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1. |
Once All This Is Through
02:10
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VERSE
I’m gonna wake up in the morning and I’ll
make french toast for breakfast and we’ll
face the world with no
fear in our hearts
And I’m gonna call my friends and there’s
gonna
Be this realization that the
World isn’t quite so
Shit anymore
CHORUS
There’s gonna be a great big party once
all this is through
We’ll eat grapes straight off the vine and
dance like we’re possessed by something
obscene
We’ll hold each other in our arms and cry
like lovestruck poets
And the fighters there among us will lay
down their arms
VERSE
I’m gonna walk these hills stumbling
Like a newborn baby summoning
The strength for my legs to carry me
Home
Maybe I’ll hitch a train or maybe
I’ll stowaway in the cargo hold of an
Industrial freighter carrying
fruit from foreign countries
CHORUS
There’s gonna be a great big party once
all this is through
We’ll eat grapes straight off the vine and
dance like we’re possessed by something
obscene
We’ll hold each other in our arms and cry
like lovestruck poets
And the fighters there among us will lay
down their arms
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2. |
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Verse
Calloused feet on the linoleum
Hands of knotted wood
Weeping burning furious eyes
Feeling the only way that I could
Pre-Chorus
You cut me open and you looked inside
You found my useless lungs
My grey husk ripping open
Shedding what I lost
I’m now a wailing mass of mold and rotten weeds
Chorus
You pride yourself on your surgical
precision
Yet I stand before you all fresh and green
Pools of water forming where I stand
You can cut and cut the swamp will never
bleed
Verse
I knew no fury
Till you took all I had from me
That green expanse that soft green embrace
I swear to any god that I can find that you’ll pay
Pre-Chorus
I haven’t been certain of anything for a long time
But I know you’ll get what you deserve
You’ll claw with your gnarled hands at the window pane
No escape I’ll drag you down into the earth
Chorus
You pride yourself on your all-consuming
dedication
Yet I stand before you all fresh and green
Pools of water forming where I stand
You can cut and cut the swamp will never bleed
Verse
When I have moved on you’ll know a
thousand years have passed
Warm pink sun bouncing off the water like glass
The bugs catch the light like hanging jewels
The swamp’s always living breathing always new
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3. |
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Verse
Springdale, Connecticut son of a washed up
Soap opera actress and a lawyer
Founding member of the New Warriors Team
Everything he had and everything he
Was, blown away, he tells himself
Chorus
One of these days
I will kaleidoscope through the air
One of these days
I will free myself from the rubble I’m pinned under
One of these days
I will wear the blue and yellow again
One of these days
I will realize that I deserve better
Verse
Blown to bits, 600 dead
And counting, he’s out of his depth
There’s the unshakeable truth that if he doesn’t
Lay him down, he’ll do it first
All his friends, dead before his
Eyes, only him, he says
Chorus
One of these days
I will kaleidoscope through the air
One of these days
I will free myself from the rubble I’m pinned under
One of these days
I will wear the blue and yellow again
One of these days
I will realize that I deserve better
Verse
Forged himself a new skin
Convinced himself he needs penance, for what he did
Sold his soul to the government
Stuck between a heavy conscience, and a world on fire
But speedball he knew, that even while the
Fire climbs, you tell yourself
Chorus
One of these days
I will kaleidoscope through the air
One of these days
I will free myself from the rubble I’m pinned under
One of these days
I will wear the blue and yellow again
One of these days
I will realize that I deserve better
Outro
One of these days X4
One of these days
It’ll be over for all of you it will
It’ll be over for all of you it will
It’ll be over for all of you it will
(Repeated until end of song)
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4. |
Come On Up To The House
04:04
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VERSE
Well the moon is broken
And the sky is cracked
Come on up to the house
The only things that you can see
Is all that you lack
Come on up to the house
All your cryin don't do no good
Come on up to the house
Come down off the cross
We can use the wood
Come on up to the house
CHORUS
Come on up to the house
Come on up to the house
The world is not my home
I'm just a passin’ through
Come on up to the house
VERSE
There's no light in the tunnel
No irons in the fire
Come on up to the house
And your singin’ lead soprano
In a junkman's choir
You gotta come on up to the house
Does life seem nasty, brutish and short
Come on up to the house
The seas are stormy
And you can't find no port
Come on up to the house
CHORUS
Come on up to the house
Come on up to the house
The world is not my home
I'm just a passin through
Come on up to the house
INSTRUMENTAL
VERSE
There's nothin in the world
that you can do
you gotta come on up to the house
and you been whipped by the forces
that are inside you
come on up to the house
well you're high on top
of your mountain of woe
come on up to the house
well you know you should surrender
but you can't let go
you gotta come on up to the house
CHORUS
Come on up to the house
Come on up to the house
The world is not my home
I'm just a passin’ through
You gotta come on up to the house
You gotta come on up to the house
You gotta come on up to the hou-ou-ouou-ouse
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5. |
November Song
01:56
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VERSE
It gets cold
It gets cold
It gets cold around here this time of year
CHORUS
There’s some things you gotta do
There’s some things you gotta do
Before it gets cold
VERSE
Get your coat out of the closet
Oil your boots before the roads get salted
CHORUS
There’s some things you gotta do
There’s some things you gotta do
Before it gets cold
VERSE
Gather some wood for the fire
Make sure you got on your snow tires
CHORUS
There’s some things you gotta do
There’s some things you gotta do
Before it gets cold
VERSE
It gets cold
It gets cold
It gets cold around here this time of year
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