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Bird flew east
Bird flew west
Bird flew theeking on its nest
Flying bird sing to me
Singing bird sang sweetly
Too hung up in love to kill the actress
Ain’t it hard to be yourself
You get a little love in your heart
That means something to you
But don’t mean anything to anyone else
Get a little rose
Put in a glass of water
Get a little rose
Get a little rose
Put it in a glass of water
Get a little rose
And it’s hard to look back
At the mask you wore
To keep your fragile eggshell mind
Controlling mine
And it’s hard to think of what a fool I was
I saw how you treated them
They only got it now and then
I got it every time you spoke
I got it every time you woke
And I had a little love in my heart
That meant something to me
But didn’t mean anything at all to you
So I got a little rose
I put it in a glass of water
Got a little rose
Got a little rose
Put it in a glass of water
I did for myself
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I never told you lies
I ran until I died
To get you to the prophet
But the three faces of Eve
Come and then they leave
Your blood stains on the carpets
The haunted houses of our past
That Eve demented
The love that you and I once had
That Eve prevented
You took my heart at Brentwood Park
Like raindrops on the windowpane love
The years go on and on and bring us change
I love you now as I did then
The first time that I saw your face
The first time that I ever held your hand
But now all the reindeer are waiting on the roof
And I’ll have to show them which house to go to
Three faces of Eve
The first worse than the next
The third’s just shitty all around
The first one writes it down
The second reads out loud
The third one steals your Plott hound
The haunted houses of our past
That Eve demented
The love that you and I once had
That Eve prevented
You took my heart at Brentwood Park
Like raindrops on the windowpane love
The years go on and on and bring us change
I love you now as I did then
The first time that I saw your face
The first time that I ever held your hand
But now all the reindeer are waiting on the roof
And I’ll have to show them which house to go to
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Ambrosia
04:27
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Summer’s come and all the squirrels are addicted to morphine
In my room a quiet hermit works on his opus
I have tried but I can’t seem to get along with you
Every time it ends the same no matter what I do
And still you cry all the time Ambrosia
Why can’t we be any closer
It’s a shame that we can’t
It’s a shame that we haven’t
It’s a shame that we never will
Every time we meet I say I’ve known ballerinas
And you say that it’s words like that that put distance between us
And I go on and on about my feelings inside
And you go on and on about something I didn’t do right
And still you cry all the time Ambrosia
Why can’t we be any closer
It’s a shame that we can’t
It’s a shame that we haven’t
It’s a shame that we never will
It’s as if I picked the worst swing in the playground
And all the chains are knotted and I can’t get the seat down
And I look at the other kids and they’re having fun
And I look at myself and I’m having none
And still you cry all the time Ambrosia
Why can’t we be any closer
It’s a shame that we can’t
It’s a shame that we haven’t
It’s a shame that we never will
And still you cry all the time Ambrosia
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I was raised in the desert
I was taught how to kill
And I dragged everyone I’ve loved
To the wolf on the hill
Nobody wanted you to go through any pain
Everybody’s sad that things turned out this way
Nobody wanted this at all
Hear him howl when the moon is full
He will howl all night long
He will howl from his jaws of death
To the quarry stone
Nobody wanted you to go through any pain
Everybody’s sad that things turned out this way
Nobody wanted this at all
You’re relieved of your service
You’re released to the grave
You’re relieved of life’s burdens
And the love that you craved
Nobody wanted you to go through any pain
Everybody’s sad that things turned out this way
Nobody wanted this at all
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5. |
It's Raining Tonight
02:21
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My ignominious beloved
It’s raining tonight
And the power is out
And I can’t find a flashlight to save my damn life
Woe is me the rain pours
And the rain falls
On the headstone
In the graveyard
Where my old friend is lain
And it falls on the big trawlers
Out on the bay
And on all the little fishes
It’s raining tonight
And on all my tomato plants
It’s raining tonight
Who’s gonna be your valentine blue eyes
Who’s gonna be my valentine blue eyes
I look around and I can’t see
Anyone’s eyes on me
Who’s gonna be your valentine
Who’s gonna be my valentine
Who’s gonna be our valentine blue eyes
The rain falls on the frogs who eat up the flies
And down in the graveyard
It’s raining tonight
And the frogs go ribbit ribbit
It's raining tonight
And splash around in the big puddles
It's raining tonight
My ignominious beloved
It's raining tonight
My ignominious beloved
It's pouring
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6. |
I Wanted Autumn
02:18
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I married Autumn at the width of mist at Evra
I lived with Autumn in a storm cloud there forever
I wanted Autumn—
I lived with Autumn in a house made out of water
And there with Autumn I had two sons and a daughter
I wanted Autumn—
And if I hadn't left the police would have forced me
I lived with Autumn ’til the day she did divorce me
I'm done with Autumn—
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7. |
God Damn Them All
07:25
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By the roaring of the ocean, and the howling of the sea
If I decide to meet my maker, will she part the waves for me?
And while the whole wide world is wondering, the skyline is on fire
Because at six o’ clock from the eyes of God, the lightning strikes destroyer
Never treated me bad never left me lonely
In the morning light I’d hear her call
All of my memories of her are lovely
God damn them all
God damn them all
When the worst thing for you is the only thing you’ve got
Then you’ve got nothing left to lose, and the number it is naught
That’s why I send postcards from Naples, against the advice of my lawyer
I write forget me not, from the eyes of God, the lightning strikes destroyer
Never treated me bad never left me lonely
In the morning light I’d hear her call
All of my memories of her are lovely
God damn them all
God damn them all
Suppose you predicted a very specific thing
And when the time came and it happened, no one remembered anything
So you run all the way back home again, you find your notes in the top drawer
They say, I cannot fix your broken heart, the lightning strikes destroyer
Never treated me bad, never left me lonely
In the morning light I’d hear her call
All of my memories of her are lovely
God damn them all
God damn them all—
I’d hear her calling
In the morning—
God damn them all
God damn them all
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8. |
When the Wizard Comes
03:26
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Days go by, I wait like an archer
With violence in my heart
And in my room I paint Aldebaran
’cause it's my favorite star
And I’m always alone
But no one will take my star from me
When the wizard comes
When the wizard comes
Be one of you, I tried but I failed to
It is beyond my reach
A rosebud in June through eyes of a scarecrow
In a field of wheat
For you have killed your son
No one will sing love songs for you
When the wizard comes
When the wizard comes
Alone at last, I pass out in horror
While rising to my feet
I wrote the songs down that nobody needs now
But it's the air you breath
And red is the color of blood
And we will awaken from these dreams
When the wizard comes
When the wizard comes
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Kass Richards Massachusetts
Singer-songwriter/song collector living in the Boston area.
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