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Delays - Valentine

I can see a hurricane tonight

It keeps me from my Valentine

This thought is doing me harm

Raise the alarm

And baby, this is the moment to pray dear

But I'd rather lay by your side

Cause millions are fighting their way here

Tell me when did the water surround me?

And tell me is that love in your eyes?

New Orleans will tremble tonight

With bleeding hearts and swaying lights

A very modern machine

It's coming for me

Yeah maybe this is the moment to say dear

That I thought I'd have you by now

But sentiment got in the way dear

Tell me when did the water surround me?

And tell me is that love in your eyes?

Tell me when did the water surround me?

And tell me is that, is that love?

I can see a hurricane tonight

It keeps me from my Valentine

A very modern machine

It's coming for me

Tell me when did the water surround me?

And tell me is that love in your eyes?

Our last night on earth is for living

And tell me is that, is that love?

Just tell me the truth,

it makes me feel better

The love in your eyes,

it makes me feel better

Tell me the truth,

it makes me feel better

The love in your eyes,

it makes me feel better

hmmm...i wonder if these lyrics were written before or after last September?

Making my own city lights

Out of bourbon and the stars of a bar room fight

Face forward in the wind

You don't know where it is but you know where it's been

Then it's leaving, leaving, leaving but I don't know where

Leaving, leaving, leaving but I don't know where

I tried to keep myself in line

I been bad but I seem to get back in every time

Now I come back and the place is all locked

Between the door knob and the doorbell, somebody talked

Now it's leaving, leaving, leaving but I don't know where

Leaving, leaving, leaving but I don't know where

Every time I turn around

Something else just floated away

There ain't a single thing that I've found

With wings that decided to stay

Maybe it's the place on the wall

Or maybe it's the space where the phone didn't call

Or maybe it's this thing in my chest

We'll know what it was by the hole that it left

Now it's leaving, leaving but I don't know where

Leaving, leaving, leaving but I don't know where

what do you do when your angels

have all flown away?

there's an ache through my body

that just won't go away

here's a picture that we took last fall

see there you haven't aged at all

but you, have a smile i haven't seen around

lately you're as dark as this town

and i know it seems like nothing changes

days go by and we just age

well, killing time can feel so right

in your bedroom without the lights

let's get old together

make promises and lie but never

let this city get the best of us

grow apart from the things we love

make a wish with a coin in a fountain

they pound the floor when they say we're

making too much noise in the apartment below

we've got no morning jobs to go to

late night dreams and a whole lot of wishing

all the secrets that we're not telling

cities sometimes blend together and it feels we've

been away forever

we should really only have one care

to get back to the room that we both share

so whisper and tell me where i went wrong

tell me why everything around you lost its shine

why nothing glows

tell me why you're waiting, or what you're waiting for

never see when opportunity is at your door

let's get out of this mess

no one will even know we left

no use in dwelling on the things you'll soon forget

when this is over, it's alright

So ambition cut you down

Ain't a love as perfect

Everybody knows it

Something drove you down

Something as good

Something new

Somebody good

Our ambition cuts us down

There's not a love that's perfect

But I, I live in hope

Somebody good

Somebody new

Something as good

Something that's mine

Ain't a love that's perfect

Everybody knows it

Ambition cuts us down

I became a thin blue flame

Polished on a mountain range

And over hills and fields I flew

Wrapped up in a royal blue

I flew over royal city last night

We're fighting the harms of a new moon light

Caesars ghost I saw the wartime tides

The prince of Denmark's father's still unquiet

The whole world was looking to get dreamt

Dreams were a fist shaking themselves at the clouds

I looked over curtains all thing that I knew

That only a full house gonna make it through

I became a thin blue wire

Held the world above the fire

And so it was I saw behind

Heaven's just a thin blue line

Your God's up there he's in a cold dark room

The heavenly host or just the cold dark moons

He then bent down and made the world in seven days

And ever since he's been walking away

Mixing with nitrogen and lonely holes

Where neither seraphim or raindrops go

I see an old man wandering the halls alone

But only a full house gonna make a home

And I became a thin blue stream

The smoke between asleep and dreams

And in that clear blue undertow

Is a royal city far below

Borders soft with refugees

Streets are swimming with amputees

It's a bible or bullet that they put over your heart

It's getting harder and harder to tell them apart

The days are nights and the nights are long

Beating hearts blossom into walking bombs

And those still looking to the clear blue sky for a sign

Get missiles from so high they might as well be divine

And now the dogs are howling at your door

Singing about vengeance like it's joy of the Lord

Bringing justice to the enemies, not the other way around

The guilty were killed and they're killed where they're found

If what's loosed on earth will be loosed up on high

It's a hell of a heaven we must go to when we die

Where even Laurel begs Hardy for vengeance please

The fat man's crying on his hands and his knees

Back in the peace time he caught roses on stage

Now he twists indecision, takes Bourbon for rage

Like pellets peppering aluminum

Halcion, Laudanum , and opium

Sings "Kiss Thee Hardy" this poison cup

His wind up sheet is busy winding him up

And doctors he looks for the lights that have died

You need faith for the same reasons that it's so hard to find

And this whole thing is headed for a terrible wreck

And like tragedy that's what we expect

And then I made plans for a city laid down

The hips of a girl on the spring covered ground

Spirals and capitals and the twists of a script

Streets named for heroes that could almost exist

Fruit trees from Eden and the gardens that seem

To flow like the smoke from a lithium dream

Cedar trees growing in the cool of the squares

Young women walking in the puddles of prayer

The future glass buildings and the past in a dress

The wedding's in pollen and the wine bottomless

And all wrongs forgotten and all vengeance made right

The suffering verbs put to sleep in the night

The future descending like a bright chandelier

The worlds just beginning and the guests have good cheer

In royal city I fell into a trance

Cause it's hell to believe there ain't a hell of a chance

I woke beneath the clear blue sky

The sun had shot the breeze aside

The old hometown and the streets I knew

Wrapped up in a royal blue

I heard my friends laughing-out across the fields

Girls in the gloamin' and the birds in the wheel

The raw smell of horses and the warm smell of hay

Cicadas electric in the heat of the day

A run of Three Sisters in the flush of the land

and the lake was a diamond in the valley's hand

The straight of the highway in the scattered out hearts

They were coming together they were pulling apart

And angels everywhere were in that midst

The ones that I loved and the ones that I kissed

I wondered what it was I'd been looking for above

Heaven's so big there aren't no need to look up

So I stopped looking for royal cities in the air

Only a full house goanna have a prayer

Only a full house...

Maybe I didn't love you

Quite as often as I could have

Maybe I didn't treat you

Quite as good as I should have

If I made you feel second best

Girl I'm sorry I was blind

You were always on my mind

You were always on my mind

Maybe I didn't hold you

All those lonely, lonely times

And I guess I never told you

I'm so happy that you're mine

Little things I should have said and done

I just never took the time

You were always on my mind

You were always on my mind

Tell me that your

Sweet love hasn't died

And give me one more chance

To keep you satisfied

Little things I should have said and done

I just never took the time

You were always on my mind

You were always on my mind

You were always on my mind....

When routine bites hard

And ambitions are low

And resentment rides high

But emotions won't grow

And we're changing our ways

Taking different roads

Then love,

Love will tear us apart again...

Why is the bedroom so cold?

You've turned away on your side

Is my timing that flawed?

Our respect runs so dry

Yet there's still this appeal

That we've kept through our lives

Then love,

Love will tear us apart again...

You cry out in your sleep

All my feelings exposed

And there's a taste in my mouth

As desperation takes hold

Is it something so good?

Just can't function no more

Then love

Love will tear us apart again...

At my door the leaves are falling

A cold wild wind has come

Sweethearts walk by together

And I still miss someone

I go out on a party

And look for a little fun

But I find a darkened corner

because I still miss someone

Oh, no I never got over those blue eyes

I see them every where

I miss those arms that held me

When all the love was there

I wonder if she's sorry

For leavin' what we'd begun

There's someone for me somewhere

And I still miss someone

nice pick on the Hard Rain, Elizabeth Sue

tonight, it's all about:

If you see her, say hello, she might be in Tangier

She left here last early spring, is livin' there, I hear

Say for me that I'm all right though things get kind of slow

She might think that I've forgotten her, don't tell her it isn't so.

We had a falling-out, like lovers often will

And to think of how she left that night, it still brings me a chill

And though our separation, it pierced me to the heart

She still lives inside of me, we've never been apart.

If you get close to her, kiss her once for me

I always have respected her for busting out and gettin' free

Oh, whatever makes her happy, I won't stand in the way

Though the bitter taste still lingers on from the night I tried to make her stay.

I see a lot of people as I make the rounds

And I hear her name here and there as I go from town to town

And I've never gotten used to it, I've just learned to turn it off

Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm gettin' soft.

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past

I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast

If she's passin' back this way, I'm not that hard to find

Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time.

You're the one I want

you're a chance to take

you're a hard break

and swore you'd never leave again

you're the only one

that I ever trusted

or who ever cared at all

is this how its going to be

is this how you wanted me

broken down again

its almost over now

is this why you wanted me

to watch as you walk away

you kept on killing me

and you don't even want to touch me

I was wrong

I've wasted on

can't figure out

what happened to us

I won't count on you anymore

I'll be all right

don't worry about me

aren't you happy now

you got what you want

I wanted you

but I'm over that now

I'm so sick of you and what we went through

your lies to me

won't win again

so don't kid yourself

its better this way

its all back to me

He sits in your room, his tomb, with a fist full of tacks

Preoccupied with his vengeance

Cursing the dead that can't answer him back

I'm sure that he has no intentions

Of looking your way, unless it's to say

That he needs you to test his inventions.

Can you please crawl out your window?

Use your arms and legs it won't ruin you

How can you say he will haunt you?

You can go back to him any time you want to.

He looks so truthful, is this how he feels

Trying to peel the moon and expose it

With his businesslike anger and his bloodhounds that kneel

If he needs a third eye he just grows it

He just needs you to talk or to hand him his chalk

Or pick it up after he throws it.

Can you please crawl out your window?

Use your arms and legs it won't ruin you

How can you say he will haunt you?

You can go back to him any time you want to.

Why does he look so righteous while your face is so changed

Are you frightened of the box you keep him in

While his genocide fools and his friends rearrange

Their religion of the little ten women

That backs up their views but your face is so bruised

Come on out the dark is beginning.

Can you please crawl out your window?

Use your arms and legs it won't ruin you

How can you say he will haunt you?

You can go back to him any time you want to.

He had 3 whole dollars

A worn out car

And a wife who was

Leaving for good

Life's made of trouble

Worry pain and struggle

She wrote good bye in

The dust on the hood

They found a map of Missouri

Lipstick on the glass

They must of left

In the middle of the nite

And I want to know

The same thing

Everyone wants to know

How it going to end?

Behind a smoke colored

Curtain, the girl

Disappeared, they found out

The ring was a fake

A tree born crooked

Will never grow straight

She sunk like a hammer into the lake

A long lost letter and

And old leaky boat

Promises are never meant

To keep

And I want to know

The same thing

Everyone wants to know

How it going to end?

The barn leaned over

The vultures dried their wings

The moon climbed up an empty sky

The sun sank down behind the tree

On the hill

There's a killer and he's coming

Thru the rye

But maybe he's the Father

Of that lost little girl

It's hard to tell in this light

And I want to know

The same thing

Everyone wants to know

How it going to end?

Drag your wagon and your plow

Over the bones of the dead

Out among the roses and the weeds

You can never go back

And the answer is no

And wishing for it only

Makes it bleed

Joel Tornabene was broken

On the wheel

Shane and Bum Mahoney on the lamb

The grain was as gold

As Sheila's hair

All the way from Liverpool

With all we could steal

He was robbed of twenty dollars

His body found stripped

Cast into the harbour

There and drowned

And I want to know

The same thing

Everyone wants to know

How it going to end?

The sirens are snaking their

Way up the hill

It's last call somewhere in

The world

The reptiles blend in with the

Color of the street

Life is sweet at the edge

Of a razor

And down in the front row of

An old picture show

The old man is asleep

As the credits start to roll

And I want to know

The same thing

Everyone wants to know

How it going to end?

what are you changin'?

who do you think you're changin'?

you can't change things

we're all stuck in our ways

it's like tryin' to clean the ocean

what do you think, you can drain it?

well it was poisoned and dry

long before you came

but you can wake up younger under the knife

and you can wake up sounder if you get analyzed

and i better wake up

there but for the grace of god go i

it's hard to believe your prophets

when they're askin' you to change things

but with their suspect lives

we look the other way

are you really that pure, sir?

thought i saw you in vegas

it was not pretty

but she was (not your wife)

but she will wake up wealthy

and you will wake up 45

and she will wake up with baby

there but for the grace of god go i

what am i fightin' for?

the cops are at my front door

i can't escape that way

the windows are in flames

and what's that on your ankle?

you say they're not comin' for you

but house arrest

is really just the same

like when you wake up behind the bar

tryin' to remember where you are

havin' crushed all the pretty things

there but for the grace of god go i

but i still believe

and i will rise up with fists

and i will take what's mine

there but for the grace of god go i

Been beat up and battered 'round

Been sent up, and I've been shot down

You're the best thing that I've ever found

Handle me with care

Reputations changeable

Situations tolerable

Baby, you're adorable

Handle me with care

I'm so tired of being lonely

I still have some love to give

Won't you show me that you really care

Everybody's got somebody to lean on

Put your body next to mine, and dream on

I've been fobbed off, and I've been fooled

I've been robbed and ridiculed

In day care centers and night schools

Handle me with care

Been stuck in airports, terrorized

Sent to meetings, hypnotized

Overexposed, commercialized

Hand me with care

I'm so tired of being lonely

I still have some love to give

Won't you show me that you really care

Everybody's got somebody to lean on

Put your body next to mine, and dream on

I've been uptight and made a mess

But I'll clean it up myself, I guess

Oh, the sweet smell of success

Handle me with care

the Lewis/Gibbard/Ward/Oberst version is absolutely stellar

She took all my money

And my best friend

You know the story

Here it comes again

I have no pride

I have no shame

You gotta make it rain

Make it rain

Since you're gone

Deep inside it hurts

I'm just another sad guest

On this dark Earth

I wanna believe

In the mercy of the World again

Make it rain

Make it rain

Night's too quiet

Stretched out alone

I need the whip of thunder

And the winds dark moan

I'm not Abel

I'm just Kane

Open up the Heavens

Make it rain

I'm close to Heaven

Crushed at the gate

They sharpen their knives

On my mistakes

What she done

You can't give it a name

You gotta just make it rain

Make it rain

Without her love

Without your kiss

Hell can't burn me

More than this

I'm burning with all this pain

Put out the fire

And make it rain

I'm born to trouble

Born to fate

Inside a promise

I can't escape

It's the same old World

But nothin' looks the same

Make it rain

Make it rain

Gotta make it rain

Make it rain

You've got to

Make it rain

You got to

Make it rain

You got to

I stand alone here

I stand alone here

Singin'

Make it rain

Make it rain

Make it rain

Juliette, I get on my knees

Speaking in tongues

Of washed out sun and

Perfect clarity

Well I get so delerious

I think myself to sleep

Standing on the sidewalk

Sometimes it's as if...

I don't think I'll be happy anyway

Just scratching out my name

And everything's so lucid

And so creepy

Since K got over me

Since K got over me

All my senses shot

My hands are fists

I'm really tired of making lists

It's just this emptiness

I can't chase it away

And when the evening paints the streets

When the evening paints the streets

It's like walking on a trampoline

I don't think I'll be happy anyway

Just scratching out my name

But everything's so vivid

And so creepy

Since K got over me

Since K got over me

Theres a hole inside my skull

With warm air blowing in

Standing on the sidewalk

Where do I begin?

I dont think I'll be happy anymore

I guess I closed that door

But every night a strange geometry

Since K got over me

Since K got over me

Yes, I received your letter yesterday

(About the time the door knob broke)

When you asked how I was doing

Was that some kind of joke?

All these people that you mention

Yes, I know them, they're quite lame

I had to rearrange their faces

And give them all another name

Right now I can't read too good

Don't send me no more letters no

Not unless you mail them

From Desolation Row

i have an almost unhealthy obsession with this part...

true.

hot shit...i gotta track that one down. any pointers as to where to start?

i've not heard of that one. what's on it?

nice, fritzy

Standing on your window, honey,

Yes, I've been here before.

Feeling so harmless,

I'm looking at your second door.

How come you don't send me no regards?

You know I want your lovin',

Honey, why are you so hard?

Kneeling 'neath your ceiling,

Yes, I guess I'll be here for a while.

I'm tryin' to read your portrait, but,

I'm helpless, like a rich man's child.

How come you send someone out to have me barred?

You know I want your lovin',

Honey, why are you so hard?

Like a poor fool in his prime,

Yes, I know you can hear me walk,

But is your heart made out of stone, or is it lime,

Or is it just solid rock?

Well, I rush into your hallway,

Lean against your velvet door.

I watch upon your scorpion

Who crawls across your circus floor.

Just what do you think you have to guard?

You know I want your lovin',

Honey, but you're so hard.

Achilles is in your alleyway,

He don't want me here,

He does brag.

He's pointing to the sky

And he's hungry, like a man in drag.

How come you get someone like him to be your guard?

You know I want your lovin',

Honey, but you're so hard.

Old Black Hen is that you again

singing the Bad Luck Lullaby

Come right on in , it's midnight again

Time for the Bad Luck Lullaby

You know the one it's the same one you sung

when you wrote down the Revelations

Now sing it over the cradle of the child who's born next

Leave all the truth in so they know what comes next

leave in the true love that they'll never find

Show how we're looking for it all of our lives

When I saw the Banner hanging over my door

I already knew who the party was for

All of my pain found a partner in that room

and the devil's tail swayed with the tune

Make that Black Record

Roll the tapes all night long

Make that Black Record

And we'll all sing along

Look down the long street

and see who's that crying

Tell them that every day I lived

I was trying to sing the Blues

the way I find them