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Diane
The Lake
Swing
Two Wheeler,
Four Wheeler
**Spirit**
Thief
Toolmaster
of Brainerd
Vines
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Diane
The glass Diane,
Blue and lovely
Laid down on the sill
to break the
light
She cast my hand
In a cold light
Painting with the
beams of
ancient days
Walk with me you can
Through our only home
Become Diane
Diane
You live, Diane
You are lovely
This world made you
stay too far
away
Relax your hand
Trusted angel
Stranger than the
things young
men should know
Matt: triangle and
steel pipe
John: banhu
Elaine: tambourine
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The
Lake
Go, I know, I
know that a
northern goes
Close to the shore
to lay up
among the stones
Cold, he sees all
the hissing
leaves and maybe
Two, the pair, who
meet there
when they please
Cold the hour, to lay
on a crooked
shore
But still she leaves
to wait by
the water hole
Leans to see something
below the
green
The staring eye that
sees, and
knows of the man she
leaves
Pike, why does she
walk at
night?
She waits up among
the trees
Pike, where do you
go at night?
I look through the
whistling
leaves
Old northern, is your
eye so
bright you can see
a home
breaking on the shore
tonight?
I see those two, the
pair, and I
know of the man she
leaves
Go, I know, I know
that a
northern goes
Close to the shore
to lay up
among the stones
Cold, he sees all
the wily trees
and maybe
Two, the pair, who
meet there
when they please
John:
Double Bass
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SWING
Swing, she sprung
down from a
tree this spring
On a rope of white
mercy with a
bell to ring
Yeah, she swung down
to my
world hung down on
a string
Her jaw fell open with
a gaping
sound
and her pipes of white
mercy
tried to blow me down
and the horns all
blast me down
when she speaks my
name
swing. She ring rattled
in a
randy way
when she woke me one
morning
on a Saturday
and a chain fell around
my head
bells, baubles and
pearls
Then she pulled open
all the
organ stops
and the waves were
black now
with the purple tops
and a chord of old
mercy blew
from her face like
rain
she's my only mistress
ring now, ding dang,
bells of the
world
swing! She swung down
on a red
iron hook
in a robe of lime
sequins and
bells she took
all the charms that
could jail my
world among weapons
and
greed
then the child angels
that made
up her train
tried to pull my skull
open as
she drove my brain
to the point of white
mercy she
became all the baubles
and
pearls, bells, baubles
and
beads, all the love
that i need.
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TWO
WHEELER, FOUR WHEELER
Two Wheeler, Four
Wheeler
I could move the boxes
Four Wheeler, yeah
In the honey time of
youth
When the wind had
sweet breath
When the rent was
way down
I would haul for no
man
But found by the birth
horse
Held by the earth
weight
I came down to find
a job
In the town of Doomland
The bone-fingered workhorse
Became the dark seedbed
She became the blood
mattress
Flesh crib of my baby
But when the rent was
way down
In the honey time
of youth
When the wind had
sweet breath
I would haul for no
man
Dan:
organ
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SPIRIT
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And the gate fell open
And the gate fell
open
Wide to the casket
chain
Silver and white
Now the blameless ovens
All the blameless
ovens
Bake at the earthly
blood
And smoke will rise
You can hear
Hear the river rise
You can hear
Long was the life
Spirit comes to heaven
Spirit comes to heaven
Far from the marble
door
Long was the life
You will hold a weapon
You will hold a weapon
Cold at the throat
of want
Silver and white
Matt:
piano, electric piano
John
and Elaine: sleigh bells
Dan:
tambourine
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THIEF
I took her love
late on the very
first date
That man is a robber
I swept her to the
side on the
tilt-a-whirl ride
That man is a thief
I held her white throat,
clawed within her coat
That man is a robber
I rolled her with a
shame
robbed her just the
same
That man is a thief
Bells, bells, alarms
and bells
Horns, vows, the cops
and bells
I rolled her on a
date, she sent
me to my fate
That man is a thief
Elaine:
xylophone
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TOOLMASTER
OF BRAINERD
He held a job at
the Buckeye
Creamery
Toolmaster of Brainerd
He had a way with
the old
machinery
Toolmaster of Brainerd
But on the day when
the
shutdown came
All his old girlfriends
looked the
same
He rumbled down for
a change of
scenery
Hello, Toolmaster
of Brainerd
Inside his case was
a Gibson
Disaster
Toolmaster of Brainerd
He played guitar like
a master
but faster
Toolmaster of Brainerd
He came to town on
a charter bus
Too young and sweet
to be
hustling us
He played guitar like
a natural
disaster
Play on, Toolmaster
of Brainerd
A letter came from
the Buckeye
Creamery
It said, "Mr. Master
of Brainerd
We're going to start
up the old
machinery
Mr. Master of Brainerd"
Then all this old
girlfriends lined
up in the sky
And told him to kiss
the Twin
Towns goodbye
He rumbled up north
for a change of scenery
Goodbye, Toolmaster
of Brainerd
The
New Shakespearians: rap
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VINES
I lay down on
a bed of fruit
Fine black baubles
from the
liquor root
Vines said, "Jack,
gonna take
your bones below"
Boughs hung heavy with
the
poison charms
Wrapped my body in
their
coiling arms
Stained my vision
with the
purple juice we know
Found my body on the
stones
below
Watch out, Jack ,
there's a poison
road below
Wine welled up from
the open
ground
Swept my body to a
boiling sound
That ground water
came to wash
my bones below
I passed down through
the
darkest halls
Came to my house,
it had viney
walls
That ground water
came to wash
my bones below
Elaine:xylophone
Matt:
terrifying synthesizer
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RECEPTION
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Away!
On the lawn I fell
to dreaming
And the dark just
whirled around
me
All the brighter plans
are buried
Drunk now, Virginia's
married
Seven dresses bent
around me
Seven girls, the maids
of honor
And they took the
cup I carried
Drunk now, Virginia's
married
Seven men went in to
hear the
band
All laughing, I can't
understand
Drunk now, Virginia's
married
And they may say that
you must
stay
But you must make
your plans to
get away
And you may say that
I must stay
away!
On the steps I fell
to darkness
And her friends came
out around
me
But I saw the darkness
only
Drunk now, I will
be lonely
Elaine
and Matt: gongs and crashes
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