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Goose Lake ep

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Mother they swam to the shoreline believe her this outdoor play isn't either good or for transforming limbs the others were found at the lighthouse we leave there all stuck to the sides can we eat there? the sea boy is a living thing Mother there's no room out there for the new shores they fell down beneath the old floor boards their sick water flows through our pipes the others traded their two arms for eight more they look so much colder than before the sea boy is a living thing Mother you read all those old novels too fast and our bright young illusionment can't last we all wallow down to the deeps
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long summer 03:52
summer comes too long the heat, my dear I fear has washed all through our ears over mother, over father early graves sleep fast in June we told them sew old streets right up our other houses might fall out water tastes all wrong our tongues, my dear I fear have turned to deadly snakes cut them out, we'll cut them out we'll taste we'll breathe and eat again we told them sew old streets right up our other houses might fall out
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I. Martha, don't you know the water runs cold, your brother is lost in barren country, your daughter has never seen a setting sun? Your daughter has never seen a setting sun. Well, I've seen men fixed to ever-flowing sees. I've seen men with no home, with no name. But I have never seen the sails drawn. No, I have never seen the sails fall. oh So I will play for the devil is in your hands. I will play for the devil is in your hands. Well, I said 'I have seen six cranes rise for the valley.' You said 'I have seen six bows bring them down to your home and your waters, to the feet of your granddaughters. And, Dionysus, his veins they did run a'plenty though your spirits they still run dry. Your figure, it haunts the coastline as white teeth against blue skies. II. City of mine, where are your champions now? Have they all hidden or have they all died? How will we ever know. City of mine, where are your champions now? Have they all hidden or have they all died? How will we ever know. Oh Martha, don't you know this water runs cold. How these sails might draw, oh how they could fall down, down, down. I have seen six cranes, I have seen six bows bring them down like white teeth falling from blue skies down to the coastline setting down its sun.
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Oh, my home my home the forest is lost and it's grown long bone legs come home they've run through the swamps and they've grown so cry, oh, and feed him again oh, my home is cursed by dull, watching eyes and it's worse worse its breath in ears in August our low Southern fears worse its breath through snow in winter its lungs running low so cry, oh and feed him again oh, my home my home the forest is lost and it's grown
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I would like to live alone in a cabin by the woods, just for a while, you would say. And I would tell you no ebb or flow will wash the sails from the shore. Boys have gone out to the woods, and boys have come back orphans. Boys have gone out to the woods I would like to be the first to pull from the soil a violin, you would say. And I would tell you how I came to know this nation's native tongue. Oh! poisonous is the ground, and disease is in the soil. Oh! poisonous is the ground. * * * * * * And If by good fortune you should cross the path of a black crow, draw your pistol then fire it six times from your hip. And six boys will cry 'Oh! we've been conquered. 'We have been conquered by you. And you will say 'you have been conquered 'oh, I have conquered you.

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released December 21, 2009

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