1. |
Root Cracks Pavement
02:59
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No you can't
Take it away from me
With well laid plan
or mediocrity
With false sleeved hearts
Or bloody diamond thrones
Twisted screams
Extorted radios
So give me something sacred
Gimme something pure
Give me back my magic
and a place to burn
A place to burn
A place to burn
So I'm a taking back what
Was stolen long ago
Just as a root crack's pavement
I'm claiming what was sold
for nothing picture postcards
and fracture-charted minds
broken lipped bylines
and empty charted signs
So gimme something sacred
Gimme something pure
Gimme back my magic
and a place to burn
A place to burn
A place to burn
A place to burn
A place to burn
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2. |
Time Has Come
03:31
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Wayward dream children
Won't you lay your big money down
Silver coins and neon signs will cycle back to the ground
There's a trembling current that is searching to be found
in between the reasoned word and the pretty pennied sound
Hey now
Hey now
Hey now
Time has come
For you and I
Yeah
We are as one
Hey now
Hey now
Time has come
For you and I
Yeah
We are as one
Broke down emperor
The tangled pearls of your line
Whispered down in beaded dreams
offering truth
offering lies
There's a rising currency within
And out of time
Just west of the darkling gold
For which we're taught to climb
Hey now
Hey now
Hey now
Time has come
For you and I
Yeah
We are as one
Hey now
Hey now
Time has come
For you and I
Yeah
We are as one
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3. |
Desert In The Shape
02:38
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Open all the windows
Open all the doors
Shake your bell and string now baby
Make your light unfold
Spit the dark horse backwards
Bend your will anew
Rise up from the shore and dance
From what you once knew
When you smile on
Well you know that they can't kill you
When you smile on
they can never break you down
Let us see your beauty
Under tangled vine
While the candle floats above
Wicked tide and time
A desert in the shape
Between the sand and sea
Like a letter from the air
You're shining, wild, and free
When you smile on
Well you know that they can't kill you
When you smile on
they can never break you down
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4. |
Shadows & Fate
02:53
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Well your way's gonna stumble
And your will's gonna rise
And the truth of the matter is
Difficult to surmise
Crooked winds gonna shudder
Simple smiles gonna shine
And the way things are going there's
Little reason or rhyme
But shadows and fate
Don't hesitate for
It's hard to define
The curve from the line
Line
Porcelain's gonna crumble
Silhouettes gonna slide
But the path we have chosen goes
Up and down thru the tide
Well your pain's gonna flutter
and your fear's gonna fly
and the course of the moment takes
a blink of an eye
But shadows and fate
Don't hesitate for
It's hard to define
The curve from the line
Line
And it’s something unsaid
Always tangling the head
And it’s hard to unwind
The space from the time
Time
Time
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5. |
Buying Our Silence
06:57
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Mama and Daddy
How'd it get like this?
Selling our future
For a bag full of tricks
Poisoning our water
Our land and our minds
For thirty pieces of silver
Whistle down the wind
For a road paved with gold
Dreams of the past
And the days we once owned
Forgetting the future
for the great white lie
and thirty pieces of silver
Disposable heroes
and half-empty rooms
The flash of the neon
And the twist of the view
The unwritten pleasure
And the ghost of the moon
For thirty pieces of silver
Which way should we wander
Which way should we roam
This current is closing
Folding back to the loam
The diamonds are cracking
And the blood's pouring for
Thirty pieces of silver
They're buying our silence
We're just selling ourselves by the pound
With your cheap toys and violence
You're burning my world to the ground
These questions and inklings
They cut deep to the bone
Where is our future?
Tell me where is our home?
The seven generations
We've yet to have known
For thirty pieces of silver
Looking back on the past
With historical eyes
A shiny new game and
A freshly won prize
Are just paper tigers
To distract from inside
And thirty pieces of silver
They're buying our silence
We're just selling ourselves by the pound
With your cheap toys and violence
You're burning my world to the ground
Take us back to the river
Take us back to the shore
Take us back to the feelings
We learned once before
Raise us on wings that sing something more
And forget your
Forget your pieces of silver
Yes forget your
Forget your pieces of silver
You can forget your
Forget your pieces of silver
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6. |
Orpheus Descending
03:55
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Hey can't you see
These lines they're not me
They're just a shadow
Of who I used to be
When the time comes
and you softly descend
I step aside
And hear what you intend
And when the light it comes shimmering my way
And the snow on the ground is so clear
With the wind building up on the highway
And the thoughts on the mind of the seer
Hey, hey it's so real
Blue sheets and the lights and their feel
Well it's understood
That what you learn you steal
It's coming fast
The pink and the tongue and the lash
Into the room
With ghosts and scents of the past
And when the light it comes shimmering my way
And the snow on the ground is so clear
With the wind building up on the highway
And the thoughts on the mind of the seer
We've got no right
And we've got no wrong
Just a couple of chords
and the words to a song
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7. |
Selling Out Again
05:21
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The people in this town don't wanna know
The ugly truth, the hunger and the show
So if you think you've finally got the lines
Don't waste your time dealing other peoples lies
The people in this town don't wanna see
The widening gulf, the greed, the misery
And just like that your ethics down the drain
Don't speak the needs that feed that business game
Under no illusions
Under no denials
There's a freedom ringing
In a simple style
But the way you're walking
And the way you're talking
are a little suspect with that
corporate style
You're selling out again
Forget your mother, brother, reason, and your friends
You're selling out again
Forget your mother, brother, reason, and your friends
The history of all that came before
Is pressing itself firmly at the door
And if your mind is tangled like a wire
Well sing like your ancestors are on fire
The people in this world are all in need
Come together share our unity
And if they beat and break your heart's and minds
Endeavor to find beauty in all times
Under no illusions
Under no denials
There's a freedom ringing
In a simple style
But the way you're walking
And the way you're talking
are a little suspect with that
corporate style
You're selling out again
Forget your mother, brother, reason, and your friends
You're selling out again
Forget your mother, brother, reason, and your friends
You're selling out again
Forget your mother, brother, reason, and your friends
You're selling out again
Forget your mother, brother, reason, and your friends
You're selling out again
Forget your mother, brother, reason, and your friends
You're selling out again
Forget your mother, brother, reason, and your friends
You're selling out again
Forget your mother, brother, reason, and your friends
You're selling out again
Forget your mother, brother, reason, and your friends
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8. |
Material Calling
05:40
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This endless desire
Keeps eluding me
and when I have what I want
Is it really what I need?
Oh oh
You thought something might change
Oh oh
You thought something might change
This hole without end
The one I cannot fill
I've been gazing for days
With barely a thrill
Oh oh
You thought something might change
Oh oh
You thought something might change
But the high water's rising
And the Shit's gonna hit the fan
Material is calling
'Cause a heart rarely changes hands
This master and this slave
The mind fuck and the din
Aren't easily erased
But you can buy your way in
Oh oh
You thought something might change
Oh oh
You thought something might change
But there's a recourse and a vibe
Can't you see by now?
Everything is on the line
Can't buy your way out
Oh oh
You thought something might change
Oh oh
You thought something might change
But the high water's rising
And the Shit's gonna hit the fan
Material is calling
'Cause a heart rarely changes hands
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9. |
Ghosts Hang Low
03:29
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When faith is insane
And hope is in vain
Where do you go
When all your troubles
Are one and the same?
And the ghosts hang low
No place like home when you're going down slow
Well you're brave
and you're free
Bleeding west
Down to the sea
Where all your ships
Sink sleepily
Loaded heavy with gold
and the sails swing low
No place like home
When you're going down slow
Broken down
Like the frontier
Drawing lines
Tapping fears
But that sweet
Grace bound train
Is always near
Oh the wheel moves slow
No place like home
No place like home
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Max Davies
Songwriter, guitarist and producer. Max Davies has been featured in: Artforum; Guitar World & Guitarist magazines; Centre Pompidou, the American College Dance Festival, Naropa University, and on numerous albums and films. He has worked with Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, Lydia Lunch, CA Conrad, Toni Oswald, Clark Coolidge, Cecilia Vicuna, Eleni Sikelianos Gregory Alan Isakov, and more. ... more
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