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Written and Arranged by Trances Arc
Lyrics by Ledo

Tell Me Where You're Going

I trapped a fox in the corner with a whale's tail
under the canopy it shook like fire
And all the kids paid a nickel for the cleansing gale
and chased the sun beyond the sinking mire

Tell me where you going
you took a little bit of me without you knowing
over the state line

Tell me where you going
you took a little bit of me without you knowing

I bought a cat in a cradle with a silver spoon
with all the fathers loosing precious time
and all the kids took thier bottles with thier frozen flowers
and drank the absence like a chocolate wine...

Tell me where you going
you took a little bit of me without you knowing
over the state line

God willing yea we're all gonna be OK
God willing we'll be off and rolling

And overhead of the steeple we were closing fast
and casting shadows over crowded fields
and all the kids threw thier nickels to the fountains edge
and wishing money'd fill thier empty pails.

Everybody wants it, so I'll make it mine all mine
build it for a quarter, gonna sell it for dollar nine.

Tell me where you going
you took a little bit of me without you knowing

God willing yea we're all gonna be OK
God willing we'll be off and feeling lost without you.

Cold Drivers

I feel your eyes burn in 10 directions.. all night long
Your seeking solace in violent actions.. keeps you strong

knocking them down with your cold blank stare
sing and you shout your gone tomorrow

knocking them down singing I don't care
sing and you shout you're gone tomorrow

Like a cold driver letting them get to you
I've got you on the mark
I've got you in the sun

Like a rich murderer, Like a cold driver
You've come to take me tonight...

We kept on counting, you shot so many... in washington
Just like the passers that I encounter.. one by one...

knocking them down with your cold blank stare
sing and you shout your gone tomorrow

knocking them down singing I don't care
sing and you shout you're gone tomorrow

Like a cold driver letting them get to you
I've got you on the mark
I've got you in the sun

Like a rich murderer, Like a cold driver
You'll never take me tonight...

Parliament

Forefronts mounting, are you undercover?
I heard you took your bribes by night.

I've got this two ton suitcase that I'm handing over
The cops coming in to get me
The cops coming in to get me

Caught up in the vent, overthrow the Parliament
One way, your way. Alright. Alright.
wanted you to re-invent, wearing down the pavement
Undercoat, overcoat. Alright. Alright.

We got arrested vested in your constitution
I filled the blanks between your lines

I've got these goldern arrows buried in the blood wood.
The cops coming in to get me
The cops coming in to get me

Caught up in the vent, overthrow the Parliament
One way, your way. Alright. Alright.
wanted you to re-invent, wearing down the pavement
Undercoat, overcoat. Alright. Alright.
Red hands re-unite, ready for the big fight,
One way, your way. Alright. Alright.

Taking you over. Taking you over.

They won't belive me.
They don't believe me.
They've come to catch me.
They won't belive.

Don't Like Leaving

She's such a tight jean sugar queen.
Paper cuts tatooed on her right hand.

Inside her red hot boot cut, so smart
breaking down a candy cane.

Pirouettes under the moon beams
and the sweat escapes the loose seams
and she's lost in fancy shoe stores
Fast fast boots gonna take me downtown.

She don't want to go
said they'll never know that you're never coming home
cause she don't like leaving.

She's such a butterfly peacock
strutting down Paris in her striped socks

Another long night satellite broadcast
bringing in the bog rock.

Pirouettes under the moon beams
and the sweat escapes the loose seams
and she's lost in fancy shoe stores
Fast fast boots gonna take me downtown.

She don't want to go
said they'll never know that you're never coming home
cause she don't like leaving.

Birds Collide

We heard you crying in the summer sky
We heard the crashing when the birds collide at night
Saw it fall, saw it fall into a fiery glow
We felt the pounding in the villages below

Hey hey its not ok to keep you running with a sharp knife
Hey hey we're on our way, we keep on shouting when the birds collide at night...

Got caught in the corners of the coldest cells
we went a searching down the deepest of wishing wells...
and while we swim all around underwater lights...
Jorge Amado's got it all figured out tonight

Hey hey its not ok to keep you running with a sharp knife
My my, we've gone astray, we got distracted with our own lives
Yea Yea its new years day, we take the yoke and pull it back blind
Hey hey we're on our way, we keep on shouting when the birds collide at night...

So damned sun hits the ceiling
captain, begin with the healing
so fast wing tips and bullets
covered thick like a blanket
we'll point fingers at faces
no one near to embrace us
So damned suns hits the ceiling
two birds, begin with the healing

Peace Of Mind

hello hello, how'd you make it
accidental in your ocean

I was restless in my clothing
caught up in the still of motion

patches patches on your shoulders
to close and spilling over

Eyes wide open on the canvass
rolling over fourleaf clovers

All in season, barely breathing

stay up, stay up, my love
stay up, we'll get by...

I'm looking for a peace of mind
I'm looking for a peace of mind.

Rooks and owls under the stairs
into the twilight never sleeping

Goodbye to your window waving
quiet quiet no one hearing

pages pages yellow turning
letters we would end up burning

but you're here and now and with a
piece of mind we'll end up sleeping

While we're waiting
never fading..

stay up, stay up, my love
stay up, we'll get by...

I'm looking for a peace of mind
I'm looking for a peace of mind.

wake up, wake up, my love
I know, we'll get by...

I'm looking for a peace of mind
I'm looking for a peace of mind.

wake up, wake up, my love
the sounds white like a dove
the night won't pass us by
we won't know till we try.

Look Up

when the clowns came around to blow out your candles
they were watching for white flag in hand

we would walk for a mile. find ourselves untangled
past the buildings that shift through the sand

all I want floating through
deep sad song with no rest or sleep
tonight...we break in, celebrating...

Look up, look down, there's angels all around
coming to take us to the great fontier...

our hearts abound... nothing to keep us down
pretend you're anywhere but here. Oh my Oh dear..

(Look up look down, there's diamonds all around
I'll buy them, anything you want...)

When the train came around, made you pick up your pieces
we would find there was no place to go

we would sit for an hour til the tunnels turn blue
then we'd burn out the lights, hit the floor.

All I need, your hand in mine
I'll keep you to the chest
in flight...we break in, celebrating...

cry if you want
You'll still be strong enough
banish the front
covered in dirty rags...
they kicked us out
but we were the radiant ones...
we were the radiant ones..

StarSpangled

X O X O X. On my finger tips
Black Sky and my lover on a trailer hitch
X O X O X. With hearts beating. My hearts beating.

S T A N D. right here next to me.
Got my separation and anxiety.
Stand here next to me please.
My hearts beating. Hearts beating.

I gave a hand but the hand was never good enough
I took a stand but the standing wasn't getting it done
Took a ride, said I might was well fall in love,
my StarSpangled hearts beating.

We stand resolute from these parachutes
So high from the air above the canopy
We stand resolute
With hearts beating. Hearts beating.

I gave a hand but the hand was never good enough
I took a stand but the standing wasn't getting it done
Took a ride, said I might was well fall in love,
my StarSpangled hearts beating.

In You're Out

You're a little scared in your own make-up
Rusting Silverwear cellophane soap-box

You try to run, but you sit tight, well ok.
You try to push through the fake light, well ok.

Uh Oh. Don't you know that when you're in you're out
You're in your out.

Wondrous little stones loading your sling shot
broken styrofoam floating in thick plots

You try to paint over stark white, well ok.
You try to faint cause you won't fight, well ok.

Uh Oh. Don't you know that when you're in you're out
You're in your out.

You're on your way.
Over the landscape of hope and apologies.
Speaking in tongue, filling your lungs, till you're screaming in front of me.

Everyone's just too cool for me.

New Style

Before I mention that your doors wide open
You should check the locks before you pull away through the boulevard.
With blank stares ending at your short sleeves' mending.
I'm guessing we should rip the pockets off our denim jeans and leave the holes there.

With your phones on
Playing like you don't care.
Your religion making you a martyr.

I've got the new style.
Its all that I need.
I've got a new pride the seams have come undone.
its starting to bleed.
I've got the new style.

Before I mention that we've taken over
I tell you, this could be the best parade you've ever had in your back yard.
With these stairs breaking under force fields mending. yea we'll rip the buttons off
our polyester plaids like the cool kids.

With your phones on
Playing like you don't care.
Your religion making you a martyr.

I've got the new style.
Its all that I need.
I've got a new pride the seams have come undone.
its starting to bleed.
I've got the new style.

You took a ride ride, now you're indisposed.