Quote the King

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Voice of an angel, I ain’t got one
Ya know the crew that cleans up the dead ain’t ever done
You gotta nothin to say, but you gotta say something
What else can you do but quote the king

You’re so young
No one’s told you yet
There’s beauty out there
And it needs all the help it can get

You’re leaving in September to see your girl
A choir waits to sing your praises, cherubs to set her pearls
When your hero lets you down are you gonna do the same?
Quote the king, pass the blame?

You’re so young
Has no one shown you yet
There’s beauty out there
And it needs all the help it can get

There they go, church bells ring the evening hour
Swans come in on the water, the day is closing like a flower
This is the moment to listen to everything
This is the time to kill the king

You’re still young
You’ve got all you need to live
Find the beauty out there
It needs all the help you can give

 

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DreamGirl(NYC)

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I once knew a girl in new york city
I’m not sure she was ever real
We’d meet at bars every so often
She’d point out wives I should steal

Mighta been we were best of friends
Mighta been we never were
Seemed like she was always distracted
Nothing mattered much to her

I told her once I was trying to impress her
I was putting on a show
She took me by the hand, patted my cheek
All she said was, “I know.”

Never knew how easy it could be
To lose touch over the years
Ain’t nothing to it; you just stop talking
And a human being disappears

I think I knew a girl once in New York City
I hope she’s found someone, and all the rest
It’s no surprise that I can’t explain
Some fool in love is never at his best

 

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I Heard It Ain’t Been Easy

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I know you lost someone
Not just anyone
And then you lost us, hey

I see ya from far away
I tried to bring your pain
Into some kind of focus

Took more time that it should
What else can I say
We did the best we could

You’ve got nothing to prove
Or make me believe
Whatever it is you need
Ask it of me

I heard it ain’t been easy
for you

We’re all just getting on
Now that you’re gone
What else could i say

I know you lost someone
And not just anyone
And then you lost yourself, hey

You’ve got nothing to prove
Or disbelieve
Whatever it is you need, ask it of me

I heard it ain’t been easy
for you

 

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She Always Wears White

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Oh milady, how you cut me to the quick
When you slow walk this love affair
with a finger on your lips

I see you coming from so far away
A ship on the horizon
with all sails ablaze

So many, so many have come and gone
The good ones do their best
And the rest just carry on

Someday maybe I will see her face again
Til then I’ll practice the belief
That I barely believe in

When she tells the time
It’s time to go
Why she always wears white
I don’t know

 

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Your Voice, Briefly

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[Instrumental]

 

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Likely Could Have Been Any Other

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With their eyes on you all of the time
Is it so odd to think that you are still mine?

With women bowing and men holding doors,
Is it so odd to think that I am still yours?

Likely could have been any other
Certainly then we wouldn’t be the same

I want to take you the forest pool that reflects the harvest moon
I want to take you to the library and find the quietest room

And read the hidden passage in the ancient rhyming song
And hear the simple message that so many get so wrong

Likely could have been any other
Certainly then we would never be the same

These silly notions, my love,
Are nothing to be made of
I always come home to you again.

 

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Waving Goodbye to No One

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Nothing personal but I can’t meet in the middle
Nothing personal, I’m exhausted by an endless riddle
Walking the shoreline, my boots sinking in the sand
My concerns are the same as thousands of years past
I keep saying goodbye, but you can’t hear me anymore
I keep waving goodbye, but I don’t know what for

I look into the glare on the water where you can be seen
To greet you eye to eye but there’s too much light in between

Nothing personal but I have to walk away
A silent verse or a prayer and a promise for some other day

I keep saying goodbye, but you can’t hear me anymore
I keep waving goodbye, but I don’t know what for

 

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How Things Have Changed

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Power lines on the grey sky
Above our narrow avenue
I remember the lullabies
I would sing to you

All I had, I had to give
I gave it all away
Is it too much for me to ask
That you reciprocate

I will love you just same
But oh how things have changed

Early morning county line
Praying for a seat
Soon enough the sun will rise
Blinding in the east
And no passenger will be able to sleep

And I will love you just the same
But oh how things have changed

 

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Wasn’t That Much Time After All

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Drinking in the sun like young folks used to do
Throwing caution to the wind on an old Michigan roof
Some memories stay with me for so long
There wasn’t that much time after all

She could have told me anything and I would have believed
I was not concerned with truth, I was willingly deceived
I could say she was to blame but that ain’t true
It was all on me it was my fatal flaw
There wasn’t that much time after all

You were gone so suddenly and could not speak your goodbyes
But I can see you when I need to, cuz your eyes are in mine
What I should have said, no one will hear
The years ran by too fast and now they crawl
Wasn’t that much time after all

So what amount of penitence is right for my dumb stuff
And who else but me can say what is enough
Consequences fade but never disappear
If I could only change some thing however small
There wasn’t that much time after all

 

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Get It Out

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I put my best foot forward
And took two steps back
On a ship that sailed
After the deck was stacked

Eyes on the horizon
I put my faith in a soldier boy
with a fake sword in his mouth

Can I get it out
Can I please get it out

She said only the coast has the shore
I said you ought not to boast,
She said, think about it some more
The sea was rising
I put my faith in some guru girl,
she was the patron saint of self-doubt

Can I get it out
Can I please get it out

I saw a face in the water
It had nothing to say
Then it flew to the sky
And then it blew away

It died on the horizon
I put my faith in a philosopher
Buried up to his neck in the ground

Can I get it out
Can I please get it out

No apologies needed
But it’s the thought that counts
Everyone’s gonna share the blame
In incremental amounts

I signed in desperation
I put my faith in a temple
With a crumbling facade facing south

Can I get it out
Can I please get it out

 

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