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Panthalassa (Overture)
01:08
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Panthalassa (Overture)
all at sea
all at sea
baby we’re all at sea
all at sea
all at sea
baby we’re all at sea
all upside down -
all inside out
baby we’re all at sea
all these observances -
arse about
baby we’re all at sea
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2. |
Cat Among Your Pigeons
04:25
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Cat Among Your Pigeons
What you got beating in your chest?
Got you breathing so hard?
What you got beating in your chest -
It just won’t let you rest
Got your buttons all done up so high
All your buckles and clips
All your belts and straps up tight
Checks at your fingertips
Cut clean honey - from the cloth
All wrapped up in ribbons
Wouldn’t I like - wouldn’t I like -
Like to be the Cat
Among your Pigeons
All your lines and your edges trimmed
In a fold of flashes
But what you beating there behind those rims
Can’t lace those whipping lashes
What you got beating in your chest
Look how the bough it bends
You got a blush that won’t be stemmed
Can’t keep the flowers in their beds
Cut clean honey - from the cloth
All wrapped up in ribbons
Wouldn’t I like - wouldn’t I like -
Like to be the Cat
Among your Pigeons
Nice to think that you can keep those curls
All neat & pinned -
But there’s a Worm in the apple of my eye
It’s writhing ‘round within
What’s that you got netted up so tight
Busting to get loose?
Tied to the tracks like dynamite
to blow my little red caboose
Cut clean honey - from the cloth
All wrapped up in ribbons
Wouldn’t I like - wouldn’t I like -
Yeah like to be the Cat
Among your Pigeons
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Did You Whisper Something On The Water?
I can’t help but wonder
About that wren that hit the window
There was a time I read a sign in everything
Well it got my clock a ‘ticking
All at once the wind is whipping
And my thoughts, again - have taken wing -
Did you whisper something to the water?
Did you whisper something to the sea?
Swear I thought I saw a candle flicker
Did you whisper something dear to me?
Don’t mind what the bolts think
Deep down I still trust my instincts
Somehow I can always find the South
Like a rag doll on a string
Drawn soft by the beckoning
Feeling with my fingers for your mouth
Did you whisper something to the water?
Did you whisper something to the sea?
Swear I thought I saw the candles flicker
Did you whisper something dear to me?
Voodoo correspondence
Got me losing grip of my sense
Pacing back and forth all down the hall
Well it started as a soft rain
Now its thundering like a freight train
Bouncing off the moon and valley walls
Did you whisper something to the water?
Did you whisper something to the sea?
Swear I thought I saw the candles flicker
Did you whisper something dear to me?
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4. |
All For Show
03:55
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All For Show
The walls were all
closing in on me
chained to a feeling -
thought you - could be the key
I was so sure
My mind - it never quit
I cut a shape out
And vowed to make you fit
Oh we clawed across the kind of rented floors
Where memories don’t take hold -
And the clouds advanced ghostly as - piano rolls -
All for show
All for show
Don’t I know
All for show
The jasmine purred
summer perfume
the headlights sliced
across the living room
The hands wound down
We barely spoke
Just let that dream inflate
until it broke
Oh your old TV has the sound turned down
On a black & white man of steel -
Yeah well maybe babe there’s just no right way to feel
All for show
All for show
Don’t I know
All for show
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5. |
Disclosure Girls
07:20
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Disclosure Girls
I heard they found you at a party thrown by Bobo’s niece
Yeah you declined the mohair, took the Rocker with Maurice
Outside rain was beading on the bougainvillea leaves
Through a floor to ceiling hole where a window might have been
And you leaned in to where they sat cross legged in a ring
Oh they curl - and contort
This thing’s bigger than you first thought
Now now honey, hush babe -
You’d better sit down
Disclosure Girls
The hem of their shift pressed tight, white with Athenian gold
But whoever heard of a bunker fourteen storeys tall?
The kind of Brutalism that’s clearly State endorsed
The thin smiles all seem kinda forced -
As you point out the swallows on the wall, they smile -
‘Aw them fighters was foo’
Oh they coy - and they coo
They know just what to do
Now now honey, there there
Hush baby now now
You’re with the Disclosure Girls
Their eyebrows arched like the Zippin’ Pippin preparing for a plunge
And as they stroke your hand they ask ‘is there a tingling in your gums?’
On the arm of the chair there’s a bowl of peppermints
The arcane atomic got you skittling like pins
Yeah but you snap - stone cold - soon as the administering begins
Here they come - down your track
Sliding click clack clickety clack
Now now honey, there there
Hush baby now now
Disclosure Girls
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Every Song is a Stone Heartbreak
Well I wheeled my sorry load down the laundry aisle
And the FM it poured all into my ear
Someone scanned my living hell
The dog food on the conveyor belt
I could not but stare out into space
Every song
Every song
Every song is a stone heartbreak
There was a rainy afternoon down in Sandringham
With Henry and Billie Jean at the indoor pool
On that ladder by the side
Oh well I broke right down and cried
I confess I was not doing so good
Every song
Every song
Every song is a stone heartbreak
I don’t know how much
How much more I can take
Every song is a stone heartbreak
Never felt so bad in my poor life
Every turn of the dial is a twist of the knife
Coming at me ‘cross the park
Coming at me from the cars
Well go on and turn it up -
Yeah go on, turn up the guitars!
Every song
Every song
Every song is a stone heartbreak
I don’t know how much
How much more I can take
Every song is a stone heartbreak
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Who’s Gonna Cry But Me?
Well we danced upon the tables
We flew above the street
We painted symbols on our windows
We painted spaceships on our feet
But now darling, there’s a pain in my heart -
I feel our love is growing cold
When you wheel your chariot back onto the field
Who’s gonna cry but me?
Don’t you remember how the heads would turn
We could tear up any room
Me - with my columns and my shadows
You - with your Atomic Loom
But now darling, there’s a pain in my heart -
Our stars are falling from the sky
When you wheel your chariot back onto the field
Who’s gonna cry but me?
I tell myself its the right way
Almost believe it - if I try
Maybe, someday, things’ll get better
Until then I’m gonna cry
But now darling, there’s a pain in my heart
as the Jackals - put there Jackets on
When you wheel your chariot back onto the field
Who’s gonna cry but me?
When you send your galleons back upon the sea
Who’s gonna cry but me?
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8. |
Justine
03:50
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Justine
In the back seat baby biting my nails
Parked beside the ocean as the light fails
Squirming like a minnow that caught a whale
Heads I win - but I was praying for tails
Justine
I would do anything
You got your Monkey and your Twist and Shout
You got your pincers and your highway pout
You got your long hair and you throw it about
I’m just a poor boy with my tongue hanging out
Justine
I would do anything
Justine
Do I have to spell it out?
When its just us two in the room
Feels like I’m losing my mind
Baby we come from the Boom
When Lightning washed out the sky
Do you remember there once was a time
When our orbits just like two snakes entwined
We eyed each other to see if could find
Oh how the little teeth of our gears might grind
Justine
I would do anything
Justine
Do I have to spell it out?
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Three Steps Up Off The Ground
Across rooftops
Ooh babe don’t stop
Moonlight gilt and gowned
Our next station
Levitation
Three Steps Up off the ground
Stars in your eyes
Ain’t no surprise
Bustin’ to bust town
Green-eyed, vulpine -
Ooh babe lets climb
Three Steps Up off the ground
String bitter sweet
Days round your feet
Dance them, dance them down
Blackberry wine
Your hand in mine
Three Steps Up off the ground
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10. |
Nine White Bowls
05:14
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Nine White Bowls
nine white bowls of porcelain
lined up on the window sill
nine white bowls - I poured my troubles in
fine white bowls like hours to hold them still
the little birds -
they were dismayed
poor little birds -
to see them thus arranged
nine white bowls
I’ll take them to the shore
and let the ocean have them
won’t trouble me no more
let the ocean have them
gently down each step
let the ocean have them
careful not to spill a drop
let the ocean have them
finally
to the sea
one and all
finally
one dark wave gives way
just as another rises up
a silver siren daring you to
catch her in her cups
another continent upends
into the swilling sea
there’s not a bobbing hull can resist -
indefinitely
finally
to the sea
one and all
finally
finally
to the sea
one and all
finally
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