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Will I Be Someone
05:32
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All the dirty streets I walked
All the dirty thoughts I thought
All the dirty deeds that I did
Stick on my mind
I've been putting a tattoo on me
From the inside, I can't see
What it is or what it means
I just know the pain that I feel
But the day when I'll be done and die
Will I see, will I recognize
The whole, the tattoo inside
Of my heart and my soul?
Will I be someone before I die
Will I be someone
When I walk into the dark night, into the dark night
Will I be someone before I die
A dot of ink in God's blue sky
A tattoo myself, I'm fading away
Betty set her mind to die
Made a plan after while
Getting herself overdosed
With the stuff that she liked most
Liquid courage made her nearly insane
Couldn't hit a letter nor a vein
Asked her neighbour to help her through
Neighbour said, "sure I could do this for you"
But hippie Johnny was a junkie himself
He took his share, he gave her something else
He got high while she did faint
He saved her life, what an american saint
Will I be someone before I die
Will I be someone
When I walk into the dark night, into the dark night
Will I be someone before I die
A dot of ink in God's blue sky
A tattoo myself, fading away, I'm fading away
Is it singing peasants throwing their seed
Or the crazies yelling down in the street
Is what you get the stuff that you need
Down in the dark night?
Looking for love, are you looking for God
Christmas tree or a parking lot
A place for a pee or a decent job
Are you fading away?
You can't say because it's too hard
Time to stay or is it time to part
Question mark in the dark
That's what we are
I've been putting a tattoo on me
From the inside I can't see
What it is or what it means
I just know the pain that I feel
Then the day when I'll be done and die
I will see, I will recognize
The whole, the tattoo inside
Of my heart and my soul
Then I'll be someone before I die
Then I'll be someone
When I walk into the dark night, into the dark night
Then I'll be someone before I die
A dot of ink in God's blue sky
A tattoo myself, I'm fading away
I'm fading away
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Reach out your hand
Rip off my skin with your hand
Rip off my skin with your hand, with your hand
Ah,see my blood is pouring over the land
Like a dark old wave breaking at the strand
Rip off my skin with your hand
Reach out your hand
Reach out your hand
Open up my chest with your hand
Open my rip cage with your hand, with your hand
Ah feel my heart is beating under your hand
Like a blind bird is creeping over the strand
Open my rip cage with your hand
Reach out your hand
Now Jesus tell me what you gonna say, no no no
Reach out your hand and touch my heart & we will know
If there's a need for every tear & a cause for all the blood
And if death is right upon me it's the coming of the flood
The end of all the sorrow & the end of all the pain
Reach out your hand & heal the dread & make me sane
Reach out your hand, reach out your hand
Reach out your hand
Rip off my skin with your hand
Open my rip cage with your hand, with your hand
Ah,see my blood is pouring over the land
Like a dark old wave breaking at the strand
Ah feel my heart is beating under your hand
Like a blind bird is creeping over the strand
Open my rip cage with your hand
Reach out your hand
Reach out your hand
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Love is a Meatgrinder
03:08
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I was thinking of my baby
Yesterday she ran away
Oh my heart, it's so mutilated
Now hear me cry, and hear me say:
My bed is so empty
My heart is so blue
My baby she left me
She said we were through
My brain it is seething
It's seething for you
My heart is a meatpie
It's bleeding for you
My heart is a meatpie
It's bleeding for you
Love is a meatgrinder
And my heart went through
I stare at the ceiling
A rope in my hand
My darling she left me
I think that's the end
My heart is so empty
My bed is so blue
Love is a meatgrinder
And my heart went through
Love is a meatgrinder
And my heart went through
My heart is a meatpie
It's bleeding for you
My heart is a meatpie
It's bleeding for you
Love is a meatgrinder
And my heart went through
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Under Swine & Bears
04:41
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5. |
Little White Fish
03:03
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Huggy Bear Motel
04:08
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Alone,
I press my face into my pillow
Alone-lone-lone,
Inside that broken tube TV
Alone-lone-lone-lone-lone,
But then I know I have to go – away!
Oh, the world it is revolving
And more questions are evolving
Find me a place to dig a hole
Then I'll have a place to shit in
That'll be my place to live in
I'll plant some wheat & meat to feed up my soul
Eating meatballs on a bloodstained mattress in a Huggy Bear motel
And then,
it's Henry's Bar at 2 AM (hu-hu)
And then then then,
Chicken wings are bleeding on my hand (hu-hu)
And then then then then then
she said where are you heading next – tonight?
There were things & words I forgot
Driving circles on a parking lot
Close my door and quietly lock my song
In my pocket I have two dead eyes
From the honkytonk I've been last night
And the guy stared at my baby just a little bit to long knows he did wrong
Eating meatballs on a bloodstained mattress in a Huggy Bear motel
Again,
I press my nose into my pillow (hu-hu)
Again-gain-gain,
Those sheets they smell incred'bly good
(hu-hu)
Again again again,
Turn around and put myself to sleep – away
Oh, the world is still revolving
And more questions still evolving
Find me a place to dig a hole
Then I'll have a place to shit in
That'll be my place to live in
I'll plant some wheat & meat to feed up my soul
Eating meatballs on a bloodstained mattress in a Huggy Bear motel
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Rain
17:06
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ne of those days, when I was going to see my brother in town to give him a letter,
written by our father & sealed by our mother, down in those times, when we used to count
the squirrels at home,or killing the ants just to kill time,
or to fill it with tiny drops of guiltiness, drizzle of remorse,
& forgot where we've been coming from or why.
And we've been sleeping, so tired then.
Sleeping, sleep, sleep.
Rain – it's a rain
Rain – falling rain
Rain – where the rain comes from
That's where I belong
Focking rain
So that's then we left town with his pickup, a Dodge, getaway car.
And astray we were driving, away from them lights of the city, where comfort & complacency reigns.
West we were driving, west, interstate, drifting.
Passing places, meadows, ditches, places bland & sad & wasted,good at most just to depose
a dead body, if you have to. And doubtlessly no place, where you wanted a stranger
pressing your face into the dirt & taking your breath, when the last smell you got is the pee of a trucker
heading to Milwaukee or down to the Gulf of Mexico, who cares?
That's where we passed by. That's where we were drifting away.
COLD IS THE NIGHT & DARK IS THE RAIN
GO FIND YOURSELF & WON'T YOU COMPLAIN
TIPPING A TOE INTO THE RIVER OF PAIN
MAJESTICALLY FLOATING UNDER THE ENDLESS RAIN
COLD IS THE NIGHT & DARK IS THE RAIN
GO FIND YOURSELF & WON'T YOU COMPLAIN
And furthermore astray
we went, drifting into the sticks & into the woods
and into the depth & abyss. And I thought to myself, I should better take carenot to kill all them beetles & toads & them mice
and them moles & them lizards & snails, baby snakes & God knows what else
has been crawling here right where this 4-wheeler ploughed us a way through their life. And my brother said:
Brother, let's have us a shot of dead butterfly blood.
COLD IS THE NIGHT & DARK IS THE RAIN
GO FIND YOURSELF & WON'T YOU COMPLAIN
TIPPING A TOE INTO THE RIVER OF PAIN
MAJESTICALLY FLOATING UNDER THE ENDLESS RAIN
COLD IS THE NIGHT & DARK IS THE RAIN
GO FIND YOURSELF & WON'T YOU COMPLAIN
TIPPING A TOE INTO THE RIVER OF PAIN
MAJESTICALLY FLOATING UNDER THE ENDLESS RAIN
COLD IS THE NIGHT & DARK IS THE RAIN
GO FIND YOURSELF & WON'T YOU COMPLAIN
Rain – there's no rainbow
Rain – falling rain
Rain – hear the wind blows
Into the middle of the earth
Where the humming birds dwell
All the highways, mountains & the trees
Focking rain is falling on & on
Every/s cover's washed away from me
Highway's like a diamond in the sun
Highway's like a diamond in the sun
Rain – is getting colder now
Rain – from the frozen clouds
Rain – I'm getting older somehow
Snow's falling down & covering me
Oh white rain is floating over me
Oh white rain it makes me blind
Every thing/sin is floating down to the sea
White rain will drive me out of my mind
White rain will drive me out of my mind
DARK IS THE RAIN & COLD IS THE NIGHT
DON'T BE AFRAID & YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT
THIS WILL BE RUNNING INTO THE SEA OF DELIGHT
SWIM DOWN THE RIVER, DIVE FOR THE LIGHT
DARK IS THE RAIN & COLD IS THE NIGHT
DON'T BE AFRAID & YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT
THIS WILL BE RUNNING INTO THE SEA OF DELIGHT
SWIM DOWN THE RIVER, DIVE FOR THE LIGHT
DARK IS THE RAIN & COLD IS THE NIGHT
DON'T BE AFRAID & YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT
Rain – it's a rain again
Rain – never been the same
Rain – everything is new
How will I come through
Dam/n that rain
All the highways, mountains & the trees
Focking rain is falling on & on
Every/s cover's washed away from me
Highway's like a diamond in the sun
Highway's like a diamond in the sun
Rain – it's a rain
Rain – falling rain
Rain – where the rain comes from
That's where I belong, focking rain
That's where I belong, focking rain
We applaud every man, every woman, every child,
every dog & cat & cow, elephants, every pidgeon,
crow & caterpillar, every snake, snail, lizard, bug or ant,
every spider, worm & maggot in the fruit or in the flesh
for if they were sturdy in life, doing God's will & occasionally #C# smile.
COLD IS THE NIGHT & DARK IS THE RAIN
GO FIND YOURSELF & DON'T YOU COMPLAIN
TIPPING A TOE INTO THE RIVER OF PAIN
MAJESTICALLY FLOATING UNDER THE ENDLESS RAIN
THIS WILL BE RUNNING INTO THE SEA OF DELIGHT
DARK IS THE RAIN & COLD IS THE NIGHT
DON'T BE AFRAID & YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT
SWIM DOWN THE RIVER DIVE FOR THE LIGHT
DON'T BE AFRAID & YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT
SWIM DOWN THE RIVER DIVE FOR THE LIGHT
#C#G#
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