Isis, Take Me Home

I got home on Monday

Wedge tied to my boom

The only type of thrust I found

Is the one I barely use

Shuffling the sidewalk

Wedge tied to the view

Isis, I'm sorry I lost your ring

I Bought you one that's new

Oh, I bought you one that's new

*Oh, Isis take me home

Through the rain, the dark, and the dawn

A ship can't pull a blind eye to the fleet

Oh, Isis take me in

Although, I don't know where to begin

Suffer in silence for the terror

Plagued by bad weather

Plain Jane had me Tuesday

Ran me out a car

I drove the thing into the canal

The cold stream bared my scar

Just a ball and bearing

Shot away my bed

Torn the mattress right up

Put a stone under my head

Put a stone under my head

*

When I went out this morning

I fell into a bar

A cold sweat bore a hole in me

As I sang one from a jar

But I paid to see you, Isis

I bought you drinks and tips

I still got the scars you gave to me

Oh, my ghosts still show the rips

Oh, my ghosts still show the rips

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I Once Knew Her

It landed late and it forced up the walls

Just to spite the maids, they were cleaning

The doctors said in time they will fall

Until, one by one, they stop breathing

Rats hit the street like hell on rain

This blood all fell down to the bottom

No one saw the clues in the vermin's drain

The landlord, he laid there, forgotten

"A plague, a plague", he heard them call

As he held a young girl, I wept with slur

So close the town and lock the doors

For the girl in your arms, I once knew her

For I once knew her

The town had left her under a tree

I could hear the screams come from afar

Où la paix est ici

sans Emily loin de moi

The letters were sent and the railroads closed

The tower shut off to the world

They could not compensate, for they could not compose

For their hearts, like their minds, were both withered and furled

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Man of Me

Man of me

?Easily, when you're pride?

Pray the worry and the tide

That brought you me

Oh, which way is when

Your feeling will come again

Man of mine, you feel that hunger

That brought you to me

*Don't get yourself going crazy

Yesterday is all I can give you

Yesterday makes more sense, to me

Yesterday is all I can give you

Yesterday makes more sense, to me

Man of me

Let me see your mind

If only, please be kind

For these days can be wild

It's good to be alone

Some of the time

Man of mine, you count the days on your fingers

And the worry on your mind

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Still Can't Tell

You caught me on the edge

Of some lowly mountain side

Questions from the ?mouths of money?

A few men chose to run

Less chose to speak

Oh, when will their courage fill me

I'm here all alone

As ?I do? choose to be

My innocence gets lost upon the shade

Fence for my eyes

Meant for the heart

Oh, when will I be fit to see

I'm a haunted man

Like my friends think they are

Only have to pick a side

When they're gonna try

You know they're gonna try

I'll scream from my lungs, "I'm still alive!"

*The time is just a swell

Love sometimes feels like hell

When you break through the dawn of the well

You still can't tell

I read it in the news

I read it on the face

Trespasser stood upon my land

?I took upon the night

And I'll roast in burning hell

But he just wanted my hand?

?It's hard to tell in the face

A wrong to another

Only on the garden in Versailles?

My friends seem to know

I have ??? to tell

They scream from their lungs, "I'm still alive!"

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Only You

Last time I saw my sister

She was walking through a country street

With her golden hair and her tears

Running slowly down to her feet

And I've been not back again

And only you can understand

I've knocked through the door of many a man

And only you will take my hand (x2)

*And only you, picked me off the floor when I was better off dead

Only you, brought the sudden doubt to ease my worried head

And only you, save my soul from ending up in the slum

Last time I saw my brother

He had felt too many of life's pains

I could see the trouble inside him

It came rushing out of him like rain (x2)

*

And only you, picked me off the floor when I was better off dead

Only you, brought the sudden doubt to ease my worried head

And only you, you brought me back from what I'd become

Only you, you shared the glory from what you had won

And only you, save my soul from ending up in the slum

And only you, save my soul from ending up in the slum

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Let Me Be

The sun cast a spell on your eyes

That wants me to weep and tell lies

For the sorrow you felt in my heart

Was there all along at the start

And hid between the light and the dark

Something you're born with and hope

Will rise and fall like the smoke

But it's pure as the first time we laughed

Like a mother and her newborn in bath

*How I wish I was still young

But you were too young to see

What the years have done to everyone

And how they've set them free

**If I could ask one thing of you

Is say a good word for me

And I'll be better for everyone

And maybe they'd all just let me be

We held hands just like we were 10

The calluses have hardened since then

No one stared like they would back then

I counted the seconds, my friend

And I vowed to give them back in the end

The nail has been driven in hard

But the rust has settled close to the ?path?

I know you hadn't seen it before

But you're always looking up from the floor

And balancing yourself from the poor

*

**

The sun cast that spell on your eyes

That wants me to weep and tell lies

The trouble you felt in my heart

Was there all along at the start

It hid between the light and the dark

Something you're born with and hope

Will fall and dwindle like the smoke

But comes from the fire and ash

It's as pure as the first time we laughed

Like a mother and her newborn in bath

*

If I could ask one thing of you

Is say a good word for me

And I'd be better for someone

And maybe someone would be better for me

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Darling, I Remember the Drink

I can't remember the time at the bar where you left me

But I remember the smell and the place

The whiskey ran through me like a crimson shade fountain

I held steady as you scratched at my face

You wished me well with some look in your eye

And I didn't have the time to think

I can't recall the reason why you threw me

But, darling, I remember the drink

The bomb, it threw you back to my home in the ally

As your breath clouded the windows, your teeth shown

The piss of the bottle like my father and mother

Lifted me up to the sound of the song

Beyond the clapping, the dribble, and the laughable

It pushed my soul to the brink

I don't remember the song or your screaming

But, darling, I remember the drink

I didn't know how to control myself

But not knowing if you were someone else

Doesn't mean I was hiding or out of my face

But you made sure this would be our last resting place

Your eye caught my eye as you cried out to me

"Baby, you can hold on to that ring"

My tear hit the bar and sent a ripple that shook me

I lost the only girl who'd ever made me sing

I tried to call out, I begged you to stay

But my body couldn't override the sting

I don't remember the bar or the drink that had me

But, darling, I remember everything

Darling, I remember everything

Darling, I remember everything

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