1. |
Wake
04:07
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I have just one request
Before it's too late
I want you to send me out to sea
I know it's hard to let go
Lay me down to rest
In a small wooden boat
Light the fuse
And push me off
Chorus:
You know what you have to do
Get a gallon of gasoline
Light up the night sky
Of Lake Michigan with my remains
Sing a hymn for me
And for no one else
That's never been sung before
About all the monsters I've killed
(Chorus)
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2. |
Living Room
04:22
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Oh to be but a memory
Floating with ease
Silver sails furled to the wind
Nothing without end
A day of discovery
Over and over
If there were only another
First time for everything
I can't find enough space in mind
To call my own
My specters are in silver bloom
They rot on the vine
Unused metaphors on the floor
And in the living room
Our empty voices carry like
Diseases without names
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3. |
Familiar
03:46
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I'm going to pin you up
There'll be plenty of time
To confess our strangeness
It's all come to a head
I can't be read
I've come so far
That I can't tell you from
A memory so empty
Where I like you best
Standing there
And it's not so hard to see so clearly
You and me just standing there
At our Sunday best
Familiar as a shadow of doubt
Familiar in the blazes of mankind
Familiar is a suit I used to own
Familiar as the day you were born
I can't tell what's me
When you linger intently
Familiar as a moment passed too soon
Familiar as a face in a dream
Familiar is what we can't stand alone
Familiar
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4. |
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Well I don't have
The words to spare
Your hands held out
Will strike us down
Chorus:
We don't come and go without
Nothing to give but a single shit
What to do when you're all alone
Lost in the promised land
Kings and queens have lost their keys
Upside down their pointed crown
(Chorus)
Bridge:
We don't come and go
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5. |
Proletariat Rock
02:17
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It's just you and me
And the skeletons
In the clown tree
We're upside down
When the suits walk in
Check my grin
You and I are on the fritz
Rosetta stoned we speak like this
It's a better way
We're passing through space
With a new attitude
It's true
Bang bang bang bang
We're the cosmic crew
And we're coming through
You and I are on the fritz
Rosetta stoned we speak like this
It's a better way
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6. |
Summer Song
03:35
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7. |
Technicolor Jerks
04:19
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Shot on sight
The electric eye is not quite right
And who do you put your faith in
The technicolor jerks
Your gods made of light
They get all the glory
While I stand here buried
In my memories
Chorus:
Another silver dream
Meant for you and me
The technicolor jerks
Another memory made up entirely
Of technicolor jerks
Cast a call
To the wilderness of the past
Our electric minds are on
The technicolor jerks
Look away but the screen is burned inside
The traces leave you blind
To your memories
(Chorus)
Bridge:
Another silver dream
Meant for you and me
Another memory
Made up entirely
Another reverie
To fall into so sweetly
Another empty seat
Where I used to be
(Chorus)
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8. |
So Be Kind, Kid
04:26
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Your sad little prince show
It's all a flash and a dance and a surface and a show
And your talents are like dogs on the run who ain't got no one
You're up so late looking for another heart to break
It's a neon blowjob
You couldn't find no one so you'll settle for some fun
Vespa tend the flames
So they burn a little brighter, they burn a little brighter
And we'll carry on through to the other side of tonight
And we'll hate all of those
Complacent faces who hate their own blazes
But don't forget about
Your simple fear and your complicated doubt
And you never know
No you never ever know
Just how it goes
So be kind, kid, to the ones you know
Chorus:
It's all right
I don't mind
It's all right
Stop on by
It's all right
If you cry
Here we are again
It's another perfect end to another perfect trend
And you cut to the quick
But I'm not so quick to forgive or forget
Your psychedelic pad has got me uneasy
Just a little queasy
And I know it's a shame
I'm falling down lame
Into some kind of tame
(Chorus)
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9. |
Le Grand K
03:00
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I can't find my frame
Or what passes for sane
Without a Grand K
To point out the way
What is an echo
With nothing to bounce off
Weightless and on its own
Chorus:
I'll be your scale, be your scale
If you be my Grand K
What is a looking glass without its little frame
What is eternity without a second hand
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10. |
Sneaking Suspicion
04:20
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A key and a lock under my nose
Gather the edges of your skirt
We'll walk to the gates of dawn
Through a field of broken glass
Listless and lingering
The banshees of night
The witching hour is drawn high
Cringe and crow you capture my sight
Your optics cut and slice
With terror and might
Chorus
I've got the time to kill
So won't you come and stay tonight
We'll hide from all of our
Little watchful eyes
Your traces from the night before
Linger on my every word
How it drones into the void
And even then I find you out
Chorus
I've got a little sneaking suspicion
(repeat)
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11. |
Heart Machine
06:29
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Probe into the thickness
Peel the night away
Look deep inside
This voyeuristic dream
Our children will come back
Like old and broken hearts
When they've grown tired
Of the truths they told themselves
Don't ask me how it all works out
Broken promises rust in the front yard
Love's a machine I will never know
Whatever happened to the ones I used to know
Whatever happened to the places we'd go
An angel with broken wings
Will fly away again on day
Chorus:
Your heart machine's got the gangrene
Probe into the thickness
Peel the night away
Look deep inside
This voyeuristic dream
Our children will come back
Like old and broken yearts
When they've grown tired
Of the truths they told themselves
(Chorus)
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12. |
Sooner or Later
06:14
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Sooner or Later
Our dollar bin friends
Will not make amends
They come and they go in the night
They ebb and they flow out of sight
Open your eyes and see
The simple sunshine so brightly
Truth is what you want it to be someday
Will never happen so
Listen to me
Chorus:
Sooner or later
It'll get you down
Virgin Mary figurines
Bleached white so serene
Waiting around downtown
For the last trumpet to sound
(Chorus)
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13. |
Barnacles
04:47
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We'll sail these seven sinful seas
Stars hang from this shouting gallery
You've got a funny way to keep my thoughts at bay
I didn't understand it then
Two ships passing in the night
Chorus:
Stuck to this ghostly ship like two barnacles
In all this darkness a miracle
Now and then these hands grow so weary
When the silence all floats along so clearly
(Chorus)
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Jesus on the Moon Puyallup, Washington
Jesus on the Moon is a collection of lo-fi songs I've been recording in basements, garages, and bedrooms since 2005. Recently, Derek Reed joined the ranks and, with the help of a drum machine, we've started to bring the songs to the stage.
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