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My Baby's Cryin'
02:30
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People better make way
My baby's coming through
Put her on display
My baby's brand new
Like a little child
Like a summer green
My baby's cryin'
Over me
Let me hold your hand
Let me dry your cheek
Baby I'm around
You gotta tell me what you need
Baby here I come
You can follow me
When we get there
I'm gonna set you free
We're goin' into the sky
Back down to earth
Baby don't look back
You know you don't deserve
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Words
02:12
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Words, phrases lost
When the world sees all that we forgot
Kill is common law
Tell us forgotten words
We can use them to summon a beast
Blue lit smoke circling
Go where water is drawn
In solemn form, with black mantle on
Find the words that you seek
Look, a strange design
Rising on eastern skies
Stone crumbling, overgrown, gone to dust
Woman, shivering, but in her eyes, radiance
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Most Incredible Animal
01:49
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Birds are winging, harmony
Caterpillar, war and peace
The most incredible animal
Little fawn, come into view
Take a look inside of you
The most incredible animal
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Skies Over Hills
01:15
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I'll never have a broken heart
And every girl is better off
You'll never see me fall apart
And all of my friends will tell ya the same
Fly, whippoorwill
Skies over hills
Love has abandoned everything
This song I sing
I can't believe what's happening
My baby is a boulevard
And every night is better off
We talk about each other's art
And every dream keeps me awake
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You Know
02:59
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Better times, come out to greet me
Supple day, make way to please me
I feel a wave echo throughout the cave
Two figures motioning sweetly
Can't tell the blood and bone
Sun is out to see the stone
It's a vision I've come to know
You know
All the other colors streaming
Silent haze is what I'm hearing
Two hands, reaching across the sand
Following and leading
Be like the animals
They come and eat and then they go
See what they think we know
You know
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Mother
03:56
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Four thousand years
Nine un-worthies appear
Field, valley, reap
Wakes the mother from sleep
She came, unholy mother
A look, and then you're gone
You're buried in your slumber
She tears the world apart
So, mother said
You have been bad
Now she puts you to rest
Blood on lily breasts
She came, unholy mother
A look, and then you're gone
You're buried in your slumber
She tears your world apart
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Elly
03:26
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Who are you and whatcha doing here
I'm talking like a machine
I think there's something that I oughta say
You know just what I mean
Come over for the weekend
I could use a change of dream
Heavy
Pretty
Reach out
Elly
At the end of the break of day
Washin' over a cool wave
Looking out it's only way
Who am I and how did I get here
Things aren't what they seem
Shaky hands are reaching out for yours
You know what I mean
Swing by for the summer
I need a change of dream
Heavy
Pretty
Reach out
Elly
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The Mole
04:46
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Naked, he tries to open his eyes
Cool blood on the inside
Burrowing down, teeth cut root in the ground
Look back at bone in burial mound
Sinkhole charted, found
Skin grown into a fold
Never seen the sun
Doesn't care because
Flame escapes the mole
Naked, she lies; one track mind
Drinker of ceremony wine
Her body's grown, one more comes at the thrown
Lash out at two approaching drones
Take back what is owed
Send the sterile away
She's a jealous queen
Saves the fortunate ones
Her pain makes the mole
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She felt a sweetness to the sea
As a mobile, mineral
Matter in it's purest form
As a symbol, material
Don't put out the candle
She'd never found the bird of peace
As a temple, attainable
Searching through the brush and weeds
for a sandal, multiple
Don't put out the candle
We loved you most of all
You made our sigil on your wall
The candle hears the call
Don't put out the candle
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Mind Of It's Own
02:51
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How come people never get to-go
They only wanna eat-in alone
Don't I always catch ya on your phone
It's almost like it's got a mind of it's own
Don't ya know that
Don't ya know it's got a mind of it's own
Mind of it's own
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All Along The Way
02:07
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I finally realize, the crowded earth
Future age has no reverse
It's all along the way
The fabric frays, the fire of days
Spoilt it all, blinded by the blaze
It's all along the way
All along the way
She's fading fast, her, hapless rapture
Anchor cast into the past
It's all along the way
All along the way
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Trevor Bates Little Rock, Arkansas
I'm from Little Rock, Arkansas. I enjoy heavy guitars, modular synths, pedal steel music, and esoterica.
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