End of Amnesia
Release: 2001
Label: Future Farmer
Transfiguration of Vincent
Release: 2003
Label: Merge
Transistor Radio
Release: 2005
Label: Matador
Post-War
Release: 2006 (August)
Label: Merge
Duet for Guitars #2
Release: 2000
Label: Saidera
12.) Afterword/Rag
1.) You Still Believe In Me 2.) One Life Away 3.) Sweethearts On Parade 4.) Hi-Fi 5.) Fuel For Fire 6.) Four Hours In Washington 7.) Regeneration No. 1 8.) Big Boat 9.) Paul's Song 10.) Radio Campaign 11.) Here Comes The Sun Again
12.) Deep Dark Well 13.) Oh Take Me Back 14.) I'll Be Yr Bird 15.) Lullabye & Exile 16.) Well Tempered Clavier
1.) Transfiguration #1 2.) Vincent O'Brien 3.) Sad, Sad Song 4.) Undertaker 5.) Duet For Guitars 6.) Outta My Head 7.) Involuntary 8.) Helicopter 9.) Poor Boy, Minor Key 10.) Fool Says 11.) Get To The Table On Time 12.) A Voice At The End Of The Line 13.) Dead Man 14.) Let's Dance (David Bowe Cover)
15.) Transfiguration #2
1.) End Of Amnesia 2.) Color Of Water 3.) Half Moon 4.) So Much Water 5.) Bad Dreams 6.) Archangel Tale 7.) Silverline 8.) Flamming Heart 9.) Carolina 10.) From A Pirate Radio Sermon, 1989 11.) Psalm 12.) Ella 13.) Seashell Tale 14.) O'Brien's Nocturne
1.) Duet For Guitars #2 2.) Beautiful Car 3.) Fishing Boat Song 4.) Scene From #12 5.) Good News 6.) Crooked Spine 7.) Look Me Over 8.) Who May Be Lazy 9.) It Won't Happen Twice 10.) He Asked Me To Be A Snake & Live Underground 11.) Song From Debby's Stairs 12.) It Was A Beautiful Car 13.) Waiting Years Vol.1 14.) Waiting Years Vol.2 15.) Were You There? 16.) Duet For Guitars # 1
Lyrics
Duet For Guitars #2
Beautiful Car
I was washing antique cars
Working part-time for my dad after school
When I got the go-ahead
To pick a car and spin around the neighbourhood
It was a baby blue fifty-two Roadstar
It was a beautiful car
That was the night I heard of the fighting
And the murder of the schoolmaster's son
Last year I asked him who he was afraid of
And he answered "everyone"
But did I even flinch a wrist
Should I have tried to undo what had been done
Now, that's just the way its gotta be
I should never have to worry myself none
It was a baby blue fifty-two Roadstar
It was a beautiful car
It was a beautiful car
It was a beautiful car...
Fishing Boat Song
From Springfield, Mass. to Concord Town
I saw those lights go down
In a gorge in Kansas
I met my Jesus
He laid me down and he said
If I build you a fishing boat
Would you leave everyone you know
If I build you a fishing boat
Would you leave everyone you know
Would you be more likely to kill more time with me
And then a sudden gale began to wail
It set my heart like no other love
Like no other love
From Springfield, Mass. to Concord Town
I saw my lights go down
Good News
When I forget how to cry
I see you out alone at night
My heart explodes in light in sky
And I want to close my eyes
When I forget how to give
I see you out alone with him
His heart explodes in light in sky
And I want to close my eyes
And I want to say and bring good news to you
When I forget how to try
I'm wide awake alone at night
My heart explodes in light in sky
But I have to close my eyes
And I want to say and bring good news to you
Look Me Over
I don't need no sweets to make me happy
I'm not like them babe, I won't be fooled by nothing.
Whistle me out and I'll roll over
Hey, look me over!
My part-time job, it ain't exactly thrilling
But my heart knows more and it won't be fooled by nothing
Call me before I'm keeling over
Hey, look me over!
And I know it ain't time for me to go
You don't think so!
Friends won't let guys sleep up on their couches
When word comes down that he stains all he touches
I was too late I know, look me over
It's too late I know, look me over
It's too late I know, look me over
But hey, look me over!
Who May Be Lazy
And what makes me happy
And who makes me high
Sure won't be around on that night
And who may be lazy
And he who has lied
He who was last shall be first in the line
So take me out dancing
And sing me to sleep
This could be the last night that we'll ever dream
And who may be lazy
And he who has lied
He who was last shall be first in the line
Hmmm...
It Won't Happen Twice
Oh, lightning may strike your poor heart tonight
But it won't happen twice, my friend
And all the love you deserve is coming on stormy winds
And I was jealous and cruel to a young girl I knew
But it wont happen twice, my friend
Oh, if I get the chance I'll be braver like holy wine
And disaster has riddled my body with holes
But it won't happen twice, my friend
It won't happen twice, my friend
And I know it because I know it, child
It can not happen again
And a hurricane blew my bright stars away
But it won't happen twice, my friend.
I'm flat on my back and I'm traveling like dizzy spells
All these inside fires have burned up these outside things
All these inside fires have burned up these outside things
But it won't happen twice, my friend
It won't happen twice, my friend
And I know it because I know it, child
It can not happen again
Oh, it won't happen twice, my friend
It won't happen twice, my friend
And I know it because I know it, child
It can not
Can not happen again
He Asked Me To Be A Snake & Live Underground
Oh, redemption is a pure signal
It's high in the pines like a bald eagle
But I've only seen it once or twice
He wanted me to follow but I fell down
And he asked me to be a snake and live underground
I know sympathy is a pure signal
It's high in the pines like a bald eagle
But I've only seen it once or twice
He wanted me to follow but I fell down
And he asked me to be a snake
And he asked me to be a snake
And he asked me to be a snake and live underground
Song From Debby's Stairs
I know the next life gonna be a good life for me
I know the next run gonna be a good one for me
I made a drawing of accuracy that painted it real gorgeous
I'd share it with you tonight, my friend, but I left it on the bus
I left it on the school bus
I know the next life gonna be a good life for me
I know the next run gonna be a good one for me
I remember Manzanita, a school made out of brick
Underneath that black scratchboard is where I found the stick
That's where I found the yardstick
I know the next life gonna be a good life for me
I know the next run gonna be a good one for me
Gloria found a drawing of accuracy that painted it real gorgeous
She leaned closely and over to me, said she found it on the bus
She found it on the school bus
End of Amnesia
Color of Water
I was all geared up and ready to go
Bounding for to leave my mountain home with a sky of blue
Between the leaves and the color of the water was green
High over the sea.
“Do you have to leave so soon my boy?
The winter time ain’t even begun….”
“Well I’d stay awhile,” I turned to
Say.
“But the color of the water is grey and I’m going away…”
Half Moon
Fell the dark night and no starlight to
Light the room and no half-moon.
Fell an old tune under trumpets by a blue lagoon and no half-moon
So Much Water
Water, so much water is under the bridge
Have not seen you since I was 21
And you know I was just a kid
And I have oh so many friends who talk you up like your someone new
Yeah but I’ve already gotten over you
Times, times where the lamps were lit so low
Well only a stranger would think its impossible to let them go
And I have oh so many flashback scenes that I can calmly walk straight through
And now my mind is free to walk the streets we used to walk so quietly
And laid the foundation for this handful of rhymes well I have left the frustration behind my eyes
"wait! Don't let your dream just walk away!"
Exactly how many times have I heard that one today
Yeah we have oh so many friends who like to pretend we're still in high school
"water, so much water is under the bridge"
Bad Dreams
Oh! Every night I’m dreaming of you and we’re weaving through a crowded room
And I ask you to be my best friend too and then I lose you.
On a steamer with a small-city band I chase you through the room again and you’re gone before the next dance ends
(I don’t what it means) Bad Dreams
But I should do what I want to do and I should dream about whoever I want to dream about
But every night I’m calling out your name and every time you get away.
Oh and I’m damned before I even begin but ill chase you through the room again
And I’ll ask you to be my best best friend and then I lose you.
Archangel Tale
Come with me and you’ll never be the same.
Come with me to the place I’m thinking of (across the bridge that keeps you form your love).
Come with me but you must come alone (across the bridge that keeps you from your home)
A Band of a Hundred Angels did I see & a chariot of white swung low (across the River Jordan for me)
Come with me to the place your thinking of (across the bridge that keeps you from your love)
And so I followed the band of angels to a shore and climbed atop a mountain high
And a ray of light shown down upon the stone a savior rolled away long ago…
Flaming Heart
Well I'm trying hard to pass the time but I just got more time to kill
You know the flaming heart can't get his fill
But the flaming heart will try and try as he will
And the flaming eyes I had are gone, they went out with the thrill
You know the flaming heart can't get his fill
But the flaming heart will try and try as he will
Oh, I got a flaming heart
Oh, I got a flaming heart
I gotta roll like a tire
I've got a love that's mighty like a rose
And the flaming stars I had are gone
They burned out over the hill
You know the flaming heart can't get his fill
But the flaming heart will try and try as he will
Oh, I got a flaming heart
Oh, I got a flaming heart
I gotta roll like a tire
I've got a love that's mighty like a rose
Carolina
"Where are you going?" for the 250th time.
"I’m waiting for a sign"
"Well it looks like another line"
And I’m walking backwards to the place where I come from
But that ain’t enough, no you want me to run.
I used to feel like California with baby’s eyes so blue
Now I feel like Carolina: I split myself in two
And I’m walking backwards from Chicago through Washington
But that ain’t enough no you want me to run.
"Better watch your soul it’ll leave you like a hundred bucks."
My friends said “Stick to your guns” but instead I just got stuck
And I’m walking backwards looking forward to getting done
But that ain’t enough no you want me to run
From A Pirate Radio Sermon, 1989
Wise won't be wise anymore
And mine won't be mine anymore
And I am waiting for the day when I will finally know surrender
And the weak will not be weak anymore
Lost won't be lost anymore
Hard won't be hard anymore
And I am waiting for the day when I will finally know surrender
And the weak will not be weak anymore
And I’ll be waiting like a stranger for a train
For a headlight through the rain
I don't know the day or hour
But I can sense the final power
Yours won't be yours anymore
Theirs won't be theirs anymore
I am waiting for the day when I will finally know surrender
And the weak will not be weak anymore
No the weak will not be weak anymore
Ella
For you I have travelled far and wide
For to hear your lullaby
Hey rock-a-bye
And if you can't keep an eye on
At least just leave a light on for me
And I chose a star to be my guide
Chose the moon to be my bride (and never die)
And if you can't keep an eye on
At least just leave a light on for me
We are tireless fighters
But we cannot make it on our own
We are bareback riders
We are lost on our way back home
And if you can't keep an eye on
At least just leave a light on for me
Seashell Tale
Let’s go play some money on the order the horses
Break the ribbon of that famous finish line
And then gather up our stash, babe
Find a little ranch, babe
And buy a lonely little pony to ride
Well I knew I was lucky
When a needle came and stuck me
A porcupine came and poked this cactus hide
Let me finish what I start, babe
Open up your heart, babe
I'll sow a land of milk and honey in your mind
Oh flesh and blood has found me in your arms again
I see the whisper of the wind has found your hair again
And though my heart said "give me refuge"
In your dignity my dear
All I could do is put a seashell to your ear
Oh flesh and blood has found me in your arms again
I see the whisper of the wind has found your hair again
And though my heart said "give me refuge"
In your dignity my dear
All I could do is put a seashell to your ear
O'Brien/O'Brien's Nocturne
Well we talked about old times
Like a couple of old guys
And took a little walk to the old baseball diamond
And along came O'Brien
With a guitar in his hand
Met us on the field with impeccable timing
He said I got a new song to show you
Though it probably ain't gonna blow your mind
And the thing about O'Brien was
He could always make a string buzz like it was 1989
And I remember my old car and that old girlfriend of mine
It was a cracked wooden thing
He said wanna talk about old strings
It's been 10, 12 years since I last changed mine
And it says Sears down the neck
Had a little blood stain on the second fret
But you know it still keeps impeccable timing
And he said I got a brand new song to show you
Though it probably ain't gonna blow your mind
And the thing about O'Brien was
He could always make a string buzz like it was still 1989
And I remember my old car and that old girlfriend of mine
And that's the story about O'Brien blew my mind
Post-War
Poison cup
One
One
One
One or two won't do
‘Cause I want it all
And a sip
A sip
A sip or a spoonful won't do
No, i want it all
And i hope
I hope
Hope you know what I’m thinking of
I want all of your love
I need all of your love
She said "if love
If love
Is a poison cup
Then drink it up"
’Cause a sip
A sip
Or a spoonful won't do
Won't do nothing for you
Except mess you up"
And i hope
I hope
Hope you know what this means
I'm gonna give you everything
I'm gonna give you everything
To Go Home
( Daniel Johnson Cover )
Hope it be my mind won’t slip
Sailing on a sinking ship
Into the sunset and back
Dark night on a long highway
Little lights in the houses say
There's somebody’s staying up late
Oh I’ll be true to you
Oh yeah, you know I will
And I’ll be true to you forever or until
I go home
God it’s great to be alive
Takes the skin right off my hide
To think I’ll have to give it all up someday
And if I ever treated you mean
You know that it was only because
I'm sorry I couldn’t have you for my own
Oh I’ll be true to you
Oh yeah, you know I will
And I’ll be true to you forever or until
I go home
I go home
I, I, I, I... I go home
I, I, I, I... I go home
I, I, I, I... I go home
God it’s great to be alive
Takes the skin right off my hide
To think I’ll have to give it all up someday
Right In The Head
I hope my little brother puts a call in today
I hope he don't forget where he came from
I hope he never has to deal with wronging someone
'Cause I lived with many ghosts when I was younger
And I will live with many ghosts until I go
I hope he's right in the head
I hope he's right in the head
I hope he's right in the head
Even if he has to wrong someone
I hope he's right in the head
I hope he's right in the head
I hope he's right in the head
Even if he has to wrong someone
And I hope his guardian angel puts a gun in his hand
If ever they get ambushed or pursued
I hope she sticks around when he does dirty in this dirty, dirty duel he has brewed
And though the names will get changed to protect the innocent
He said, "I hope the names will get changed to protect me."
I hope he's right in the head
I hope he's right in the head
I hope he's right in the head
Even if he has to wrong someone
I hope he's right in the head
I hope he's right in the head
I hope he's right in the head
Even if he has to wrong someone
'Cause I lived with many ghosts when I was younger
And I will live with many ghosts until I go
Post-War
Don't they love you in mysterious ways
You say yeah but this is now and that was then
Put a dollar into the machine and you'll remember when
I know when everything feels wrong
I've got some hard, hard proof in this song
I'll know when everything feels right
Some lucky night
Some lucky night
Say the money just ain't what it used to be
Man how we used to tear apart this town
Put a dollar into the machine and you'll remember how
I know when everything feels wrong
I've got some hard, hard proof in this song
I'll know when everything feels right
Some lucky night
Some lucky night
Requiem
Well he stormed with his feet
And he clapped with his hands
He summoned all of his joy when he laughed
It suffered all of his joy when he cried
And sometimes when he got into talking
Man he could rattle all day long
He was a good man and now he's gone
Well in war he was a tiger
When it was over like a dove
He summoned all of his strength in the climb
It suffered all of his strength in the fall
And sometimes when he got into fighting
Man he could fight with you all day long
He was a good man and now he's gone
He put his trust in a higher power
He held his power like a holy grail
He summoned all of his faith in the lifting
It suffered all of his faith in the fail
His heart was stronger than a heavy metal bullet
And that's why I dedicate this song
He was a good man and now he's gone
His heart was stronger than a heavy metal bullet
And that's why I dedicate this song
He was a good man and now he's gone
Chinese translation
I sailed a wild, wild sea
Climbed up a tall, tall mountain
I met a old, old man
Beneath a weeping willow tree
He said now if you got some questions
Go and lay them at my feet
But my time here is brief
So you'll have to pick just three
And I said
What do you do with the pieces of a broken heart
And how can a man like me remain in the light
And if life is really as short as they say
Then why is the night so long
And then the sun went down
And he sang for me this song
See I once was a young fool like you
Afraid to do the things
That I knew I had to do
So I played an escapade just like you
I played an escapade just like you
I sailed a wild, wild sea
Climbed up a tall, tall mountain
I met an old, old man
He sat beneath a sapling tree
He said now if you got some questions
Go and lay them at my feet
But my time here is brief
So you'll have to pick just three
And I said
What do you do with the pieces of a broken heart
And how can a man like me remain in the light
And if life is really as short as they say
Then why is the night so long
And then the sun went down
And he played for me this song
Eyes on the prize
Everything I’ve learned I have forgotten
Everything I’ve forgotten looks just like new
I pulled the ends out for the tie that binds
To keep my promise with you
With my eyes on the prize
And my mind on you
I put my pride on the line
My whole life too
Now anything you ask me for is yours
Now say the word and I’ll lay it at your feet
I'll meet the pavements down the line somehow
If you keep your promise with me
With my eyes on the prize
And my mind on you
I put my pride on the line
And my whole life too
You say, take your axe and fashion me a kind of swing
Walkin' blues have played a number on my feet
I'll dance whatever dance you need to dance
'Cause you keep you promise with me
You'll keep your promise with me
You'll keep your promise
You'll keep your promise
You'll keep your promise with me
Magic Trick
People come, people go
Sometimes without goodbye
Sometimes without hello
She's got one magic trick
Just one and that's it
Oh she disappears
It's like, now you see her, now you don't
You think you're gonna get to know her now, well you won't
She's got one magic trick
Just one and that's it
Oh she disappears
It's like, easy come, easy go
Sometimes without goodbye
Sometimes without hello
She's got one magic trick