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Selfie - (2014)

by Bill Burke

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1.
Good Morning, World 05:01
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Look, there's another train rolling through Sydney Dublin is waking or starting to doze I get the latest from crawlers at Time Square Good morning world I'm another year older I thought I'd look out to see how it goes Moscow is almost pretty In morning light But it won't last long And lights are all that move in London town Broward, your tide's in Seattle's you're lovely Russia is looking much more like it does Sun blinded drivers who roll 'long the Danube Good morning world I'm another year older I thought I'd look out to see how it was Waiting for birds fly-by's Over Istanbul Under perfect skies Rio shores are lined in headlights Midtown siren crawls at midnight Elephants tolerate riders in Bali The frozen Niagara is looking bizarre I'll check out Dealey when I want to feel bad Good morning world I'm another year older I thought I'd look out to see how you are Egypt has quiet time The oasis waits and the water's fine The Brooklyn Bridge is showing off again There's the command That can find where the stars go There is my hard-wired feed to the buzz No sign of jet cars and shuttles to Mars though Good morning world I'm another year older I thought I'd look here to see where I was Rivers teem with boats in Thailand Music plays on tropic island There's the command That can chart where the stars go There is my hard-wired feed to the buzz No sign of jet cars and shuttles to Mars though Good morning world I'm another year older I thought I'd look here to see where I was Good morning world I'm another year older I thought I'd look out to see how it was Good morning world I'm another year older I thought I'd look out to see how it goes
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Golden Town 04:29
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Finally, the salty air, mixes with the sun Your boardwalk was never there Never needed one A mighty storm had its way along your shore And some buildings that stood before Have fallen hard The roll of the waves maintain an unbroken song Much that was here before, ain't where it belongs Some with machine, some with barely more than hands Trying to make it right again And bring ya back to where you've been I remember How you pulled me up when joy was aground I remember That your broken beach is my golden town I remember How you pulled me back when joy was aground I remember That your broken beach is my golden town Watching the seagulls, the glory-filled sky they roam What's up with the dumb ones That hang around back at home? I close my eyes, I feel a sandy bed While a fine, fine tune plays thinly in my head Havens I used to know, here's a tear for them The fortresses in their place How I'll cheer for them And I know You've been battered many times And that it's only a narrow line That keeps you here, that lets you shine I remember How you pulled me up when joy was aground I remember That your broken beach is my golden town I remember How you pulled me back when joy was aground I remember That your broken beach is my golden town
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Eli Dickinson 03:40
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Eli’s sitting at a favorite window Sizing up the world That sound's no thunder, just another jet He might start sneezing now and then And he's still wigged out by birds But that all started well before we met They saw him walking From the Great North Woods And no one could find from where he came And he was trying to make some friends Upon the point where we came in Young, thin and sick as hell, but he was charming just the same It's okay, I got my pal His name is Eli Dickinson He doesn't have a lot to say And he's got much less to hide A long time ago, survived in the trees Then he found a life of ease And left behind some mysteries That won't be satisfied Eli lives it like a fun-sized leopard As the hunting solves itself He'll dive at piles of paper for that sound Ya might see fine Bo Diddley walking Then he flops upon the floor He handles hallways like The Flash He thinks that gravity's a smash It's okay, I got my pal His name is Eli Dickinson He doesn't have a lot to say And he's got much less to hide A long time ago, survived in the trees Then he found a life of ease And left behind some mysteries That won't be satisfied I've heard of famed tornado cats His story ain't so cool as that But then again, how could I even know? Were there bats, bears, owls, coyotes? Moments he could not fail? Was there nothing left at all when that finish line was on his tail? It's okay, I got my pal His name is Eli Dickinson He doesn't have a lot to say And he's got much less to hide A long time ago, he survived in the trees Then he found a life of ease And left behind some mysteries That won't be satisfied A long time ago, he survived in the trees Then he found a life of ease And left behind some mysteries That won't be satisfied And left behind some mysteries That won't be satisfied
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This or That 03:33
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I saw Annie yesterday We talked our better times together A glow so beautiful Together, oh we'd sing Yeah, we looked set for everything But it would end up me and you Bet you know what I've been thinking No coincidence I hold that precious priceless note Of silly wordplay long ago This or that All there is Anyway And this is what I hope we'll have another day You think our chance has gone forever But I don’t believe it's true My heart holds you through any storm And when your that goes by This will still be here for you All the joy because of you All that's good because I have you I can’t remember as my head begins to cloud Is that stuff I really said out loud And while we're shiftin into dreams I think I'll hold another moment The perfect prophecy that I will always know In words you wrote me long ago This or that All there is Anyway And this is what I hope we'll have another day You think our chance has gone forever But I don’t believe it's true My heart holds you through any storm And when your that goes by This will still be here for you
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Absolutin' 04:36
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Hey, look now Hey, look now An apparition's at your side Don't get wigged I'm at the wrong gig Now I've got some time to hide So I'll tell you A tidbit or two Things to open up those eyes But if you doubt Can't figure it out Feel free to call them lies Oh, ambition or tolerance, courage so cool And humility castle's your king But you're on thin ice Any virtue can vice, babe And none can fix everything Ain't that wise You're so specialized There's a point in every game When one-track rails Are destined to fail Then you'd have yourself to blame Now the plate-spinner man had a practical plan So your reach had a shot at brass rings It's one nasty price When a virtue goes vice Baby, none can fix everything Oooooo absolute is the cat's meow these days Oooooo absolute and ya live your world a world away Now the plate-spinner man had a practical plan So your reach had a shot at brass rings But it won't be nice When a virtue goes vice, babe And none can fix everything Though it's patience or vigilance shining on stage Ya consider the rest in the wings Cuz it's all thin ice Any virtue can vice, babe And none can fix everything Yes, it's all thin ice Any virtue can vice, babe And none can fix everything Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo ect.
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Angelina's Eyes 03:56
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The rain is so cold Like a night that I remember Staring out at the freezing puddles way down on the road We were still there For so many different reasons Any charm that the skyline once held vanished long ago We had time to talk From the mountains of St. Mary’s Though by then it was mostly empty with Christmas on the way But late in the night We could play the Chinese checkers All around you could hear the voices The dying and the safe And in that world it’s all so clearly drawn Like love’s the only age you’ve got to know And the song that I’ve forgotten over time If I could only find it now Could it really take this long, and make it through somehow The glow from the trees And the sacred songs were faded In the light of an ancient hallway that we walked arm in arm And in that world it’s all so clearly drawn Like love’s the only age you’ve got to know And the song that I’ve forgotten over time If I could only find it now Could it really take this long, and make it through somehow Been so many years Now the wooden stairs are rotten And I know that a demolition is out there in the wings I’ll think of those days But they’re mostly left forgotten But Angelina’s eyes Oh, that’s another thing But Angelina’s eyes Oh, that’s another thing
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Time Waster 03:29
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Time waster back in my brain Time waster is at it again The time waster is hardly a friend But he loves to spend time with me Time waster hates Q and A Time waster all TBA I tell ya, I don't like his way But he loves to spend time with me My best-cooked plans are all marzipan I’ll pretend that they really taste better If he would go it would help me so As I never get on before he gets there Then we're joined at a hip or somewhere Time waster, we've been here before Time waster what's left to explore? Please tell me what's in the decor That you want to spend time You want to spend time here I think of things that might get me springed Ain't it funny how fast I forget them If he would go, that would help me so As I never get on before he gets there Then we're joined at a hip or somewhere Time waster hates Q and A Time waster all TBA I tell ya, I don't like his way But he loves to spend time with me Time waster back in my brain Time waster is at it again The time waster was never my friend But he loves to spend time He loves to spend time here
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Another Shindig 02:46
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Maybe somebody somewhere Played this one in ancient times And sang of beautiful maidens or silence of their king Tree frogs trill at midnight As the stars shine off the bay Or just a ballad to mark this holiday The counter striker has waited The battle scars too smooth and faded Nobles gathered their power For wenches, cake and ale Open-hearted messenger Made haste to find her way Just in time to mark the holiday Another shindig has ended The business world no more suspended The road you long for release from Is snaking on ahead Don't know what you're feeling Cuz I lost what I should say But, I'm hoping it's happy anyway But, I'm hoping it's happy anyway But, I'm hoping ya come back anyway
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Fool for a Feeling 03:52
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I never warmed to fake fireplaces I never heard an album by Tom But there I was at last with my true one To find transcendence there in her arms There'd been all that time that I'd wished she were her mine But it hadn't worked out that way Imagined us walking - the people would talk And then nothing can crush that fate I'm a fool for a feeling A tool for the fall We steered a ship through spring and midsummer And I ignored the clouds in our sky A mighty fate had brought us together So all the storms were bound to go by Nirvana was out there but slowly the doubt Was unveiling across her face And I couldn't tell that she saw it so well And we needn't prolong the chase Of a fool for a feeling And a tool for the fall And now I'm cool with fake fireplaces I got those songs of Tom in my soul I got some dreams to guide me forever But I would never let them control Nirvana was out there but slowly the doubt Was unveiling across her face And I couldn't tell that she saw it so well And we needn't prolong the chase Of a fool for a feeling And a tool for the fall I'm the fool for a feeling And a tool for the fall And a tool for the fall
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The Solstice 05:04
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The tall trees are already barren Their dead leaves are gone from the ground I think of this land in the promise of springtime Though next time, we won't be around We know very well that it's ended Just hard to accept that it's true To wish it all different won't change where we're headed It won't fix what we're going through A solstice has found us A hard chill is growing But look out the window and you'll see a ray With all of the cruel of the season awaiting The sun's veering back The sun's turning back The sun's coming back every day So this is goodbye to the good times And this is goodbye to the fight We tried very hard, but it won't go no further Can’t feel this wrong and be right But some day I bet we'll be back here And maybe I'll see you again All of this talk now - what's won and what's wasted We'll have the answers by then A solstice has found us The hard chill is growing But look out the window and you'll see a ray With all of the cruel of the season awaiting A solstice has found us A hard chill is growing But look out the window and you'll see a ray With all of the cruel of the season awaiting The sun's veering back The sun's turning back The sun's coming back every day The sun's veering back The sun's turning back The sun's coming back every day

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released December 13, 2014

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