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In need of a cafe
in search of a friend
I would meet you halfway
but you'd be gone by then
so en route to this landing
turbulent as hell
this frame of understanding
I can't see too well.
I've been living out in Brooklyn
for the past few weeks
and I'm feeling sort of crooked
my gut aches for sleep
or a half-awake sun-daze
with sandals for my feet.
In need of a cafe
in search of a friend.
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Runaway
02:55
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You wake up one morning
all on the coast and
you find out you're missing
but who's really searching
oh, you little runaway
oh what compels you to runaway?
Eyes wet and lunch forgot
don't trouble your mind essence
we're brighter nowhere already
oh, it's just another day
oh, it's just a runaway.
So you give all your trust in
like never before to
some kind of woman
or maybe a devil
or she's just a runaway
maybe her mother taught her to run away.
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Dance to Blue
01:49
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Lady who knows the dance to blue
give me another chance to find you
I know we traded smiles and such and such,
but I'm a little mixed up with what means what..
I walked right by
even still
after you said hi.
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Sleepy
03:19
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It gets boring
when you trip it out alone.
Slight distortion
when you're walking home alone.
And I get sleepy
writing other people's songs.
yea, so sleepy
but the day has just begun,
I don't recognize anyone.
You should have warned me
but how could you have known
that it'd be storming
and my love like birds have flown
never to return.
an' I see
that it was me.
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Harbor
01:05
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You follow your mother in the doorway
quick as a schoolgirl first in line
and I wonder what I'm thinking lately leaving the north behind
she was harboring hatred 'neath softer kisses,
not one of my kind.
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the Manner that I Did
03:16
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I didn't wanna leave New York
in the manner that I did
didn't wanna leave you at the airport
waiting on me like you were somebody's
you were someone's kid
I didn't wanna leave L.A.
in the shape that I'm in
just so I could hear all of them say
"kid, who are you?" "kid, where've you been?"
I've been hungry
I've been lonesome
I've been sleepy
I've been on some
but I don't dare close my eyes.
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City Mysticism
03:54
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Thank heavens for the city mysticism
and all the french girls sipping wine
I've been dreamin' but heavy still
I've been on up the hill
with some dear thoughts and time to kill
scoping the delis and covering my ground
it's better than watching the tele and feeling down.
Thank fortunes for all these traffic lights
and the american chicks drinking whiskey
all the wind in my sweet Chicago
all those hippies i know out west
all this life that I've been given
all this love put to the test.
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Quick Blues
01:48
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If I had a dollar for every time
I had to wait in somebody's line
I'd be a millionaire.
but what would I do then all by myself
'cept create lines for somebody else
that they'd have to walk through, wait in their whole life.
It's starting to seem like there's no way out
everywhere I look something's trapped inside out
the birds to the sky and the squirrels to the ground,
Abandoned love now I'm thin as your sheets
where our love used to sleep
heart ache from the west down to the east.
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Easy Croon
02:06
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Boys drinking sparkling water
Girls sipping strawberry tea
I'm fine here with my arnold palmer
and a cigarette to kiss when I breathe
it don't mean I ain't got the blues
just like everyone do
I'm glad you've got new friends
but I've got the bends.
Gentleman speak easy french croon
Madames blush and bruise
Maybe you were much more satisfied
when you had something to do
but it don't mean you ain't got the blues
just like everyone do
I'm glad you've got new friends
but I've got the bends.
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Half the Reply
01:44
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There's millions of questions
and half the replies
always a new tongue pleading the word why
I was young and hopeless
I was someone, too
then you got to me and wet me and bent me like you.
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Conversation Season
01:35
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I just sat there picking matches
trying to decide my worth
Conversations only in passing
they all resembled church
I prayed dear god
don't kill me today
cause right now
I'm far away and hard to reach.
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Often
02:39
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Good friends are like treasures
but once you turn them into ships
you're liable for the trip.
Good cities are like jungles
you get lost all the time
and I got lost in Brooklyn last night.
Acid kids and nervous ticks
there's gotta be some other fix.
Christ, Allah, Buddha feign
Devil horns and kooky scorns
a perfumed ache that's ever born
Cat and Mouse crown of thorns.
I feel this often when you're not around...
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