1. |
Trapped
03:28
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V1:
Scattered glass around, nothing left but the sound
Between the knuckles and the drugs, all that’s left is pain and blood
Shadows dancing thru the walls, and the screaming from above
Lovers trapped in little boxes, lonely prisoners of the soul
Chorus:
This is loveless prison no parole,
He might say he loves you but it’s all for show
No way out until you realize,
He’s not in love with you, you’re just trapped
Verse 2:
Well will you listen to me, or would you rather be alone
I don’t have no one else, and man I ain’t got no home
We’re just stuck in this box, least we can do is lend a hand
But when you’re living with me, I won’t raise my fucking tone
Chorus (2x - she, they)
No I’m not in love with you, I’m just trapped
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2. |
Queen of the Cross
04:37
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V1:
If you travel to the western horizon,
Take heed of the western men
They will say they’re immune to the call of the sirens
But then will gamble their fortunes away
V2:
They say the ladies in the west are the men of the table,
And the soldiers in their wars must dress in men’s array
The day shall come when their lives shall be remembered,
But that’s not what I learned in school
Chorus:
Now the plains are all cleared and the crops are all burning
In the shadow of a cabin that’s been broken by the wind
And the queen of the cross takes her place by the altar
On the edge of Blueport city and the end of the world
Bridge:
Say goodbye to our fair and tender sister,
Laid to rest before the sweet 16
Send your prayers to the widow and her mother
Bid farewell to her unborn child
Repeat V1
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3. |
THE.WATER
03:52
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V1:
Spanish lips, foreign papers
New lovers, staring under
Desert whisper, perfume fingers
Twisted triggers, breaking windows
Light a bonfire, lick the matches
Kill the children, feed the planet
Free the prisoners, arrest the victims
Burn the bodies, save the species
V2:
Dirty water, plastic glass
Broken fuses, chewing bats
Bags of money, bags of grass,
Bags of bodies, stinking in the trash
Slick transactions, in the dark,
Disposable people lead the pack
Microclimates, micropains,
Macrokillings, macrosane
Chorus:
If the water carries us down, will this ship still turn us around (2x)
V3:
Bleeding fingers, on a fence
Law and order, lifeless vets
Held for ransom, hell to pay
Hell on earth, in the divided states
Endless praises, commercial sounds
Drowning faces, table bound
Hello Kitty, hello dear
Goodbye kisses and goodbye fear
Chorus
Bridge:
Oh still, still I wish
Oh, for water and rain, rain
Oh lord, still I pray
Water and rain, rain, rain, rain, wash us away
Chorus (faster)
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4. |
winterlaze
04:30
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Intro:
Rise and shine sweet winterlaze, wonders if today is still today
Shake yourself to wake yourself, kiss yourself and pinch yourself,
Stand me up until I’m warm and dry
V1:
The steam settles in your eyes, but every time I ask you why, all I see is what I want to see
You I know you’ve been through hell, a place I’ll never see until I face all the things I never did
Chorus:
But this is my life, no it’s not a love song
I never gave you anything I wouldn’t want returned
And it’s skin to skin and heart to heart,
Until it falls apart
Flying like an angel in heaven from above
V2:
Sorry babe, gotta get back to work, gotta truck them words, build a heavy song,
That I can’t sing too long
I can’t stay one place too long, maybe it’s you maybe it’s me, maybe it’s the way the light plays with our fate
But if I never see you again, don’t tell me I didn’t comprehend, just a-look for me a million miles from above
Chorus (2x)
Outro:
Go to sleep sweet winterlaze, tomorrow, man, is just another day
Yesteryear has come and gone, wintertime has passed too soon, summer will be here before you yawn
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5. |
white lines/black lies
06:06
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Chorus:
This is why don’t cry
Just a child of time
Born too wise for the times
Just a child of time
V1:
I was born...
1,000 years too old
My daddy carried heavy loads
When he died it was buried with his bones
All the times that I learned to cry,
They left me immune to the core
So i learned how to fly in my mind
And to turn some shit into some gold
Repeat C
V2:
I have seen everything I don’t believe,
so I believe nothing anymore
Pocket pedophiles walk like christian crocodiles
In the rivers of baby Babylon
Mystery men and best friends, walking hand in hand
in the prison of never again
Nothing to know and nothing too unknown
So I must have died a long long time ago
Repeat Chorus (2x)
Break
Refrain (repeat to fade):
Long tall shadow in the eiderdown,
Dark black shimmer in an evening gown
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6. |
DevilSins
04:05
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V1:
I ain’t gonna drink no devil’s gin
I ain’t gonna drink no whiskey tonight
I don’t need no alcohol
No I ain’t gonna drink no devil’s gin
V2:
I ain’t gonna touch the devil’s cup
I don’t need no dirty liquor jar
I can’t stand beer and wine
Believe me when I tell you water’s fine
V3:
I don’t wanna choke on tobacco smoke
I ain’t gonna roll another joint
I ain’t ever gonna smoke a blunt
I don’t wanna die from no devil’s smoke
Solo
V4:
I ain’t never ever gonna touch no devil’s dust
I ain’t gonna snort or shoot some up
I don’t need no shrooms or cookies, please,
Put them all away, just let me be
V5:
I’m quite content with the state I’m in
I can think straight and clear my head
I’m high enough just being alive
Yea I’m content with my state of mind
Repeat V1
V6:
So fuck you and your goddamn alcohol
Fuck you and your stupid social norms
Fuck you and your toxic substances
We ain’t ever gonna play that way
No, we ain’t ingesting no devil sins
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7. |
Freedom Choice No. 7
03:11
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V1:
I know I don’t have to believe in much, but I will never play the part of an idiot
Taking money from the arts as you take away our jobs, we only got, to support our dying art in the first place
Killing our lives with a man made cold, as you subsidize poison disguised as drugs
Expect us to get a shot every 6 months, to trust and obey, shut up and do as we’re told
Pre-Chorus:
From the restaurants to the supermarkets
Everything’s closed except World War 3
Chorus:
Still I know that the world, is a beautiful place, to be in (2x)
V2:
Everybody wants to learn another metaphor, I just a-wanna be free from the language that makes us believe we know it all, I don’t, I don’t care,
I know I never will, no I will never be tied down to the alphabet
You could be an old man or even a young girl, tempted by the kiss of love or the drugs, never knowing that everything is in your head not your heart, man, man
Pre-C 2:
Well it’s a-dog eat cat and cat eat mouse
Tell me how much longer can we sustain this?
Repeat Pre-C 1
Repeat C (2x)
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8. |
COVID ROCK
04:11
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V1:
Ever since you’ve gone it’s been a downhill battle
Trains keep a-rollin’, sliding off the tracks
It’s hard to be a saint in a world full of sinners,
Even harder to imagine what could have been in her
Girls and boys stuck all alone,
singing from the comfort of broken homes
No more hot, steamy summer nights with the lotus leaves and mandalas
Chorus 1:
But maybe this is all we got
One more night to rock
Lord Jesus keeps turning the clock
Oh god just make the darkness drop
V2:
Felt your heart jumping right out of your chest,
Felt the flames that branded you into the skin
Now we’re stuck on the side of a breaking bridge
With our dreams in our pockets and a plague in our heads
Listening to the songs that we used to sing,
Still wondering if these curses end
Chorus 1
Chorus 2:
Maybe this is all we got
One more night to rock
Shiva Shiva stop turning the clock
Allah just make this darkness
Stop! Hey hey!
Bridge:
Everybody in this whole house rock, dancing to the COVID ROCK (4x)
Everybody in this whole town rock, dancing through the COVID ROCK (4x)
Chorus 1 & 2
V3:
I wish there was more that I could say, but fuck it America is falling apart,
Will we be alone for the rest of our days or will destiny pull us back...
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9. |
Hang On To This Song
08:10
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Intro:
See the world falling apart
See the bastard sun coming up
You turn your back to the crowd
And turn your face to the ground
V1:
Don’t tell us we can’t play today, we will not sleep our lives away
Watching the clocks tick all day, contemplating meaningless
I was born for nobody, you cannot paint a face on me
I was born a-far too late to ever join the human race
Chorus 1:
Hang on to this song, hang onto this song (2x)
Hang on to this song, like it’s all you got
Hang on to this song
V2:
Hold on to the right to choose, no one owes a life to no one else
Abortion saves a helpless life, distorted and contorted by our blights
I was not made to procreate and no one should be forced to mate
I will sing my songs till my songs are done and then I will just disappear, disappear
Chorus 2:
I will hang on to this song, hang onto this song
Hang on to this song, hang onto this song
Hang on to this song, till my life is done
Post-Chorus:
Hang on to this song, like it’s my own son
Like it’s my own son, like it’s my own son (2x)
Like it’s my only son, like it’s my only son
Hang on to this! (4x)
Outro:
Your mind is running today
Your brain is twisting away
You think that everything’s gone
Maybe you ain’t that wrong
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10. |
If I Were a Woman
04:03
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Intro:
If I were a woman, would you say I was too fat
Would you say I was too skinny, to be allowed in your lap
V1:
Would you treat me like a little girl or a mother of steel?
Would I be famous overnight, or turn into the sum of the art of my deal?
Would I sing like Joni, Baez, Grace, or Streissand?
Or kill like the nuns in the name of some lord
C1:
Would I write myself a letter if I was my man
Or become a counselor on the ills of most boys and men
Or write a song of my own, to tighten the crack
When the whip comes down and it breaks in our backs, breaks on our backs
V2:
Would you feed me the apple, like that story from that book
The one with all of those people who claim to know what we are
Or would I grab you by the snake and turn it back on you
For the the pain that I suffered birthing Jesus Christ
C2:
If there were no woman, even more so no man
Maybe life would be warmer and pain could repair
But these sheets are still dirty, and the covers are torn
Fly back where you come from, we am what we am, we am what we am
Harmonica Solo
We am what we am (4x)
Outro:
Do these words leave you anxious, disgusted, offended, confused?
Then close your eyes carefully, because I am the eye
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Odin KBR San Francisco, California
Self-taught singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and co-founder of the band Colorblind Dilemma.
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