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Hot Black Joe
02:47
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Now they want coffee
Hot black joe
So I must be ready
When the burner starts to glow
We're building a bridge for them
They hold steady
In the snow
Your coffee's ready
Time to go
They're here
So please come across
With your fire and hunger and hammers
And pictures of us from when we were young
Your coffee is almost done
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2. |
Marriage
03:50
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Lights out, gold teeth
warm beer, cold meat
you wave no more
through open doors
marraige
big room, cold sigh
please stay, dont lie
we wait for what
we wait for what
marriage
lights out, gold teeth
warm beer, cold meat
you wave no more
through open doors
marriage
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3. |
Bridges
03:25
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Bridges burn
Roof beams bend
The sun will rise
The dream will end
I've long strived for good
But things go bad
A good man can lose
Everything he has
Your bridges will burn
Your roof beams bend
Darkness learns
The son ascends
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A lonely man with a hammer
The blood drips on his white shoes
A man on the TV sells skin cream
In a voice that sounds like the blues
The stove has been left on for hours
The whole world smells like burned eggs
A woman on TV wins a toaster
He walks though he cannot feel his legs
Now I could say that I missed how
your eyes shined like metal in the night
but I needed you to be a reflection
and you would not get out of the light
So now I will walk to the water
and drink till I sink in the sand
It's been so long since I've felt my own weight
I needed you to understand
A lonely man with a hammer
The blood has dried on his white shoes
Sits down in front of the TV
to a voice that sounds like the blues
The omelette's been burning for hours
The smoke makes the screen hard to see
A woman on TV with a toaster
smiling just for me
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5. |
Wrong Things Grow
05:15
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For all the places I had yet to go
For everyone that I had yet to know
The heaviness of all I haven't done
greets me daily with the rising sun
For cracks that slowly creep across the wall
from door to door with no pattern at all
You helped me more than I could ever know
The cold that rises as the wrong things grow
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6. |
That Door
03:46
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Wait, one more
I watch from that door
Plain white floors
I've been here before
Take it all
The lights in the hall
Stay a while
The lines in your smile
Wait, one more
There's nothing so poor
Plain white floors
I watch from that door
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The darkness on the stairs
The heaviness of air
The doors that open slow
The words you almost know
Holy ball of lead
You paint the whole world red
The anthills scattered round
Connect beneath the ground
The dark spots in your eyes
The lonely sound of flies
The books that cannot teach
The hands that cannot reach
They lay you in a line
Beneath the teeth of time
Through sorrow you may wake
The rain falls on the lake
I hope you get some rest
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8. |
Easy Enough
03:39
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Cut a man in half and what comes out is clear
Beneath the blood and buried in the marrow
Held my breath inside my wedding dress
Smile into their eyes I've made a mess
It's easy enough
Pull a man apart and what you see is plain
I fell asleep beside the rising water
Waves come rising up into the boat
All your words are catching in your throat
Its easy enough
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