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What Will Burn
04:15
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If there was a way of knowing I would know it by now.
And if I knew how to do it I would show you how.
I would show you how.
And if I had a reason, baby, I would let it get in my way.
And if you laid right down beside me I would never let you stay.
Never let you stay.
I would keep on diggin' through the shit,
Lookin' for a way to make it fit,
Throwin' out the things that I can't see a use for.
I would keep on makin' coal from diamonds,
Pullin' so hard my hands turn white,
And always making sure my heart won't take it too far.
'Cause I'm tryin' but I'm not tryin' very hard.
I'm lying to myself pretending I can't see the scars.
And I'm learnin' that I'm not inclined to learn.
I'm lightin' lots of fires just to find out what will burn.
If I read a dictionary I would get stuck in the A's.
And if I knew how to speak then I would do it every day.
If I had a Holy Bible I would leave it up on the shelf.
And if there was a way to help me I would try and help myself.
I'd try and help myself, Oh...
I would keep on diggin' through the shit,
Lookin' for a way to make it fit,
Throwin' out the things that I can't see a use for.
I would keep on makin' coal from diamonds,
Pullin' so hard my hands turn white,
And always making sure my heart won't take me too far.
'Cause I'm tryin' but I'm not tryin' very hard.
I'm lying to myself pretending I can read the stars.
And I'm learnin' that I'm not inclined to learn.
I'm lightin' lots of fires just to find out what will burn.
'Cause I'm tryin' but I'm not tryin' very hard.
I'm lying to myself pretending I can't see the scars.
And I'm learnin' that I'm just not inclined to learn.
I'm lightin' lots of fires just to find out what will burn.
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Suffer
05:32
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Don't worry if I stop smiling.
Keep walking if I stop short.
Don't give up when I am failing;
When I stop short.
Sit down if I start with running.
Wash all my tears away.
Keep calm if I ever start shouting.
Don't walk away when I stand still.
You know I'd never do that to you.
You know I'd never do that to you.
Save me when I start drowning.
Call me when I go away.
Rescue me I am dying.
Suffer through all of my pain.
You know I'd never do that for you.
You know I'd never do that for you.
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4. |
Mosquito
03:43
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Mosquito
I see you
Floating
Beside Me
Mosquito
I hear you
Flying
On by me
Mosquito
I know you
Stalking the ceiling
Above Me
Mosquito
I feel you
Draining the life
Out from me
Draining the life
Out from me
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5. |
Little Birds
05:45
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Little birds born without a mother or a father.
I can feel their feathers forming in the running water.
Now there is another in the middle of my mouth,
A hundred altogether inside of me now.
Little birds, little birds, come into my body.
Mother, they're within me every moment I'm awaking.
Bodies multiplying 'til they finally overtake me.
Put your ears up to my mouth and you can hear them singing.
Put your hands against me and you'll know what I am feeling.
I just want to swallow up and promise to protect them.
Daddy come towards me I could see his hands were shaking
Put his arms against me, I could feel their bodies breaking.
Pushed me to the floor and put his hands up for a beating.
"I don't want to hear it anymore," he kept repeating.
Do you really want the burning hell to come and get you?
Did you see the burning hell that took your baby brother?
Did you see how far he fell and how he made us suffer?
Another boy in town at night he took him for his lover
And deep in sin they held each other.
So I took a hammer, nearly beat his little brains in
Knowing God in heaven no could never could forgive him.
So I took a hammer nearly beat his little brains in.
Little boy born without a mother or a father.
Taken to the river and then pushed into the water.
Now the priests were singing the hell was getting hotter.
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him
From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him.
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him.
And here beneath the water I can see
How the light distorts so strange.
And this is how I would like to leave my body
And start again.
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6. |
All I Want is a Friction
03:31
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All I want is a friction.
All I want is a warmth.
I've been feedin' on fiction.
All I want is a friction.
All I want is a cure.
I need a prescription.
I need more.
The problem with women...
They're all too human.
They're all too human for me.
All I want is a friction.
To feel my skin against yours.
All I need is addiction (a diction).
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7. |
Who I Am
03:10
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Climbed into a burning to house to look outside the window
And I saw the flames come reachin' out
Around me as I stood and watched
The city starin' up
And I don't know, I don't know who I am.
Fell down three big flights of stairs and cracked my head right open,
Now I'm bleedin' on the subway floor
And janitors are spittin' on me.
I was feelin' down.
And I don't know, I don't know who I am.
Walked into the hospital, they told me I was dyin'
And a nurse showed me into a room
And laid me on a silver table.
I was all alone.
And I don't know, I don't know who I am.
Could you help me maybe please?
Could you help me to my knees?
'Cause I know I am lost.
I know that I am lost.
Jumped into the river and got sucked under a log
And I am floating toward ocean now
To the place that I belong
And now I understand.
I might know, I might know who I am.
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September 31st
05:20
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If you could ever reach me now's the time.
If I could ever touch you, you'd be mine.
And if I could see right to you I'd be blind.
But I'd search the world for one more sign.
Your hands are ancient like your grand designs.
Your eyes are blazing like the sun I cannot find.
My heart is melting with the one inside your mind.
And I'd cross the world for the divine.
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Lord I wonder if some things are true.
But I know some things when I look at you.
And when I look at the light of the stars
I see just how perfect you are.
You are the end of my veins. (You are the end of my veins.)
You are the end of my veins.
Oh, Lord I love you.
Oh, Lord I care for you.
Oh, Lord I love you.
Oh, Lord I care for you.
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11. |
For Everyone
02:56
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It's the living, it's the dying;
The yelling and the sighing.
It's the love and it's the hate.
It's the breakfast on your plate.
It's the magic, it's the science;
The tender love and violence.
It's the singer and the dancer;
The question with no answer.
Here we are to behold it;
to shape and mold it.
Here we are to hold it.
It's the washer, it's the dryer.
It's the water and the fire.
It's the rain and it's the sun.
It's the none and every one.
It's the rain and it's the sun.
It's the one for everyone.
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Solomon Goudsward Prince George, British Columbia
Solomon Goudsward is a nice young man from Prince George, BC. He writes and plays music, but usually not in front of people. If you have his number, call him some time.
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