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St. James Infirmary
02:59
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ST. JAMES INFIRMARY
I went down to the St. James Infirmary
to find a doctor who could mend all my tears
and the nurse, she sighed as she smiled at me,
she said, darling, the doctor's not here-
don't tell me, you're not the only one
I said, nurse, I can tell that you've seen your fair share
of heartache and trouble and pain
But I must meet that man with the god-given hands,
it's been years I've been hearing his name
They tell me, I'm not the only one
And the nurse, she sighed as she smiled at me
She said, I'll tell you but promise me this
If the doctor is there, don't sit in his chair
or rustle the cuffs on his wrists
when he tells you you're the only one
So I kept to my word for many a year
and the doctor he made me his wife
but one day at dawn, the doctor was gone
and the nurse disappeared in the night
So I walked through that door
that I'd been through before
in a dream or a book that I'd read
and instead of his chair was an emptiness there
and two cufflinks covered in red
Oh I went down to the St. James Infirmary
to find a doctor who could mend all my tears
and the doctor was kind, he made me his wife
but now I'm the only one here
Oh, I'm the only one
Oh, I'm the only one
Oh, I'm the only one
Oh, I'm the only one
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Cities
02:44
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CITIES
Quietly, quietly
The cars' headlights are stars, you see
As the city comes creeping
Silently, silently
The moon looks over her shoulder
At the grass lands
Turned into boulders
So come to me
Run with me
Roll in the grass with me
Until the grass turns gray with concrete
Until the grass lands are gold
with lights of the ones they hold
So come to me
Run with me
Roll in the grass with me
Until the grass turns gray with concrete
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Lightning Song
03:18
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LIGHTNING SONG
Dig in that soil
Dig in that dirt
Soulful and wild
Your love and work
Oh your love and work
You'll dig for no one
You'll dig for some
Leavers, lost lovers
On the run
Some for the storm
Some for the sun
Singing that lightning song
That brings the lightning on
Oh just like the wind
Oh just like the wind
That song has caught you
Something fierce
A wind from nowhere
In the pine top spears
Who will come to calm your ears?
Who will come to calm your ears?
From that lightning song
That brings the lightning near
Oh just like the wind
Oh just like the wind
That old lightning song
That holds the lightning song
That holds the lightning in
That holds the lightning song
Holds the lightning in
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4. |
Blue Highways
03:25
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BLUE HIGHWAYS
When fall has come
To the landlocked lawns
of the city suns
And all the lemons that we've loved
lay brown and scattered in the sun
Oh how does it happen that
we stall for a while, we keep jumping them back
I couldn't answer then
The keys were heavy in my swollen hands
I said, go, little sister
Go where you're wanted
Where the lists that you're made of won't
fall from your pocket
I wanted to catch them as they
flew from your wallet
but my hands are made of holes
when they're wanted
And only our future knows
exactly when to come
and precisely where to go
When all we've ever hoped to hold
has vanished into song
and is held here in our lungs
Go, little sister, crawl back to the cradle
we shared when we were infants
our fingers unable
to master the threads of these
delicate instruments
we prodded and pressed against,
haunted and hesitant
We held them again and again
until the tones they hummed were infinitely small
Crawl, little sister, crawl under the wire
Where the straws that we drank from were
dandelion fibers
and the loves that we've lost
they all roll on like tires
and the highway is infinite
highway is infinitely long
So come now, with nettles in your clothes
and the locket made of bone
you found so long ago
Cause all we ever hope to own
will vanish into song
and be held here in our lungs
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5. |
Green Grass
02:50
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