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(Arrival) Small Eden
07:24
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Bird of fire, light the skies
Blind and dying dog, clear your eyes
Your savior is on the rise. High on stardust
You, opening the door
find what you were waiting for comes
then be both tortured and satisfied. Smiling. Howling.
Fast key. Slow lock
Screaming idle. Your slight smoothing hand
Bold Faced Devil
Your languid lines of endless curve.
1000 eyes could not satisfy
my view of you
Through your twilight garden I stumble
for just a sip of your moonlight body.
This small Eden I tend in my mind for you
Wasted fruit. Fat and sweet. I’m drunk from.
You, radiant swan dive
Me. Lost at sea and dreaming.
Falling in love most everyday, girl.
Damn my plans.
Like scattering birds they leave me here
lonely with just these words
sung low in the sun glow
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I Was Dreaming
05:24
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I’ve waited for so long.
I’ve travelled so far.
I’ve looked under fallen stones.
And now here you are…
You’ve driven your point home.
You’ve given your charms.
You’ve woken but all alone.
In the cradle of my arms…
I was dreaming you were mine.
I was thinking I could fly.
I was calling with no words.
I was lost among the birds.
Now’s the time but I can only stay a while.
The vultures slow but they fly on by. This time…
You really are my only friend.
I’d love you all those years again.
But now I’m down and I just can’t win.
This time… This time…
I was dreaming you were mine.
I was thinking I could fly.
I was calling with no words.
I was lost among the birds.
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Dark Inverted Jubilee
06:53
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I trip and I fall into the storm. It’s you.
Even the light of Lucifer dims on my bed of fire.
Sends the shade of your overcast beauty over me.
All because of her. All because of you.
Howling mad black music you sang under hot stars
I picture you pulled over and posing in the flowers
You, just a solid of vibration. bright within the dark
You flaunt all those colors so forgive me my thoughts. Or don’t.
Dark inverted jubilee your burning heart has branded me
The mark upon my soul where you’ve branded thee.
Jerk me ‘round.
I slip and I crawl out to the sea. It’s you.
Even the light of reason dims upon me.
Sends the shade of your overcast beauty over me
All because of her. All because of you.
I feel your eyes burning, branding me with glowing
Meanwhile, I’ll just be down here getting high on your fantasy
You are just a solid of vibration, bright within the dark
Howling mad black music we sang under hot stars
Dark inverted jubilee your burning heart has branded me
The mark upon my soul where you’ve branded thee.
Jerk me ‘round.
All the flitt’ring birds come circling around
and give unto me a stone then they go. Aaahh
All because of her. All because of you.
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Lovesick Wanderer
05:10
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Lovesick wanderer, your heart is not stone.
Backdoor Overture played to your throne.
I’ll climb into your nest of desire.
I am on fire.
Little lamb, meet my friend, bird of prey.
Which is which getting harder to say.
Pumping this dark blood and walking a wire.
I am on fire.
Do you have secrets to tell me?
Whispers like flames. Knees of the bees.
Do you have something to show me?
A drink from your pool. Drunk on my knees.
This fool’s errand of holding the tide,
becomes laughable when eyes are wide.
My fairest creation is too crude to share.
Out of thin air.
Devil on my left. Angel my right.
Lonely tonight.
Do you have secrets to tell me?
Whispers like flames. Knees of the bees.
Do you have something to show me?
A pull from your drink. Drunk on my knees.
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Shed My Skin
06:28
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Astring upon this rack of love
And I’m howling mad under your stars
Just waiting here like a dog with a lonely tongue
And I’m way too high to die. Too charmed to care
Stretched out under a golden sun
And for a slim moment creation crowns
And just as quickly beat back down
And I need to shed my skin
And I need to shed my skin
Masquerading through the stars
And I need to shed my skin…
Atangle in this mess of love
As the messages mix in your eyes
And I sink down to the bottom of the sea
Oh’ let there be no doubt
…that the gospel has begun
And I need to shed my skin
Masquerading through the stars
And I need to my shed my skin
So, all these thoughtful strokes I bear to you
Just a misunderstood silhouette
And I aint caught the likeness of it yet
As the colors start to bleed
And the gospel has begun
Hear it sung, girl, on and on and on
Masquerading through the stars
And I need to shed my skin
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Your heart so blue and crystalline
Shimmering it rules the nighttime.
Dancing shadows, laughing Jinnee
Unbeliever. Genie yawning.
“Tears blue from my eyes flow
Blood blue from my heart flows
Free me from isolation
Grant me just this night to run… Free me”
White girl, Shiva
You haunt my eyes
“I live in dreams. In full flower.
Through a constant procession of possessions
and now I’ve come here.”
“Tears blue from my eyes flow
Blood blue from my heart flows
Free me from isolation
Grant me just this night to run… Free me”
“Through a constant procession of possessions
and now I’ve come here.”
Hissing and humming…
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Avis Ender
07:26
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I was standing there
and I was looking up at Bird Of Fire
To my surprise she met my eyes
And wordlessly suggested I confide…
I found my voice. I paid her price.
Please give to me your fair advice
No words I heard but thought began
To dance around inside my head. They said…
“Careful what you set your heart upon,
surely it will be.”
Rue the fallen angel
Who recalls past ecstasy.
Dark consecration of your soul,
heart and mind.
The bird may be caged
but my thoughts are high, of the sky.
The look she gave was soft but brave
and tenderly betrayed to me,
“You can trust that soon you must
your dust to ash, concede to lust. You must.”
Careful what you set your heart upon,
surely it will be.
Rue the fallen angel
Who recalls past ecstasy.
Dark consecration of your soul,
heart and mind.
The bird may be caged
but her thoughts are high, of the sky.
Bird Of Fire, light the sky
Blind and dying dog, clear your eyes!
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Crocodile Austin, Texas
Crocodile is a progressive band from Austin TX playing some adventurous Rock and Roll. Their music is not easily categorized. Imagine mixing the counterpoint of Gentle Giant with the groove of Steely Dan. The bombast of Rush with the ear-worm melodies of ELO. The grandiloquence of Yes with the melancholy of The Smiths. These unlikely contrasts may seem strange, but it’s working for us. ... more
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