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Organizer
05:34
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And the sun shone
But it was a weak sun
A moon-mourning sun
Still
It shone
by mourning
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Strip the meanings towards you
If they are good enough
Don't ever mistake the road you tread
with what will turn out right
When the morning ends you will regret
that you may end up alone
Yet the mates and friends you've sometimes kept
could never take you home
I was young when I was old
Don't ever make amends with
A certain part of the past
It will haunt you when
you least expect
like a siren calling you back
So be young when you are young
if you can't help it at all
If you must, if you will, if you have to
The temptation too strong
When the morning ends you will regret
that you may end up alone
Yet the mates and friends you've sometimes kept
could never take you home
I was young when I was old
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Go Up Moses (remastered)
04:52
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Prodigal
04:21
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The Prodigal Son of a childless man
Came from Heaven
Looked around
There was work to be done
He's been through hell just like everyone
Just a station, passing by
Nothing to write home about
He said:
"The road is long but I'm keeping on
There is no destination
Only YOU
Not much of a choice
The road is long but I'm keeping on
There is no destination
Only YOU
I'll meet you transformed"
Every boulder blocking your path
The mistakes which you never paid back
Unredeemable
But they too shall pass
The Prodigal Son of a childless man
Came from Heaven
Worked around
Now it aint so bad
"Feed me one more star and I will transform
Feed me one more star, I'll meet you transformed"
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Pontius Pilate
03:30
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When the time has come
When the deed is done
When the pious have spoken
And the harlots sung
Wash not your hands on the river
Wash not your hands on the sea
If there's room in your heart
for repentance, my love
Wash your hands over me
Pontius Pilate
Our times are enlightened,
democracy's finally come
Our morals, virtues,
foes and lovers,
on this we get to decide
You were born on the side of angels
Torn in two by the tide of time
In our days you’d be a martyr, no doubt
"The people's will shalt be done"
Wash not your hands on the river,
Wash not your hands on the sea
If there's room in your heart
for atonement, my love
Wash your hands over me
Wash not your hands on the river
Wash not your hands on the sea
If there's room in your heart
for repentance, my love
Wash your hands over me
Now the time has come
Now the deed is done
Though you killed me twice
Still I own your heart
In this Vale of Tears
I have found a friend
For one fleeting moment our eyes were met
Forever my soul was saved
Wash not your hands on the river,
Wash not your hands on the sea
If there's room in your heart
for atonement, my love
Wash your hands over me
Wash not your hands on the river,
Wash not your hands on the sea,
I love you and in this love I am redeemed
So wash your hands over me
Wash your hands over me
Come on wash your hands all over me
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Slow Wire
07:23
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"You are the task. No pupil far and wide"
-Franz Kafka
A random element in chance
and a system to the Heavens
A hundred thousand flaws
An impossibility of crows
A single lonely crow
The heavens could destroy
And yet I'm still standing
still I won't let go
For heaven simply means:
"The impossibility of crows"
There is no poet that is not a mystic
There is no heart that doesn't crave a soul
There is a language of the young,
a language of the old,
An impossibility of crows
So my love do not struggle
My love do not let go
I will be crawling to your river
I will be crawling to your shore
But there is no river
And there is no shore
There's only what is mine
and only what is yours
An impossibility of crows
(The creature who says
"me" and "mine"
need not bend down in shame -
along with lakes and mountains
the ego is created
and divine
-Leonard Cohen)
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The Tape Recorders Buenos Aires, Argentina
The road is long but I'm keeping on
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