1. |
Sapphire
04:34
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we were born
light cool blue
cold fire
burns me burns you
in the sky
feeling high
cold call
on the line
and he needs me
don’t know where I’ll find him
don’t know where he is
and he needs me
don’t know where I’ll find him
don’t know where he is
sometimes startled by where you are
will a tone resolve your mind
will your mind resolve desire
will the crying prophet quiet
and they need me
the men that lay beside me
the men that let me in
need my body
a kind of idol worship
a spiritual next of kin
look up high or look inside
your blue eyes are all I see
you’re a myth but you exist
in me
sleep it off
play it cool
touch me smooth
touch my jewel
in the sky
in my blood
are you an ocean
show me love
touch my blues
prove you’re you
Coyote
come to me
I beseech
your mystery
touch my blues
prove you’re you
Michael
I am on and you are too
Sapphire
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2. |
Litany
03:40
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Ashera
Ausera
Aphaia
Astoreth
Tara
Ceeridween
Kibele
Hipolyta
Anackira
Matrona
Ishtar
Inana
Amaterasu
Kuanyin
Rhiannon
Epona
Eileithyia
Freyja
Gingira
Kali
Isis
Ariadne
Athena
Athalia
Maria
Regina
Artemi
Minerva
Ragana
Diana
Baba Yaga
Zemyna
Devi Adi
Laima
Austeja
Zveruna
Varima-te-takere
Gayatri
Nuakea
Hekate
too many names
they try to say
they don't remember
but I don't believe it
Lady of the Snakes
the Queen of Heaven
Queen of Pain
wanting nothing
being everything
every mother
every tree
spirals
dancing too slow
to see
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3. |
Eddie Jones
04:11
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me and Eddie jones
we got a weird thing going
I don't have a home
because my heart’s been broken
he can't take me home
because his Mama's always there
got a man around
and daddy's in the sky somewhere
turtle on his arm
he says his life is changing
always all the time
the sky is always changing
standing on the rooftop
took my love into his mind
eyes like night and teeth like snow
our boy is out of time
I like the island Manhattan
but all I see is you and me
I never had a vacation
ooh California running away
run away from the pain
ooh now I go to find my name
ooh California running away
run away from the pain
ooh now I go to find my name
missing Eddie jones
I couldn't take him with me
sky is changing cold
I had to quit this city
pink fur lady walking
call me baby everywhere
they don't know my name
can't meet my gazes anywhere
angel in the snow
I feel my life is changing
back to county roads
it’s just my body changing
every man the same
in shadows like my baby’s eyes
someone call my name
someone understand my style
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4. |
The Soul
04:49
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every single person
has got a part of the Soul
you try to think you're separate
but we're all a part of the whole
the preacher in the window
five fingers pray to The Man
each with five faces
they think they're in on the plan
blonde Shiva
church singer
believer
no secrets
she sings of rivers
she wears her silver
cries to her mother
she is a river
they say “Oh Great spirit.
Hey won’t you grow out my hair?”
you’re praying then you're punished
but it's all in your hands
you’re weaving when you're signing
though you never sew
you’re worshipping you're cursing
a country you never chose
do a good deed you ask for something
you’re asking for something in return
do a good deed don't ask for nothing
asking for nothing in return
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5. |
Nikhil
05:02
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your sane
your sanitary interest
your mind and I’m
a prophet witness
we’re here to help you
not sane
I’m vain I’m
stealing kisses
I know
you’ll take back
to your Mrs.
already missing you
you, you walked away
I threw the apple
but I called you a snake
I, I’m at your feet
they call you saint
but you just wanna play
you said “whatever, man”
your body strong
you wanna crash it
you lost your car
you hate your parents
I know they hurt you
an angry god
the child is guiltless
the king of pain
the hooker priestess
I wanna save you
you, you walked away
I threw the apple
but I called you a snake
I, I’m at your feet
they call you saint
but you just wanna play
it’s the end of the world
everything hurts
let it all go now
peace on earth
it’s the end of the pain
from death to birth
letting go of the lightning
peace on earth
you are not your pain
you are not your pain
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6. |
Athame
03:44
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your mom she called me
before your birthday
she thinks The City
It ate her baby
I tried to tell her
how you loved her
The City made you
made you Her baby
ah ooh namah shivaya
The Knife is easy
but ink is heavy
my brother leaving
The Snake is waiting
wet faces shining
your band is playing
the lanterns flying
The Jade is sharp
ah ooh namah Shiva ya
Shakti Shiva
now you're tripping on angel wings
Cassie says you're a bird again
but it doesn't matter
world is changing
everything dies
every blessing
a curse the same
The Knife is easy
but I can't take it
I never take it
cuz it matters
people can fly
everything dies
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7. |
Lamentation
04:15
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gray sky burned to ash
fires echo last
Wind’s memory
thirty days you're gone
every day the first
since you left me
planes hang high like toys
carbon, diamonds, soil
you’re a part of me
every color mourns
when I'm wearing your clothes
I feel you here
leaving candles burning
you said I’d know
I can hear the ocean
you said I'd know
I built my heart into a home
that you burned down
on a Friday night alone in an empty bath tub
I share your bed now
but I'm alone
I let my anger go
long ago
but I wanna be mad
all my lamentation
I let them fly away
keep flying away
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8. |
Litany (Reprise)
02:20
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Maria
Regina
Diana
Asherah
Gaia
everything is real I know what I’m doing
I light blue candles for the ancestors
I have a blue light bulb in a broken desk lamp
it lays above the shrine to you
sometimes I light it when i’m getting down
sometimes I shake
like the fuilmanet in a bulb shakes to make light
kundalini the snake
body shaking they say is the nerves realigning
circling back spiral arms outward
I read that nerves are ancient and plastic which doesn’t mean like how it sounds
we’re all plastic now
sex is a part of all of it
the house is you the room is you
the spirits watch me fuck in pools
pricked myself on a half dead cactus
she’s languished here for years
half alive which were we then
the summer when we first met
the summer when you left
I named her that first day but could never remember what to call her
she is pangea
Gaia
New York
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9. |
Tunnels
05:24
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dirty white tunnels
tired people
green letters
they died long ago
golden halo
rats, friends
find her keep her
fine asses
crack and oil
sweat, incense
torches, candles
attention or lust
I lost my mind
I have no answers
I just keep sitting here
right where you can see me
even though
you're looking at the girls
looking at the girls
I lost my mind
I just keep screaming
I couldn't keep her
you have to see me
even though you’re looking
looking at the girls
looking at the girls
looking at the girls
cops in kippahs
ancient temples
see a ghost
death came also
by sin, a rose
say hello
snakes, singing
I'm Orlando
an Indian, a Coke
outside, dark cold
down here, too warm
waste and bones
don't judge the ones you love the most
don't spurn the slave to save the host
don’t curse the bug beneath your shoe
it could be me I could be you
I walked around my corner
walked underneath the stairs
pile of wet glistening trash
hulking beside me
rats dashing back and forth across my path
pretended like they were my friends
as if I would ever
I lost my mind
I have no answers
I just keep sitting here
right where you can see me
even though you’re looking
looking at the girls
looking at the girls
I lost my mind
I have no answers
I just keep screaming
I couldn’t keep her
even though you’re looking
looking at the girls
looking at the girls
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10. |
The Book
04:39
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I read your book
watered your garden
planted stories about you
and us
all over dark wet ground
and watched it grow
into a forest
til’ it blocked out
all the sun and I sound of the
world outside and
the people we know and you and I
It's a miracle I survived
I read your book
taught you to pray
taught you to write
I held your hand
we are the same
now I walk behind
I met another man and then another and another
called you Father Man
I mothered you all
on beds of leaves
sleeping at my side
the wind says no
you’re angry at night
your cities bleed
by electric light
hungry bodies
covered in lines
sell the darkness
own the light
you think you have it all but you have nothing
you say you hold the truth
the sun and moon
and I should walk behind
I don't fear the truth
the world your noose
your truth is
a lie
sons who fear the Fallen One
the Evening Star
afraid to die
I can see the Truth
we are the same
I set you
on fire
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