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Eve Fooled Yourself
02:58
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Eve Fooled Yourself
Without a doubt I’m no king of no highway
My apple stalls all who pass by
Rich firm and juicy it comes with a message
You'd better take a big bite, and be sure to enjoy
It's no use you're in love with your own excuse
It’s no use you’ve Eve-fooled yourself
It's no use you're in love with your own excuse
It’s no use you’ve Eve-fooled yourself
From sunrise to sunset sell lots of apples
to the blonde with the bust , the rambling man
Each one convinced by the tale that they're dragging
marking their life through the lie of this land
It's no use you're in love with your own excuse
It’s no use you’ve Eve-fooled yourself
It's no use you're in love with your own excuse
It’s no use you’ve Eve-fooled yourself
We're going to market the fruit
from our home tree of knowledge
to middle-class moralists out on sweet Sunday drive
Can I help you out with that log in your eye?
It's no use you're in love with your own excuse
It’s no use you’ve Eve-fooled yourself
It's no use you're in love with your own excuse
It’s no use you’ve Eve-fooled yourself
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Back Up The Car
04:43
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Back up the Car
Let the sun go down on your last regret
Forty years wrong on a barbed wire fence
Feeling it over pack up your books and clothes
Back up the car, you took the wrong road
Easy forgiven, empty the whispering wire
I watched you two burn
Beat into ploughshares the hammer and sickle of song
Get out of town you don’t belong
Swearing that day from deep in your heart
as they made you, so you’re a part of them
Swearing that day from deep in your heart
as they made you, so you’re a part of them
Try not believing when you are leaving, it’s the wrong time
You might change their hearts, but never their minds
I know, mistaken as I often am
with plenty of time and too many plans
Let the sun go down on your last regret
Forty years wrong on a barbed wire fence
Feeling it over, pack up your books and clothes
Back up the car you took the wrong road
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Macksville
06:27
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Pray that they don't get stuck in Macksville
unless that's where they plan to make their stand
It's halfways to paradise
and a crap piece of land
20 years later she came back for the winter
that's how the story starts but it's not the beginning
Don't set your sale on no travelling heart man
You can see him in the park playing with the frozen children
The radio soft with a Jesse love song
If it's cold in the car outside it's freezing
So you make a list, a list of all reasons
you got 'em all lined up in a clipboard fashion
That's before he started praying
drinking the three at one tree
numbed by the numbers
before he figured me
What went wrong was a misunderstanding
suddenly the whole town knew
Losing heart or losing faith
neither is easy to do
When confronted by their demons
got to rue this blasted hill
concede instead it's better for my head
to just admit that I am human
Took their shame off to the forest
and wrought it there a golden cage
and from the darkened woods and caves
unwound some damage days
The valley now rings with songs and laughter
as if that stream could run uphill
migrating birds fly to their seasons
turning through magnetic will
20 years later she walked into the future
and held that moment still in mind
grandchildren now are still waiting
for her to hold them one more time
See him in the park playing with the frozen children
See him in the dark playing with the frozen children
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4. |
Whispering Highway
03:41
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Somewhere south of Gympie
she vanished into mist
under shadow of the head frame
memory might lie
Broken cup exclaiming fragments
of St Georges parish hall
we split the cost of fuel and coffee
out to Mooree
The highway whispered two or more to three
They slipped across the border
humber silent running
clouds lift on the scenic rim
singing hymns to sin
Beauty, distance magnifies
silo's silent rust
across the face of land
uplift hopelessness
The highway whispered two or more to three
Swallowed up the baited lie
nomadic heads retold
landscape full of flatness
wasteland in our spoil
The sky was no protection
stood beside the rain
cowgirl dripped with bleeding heart
her monotheist girlfriend with a polyamorous brain
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5. |
Come Here To Go Home
03:22
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This is a song
a song from a long long time ago
you know it well
well enough to sing along.
Swallows erupt, a handful of rocks
tossed from the throat of the road
up ahead
a map you can't refold.
I walked a summer mile
with you in my heart
it was hard and fast
but you knew it was too good to last.
I only come here to go home
I only come here to go home
I only come here to go
In the fabled city
got a message from a distant star,
it said:
don't confuse your goal with golden
get back to who you are
this is a song
a song from a long long time ago
you know it well
well enough to sing along.
Rivers of milk and honey
run with blood and rust
but you will cross them all
and welcome home at last.
I only come here to go home
I only come here to go home
I only come here to go home
I only come here
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