COTTON MATHER - KONTIKI
CAMP HILL RAIL OPERATOR WOMAN
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In care of his contraption mad camp hill rail operator woman
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Is she speaking from the heart?
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Maybe blasting from another world?
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Or just the emissary of a higher court inside the body of a girl?
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Does she want to take control?
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When her eight track breaks down will she take my bus home?
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In care of his contraption mad camp hill rail operator woman
Is this some sort of reverie for the
One woman Jan and Dean heading for the crash?
Is she half who she ought to be
Or a overdue prodigy
Whose unsolicited view of your present's confused with her past?
At a table by the door
Of my moment but she can't sit still,
And when I crash upon the floor she'll come across the stage
and finish out the bill,
She throws one switch and all trains are in space
What she lays on those tracks you can't ever erase
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In care of his contraption mad camp hill rail operator woman, yeah
HOMEFRONT CAMEO
Capo 3rd Fret
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Everything is better the boss has made a cameo
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He has seen the infidel army like a prince of old
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Listen to him twist her faith, he's been out there all day
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Sleeping on the laurels of a face from long ago
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As matters complicate, it's a terrible thing to wait
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Everything is better the boss has made a cameo
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He has seen the infidel army like a prince of old
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She's made the bed three times today
Each a masterpiece in its own way and takes his name in vain
From this vantage point she is making her plans
Kiss good-bye to this your century map
She calls her future back ,takes his wine from the rack
He wants a glass of water but she sweetly mouths her no
Then like an arrow she's let go, Arcing from he poison beau
Everything is better the boss has made a cameo
She has seen the infidel army like a prince of old
SPIN MY WHEELS
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You run away with my sleep and I'm stuck in here so deep
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I had a terrible dream and I can't wake up it seems
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In my parallel field, what's imagined is real
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For you I conceal, all that I feel and girl you spin my wheels
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I've got a terrible mind, maybe desperate or unkind
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Thinking of ways to dispose of the ones we say we love the most
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I want to carry you home, I want to see you alone
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For we will never show all that we feel and girl you spin my wheels
MY BEFORE AND AFTER
Capo 1ST Fret
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She picked me out of the millions
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Thumbing an OED
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Dressed me down to civilian
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Cracked the code on the Rosetta Stone
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Said the word for alone is "alone"
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My before and after her
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We found that R Mutt was truly
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some work of genius she helped my best friends see through me
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Said the church of his holiness lied
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This world's no dead end it's park and ride
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My before and after her
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Now I'm dangerously reprogrammed man
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Like that guy in the Manchurian
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My before and after her
PRIVATE RUTH
She used to love me and that was such an obstacle
Running around in the bad hand-me-downs of someone else's girl
She's pulling my name and making a face
As if to say all that you've been has been erased
Private Ruth, you hate
She's tired of loving the ones she knows she's better than
Moving the men on a chessboard full of all her so called friends
Or maybe she just wants me a drone
Proclaiming edicts from the queen bee in her cone
Private Ruth, you hate
VEGETABLE ROW
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I hear when you talk that not much goes on
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And now I think you might be the dark right before my dawn
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And the clouds have made a fissure I've arranged that for you mister
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So that you can go ahead and prematurely start the process of preserving
You look so afraid and I can see why
You just turned your back on a very dangerous guy
And the bells ring with a vengeance as we witness your ascension
To a land where they can things better than all the "Bells of Rhymny"
On vegetable row, vegetable row. On vegetable row, vegetable row
Think of us in your new haunt
They must have let classes out early those days
And I bet you were the funniest clown at the front of the hip parade
Now you shadows swirl around us take us back to where you found us
Crawl back underneath you couch and tell us things are a little bit skewed
On vegetable row, vegetable row. On vegetable row, vegetable row
I'm thinking of a place where times your boss
And now you just can't wait
To turn in your only key, pass your baton to me,
Sell yourself penny cheap and never stop to total up the cost
Some people give up on the third or fourth try
And some can make a career out of just trying to say good-bye
They've been holding your place someone's here to fill that space
And it's a mighty act of grace you won't have me around
To check you vital signs On vegetable row... Think of us in your new haunt
AURORA BORI ALICE
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Alice can you hear me, tonight the sky's not clearing
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You'll never see Cassiopeia
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You're there at your department, I'm here in your apartment
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Another night I'll spend alone
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A girl, her telescope, and the great unknown
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Alice in ugly weather
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You said we'd be together, and not afraid to let it show
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The Pleiades behind her, Orion should remind her
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Of summer boy she's got at home
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She loves her telescope more than I'd known, oh...
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Aurora Bori Alice, do you think there's someone out in space for you?
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I want to be the man to change your point of view
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And if your hear me Alice, redirect your looking glass to earthly heights
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See a man who loves you so much more than Northern Lights
CHURCH OF WILSON
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Give yourself away if you want
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How did your Daddy get so gaunt
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It's a pretty face that you know
What's a boy to do when a girl's untrue
Put your bell on your bike
And its not my right to kill son
I'm an acolyte from the mighty
Church of Wilson
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Yeah the world's a mess and I know
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You don't need me to tell you so
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Who's it gonna hurt to be Kings
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Playing I the shiny things
Want to make my move to
the throwback groove
While there's stream in the pipes
And its not my right to kill son
I'm an acolyte from the mighty
Church of Wilson
Church of Wilson
LILLY DREAMS ON
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Lily I hope you picture me in your dreams
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Put down your King James Bible, You don't need no kings
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Close you eyes, baby I'll dry mine
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Echoes through the phone
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Far from this, Lily dreams on
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Think back to fields of Catherine, you used to play
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I swore I heard you laughing
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And almost say
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Pull you mirrors down, Run back to the house
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And let the past be gone
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Far from this, Lily dreams on
ANIMAL SHOW DRINKING SONG
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Took an exit sign to a world of motel time
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Where we walk a crooked line and high is low
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Trust your sad MC, time to kill the bar Tele
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When the lights come on you'll see we're still alone
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Watch the saints weave slow
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From the animal show, animal show, animal show
PASSWORD
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Lift your latch and let me pass that's all I'm asking girl
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and forgive what's unorthodox
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I fashioned this to slip your locks so we might have a word
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We had a fight I won last night but who slept outside girl?
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What if I'm wrong, help me along to give a bit and still look strong
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I want to tell the world
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Key to the lock of the heard Password, is something I believe we've earned
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And If you're told I'm bought and sold and soulless to be sure
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Your friends would fight for your advice
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"it must be weird, he looked so nice, you're such a lucky girl"
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Key to the lock of the heard Password, its something I believe we've earned
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Password, give us back what we deserve
SHES ONLY COOL
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She mixes you up and makes you come down
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And I'm gone enough to fall for that now
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She's only cool tonight and I've lost your sight
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But that lullaby can never get me home
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I've seen a few things I think you could say
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My words fail me now and its better that way
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She's only cool tonight and I've lost your sight
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But that lullaby can never get me home
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Each night that I spend away is one more I have to behave
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But she makes it seem so uncool not to cave, she's only cool tonight...
AUTUMN BIRDS
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Prayed for "Endless Summer" made a wish to "Little Wing"
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But you gave the world your number and your phone won't ring
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Uh oh...begging for an early heart attack... Uh oh
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You've seen the great migration from the world that's locked in ice
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And you wear your change of station like a faded sticker price
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Uh oh...begging for an early heart attack... Uh oh
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Ah surrender she flew
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Under sun split sky drenched crystalline blue
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Where autumn's birds are killing you
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In your long coat down by the song tree
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Are you watching a girl no one else can see
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From the days of enervation man you need some elevation
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Would that the explanation were just part of some bad dream
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And when you think you're with it still, the girls know who you are
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You could say the sky's the limit, but you'll never be a star
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Uh oh...begging for an early heart attack Uh oh...
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Ah surrender she flew
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Under sun split sky drenched crystalline blue
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Where autumn's birds are killing you
