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The Falls
05:02
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The Falls
A little bit too much
Is it making me true
Bit of hard luck
That’s you showing through
We get a good day drunk
Into the afternoon
It doesn’t take much
I’m over the falls with you
It’s too early to freeze up
But to late be through
Under street lights
You skin pale as the moon
I could be half way
Gone in a minute or two
I’ll keep the place warm
Just tell me what to do
All this time you shouldn’t have
I could be the lion I am your man
You’re right, they bend in half, crooked or true these words are all we have
I get as close to the edge of nothing as I can
Without falling in
Just to feel it
Your together I know so it don’t make sense
How someone’s gotta hurt
To know they ain’t dead
I watch that flame shrink
Your eyes get wet
Feel my heart sink as you tell me
You got nothing left
I get pulled apart, you try and force my hand
You gotta let the dust settle before
You can see through it
You’re right, they bend in half, crooked or true these words are all we have
I’ll put my time in, a night for every place you’ve never been
I’ll be your tailwind
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2. |
BDSM
03:20
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BDSM
I miss my cellophane baby
Queen of the underground lately
Low light vision from a painting
Tied by strange men
Hand on the glass, the picture of class, straight to the heart
The way our eyes meet, got struggling to speak it makes my knees weak
I know it’s not about the money
Got something special don’t we honey
Under that mask you could be lovely
The days are just a shadow
I lick my wounds and howl
For that unholy hour
When you turn your light on
Hand on the glass, the picture of class, straight to the heart.
The way our eyes meet, got struggling to speak it makes my knees weak
I miss my cellophane baby
Queen of the underground lately
Those heels got you looking stately
I’d do anything.
You got me living like a lantern
I come alive after the suns burned
They don’t know this kind of dream world
They don’t know about you
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3. |
Ulysses
04:04
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Ulysses
Board up that hungry heart
Drown it tonight like the last one
Tie me to the mast in the storm
Song at our backs
A light on the shore
You never squeezed blood from a stone
Tonight you might try if you had one
Fates become your gracious host
Never to leave, never say no
Lets feast like swine, break bread, drink wine
Tomorrow can wait my dear
You like the way your magic don’t work on me
It’s just the party favors but I’ll never say
Ten days we were blown off course
Into the arms of these flower boys
No one seems wound up about home
Just fill my glass and let me sink like a stone
Heard she can drink all day
Got a thirst that could swallow the sea
Mad as a cat in heat
Drowns all the boys at the bottom of her drink
Lets feast, like swine, break bread, drink wine
Tomorrow can wait my dear
You like the way your magic don’t work on me
It’s just the party favors but I’ll never say
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4. |
1956
04:05
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1956
October 1956
The air is still warm and the leaves
Hang onto the trees in the yard
Hang onto the trees in the yard
I take your picture by the pool
The sun on your back, you straighten your cap
No longer a girl
No longer a girl
Everything they said well it’s all true
From where I stand I can see
You in the reflection of you
You in the perfection of youth
Tonight we might drive to the beach
Follow the road to the coast
And swim like fish in the sea
Swim like fish
A moment in time decades from now
Someone opens a book, our picture falls out
All of the words they’re breathed back to life
But you and me we’re still gone
You’re fond of wine and fast machines
But you’d spend your days alone in a book
If it wasn’t for me
If it wasn’t for me
I used to wile away the nights
At all the cafés in town
Working at getting tight
Working at getting tight
We trade the dirt for cobblestones
I tell you I’d build you one and you laugh
But I know that you know
I know that you know
Their names for us don’t make a sound
The words are all dead but we know
It’s us that’ll rest in the ground
It’s us that’ll rest
A moment in time decades from now
Someone opens a book, our picture falls out
All of the words, they’re breathed back to life
But you and me, we’re still gone
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5. |
Caruso
05:08
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6. |
Make It Real
03:49
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Make It Real
So you’re back at it again
Shut out the light and let the darkness in
It’s been so long, that missing piece
Your hearts been numb, now it’s starting to feel
Now it’s starting to feel
Lets make a deal
So scratch your name out in pen
Write it clear so we can be certain
That burning want, that shuttered need
That aching body, that hungry dream
Hungry dream
Oh I could make it real
They say how do I know
Oh you’ll know, you’ll know
If you’d sell em down the river
For a night to touch and shiver with her
Then give my name a whisper
They say how do I know
You’ll know, you’ll know
When you’re looking through the glass
At the life you could’ve had
But a deals a deal that’s the way it goes
In the shadow of this love its cold lord I know it, like a desert moon
Cast long as these rail cars rolling though
In the shadow of this love everything pales I know
Things die before they bloom
Black magic babe, it’s got me ruined
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7. |
Wild Eyed
03:09
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Wild Eyed
Dear direction what have I done that you won’t speak to me
Don’t know how we lost touch
I miss our talks
The nights we’d get no sleep
The front lights on, door’s unlocked, I’m waiting for the phone to ring
A quiet this loud it takes a bottle to drown and some pills above the bathroom sink
Your hearts too old a burned out wreck
Everyone’s had a ride no ones held on yet
My body’s broke I’m tired to death
You’re gone and the horse I’m whipping’s dead
Left feet, last dance, skip beat, moment’s passed
Long days since you left, in irons, aimless
It’s coming on, shine a light around me
The darker the night rougher the sea
Wild-eyed like a dog that ain’t free
The shorter the leash the sharper the teeth
I miss that old pulse pumping free, I want those shits to give
Miss being certain help me feel the way I did
If I don’t make it, it’ll make me masterless
Fortunes favor’s passed beneath this listless ship
Left feet, last dance, skip beat, moments passed
Long days since you left, in irons, aimless
It’s coming on, shine a light, around me
The darker the night the rougher the sea
Wild-eyed like a dog that ain’t free
The shorter the leash the sharper the teeth
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8. |
Tonasket Blues
04:19
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Tonasket Blues
Three days we drive all night
We keep it state side
Through every dim lit town
Let the tapes roll, let the record show
Not even opera
Sounds so loud
So shame me for every transgress
For all my habits that
Let you down
Watch the day wane
Pull off the freeway
Grab my arms and shake me
In the back of a parking lot
White bird take my love to her
Don’t get lost along the way
White bird it’s been a week I haven’t heard
Is my love forgotten or misplaced
Gently picking up antiques
Swallowing sea breeze
And the steam from the Tesaro
Go where the road ends, make new friends
We get a laugh track
Just like a TV show
Stop me if I don’t seem friendly
It’s just a pattern
One more for the road
White bird take my love to her
Don’t get lost along the way
White bird it’s been a week I haven’t heard
Is my love forgotten or misplaced
The heat here, you sweat something fierce
There’s still no cure for the Tonasket blues
In the belly of a rusted bucket
I sing the Tonasket blues
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el palomino Vancouver, British Columbia
El Palomino is the creative efforts of Justin Fleming and friends, based out of Vancouver BC. El Palomino’s debut album Badlands, is a down-tempo drive through a soulful, sonic landscape. The album re-draws the boundaries of indie-rock to encompass the no mans land where soul, shoegaze, R&B, and dream-pop intersect. Justin has played in Vancouver indie bands like Run River and Library. ... more
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