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pink skies
black flies
buzzing around your face
blue eyes
sunrise
creepin over your shoulder
tense thighs
deep sighs
the smell of shit is comin through the air
caramel curls
woman/girl
the boy/man has got his back to you
blue world
has unfurled
its sunny beams unto your shimmering lips
awakening squirrels
droppin its pearls
squeezin its light between our hands entwined
they re comin for you
your friends want to go
your mother will call and i m makin a fool of us both
so just say the word
and i ll disappear
from la vielle ville you ll never need fear
but you tug at your lip
and glance through the bar
my heart it speeds up and they re comin for you
they re comin for you
we should say goodbye
god damnit i m scared
i fell in your eye
(then she kissed me)
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i m in love with the ocean
the constant sea
and the wavelength
of her degree of relation
i m heir to the water
oh lord
and its halfway to heaven
long way to the shore
half past ten
i see her in the moonlight
sayin please
baby come inside
oh girl
do you think i m crazy for you?
no
its halfway to heaven
long way to the moon
i don't know why
i spend lonesome nights in this raft
only you
can make me notice
what it means to love
i pine a girl
i just won t eat
that s my story
now she s free
she wears white lace
only friend
to most people
in the end
where we all end up
in her arms
in her arms
well its halfway to heaven
long way to go
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day by day
04:10
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you always want to go away
you always want to escape away
take a high speed train to somewhere free
where there is no pain anymore
where all your tears
hung out to dry
and all your fears fly
i hate to tell this to you now
but baby there is no such place
all we got is each other here
nothing to escape from
nowhere to escape to
so take the plane to the waterslide
swim the seas to the sunny side
take a high speed train to somewhere free
with blue windows and yellow doors
and all your fears will be waitin for you
awash on the cool shore
i hate to tell this to you now
but baby there is no such place
no happy endings or home in the clouds
just the beauty and grace and release
that is each day we re alive
may we find peace
day by day
day by day
day by day
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Don't Change Your Face
04:41
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the first time i saw your face
i was seventeen
your heart shone through and stung me
from the movie screen
now every time i see your picture
it just don t look the same
did you think you could freeze your beauty
for the fortune or the fame
don t change your face
for the sake of age
you re beautiful the way you are
you re a movie star
i m just one of thirty million faces
starin from the dark
while your timeless beauty
moves backwards like a shark
you don t have to listen
you don t have to speak
but i d so love to see a wrinkle
on your legendary cheek
don t change your face
for the sake of age
you re beautiful the way you are
you re a movie star
age with you is dancing
and beauty s just skin deep
the angels or the surgeons
will watch you while you sleep
who will watch you while you sleep
don't change your face
for the sake of age
you re beautiful the way you are
you re a movie star
sail on silver girl
sail on silver girl
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who do you think you are?
who do you think you are?
spendin all night at your side
stoned and drunk and feelin vulnerable
you pull me close to you
you get everything that you try for
so you think you can have me to?
who do you think you are?
who do you think you are?
who do you think you are?
your picture in the paper s so revealing
the way you sing about your ego
hello ego
who do you think you are?
comin into my personal space
who do you think you are?
you think you re gonna win this race
well i don t think so
i don t think so
i don t think so
who do you think you are?
who do you think you are?
who do you think you are?
yeah
who do you think you are?
who do you think you are?
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maybe in this world or the next one
we ll walk again as lovers hand in hand
there may be a golden distance in our sights
or is it all behind us holdin on
lettin go of a need so strong rips you open
naked to the world a vulnerable sigh
the dishes have moved out they sit in boxes
made of cardboard wet with rain
whichever way our future lay
the only thing to say
is goodbye
time the insatiable destroyer
pulls us apart like skin from a deer
now our time together is preserved like jelly
pouring out onto now sweetening our lives
this is my last day in this city
i call you up you ask me over
you say keep in touch
then its don t lose touch
but it don t take much from you to lead me on
now my cards are tossed into the air
i lost my flush my full house and my pair
one more draw from our past on the table
i m feelin lucky so i hold em
i m feelin lucky so i hold em
mmm
maybe when the rain turns to snow
maybe in that day
my mind will be quiet
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your smile s convincing
your hair s alright
and i wish i could love you tonight
your eyes have a certain sparkle
i guess your teeth are white
and i wish i could love you tonight
you re like a princess in a storybook
who s just a little bit shy
i m like the frog
who s happier catchin a fly
your arms are quite soft
much like your thigh
and i wish i could love you tonight
your secrets are secret
so please keep em to yourself
i just can t hear them tonight
i wish i could write you a love song
like i wish i could fly
and i wish that i could lie to you
how i wish i could love you tonight
your sincerity is charming
it makes me seem trite
and i wish i could love you tonight
i promised i would tell you when the moment felt right
but i just can t do that tonight
i wish i could write you a love song
like i wish i was true
tonight i can t lie to you
how i wish i could lie to you
how i wish i
baby i wish i could love you
tonight
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cat at my back door
03:40
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whoah my love
tell me
why you got so mad last night
you screamed in my ear
i didn t know what i d done wrong
but now i hear
you said you would never forgive the things that i done
if you can t never forgive those things then how can we be one
how can we be one?
a stray cat came crawlin to our door
cryin at the moon
you let it in you let it in
one night too soon
that cat will come back again
it ll want some more from you and me
it ll keep comin around this way
if you keep lettin it in
i m not sayin i don t care about an animal dyin in the streets
but i just care about you and me
and about
that i can breathe
i just want to breathe
i just want to breathe free
and i can t do that with a cat at my back door
oh whoah
i wish i was not this way
i wish i could be like you
i wish i had the love in me for an animal
like you do
i wish i could be like that
but i can t
but i can t
am i lost
oh am i lost
oh
i hadn t seen you get so mad like that since we were younger
i hadn t seen your face get red and that voice like thunder
i hadn t seen your tears fall down with a bed all to yourself
i wanted to sleep downstairs but i came crawlin back
i just came crawlin back to you like a man on his knees
i didn t think that i was weak but i m sayin baby please
there s a wall between us its so high
it will always be like that
if we don t bring it down
with our hands and our hearts
it ll just get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger
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worn out chair
01:20
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cozy worn out chair
how you hold me like you care
i would move you anywhere
anywhere
worn out chair
your cushion it eased my mind
i was stumblin
baby i was blind
how you suction my behind
my behind my behind
the way you squeeze me in your seat
you re all i really need
now i eat drink sit and stare
she loved another
but you don t share
how i love you
worn out chair
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Birds'd Crash
03:13
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we're here
i'm here
your there
self
all clear
and its gonna last
and its gonna last
thinking they had to birds'd crash
i'm going fast
i'm going fast
stay with me
make plans
that you can
and its gonna last
and its gonna last
thinking they had to birds'd crash
wells it s like we found out
if your gonna think something
think something that's not dead
you wouldn't wanna take it wrong
think it out through your head
we've made it
with feeling
all we wanted to bring
you re here too
and its gonna last
and its gonna last
thinking they had to birds'd crash
can't fake it
can't break it
all our dreams to keep us through
and its gonna last
and its gonna last
thinking they had to birds'd crash
wells it like we found out
if your gonna think something
think something that's not dead
you wouldn't wanna take it wrong
think it out through your head
bad dreams
don't build that way
I feel so strong
about this will
and its gonna last
and its gonna last
thinking they had to birds'd crash
all I have to do
is keep filled
better and better
tingling thrill
and its gonna last
and its gonna last
thinking they had to birds'd crash
and its gonna last
and its gonna last
and its gonna last
birds'd crash
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it was sunny the day we were married
but
it rained all night
the night we went to gabriola island
your mom picked us up
and drove us to the ferry
we hardly talked at all
we walked along the ocean road
we heard vancouver cough
you held your cellphone like a strange compass
you were lookin for service
on a gabriola road
the sun came out the next morning
a perfect summer day
saturday and sunday
we laughed and played badminton
when we went down
to catch the boat back home
you cried all night you cried all night
you cried all night
you said you felt not right at all
since we tied the knot
you d been afraid to really say how bad you felt inside
you felt all your big dreams
could not be possible
to a girl
who s married
i d never seen you cry like that
the funny thing is
i never loved you more
there i was
the rain was coming down
lookin for service
on a gabriola road
on the night we got home we got a message
about dear dear george
who died so suddenly
and left melanie alone
we felt like two old fools
i held you all night long
we talked about him
and how she must feel
and how if there s a god at all
he must be lookin for service
on a gabriola road
when you don t see
the love in front of you
and beauty all around
you are just lookin for service
on a gabriola road
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lift up your eyes
02:54
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lift up your eyes
lift up your eyes
quit staring at the ground
take a look around
i haven t written a song this optimistic
since i was nere a man
lost somewhere in israel
or somewhere deep in hell
so lift up your eyes
lift up your eyes
one day my mama said to me
while we were driving in her car
have you ever thought
how everyone is going to someone else s hell?
like the jews to the muslim s hell
or a buddhist to a mormon hell and so on?
i said yes ma
but we are goin to all of them
we are goin to all of them
we are goin to all those hells
lift up your eyes
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i will stand up to you Fall
you won t have me this year
and the emotional drop
that you somehow bring to me
every time those leaves fall down
you won t have me this time Fall
i m done with you
stick to the squirrels and your icicles
stick to the lakes and all those freezin mountain tops
you re an omniscient threat Fall
you are a bully and you re ozone tall
i m gonna kick you in your icy balls
cuz this september i m armed and dangerous
i will stand up to you Fall
you and all your chicken shit ways
you won t bring me down like the sun
like the horizon in the east
and across the vista of my consciousness
or the vista of my love
my love
i can feel you creepin into my heart
with your glistening lawns
and your silent streets
and your quiet hours
inside dogs and cats
and papers are wet on the ground
papers are wet on the ground
you won t have me this time
you won t bring me down
i m ready for you
my thirty first Fall
my thirty first Fall
my thirty first Fall
la la la la la la la la
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last love song
04:23
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on a sunday night
i just can t sleep without you
so i sit at the piano
and i make up a tune
this might be the last love song that i write for you
you better enjoy it
there were some in 3/4 time
and some in 5/4 time too
and some with a sweet little chorus you could sing
a fancy little melody that anyone could whistle too
but this one is just for you
it s a lonely one armed man duet
and its got all the flagrant lack of sentimentality
of dorothy parker s last cigarette
you don t have that old sparkly that you did when we met
that don t say much for me
maybe the best thing to ever happen to you
just ain t happened yet
so please don t cry
and don t say goodbye
to the lovin kindness
that you ve got to give to the world
cuz i still love you
but i love your power more
and i can t keep it to myself anymore
baby you are the best
but i got to push you out of the nest
you got wings all your own
and we all want to see you soar
but i m not bein kind
i need more than you got
you got enough for this world
but not enough for my heart
so sail away
wave goodbye
blow me
one big fat wet kiss
as you sail in your new life
without me
girl
cuz i still love you
but i love your power more
baby this is how the
last
love
song
ends
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Jeff Gladstone Vancouver, British Columbia
Cowboy Noir Cabaret to soothe the troubled soul.
www.jeffgladstone.com/wanted
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