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We Haven't Met

 

Up above in the gulf streams at night a black silence sings
Mountain tops alive in the sun, for what do they reach

Now I can walk and I can bleed and i can run
But I know I will not be free
And I can kick and I can scream and I can tear
But I know I still will not see

We haven’t met, we haven’t met not yet
We haven’t met, there’s so many things

 

Roman gods and orgies at dawn born out of need
Wheat fields and zeppelin clouds calm and complete

Now I can walk and I can bleed and i can run
But I know I will not be free
And I can kick and I can scream and I can tear
But I know I still will not see
We haven’t met, we haven’t met not yet
We haven’t met, there’s so many things

 

Now I can block out all the pieces as they come
But I’ll still feel the force they mean
And I can sit up in my bed and sense the rain
Of a far off and distant dream

 

 

Can't Believe It's Real

 

We walk the streets
That haven’t changed since 1758
Can’t believe that it’s real

 

The old man’s eyes, they shine for more
But the circle comes and shuts the door
He can’t believe that it’s real

 

On an island inside a stream
Little red mushroom has a dream
Can’t belive that it’s real

 

The energy is pink and blue
And she feels it and you feel it too
Can’t belive that it’s real
 
Nah nah nah nah nah nah..................

 

 

White Earth and Clay

 

Come sit right down, not far away
I've made my home in the arms of the day

It’s hard to see, it’s been a long long time
Since the white earth and clay that I left behind

 

Dark pine shadow, big sun, red clay
Wind through these hands, all the forms we take

It’s hard to see, it’s been a long long time
Since the white earth and clay that i left behind

For you to find I left behind

 

You’re a bright blue child, you always know the way
You’re a man I know, I’m sure I’ve seen your face

It’s hard to see, It’s been a long long time
Since the white earth and clay that i left behind

 

For you to find I left behind.......

 

 

Rabbit Hole

 

I remember red leaves falling in a field
I remember streets lights and the way they made us feel
All our lives are bending into an open glow
The conscious half is ending and the other half is unknown

 

Over in the bush there's a rabbit hole
Looking in the eyes of a falling snow
There's a mountain with a wolf and they roll roll roll
If you take away the books this is what we know

 

I was watching jet streams along the desert coast
She was watching cactus salty sand shadows
Take this bolt of lightening, take this little string
Give us all the courage to make this old bird sing

 

Over in the bush there's a rabbit hole
Looking in the eyes of a falling snow
There's a mountain with a wolf and they roll roll roll
If you take away the books this is what we know

 

 

Centuries Adrift

 

Icebergs floating across the sea
And it used to be water
But now it doesn’t matter

Lights from cannons, they flash the sky
And the earth it will be shattered
I guess it doesn’t matter now

 

Fourteen hours will disappear

And the shape on the ceiling
Will shift with the feeling

All the answers will act as gods
As we guess about the future
We find that we can’t be sure

 

Why can’t you understand
All the broken dreams
And these broken hands

Oh no no don’t you be afraid
It’s only life you see
It’s a long embrace

 

Sidewalk wander to feel the land
And i think about the mountains
And all the places we’ve been

 

We’ve turned some corners to feel the fear
And i sensed a bit of freedom

Shining at the other end

 

Why can’t you understand
All the broken dreams
And these broken hands

Oh no no don’t you be afraid
It’s only life you see
It’s a long embrace

 

 

Pan Am

 

I can see forever, I can see it in your eyes
Walking on the salt flats inching towards the fire

Lay me down with mountains in the grasses i can sleep
Sifting through the atlas of a fall light memory

 

I know I know and I know and I know and i know
I know we all want down from the feeling of the turning of the sun

 

People burning tires in the middle of the street
Empty all the busses so everyone can see
Lifting up the corners of the curtain in my hand
Lanterns from the ceiling and the energy of man

 

I know I know and I know and I know and i know
I know we all want down from the feeling of the turning of the sun

 

I can see forever, I can see it in your eyes
Walking on the salt flats inching towards the fire

 

 

The Turquoise Plains

 

Rockets fly from 1959
they don’t explode until they’re realized
Summer is gone

I found all my reasons
Spread out across this land
Someday you will find them
Footprints in the sand

 

Can you cross the wind

 

The giant in my mind is seven miles high
It breaks out at night
With thunder in it’s stride
It’s time to move on

I found all my reasons
Spread out across this land
Someday you will find them
Footprints in the sand

Eagle in the morning
Survey the turquoise plains that you know...

 

 

Oh To Walk Again

 

Oh to walk again, to feel my feet again
The twisting of alley ways, they bend away from me

We finally catch the rays of open paddie plains
They lift us above the world and show us where we were

 

You see it in this place
You found out, you found out again
You see it in this place

 

Holding on to things that don’t mean anything
We release to realize the feelings we have inside

Airplane ponderings on cloudy cotton streams
Imagine the lengths required for love, space, and time

 

You see it in this place
You found out, you found out again
You see it in this place

 

Down the other side to golden fire light
The simple ideas remain, we thought to much again

These hair-brained prophecies, they’ve had us on our knees
But now we’ve come to life with a sense of our own might

 

You see it in this place
You found out, you found out again
You see it in this place

 

Oh to walk again

 

 

Dark Gold

 

Mine shaft stronghold, the teeth are gleaming
The self is buried in repetition
Everything is mine

 

Defunct limbo with Jane and Molly
Play with dark gold, the fever is salty
All I want is light

 

Falling down through the rings
Towards the snake in you dreams
The sun will shine before the bite
So you can see

 

Shifting shadows, a sale of secrets
Pinpoint charlie, he's always counting
Everything is mine

 

Spoofed up scoundrels, smiling slit throats
Instincts humming, check that door now
All I want is light

 

Falling down through the rings
Towards the snake in you dreams
The sun will shine before the bite
So you can see

 

 

Newly Young

 

We walk along and it feels like we’ve gone too far
The knots in my stomach turn
Reflections inside us breathe, my thoughts form an opening

 

Newly young in a fine fine way
Newly young from a cold cold day

 

We started off watching the rain form streams
It’s a lot like the brain makes dreams
It darkens the crackling clay, for the ants it’s a tidal wave

 

Newly young in a fine fine way
Newly young from a cold cold day