Ears To the Ground

Prisoners remind blue skies provide the feelings I adore live underneath the floor
The dust and decay scurry my way I dream of tumbleweeds dry voices speak to me
But I'll keep me safe and sound Ears to the ground
I lay me down I need to sleep now
I opened my mind another time to thousands babbling my way they're traveling
I turn my head I feel their approach a stampede I watch the desert vibrate
Put me in my invisible place where no one can find not ever
But I'll keep me safe and sound Ears to the ground
I lay me down I need to sleep now
I Need to sleep Now

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Happy Birthday Wanda June

Happy Birthday Wanda June I can't wait to believe your ruin I'll see you soon
Sometimes caught humming to myself I have always known that I would take this road
But yesterday I did not know that it would be today time seemed slow
My little sweetheart every day is your birthday Wanda June
Shaboom Shaboom I've been waiting...
And all we need is love everyone needs love
So let Manson sleep tonight he's the quiet peaceful type
put his reasons between his eyes what a waste of life
And all we need is love everyone needs love

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Hills Like White Elephants

The heat pays attention to the pale type on his back he carries all shoulders like the old mammal
A cowardly search for a female find a weaker prey altar bound for worship to his higher ground
No deadlier can boredom be than to lock away in an ivory egg such quivering life such unfaded beauty
She dies young she stays pretty
In hills like white elephants
so bring to life that void in love that addicts the addicted and swallows resentment

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Alekan Girl

Shimmering upward I feel your constant gaze light as a feather it's you that I amaze
But you never show yourself to me in my room courage confined under the ceiling in my room
Your eyes are blue your kisses too you and I know what they can do
Warmth of my dream fanatic comforts me pulls me up to heights I can't believe
Trimming the air I glide forever in my room love allowed your mind to wander in my room
With angel-soft tears your body I embrace intertwined together face to face
Closing my eyes I whisper softly in my room funny I've never felt so lonely in my room

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In A Heaven

In a state of mind that has nothing to show for it
Lose a sense of time that we wish we could have
In a heaven
What's mine is mine I loose my insensitive grind what's mine is mine I hold in my hands little lies
In a while we'll be back where we started to cave in
And IÕll brace for the storm at the hands of my darling
In a heaven
I don't mind wasting my life it's got nothing to do with me
In a heaven

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Glaciers Down

You're gonna sing out strong
You've got a voice that melts the glaciers down
Lorelei sing my life long
You're gonna sing out strong
You've got a voice that carves the velvet deep
But I've gt a face of stone and I'm alone
It cuts down to the bone
You better tie Odysseus to the mast
My broken siren
My face of Stone
Lorelei sing my life long

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Keep Them Still (based on a sonnet by John Donne - 17th Century)

Send home my long strayed eyes to me which too long have dwelt upon thee
Yet since there they have found such ill fit for no good sight keep them still
Send home my harmless heart again which no unworthy thought could stain
Yet if it be taught by thine keep it still for then Ôtis none of mine
And if you cross both word and oath keep them still
Send me back my heart and eyes that I may know and see thy lies
And if you cross both word and oath keep them still

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All Lyrics by Monica Richards unless otherwise noted