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Goddamn Real to Me
02:34
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GODDAMN REAL TO ME
I’ve been lied to, and I’ve been brow beaten
My feet are dug into the ground undone
Ch. Goddamn, I think I’m a human too
Nothing real to me is real to you
My tongue is tied, and I can’t hardly speak
Are you laughing with me or at me?
Ch.
I take you down to the border and what do you see?
You see fences, I see spaces open free
Ch.
I won’t let my heart
Die before its time
No I won’t.
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On a Soapbox
02:29
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CAN'T GET YOU OUTTA MY MIND
I know what you’re thinking
I think the same thing too
I don’t think of nothing else
Ch. Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind
A smile’s like inspiration
A face like God’s own tear
A hand that holds mine like a child
Ch.
Some people say you’re not right for me
But I’ve gotta disagree
I can’t think a place that I’d rather be
Than standing with you cold, outside the club
Or falling down drunk with you outside the pub
Some people say that we drink too much
But they’ve never been in a loving cup
I just take one sip from you
Ch.
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I'm Gonna Fall
02:54
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I'M GONNA FALL
I thought I could carry the burden, for you and for me
I was born a bastard, fool enough to believe
Imagine waking, knowing you’re not worth a damn
Fist clenching and rejecting what I really am
Ch. I’m gonna fall – he’s only a child
I’m gonna fall – he’s only a child
I’m gonna fall – he’s only a child
And so I fall, I get up and begin again
But I won’t crawl, I just want to begin again
I wish I could let go all my dependencies
I just grow bitter at the things I’ve prayed for on my knees.
But for one moment, I found the faith that I lost
Fist clenching, soul drenching, in the rain that did drop
Ch.
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Bitterness
05:33
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BITTERNESS
On this side of the hill child sit up and cry
Touches his window and paints two other eyes
On the other side child asks his mother why
Hatreds a virtue and dreams turn into lies
Hatreds a virtue and dreams turn into lies
On this side of the hill child sit up and cry
Touches his window and paints two other eyes
Got a wall full of scratches and a closet full of questions
Rug burns on his knee caps and learned some bitter lessons
ch. So sew a heart on the side of your sleeve
Don’t accept the lie you’re better off
Living on your knees
If they say they love you, well they’ve torn you apart
That ain’t love it’s bitterness planted in your heart
You’ve got two hands and a heart and a soul, my friend
And it’s got no right being poisoned
ch.
One day you’ll rise above because you’re a glorious fool
You wipe the brow and kiss the man who’s wicked and cruel
And so to rejoice the new world you’ve suddenly found
You'll leave behind the lies of this ignorant town
ch. If they say they love you, well they’ve torn you apart
That ain’t love it’s bitterness planted in your heart
You lived a life in closets now you turn from the scorn
You’ll find a place together where the truth is inborn
Well, you’ve found a place where the truth is inborn
Well, you’ve found a place where the truth is inborn
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Black Eye to the Sky
04:03
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BLACK EYE TO THE SKY
Well, the fields stretch forever
And trees never bend
The promise of tomorrow’s another lie
That’ll never end.
If I can’t speak my mind, I won’t do what I’m told.
I try to laugh it off, but I was in a stranglehold
I can’t read or write though I’m 30 years old
But I’ve got words to sing that will lift me out of this hole.
Gonna put me up for barter and say I’m better off sold.
I try to hold my ground, but I was in a stranglehold.
Bridge: I’ve scraped bottom of my heart
Black eye to the sky – it’ll happen
If your home is in your heart
And your heart is in your home
If you push me down, it’s OK by me.
I’ve got places to go I know you’ll never be.
One song I sing will save my soul.
I’m gonna break free from this stranglehold.
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Dry September
06:03
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DRY SEPTEMBER
Dry September the air hangs heavy with dust and mistrust
Dry September there ain’t been one born that you could trust
Well, the bull’s eye of a blue eyed stare
He watched her as she crossed the street
They knew him but they didn’t care
His fate was sealed as they cursed the heat on a –
ch. Dry September
Dry September day
Dry September nothing to do but sit on the porch
Burning to set the land on fire
Looking for a torch
Well, she lived alone outside of town
Who knows what might have happened when
He went out there to help her out
Small minds wonder to violent ends on a –
ch.
They took my arms with a smile and all the while
I just asked myself ‘how long’?
Before these colors bleed into one
And my hands come undone
I asked ‘how long’ – on a
ch.
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IN THE COUNTRY (FOR JIM CARROLL))
Jim Carroll was a man delivered to a world undeserving
Well they turned their backs on him and he just stopped learning
He danced on his balcony
He rocked and twitched in his seat
Later on he started nodding
Heavy as a pale wet sheet
Ch. What do you think that he’s sleeping from?
Something a new sun would cure?
What do you think that he’ll wake up to?
A world so clean and pure?
In the country snowfall is pretty but it’s ugly in the city
I saw something in him no one else has seen
In his rainy eyes that disguise a silent soul reaching
I couldn’t fill his head or his arms because I’m not too brave
Ain’t it enough I’d die to keep you from an early grave?
ch.
Someone walked up his arms
Stamping out a sky full of scars
He jumped out his window
Because it had no bars
We cleaned out all the paint that was jammed up his fingernails
Then we thanked Jesus Christ for releasing him from jail.
ch.
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Higher Ground
02:48
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HIGHER GROUND
I’m tangled up in mourning
I wake up unbelieving
I’m living and I’m dying
Neither seem too appealing
Where to go?
I don’t know
If I could stop to think I’d see
One day I’ll climb out of this hole
With no shackles on my feet
ch. Everything was such a drag, drag, drag
But I’ve finally found
If I die to myself
Then I’m on higher ground
I’m pulled inside out
I come down from the ceiling
I think I’m scared what I’ve shown you
Just wasn’t worth revealing
I’ve come to accept
I can’t accept
This nowhere direction
Oh God I need more than what I see
In this hollow reflection
Ch.
Where I’m going
I don’t know
Maybe I’m going nowhere
But it’s better than home
I’ll go down past things going round and round
And then I’ll be standing on some higher ground
And then I’ll be standing on some higher ground
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When I Go
03:53
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WHEN I GO
Mourning time is over
Leave your black clothes on the floor
Leave a note for your mother
And walk out your front door
I’m gonna find a new world
I’m sitting here waiting for you
Those words you learned wont help you know
Although you want them to
ch. I checked your eyes today
And now I know
I’m gonna take you with me
When I go
Mourning time is over
No more staring at locked doors
I hate the taste left in my mouth
From sitting here licking sores
I’m gonna find a new world
Where all’s not black but gold
Where friends and strangers take you in
And keep you from the cold
ch.
When we go we won’t tell anyone
We’ll just get up and leave
Leave our note behind
Just to cry and grieve
And my spirit is soaring
Now come and take my hand
We’ll send you a postcard
When we land…
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Wide Eyed
03:45
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WIDE EYED
Tonight I want to feel the rain
Bead from my face
Could you raise me
From this heartless place?
From the bottom of a restless soul
I try to sleep
To me, I’m still living
If I’m even hardly on my feet
ch. I don’t know where I’m going
I’m so blind I can’t see
I’m sure you’ll see where I’ll end up
And that’s all right by me
At night I ask you ‘are you frightened?’
Why do you let me struggle, and take from me?
ch.
Tonight I want to set my spirit free
Tonight I want to die of be redeemed
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Stay Hungry
By God, I know one thing
I know hunger like it knows me
As soon as you make the break
They’ll fucking break you right in two
Mother, I still need holding
You’ve seen my in all my glory
I’ll shrink into myself
Just to start the next morning
ch. I stay hungry
I stay hungry
Hollowed out my heart
Walked skin-tight rope on hot coals
Won’t you shine your love
It’s like sweet sugar in my soul
ch.
In me’s the fear of God
Can’t blame God if you don’t roll
Hope to sing ‘Deep River’
Or become pieces on the floor
ch.
One minute with you
One minute gone
Misunderstanding goes on
Goes on and on.
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Animal Move Real Slow
Animal Move Real Slow
Grown out of ruins
Brought through his father’s father’s
Inherent sin.
Brother you will move me.
Like no other one.
See my back’s bruises
Been bitten by the sun.
ch. Well, I wait for the morning
But the night never ends.
‘Til I see you – again…
Animal move real slow
Opens its heart and eyes
To the new born country
Spread open wide
And I can hear the angel
Cry her heart on her sleeve
Not for its soul
But its dignity.
ch.
Animal move real slow
Chain drag from its feet.
There’s too much hate in the hunter
To ever just let it be.
Well, you look to the animal
Because it don’t look like you
Soon the hunter in hunted
And he’s an animal too.
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All These People Come & Go
Well I saw her coming out to me
Lookin’ like a worn out rosary
Twisted and squeezed through every eve
‘Til you could see right through.
She says I’m always trying to straddle that fence
She says one day you’ll fall and it’ll make sense
But ‘til then laughter is your best defense
Against the evening news.
ch. Then I got up and made the door
I left a note that said, “No more.”
I could have stayed, but I thought what for?
Oh no. Oh no, no…
All these people come and go.
I tried to fight it, but I couldn’t win
So in the end I just gave in
And freed myself to start again
In a better place.
And I was in a corner on a dunce’s chair
A stack of records and greasy hair
I decided that this wasn’t fair
To either her or me.
ch.
All these people come and go…
All these people come and go…
All these people come and go…
All these people come and go…
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Look Book
This town’s been in hibernation since television evenings
And bonfires lit a well read sky and stroked a city sleeping
Men in their crow’s nest, I think they’ve lost their grip
In one fell swoop I fall down broken, I’ve lost my innocence
ch. I think I’ve lost some understanding
But I can’t just walk away
I thumb through the Look Book pages
No, I can’t just walk away
Mary was on her elbows with a childlike sincerity
They try to break her and forsake her and grow her up to be
A marching wooden soldier
With eyes blind to their end
The word just came from under a son
Newly reborn again
ch.
They burned up her childhood
And pulled her heart out of shape
And if I could I’d take her from
This god blessed waste.
ch.
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IDIOT CHILD
See a new day rising
A sight unforeseen
Pure from the new day fear
Yeah, you asked for handshakes
No greenbacks will do
Oh Lord don’t you stop me here.
And I’m so fucking scared.
Scared of myself
Scared that I’ll look the other way.
And if I give a damn
I can’t go home again.
But tonight I know I lay awake.
ch. Pick up and kiss the idiot child.
I felt the ground swell and twist beneath my feet
Ain’t no justice for the hands on the street.
And eyes will remind you and tap on my soul.
Tables turn and it’s my turn to lie.
ch. Pick up and kiss the idiot child
One day the rain will sweep it all away
And it will punch the night right through to day
And one day the rain will sweep it all away.
Remind you that the dreamland will dirty soon
Pick up and kiss the idiot child
Pick up and kiss the idiot child.
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COPPER WIRE
I’m just a nigger’s prayer
Rot on a live wire
Well, you cross the chalk circle
Catch your feet on fire
In my body were many bloods
You’ll find my feet in old Misssissippi mud
Ch. Show me morning
Show me stars that fall like rain
But honey I know
The morning’s as sweet as cane.
Red nigger moon
Gonna come out tomorrow.
I’ll be sleeping soon
On a shoulder of sorrow.
Hurricane was stopped with just one hand
Keep me down - dissatisfied man.
Ch.
Poor belly empty
Wait for poor river bring
Well ‘cross the fields
You hear the nigger sing
I’m just a cotton wad in your
I throw up both hands
And belly up tears.
Ch.
Let the river flow…
Carry me away…
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LONG WAY TO GO
Ain’t it something when you’ve found.
You got your feet back on the ground
But I know – you’ve got a long way to go.
First comes the cross that you bear
Then comes the crown that you’ll wear
But I know – I’ve got a long way to go.
Ch: I got a long way – got a long way to go.
My blessings turned to burden
Rot inside of me
Like a tree trunk dug into slavery
Though I’ve strayed – such far far away.
Ch.
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ROLL AWAY
Mother, where’s my mother?
You’re in my blood…what’s my name?
Father, never knew you.
Lord I’m stumbling
What my name?
ch. I know you’ll follow
If I roll away
Oh lord, won’t you hear me
Why do you put
Blinders on me?
And if I turn from you
Would you pick me up
Off my feet
I know you’ll follow
If I roll away
I know you’ll show me
How to find my way
Take it, as gospel
I’m empty mouth
Empty pocket
I’m shuffling
On desert feet
But I’m moving on up
Right off the street
I know you’ll follow
If I roll away
I know you’ll show me
How to find my way
I’m healing
Healing heart
And I can tell blood and wine apart
Yes I’m falling and I’ll soon be done
And I’ll know morning when the morning comes
I know you’ll follow
If I roll away
I know you’ll show me
How to find my way.
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ROLL AWAY
Mother, where’s my mother?
You’re in my blood…what’s my name?
Father, never knew you.
Lord I’m stumbling
What my name?
ch. I know you’ll follow
If I roll away
Oh lord, won’t you hear me
Why do you put
Blinders on me?
And if I turn from you
Would you pick me up
Off my feet
I know you’ll follow
If I roll away
I know you’ll show me
How to find my way
Take it, as gospel
I’m empty mouth
Empty pocket
I’m shuffling
On desert feet
But I’m moving on up
Right off the street
I know you’ll follow
If I roll away
I know you’ll show me
How to find my way
I’m healing
Healing heart
And I can tell blood and wine apart
Yes I’m falling and I’ll soon be done
And I’ll know morning when the morning comes
I know you’ll follow
If I roll away
I know you’ll show me
How to find my way.
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PREACHIN' TO THE CHOIR
From the streets of Falls Church to Heritage
He's preachin' preaching' to the choir
In His name forsaken, money will save his life
He's preachin' preachin' to the choir.
ch: Preachin' - Preachin' Preachin' to the choir.
An ocean's looking to be inspired.
Preaching, preaching to the choir.
He spins the prayer wheel, like he spins a lie.
He's preaching, preaching to the choir.
ch.
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GINGI & ME
I met you at the bottom of a bottle.
I begged you to stay
Well, we were humming on our way.
We ran like children through the rain.
Backstepping all the way.
There’s good and bad in me
Sometimes I’m such a goddamned man
But the night gets long
And I recoil.
Take me back, take me back, take me back
A long time ago.
ch. Gingi and me
Misunderstood
They’ll ring us out
‘Til we ain’t no good
Well, you know Gingi,
You’re my love
You’re my love
They’re coming in from the outside
But we won’t hide
Come watch us play in our goldfish bowl.
In you I see me a long time ago
You saw me break off but I won’t land
Baby this time you won’t slide through my hands.
ch.
Won’t you grow old with me
Gingi, we got so much to see
Well, you might lose your walk
And me my hair
There’ll me enough champagne to spare
You and me baby, off our rocking chair.
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GODDAMN REAL TO ME
I’ve been lied to, and I’ve been brow beaten
My feet are dug into the ground undone
Ch. Goddamn, I think I’m a human too
Nothing real to me is real to you
My tongue is tied, and I can’t hardly speak
Are you laughing with me or at me?
Ch.
I take you down to the border and what do you see?
You see fences, I see spaces open free
Ch.
I won’t let my heart
Die before its time
No I won’t.
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WATERSHED
I ran from momma
After she ran from me
And I ran through downtown
Inner city.
Friction pulls at me leg
And it begs me to beg.
Then it turn me inside out
And leaves me naked.
ch. I met a preacher who told me he’d feed me
Then I saw what was happening to me.
I thought I was tempted but I was led
I thought I could sleep in God’s watershed
But he was fucking with my head.
I walked on a spring
Sidestepped that fire
But I got lonely
Now I’m rigged to that wire.
I was pure as a baby
It taste bittersweet
I got an Irish gullet
And black clay feet
ch.
I flew ‘side and angel
She turned me upside down
But my arms were hurting
And she threw me on the ground.
Faith will point a needle
And its aim is true
Faith’ll blind an angel
Wearing devil shoes.
ch.
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Divine Weeks Los Angeles, California
Named one of the 15 best unsigned bands by the L.A. Times, Divine Weeks were signed to Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn's Down There label releasing debut "Through & Through" in '87. In '91 they released "Never Get Used To It." After a lengthy hiatus, singer Bill See's memoir "33 Days" was the catalyst to reforming & releasing "See Those Landing Lights" & the politically charged "We're All We Have" ... more
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