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I Was Born
03:42
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Try to walk through the door but I can't go past
Try to see my reflection but it’s only painted glass
And you know this feelin, getting kinda queer
I know I was born, but am I really here,
Am I really here
Now there’s a stranger walkin in my shoes
Foolin everybody, foolin even you
And you know this feelin getting kinda queer
I know I was born, but am I really here,
Am I really here
I want something dumb, that I can understand
Let me be a dog in the sun rolling in the sand
Now there’s a stranger talking to my wife
And you know the feelin cuts just like a knife
I wanna know will I ever feel alright dear?
I know I was born but am I really here
Am I really here
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Dried Blood
02:59
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Lost my foot on the banks of a river
So I drifted just like a drifter
Where I was faded from view
Where I was faded from view
Felt so good to let go of my past
Though it happened really kinda fast
Memories they don’t sting anymore
Like dried blood from a cut long before
Ode to the fools and the freaks and the brokenhearted
Don’t look too hard into the darkness
Always falling on the floor
Or bangin on a locked door
Looking too hard for more
Fools for love, fools for love
Out of the river and into the sea
I’m sad as hell cause we’re not together
And now I’m drunk on too much wine
Oh well you know it’s too much wine drinking time
I sing this song for the freaks and the tenderhearted
Don’t look too hard into the darkness
Help me to keep it light
Help me to stay afloat
Fools for love, fools for love
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Children of the Beehive
04:16
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I see them wave as I pull away
It’s too hard to be in love I can’t stand the pain
I want something dumb that I can understand
Let me be a dog in the sun rolling in the sand
My one and only love, my babe, the divorcee
And I’m the one that made her that way
Oh the children of the beehive they buzz around all day
Pickin plums from the trees and throwing them down the lane
I wanna be down there, I wanna be on that holiday
But I’m stuck in the sea, the sea of love, of love and pain
My one and only love, my babe the divorcee
And I’m the one that made her that way
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Pretend You Love Me
05:34
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We’ve been through some things together
We were so close don’t you remember
When I see you walkin way out there
I pretend you love me, I pretend you care
Saw you walkin just the other day
Saw you turn your eyes away
I’ve got some feelings, I can’t share
I pretend you love me, I pretend you care
I don’t know what I’m doin anymore
I don’t know what I’m for
I stand around and stare
I look in the mirror, I don’t see me anywhere
Now I have waded, drunk on despair
And the waves they are taunting me, will I dare
If you see me wanderin way out there
Pretend you love me, pretend you care
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5. |
Year of the Cock
05:41
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All winter the magpies hid in the steeple
Dining on yarrow and bolweevil
And there were no people except for me
I came to the sea to write and to think
But I was so small next to my dreams
Like a mite who might try and cross the seas
In the year of the cock, I began as a flea
Springtime came, no words on the page
So the old sperm whale went looking for prey
When I found a dodo as hungry as me
I dragged her back to my lair by the sea
Pushing forward so awkwardly,
I laid her bare on the eucalyptus leaves
In the year of the cock, it was hard as can be
So I sat on her mantle like an old stuffed goose
The artist who says little and lets others choose
When I tried to finally break loose
She called me a skunk, a raccoon on the loot
She’d thought I was a rooster with the right kind of plumes
But I was only a chicken who had gone cuckoo
I was only a chicken, who had gone cuckoo
Just when I knew I was meant to be alone
I fell for a colt so young and so bold
Really? I said, “you could love an old goat?”
Sure he said but you’re more like a toad
Like raging rams we butted our horns
I was a female stag kicking down the door
But then like a fish let back into the brook
In the year of the cock, I let him off the hook
Then mother died, so I flew back to the states
But sister was a shark so the lions share was weasled away
And when I saw a girl I knew living on the street
A hard year went from bad to bleak
My skin broke out like when I was a kid
It was back to the clinic for tarbaths and treatments
And the doctors gave the same old speeches
In the year of the cock I was covered in leeches
And when at last I made it back to the steeple
The magpies stared at this strange man made feeble
By a year of lust and lost questions
A broken mind receives no lessons
If in fact I had fallen and cracked
Would I rise like a phoenix from the flames?
Or was I just an egg full of clay…
In the year of the cock, I crowed all night and all day
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6. |
Rhinestone Sunset
02:34
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I See the Void
02:56
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When I look into your eyes, I see the void
Though you try hard to hide, I see the void
And you know it’s a funny kind of sad joy
I see the void
All the mothers waiting in the rain, I see the void
And the strangers on the train, I see the void
And you know it’s a funny kind of sad joy
I see the void
Oh you know it’s hard to explain, I see the void
And you know I love you, I love you, I see the void
And you know it’s a funny kind of sad joy, I see the void
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8. |
Sea of Darkness
02:55
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Scenes of cruelty and sometimes love
It’s what the world is made of
Only time will tell if we stick together
I can be alone if you gotta go
But it aint my first choice no no no
Only time will tell if we stick together
Down in the sea of darkness dear,
I’ve been a driftin for 1000 years
But only time will tell
Only time will tell
If you and I stick together
Throw me a line and pull me in
So the sea of darkness don’t win again
Only time will tell if we stick together.
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9. |
My Mind Messed Up
02:46
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I’ve been tryin to walk a straight line
Avoiding all the shadows and following all the signs
But my mind is messed up all the time
I been workin so hard to find
A way of bein still like a pine
Though my mind is messed up all the time
Oh please, oh please, help me
Oh please, oh please, won’t you help me to get free
So I can see, so I’m not blind,
So my mind won’t be muddy all the time
And I can move clear across that line
And let this old me die
But my mind is messed up all the time
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Longtime Companion
04:25
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I’m gonna walk to the sea
I’m gonna walk in the sun
I’m gonna come undone
I’m gonna try to make you love me
I’m gonna try to make you care
I’m gonna try to make you stay
I’m gonna sit on the stones
I’m gonna drown on my own
I’m gonna walk right in
I’m gonna try to make you love me
I’m gonna try to make you care
I’m gonna try to make you stay
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Sonny & The Sunsets San Francisco, California
Sonny & the Sunsets are a beautiful west coast thing. Birthed from the sand, the surf, and twilight campfires down in Ocean Beach, Sonny & the Sunsets’ busted beach-pop songs spark recollections of doo wop's otherworldly despair, a dose of goofball humor from the Michael Hurley school, and positive possibilities exuded by Jonathan Richman. ... more
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