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Onesquethaw
04:55
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Walking up the Onesquethaw
you wouldn't believe what I saw
Water flowing underground
doesn't make any sound
You'll never see
sunlight through these trees
While you're asleep
This water runs deep
The walls get so steep
come up on the waterfall
no way around these wall
You'll never know
where this water flows
Sometimes when it snows
you might see the sinkholes
(Year's at the spring
Day's at the morn
Lark's on the wing
Snail's on the thorn)
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2. |
Timothy Winters
05:13
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Timothy Winters came back from the war
not too sure what he was there fighting (sent there) for
they sent him back to a hospital bed
while they took the shrapnel from his head
peeling paint on whitewashed walls
the whitewash was on more than bloodstained halls
all the king's nurses and all his medicine
put timothy back together again
Chorus
(So come one angel, come on ten
Timothy Winters says 'Amen'
Amen Amen Amen Amen
Timothy Winters, Lord)
found a job but he felt exposed
the parked cars, people in the shadows
garbage bags left on the side of the road
looked like they might explode
he had trouble leaving his apartment
tried to get some money from VA department
they took one look at the state tim's in
and said preexisting condition
I know a woman who tried to help
She went to school not just for herself
Tried to get a job at the VA
but they had no salary to pay
he finally got himself a girlfriend
she took one look into his eyes and said i think i can mend him
he looked into her eyes and said
i wish I were dead
One day he didn't answer his phone
They say he went into the kitchen and turned on the stove
Waited until gas filled the kitchen
They only found pieces of Tim
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Mr. Wrinkles
03:22
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The other night I had this dream
that my mom was screaming at me
because she had her headphones on
and had the volume up too loud.
My gloves were on backwards and on the wrong hand
it wasn't quite what I had planned
so I tried to rearrange them
but I only managed to change them into claws
Chorus
Mr. Wrinkles is a dog who's dressed like a girl
With him by my side we will take on the world
He can bake a cake and skate on the icing
He's got a black belt in karate and a phd in engineering
Me and Mr. Wrinkles we're two me's in a pod
He knows what I'm thinking before it's thought.
Old people fall and we can't catch them all
They yellow of Port Meadow makes me feel small
We're living by the castles that were built with great minds
but they won't even let me go inside
But I can't tell the difference between being here and there
While you were in the shower I couldn't help but stare
The pictures move around the walls and the floor moves like the sea
I'm wrapped up in the double yellow line out in the street
What's the point of living when you're missing out on everything
and the only thing that we can't believe happened while you were
asleep and dreaming.
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4. |
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There's a man
Utopian
Wants to be President
Says he'll be benevolent
When he runs the government
What he knows of politics
He learned from Star Trek
He's got a girlfriend
She stands behind him
They've got on uniforms
They're matching uniforms
He'll tell us what to do
in his beautiful
utopia
A new age of Aquarius
He's gonna dictate
There'll be no more hate
in his corporate state
they won't exterminate
like that other state
What he knows of economics
He learned from Babylon 5
Television keeps the myth
of free speech alive
He's got a girlfriend
She stands next to him
They've got on uniforms
They're matching uniforms
He'll tell us what to do
in his beautiful
utopia
A new age of Aquarius
He'll follow
Benito
To the Nova Rome
Someone should let him know
We don't have that far to go
What he knows of politics he learned from Star Trek
What he knows of economics he learned from Babylon 5
Television only keeps the myth of free speech alive
Those cavern dwellers are about to eat us alive
He's got a girlfriend
She stands behind him
They've got on uniforms
They're homemade uniforms
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5. |
Portals
07:09
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where can you see such beautiful technology
hovering machines gracefully arrive from a land unseen
sleepy people, luggage, rolls over conveyor belts to baggage holds
where they're off, what they've seen why they're here + what does it mean
people rush around you in the silence of slow motion
they're on borrowed land and hollowed air and hushed devotion
a woman waiting with a sign cries out and runs behind the line
to grab her son returning from a place he should've never gone
one day you wake up in the state of oklahoma
you step into the airportal and end up in a coma
in the clouds that you can see as the wing blinks intermittently
You wonder if you lean to the side will you enter into a nose dive
is it possible at this height and at this speed to still be alive
flying over tiny lights who is down there and what are they like
put up your tray tables and your seats and you wake up in germany
where there is not a soul who knows anything about Tulsa
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6. |
Angelina, Astronaut
03:21
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Angelina, Astronaut
Have you seen her? I think not.
She's still out there in outer space.
It's been a while since we've seen her face
You can call if you want to but you'll need a satellite
You can look if you want to but I think she's out of sight.
Valentina Tereshkova
Is the first woman to take off of
Planet Earth into outer space
But she didn't win the space race.
She used the stars to comb her hair
Those arent' quasars, they're just her stare
Angelina, Super Brain
Living on an astral plane
Supposed to be just a little trip
When she took of from her rocket ship
Will she ever come back to earth?
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7. |
I'm From Massachusetts
04:10
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i walked into a hotel bar
somewhere up in new hampshire
thought i'd check the latest score
for finals of world cup soccer
that's what the world calls football
the tv set above the bar
showed qualifiers for nascar
i asked the bartender if he'd mind
changing the channel for a time
so i could check the score
he said
'where're you from?'
'from vermont?'
i said 'no, why'd you ask?'
feeling a little beleagured
he said 'what are you?'
'one of those ivy leaguers?'
he meant that school in Hanover
right then i didn't know what he meant
i thought i'd give him one more chance
to put on the soccer game
or at least the tour de france
he asked where I was from, i said
I'm from Massachusetts!
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8. |
Two Wheels
03:38
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Bender Melon New Scotland, New York
If a hermit living in a Helderberg cave makes a noise does anyone hear it?
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