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Open
00:27
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I Say Yes
04:16
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these are times for being reborn, times for feeling thorns, times for taking chances
and i have been chosen since my birth, to understand that thirst, to swim into your ocean
and you, you wash over my bones I can feel you in my toes I know you’ll make me clean again
Yes, I say yes, broken unmasked dressed in withered stars, walking like a ghost through my childhood
I say yes I say yes, choking like a fish on heavens carrion weeds, giving everything just to feel again
I say yes…
These are feathers set on fire a thousand visions of desire frozen unblemished eternities
and you, you are the flower of my soul, you’re the starting line you’re the goal you guide my footsteps forward
and you, you wash over my bones I can feel you in my toes I know you’ll make me clean again
Yes, I say yes, broken unmasked dressed in withered stars, walking like a ghost through my childhood
I say yes I say yes, choking like a fish on heavens carrion weeds, giving everything just to feel again
I say yes, I say yes, walking down the runway in a crown of thorns, shielding my eyes from angelic choirs
I say yes, I say yes, when the cat rings the bells of prophesy, through diamond studded slums of mediocrity
I say yes, I say yes, like kerosene in the hallways of harmony, under moonlit archways of empathy
I say yes, I say yes, over frostbitten ramparts to calvary, into cloudless skies full of memory
I say yes
I say yes
I say yes
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If You Want The Keys
04:50
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This world is a shade of what's to come unleavened bread rising to the sun
the sepulcher is bleached as a horses nail a withered hand beckons through the veil
the fruit is ripe and falling from your hands its a madrigal we guess how it will end
oooh ahhhh lalalalala oohhhh ahhhh lalalalala
If you want the keys to my heart tell me that the world you built is ours
tell me that you burn for me at night tell me that you're blinded by my light
tell me there's a castle in the clouds with a vault unbroken where we left our vows
and the sacred hill of blank eyed cows nightmares that we fought for hours and hours
oooh ahhhh lalalalala oohhhh ahhhh lalalalala
goodness fought is goodness won like drinking wine from a loaded gun
like making peace with a slippery fate like over-arching truth that is past debate
I'm in a maze of shadows and wildflowers bewildered but holding on for now
oooh ahhhh lalalalala oohhhh ahhhh lalalalala
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4. |
I Am The Village
07:21
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These are the seeds of my rapture my indian song of blood
my dog collar of pearls
I am the village, a moment of beauty
a thin fleck of consciousness in a river of gold
I am the village, and my sons scream disaster
for the mountain is falling, for the terror awakes
Stars on the horizon build me an atmosphere call it yourself
fill it with idols, torments, and virtues
deny me an empire I'll take your body instead
I am the village, and the ground calls me master
for I swallow its purity and cough up my love
I’ll follow the one ah ah I’ll swallow the suuun
I’ll follow the one ah ah I’ll swallow the suuun
I’ll fire the gun you hold your hat up fill the riddle with holes
we are but children on a drug user’s holiday some hero will save us someone has to die oh you children on a drug users holiday
I am the village and life is a memory
that left lovely impressions when I closed my eyes
I am the village and my voice is paramount
degraded and pitiful as clear as a storm
I am the village I’m ready for real life
the stage is prepared for us so let us be born
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Jewels and Riches I have plenty of
then the curtains opened from above
who could ask for more then love?
who could ask for more then love?
There are magic lamps and pretty things
There is wine and music and shiny things
who could ask for more then love
who could ask for more then love
Since I first saw her my life hasn’t been the same
from morning to night I sit and sing my lover’s name
who could ask for more then love?
who could ask for more then love?
There are kingdoms rising everyday
every empire crumbles in the same way
who could ask for more then love?
who could ask for more then love?
on a vine grows the brightest flower
its life is over in an hour
who could ask for more then love?
who could ask for more then love?
Since I first saw her my life hasn’t been the same
from morning to night I sit and sing my lover’s name
who could ask for more then love?
who could ask for more then love?
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6. |
Moon Fled The City
06:09
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I saw her, the god of war that filthy whore
she took my hand, then kissed my neck
my winter cloths are full of gasoline and sayings obscene
from the Nazis and the police
Moon fled the city it was dark and empty full of glowing souls and many other holes
meet me in Brooklyn I’m looking for my friend I can’t remember him just his taste and his scent
meet me in Brooklyn I’m looking for my friend I can’t remember him just his taste and his scent
meet me in Brooklyn I’m looking for my friend I can’t remember him just his taste and his scent
can you sing it so that saints on high will listen will heed your cry
will heed your cry
Moon fled the city it was dark and empty full of glowing souls and many other holes
meet me in Brooklyn I’m looking for my friend I can’t remember him just his taste and his scent
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7. |
Book Of Love
04:59
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I will dream you I will dream you out of brittle flesh
dream you out of listlessness dream you up from ghost caresses
I will love you wider then an open wound
bigger then an empty room warmer then a prairie moon
I’ll always want you, but I will never want you hard enough,
I will never touch you soft enough, or erase you from the book of love
let’s do this softly, let’s do it softer then a work of art,
let’s string it up and stab it through the heart, let’s open it up and see its hidden parts
and I will want you more often then I’ve had enough,
tighter then a fisted glove, more real then midnight conversations
let’s take it, take it in its innocence
seasoned with magnificence in all its past and future tenses
and you will hurt me with claws made out of ivory
with jaws made out of candy with passion made from victory
and I will want you but I will never want you hard enough
I could never touch you soft enough or erase you from the book of love
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In Central park there is a lily
which tastes like salt and makes you horny
and all of us are lost in silence
and the trauma of our brave defiance
we grew from the earth like little mushrooms
return us to our greenhouse womb
Brave enough to ask for mercy
the burning malls above New Jersey
feel the doors of love swing wide open
feel the triumph as his crown is broken
I’m afraid to say what i can’t remember
one word will make the be over
What we need is a child commander
who can compel our hearts to surrender
who can populate the earth with romance
and the courage only found in children
in Central Park there is a flower
that will emanate the world with power
It seems like a scepter a primitive sound
it seems like the planets spinning around
I float like a feather in an infinite world
I wrote you a letter from a garden of pearls
We are not sleeping we have not woken up
we are not strangers we drank from the same cup
I remember your body I remember your smell
I remember the part of you inside of myself
I’m the the weather like the end of the year
I wrote you a letter from a garden of tears
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9. |
New World, New Soul
05:05
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Its a long lonely heart a stranger standing guard
achingly beautiful but hard
and change ahahah
and change ahahah
and change, is the best part
Its a strange a strange ritual what’s the rule what’s the goal
and how did I fall into this hole?
new world ahahah
new soul ahahah
new world, new soul
why did I fight like a fool why didn’t I play it cool
I didn't have the right tools
new world ahahah
new soul ahahah
new world, new soul
I will build you a world
I will build it with love
and it will never dissolve
New world ahahah
New Soul ahahah
New World New world!!
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I am a moth I am a fallen leaf I am a full life I am the breeze
I am a stray curl I am your body’s need I am the writing on the wall watching you freeze
I am the underground taking you all around I am magnetic pull holding you down
I feel like flowers I feel like rain I feel like moths and rust leaving a stain
You are the last call you are the bar you are a child clinging to my arm
we will find poverty we will find wealth we will find love at last at the bottom of a well
I am you loving God I am your hate I am your deepest doubt I am your faith
I am you loving God I am your hate I am your deepest doubt I am your faith
Wherever you go to sleep in the city you are same as the poor who feed under the stars
build ourselves higher up that’s what we’ve learned down in Van Cortland Park there are people who burn
I am you loving God I am your hate I am your deepest doubt I am your faith
I am you loving God I am your hate I am your deepest doubt I am your faith
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11. |
Open Valley
05:23
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It is my birthright to tell stories it is my battlefield it is my glory
I act surprised when the world ends stars like raindrops water Bethlehem
I am the night, I am the starving stars I am the burning rocks in the summer sun
I am horny in an avalanche I am empty under street lamps
And I, I am awake in firestorms I’ll have drink
and I, I am asleep with salamanders in the deep
Moonstruck open valley I know my love can barely hear me
it is our pain it is our struggle that we’re in love with so many others
empires crumble into the valley I hear them fall I hear them rally
mine eyes have seen, they have seen laughter they have seen pain and what comes after
And I, I am awake in firestorms I’ll have drink
and I, I am asleep with salamanders in the deep
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12. |
The Wedding Song
04:29
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Come, Come fill me cup
the sound of her love
could fill a hundred oceans
could fill the place thats dark
inside my heart, inside my heart
don’t let me hate
just sing for love sing for love
just sing, for angels from above brought you to me
Come, hand me that star
the weight of your heart
could drown the deepest rivers
could wake me from a dream
into a dream within a dream
but don’t let me wake
just sing for love sing for love
just sing, for angels from above brought you to me
Come, come take my hand
and together we’ll strand
on a hundred highways
you’ll stand up for the truth
and I will stand, right there with you
I’ll stand there with you
and together we’ll sing for love sing for love
just sing, for angels from above brought you to me
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iimaginary animal San Francisco, California
Raised in a yurt in rural Sonoma County by ex-hippie survivalist parents, Josh Martin has always had a taste for the unboring. Josh’s first time singing for anyone besides his pet llama Valentine was in college up in the Evergreen State with an experimental folk duo called Horsefly. The band came to roost in San Francisco where it blossomed into the Psychedelic Glam band We Will Be Lions. ... more
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