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Diablo Q
01:24
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(instrumental)
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2. |
Edge of Night
04:39
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Runaway
Locomotive
Balanced on the edge of night
Having murderous dreams
You suffer
Hanging on the edge of night
All alone with your dreams
Of sadist masters with cherub’s wings
You say the nightmares don’t scare you
Anymore
You turned your back on conventional life
Through the ring of fire
Abducted from your peaceful life
Through the ring of fire
I’m a locomotive
A locomotive
A locomotive
A worn away premonition
And this humdrum day
Has led me to your house
My love is strange
My love is strange
Falling from the edge of night
Suffering sexual dreams
Of sadist masters dancing in circus rings
But the clowns won’t scare me
Anymore
I walked into the underground
A cripple by all rights
And all the way to your house
Through the ring of fire
I’m a locomotive
A locomotive
A locomotive
Love is a stranger
Love is a stranger
Love is a stranger
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Milky Way Baby
03:48
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See the dreams above the clouds
Fold them into pocket
You're the dream above my clouds
Slip you into pocket
Number on the napkin is mine
Seize the dream above the clouds
Before you change your mind
Milky Way baby, milky white star
Mr. Moonglow's back in town to catch you
When you fall
In his universal arms
I sense a queer triangle
In the shadows of your speech
A side for each promise
We will never keep
Number on the room key is mine
Milky Way baby, milky white star
Does the pale on your face mean a stain
On your heart?
Tell me, baby
Are we doomed from the start?
Ooo, baby
Sparkle, baby
Milky Way baby, Milky Way star
Does the angst on your face match a stain
On your heart?
Milky Way baby, Milky Way star
Reflection in the motel says
Number on the matchbook is mine
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4. |
Oh the Places We Will Go
01:29
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(instrumental)
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International Dateline
03:15
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International dateline
International dateline
Far out over the Pacific
Out over the nebulous sea
On the other side of the globe
You'll arrive
In some other tomorrow
Tuesday came
You did not
Your parents said you made a call
You quit your job
You caught a plane
Set your aim on better stock
In the jet stream floats a dream
Far out over the dateline
In yet another Tuesday
You'll arrive
For some other lover
For some other lover
For some other lover
Some other lover
Some other lover
In a calmer world if the wind blows
Stretching your tether
Compressing your heart
In a calmer world if the wind blows
Then it blows
International dateline
International dateline
International dateline
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Super-Natural
04:58
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The sign outside hung me up
Please come in
Come in or walk away
It said ESP & Palmistry
ESP & Palmistry
ESP & Palmistry
Come in or walk away
I should walk away...
Madam, you see
I've got these wicked ideas inside of me
I've been landlocked for 29 years
The bashful child a good mother reared
But now all I have are these wild ideas
Burning a hole inside of me
Is it natural, or super-natural?
Is it natural, or super-natural?
Super-natural
Super-natural
Super-natural
I should walk away
Walk away
Walk away
Walk away!
Master the pain of my education
Respectable career, I had real-life occupation
But now all I have are these wild, wild ideas
Burning a hole inside of me
Is it natural, or super-natural?
Is it natural, or super-natural?
Super-natural
Super-natural
Super-natural
I should walk away…
I can't walk away
I can't walk away
I can't walk away
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Old Crow Blues
04:20
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(instrumental)
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8. |
The Ones I Love
03:30
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There are those who
Become desperate and doomed
Those who haunt themselves and who
Become shadows
Those who live in dreams of times gone by
Of times to come
And often fail at love
But who can hold the wind?
Some are driven mad
These are the beautiful
These are the sad
These are the ones
I love
Deep inside the storm
Where all burdens will be borne
In the thrashing of the waves
Through the thunder and the rain
“I think I’m gonna drown”
Was all she said
Good-bye
But who can hold the wind?
When life slips into a dream
Some are driven mad
These are the beautiful
These are the sad
These are the ones
I love
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9. |
Kiss Me Friday
02:56
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Now is the time, now is the time
The apple is ripe; assassins in line
Now is the time
It was one of those; you know what I mean
Doomed from the start, fall down the stairs
You know what I mean
There I was reading Tropic of Cancer
Flush with caffeine, teeming inside
Converging at last on an answer
Down the steps of decline
We dance from lucid to blind
From lucid to blind, kiss me Friday night
You said no one would ever really mind
And for that I could love you
And for that I will love you
And love you I will
And love you I will
Oh, love you I will
And love you I will
Now is the time, and now is the time
And now is the time, now is the time
Now is the time / kiss me Friday night
Now is the time / kiss me Friday night
Now is the time / kiss me Friday night
Now is the time / kiss me Friday night
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Lover's Tattoo
01:39
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From the cradle to the grave
Plays a song I will remember
Tapping at the window
One long, cold December
On clean sheets
Where lonely hearts beat
A lover’s tattoo
Detailed in sweet surrender
Some things you can’t forget
But best not remembered
In dreams we dream
What happiness will not allow
From the cradle to the grave
Plays a song I will remember
A lover’s tattoo
Detailed in sweet surrender
In dreams it comes
To steal away your sleep
In dreams we dream
What happiness will not allow
What happiness will not allow
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Asad Market
02:04
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(instrumental)
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The Wrecker Song
02:09
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Etched in stone. etched in glass
An unforgiving dashboard knows
Your name
In a speeding America
What's in the moment
Before you die?
What's in the moment
When your life up and
Passes you by?
A windshield cracked
Poor child with a broken back
Your screams forever lost in the westerlies
Your dreams now blood brown stains on the floor of
a '52 Mercury
I hear the radio singing
I hear the radio sing
I hear the radio singing
Singing your sad song
On a creaking hinge laid life and limb
In a ditch outside St Paul
And now you're just a door ajar
To a world too suddenly gone
From bread and water to caviar
Look now what I've done
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Midnight Lullaby
04:15
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Sing me a midnight lullaby
Fill my head with stars
Sing me a midnight lullaby
And I promise
Sing me a midnight lullaby
Fill my head with stars
Still my fears with moonbeams
And I promise
I promise
Hum a song so soft and low
Nightmares run and hide
Hang it over my pillow
And I promise
I promise
Tonight I'll sleep only with you
Tonight I'll dream
Tonight I'll dream only of you
And only with you
With you
If I should begin to wake
To start or suddenly shudder
Whisper soft and whisper sweet
Your midnight lullaby
Your midnight lullaby
And tonight I'll sleep only with you
Tonight I'll dream
Tonight I'll dream only of you
And only with you
With you
Dreaming with you, with you
Dreaming with you, with you
I'll dream
I'll dream
I'll dream and dream
And dream
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Chinatown Incident
00:29
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(instrumental)
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Milky Way Baby Reprise
03:56
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See the dreams above the clouds
Fold them into pocket
You're the dream above my clouds
Slip you into pocket
Number on the napkin is mine
Seize the dream above the clouds
Before you change your mind
Milky Way baby, milky white star
Mr. Moonglow's back in town to catch you
When you fall
In his universal arms
I sense a queer triangle
In the shadows of your speech
A side for each promise
We will never keep
Number on the room key is mine
Milky Way baby, milky white star
Does the pale on your face mean a stain
On your heart?
Tell me, baby
Are we doomed from the start?
Ooo, baby
Sparkle, baby
Milky Way baby, Milky Way star
Does the angst on your face match a stain
On your heart?
Milky Way baby, Milky Way star
Reflection in the motel says
Number on the matchbook is mine
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The Purest Atmosphere
03:19
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One last announcement
As a final precaution
Please extinguish all smoking
And fasten your seat belts
Low and tight across your hips
Into the cloud bank
And plucked from the air
Was it random chance
Was it circumstance
The air coach never landed?
And the crew I never knew
Became eternal confessors
It was just as I suspected
Just as I might have thought
I really did love you
I really did care
Taste the tips of granite
We are the snow floating through branches
We are blessed by the evergreen fir
And the pure, pure, purest atmosphere
The purest atmosphere
In the dead of night
No siren cries
She's the upper hand
At all times
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Through the Ring of Fire
01:24
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(instrumental)
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Crushed Velvet
01:52
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You wear straw by daylight
The day is made of straw
Crushed velvet for twilight
It helps to break your fall
You shun the sun at noon
Because the heat could make you thaw
Fractured by moonlight
You say the crutches make you tall
The night is made of nothing
There is nothing to fear
Not the Thief, the Clown nor Cupid
But the fear of velvet
The night is made of nothing
But the fear of velvet
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Behind the Shadows
04:19
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When the steam starts to rise from Market Street
That’ll be me, that’ll be me
When the promise of night haunts your every dream
That’ll be me, that’ll be me
What it was used to be so unusual
Now an empty face in a broken bus window
Wheels go round without saying so
Foghorns wail without asking why
Cover your heart
Cover your eyes
When the steam starts to rise, that’ll be me
And I’ll look for you, if you look for me
Behind the shadows
When the steam starts to rise from Market Street
That’ll be me, yeah, that’ll be me
When the tears that fall taste rare and bittersweet
That’ll be me, and that’ll be me
Hey, pretty pretty one
Do not fear, your life has just begun
And hey, hey, clever pretty one
Will you trade the night for staring into the sun?
Cover your heart
Cover your eyes
When the steam starts to rise, that’ll be me
Open your heart
Open your eyes
When the steam starts to rise from Market Street
I’ll look for you…
If you look for me
Behind the shadows
Behind the shadows
Behind the shadows
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Careless Smile
01:48
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Hey, tell me why you think
It all went wrong
Why the world will not be saved
With just a song
When the morning comes
There's a cruel surprise
With a clever wink
And a careless smile
You enter the room
With a knowing look
And a careless smile
They say the world will end
It’ll end at dawn
Hey, tell me why you think
It all went wrong
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Darke County San Francisco, California
An actual place in rural Ohio, Darke County is also the shadowy dream state of American gothic & noir created by the late 1980s / early 1990s songwriting partnership of ex-Pleasures Pale vocalist Jeffrey Bright and the artist now known as Harlan T Bobo. DarCo performed regularly in the San Francisco underground before reincarnation in late 1991 as surrealist indie act Myself a Living Torch. ... more
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