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Pleasant Street

you don't remember what to say
you don't remember what to do
you don't remember where to go
you don't remember what to choose
you wheel, you steal, you feel, you kneel down

all the stony people
walking 'round in christian licorice clothes
i can't hesitate
and i can't wait
for pleasant street

the sunshine reminds you of concreted skies
you thought you were flying but you opened your eyes
and you found yourself falling back to yesterday's lies
hello, pleasant street, you know she's back again
you wheel, you steal, you feel, you kneel down

all the stony people
walking 'round in christian licorice clothes
i can't hesitate
and i can't wait
for pleasant street

at twilight your lover comes to your room
he'll spin you, he'll weave you 'round his emerald loom
and softly you'll whisper all around his ear
"sweet lover, i love pleasant street
I wheel, I steal, I feel my way down to kneel"

Phantasmagoria In Two

if a fiddler played you a song, my love
and if i gave you a wheel
would you spin for my heart and loneliness
would you spin for my love
if i gave up all of my pride for you
and only loved you for now
would you hide my fears and never say
tomorrow I must go
everywhere there's rain my love
everywhere there's fear
if you tell me a lie I'll cry for you
tell me of sin and I'll laugh
if you tell me of all the pain you've had
i'll never smile again
everywhere there's rain my love
everywhere there's fear
i can plainly see that our parts have changed
our sands are shifting around
need i beg to you for one more day
to find our lonely love
everywhere there's rain my love
everywhere there's fear

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Once I Was

once i was a soldier
and i fought on foreign sands for you
once i was a hunter
and i brought home fresh meat for you
once i was a lover
and i searched behind your eyes for you
and soon there'll be another
to tell you i was just a lie

and sometimes i wonder
just for a while
will you remember me

and though you have forgotten
all of our rubbish dreams
i find myself searching
through the ashes of our ruins
for the days when we smiled
and the hours that ran wild
with the magic of our eyes
and the silence of our words

and sometimes i wonder
just for a while
will you remember me

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Morning Glory

i lit my purest candle close to my window
hoping it would catch the eye
of any vagabond who passed it by
and i waited in my fleeting house

before he came i felt him drawing near
as he neared i felt the ancient fear
that he had come to wound my door and jeer
and i waited in my fleeting house

"tell me stories," i called to the hobo
"stories of cold," i smiled at the hobo
"stories of old," i knelt to the hobo
and he stood before my fleeting house

"no," said the hobo," no more tales of time
don't ask me now to wash away the grime
i can't come in 'cause it's too high a climb"
and he walked away from my fleeting house

"then you be damned!" I screamed to the hobo
"leave me alone," i wept to the hobo
"turn into stone," i knelt to the hobo
and he walked away from my fleeting house

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Wings

although you've spoken many times before
a sight of birth he leaves you by a door
and now you know he doesn't understand
and all you need is the warmth of his hand

and if he'd smile your loving blood would dance
one silent kiss leaves you in a trance
and now you know you cannot live alone
but you will find your future is unknown
one day the questions rise
on wings of chance you fly

and on that day your laughs and tears will die
and fall as free as seabirds climb the skies
and you will love when love comes your way
and when it comes there's nothing more to say
and now you know he doesn't understand
and now you know you don't need his hand
one day the questions die
on wings of chance you fly

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I Miss You