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El Dorado
05:50
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Captain Cacambo, what is this we've come across?
I'd be content to leave our canoe dashed on the rocks, even though
cold Corcovado's casted shadow blinds the valley's strangers
with no motion left but forward through the darkened day's remainder
But if we don't meet upon agreeable things
At least we'll agree to meet upon something new
When the horses died we tied a sail up with a broken stirrup
You tongue turned native, mine was trapped back home in Western Europe
What riches pave these streets with emeralds shining gold and green
Between borrowed sheets of hummingbird and these plates of parakeet
These new locations get me dizzy again
I just want to wake up to another one and continue the spin
Oh, you'd never know
What kindness you could find
Between the mountainsides
do the peaks there hold my queen?
Or at least
A little mercy for a thief
Whose broken aim has scattered arrows at my feet
But every shot in the dark someday finds a target
And I've slept on sinking ships
With lost cargo found adrift
I'll let El Dorado hold my head
What now Cacambo? Should we draw lines between the stars?
We'd make our way before the heavens get too far and find
Golden days fallin' like rain into your hooded sweatshirt
Golden days fallin' like rain in an ancient forest winter
What now Cacambo? the world spins between my eyes
And you likely have some fair one back home
for whom you still sigh
Memories pave these dreams with never ending farewell scenes
Traded one by one for miles til we reach the Spanish Sea
where these constellations get me dizzy again
I just wanna stare up to another one and continue the spin
Oh you'd never know
What kindness you could buy
To bribe the lock to turn on the cell that holds my queen
All at once
Or else never at all
But no sight is dear enough to steer us home before she's set free
And every shot in the dark someday finds a target
And I'd sail on sinking ships
Leave the cargo all adrift
to find El Dorado in your eyes
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2. |
Snowtire
03:21
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She froze inside of a snow globe
With a note in her hand
Pushed off of the lines on the pavement
Tied to your feet when ya stand
And start to wander away
And envy every echo
They're always out of reach
All that time spent in half made heavens
Made hymns harder to believe
Perennial dreams
Losing color in the sun
When you're born to repeat
Every seasonal freeze
Cause what kind of love is a wheel
With chains on
Oh did I go
Oh oh oh did I go
Oh did I go away in time?
Nobody knows
Everybody showed up late
And they won't even mind
When ya wander away
And follow all the echoes
Til the room goes quiet again
And doldrums beat in irregular rhythms
With loops tied up at the ends
Familiar scenes
Wish I was waking up warm
Not born to repeat
Every seasonal freeze
Cause what kind of love is a wheel?
Outside these familiar scenes
Are losing color in the sun
When you're born to repeat
Born to repeat
Born to repeat
Born
Snowtire
Snowtire
Snowtire
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3. |
Wine Dark
05:32
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Hold on love
Don't close your eyelids
Just stay up above me
Like a fish and an island
Well I feel I've been swimming here
For miles and miles
Fading faces on faded photographs
Stay peering past those bottled nights
And early mornings
When the sun swallows the city
In daylight again
Following footsteps
Through obsidian strangers
Passin' by the gaslight and gone
You fear your heart is something
That's now endangered
And ya won't get to see
What it could begun
Hold on love
Keep open those eyelids
You stay all around me
Like a bird in the mountains
But there's still no telling though
Where you'll let down
Seasons change
They just rearrange
All those tall tales
I took to be true
Imagining it'd be easy to be
Leaving this parking lot without you
But if I could go
I think I probably should
Morning time is just outside
Inside I know that I still probably could
It'd be the last time I'd ever close my eyes
Frozen stone cut into hill
Rolls off the shelf
Nobody will pick up the pieces
When we leave
Frozen bones break on their own
Don't walk alone
Who's gonna blow that light out when ya sleep
All those pretty words you kept on saying to me
Were disappearing but never too eager to leave
No no no no no no no
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4. |
Dashes
05:08
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Cruel crippling dashes
Flashing on the edge of the orange grove
Five hours of feverish sleep
Beneath a silent television glow
I feel the pain of wasted days
And now it's bending at my bones
You hate the rain but your boots hit the gutters
Every chance ya get
When the river starts to overflow
Cruel crippling dashes
In the drunken corner while the choir sings
Salvation made ya eager for a friend
I should have followed as ya run away
You heeded every sign ya could
And walked against the passing cars
Could it be you're getting rides off to
Somewhere all tropical and far
Oh, do not go
Gently into that good night
In flames the sanctuary drowns
And never mind if the cathedral bells come crashing down
If the congregations found
Cruel crippling dashes
I want to write my apologies in the sky
My only wish involves a bottomless pit
And a bandana tied over my eyes
When curtains closed you wore my clothes
And fluttered gently off to sleep
Closing eyes and a pearl inside
Your golden heart to keep
Oh do not go
Gently into that good night
One for all and all for what
Another handful of stars til the moons having a hard time
Telling down from up
Strangers faces leaving fast as they seem to appear
I guess I could use the company now that you're here
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5. |
Firefly
04:32
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Why be alone
Why be alone in the dark
You keep my fingers cupped to the sky
In the shape of a heart
With a half moon hangin inside
Why be alone
Why be alone in the dark
Tap on the glass 'cause
I'd gladly breathe through a slit in a jar
For the chance to illuminate your room
But you capture and you keep
Let it glow by your bed like a dream
That you missed when you can't sleep
But bug lights leave
Faces in screens
And all reappear where your shelter retreats again
Light on your feet
Waltzin' out of a ballroom
Deep in your dreams
I'm flying low
So dance your way to the sky
Let's find a place in the middle
That we can finally meet
And not be alone
Not be alone in the dark
Who's gonna brighten shadows on your wall
If you suffocate 'em all
For the chance to illuminate your room
So follow em past the cars
Wave a net at every star you can find
Through the fields in your front yard
Now we're standing on the outside lookin in
Outside looking in
Outside looking up
Outside look at them
Outside look at us
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