Hide Yours, I'll Hide Mine

I was riding high on the wings of love

Like a child I couldn't want enough,

and then you spurned your words

and you told me things, because you laid out

all your offerings, your offerings

Sorry but I didn't mean to be quiet

Sorry if I don't have the eyes to hide it

Sorry if I can't forget the time,

Just hide yours and I'll hide mine

Just hide yours and I'll hide mine

The pleasant meets the scorn of a man in love

chased by ghosts of the past, cradled by the dove

see your my dove with an unbreakable wing,

It's not your clarity it's just a rotten sting

See your my eastern path, your my homeward bound

your my innocence, and my lost and found

So when you spurned your words

you tell me things, because you laid out

all your offerings, your offerings

Sorry but I didn't mean to be quiet

Sorry if I don't have the eyes to hide it

Sorry if I can't forget the time,

Just hide yours and I'll hide mine

Sorry but I didn't mean to be quiet

Sorry if I don't have the eyes to hide it

Sorry if I can't forget the time,

Just hide yours and I'll hide mine

Just hide yours, and I'll forget mine

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Left to Lie

I'm afraid to die, I'm nearly old

I'm almost young, or so I'm told

And they say time is a healer

And faith is dead, or left to die

And I won't put my strain on another

Unbroken shame, and so I lie

I'm left to lie

I float it down like a long lost dream

My savior flew from his stitched up, stitched up scene

Cause I'm afraid to die, I'm nearly old

I'm almost young, or so I'm told

And they say I would be better

Far from here, left alone, left alone now

Cause now my love's even cheaper

I'm played out by the traffic droan

I'm still alone

No where, no where to go now

No where to go now now now

I float it down like a long lost dream

But my savior flew from his stitched up,his stitched up scene

But my friends but they think hard will be the first to die

I'm far far to scared, to ask stay awhile

Because I'm afraid to die, I'm nearly old

I'm almost young, or so I'm told

Or so I'm told

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Who Have You Been Loving?

When the world holds out its flag

the sun will fall across the plain,

I will hold out my hands and take the blame

And when the the weather falls too cold,

the frost ravages the lanes,

I will bow down my head in shame

"But who have you, who have you been loving?"

If someone isn't hurt then it's gonna be me,

But the tears they taint your heart

you're so happy that you're free

If you're no better now than you've ever been,

You owe me an apology

Before the dusk falls to dark

I'll have you banished from my mind

I just need a moment's rest to make it mine

Before the moment turns to cold

with our last drawn line

Beyond the rusted sin of gloat you had your time

I said you owe me an apology

You owe me an apology

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Penance Fire Blues

And I see papers and papers

Stacked up in formation

Which mean much before

They're line-ing the fire

As a bottomless heat goes

To harness your anger

Your blood and

Your deepest desire

Because there's no truth stolen

That's been ever brought forward

From the minds of the writers

Looking face down on the gutter

'Cause this world's full of thinkers

And suffragette speakers

who deny that they ever wear a dress

Oh this god forsaken town's in a mess

And all the truths been let out loose

Is desperate to amuse

As it grabs you by the throat

And strings out all the times you've used

But now you don't belong you

Whisper when you speak

You turn yourself to nighttime

Trying to find your feet

Oh let me run

Lord, let me run,

So let me run

Lord, let me run

But as the mornng awakens

That light sends a shudder

The twist of hope that helps you down

Is left to rest and stir

You back down a hallway

To flourish the darkness

And you fool yourself

You did it all for her

And him, and her

But I've seen your face before

Rich boy playing poor

Ravaging the whores

Ignoring constant calls

Now you don't belong

You whisper when you speak

You turn yourself to nighttime

Trying to find your feet

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A Stranger Song

For you my love, for you my love

So barricade the dors and stop the heart

that you've been holding

And throw the words you hold so dear

from the letter you've been softly folding

When they finish boarding up the house

there'll be nothing left to see,

Just a stranger taking his last breath

upon the guillotine

Your neighbors they were fighters,

but they hung the man you killed

Before the sins had left their hands their

bodies were fulfilled

Where the wings that sting the borderline,

words fall softly to the floor

A woman's love can cause a man

to spill his every flaw

On you my love, on you my love

Does your heart beat so softly without warning,

And does it beat out to the slow pace

of the morning

When you close your eyes after all that you see,

Will you let the strangers be

The train it hits the railroad

and it cowers under flies

It's painted by a man itself so it doesn't creep it cries

You have seen the passageway

but you trembled at the start

You have always seen the strangers play

and let them frolic with your heart

And it's another chance to make amends

but they dabble with your code

You're lost without a wolf or beast

to stop you in the road

And he's sitting quietly in his cell and

counting down its stones

Well a woman with your kind of heart

will always be alone

With him my love, with my love

For your my love, always for you my love

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