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Ants Marching
Tripping Billies
Recently
Satellite
One Sweet World
Song That Jane Likes
Minarets
Seek Up
I'll Back You Up
Christmas Song

Ants Marching

He wakes up in the morning Does his teeth bite to eat and he's rolling Never changes a thing The week ends the week begins She thinks, we look at each other Wondering what the other is thinking But we never say a thing These crimes between us grow deeper Goes to visit his mommy She feeds him well his concerns He forgets them And remembers being small Playing under the table and dreaming Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die Driving in on this highway All these cars and upon the sidewalk People in every direction No words exchanged No time to exchange And all the little ants are marching Red and black antennas waving They all do it the same They all do it the same way Candyman teasing the thoughts of a Sweet tooth tortured by the weight loss Programs cutting the corners Loose end, loose end, cut, cut On the fence, could not to offend Cut, cut, cut, cut Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die

I'll Back You Up

I remember thinking I'll go on forever only knowing I'll see you again But I know The touch of you is so hard to remember But like that touch I know no other And for sure we have danced In the risk of each other Would like to dance Around the world with me I'll be falling all about my own thing And I know your the heaviest weight When your not here that's hung Around my head And your lips burn wild Thrown from the face of a child And in your eyes The seeing of the greatest few Do what you will, always Walk where you like, your steps Do as you please, I'll back you up I remember thinking Sometimes we walk Sometimes we run away But I know No matter how fast we are running Somehow we keep Somehow we keep up with each other I'll be falling all about my own thing And i know your the heaviest weight When your not here that's hung Around my head And your lips burn wild Thrown from the face of a child And in your eyes The seeing of the greatest few Do what you will, always Walk where you like, your steps Do as you please, I'll back you up

Minarets

Santa Maria choose your children Santa Maria virgin child all our wars over you we are fighting and all our time faith justifying Brother caged Babylon will fall Sister chained and bound, beaten and bleeding The tv's on, to me this explains it Wearing a tie like daddy speaks it Screaming from the minarets Later on we'll all be dancing Screaming from the minarets Yes indeed i'm making faces Rain on the ground in a space God has grown Alone till a man looking glass in his hand He is holding up to you What you see What you see What you see What you see is human Screaming from the minarets

One Sweet World

Nine planets round the sun Only one does the sun embrace Upon this watered one So much we take for granted So let us sleep outside tonight Lay down in our mother's arms For here we can rest safely If green should slip to grey But our hearts still bloody be And if mountains crumble away And the river dry Would it stop the stepping feet Take all that we can get When it's done Nobody left to bury here Nobody left to dig the holes And here we can rest safely One sweet world Around a star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming And here we will rest in peace

Recently

Recently I've been All of content and dreaming I have been 'Cause I been lately seeing Quite a bit of this woman live on my street People stare and we just ignore everything People stare and we just ignore them And they go away, go away She comes to me I watch her drink I watch her comb her hair Both say that we never before have Felt as recently People stare and we just ignore What's the use in hiding out She says all the time Let their eyes do the worrying about She and me go to places quiet Where we are quite alone Kiss and we hold together We will be until we done People stare and we just ignore What's the use in hiding out She says all the time Let their eyes do the worring about Both say the we never before Never before have felt as recently People stare and we just ignore everything People stare and we just ignore them And they go away, go away

Satellite

Satellite in my eyes Like a diamond in the sky How I wonder. Satellite strung from the moon And the world your balloon Peeping tom for the mother station Winter's cold spring erases And the calm away by the storm is chasing Everything good needs replacing Look up, look down all around, hey satellite Satellite, headlines read Someone's secrets you've seen Eyes and ears have been Satellite dish in my yard Tell me more, tell me more Who's the king of your satellite castle? Winter's cold spring erases And the calm away by the storm is chasing Everything good needs replacing Look up, look down all around, hey satellite Rest high above the clouds no resrictions Television we bounce 'round the world And while I spend these hours Five senses reeling, I laugh about the weatherman's satellite eyes. Satellite in my eyes Like a diamond in the sky How i wonder. Satellite strung from the moon And the world your balloon Peeping tom for the mother station Winter's cold spring erases And the calm away by the storm is chasing Everything good needs replacing Look up, look down all around, hey satellite Rest high above the clouds no restrictions Television you bounce from the world And while I spend these hours Five senses reeling I laugh about this world in my satellite eyes.

Seek Up

Sometimes I feel like I'm falling Fall back again, fall back again, Fall back again, fall back again Oh, life it seems a struggle between What we think what we see I'm not going to change my ways Just to please you or appease you Inside a crowd, five billion proud Willing to punch it out Right, wrong, weak, strong Ashes to ashes all fall down Look around about this round About this merry-go-round around If at afll God's gaze upon us fall His mischievous grin, look at him Forget about the reasons and The treasons we are seeking Forget about the notion that Our emtions can be swept away Forget about being guilty, We are innocent instead For soon we will all find our lives swept away Sit awhile with TV's hungry child Big belly swelled Oh, for a price of a coke or a smoke Keep alive those hungy eyes Take a look at me, what you see in me, Mirror look at me Face it all, face it all again Forget about the reasons and The treasons we are seeking Forget about the notion that your emtions can be Wwept away, kept at bay Forget about being guilty, i am innocent instead For soon we will all find our lives swept away You seek up an emotion And our cup is overflowing You seek up an emotion, Sometimes your well is dry You seek up a big monster For him to fight your wars for you But when he finds his way to you, the devil's not Going--ha, ha Say, say Look at me in my fancy car And my bank account Oh, how I wish I could take it all down Into my grave, I'd save Take a look again, take a look again, Take a look again Everyday things change,...stay the same Forget about the reasons and The treasons we are seeking Forget about the notion that Your emtions can be swept away Intentions are not wicked, Don't be tricked into thinking so Soon we will all find our lives swept away You seek up an emotion And our cup is overflowing You seek up an emotion, Sometimes your well is dry You seek up a big monster For him to fight your wars for you But when he finds his way to you, The devil's not going--ha, ha Fall back again, fall back again, fall back again...

Song that Jane Likes

And in plays to write the wire in I'll come back again Torching time talking rhymes in I'll come back again Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With hands up and down So resigned you will fall down While you around here play Wild on the warm and far away While you around here play The days keep scrbbling themselves In tidy lines Would like to play With a fool holding hands With a one-eyed jack of spades While on the deck they sing All of the captain's cards are kings Still he and the queen are lost at sea I hope it isn't you and me And I'll be back 'round again Yes I'll walk in time with you old friend And we'll find that place That we had danced so long ago And in plays to write the wire in I'll come back again Torching time talking rhymes in I'll come back again With this resigned The letter I sign

Tripping Billies

We were above You standing underneath us We were not yet lovers Dragons were smoked Bumblebees were stinging us I was soon to be crazy Eat, drink and be merry For tomorrow we die 'Cause we're tripping billies We're wearing nothing Nothing but out shadows Shadows falling down on the beach sand Remembering once, Out on the beaches we wore Pineapple grass bracelets So why would you care To get out of this place You and me and all our freinds Such a happy human race 'Cause we're tripping billies We are all sitting Legs crossed round a fire My yellow flame she dances Tequila drinking oh our Minds will wonder To wonderous places So why would you care To get out of this place You and me and all our friends Such a happy human race Eat, drink and be merry For tomorrow we die

Christmas Song

She was his girl; he was her boyfriend She be his wife; take him as her husband A surprise on the way, any day, any day One healthy little giggling dribbling baby boy The wise men came three made their way To shower him with love While he lay in the hay Shower him with love love love Love love love Love love is all around Not very much of his childhood was known Kept his mother Mary worried Always out on his own He met another Mary for a reasonable fee, less than Reputable as known to be His heart was full of love love love Love love love Love love is all around When Jesus Christ was nailed to the his tree Said "oh, Daddy-o I can see how it all soon will be I came to shed a little light on this darkening scene Instead I fear I spill the blood of my children all around" The blood of our children all around The blood of our children all around The blood of our children all around So the story goes, so I'm told The people he knew were Less than golden hearted Gamblers and robbers Drinkers and jokers, all soul searchers Like you and me Rumors insisited he soon would be For his deviations Taken into custody by the authorities Less informed than he. Drinkers and jokers. all soul searchers Searching for love love love Love love love Love love is all around Preparations were made For his celebration day He said "eat this bread and think of it as me Drink this wine and dream it will be The blood of our children all around The blood of our children all around" The blood of our children all around Father up above, why in all this anger have you fill Me up with love Fill me love love love Love love love Love love And the blood of our children all around

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