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Sending Up Flares
04:31
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Sending up flares
In the middle of nowhere
They light up the sky
Fall into dark
And dissolve there
Sending up flares
Each one a prayer
That someone will see
Someone will hear
And know that we're out there
Dead on the shoulder
Broke down on the side of the road
Somewhere north of Aberdeen
We ran out of gasoline
And hope
Sending up flares
They arc through the air
Sparks of red in the black
Pollock on zodiac
My heart is in disrepair
There are people everywhere
Even where we used to wander alone
There's no getting away
No secret escape
But tonight they're all elsewhere
In the countries of sleep
Blithely unaware
Sitting at home
Sedated and stoned
Staring into a phones glare
Climb the high hills
Look down on the valley below
A motherboard of lights
Stretching into the night
In a warm orange glow
And if you look to the sky
Every second or two
Flares call in distress
Dispatched from the dispossessed
Calling out to you
Sending Up Flares
Sending Up Flares
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2. |
Meteor Shower
05:04
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Look! A meteor shower!
High up in the heavens
Every star falling is someone lost to us
Giving a wave as they fly by
I feel my heart quicken
I am with them everyone
I am with you everyone
I am with you
Through the lonely living crowds
Moving at breakneck speed
The taxi tears across Manhattan
London A to Z
Grafton street in November
Potsdamer Platz where I caught a train
Each one speaks your name
The history of us echoes down
Each block and every lane
Look! A meteor shower!
Burning through the heavens
Each one a love I've lost
Blowing a kiss as they soar on
I feel my heart gladden
I am with them every one
They are with me everyone
I am with my one true one now
December in The Marais
She wraps the sheet around her
Slow motion sleepy limbs
The window blinds throw ladder light
Across her sun-kissed skin
The broken in me mended and whole
Our bodies move in perfect time
Upstairs to the 5th floor
I am healed despite my wounds
Look! A meteor shower
The Perseids, Delta Aquariids
Departed heroes and heroines one and all
The singers and speakers of the story
They stand right here before us
They are with us every one
They are with me every one
I feel their presence
Voices ring over the subway clamor
Call back across the veil
The angels move among us
Cassiel and Damiel
Give comfort to the despairing
Look up to where they descended
Your caress defies gravity
Transcends human depravity
War is over and love is everything
A meteor shower! The wonder of it all!
You keeper of the story, you namer of the names
Through beautiful cities and free nations
Assemble, testify, preserve
These songs are ours every one
The pulse of music sealed the bonds
The stories live forever on
The story is ours
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3. |
The Stars Unseen
01:58
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Are you and i connected?
Can you hear my voice?
Broadcast in the stratosphere
Outpost in the void
Magnetizing particles
Gently down the stream
I long to touch your face again
Put down the machines
Starless me, starless you
Punching no replier
Am I cutting in and out?
Hanging from the wire
Galaxies are swallowing
Ours but for a dream
I want to feel your skin again
The stars unseen
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4. |
How Beautiful Am I ?
03:25
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To the barony born
To the gutter I’ve been
How beautiful am I?
Followed by the flashing lens
Of the camera eye
I haunted them all
They called me a muse
As Narcissus stares in the mere
Surrounded by Echoes
Who love his reflection
I took my own direction my darlings.. my dears
I acted the pantomime
I played the part
How beautiful am I?
Call it fate, call it a life in art
I soared and I sang high
The glimmer the glamour
The paint and the powder
How beautiful am I?
Incense and velvet, hypnotic vapors
transcendent lullabies
(How beautiful, How beautiful)
No waif, no gamine
a tatterdemalion
no a butterfly on a pin
bathing in twilight on the Thames
a girl dreaming on Battersea Bridge
I lost so many along the way
Somehow I survived
They are with me still
My beloved ghosts
Ever at my side
A fabulous beast
Running through the wood
How beautiful am I?
A fabulous beast
Charmed and untethered
I sing of the sea and the sky
(How Beautiful)
I travel by moonlight
Smoke and starlight
Carry my joys and my pains
Lay to rest the dissolute past
I dream down the old city lanes
I stand in the spotlight beneath the proscenium
A lone silhouette on the stage
I have shed my skin again and again
’til only the truth remains
Tell me what is more magical than the world?
this is an extraordinary life
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5. |
The Ones You Ride With
04:29
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They say dance with the ones that brung you
But I dance to a different tune
I found family
Forever family
We met in bars
On open roads
In spaces in between
In the liminal
Bonded by our youth,
Revolution and ritual
There’s no one like
The ones you ride with
The ones you’ve chosen
And those who’ve chosen you
The ones you ride with
The ones who’ve got you
I’ve got you, i’ve got you
You know I’ve got you
Our parents lost to each other
Cast off shards of broken homes
So we found family
Forever family
We heal each others wounds
Lie under the big skies
In the liminal
Share our love without boundaries
My perfect true criminal
There’s no one like
The ones you ride with
The ones you’ve chosen
And those who’ve chosen you
The ones you ride with
The ones who’ve got you
I’ve got you i’ve got you
You know I’ve got you
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6. |
Manzanita
04:13
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It's a different kind of weather now
The wind carries portents and desiccated leaves
The things that matter
Distilled to their essence
Love more urgent
I need your presence with me
There's a road that leads
Out to Manzanita
Turn up the tape deck and drive
It winds and weaves
Through the rain and the trees
To Manzanita by the sea
From the windows of that house
Watch the storms roll in
Battering the haystacks
Further down the beach
Wave after wave
Shape the contours of the coastline
Carving stone, twisting branches
The rushes and the reeds
It took us years
To find each other in the crowd
And oh we didn’t hold back
Come the ravages of time
There’s nothing I can’t take
As long as I’m looking at your face
Gulls summoning the sundown
Begrudging it obeys
Oil tanker silhouettes sit on the horizon line
The sky is ever-changing
In parallel angles
A colorfield, mirror bright
Descending into dusk
Wave after wave
Shape the contours of a lifetime
Turn up the tape deck and drive
Reel and spin ’til we’re back again
In Manzanita by the sea
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7. |
Uncharted Terrain
03:42
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Don’t you ever listen to the mutinous heart
That beats in your chest when you’ve lost your spark
If joy is elusive come walk with me on the boulevard
We’ll sing down the wires once again
Where silvery birds stretch their wings to the sun
Under the Pacific Wheel, we’ll talk of future plans
Maybe we’ll even follow through on one or two of them
Wouldn’t that be grand?
And through it all forever I will remain
As we head into uncharted terrain
Uncharted terrain
Over the rooftops, the drowsy city awnings
Gentle mornings, our tender yawnings
Nothing will bear down upon the lightness of our shoulders
We’ll sing down the wires once again
Through it all yours forever I will remain
Faithful to every promise we made
In our youth as we head into
Uncharted terrain, uncharted terrain
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8. |
Fall Into Forever
04:12
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Shinjuku lights blink from the 54th floor
Typhoon rains come howling in
The endeavor of hypnotic fever dreams
We fall into forever
Fall into forever
I miss you like water, like oxygen
Amid the crush of nine million souls
As ever it’s with you I want to
Fall into forever
Fall into forever
These orbital waves,
These binary stars
We float back and forth between them all
Frequencies hum, gravity pulls
Hand and hand forever we fall
Forever we fall
Forever we fall
Forever we fall into forever
Searching for you at Shibuya Station
Waiting by Hachikō
When the floodgates of heaven opened
And the storm it swallowed me whole
I died and reached the Empyrean
A casino on the Vegas strip
Live on stage Britney Spears and nine angels
Sing to me forever
Sing to me forever
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9. |
Jumping Out Of My Skin
03:14
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my balance
is slipping
i’m losing
my foothold
my center
of gravity
is off kilter
off kilter
off kilter
i’m jumping out of my skin
i’m jumping
i’m jumping
i’m jumping out of my skin
i’m jumping
i’m jumping
the things that
I held to
have become
uncertain
the picture
gone blurry
my traction
is skidding
is skidding
i’m jumping out of my skin
i’m jumping
i’m jumping
i’m jumping out of my skin
i’m jumping
i’m jumping
time is nebulous
the ground is shifting
I held on to you
but you’re drifting
but you’re drifting
but you’re drifting
yea you’re drifting
i’m jumping out of my skin
i’m jumping
i’m jumping
i’m jumping out of my skin
i’m jumping
i’m jumping
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10. |
Prosper Through
03:23
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Here comes another kick in the shins
But you’re beyond pain
Can’t win if you’re fighting shy
Another sucker punch on the chin
Get back up again
Steel behind those kindly eyes of yours
Expand the heart
Expand the heart
Expand the heart
Expand the heart
Expand
Find a way to prosper through
On the other side
No matter what they throw at you
You prosper through it
Prosper through it
All your days
All your days
All your days
Garbage blows down the avenue
You can taste the heat
Sitting in the park in summers blaze
Another slow roll from the mob in blue
Haunting the block
It’s a fact of life that should’ve never been true at all
Expand the heart
Expand the heart
Expand the heart
Expand the heart
Expand
Find a way to prosper through
On the other side
No matter what they throw at you
You prosper through it
Prosper through it
All your days
All your days
All your days
Here comes another kick in the shins
But you’re beyond pain
Can’t win if you’re fighting shy
Another sucker punch on the chin
Get back up again
Steel behind those kindly eyes of yours
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11. |
City Of Nerves
05:49
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When you get that combat feeling
Trip the light fantastic, set it reeling
You children of velocity
A comet hangs in the sky
A ball of fire it’s racing by
Down here it’s a mirror maze
A mirror maze
The tea leaves are easily read
Danger: heartbreak dead ahead
The lights flash, the sirens blare
Signs point to the blood, the skin
The human chain, collective kin
The holy right to breath the air
Where the truth gets twisted
And all the borders blurred
Running through the smoke
In the city of nerves
City of nerves
City of nerves
In the city of nerves
City of nerves
City of nerves
Everything is on the fritz
the screen is frozen, the feed a glitch
The fire this time licks your heels
A summer under heavy manners
Propel the message, raise the banners
With the beauty of ideals
A phone number on each arm
The badge of the undeterred
Walking with the generations
The clamor rings like trumpets
A charm of hummingbirds
It’s another restless night my friend
In the city of nerves
Keep your dear ones near
Keep your dear ones near
Keep your dear ones near
Keep your dear ones near
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Casey Neill & The Norway Rats Portland, Oregon
CASEY NEILL & THE NORWAY RATS are a crack gang of musicians from Portland Oregon. Their sound combines high energy diesel fueled rave-ups and haunting ballads. Neill's weather beaten narratives celebrate miscreants, and explore the hidden corners of the American landscape. ... more
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