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(Message started by: Kristilyn on Aug 4th, 2004, 10:31am)

Title: Can anyone confirm the lyrics?
Post by Kristilyn on Aug 4th, 2004, 10:31am
Hey guys,

Can anyone confirm the lyrics on the new disc? Did they come with a lyric book, or insert or anything?

-K

Title: Re: Can anyone confirm the lyrics?
Post by Nikolita on Aug 4th, 2004, 10:28pm
the lyrics are much clearer on the recorded version.  I am going through the process right now of correcting all the old ones.

~ng

Title: Re: Can anyone confirm the lyrics?
Post by Nikolita on Aug 5th, 2004, 8:09pm
TRACK ONE:  PILGRIM

A little blood and vomit on the car seat
And the tooth is sitting in my lap
Brother if you’re hungry but not wounded
Then it’s time to stop and check the map

Pilgrim, where’s your head at
Are you paying the birds to sing
Well it won’t work on the true path
Where the rich are growing wings

If the ancient wisdom came in bottles
I would tell my tarot where to go
But I don’t know who would do the dishes
Cause I’d be laying wasted in the road

Pilgrim where’s your head at
Are you paying the birds to sing
Meet me on the true path
I’ll be dizzy from growing wings

My tears! My tears!
My kicking up the love dirt
I feel it’s the only way

Pilgrim, what’s you looking at me for?
My disaster has come and gone
Left me, by the roadside
With my shadow and one more song

Pilgrim, what’s you looking at me for?
My disaster has come and gone
Left me, by the roadside
With my shadow and one more song.

Title: Re: Can anyone confirm the lyrics?
Post by Nikolita on Aug 5th, 2004, 8:09pm
TRACK TWO:  LUCKY ME

Science wears a new suit to his coffee, toast and eggs
But he has to skip the stairs now, because of two broken legs

Whine, whine, I cannot climb, every time’s the same
I’d be more inclined to help him if he could remember my name

And he was sad, And he was sorry
Let it all out, what are you running for?
This is your chance, be ready.
I’m taking my seat… Oh! Oh! Lucky Me!

Faith can’t fill the dancehall because her powers have declined
But at the beauty pageant she will always take the prize
Light! Light! Easter White!
Roll her in the dirt.  When it comes time for kneeling she’ll say
You go first.

And he was sad, And he was sorry
Let it all out, what are you running for?
This is your chance, be ready.
I’m taking my seat… Oh! Oh! Lucky Me!

The wise man once tried to tell me how to sugar coat the grave
But the game is for the adults and I don’t know how to play
Oh! Oh! Where will I go?  Toss me out to sea?
When the jar’s all out of candy don’t come blaming me.

And he was sad, And he was sorry
Let it all out, what are you running for?
This is your chance, be ready.
I’m taking my seat… Oh! Oh! Lucky Me!

Oh you’re sad, and you’re sorry
Let it all out, what are you running for?
Tell the whole world, we’re waiting
I’m taking my seat… Oh! Oh! Lucky Me!

Title: Re: Can anyone confirm the lyrics?
Post by Nikolita on Aug 5th, 2004, 8:10pm
TRACK THREE: MARY

She’s looking out and out to a galaxy
A fateful boat trip across a Northern Sea
On a frosty window she writes her name
Oh daughter, this is how she became

Mary, go ahead and have your little baby
Mary, toughest of the tough but still a lady

Oh I’ve all the courage I’ll ever need
I wax poetic on my enemies
The century is raging, but so are we
No matter what I know we’ve got a symphony called

Mary, go ahead and have your little baby
Mary, toughest of the tough but still a lady

Out of dark days, stay up airplane
Take my last name, stay up airplane

Go ahead and have your little baby
Mary, toughest of the tough but still a lady
Mary, toughest of the tough

Title: Re: Can anyone confirm the lyrics?
Post by Nikolita on Aug 5th, 2004, 8:10pm
TRACK FIVE: DAY ONE

I put my head back where it belongs
Up there in the clouds
I’m spreading love like a terrorist now

And oh what a morning
Oh what a day to be alive
Sweet hope is glowing in your glorious eyes

Pushing, baby real enough
I bet you think that you’re so tough
But all you’ll beat won’t be nothing at all

Day One! Day One!
Day One! Day One!

After Boy Wonder,
After the dream came out of the minds
Busboys and bankers wiping their eyes

Be still my lion heart!
A revolution ready to pounce
The passioneers up and out of the house

Beauty faked a heart attack
Now I feel it coming back
But all you’ll beat won’t be nothing at all

Day One!  Day One!
Day One!  Day One!

Title: Re: Can anyone confirm the lyrics?
Post by Nikolita on Aug 5th, 2004, 8:11pm
TRACK SIX: OUT IN THE PARK

Don’t you know what time it is
It’s the new time
All disciples gathering by the boats
But your revolution is chasing its tail
You love to take the wind out of my sail
But not this time

In between commercial breaks
It’s a new war
Men with books have run away to the coast
All the ladies quit calling them back
And starting plotting a counter attack
You foolish animals!

She’s out in the park
Conducting the birds
Trying to remember which bicycle’s hers
Filling her pockets with handfuls of dirt
It’s amazing

Out in the park.  Out in the park.

For Sale: Forgetfulness at a new price
Though I saw it advertised on tv
But all the children were busy outside
Building sandcastles skyscraper high
You foolish animals!

She’s out in the park
Conducting the birds
Trying to remember which bicycle’s hers
Filling her pockets with handfuls of dirt
It’s amazing

Out in the park.  Out in the park.

Out in the park by way of the dark
The summer sun will be ours

Out in the park, fight the war
What are your hearts and your wheelbarrows for?
Lean on me babe, I don’t keep score

Out in the park.  Out in the park.

Title: Re: Can anyone confirm the lyrics?
Post by Nikolita on Aug 5th, 2004, 8:12pm
TRACK SEVEN: VERTIGO

The heavens dropped a bag or red and white lights
Pearls that keep the highway bright
And it feels like being born but driving
The moon hangs a dangerous height

Terrible calm, Terrible cold
This dream I have is gold
Easier now, a place to go
Vertigo

The faces dropped like flies
Then memory fades into the rushing road below
And I can take this light any night
Then just try to tell me no

Terrible calm, terrible cold
This dream I have is gold
Easier now, a place to go
Vertigo

I am full of love and consequence
Mercy for the sky of gold
The beauty of the cars’ electric light
The speed with which their destinies grow

Terrible calm, terrible joy
This dream I have is gold
Easier now, a place to go
Vertigo

Title: Re: Can anyone confirm the lyrics?
Post by Nikolita on Aug 5th, 2004, 8:12pm
TRACK EIGHT: WHEN ANOTHER MIDNIGHT

When another midnight comes to rest
On the cheek of our sleeplessness
All crusaders will wake and dress
Pull their flags from their pillowcases

You could hear of Eden hold its breath
On this, the anniversary, of Wonder’s death
Oh ho! An occasion, what a terrible mess!
Or a time for a new dress

How to live a noble life
In this, the age of insanity
Where every promise faces turn and white
It’s the look, the look of, can it be?

It’s shock, it’s horror, it’s despair
It’s Socrates weeping in a wheelchair
Teacher drooling unaware
Where are my students? Where, oh where!?

Poet to poet, nun to nun
I’ve met a distance that I have to run
Man with madness must come undone
I’m going down a smoking gun!

All the commuters will hear our words
And hide in garages like frightened birds
But you can’t stop the moaning of the Earth
And the midnight crackling of my nerve!

Just another midnight falling…
Come out! Come out!
Angels come out!
It’s just the sound of another midnight falling
Come out! Come out at the end of the world!

It’s just the sound of another midnight falling
Come out! Come out! The time is now!
It’s just the sound of another midnight falling
Oh! Another midnight!

Title: Re: Can anyone confirm the lyrics?
Post by Nikolita on Aug 5th, 2004, 8:13pm
TRACK NINE:  THE SCORE

Oh I rented a motorbike
And all night I had the fear
But onward
Oh how the terrifying choice was clear, clear!

So white, the moon was a wicked sight
His cruel wife had cut off an ear
And the fog cleared
I heard the voices of a brilliant cheer

This time, the pleasure's all mine
I've got your number, I know the score
I'd be a hopeless romantic
But for the fortune I made in gold

My heart bent, toward the circus tent
A man in red beckoned me near
In his wild eyes
I saw the faces of a million cheer, oh cheer!

Oh he said -
This time, the pleasure's all mine
I've got your number, I know the score
And you went, you hopeless romantics
You’ll wipe the highway I paved in gold

In his wild eyes
Oh how the terrifying choice was clear, clear!

This time, the pleasure's all mine
I've got your number, I know the score
I'd be a hopeless romantic
But, for the fortune I made in gold

The fortune I made in gold.

Title: Re: Can anyone confirm the lyrics?
Post by Nikolita on Aug 5th, 2004, 8:13pm
TRACK TEN: YOUR WISH IS MY WISH

In my mindstorm I did carry you
Through the briars of disbelief
Through the woods of lethargy
Through a groaning dark so deep
I thought I died

In the fountain I did cool our feet
Under red and rainless skies
Singing ragged lullabies
Through the grief all advertised
In neon lights

Baby - your wish is my wish
And I have only this
From now on
Baby - your wish is my wish
Keep on running to the door

I heard Beauty crying in her sleep
So I bent for one more kiss
And her tears will turn and twist
We make bliss to end all bliss
And all time

Baby - your wish is my wish
And I have only this
From now on

Baby - your wish is my wish
Keep on running to the door
Running to the door
Keep on running to the door

I heard Beauty crying in her sleep

Title: Re: Can anyone confirm the lyrics?
Post by Nikolita on Aug 5th, 2004, 8:14pm
TRACK ELEVEN:  WAKE UP

Wake up, wake up
You don’t want to sleep through this
Night has fallen, all the stars are coming out
Oh the sky’s lolling by like
The sweet little light of mine

Come out, come out
It’s not like we’re strangers here
No while I’m here waiting
The sun’s coming out, all alone
The aid of gold is like
That sweet little light of mine

Of mine, of mine.

Title: Re: Can anyone confirm the lyrics?
Post by obi-john on Aug 6th, 2004, 8:10am
the lyrics are certainly promising - thanks a ton for posting them

Title: Re: Can anyone confirm the lyrics?
Post by Nikolita on Aug 6th, 2004, 6:18pm
it's my pleasure  :-*

~ng