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Love Light
02:46
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When your love light’s burning real low
Don’t let it, don’t let it go
When your love light’s burning real low
Don’t let it, don’t let it go
Out
Out
Your heart is a little machine
Do you even know when I mean?
Your heart is a little machine
Do you even know when I mean?
Do you doubt?
Do you doubt?
That the world needs all of our love
The world...needs all of our love
She whispers into your ear
Do you wanna, do you wanna hear?
She whispers into your ear
Do you wanna, do you wanna hear?
Come to me
Come to me
Every feeling passing through
Listen and you’ll know what to do
Every feeling passing through
Listen and you’ll know what to do
Up against these dark and wild things
These dark and wild things
‘Cause the world needs all of our love
The world...needs all of our love
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2. |
Georgette
03:27
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Oh my sweet sweet little thing
Wired up cacophony
All the things you mean to me
The boredom and the ecstasy
Oh, you never disagree
The things you do make me believe
Chorus
Georgette
You make me lonely, Georgette
I’m never lonely, Georgette
You make me lonely, Georgette
The universe tucked in your curves
The monstrous parts I should have learned
You mimic like the singsong bird
Cascading in your perfect thirds
I had my chance but I didn’t swerve
So now I get what I deserve
Chorus
The power in your molecules
The way that we become our tools
Breaking all the silly rules
Making us into your fools
You sparkle like a little jewel
The yes yes yes that you unspool
Chorus
Bridge
Never lonely when you’re here
Never lonely when you’re here
Always lonely when you’re here
Always lonely when you’re here
The boredom and the ecstasy
Chorus
Bridge
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3. |
Remember My Future
04:17
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How the room feels once she leaves
All alone on New Year’s Eve
Absence turns into a thing
Like breathing in, like robins’ wings
The ground will break, the frost will heave
Can I remember what I grieve?
It’s said with each memory
We change the contours of the dream
Chorus
I wish I could remember my future
Then I could forget my past
Then I wouldn’t have to lose her
Every time that I look back
The saddest rooms, the muffled sounds
The wind blows in and the phones go down
A silver-tongued, impassioned vow
No match against the canyon howl
Oh, is this what it’s like to drown?
An hour from the nearest town
Years ago but I’m back there now
Memories turn me inside out
Chorus
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4. |
Missouri Skies
04:13
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Something about your eyes
Takes me back to Missouri skies
I can try to explain
Why I haven’t returned your calls
It’s not that I’m busy
Something about your eyes
Takes me back to Missouri skies
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5. |
Gods and Heathens
04:10
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I been all around the world
And I keep coming back to you
I lost myself in verse
My eyes reflected many moons
I’ve fallen short
Of all the hopes placed in me
By prophets and prospectors
Who said who I was supposed to be
Yeah, I’ve been a coward
I have indulged all my demons
Aguardiente with the gods
Mezcal with the heathens
I’ve been on the mountain
I’ve been torn down and cheated
Still I relied on you
I wouldn’t trade away this freedom
A blade of light cuts through
And my dark hands tremble
As I dance with the Goat Man
Drink wine from his thimble
In the valley outside Vegas
Heaven and earth trade places
I traded my good fortune
For beauty and transcendence
I burned up all my things
In a blaze, an incandescence
Stone on the heart
My friends and their professions
Oh, I make a living
Making these confessions
I paint in the mud
Right before a storm
Weave cosmos from the chaos
On a path that’s barely worn
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6. |
Two Solitudes
03:30
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The Mother Tongue
Ferocious love
Embroidered dream
Unstitched mythology
The ugliness
Has no witness
Agitated pulse
Beauty cold and false
Chorus
There’s a space inside of me
That swallows up everything
Blackhole of the soul
Where everything’s unraveling
You have it, too
Pale flower, pale moon
Our lives just an interlude
Between two solitudes
The body accepts
What the mind rejects
The great undoing
Poor dove cooing
Chorus
Love and noise
Erase, destroy
Heart archival
Night survival
The breathing stones
The wolf resewn
Dark form moving
The surface of your dream
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7. |
Tu Tiens la Lune
02:53
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Dans mon rêve je marche a toi
Tu tiens la lune entre toi et moi
Tu dis que je ne suis pas prêt à voir
Alors tu tiens juste un miroir
Mais le miroir est vide
Je me sens si évide
Si c'était ton rêve, que ferais-tu
Enterre ces souvenirs dans les trous
Chorus
Dans mon rêve
Tu tiens la lune
Comme un arbre, mon cœur se ramifié
A la foudre, il est sacrifié
Le ciel est arbitraire et cruel
Le mouvement de nuage est inhabituel
Chorus
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Hummingbird and the Smoking Mirror
Went down to Fellini’s to grab a beer
Ask me about anything, except my career
Oh, I know all about you and the cosmic balance
Trust me, I bear you no ill will, not a mote of malice
What we need is a plan -- I’ll be your ears and eyes
If we don’t outsmart them, then we will be out-prophesied
Hummingbird and the Smoking Mirror
Tossed all night, turning over their fears
Both of them dreamt of a face scarred by tears
Clawing up on the world’s back they heard a spirit weeping
Recklessly exposed, there will be no peaceful keeping
The world known -- it’s about to get topsy turvy
The victor, he who questions the least and shows no mercy
Word passed from one strange language into another then another
The night sky with its mask of stars providing just a bit of cover
What are their intentions, these intruders with their shiny skin
Can’t help but look at their chests and see a potential offering
When war is your desert, when war is your task
And everything’s determined by the questions you can’t ask
The soothsayer came to read the signs, and that’s your destiny
But she didn’t know about the white gods and all the things she’d never seen
Hummingbird and the Smoking Mirror
Were here and then they disappeared
Was it something said, what did they overhear?
Did they abandon us in our hour of need
Are we to bow to our fate? Either way we’re bound to bleed
Here on this island, where we first saw the eagle perch
On a cactus, snake in mouth, the end of our unending search
Hummingbird and the Smoking Mirror, had their chance but now it’s gone
On the cusp of a new age but darkness seeps into this dawn
Temple on fire, the sky, the northern lights
Where do we belong, in their new world of our lives
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9. |
You Don't Need Anyone
02:42
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Blood races to the heart
Fold your limbs here in the dark
You think that this is real
Just ‘cause that’s the way it feels
Chorus
You say you love me
But you don’t even know me
You say you need me
But you don’t need anyone
A sadness so precise
You had to name it twice
Loneliness and despair
Coming up for air
Chorus
It’s not your fault
When your palms get hot
It’s reptilian
One in 7.8 billion
Chorus
The static hiss
A palimpsestic kiss
Leftover from the birth
Of our little universe
Chorus
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10. |
Hope Is Better
03:25
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Waking up with a charley horse
Waking up in a state of divorce
Soaking my hands in a tub of ice
Feeling my heart squeezed in a vise
Chorus
Still hope is better than despair
Curdled milk in my coffee cup
Not going out but I dressed up
This kitchen folds in on itself
Does this blood belong to someone else?
Chorus
In a hypothetical state of mind
I left that part of me behind
But the hungry ghosts they’re coming fast
They’re rummaging through all my trash
If I could dream back all I’ve lost
I’d sleep all day while my heart defrosts
A shoot of green out on the lawn
That’s all I dream since she’s been gone
Chorus
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11. |
In the Brimming World
04:34
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Chorus
I didn’t want to be right
But I had to be wrong
To get along
All I am, my ruminations
Random quantum fluctuations
The soft light bending through the glass
Questions I’ve been afraid to ask
Chorus
Lucid dreaming, epiphytic love
The throbbing past, or none of the above
In this brimming world, of which we’re barely conscious
To what exactly did I make a promise?
What if God has no intentions?
We’re simply scraps, tossed off inventions
How to find meaning in the world’s wheel
In the space between what is and the ideal
These little thoughts I classify them
Maybe it’s best to not dignify them
Ones and zeroes, the mundane, the celestial
The decay of everything we built here
Makes us feel something, makes us feel special
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David Wax Museum Charlottesville, Virginia
Pioneering indie folk musicians David Wax and Suz Slezak are the plucky husband-wife duo behind the eclectic, exuberant “Mexo-Americana” band David Wax Museum based in Charlottesville, VA. First reaching national acclaim with a show-stopping debut at the Newport Folk Festival, the band has built a reputation around energetic, heartfelt live shows and sonically adventurous albums. ... more
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