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When Cold Air Goes to Sleep / Warm Rising Sun / Happy Spirits / Hearts of Crows / On Nautilus / Hills of Stone / Lake Life / Watching Cows / Ponoma / A Dog Named Ohio / Brother Rabbit / Morning Bird

1. When Cold Air Goes to Sleep [top]

So glad
Glad to have met you
These giant days

So fine
To drink some wine
And then part ways

Cold air goes to sleep my friend
Don't worry it's a long weekend away
From grown again? to Surrey
There's a bird in every flurry in the sky

Go you will that road again
No storm you reach
Will carry in the end
All the wives that listen
Carry on their lonely mission in the end

So fine
Fine to have left you
These dying days

So soon
Everyone will forget you
This holiday

Cold air goes to sleep my friend
Don't worry it's a long weekend away
Come granite mountains through(?) the trees
A bird in every flurry to the sea

Cold the air that feeds our frozen thought to mind(?)
Return until the end
Not a thought until the moon
Frown about so thoughtfully again

Grameries away my friend
Don't worry there's a coffin there instead
Sure to lie the woman who remembers everything until the end
Sure to lie the woman who remembers everything until the end
Sure to lie the woman who remembers everything until the end

2. Warm Rising Sun [top]

Haircut
Fist fight
Rabbit on a lawn running

Barrels of fish
For to put bullets through

Steel days
Rubber nights
Coyote a cat calling
Running from me
And running from you

Oh you beautiful warm rising sun on my head
Burning trees never looked so devine
I will sing to you
Souls like to worry instead
I believe on the hills you reside
Hills you reside

Long days
Better nights
Moving on rough water
Paper and ink never will bring me to you

Go ties
Calling on
A faraway beach is calling
The money stays green but the water's not blue

Warm rising sun

Burnt hills
Thundering
Brothers are slow fodder
Landing in threes and calling in twos

Oh you beautiful warm rising sun on my head
Burning trees never looked so devine
I will sing to you
Souls like to worry instead
I believe on the hills you reside
Hills you reside

Oh you beautiful warm
Rising sun
Oh you beautiful warm
Rising sun

Oh you beautiful warm rising sun on my head
Burning trees never looked so devine

3. Happy Spirits [top]

I saw you eat your own kin
and you're wondering why
The fat cops make bigger targets
So don't forget
These things that you see
Just ain't right

Please tell us what language you're speaking again
For the blood of a lamb you will fight
You make the blind man describe your garden at night
And with an idiot's grin I see you forget
And in a minute
These things that you say
Will make it all right

Please tell us what language you're speaking again
For the blood of a lamb you will fight
Ah
You speak mountians of shit on a beautiful day
You make a face like it's cold by the window
As we swallow
All these mountians
With a smile
These things you say
Make it all right

That happy spirits
Mate to the sky
That happy spirits
Mate to the sky

4. Hearts of Crows [top]

Hearts of crows
Sing songs in your ear
Of wishes never granted
In an empty dusty well
And mindless numbing laughter
That your teardrops softly fell

Bum...

Sleepy days give in to the night
But you shall never sleep when darkness
Laughter fills your head with blank faces all around
Blank faces all around

Ooo...

But I will remember (I will remember your name)
Your name
Remember your name (I will)
Dah dah...

Bum...

But I will remember (I will remember your name)
Your name
Remember your name (I will)
Dah dah... (I will)

Hearts of crows
Sing songs in your ear

5. On Naultilus [top]

In the dim light
An old miracle walks by
And the cold damp air of
Vessel of the sea

Ooo...

You, all of you will row
In this iron hull
You call home
I, I will sleep alone
And I will dream of dryer places
...shore to shore

On Nautilus you run from one end
To the other, you
On Nautilus you run from no one
No one but you

On Nautilus you run from no one

6. Hills of Stone [top]

I get to sing
Tall trees are waving to me
Breath of the southern sky I'm good for this
Hook on a string
Drops in red water spring
Cause I'm drowning in the thick night air
I remember this
Now the grass is gray
Apparition before me
But to speak any of this I would surely miss
Summerless day
I will sleep through you any way
In a river boat basement
But ecliped(?) from hills of stone
No mercy have you shown
Summerless day

I'm gonna fly
White knuckle through the southern sky
When I reach your divine abyss
Maybe we could fish
Lord of the flies
Bright towers in the southern sky
I keep drinking your tailgate piss
It's you I miss
Put me back in the wide open spaces
Familiar faces

Summerless day
How you brought us so far away
From a bright shimmery coast
A path from year to year
A place we never knew
Summerless day
I will live through this anyway
Clean walls in the basement
Even uncles have a few
How distance makes fond of you
Summerless day

7. Lake Life [top]

Lighter days are morning clears
The sun gives on two of us
Body like an ocean is engulfed among both of us
You swim away
The ocean, a lake for us

Song through a screen door shade
Willows and skunk musk
Remembers me and I am to
Of days not so far from us
Will you be kind
My song in ear
Please follow us tonight

The cool air will stay yay
Now
And with you I lay yay
We ride the bed through the back porch
Together all clocks stop now

The time has come to buckle down
And sift through the answers
To questions lost
The relics of
The time not remembered
For here we are
Tonight we are but us

The cool air will stay yay
Now
And with you I lay yay
We ride the bed through the back porch
Together all clocks stop now

A long is the day yay
Now
Just swim while I lay yay
If I could only have my beautiful lake life now

8. Watching Cows [top]

Up all night
Watching the cows swim
Across river dead or alive
And one by one
They got across this
One by one
And one by one

Lah...

I can see all their hides just floating away
A hoof and a mouth in the light of the moon
And I want to go home
And I want to go home now
And I want to go home just like the cows

It's the same everywhere you go
Faces and rivers and things we're to cross
The grass is the field is one thing I'm sure you know
But the water sure ain't the river

Lah...

All of them there
And they're floating away
Each of them ... people we know
And I want to go home
And I want to go home now
And I want to go home just like the cows

I'm going away for the morning now
Til goldilocks sun makes on the hills
Forever til then
Forever until

9. Ponoma [top]

Look at that face
In the mirror again
Just look at that face
In the car window again

And swim to me tonight
On El Dorado time
Pomona forgives you

See what I want you
To bring to me
Again
Just look at the face
In the ripples of
The blue lakes and

I beg for you to fight
Strong currents in the night
Pomona forgives you

So swim to me all right
On Colorado time
Pomona forgives you

Just when you see
The tomcat spray the kittens
Will you think of me

And swim to me tonight
On El Dorado time
Pomona forgives you

I beg for you to fight
Strong currents in the night
Pomona forgives you

So swim to me all right
On Colorado time
Pomona forgives you
 

10. A Dog Named Ohio [top]

You and I and Ohio
Driving through the hills
What's to do with Ohio
Is she sleeping still?

You never sing with the radio on
Silent and dumb in the shadowless sun
You and I and Ohio
Driving through the hills

Ohio the dog
She'll sleep all day long
Ohio the dog
She'll sleep all year long

11. Brother Rabbit [top]

I'm gonna wake up
And drift softly into the day
And I'm gonna make up
All of that lost rubbery time again back to you

Hey watch rabbit run
Go over to the side of the yard again
Watch rabbit run watch rabbit run

I'm gonna sit here
I'm gonna will away on an old green chair
And you're gonna sit there
And you're gonna watch all the paint gently flake away

Hey watch rabbit run
Go over to the side of the yard again
Watch rabbit run watch rabbit run

And hey watch rabbit run
To the rear of the yard again
Watch rabbit run watch rabbit run

You're gonna wake up
And you're gonna think of things like this/these
The dream chief's coming
Watch rabbit run watch rabbit run

12. Morning Bird [top]

When the morning bird does sing
I move myself to look himself in the eye
And I will listen carefully
Cause morning bird sees all not seen by you or I

Doo...

All I'm saying is
Things could find
But I hear the words from singing birds
Through blue eyes

And now we're in for centerfolds and sippy nights
...laying down with all ... for the young girls
And even though you know it ain't right
You keep it up til father's up ... no more

Doo...

All I'm saying is
Things coulda looked fine
But when you threw the glasses in the fire
All I'm saying is
Things coulda looked fine
But I know my way around the bird singing
In the moonlight
 

When Cold Air Goes to Sleep / Warm Rising Sun / Happy Spirits / Hearts of Crows / On Nautilus / Hills of Stone / Lake Life / Watching Cows / Ponoma / A Dog Named Ohio / Brother Rabbit / Morning Bird