ache
Of being unable to move
Being encased in amber.
And I remember
I could always fly away
I could always fly away
Floating on the atmosphere
I could always fly away
A cannonball!
‘Til I fall ...
Awake
I could always fly away
I could always fly away
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Bastards of Slaughter
04:48
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We are all children
Immigrants, sons, and daughters
We are the bastards of slaughter
Waves cresting the shore
On floating cotillions
Swirling ecosystems
Imperfect conditions
Resistance engines roar
And we march back to the sea...
We march back to the sea
Before we turn into machines
All going home
We're not just civilians
Cogs, sprockets, or pistons
On suicide missions
Fighting atomic wars
For countless generations
Nomadic sons and daughters
We are the bastards of slaughter
Our alma mater
And we march back to the sea...
We march back to the sea
We march back to the sea
Before we turn into machines
All going home
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Don Paris Schlotman Brooklyn, New York
Don Paris Schlotman is a Brooklyn-based solo musician.
The seventh son of a lightning bolt
and a mountain lion. Plays music the way some people fall over. His artificial left eye can see 4 seconds into the future.
Past:
bass in neo-noir band Toshio; bass/synth in Brian Bonz & The Major Crimes; guitar and vocals in Dolphins Don't Love; bass and vocals in The Sky Captains of Industry; more
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