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Raining cats and dogs on the roof of your house
There's no ceiling in your room
There's no sunlight hanging there
Watching out for lightning bolts
Can't see through window
In the fog of your glare
In the unrelenting downpour
Of your misfortunes affairs
Every single time it rains, come on
Day in the life of a raincloud
Laughing like a fool
At the thief of this storm
Who stole my parasol
And the sunshine I adored
Give a chance to shine
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Transparent Make-believe
04:27
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Once in a dream the foolish king
The hearts of queens and ever after
Sold it for a third world war, the crown of thorns, his majesty
At bishops gate the piper plays
To seas of green and doris day
Flower trumpets blare the marching snares
Of transparent make-believe
Breathing underwater
Nocturnal spell the iron bell
A withered sage's prophecy
Of open books king fisher hooks
And scientific lunacy
Mythical runes pegasus boots
Divine gifts and in our rapture
A slow divorce invisible force
A hand that will crush the dream
In house of york of noble blood
A battle sword wears so proudly
On once once red lips and virgin wrists
And fair maidens slumbering
Candles and veils a misers tale
Of holy grails and in between
The gods of ye and trilogies
Set out to destroy themselves
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Cucumbersome
04:20
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I'm a cucumbersome vegetable
Gling glo, rainbow
Poking my head out of the womb of dirt
Staring right back at the sun
I'm just a lovely marigold
Hey ho, grass grow
Up to my neck in the thick woods
Choking on the thorns
Gluttonous worm got in the apple of my eye
Is anyone still there?
Cause in the morning I think of time I spent with you
I'm just as blind as a belfry bat
Zig zag, lolly gag
Jolly drunk skunk on his absinthe kick all the while
I'm just a stumbling know-it-all
Flip flop tick tock
Standing one foot in grave without a leg to fall
See you
I'm just a razor sharp somersault
Pea pod divining rod
Mermaid fins and fresh water gills of my siamese twin
I'm just a sleeping hollow log
Seesaw jigsaw
Clambake basketcase
Right on the needle's eye
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Technicolor Autumn & Spring
Perfect in symmetry
Cubist pedals that you bring
Painted by numbers
Fall is due, winter's sooner from where you stay
Optical glass tangerine, seeing from miles away
Shangri-la la la
Shape shifter sifting sea change
Walking through walls
What fine architecture
Cobwebs up in my head
Brushing the doors of memory
Picture taken in the frame of my mind's eye
To fade in the night, to cave in the night
Shangri-la la la
Hello
Address of blue jay nest
Televisionary cage and canary
Technicolor Autumn & Spring
Just the way I dreamed of it
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Karmic Engines
04:11
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The propellers of fate
And motored cycles you deserve
In mind's eye
Mechanisms of wisdom
And gears for lessons still to learn
Over century's time
Karmic engines
Rotors of destiny
Cylindered fortunes and debts you earn
Parallel divide
Pistons of truth
Of cosmic axels accelerating in kinetic turn
How divine
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Mouth of Lions
05:11
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Turn their eyes into a gaze of remarkable stone
Hold their heads from teeth and salivating tongues
In the mouth of lions
Sullen ghost, a presence gone long ignored
Cast in the den of manes and terrifying roars
Don't say a word
Telepathic and unseen
Standing still invisible
And unbelievably nowhere
Comfort their nights and settle the fears of those
That enter the cave without ever hope of safe return
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Father Time He Wastes It
04:35
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Dear Father Time, you've got your watch all wrong
Dear Father Time, where has the time all gone?
So many years wasted alone
So many years wasted
Dear Father Time, the clocks that work no more
Dear Father Time, your children long ignored
Time ticks and the sunset
Time's still and the moonlit
Dear Father Time, what a long beard you wear
Grandfather clock, your crippled hands struck dead
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Hallelujah
03:49
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Falling down in love with you was all that I could do
No scripture verse or catholic church could break the spell of you
Falling down in love with you was all that I could choose
Ascending in the rapture towards the heavens that were you
Spoke without a sound and the sky fell undone
No longer cautious to the wind
And the earth and the trees they whispered a gentle song
Humming along with the wind
Falling down in love with you was easy for this fool
The pull of the below abyss did not seem to bother you
Falling down in love with you was all that I could do
No scripture verse or catholic church could break the spell of you
Hallelujah
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Fell Right Out of Bed
02:51
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Fell right out of bed
Alarm clock summoned up
Dragging down the hall
To another day of work
Sunlight everywhere
With my eyes closed shut
To fall right out of bed
Fall right out of bed
Morning don't you wake me up
I'm tired of your chore
Ever so persistent pursuing routine
Fell right out of bed
Rooster won't let up
Throw him down the stairs
And pulling out my hair
Knocking on my door
The sandman there I hope
To fall back into bed
Fall back into bed
Good night
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The Golden Era
05:18
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Spiraling Staircase
03:13
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No telling now where you are
Long gone in a flying car
And never to ever and never to ever to find
It's surprise
Can't catch you know if I can
Sunny side up in a frying pan
And never to ever and never to ever to find
It's surprise
The spiraling staircase leads my head to the clouds
No gravity left to keep my feet on the ground
No telling know what you found
On the bottom of the Puget Sound
And never to ever and never to ever to find
It's surprise
Stop watch you're a busy bee
Nested up in a hollow tree
And never to ever and never to ever to find
It's surprise
Just wonder what would you be
Invisible with your laser beam
And never to ever and never to ever to find
It's surprise
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Jane Jubilee
02:25
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Jane Jane Jubilee
Shaking her tambourine
Played to imaginary songs
Jane Jane Fairytale
Fetching her water pail
Out of the lake on the shore
A gentle apparition and shy recluse
Benign and gentle spirit
Sharing her folly
Jane Jane Jubilee
Hiding all her keepsakes
Lockets and secrets evermore
Jane Jane Reverie
Dancing around with glee
Figuring eights on the firth
Painted fence is where she sits
On the tundra
Uphill a window ceil
Where she waves
Jane, Jane Jubilee
Jane, little Jane
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