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Always July
04:23
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Where can you go?
The city’s alone at night
Forlorn and bold
At war with its own selfish source
all those stories, all for shame
your time’s in your head and the weather’s fine
Chronic tense, tenement stairs
Push open the door that leads to a long reveal
This place like a tomb, through the other side
Give machine thrill time to kill
Sleep within its hazy shade
smash through the lines, draw your own demise
where can you go from here?
What do I know, what do I know, oh
Tell it to me quick
Mistakes are made and mistakes are lost
But you’ll never do what the path dictates first
And still
It’s always july
it’s always july in my mind
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Lily
03:43
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Come along calmly
untrained windows call to you
and the glass drowns a little tune
They said a dream is only yours to know
Only yours to contemplate
the mind is an unexplored country
If you’d only just give in
Departure -
in a country called past
Don’t wake waves
Oh, your portrait’s more than a mirror
but the moon is all you have
In light aftermath, you see backwards
Dressed up stars, shadow walk, a figure walks inside you
Blood red wine like a heartbeat
Just takes time to conjugate
Whisper wind, to let you know they know
Whisper wind, to let them know you know
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3. |
Reception
01:53
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how can I know you're going
where can I run to
tell me where
my aim - to recede
to a quiet place
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Shakin' Street
03:23
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Written by Fred 'Sonic' Smith, originally recorded by the MC5
Little Orphan Angie, Lauren too
They've been coming around, gives 'em somethin' to do
Their mamas all warned 'em not to come to town
but it got into their blood and now they gonna get down
Shakin' street it's got that beat
Shakin' street where all the kids meet
Shakin' street it's got that sound
Shakin' street say you gotta get down
Streetlight Sammy decided to make the trip
All the way from New Jersey
On his girlfriend's tip
He pulled into town and met Skinny Leg Pete
Said come here, boy I heard about the streets
I heard about the place where all the kids go
Now, I'm about to flip
I just gotta know about
Well the kids on shakin' street never give in
'Cause all of their lives they've been livin' in sin
You know that they're bad / You know that they're mad
They take for the takin'
They shake for the shakin'
Shakin' Shakin' Shakin'
The folks keep complaining they find it so shockin'
All the kids wanna do is just keep on rockin'
They ain't got no time to think about stoppin'
They gotta get down and do a little stompin'
Now Sally Baker wants to shake her shaker
And Bobby C. says he's gonna take her to
Shakin' street it's got that beat
Shakin' street where all the kids meet
Shakin' street it's got that sound
Shakin' street say you gotta get down
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5. |
Stranger's Arms
06:30
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believe in a guess
in the written way
behind those attic boots
heaven yellow resident
You’re in a strangers arms
Nature’s witness
silk ghosts, wild and rampant
Years turn for troubadours
Some left so unsure
Pale floating silence
avocations cloud the mind
You’re in a strangers arms
faraway city lights
status leather shaken shrug
hold out your palms
sweet nothing where nothing comes
I know it’s in you
Ghosts rise before your eyes
It’s any day now
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