Caledonia
Caledonia
Caledonia
We all need a place to go
Back in  our mind to that green grass
And that gold light
Quiet, quiet… lay up lay up awhile
Maybe get yourself right
 
Caledonia…
Where the silence is not terrifying
And yeah of course the stars are shining
And the waves ease up on the shoreline
Softly gently softly mama…
Don’t it satisfy
 
Caledonia…
I smell the smoke in the air
And the fields – they’re in flames –
They’re burning
And the birds are hollering blaming me
I know I know Caledonia Caledonia
Is gone

White girl, white girl, get loose get loose
I got those ashes to ashes dust to dust blues
Help me with this feeling that I just can't lose
White girl you know I'm counting on you, counting on you

Ashes to ashes, aw we're cookin' for awhile
Then we all fall down in separate piles
Ain't that a drag, to have to contemplate?
So shake it once for love, and once for hate, aw yeah

White girl, white girl you got those freckles on your nose
But you roll those hips, like a Spanish Rose
Naw I have not been done the way you do me, Mama,
Roll 'em for the day you gonna say you never knew me, yeah

Roll 'em for the capers between the womens and the mens
Strangers to lovers to strangers again
For all those catastrophes up around the bend
Roll 'em for the difference between now and then, yeah

Shadows of birds, shadows of planes
Invisible lines through sunny days
Nothing no good ever could remain
Oh my darlin' Clementine…
We are lost and gone forever -
But the moving feels fine

Roll 'em for the day when everything's gonna explode
Roll 'em for my heart and it's heavy heavy load
Roll 'em for the trespasses you won't forgive
Roll 'em for the love you ain't got to give
Roll 'em for the beauty you ain't never gonna see -
I'm talking 'bout birds flying from a linden tree
Scattered by the slamming of a back door screen
On July 25th, 3003
Roll 'em roll 'em for this band, they just got one more song
We'll be shuffling through the door before too long
Then it's out on the avenue all wet with rain -
And everything's gonna be everywhere again, aw yeah

Low July

I seen the way you wore your sadness

Like something you could dance with

- a thin pretty piece of fabric baby -

not a heavy chain

and then feeling like dancing yeah well

that’s just feeling like dancing oh

and being grown is knowing not to question

why don’t I feel any pain?

And it’s the last day of the best time

That we could both make with our broke minds

Of this sad June and this low July

Oh this damaged summertime

Now leave that white moon by my bedside

I’ll be able soon I’ll be alright

To walk on out in the morning then

Gonna watch it all die again

Hey you know I wanna thank you babe

But sometimes you know it’s hard to thank you baby

And I really really want to thank you babe

But it’s hard it’s hard it’s hard sometimes

And I know we’re gonna step back and see this thing

As part of some kind of bigggr something

But me and you were never really good at that kind of thing

Thank god thank god

And it’s the last day of the best time…

Sadness sadness

Sadness sadness

Such a heavy cloud coming down

Rose petals on the wet cement

They drifted then they drowned

They drifted then they drowned

Nobody wants to be alone nobody wants to die

Nobody wants to be alone nobody wants to die

I called you corn silk and I called you sugar cane

Smoke your cigarettes in the freezing rain

Huddled up like penguins with all the other

Skinny things

But I remember your eyes in the night –

They were blazing – and I was so hungry for you

That’s right

Nobody wants to be alone…..

In the beauty of the lilies you were born out by the sea

With a pain in your heart that enraptured me

And I still can’t believe I didn’t save you

And you still can’t believe you didn’t save me

And I still can’t believe I didn’t save you

And you still can’t believe you didn’t save me

Nobody wants to be alone….

There are syllables and there are stances

For every fuck up and lost chance

But fear is an exploding atom burst

And your heart is not a universe

It’s a small room in the winter babe

With a twin bed and a space heater babe

In the middle of cold December yeah

But still with the dream of summer yeah

Nobody wants to be alone…..

Think I’m playing dozens man I ain’t your cousin

Man, you ain’t nobody to me

And I ain’t nobody to you

I ain’t nobody to you

I ain’t nobody to you

July, so hot, you can’t move nothing

So you do something

Just to prove something, yeah

What you gonna do?

What you gonna do?

What you gonna do?

Think I’m playing dozens man I ain’t your cousin…..

And the air gets so swollen

Then they pop their pistolas

I ain’t a Latin King pretty babe

But I don’t care about a goddamn thing

Let it lie down

Let it lie down

Let it lie down

Last night I had a dream of the prairie
There was a storm about to blow it's stack
And the wind was blowin' the wheat face down
And the sun turned the gray clouds black

It was another July apocalypse
Looked out the back window, seen my little 'sis
With her hands to the sky, waitin' on it to burst
So the very first drop to fall would be hers

Just seven years old, what a sight to see -
With her mama's t-shirt to her knees
She wasn't scared at all of the wild wind's fangs
I dreamed she turned to me and sang…

Oh let these clouds come and wreck the air
Hush-a-by all your worries and cares
For every storm that this way comes
There's the beauty of the moment when the blowin's done

Over mountains high and valleys deep
In a restless California sleep
My sister came to me and lit my way
Back to the danger and the love of a July day

Now if you come from where the weather's the worst
You believe in death, you believe in re-birth
I'd lost my way in this perfect weather
'Til my sister came and put my head together

she said you get who you is from who you was
and we don't pass through storms, they pass through us
so if you're stumbling along in some strange sunlight
sing yourself this prairie lullaby
Oh let these clouds come and wreck the air…

Don't you go looking so surprised, baby don't you look so stunned
Didn't I tell you that a cold november'd come?
And deliver the leaves from green to red,
To blowing in the wind stone dead

Well I never used to notice this awful quiet, mmmmh
And fall was just the calm before the next spring riot, mmmhh
Of wildflowers and lunatic rivers -
sweat jumping off of the skin of love givers, mmh (in the park)

scattered leaves don't lie
aw' now baby, baby, quit your cryin'
like everything that ever mattered, scit-scat scattered
like every love word you heard
but that's just the way when you walk your days
in the beauty of this world
(repeat)

pretty little disappointments all in a row
been about a year since you disappeared through my door
and now you come back with your head on straight,
but I got no love or hate left for you, girl

you must be the daughter of the late, late rose - I'm November's son
and I'm here to tell you, honey, ooh what's done is done
yeah, I been claimed by the wind and the rain
there ain't no going back, naw there ain't no going back again (for us now)

repeat chorus -- Scattered leaves don't lie…….

Drip drop split splat

Blood in the snow

Who’s that wolf with his leg in the trap

Struggling in the moonglow

His whole body is shot through with pain

But see his yellow eyes in the night

They could swallow the world

In flames

We never never never never

Dream

We feel the sun we feel the pain

Of everything that’s ripped away

We never dream we never dream

Always the getting bit

Always the biting back

Ooh and some incredible goodnesses

Between the attacks

Of course there is no future now

There never was a past

Can’t you feel me now in the night baby doll

Can’t you feel me coming at you

We never never never never

Dream…..

Yes I see it now

I see it as if was all brand new

There is no faint music drifting in

From other rooms

There is only this burning

I told you I am not dreaming

There is only this burning

There is only this burning

We never never never never

Dream…