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Cable Car
06:29
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I can feel the stony sting come again, come again
Moss grows green and dark over my ribs, over my ribs
Cable car has fallen to bits, and the towers hum and spit
In the snow, and a-walking we will go
And the mouse-police never sleeps
Never sleeps for the solitude she keeps
For the solitude she keeps
And the cradles and the creeps
Ankles darkened from the rain
In the pines
And the long forgotten lines
Tina, take the train to the hills
Only in the hills is there anyone
Anyone
Still remember who you are
Still remember who you are
Still remember who you are
In that tiny, orange car
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The Drug
06:11
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There is a worry
That eats you up inside
Like a vampire bat that you can't hide
There is a worry that eats you up inside
There is a hate
That makes you cry
Like an aeroplane exploding in the sky
There is a hate that makes you cry
There's always room for a better man
And you should let him thru your doorway
If you can
There's always room for a better man
But here is the drug
That'll make you forget it
Jesus, singers, Cocaine, rivers
Here is the drug
That'll make you forget it
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Instrumental #1
01:29
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Moby Dick
04:08
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I could hunt you
For breaking my boat and taking my leg
If I should howl at the storm
I would lose it all
But I am not Ahab
In the desert
My blood is water
The rock is a ship
So hear the thunder and the fluke
As she goes by
I am not Ahab
I am not Ahab
Jenny break your mind
In record time
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Instrumental #2
02:44
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Wisconsin
03:32
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In the dark of day, I wandered here
With a shoulder shorn and a shirt-sleeve torn
Through snow and pine, from rock and snow
A box of records to call my home
And oh the howling wind
As the cameras whirl, the rollers freeze
It's a long way across the Atlantic Sea
Wish I could see what the brown bird sees
Wisconsin band'll bring you to your knees
And oh, the bright sky
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Lachlan's Room
01:12
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Telescope
07:02
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I stand with crepe-paper hands
And tiny lights
A million lights
And a breath of snow
A breath of snow
Telescope
I see flashing ships
With wings
And a bright, bright stone
A circle-stone
High above my head
High above my head
Telescope
Here comes the hour of four
Still atop my hill
My frozen hill
A statue I've become
A statue I've become
Telescope
My lens
My eye
My skeleton hands
My radio
My radio
My radio
Telescope
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Lawson Park
03:08
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Hassan's Walls
05:57
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Look there
There beyond the dirt roads
It's rising
Where the box-car burned to a cinder
I'm a lone hawk
There are tables here
Used to be for holidays
Black-fingered, bracken now
Crawling up, down, up, down
Rising
Hear that sound
There, that whisper like steel
Circling
Little wings over the valley
Spit on the sides
Peering from the Walls
Really, is there anyone out there at all?
I can't hear you out there at all
And the light on Hassan's Walls
Wakes me
It wakes me
It wakes me.
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The Maple Trail NSW, Australia
The Maple Trail is something of a personal odyssey, a musical journey that has traversed the ravines of Sydney’s metropolitan limits and rearticulated itself across hundreds of hours of tape and performances.
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