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Copperopolis Lyrics
Homespun Faithless on the skids, hung out to dry, oh seen better days With the sunlight fading like a tabloid and I have found All those double-barreled freedom fighters are in for themselves And this call to arms has never been about anything else Fire one more round But hate is not a lone assailant Hear the drummers pound Listen to the homespun violent sound Hatred on the prowl, underneath a new guise, garb and gown And he's so persuasive when you look in his eyes all dumbfound And the double-talkin' politicians expose their intimate lives While the sheep are lowing for the shepherd to show, he never arrives Fire one more round But hate is not a lone assailant Hear the drummers pound Listen to the homespun violent sound Ooh I'll tell you how it Pains to say this Ugliness is ours 'Cause I would rather lay in bed and Maybe even sleep all day Maybe sleep some more Some more Suspicion is a powerful religion when it leads to the force on these shores In the jungles of the midwest, dwarf militia train for war right on course Unlike the famous fable, revolution won't yield a firework show Unlike the famous fable, revolution won't end on July the Fourth Fire one more round But hate is not a lone assailant Hear the drummers pound Listen to the homespun violent sound Yeah the homespun sound I hear the sound Yeah the homespun sound The Bridge Crossing the bridge where many lean to see Over the rail to glance the trembling stream Others stay to the center, fearful it might sway And those who would choose to turn back the other way But you and me have our own bridge to cross Weather worn and sea tossed We've our own bridge to cross Let's not make any excuses I came upon someone's used and yellowed paperback A collection of dreams and their meanings all conveyed Seems to dream of a bridge denotes a thousand different things If the planks are secure or the rope is broke or frayed But you and me have our own bridge to cross Weather worn and sea tossed We've our own bridge to cross Let's not make any excuses But you and me have our own bridge to cross Weather worn and sea tossed We've our own bridge to cross Let's not make any excuses Arousing Thunder Maybe the rain's holding off Surely it knows we're down here Walking 'round there barefoot lost Pretty soon these clouds have got to clear I know it's a lot Arousing thunder, I only ask it to stop For a second so I could coax you to talk Think when we first laid eyes Didn't know who you were and then I was one more passerby You were the girl in the entryway that's all that I knew but ah You were still in school and I was insecure I know it's a lot Arousing thunder I only ask it to stop For a second so I could coax you to talk 'Bout your dreams And orange soda Tea leaves, TV More More Looks like the rain's holding off Might as well take this slow You know sometimes when I hold you in silence, I listen real close Then I hear you talking to my soul Well I know it ain't half Of this story I'm only meaning to ask Just what would it take to coax you to laugh To laugh To laugh To laugh What would it what would it what would it take you to laugh What would it what would it what would it take you to laugh Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba To laugh Even The Oxen Here is the one Here is the one Here is the one mistake that can not be made There is a line that is crossed over once and only once let it be said All of the hubris clenched in our fist won't punch our way out of here You know what I've told and I tell but you won't let it pass into your ears Even the oxen ramming their heads on wood rails Come to know pain before the rusted barrier falls Before the radio Long before radio waves struck down to touch Off the wild flame that took all in its path And trampled the young underbrush Music shooed clouds away billowing anxieties rolled over and out Seems like a lot of folks gave up and got out except for the truly devout Who like the oxen ramming their heads on wood rails Came to be dizzy before the barrier fell Love is the one Love is the one weapon that hasn't been brandished yet in this song Strikes fear in the pockets of bankers and generals Without it we can't carry on And all of us knew this at one time from teething to toothless it's safe to say But useless perhaps to point out That we've lost our instincts and awe in this day And like the oxen ramming their heads on tin walls Might come to know mercy before the barrier falls We’ll come to know mercy before the barrier falls And it falls falls falls And it falls falls falls Crackdown The music of a southern day and the nectar of brass Spilling into Congo Square where the queens used to pass There lies no greater place for one left to drift And there hides no greater lie and no bigger myth And in the heat of crackdown all is silent Just before the match is struck and the gas is poured along roads But in the heat of crackdown all is silent underneath Gunned down in the drive, a foreign exchange Student from Japan whose fate it was shortchanged You saw it all when it made the national news How the isolated incident occured in Baton Rouge And in the heat of crackdown all is silent Just before the match is struck and the gas is poured along roads But in the heat of crackdown all is silent underneath And it's a crackdown on beliefs Everyone watching The events from the sky No bodies touching Don't wish to prize Into our own lives Into our own Terrorism terrify tear the truth in two Seeks to paralyze, weaken, turn the screws But only cowards could create the OK bomb 'Cause no bomb is OK when there can be no calm And in the heat of crackdown all is silent While the voice of power over roars, condemns the songs of Innocence and finally it's a crackdown on beliefs Oh it's a crackdown on beliefs And it's a crackdown on beliefs Armchair You call me from your armchair with no will to be there The weight of your armored suit so immense Caught up in the turnstiles, even talk becomes battle Withdraw your only defense I've held that emptiness I've held it and I've made the same wish at times To lunge headlong and out of reach So bleak or bare I'll hold you through each Praying to the saints and now the candle is low Regrets won't hasten their remedy Even when it's awkward in the dull loss of words oh Please don't hide your sorrow from me 'Cause I've held oh that emptiness I've held it and I've made the same wish at times To lunge headlong and out of reach So bleak or bare I'll hold you through each You call me from your armchair Everyone's been there once I'll be at your side when you're needing someone Bethlehem Steel There was a light, blue as a welder's torch It used to shine over the fields And all the wise men, strong men were drawn for miles Followed a star to Bethlehem Steel Our mother's father worked here in World War Two On the main floor, operating the drill And in his open palms, little splinters remind him of The booming days The days of Bethlehem Steel But the steeples on the hills they point To a better life beyond this one And that promise penetrates the clouds And mighty walls of brick red cinnamon Take a walk past Lazarus Moving n' Storage Behind the Goodman's Furniture Store See the smoke stacks rise on up to heaven's step While on earth we're burnin' this miracle iron ore But the steeples on the hills they point To a better life beyond this one And that promise penetrates the clouds Even when they block the fiery sun The sun There was a light, blue as a welder's torch It used to shine over the fields And all of the wise men, strong men were drawn for miles Followed a star to Bethlehem Steel Bethlehem Steel Bethlehem Steel Bethlehem Steel Bethlehem Steel All That I Have I could lay down on green Swedish moss Wherever my bed roll could be tossed I could find sleep in the back of a cab I'm all that I have I've got a girl a waiting for me Just down the dock and over the sea Until I lay my head in her lap I'm all that I have I'm all that I have I'm all that I have I'm all I'm all I'm all Here the black toadstools, logs and green moss Are sealed from the city's violet exhaust ah Only the sound of the thunderclap I'm all that I have I'm all that I have I'm all that I have I'm all that I have Well I'm all that I have Two & Two You crawl up my vine and my soul's unwound Clouds are miles down as the song unwinds I'm conducting nothing, anything at all No, I know I know If I lose the floor, I don't want no twist Want to bite through this, 'til I can hear no more All the talkin' ,dissin', doggin' Now I know, I know, I know Not like two and two Never seems to add up like I want it to Not like two and two Why can't I get this off, lazy spent and spun Off my chest for once, 'cause I'm feeling lost It's a waste of ink and paper Laboring over anecdotes In the center ring, the welter-weight tongue-tied He was petrified before the song was sang He fell back against the rope and Dared to do the rope-a-dope Not like two and two Never seems to add up like I want it to Not like two and two It goes on and on on and on I'm tired of saying I don't get it anymore, I don't care To hear you tell it, tell me, I can't tell you anything Ah Why the face, the frown, now and why so blue Not like two and two when you're feeling down It's a thing we both know, so, so Can't we just explain away Not like two and two Never seems to add up like I want it to Not like two and two It goes on and on on and on It goes on and on Well it goes on and on Better For Us Soon we'll count the rings inside, all one by one Wondering if I could point to the place Where we first slept 'neath it's branches Oh oh Leaves once rose like an ocean, we swam when we were boys This one was all things a mansion, a fortress And as we matured it was shade for The secrets that we passed along But this oak has grown old, wither-wrung It threatens to fall Better for us if the axe splits the trunk, they say On your tip toes a ten-penny nail jutting high in the bark Relics of tree houses built and torn down Places we hid after dark oh Oh oh Please please, lend some belief to this hard wasted ground Where little green soldiers and Indians fought This is the burial mound of My youth and my innocence This oak has grown old, wither-wrung It threatens to fall Better for us if the axe splits the trunk, they say Oh oh oh Better for us Better for us Better for us Better for us Hyperion and Sunset Gift of the sage, chaparral Born of this bone-dry heat In summer when roads turn caramel The earth quakes and everyone leaves Where have they gone Far from Hyperion And Sunset Boulevard Where have they gone North up to Oregon And Mt. Saint Helens ha ha ha Left behind dishes and furniture Took only the blankets to sleep Sprinkled their pillows with lavender Safe from the grasp of the enemy Where have they gone Far from Hyperion And Sunset Boulevard Where have they gone North up to Oregon And Mt. Saint Helens ha ha ha Thrown from the nest of Los Angeles Naive and motherless each Dear friends farewell Write down the e-mail for me We're out of town ‘till these aftershocks Let up most definitely Where have they gone Far from Hyperion And Sunset Boulevard Word is you've gone On up to Oregon With room for company Flown from the nest of Los Angeles Naive and motherless me Comes To Blows Whittled me down 'til I was kindling for the fire 'Cause I might've found out for myself in a while Round and round it goes Soon it comes to blows School house crushed the kid Snuffed his will to flower But now that the answer has Been offered oh so eloquently Pummeled you hard 'til you began to settle in By the end of the day even they took you as one of them Round and round it goes Soon it comes to blows You know in the streets below the High rise is the ghetto Now that the answer has Been offered oh so eloquently Speaker of the house I'll never be as powerful as you As I've only known the humble work that which these hands can do Soon it comes to blows In this moment fragile Unearthing Wade and Roe While in the inner city it's a battle Creation myth and gun control Are all up for grabs and on the mantel It hits a little too close to home for most I can't turn it around but I can turn the channel Now that the answer has Been offered oh so eloquently Oh think I'll just drift away slowly Oh think I'll just drift away slowly Oh think I'll just drift away slowly Oh think I'll just drift away slowly The Only Way Down You've come this far Followed each And every star Not to reach the peak would seem so wrong Your eyes look tired Want to sleep Although this climb is so steep We must keep pressing on Down, it's the only way down It's the only way down Down, it's the only way down It's the only way down I've heard you sing Quiet voice Of adverse things Now you've made the choice To overcome This mountain spire Towering Below the summit Cowering You've seen how others clung Down, it's the only way down It's the only way down Down, it's the only way down It's the only way down You've come this far Along this wind Around this bend Now look at where you are |