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Canyon
03:38
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I've got a life outside these windows,
and the Camry's out there runnin',
but your embrace, it lasts so long,
it lets me know
and I used to know the stars by name
til I left them for the city,
but the darkest night out in the West
will let me know
[chorus]:
so rings, and rings, the altar bells,
if the priest would be so bold
to speak of its opposite,
he'd say the fear of losing grasp of the past
and if all it took was rustlin' pines
to get my heart to wakin',
then arise and start a fire
for coffee!
I may never see another canyon
beautiful as that one,
but at least I'll save this breathless thing
from mourning
[chorus]
see, I drew my thoughts on highway lines
on a map of northern Texas,
as if to grasp the passing time
and hold right on
when we arrived, a solemn light
still flickered in that valley,
but not til dawn would mountains rise
from shadow
[chorus]
sittin' on a lonely dock
and lookin' out from 'Frisco,
when on it came: the morning fog,
to hang around
and I flew back East, in anxious dream,
starin ' out the window,
as what had been the road ahead
was fading
[chorus]
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2. |
Interlude i
02:25
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3. |
Purple Click-on Lighter
03:25
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better pack, better set, headin’ West,
tuckered, beaten down, through and out,
awake and ring and ring and ring
and you drive, I'll drive, you'll drive some more
with a Snickers wrapper stickin’ to
that automobile floor
and if the day hadn't gone my way,
I'd still be staring at those headlights
off the bridge over I-95!
[chorus]:
by the foundry's glowing fire,
where the shadows draw the night:
ain't it a damn thing
that the damned things got it right?
and who would dance in that cloud of dust
that your careful breath would then alight
in front of your half smile?
and is the door still bolted shut?
the wind has smoked the last three quarters
of my last cigarette
and I'm ready to sleep, there ain't much bleary-eyed choice,
an unfamiliar place to lay your head,
when I thought I heard there were voices!
[chorus]
so take me back to that valley of sin
and recast forgotten hallways
where my nightmares begin
and if someone were to light it on fire
with a purple click-on lighter,
well, the place would just burn
and still enough, as you peeled outta Dodge
that old bell would be ringin’,
as if it was sayin’ goodbye!
[chorus]
my favorite feeling terrifies me
when last night I've been drunk
and I awake and I am certain
I've committed some crime
so god-damned evil, that it scares me
and then the feeling subsides
and I am stuck inside the irony
that everything's fine
there's no help out there, no confession
for this kind of sin:
to have looked into the embers, eyes
captured by something below!
[chorus]
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4. |
Interlude ii
01:46
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5. |
Heavenward
02:03
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I'm not lookin' for the answers,
I'm just waitin’ on that time
when a bell will ring and supper's served,
we'll gather 'round and thank the lord,
and I will wait til he is mine!
Jesus Christ had all the answers,
but they all swam in proph-a-sea,
til a bell rang out for the Son of Man,
and he broke bread and spread it ‘round,
and I will wait til he is mine!
for I am but a clangin’ cymbal,
for I am but a noisy gong,
if I don't fill my words with love
and let that ghost in from above,
and I will wait til he is mine!
we have cooked ourselves a dinner
and invited all our friends,
and we gather 'round, and Jess chimes in
with a simple prayer sent heavenward,
and I will wait til he is mine!
your golden crown will not serve you,
your silver tongue won't get you by,
if the bronze inside ain't tuned and true
with every god-damned part of you,
and I will wait til he is mine!
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6. |
Coda
01:09
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caught ourselves again
gazing toward the future,
at particular moments
had been promised by the past
though we’d forgotten
what words were used
so ring and ring the altar bells:
what is promised here,
this much is certain,
to never fear losing grasp of the past
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Steve K Carmody Providence, Rhode Island
Music born in Providence, RI.
Featuring:
Nupur Shridhar,
Tucker Dalton,
Sam Adler-Bell,
and Steve Carmody.
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