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Palomita
03:59
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Good morning, Palomita.
It's good to have you home.
You're skinny as hell,
but your body is warm.
It hasn't been so easy.
You've been up and gone.
I sleep, I dream, I wish
that I could bring you along.
But tonight we'll ride
on the back of a satellite,
looking down at this broken world
trying to get it right.
I think I lost my way
and you're gonna be the light.
I think I lost my way
and you're gonna be the light.
I guess I'm still believing
in the Holy Ghost,
because I swear I feel you breathing
on the opposite coast.
And I tell myself
that it's all gonna be alright.
But I know I'm a beast, I'm a god,
I'm a little child.
I think I lost my way
and you're gonna be the light.
I think I lost my way
and you're gonna be the light.
Well if this whole wide world
belongs to you and I,
then we could start again
and pretend it's the first time.
I think I lost my way
and you're gonna be the light.
I think I lost my way
and you're gonna be the light.
Words and music copyright of Danny Musengo and Chase Gilbertson
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When I was seventeen,
my father spoke to me.
He said, Son, you could be king,
but you'll just probably end like me.
I felt your mother's breath,
warm against my neck.
I loved her with the violence
of a man with nothing left.
But there were nights when she
would plead to me:
Don't let the devil come between
our bodies as they lay between
and orange and yellow sky.
She had everything,
and I only got high.
She locked the bathroom door.
She said, I can't pretend no more.
The beast that comes at night
is ever leaving us alone.
I cried until my knees gave out
and I drove that car back into town
and I fucked a girl who'd been around
the block a thousand times.
She had everything,
and I only got high.
So look at you:
Are you happy with what that got you?
Now you'll never be what you thought you'd be
when you saw it as a kid on a movie screen.
Look at you:
Are you happy with what that got you?
Now you'll never be what you thought you'd be
on the day he laid down his head and died.
She had everything,
and I only got high.
Words and music copyright of Danny Musengo
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3. |
Long Day
04:09
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So it goes,
the children got older,
the children got colder.
So it goes.
So it goes,
We sat by the river.
It’s moving much quicker
than before.
It’s not enough
to say you still need me
just as you’re leaving.
Please don’t go.
It’s a long day, but I’m waiting it out.
Took the wrong way, but we’ll figure it out.
It’s a long day, but there’s plenty of time left to see
that you were meant for me.
So it goes,
the world got much bigger,
that ring on your finger
got too small.
So it goes,
I prayed to the river:
Pull us both under.
Make us whole.
It’s not enough
to say you won’t go there.
I need you to go where
it all went wrong.
It’s a long day, but I’m waiting it out.
I took the wrong way, but we’ll figure it out.
It’s a long day, but there’s plenty of time left to see
that you were meant for me.
Words and music copyright of Danny Musengo and Paul Weinfield
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Carnival
03:31
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Take a look around at this city:
a carnival of wonders and fears.
Everybody's tumbling and spinning
to catch a dream that just disappears.
Don't give up, little sister,
don't give up on me.
Don't give up, little sister,
don't give up.
Because even when the stars begin to fall,
I'll be on your side forever more.
Even at the final curtain call
of this carnival.
The fortune-telling lady she told me:
I never wanted to be born.
But when the crowd is gone and you hold me,
I think I know what this life is for.
Don't give up, little sister,
don't give up on me.
Don't give up, little sister,
don't give up.
Because even when the stars begin to fall,
I'll be on your side forever more.
Even at the final curtain call
of this carnival.
And even when they tear the tent tops down,
even when they bring the wagons round,
you and I will be here after all
of this carnival.
Words and music copyright of Danny Musengo and Paul Weinfield
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5. |
The Beautiful Ones
03:19
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I dreamed there was a civil war:
blood upon every city door,
people fighting for a vanishing world —
all except the beautiful ones.
They climbed up on the fire escapes
and watched the world go up in flames.
They saw how life disfigures us all.
They were the beautiful ones.
Are you waiting for a savior
who will save you from the end?
Well when your savior disappoints you, my love,
call me if you need a friend.
Maybe I didn't give you enough.
Maybe you needed a more jealous kind of love.
Maybe you remember some bitter times —
well I remember the beautiful ones:
Sitting on your rooftop's edge,
feeling the warm sun high overhead,
we saw how little time we really get
to be the beautiful ones.
Are you waiting for a savior
who will save you from the end?
Well when your savior disappoints you, my love,
call me if you need a friend.
Are you looking for forgiveness
on which you can depend?
Well when your savior disappoints you, my love,
call me if you need a friend.
Call me if you need a friend.
Words and music copyright of Paul Weinfield
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One Night Stand
03:27
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New York’s an awful place
to go and let your heart break.
In a night that goes on for days,
there’s a life slipping away.
For me, I’m drinking more,
waiting for someone to come along
and pick me up.
In my heart, I know you’re gone
and I am left to sing along
to the voice that’s in my head:
My life is a one night stand.
My life is a one night stand.
I danced with this pretty thing.
For a moment, I felt young.
So I called my closest friend.
She told me about her son.
She said, my boy, he gets along,
he makes me proud.
So what are you doing now?
In my heart, I know you’re gone
and I am left to sing along
to the voice that’s in my head.
I tell myself it’s just a lark.
Some day you’ll be somewhere else.
Until then, you do what we can.
My life is a one night stand.
My life is a one night stand.
Words and music copyright of Danny Musengo
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Angelina
03:09
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Sorry love, here you went and got all dressed up,
just in time to see the setting sun disappear.
We wrote in blood all the things we said that we’d become.
Don’t you think it’s time to chalk them up to make-believe?
When you’re hungry there’s no thought
that you could ever get too much.
Don’t you think we’ve had enough?
Angelina, Angelina,
I did not mean to do you harm.
You’re way too young to be dancing in a room this dark,
playing music while I tend the bar on Orchard Street.
Your father called, said he’s gonna leave the porch light on,
just in case you want to come back home, sweet Angeline.
When you’re hungry there’s no thought
that you could ever get too much.
Don’t you think we’ve had enough?
Angelina, Angelina,
I did not mean to do you harm (etc.)
Words and music copyright of Danny Musengo and Paul Weinfield
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8. |
The Wrong Ones
05:09
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Our love was such a graceless child
in a world where words don’t mean a lot.
They got lost.
I just keep on getting older
and I just keep on going nowhere
because I keep fucking with the wrong ones
when I should know better,
I should know better
but I don’t.
We talked for hours on an electric wire.
Under stars that keep on pushing further apart,
while we hold on.
I just keep on getting older
and I just keep on going nowhere
because I keep fucking with the wrong ones
when I should know better,
I should know better
but I don't.
Words and music copyright of Danny Musengo
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Bedouin Moon
04:09
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The Bedouin moon
shone on the world’s most lonely man.
He was wandering in the desert
when he found an abandoned city in the sand.
It had silver streams and fruit trees
that bent their heavy branches to his hand.
He thanked the angel of his loneliness
for bringing him into the promised land.
Without solitude,
love won’t follow you.
Love won’t follow you
on your long journey home.
Without solitude,
love will just swallow you.
And that’s why you and I
must learn to be alone.
The Bedouin moon
is shining in the teardrops in your eyes.
No, you don’t believe I love you,
and my promises don’t leave you satisfied.
There’s a place you want to take me,
but I can’t go there no matter how I try.
I guard the doorstep of your dreams
but I do not have the key to come inside.
Without solitude,
love won’t follow you.
Love won’t follow you
on your long journey home.
Without solitude,
love will just swallow you.
And that’s why you and I
must learn to be alone.
Words and music copyright of Paul Weinfield
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Floating Away
03:09
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Do you remember the day
we climbed up the toll bridge
to wait for the train?
When it got so close
we jumped in the lake.
We were there for a moment
and then floated away.
Todd caught the fever today.
I got to see him, I got to say
he gave me so much
I could never repay.
He was there for a moment
and then floated away.
The water is rising,
child, don’t be afraid.
The things we lost
were never ours, anyway.
They’re just here for a moment
and then floating away.
I saw a star fall today.
I made me a wish:
please, come what may,
sleep, little darling,
it’ll all be okay.
We’re just here for a moment
and then floating away ...
Words and music copyright of Danny Musengo
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