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Curl up my little fish
Red cellophane
Curl up my little fortune fish
What will be my fate?
Gold treasures in the ground?
Misfortune on the open sea?
Or wake up in a hotel in some foreign country?
The world’s a sudden place
It turns on a dime
And the night falls so suddenly
Sometimes
Such interesting times
We say like a joke
Reminds me, even Notre Dame
Can go up in smoke
It can all go up in smoke
The world’s a sudden place
It turns on a dime
And the night falls so suddenly
Sometimes
A thousand miles an hour it turns
And it never slows
A wonder we ain’t hurled into space
How folks hang on
I’ll never know
A thousand miles an hour it turns
And it never slows
A wonder we ain’t hurled into space
How folks hang on
I’ll never know
The world’s a sudden place
It turns on a dime
Night falls so suddenly
Sometimes
The world’s a sudden place
It turns on a dime
The world’s a sudden place sometimes
The world’s a sudden place
The world’s a sudden place
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2. |
Cruel Trick
04:26
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Shop windows are closed
Like a Sunday
And people are scarce
The power lines heavy with ivy
Sidewalks are quiet as nowhere
The marquee is bare at the movies
There’s nothing to see
I miss the dumb places
But mostly the feeling you get
When there’s somewhere
When there’s somewhere to be
Feels like a cruel, cruel, cruel trick on the heart
It took a holy mess to keep us apart
Feels like a cruel, cruel, cruel trick on the heart
We took a long drive through the country
To gather some air
We photographed silos and hay rolls
All of the signposts of nowhere
But it’s so hard to bear
Feels like a cruel, cruel, cruel trick on the heart
If there’s a cure for it
Stick out my arm
But it’s a cruel, cruel, cruel trick on the heart
My guitar, it just sits in the case anymore
Funny time is so easily wasted
Funny I never caught this before
Feels like a cruel, cruel, cruel trick on the heart
It took a holy mess to keep us apart
If there’s a cure for it
Stick out my arm
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Wolves in the chamber
Rage in their eyes
Scandalous hours
The violence of lies
We’re all walking a razor’s edge tonight
Choirs of anger
A horrible dream
Windows shattered
A rifle that sings
And tears through the heavens
All the white stars ricocheting
Pow, like a rifle that sings
Peace is a delicate thing
Like snow on the ground
Peace is a delicate thing
Only a mirror
A reflection of us
The deeper you peer
The worse it becomes
The deeper you venture
How dark it becomes
How dark it becomes
Pow, like a rifle that sings
Peace is a delicate thing
Like snow on the ground
Peace is a delicate thing
Peace is a beautiful thing
Peace is a delicate thing
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4. |
All That You Can Dream
04:53
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The wheels of progress grinding
They turn from dusk till dawn
Haven’t we learnt
Hell is on earth
So few are free from want
All the love that you can dream
All that you can dream
New tongues are being spoken
New words for ancient crimes
Money to burn
Money to burn
A part of us is broken
All the love that you can dream
All that you can dream
All the love that you can dream
Damn this sorrowful dance
So inhuman
Damn this whip on our backs
And refuse to lower your head
When the ones who abuse you
Push you down
The wheels of progress grinding
Like wheels inside a clock
Haven’t we learnt
Hell is on earth
The wheels of progress grinding
All the love that you can dream
All that you can dream
All the love that you can dream
All that you can dream
All that you can dream
All that you can dream
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5. |
Rats in a Barrel
04:52
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All teary like the Fourth of July
Proud as a plume
But I don’t know why
Some folks don’t go and bury their face
A nickel would have got ‘em to clap
Flash ‘em a grin, toss ‘em a cap
Goin’ away for the rest of their days
Rats in a barrel
Won’t coax no tears out of me
Because they just bring misery
Don’t need ‘em going through my grain
Or running through our house
I’m done with mercy, I’m all tapped out
I read a couple school books once
Mama never raised a dunce
But some things still leave me
Itching my head
How people who get up with the dawn
And toil away can still get conned
Believing what some liar has said
Rats in a barrel
Won’t coax no tears out of me
Because they just bring misery
Don’t need ‘em going through my grain
Or running through our house
I’m done with mercy and I’m all tapped out
Hear them pleading loud
And looking scared
“Took my marching orders from that man up there”
Hear them pleading how “I got caught up”
But ya can’t go throwing punches
When you’re in the cuffs
Old Lincoln saw it all go down
Almost looked like the first time ‘round
On that January day
Rats in a barrel
Won’t coax no tears out of me
Because they just bring misery
Don’t need ‘em going through my grain
Or running through our house
I’m done with mercy, I’m all tapped out
Rats in a barrel
Won’t coax no tears out of me
Because they just bring misery
Don’t need ‘em going through my grain
Or running through our house
I’m done with mercy now
I’m done with mercy now
I’m done with mercy now, all tapped out
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6. |
Cannot Trust the Ground
03:35
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There’s a comfort in the simple things
Put a kettle on the stove
Keep an ear out for the whistle when it blows
But I’m following a world of things
Try to keep up with it all
But I can’t believe what’s come to pass as normal
The earth, it shook so much
That I cannot trust the ground
The earth, it shook so much that I
Cannot trust it now
At the kitchen table
School begins
She’s got her face up on the screen
Can’t imagine how it feels to be thirteen
The earth, it shook so much
That I cannot trust the ground
The earth, it shook so much that I
Refuse to trust it now
The earth, it shook so much that I
Cannot trust it now
At the kitchen table
Pushing paint
But I’m running out of sky
I’m running out of ways to pass the time
Running out of ways to pass the time
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7. |
Cut to the Ending
03:05
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Now we’re left to pick up the pieces
Shovel up the shards
Because a fool won’t listen to reason
Till he’s gone too far
Till he’s gone too far
And some just want a king
They didn’t come here to sing
But if you cut to the ending
History is told by an old man
Who survived the wars
Little talk of spineless enablers
Ones who held the door
And knelt to kiss a ring
Held onto power
By any means
But if you cut to the ending
I’ve seen some ugliness
Some terror in my days
I’d love to think we’ve seen the end
But when you think you’ve got the lid on, here it comes
The same old ghosts are back again
Now we’re left to pick up the pieces
In this house of cards
But we must not speak of treason
That is where we are
And some just want a king
They didn’t come here to sing
But if you cut to the ending
Cut to the ending
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8. |
You Can't Hide
04:11
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When the weight of doubt presses you down
And it’s all you have to carry yourself
From the bed where sleep swallows the day
Let me lift you up and shoulder the weight
Hide, you can’t hide
No more than the sun
Or the moon can hide
All in knots I was trying to breathe
All these thoughts of mine, showing their teeth
Sadly, we were never taught
That the worst is when you come to believe
Hide, you can’t hide
No more than the sun
Or the moon can hide
Hide, you can’t hide
Or turn away
From the world outside
Worries are just shadows
Being cast by passing clouds
Try to scoop them in your arms
Just shadows on the ground
Hide, you can’t hide
No more than the sun
Or the moon can hide
Hide, you can’t hide
Can’t turn away
From the world outside
You can’t hide
You can’t hide
You can’t hide
You can’t hide
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9. |
My Eyes Have Seen
04:00
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A line that any child could trace
The beacon dimmed, the tired turned away
Footsteps between asylum and the cage
The history books may hide this shameful page
But my eyes have seen
My eyes have seen
My eyes have seen
On foil blankets strewn beneath the bridge
The sleepless and the desperate are hid
The mighty with our dogs and razor wire
A fence around the country where you live
My eyes have seen
My eyes have seen
My eyes have seen
My eyes have seen
And all these prideful slogans are but cloth
Our hands are stained, the color’s coming off
The lies we tell ourselves devour us
Until we can’t remember what is lost
My eyes have seen
My eyes have seen
My eyes have seen
My eyes have seen
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I may not always choose my words so well
It doesn’t change the way I feel
Oh, believe me when you hear me say
That my love for you is real
Oh
Remember this
Promise to remember
You will always have my heart
Remember this
Few things are forever
You will always have my heart
We don’t always have to think the same
Not a crime to disagree
Doesn’t mean we have to turn away
Doesn’t make us enemies
Oh
Remember this
Promise to remember
You will always have my heart
Hardest thing is when I see you hurt
I wish that you would tell me why
When you need me simply say the word
I’m there to hold you when you cry
Oh
Remember this
Promise to remember
Even when we are apart
Remember this
Little girl of mine
You will always have my heart
Remember this
Remember this
You will always have my heart
Remember this
Remember this
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11. |
All By Heart
04:43
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We become numb
We become hard
That’s human
We become cruel
Tearing the uniforms off our abusers
Even unmoved
Cover our eyes
When we refuse to see
What we know by heart
Every scar
Every lash delivered
All by heart
Word for word
A part of you remembers
We become mute
Protecting ourselves from cruelty
Biting our tongues
A moment to scream out from the roofs if ever
We know by heart
Every scar
Every lash delivered
All by heart
Verse by verse
Some part of you remembers
In our memories
We seek to find some meaning in the past
But do not think, for once
That grief is buried in the grass
All by heart
We know by heart
Every scar
All by heart
And every lash delivered
All by heart
We know by heart
Every scar
Every lash delivered
All by heart
We know by heart
All by heart
We know by heart
All by heart
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Grant-Lee Phillips Nashville, Tennessee
American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
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