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I cannot tell if I’m awake or asleep
There’s a bright country light shining all around me
And the spirit of romance sure fades quietly
You don’t know when it’s coming, you don’t know when it leaves
My skin don’t seem to fit
So I let it bleed
Then I watched it in the wind
White coyote
I had a dream I was riding in your car
Down to our old house under the stars
I couldn’t wait until the sky was getting dark
I swam out into the black water into the night, pure and bizarre
My teeth don’t seem to fit
So I let them bleed
Then dancing in the wind
White coyote
You’ve been so kind to me
My Sweet Rosalie
I’ve always been a thief
It’s just now you see
You can’t hide the things you love
At least not from me
Hearts can break so easily
You were afraid but you wouldn’t let me be
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I was a kid when I found out my heart was made of fire
Breaking bones and burning leaves making waves in human seeds
Can it be the one I need is somewhere in here hurting me?
Look inside my bloodshot eyes, I’m alive, but barely trying
Come to grips with what you’ve lost then find out it was never gone
But hiding from you all along and now you’re weak and it is strong
And one day I will escape
With my hands on the mouth of the great white sea, I’ll escape
And you will escape from me
I was a mess of stupid bets, borrowed lies, and old regrets
Sleeping in the same old sheets that suck the dreams right out of sleep
Can it be the things I need is somewhere in here hurting me?
Look into the graveyard moon, there’s big black crows surrounding you
The gray October sky appears to welcome death like trumpeters
I came to wash away the years and found myself alone back here
But one day I will escape
With my hands over the eyes of the great white sea, I’ll escape
And you will escape from me
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Don’t let me wake you up
It’s just… I’ve been in love… but never this much
Oh, the lights are all shining on you
And I don’t know what to do
I feel like an old man playing a young man’s game
And I’m so far gone from this place that only the memory remains
Don’t let me wake you up
It’s just… I’ve been in love… but never this much
Oh, my life is centered on you
And I don’t know what to do
I’m marking the years now, just lines in the sand
I don’t know what I want and I don’t know who I am
So turn to me
Love me like you want something from me
Hold me like you know you’re in a dream
And no one’s gonna tell you anything
Goodbye I’m leaving
What does it mean to be a dream?
Is it just to be felt but never seen?
Oh the lights are shining on you
And I don’t know what to do
And in my head I tell you I love you so much
And in my head I tell you… but so what
What does it mean to be a dream?
Is it just to be felt but never seen?
Oh the lights are fading are you
I’ve got to fight on through
I’m marking the years now, just lines on the wall
You’re with me now or you’re not with me at all
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What’s next on the caravan?
I’m a lover but a fighting man
God gives you a fairy tale
Don’t turn it in to a nightmare
It’s there… then it’s gone
It’s gone… then it’s real
Next stop on the caravan
Not gonna teach you anything
God gives you a victory
Don’t turn it to a mutiny
It’s there… then it’s gone
It’s gone… then it’s real
It’s real… then it’s not
It’s not… then it’s gone
I move past the things that make me laugh
And the things that make me cry never die
Last stop on the caravan
In the car watching traffic pass
God gives you a fairy tale
Don’t turn it into a nightmare
Next stop on the caravan
Take you down the waterlands
God gives you a victory
Don’t turn it into a mutiny
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I can’t decide if I wanted to try
To get you to love me again
The thought of you with me can get my head spinning
But I don’t know where to begin
Sometimes excited, man I can be quiet
I thought I’d just talk to some friends
One side of my head only wanted to you dead
But the other just wants you back in
I can’t decide if I’m wrong or I’m right
That’s why I need you in my life
For all the time that they take, the decision I make
Always end up just passing me by
This time tomorrow I’ll be out of my sorrow
I’ll be floating along in the wind
I don’t know where I stand, I don’t know who I am
I just want you to love me again
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Who are you in this house of wonder?
Who are you breaks my silence now?
Who are you?
Who are you in my hours of slumber?
Who are you who puts the fire out?
Who are you?
Who are you who I hear howling?
Who are you who fills the night with sound?
Who are you?
Who are you who speaks no evil
Sees no evil, and does no evil now?
Who are you?
I tried to be myself
And wound up in a room
Beholden to other people
Who never spoke the truth
I’d rather be alone than only dream of you
Who are you?
Who are you in this world of echoes?
Who are you who sucks the venom out?
Who are you?
Who are you who buries guidance
Somewhere in a liturgy of sound?
Who are you?
I tried to find the voice
To wake me from my tomb
I woke up in a spinning, firepit
Inside my room
I’d rather be alone than only dream of you
Who are you?
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There’s just no way of knowing if I’m right
And there’s just no way of knowing if I’m wrong
Well I know that I can’t stick around all night
Give me little sugar kisses, I’ll be gone
Maybe baby you want me as your man
Maybe you just like me as a friend
Maybe you don’t know the kind of man I am
Just some little sugar kisses and I’ll pretend
Little sugar kisses - the kind that tear my mind to pieces
Little sugar kisses - the kind that wake me from my sleep
Little sugar kisses - baby won’t you listen
Little sugar kisses are all that I need
Well don’t you know you’re always on my mind?
Don’t you know I’ve dreamed of you so long?
Well you’ve got the looks and baby I’ve got time
Just some little sugar kisses, I’ll be gone
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You are the light by which I read
You are the light that pours into me
You are the Earth becoming sea
You are the light becoming free
So goodnight big black sky
May we one day meet again
I look to you for guidance, you look at me and cry
There is a light that only dies… in your eyes
It is the light that all men see
It is the light by which we read
You are the light that burns through me
You are the light that sets us free
So goodnight big black waves
May I not float through you ever lost
I look to you for answers, you look at me and change
There is a light that only fades
It is beyond our graves
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Good work makes the world go round
Good working
I stood in place and watched the worlds collide
Good people died
God sent a mighty fire
Burn the thieves and the liars
God sent a mighty flood
But it was not enough
Good work makes the world go round
Good working
God speaks through everyone
Through your teeth and your tongue
God sent a mighty fire
Burn the thieves and the liars
I stood in place and watched the worlds collide
Good people died
Good work makes the world go round
Good working
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First there was noise, then there was silence
The rats from the sewers were swimming among us
The almighty verse that we thought was unwritten
Became clear as day in the sky lit with fireflies
Babies collide like meteorites in the eyes of a God who is gentle and kind
And tonight I’m alone but I feel you beneath me like a trampoline
My luck has changed
I’m no longer afraid
Everything is okay
Now my luck has changed
I looked for shelter and found only silence
It looked a mountain until it started crying
I lifted it up, it was naked and wet and half dead
There were long strands of hair on its bumpy white head
Midnight emerges like a bat from a cave, we are hungry and angry and hellbent on being saved
In the morning we’re alone but we feel you beneath us like a trampoline
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released September 4, 2012
