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Home Away From Home
05:44
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Quiet like the dawn
I'm alone in a new town
New life all around me
What will it have spawned
Will evaporation lead me to
a soft landing in the clouds
Or like moss spreading over concrete
can I cling to solid ground
Towering Sequoias
Gnarled Sitka Spruce
Empty windswept beaches
Preside over this truce
And it's true, what they said about you
How you can take somebody in
though they're just passing through
and make them feel like they belong
like nothing else they ever knew
And I know I've got a friend in Pennsylvania
but really, the best it can do
is remind me of you
when it's green and it's grey and it's blue
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2. |
Eyes of the Kind
08:31
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Don't fake a smile
Don't reconcile
Just while it away
For now it's today
However long it takes
to love and lose the hate
These days, they will not wait
What it seems to me
is what you mean to see
in the eyes of the mind
with the eyes of the blind
Free to move around
but only on the ground
You've got eyes of the kind
that see me through time
You've got eyes of the kind
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3. |
Overlap
06:13
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4. |
On This Earth
04:24
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You didn't ask for this, so I owe you one
We can make anything out of these days
Can you keep that smile somehow on your face
when the world conspires to vanquish every trace
Knowing how hard it gets
there is only one defense
that doesn't make you less
Sometimes you hold up a mirror, and I can't stand to see
I know I can't be perfect, but I want to be for you
Your love is beautiful, it's so big and pure
I want to live up to it on this earth
And I want this love to always preside over you
Keep it safe, but wear it all over your sleeve
While I was waiting for stars to align
you were the light that came to outshine
all my hallowed dreams
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5. |
Neverland
05:08
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Some want to be Peter Pan
replaying the nostalgia in their mind
Some pine for the glory days
the good times all dried up and left behind
Well so long, the days
Get them gone, for good
Everything hurts
Everything's a catastrophe
Worse keeps coming to worst
No one's fallin' in love with me
I suffered at the hands of idle youth
But time has brought us closer to the truth
I wasn't half of what I am now
and only now I'm half of what I'll be
And I'll wear my grey like a badge
grown into my old soul finally
The constant need to impress
What do they think of me
Will I ever be a success
Who the hell am I supposed to be
Lucky I survived those years at all
Waiting by the phone for her to call
Home, all I want is a home
Will you be home, what I call home
You're always home when I call home
Home, think I'm finally home
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6. |
Hey Gil
06:06
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Hey Gil, this can't be the truth that you were after
After all is said and done, now Gil
What is the measure of our lives
What is worth fighting for
Gil, you did not survive in America
Too few doing as you said, too many doing as you did
But Gil, somewhere I swear
it's still the First Minute of a New Day
Always be new people waking up
and coming 'round to the things you had to say
I heard it said Gil, that words are like jails
that it's actions that matter so much more
But what if words are all we have to give
and what if those words burn right to the core
'Cause even as your life went up in flames
As you went falling through that crack
Those words were reaching out right across the world
Giving someone somewhere something back
they did not have before
Hey Gil, this can't be the truth that you were after
Hey Gil, tell me the truth that you were after
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7. |
Holiday Party
04:16
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Please don't ask me if I want to go
The answer's no, but I won't tell you so
Please don't take it the wrong way
I don't think that I'm 'better'; I just don't have much to say
Thrown together at random, like low-wage chromosomes
Some join together in tandem, some just want to go home
You would have me wrapped in bandages
then unraveled by the running tap
You would have me rise to the surface, to the occasion
I would just feel trapped
There is no intention to be a code you cannot crack
Just turn around and let me roll right off your back
Don't you see that it's better that I don't come along
I'll head back to the studio and write you all a song
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8. |
Reckless
05:58
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9. |
Symmetry
06:21
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10. |
Orbiting Headlights
04:38
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Yes you're close to the bypass
but that's not really where you wanna go
You can easily get there by any number of roads
But if you stay straight on this one
you'll eventually drive off the face of the earth
I nodded and smiled
but that man had a straight face
Another couple hundred miles
and I was out in space
And for all this time I thought
those orbiting headlights were just stars
Some had reconsidered
Doors were open, seats were vacant
But why would you want to go back
where everyone was afraid of the aliens they made
of the monsters they created
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