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The Starfolk

by The Starfolk

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1.
I’m watching you rise into the great unknown I hope you’ll be safe on your long bike ride home You know, although the night is black The wind is at your back She’s stepping on stars to cross a great expanse And casting them from the sky like shards of glass And none were left when she was done Except the morning sun But she isn’t really in the sky She’s only on a long bike ride And starlight can seem so far away Until she becomes the light of day I’m watching you rise into the great unknown I hope you’ll be safe on your long bike ride home You know, although the night is black The wind is at your back The wind is at your back
2.
What’s wrong with this word? What’s wrong with this sentence? What’s wrong with what I say? I’ll say it anyway You hurt me before But what was the question? Have I mistaken you? Well you’re mistaken too You hurt me before Only this time it’s much worse I gave you back the world You put it in your purse Your softening glance Is glancing off the snow That’s formed around my heart Now I’m storming through your door Ooh, ooh, come and play Ooh, ooh, it’s a game If there’s love lost It will be found again If there’s love lost It will be found again I just don’t know when
3.
It’s only now that I see you’re gone And when you wake up in another land You rely on the kindness Of strangers like me I’m only one, there’s a hundred more And every one has something new for you To rely on Run, if you find one If you find one you should run If you find one If you find one you should run And if she likes, she can turn the tide She could steal the forces of the moon She relies on the kindness Of strangers like me Run, if you find one If you find one you should run If you find one If you find one you should run
4.
To the Gate 03:12
To the gate To the gate again My baby never let me in He'll never let me in Take away Take away these chains From me and I'm not coming back I'm never coming back again Not for you or no one Not for you or no one Baby's gone away You keep your head they say You'll be better off this way so Oo oo ooh…. Through the gate Through the gate you'll see A friend of mine and ease him in Create a need in him Make it plain Games you play all end the same And I'm not playing them And I won't play that way again Not for you or no one Not for you or no one Baby's gone away You keep your head they say You'll be better off this way so Oo oo ooh…
5.
Sow the Seed 04:04
Sow the seed, see the light, for the Spring to receive Look to sky, to the field, in the back of your mind Tragically, instantly, joyfully you will be Thrown from your home, yellow walls, yellow sun Without life, without death, without thought Are the colors really coming through you? So tragically, instantly, joyfully But they never really understood you No they never really understood you The debris of the leaves, push the paint, paint the trees Grow from the soil, from the wind, from the storm in your mind Sow the seed, see the light, for the Spring to receive You, fitfully, magically, instantly Without life, without death, without thought Are the colors really coming through you? So tragically, instantly, joyfully But they never really understood you No they never really understood you You, fitfully, magically, instantly
6.
She could see in me The tendency to wallow on Though I think she’s awfully mean I know that she’s not wrong Life is part of death Oh what a lonely game to play Though she drives me half insane I know she’s not to blame Devil in the details Devil in the details You’re my muse of the midnight moon Midnight eyes this morning I can’t seem to see you clear Dreams of building churches Stained glass faces in the mirror You collect my sorrows, honey Plant them in the field We’ll come back tomorrow, love And see just what they yield Devil in the details Devil in the details You’re my muse of the midnight moon
7.
Are you feeling without thinking? I can’t feel a thing Sweeping crumbs from off the table I’ll take anything Sleeping without dreaming Cause the world just knocks me out Everybody takes a number Sitting in a room Waiting for the sheep of slumber To take care of you Sleeping without dreaming Cause the world just knocks me out Sleeping without dreaming Cause the world just makes me Sleeping without dreaming Cause the world just shakes me Sleeping without dreaming Cause the sun won’t wake me Sleeping without dreaming Sleeping without dreaming
8.
True Blue 03:13
My fire you're the red sky and my sun will rise for you My fate got scrambled today like a broken egg What could I do To be back on the brick wall new? My night you're the failing light where my dreams alight again My field yields everything just to languish in your wind I bend like a stem With a bloom of baby's breath If you were true blue You'd be lighter too I'm rising up through Skies of black and blue If you were true blue You'd be lighter too You'd be lighter too Steal me from grief you're my thief and your riches drew me in You'll keep it all for yourself make me realize again You're just a fool Teetering on the brick wall too If you were true blue You'd be lighter too I'm rising up through Skies of black and blue If you were true blue You'd be lighter too You'd be lighter too
9.
Come into the clouds Either north or south And it may become your path It's a foolish scene And it may become your path To the east there's sun To the west there's none And it may become your path It's a foolish scene And it may become your path Stuck inside a dream And it may become your path Where no one finds you Hope that no one finds you How could someone find you I can't even find you And it may become your path To set the masses free And it may become your path To chop the cherry tree And it may become your wrath To burst the bubble Think you're crazy some will Find new meaning in you If you help them come to Say you'll never make it Don't lie down and take it There's a limit don't you Want to reach it won't you?
10.
Winterwalk 01:35
I'd like to take a winter walk today The sky is gray And the air Is as cold as ice cream In the morning look across the lake There isn't anything But at night on the ice With the traffic lights The cardinal dreams a song to sing About the coming spring And the wind with the headlights circling Under the stars Jupiter and Mars Forgetting who we are I'd like to take a winter walk tonight And never talk Call you up And leave you listening
11.
Wake up machine Ooooooh Because you keep on dreaming If you don't wake up And the people screaming Have suffered enough Underneath my finger Is the power switch Will the world stop turning Or maybe come unhitched Wake up machine Ooooooh Because you keep on dreaming If you don't wake up And your dreams keep scheming I think we've had enough Where do we go? Where do we go? Where do we go? Open your eyes Open your eyes
12.
From Above 02:32
Staring at the rain Through dirty window panes The war began And everything was strange Except for you And something that you said It's always peaceful from above It's always peaceful from above Clouds like hills of snow Are drifting in the light That swallows us And everything goes white You'd never know The wilderness below It's always peaceful from above It's always peaceful from above Armies on the ground Like pins into a map Pack their bags And march a muddy path And soon they know they won't be coming back It's always peaceful from above It's always peaceful from above

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released September 10, 2013

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