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Bones
03:21
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Well I walked through the valley of bones - them dry dry dry dry bones -
And all I saw around me was the yawning jaw of death.
Then my Lord said to me, “Can you keep their company?
Son of man, can these dry bones breathe back life?”
I said, “Lord, it’s you alone that knows,
Oh my Lord, is it you alone that cares?
When our hope is lost, gone, cut off, dead as stones,
Can you split the grave and raise these dry, dry bones?"
Then He looked down and smiled a wry, dry grin so sly
And said, “Prophesy to these bones: they’ll rise from death.
I’ll put new flesh within, and I’ll cover each with skin,
Blow a spirit rushing in and out as breath.”
I said, “Lord, it’s you alone that knows,
Oh my Lord, is it you alone that cares?
When our hope is lost, gone, cut off, dead as stones,
Can you split the grave and raise these dry, dry bones?"
I lowered down my head and I spoke just like he said,
And a noise came tumbling jumbling to my ear.
In a rattle clatter chattering roar, bone joined bone before
My very eyes and I stared into the socket of death.
Then skin and flesh both grew, held tight by strong sinew
And before me stood strong men as fresh as life;
And four winds began to blow and breathed life into their souls
And that army looked as strong and vast as death.
I said, “Lord, it’s you alone that knows,
Oh my Lord, is it you alone that cares?
When our hope is lost, gone, cut off, dead as stones,
Can you split the grave and raise these dry, dry bones?"
When it all was done the Lord said, “Look, Zeke, son,
All these men are the house that has decayed;
But I’ll raise it up again, I’ll make them all new men -
They’ll live, and this I swear, it will be done.
They’ll live, and this I swear, it will be done.
You’ll live, and this I swear, it will be done.”
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Greyhound Bus
02:47
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Don’t you close your eyes anymore -
Don’t you care to see?
Don’t you leave your boots on the floor -
Ain’t you coming with me?
Cuz I got a one-way ticket on that Greyhound bus tonight
In a sleeper car that’s big enough for two.
And we ain’t coming back again until we both remember when
Our love was all we knew we’d ever need.
The winter’s long, it’ll take your breath away
Steal right into your dreams
Freeze your breath and black the sun out of the day
Make you forget all of our schemes
But I got a one-way ticket on that Greyhound bus tonight
In a sleeper car that’s big enough for two.
And we ain’t coming back this side until we both remember why
Our love was all we knew we’d ever need.
And it’s a dark night that breaks
Into a dawn that’s darker still.
But it’s a bright day that rises,
With light that burns away the chill.
Now won’t you lay down by this river next to me
And watch the water pouring past.
Just close your eyes and feel my breath against your cheek,
And let this simple moment last.
I got a one-way ticket on that Greyhound bus tonight
In a sleeper car that’s big enough for two.
And we ain’t coming back again until we both remember when
Our love was all we knew we’d ever need.
No, we ain’t coming back this side until we both remember why
Our love was all we knew we’d ever need.
Our love was all we knew we’d ever need.
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Bossa Fossanova
04:04
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Summa, sum-a, summa, sum-ma, summa / say something to me
Contra, contra, contra contradictions bout the truth you know they’re just what we see
Gentle, gentle now, gentle now, gentler / the people just never knew
I’ve written books, I’ve written truth, I’ve written all / I wrote it all for you
I’ve given it all, I’ve written it all for you
Now let me Die in your arms and go on to something new
Before All I saw these scratches are nothing but straw
Let me See you again, forever, in eternity’s maw
Call me dumb, call me simple, call me stupid, call me / call me just what you like
I could read and I could think and I could write like a saint when I was just a wee tyke
As I kneel, as I fall and fold my hands and pray / let me rise up to you
Let my words do my work, let my work be done / let it all be through
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4. |
Cemetery Stone
03:46
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Well, the light slants across the bed here
Just like it always did at home
But the dust that hangs still in that sunshine
Ain't your skin that you brushed loosed with your comb
When I die, build a bench for my cemetery stone
So my children can sit where I lay
And my grandkid can come with his girl Friday night,
Introduce her to me, tell me her name
In the still of this room I go back there
To that swing on the porch in my mind
And I rock with you pressed up beside me
Feel the warmth of your hip warming mine
I can hear the soft click ticking by me
And the gentlest thrum of my breath
I can see your soft face when I close my eyes
Feel your hand leading me into rest
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5. |
Ideology/Casualty
05:31
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Down in the water / by the riverside
Many have wandered / many have died
I walked there lately / I did not stay long
I left my life there / I have moved on
I had done nothing / never held a gun, or
Lifted my voice up / I was too young.
But the battle raged and / I was called to fight
To wrest, to rage, to / never see the light
And did you know how long I waited for that day?
Did you know how strong I longed to hear you say…
And could you ever know the good I could’ve done?
Could you ever know? Could you ever know…?
Oh oh oh…
I was a baby / I was a child
Now that I’m gone / remember me a while
I wanted freedom / I wanted life
Now I want nothing / keep your blood-stained knife
And did you know how long I waited for this day?
Did you know how bad I longed to hear you say…
And could you ever know the good I could’ve done?
Could you ever know? Could you ever know…?
But I forgive you for the wrongs that you have done to me
And I forgive you for the pain that you have felt
And I forgive you for there’s nothing else that I can do
Except for leave you to yourself
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6. |
Morose Joy
04:52
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The memory is wilting the colors are blurred
But clearly he hears it the shape of the word that she
Said that night in the rain
He stumbled home senseless his hands stuck inside of his
Pockets they burn there he’s trying to hide that he
Cried that night in the rain
He wandered pasts windows bright signs mattered not
He saw only nothing his only dull thought was that’s
All she wrote after all
A broken rear window he punched it too hard when he
Got in his truck and it just wouldn’t start he said
“Damn, that’s all that I need”
He plodded through puddles his suit looking muddled by the
Dirt and the tears and the blood and the years that were
Lost that night in the rain
And the car driving past just pointed and laughed as he
Hit the mud fast and he sprayed one more splash in his
Face that night in the rain
As a cop pulled beside him he started to chide him and
Told him that vagrants been outlawed since seventy-
Two and he’d better move along
He fin’lly gets home and the sign says foreclosed
And he don’t even care that he hasn’t been told until
Now he’s numb by now
Inside the dark building (the power is gone) the
Toilet keeps leaking, should’ve had something done a-
Bout that long before now
So he sits with a flashlight and tinkers away but he’s
Never fixed nothing his pa used to say “oh my
Son, will you ever be a man?”
But his hands keep on working they ain’t wont to quit
A jerk and a jiggle he thinks “this is it” water
Sprays all over the walls
As he watches his failure, his stomach starts to churn, a
Cough and a quiver he feels his throat burn and he
Throws himself on the seat
Oh the porcelain kingdom it cradles him kindly as
Water pours out from beside and behind him the
King of the realm of all of this
A smile overcomes him in spite of himself, he
Could not explain it to anyone else, sits and
Smiles and laughs thanks to God
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Drinking to Drink
04:09
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He asked, “are we drinking, or drinking to drink?”
And I shrugged as I finished my beer.
If I was Aladdin, then he was Abu,
And we rode on our carpet from here to here.
God bless it, God love it, God give us more of it,
God, please tell me are you still here?
God help me, enslave me, God are we worth saving?
Remember when things were so clear?
O please God, just make things more clear.
We ran in the morning, we smoked in the night.
And we spoke of such spiritual things.
We gossiped and cursed, but we taught and we learned,
And we knew where you were when we'd sing:
He said you’re like the kind of guy that I like
The kind of guy who doesn’t like anyone
So maybe we can not hang out together sometime
Drink separate, alone - now doesn’t that sound like fun?
We sat in a boat, on a river we'd float,
Breaking paddles and blessing the birds.
Oh, God let us know what we both did it for
Is worth more than just dull, empty words.
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8. |
Sail Away
04:04
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In the morning of the day, you said you’d always stay
and you’d never go a roving anymore.
But I knew it couldn’t last; still, I held you close and fast
Til in the darkness, fore the light, you’d sail away
Sail away, sail away, oh my darling, sail away
In the night before the morning, sail away
And you’ll take my heart with thee, cross the wide and raging sea
But in the darkness fore the light, oh sail away
In the noontide of the day, I saw you bow and pray
For the strength to stay and prove your word was true
As the tears cut down your face, and you begged to God for grace
Even then I saw by night you’d sail away
In the ev’ning of the day, there was nothing left to say
Just a restless look, a longing in your eye
It ’twas then I bowed my crown, cast my eyes down to the ground
When I looked again, I knew you’d sailed away
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9. |
An Evening's Lament
05:42
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10. |
Angel Band
05:29
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11. |
To Hold You Anymore
03:23
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Now lay down your head
I’ll hold you til you’re safe in bed
I’ll hold you til I’m not enough
To hold you anymore
Don’t feel no fear, don’t dread
Just close your eyes and dream instead
Of mother’s kiss, of father’s love
Of brother, sister’s tug
Just sleep while you’re small
Remind me to accept it all
To live while we linger and to
Grow until we’re gone
Just close your eyes
And dream of life
Yet to unfold
I’m here for you to hold
So lay down your head
Don’t worry what may lie ahead
please Hold me when I’m too old
To hold you anymore
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Cyr and the Cosmonauts Duluth, Minnesota
An eclectic brand of Americana with tight vocal harmonies, space to breathe, space to die, and probing lyrics that search the cosmos in the chaos.
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