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Drink the Beast With Me
Jesus
Who's that man getting scraped off the pavement?
That's me, that's me
Who's that man with the wallpaper wardrobe?
That's me, that's me
I had this dream, I was rolling 'elevens',
Flying to heaven, but not 'cause I'm good,
See, Jesus he owes me for all this abstaining,
And I'm here to collect, but I don't expect he'll pay me back soon.
Who's that man with a cache of excuses?
That's me, that's me,
Who's that man with the verbal abuses?
That's me, that's me
This is no lie, whenever I'm falling,
You're who I'm calling,
And that means I lose,
See Jesus he owes me for services rendered,
And I'm here to collect, show no respect, settle again
This is no lie, whenever I'm falling,
You're who I'm calling,
And that means I lose,
See Jesus he owes me for services rendered,
And I'm here to collect, show no respect, settle again
Aurora
I can see Aurora Avenue,
I can see Emporium Street too,
i can see the
train tracks we're not supposed to go past, can you?
There's no hurry, have you been this far before?
There are warnings to
ignore, if we're ever gonna break these walls,
Just walk slowly, and talk plain,
And just remember to get your speed
when your momma calls
And in the dusk of this prison of suburban ennui,
We're pretending to be
free once again
Watch for rocks and broken bottles,
Ribbons hot as sun,
Jump the rails
and open sails,
Until the gauntlet's run
I can see Aurora Avenue,
I can see Emporium Street too,
i can see the
train tracks we're not supposed to go past, can you?
To be home, and frightened by the rain,
And your dad is drunk again, we're
the only ones with any fight inside,
All the others, our sullen brothers,
Every family a boulder to which
they're tied,
I have looked in their eyes for a spark or a flame
But everything is
Chivas and shame
Ignore the squealing broken feelings,
And keep this in your mind,
They
who go feel nothing like,
the ones we'll leave behind....
Guest Musician: Jared Houck - Drums
Drink the Beast With Me
Everyone is dizzy from the freedom lost to time
Everybody knows that it's
a shame to waste that taste
But in a hoard of photos I was silently redeemed
Frayed and worn and brown
but something in those withered eyes said
Come, see,
Join the jubilee
Be free
Drink the beast with me
You, me,
Up on the marquee,
Be free...
Sanguine dreams are foolish things,
to touch you in your time,
Do you
smirk or do you smile,
And reach back into mine?
In this hoard of photos I am sanctified and terrified to
See the secret
door unlock to ordinary laze.
So come, see,
Join the jubilee
Be free
Drink the beast with me
You, me,
Up on the marquee,
Be free...
Guest Musicians: Ken Mosher - Sax Solo, Oleta Miller - Backing Vocals
Time Bomb
My main attempt to linger was summarily dismissed,
Another bitter aftertaste, another ring to kiss,
Another build it up psychosis, "FILL IN THE BLANK, The Clown!"
Me in the ring with the ringmaster thing and no way to shake 'em on down,
In another time a young lion pulls a thorn from his soul,
And runs the steamy gauntlet, wrong key - right keyhole,
My main attempt to linger was hastily rebuffed,
You can not lived until you give give give and the getter cries "Enough!"
You told me to imbibe, but I would not take your bribe,
And the members of your tribe were so concerned,
And you're straining at my bit, and it makes you want to quit,
A lesson adolescents never learn
Every time the summer wind blows, I'm reminded of that voodoo,
The eyes did not roll back this time and I guess that that's what threw you,
In a time not long ago in a land not far away,
I was a weary traveler who would stop each seventh day
To put his wares for auction in a dungeon cold and dank,
I was tired, torn, and tattered from the road,
And I'm many things to many, but I guess there's you to thank,
For the way the rot contaminates the load
So I watch for the time bomb,
Listen for that ticking as another gear starts clicking,
You need medication,
How much did you spend for that bag of 'angry blend'?
Who set this time bomb?
Keep a hold of the meaning of the soul, little black drops of old,
That seep into our cavernous tomorrow, deep and dark and cold,
If only i could be there with the flannel and the smoke,
If only i could hear each jam and each redun-dun-dundant joke
And slip into the soggy earth to make the memory whole,
Again I ask "Why bother with the fuse?"
We share same disease, leaning on pipe-cleaner knees,
The source is way too foolish to refuse...
My main attempt to linger was summarily dismissed,
Another bitter aftertaste, another ring to kiss,
Another build it up psychosis, "FILL IN THE BLANK, The Clown!"
Me in the ring with the ringmaster thing and no way to shake 'em on down
You told me to imbibe, but I would not take your bribe,
And the members of your tribe were so concerned,
And you're straining at my bit, and it makes you want to quit,
A lesson adolescents never learn
So I watch...
Abbie
We come from poor family, as poor as can be
Your father was younger than i was by three
And he never loved truly, but he practiced on me
i guess i just don't have that stuff in my heart
That helps me to pry faith and wisdom apart
I love absolutely, and right from the start
I hate to think, nobody told you
But you use to shake each time he tried to hold you
But you're alright, you're alright, you're alright,
So tell everybody your fine
Then watch the pain fade away,
Then see their fear fade away,
Then see their pain fade away
We come from a place where the darkness holds sway
The men prey on women and the women just pray
And when i reached sixteen, there was nothing to say
Don't ask forgiveness, survival is best
Live free and wild like the cells in my chest
I'm all done impressing, and being impressed
What did you think? What have i told you?
I'm too strong to care, but too brittle to hold you
But I'm alright, I'm alright I'm alright
Tell everybody I'm fine
Then watch their pain fade away,
Then see their fear fade away,
Then watch their shame fade away,
Then watch their hate fade away,
Then see their pain fade away
Guest Musicians: Eamonn Shanahan Slide Solo
Do Something Stupid
Do something stupid,
Say something weird,
Cast all these fantasies crippled on rocks below,
And watch the pieces float to sea
Here we go, I like to say I told me so,
Leave all these feelings to the scavengers on the rocks below,
Square peg, round hole,
Danse du diable, good directions but no damned control
In time (in the time we live)
We may (there's so much more to give)
Sit back (if we would only touch each other in the)
And cry (way we dream)
In dreams (it's such a sexy thing)
We don't (do you remember at all?)
Remember at all (so why are we playing around?)
Do something stupid,
Say something weird,
Cast all these fantasies crippled on rocks below,
And watch the pieces float to sea
Here we stand, crushing crystals in our hands,
Celebratory celibate, or we hold hands while we tumble down,
Do something stupid, say something weird,
This is the lack of discipline that I have always feared
Why you (in the time we live)
Those eyes (there's so much more to give)
That skin (if we would only touch each other in the)
Sighs (way we dream)
No dreams (it's such a sexy thing)
Approach (do you remember at all?)
The oncoming tide (so why are we playing around?)
Do something stupid,
Say something weird,
Cast all these fantasies crippled on rocks below,
And watch the pieces float to sea
Guest Musician: Jared Houck - Drums
Olivia
Olivia, you comfort me in times of worry,
You smile and tell me there's no hurry to get where we'll be
I smile at conversations that we haven't had yet,
I'm laughing at some joke you have not told me,
I watch you with your perfect poise,
When all around is background noise you hold me
Olivia, the only words I'll pass on to you,
Sometimes the world will look right through you,
And that's when you're free....
I never thought I'd get to meet the angel that you are,
From opium to liquor, you're the best by far.
At taking my old misery and spinning it into gold whenever you hold me
Guest Musicians: Daniel Lewis - Second Lead Guitar
The True Way
Mauve and his memories, cozy as kittens,
Sinking while sailing alone on
the sea,
Mauve and his malice were smothered in smitten,
It hurts to be an
apostrophe,
Melt in mistrust, move if you must,
Portraits of past winnings rendered in
dust like the hope that you hold,
Frightened and cold
While wrestling you
and your people toward the true way...
The true way,
I think I finally found,
Trapped, until now,
underground,
I think I found the true way.
Just then, somebody knocks hard on this heaven,
Please let me in, let me
go, I don't know,
Keep me in line, give me time to be clever,
Heaven said
never, we sever, we go,
Cease or decease, tension release,
Calendar pages flap hard in this
breeze,
When the cellar door slams, you'll know who I am,
The only true
pilot to fly you into the true way.
The true way,
I think I finally found,
Trapped, until now,
underground,
I think I found the true way.
The true way, the true way,
I think I finally found,
Trapped, until
now, underground,
I think I found the true way.
The true way,
Trapped, until now, underground,
We will vibrate with the sound,
I found the true way.
You're No Match For Me
She pays, she stays, she grovels in a million ways,
She hates the very
earth sometimes like scattered paper days
She's sighing, she's trying to hold
in all that well-refined
Steely sharp sarcasm that she now and then
enjoys
A spiritual gambit plays age against a dream,
And every little girl
grows up the same it seems to be,
And even though she's all messed
up,
She's no match for me.
Long dolls with their pasty faces, houses made of stone,
And nowhere in
this concept is one apt to say 'alone',
And every road is straight and black
and hot and plays so clean,
Until the sand reveals a fool like me to taint
the sheen,
Her spirit cannot hold it, the weight she has to bear,
A family
of infants too young or dumb to care,
I could have told her when we met,
She's no match for me.
I hear, I hear, you knock again , my dear,
I locked the door on purpose,
baby, just to piss you off,
I told you, I hold you, you're still cold to the
touch,
And even though we hardly speak, it still becomes too much,
And
they will ask 'what was that' before they catch the bus,
And they shout at
their dollies pretending to be us,
And lately you've been fraying,
but
you're no match for me.
Guest Musicians: Jerry Lis, Joe Lucas, John Krehl - Horns
I Live For You
Come to me, come to me, come to me and hold me
Let me swim again in the
honey haze of all the things you've ever told me,
And in these pure and
simple things I will be born again,
And in your sweet negotiations we will
never end,
And in my arms, you'll never need to think of time again for I
live for you
And as wander in and out of the troubles of your day,
The angels grace
your visions, and watch you as you play,
But I am not responsible, it just
worked out that way, but I live for you
In the setting of infinite suns long forgotten, your shadow walks hand in
hand with me,
There's no weight on my shouders, you carry so much of
me,
I've never seen too much of me in you but there must be,
The music in
your laughter, and your funny poetry,
Or maybe the half jokes you know, you
share with only me, and I live for you
And as you wander up and down the stone road of your soul,
The angels
whisper in your ear that all is in control,
And I knew on the day we met that
you had made me whole, and I live for you
Guest Musicians: Daniel Lewis - Electric Guitar
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