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Here Comes the Dark
03:43
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I'm a child
Got my whole life ahead now
I'll go wild
Don't need to think of death
I feel invincible
Like a rock
I'm gonna stick my neck out
Why not?
A whole lifetime left
And I feel so bulletproof
But I'm not
I've seen only light all of my life
I'm not old enough to think about dying
But now
Here Comes the Dark and I
Start to fall apart now
I feel tired
I Think I'll lay my head down
For a while
All I need is rest
And I'll feel as good as new
But I don't
I feel it in my chest now
The lights go out
I try to catch my breath
But I see it's red in tooth
And claw
I finally feel older
For years I was younger
The days get behind you
Oh boy, you think they're ahead
And now
Here Comes the Dark and I
Start to fall apart now
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2. |
Isolani
04:00
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I know isolation
We're well acquainted
My limitations
I'll share with you
I'm not insulated
Every piece is fated
And I was placed here
On board to lose
Cause I'm just a low little pawn
And I'm standing here on guard
For you, My Queen
Bended down on my knees
Oh can't you see I'm through
They unlocked my chains
From friends I've made
Till the end of games
I play it for you
Enough contemplation
It's your move, now make it
The square I'm facing
It is immune
Cause I'm just a low little pawn
And I'm standing here on guard
For you, My Queen
Bended down on my knees
Oh can't you see I'm through
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3. |
A Fly By Night
03:41
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Like a fly by night
Don't keep things tidy
I'll turn a phrase up on its side
Don't divide my time
To my wife I'm blind
Can't stand a dog much less a child
His work is his life
I hate to say that it was mine
Took up space
Took up time
I found the exit from the fire seething
I gave up weeping
I picked up and said goodbye
I am always right
To myself I lie
You must bend the knee and please admire
I am so surprised
I'm unrecognized
For what's been achieved inside my mind
His work is his life
I hate to say that it was mine
Took up space
Took up time
I found the exit from the fire seething
I gave up weeping
I picked up and said goodbye
Ashamed am I
To say my ways are sometimes hurtful
Sometimes hurtful
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4. |
Lonesome Man
03:43
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I've been living by myself
No dog, no cat, no nothing else
I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man
I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man
And the pipes drip slowly
Cold wind blows hard
Up against my window
Right through my heart
My shadow is the only one who seems to know me these days
But it don't like my company anyway
Crying, but no one hears my call
When I'm dying will I have a hand to hold
I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man
I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man
And the night moves slowly
And peace comes hard
And a mind thinks many things
Alone in the dark
Sun comes pouring through my old window pane
Right on cue to start another lonely day
I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man
I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man
I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man
I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man
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5. |
A Man to Be Envied
03:26
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He has it so good
And few of us would
Not change lives and places
Money talks and his face is
Well liked by all the girls
He buys diamond studded bracelets
For ones he likes
With the curves
All the world is his oyster
Good luck, it always seems
To follow him
He got no debt, no tragedy
Most men got plenty
The eyes of many
They can see
He's a Man to be Envied
A Man to be Envied
A Man to be Envied
A Man to be Envied
For what he got
He has it so good
And all of us should
Get to age oh so gracefully
Like him
With security
Provided by the purse
On the back of his family
It's nice but it's not earned
I guess life is just some lottery
Good luck, it always seems
To follow him
He got no debt, no tragedy
Most men got plenty
The eyes of many
They can see
He's a Man to be Envied
A Man to be Envied
A Man to be Envied
A Man to be Envied
Or is he not?
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6. |
The Black Cloud Come On
03:23
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Been searching so long got to find a home
A place to lay your head and bones
Got to go back to where you're from
Before another black cloud come on
Been digging a hole outside it shows
A face that has become unknown
Got to go where the get is pure
Then to the shelter of our good lord
The Black Cloud Come on
Brings the rain in
Back out on the street again for more
He's a poor boy
Out to score boy
All on his own
He's making some room with a broken broom
A space behind some dusty pews
A Who'd a-known in it's day it shone
But that all seems so very long ago
He's cooking his spoon as he hums a tune
"Oh Happy Day" or some gospel blues
Feeling safe and he's a-feelin' warm
Until another Black cloud come on
The Black Cloud Come on
Brings the rain in
Back out on the street again for more
He's a poor boy
Out to score boy
All on his own
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7. |
No Passing Through
03:46
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Remembering
Well it hurts sometimes when I think about you
The days of our youth
If you never leave
Well that's fine if you stay in the day, in the light
I can see with my eyes
Just stay out of my night
Please no passing through
Oh take a look at the time
You must be going soon
When I'm asleep
Well you dive on in with both feet, that ain't right
Making waves in my life
Or so it seems
But you're here and there in my dreams
Why can't I clean the slate with a wipe?
Just stay out of my night
Please no passing through
Oh take a look at the time
You must be going soon
In memories you're buried
So very deep, unearthing
So many things unnerving
Daylight come around won't you
Just stay out of my night
Please no passing through
Oh take a look at the time
You must be going soon
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8. |
A Shadowy Figure
04:23
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Every face on the street is a threat to the peace he keeps inside
Every word that he speaks is all day replaying through his mind
Into a shell he retreats mute and solitary, resigned
Though he appears to be common, ordinary, they don't apply
When the depth that is reached is the darkest deep, refrain desire
Into a shell he does flee from another defeat in life
Cause in a shell he is free of all that flesh confines
Now who is he so shadowy a figure in the night
A wary being, yes you'll see him whither in the light
But in a shell he can breathe relief in the deepest sigh
Cause in a shell he don't need to please or sacrifice
See the flush of his cheeks and his trembling knees, he aches to hide
But it's a prison scene, he must concede these ways are tired
Into a shell he does flee from another defeat in life
Cause in a shell he is free of all that flesh confines
Now who is he so shadowy a figure in the night
A wary being, yes you'll see him whither in the light
But in a shell he can breathe relief in the deepest sigh
Cause in a shell he don't need to please or sacrifice
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9. |
The Dark
06:29
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Them Jones Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Combining the stranger elements of post-60’s pop with the less-mined saccharine sounds of acts found in the drug-drenched Haight-Ashbury fallout,Them Jones create a mutant sound all of its own. They exist in the space between the sonic ether of a Tuesday night basement show and the crackle of the dusty, scratched over grooves of the hypothetical record collections procured by 70’s cinema auteurs. ... more
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