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secrets replete

by noah mclaughlin

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1.
heart once lay 05:09
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the wound is angry where my heart once lay my pulse now slowly ebbs and flows with every beat away more of you goes a stone against the ocean worn away the current swift will always hold its sway no matter the course this sailor chose the wound is angry where my heart once lay my pulse now slowly ebbs and flows mark your course against your fate its length only the siren knows take your chance as hope it grows cast your lot on Peter's gate the wound is angry where my heart once lay it was strong once upon a merry time but one summer i lost your love when Charon called from his ferry fine i could not fill his glove and so i sang our love was made a rhyme fed my heart to flights of doves it was strong once upon a merry time but one summer i lost our love mark the beat this song my crime its tune a constant push and shove sing with choirs all from above hollow carols do my heart mime it was strong once upon a merry time
2.
uncomplicated 03:55
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we said uncomplicated come the morning we let it go already dedicated no time to take it slow we got lost on the city streets we got lost in between the sheets we played out in the rain we played out all our pain this is the book of us on these rumpled sheets this is our book of lust with secrets so replete we said uncomplicated dark confessions in the night at last our passions sated invitations to calm the fight days & nights so far apart one city, two aching hearts lips to skin and a humming bird five ways to count these words this is the book of us on these rumpled sheets this is our book of lust with secrets so replete oh stranger, stranger, where are you? oh danger, stranger, where are you? i feel you, i feel you still i feel you, i feel you still we said uncomplicated the last moment a simple kiss it's not so complicated how i feel about this i'm down where i ought to be and here you are still haunting me a friendly phantom to warm my skin a friendly phantom who let me in this is the book of us on these rumpled sheets this is our book of lust with secrets so replete
3.
good lines make good lovers 04:23
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i wore black for you that night, you wore me white but those shades are too stark for us we learned: we prefer grey we learned: we prefer... i was the one under the light, you held me tight but that was later after the revelry we learned: we prefer shadows we learned... there is a question you should not answer keep it simple, keep it true there is a line we draw together and i keep crossing it we are an unfinished song; we are a melody we are a chorus of bedpost confessions our harmony was unseen our harmony ... we are a portal, a passage, a dark secret alley a drug, an addiction, we know what we’re doing or do we know where to go do we? i don't know there is a question you should not answer keep it simple, keep it true there is a line we draw together and i keep crossing it over and over again are we ghosts for each other, phantoms of wanting are we shadows of fear, well, what do we fear getting near, nearer to near, nearer to another verse in this rhyme, this psalm of lost bodies another rhyme in this line do you know where it’s going with you? going with you there is a question you should not answer keep it simple, keep it true there is a line we draw together and i keep crossing it over and over again
4.
bourbon 02:37
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have you met my old friend Jim? Kentucky-born and good to me and have you met the twins? from a shady Clermont street ain't got nothin' left to lose an' that's the way it oughta be in the gutter can't crawl no lower after all what she done to me i got bourbon i got you two i got hammered i got screwed but i deserve half these kicks on a bender, i'm an SOB but the other half're just outta spite on a bender, she's just as mean as me she got bourbon she got those two we got hammered i got screwed well i'm a man of simple tastes my truck is old, my dog is new he's more loyal than i'll every be but less fun than my latest bruise i got from bourbon i got from you two i got hammered i got screwed oh, she got bourbon she got those two we got hammered i got screwed
5.
isle dauphine 03:30
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i am so lonely on this island made of greed so far away from friendly drawls it’s black and cold up here on this steely Yankee sea no gulf winds to calm my soul you are home, you are home Isle Dauphine, you are home your bones are on the outside when they should not be at all it was a scene that chilled those sailors' souls but once they changed your name to sound like Louis' son they came and claimed your every knoll you are home, you are home Isle Dauphine, you are home you survive the hurricanes with Katrina's wrath, only split in twain the sea will always pass you by your enchanted shores in the storms' eye your bay of birds, your lakes of blue your fancy balls, but your haulers too the fleur de lys is in your past i am the son you have raised best you are home, you are home Isle Dauphine, you are home
6.
so long shuffle 03:21
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i wait for a single note from you i lean so far that i fall silence - is all that i get from you i guess - you're letting me crawl these words - are all i that have for you i guess - you gave it your all let go this weightless anxiety stay calm alone in this crowd i wish - i knew what to say to you do you - think i'm too proud i wish - the best of the best for you there i - said it aloud i walk like i’m gonna fall over i dance like i’m gonna fall down no balance i’m a jangly lover heart heavy i shuffle around and maybe someday you’ll walk up and touch me will you say oh lover you wanna dance? we’ll turn and we’ll spin and we’ll laugh so giddy we’ll burn and we’ll crash just like we did before i take all of my love for you leave it all at your door i want - just one thing from you one more - turn on the floor i want - this one thing from you one last - turn on the floor i walk like i’m gonna fall over i dance like i’m gonna fall down no balance i’m a jangly lover heart heavy i shuffle around i drink like i’m gonna fall over i love full tilt and down no balance i’m a jangly lover heart heavy i shuffle around
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under over 03:20
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in the depths of Hades’ halls she awaits in shadowed thrall oh my on the banks of Mnemosyne she bathes in her memories of sky how she sings the hymn of us it echoes on through Tartarus oh me in the gold of Elysian fields she sows these seeds & shields for me and the Sisters one-eyed watch all black winter long when the poet comes: debauch with his lover’s song on the mount above the clouds there drinks a mighty crowd ambrosia at Delphi writhes a little girl who questions a divided world but won’t heed she asks the Sphinx and Tiresias to divine our secret trust they can’t say all the spring and the summer, too we soar on 'cross those fields of blue can’t stay, please stay and the Sisters one-eyed watch all white summer long when the poet comes: debauch with his lover’s song and there she goes my divided love another year gone by but i know that we will meet again another year gone by
8.
in the end 02:57
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gave up my life today ground all my dreams to dust and now there’s nothing left to lose i found death today i stood up straight and tall and i asked him: what’s this life for anyway? he answered me in many tongues in riddles from necromantic tomes but in the end all he said was nothing i crawled down the pit of hell just to see the frozen lake to ride the hairy flank of God’s forgotten son i found Lucifer i stood up straight and tall and i asked him: what’s this life for anyway? he answered me in many tongues in riddles from necromantic tomes but in the end all he said was nothing i climbed up to the pearly gates and argued with the keeper there but in the end they had to let me in i found God today i stood up straight and tall and i asked him: what’s this life for anyway? he answered me in many tongues in riddles from necromantic tomes but in the end all he said was nothing
9.
seeds to sow 02:14
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old abandoned rusty love where did you go, these seeds to sow seasons hot and seasons cold unending rain, deepest snow back roads black hills your motor trills on those happy days of rolling free pedal down, you took me your took me far, so far beyond these silent hills did we abscond back roads black hills your motor trills on it’s so unfair to leave you so roll away steel tombstone long you live beyond the grave my aching heart did you once save back roads black hills your motor trills on
10.
up to zion 03:16
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when Leonard spoke of that secret chord that David played and it pleased the lord well, i knew exactly the modulation and when he said hallelujah and praised the skies praised Vienna, and praised your thighs yes, i knew the pitch of the ululation and every time you come into my bed you bring me back from the dead i am your Lazarus, you are my savior and i will perch upon Golgotha in your place as you fling your sacrifice into space but you know there ain't really no excuse for my behavior in the darkest corner of your mind there is something that only i can find it’s hidden there - deep within your dreams it’s nothing that you have ever thought but it is something sold and something bought and it ain’t ever exactly what it seems so take your paradise in hand give it color, give it sand and watch it rise high above the horizon and from your lonely wooden tower now watch the world as its men all drown and take your loving victim up to Zion
11.
it's time 03:48
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i guess it's time to find out how long it might take to forget me, forgive me, to love me again i guess it's time to go looking afar in the field right next door, right next to me in bed what am i looking for? i sing you you sing me, too i feel you but do you feel me they way i see you i guess it's time to remember our first kiss, that mix of fear, of passion, of reckless abandon i guess it's time to decipher those runes of madness you scribe, you sing, you carve onto my heart you put a spell on me i sing you you sing me, too i feel you but do you feel me they way i still do i guess it's time to let go to watch you take flight take wing and soar upon those winds you're not alone i guess it's time for patience to wait and sing this tune will you return or will you soar away your destiny your own i sing you you sing me, too i see you do you see me here i'll see you whether long or soon no one can tell not even you when it's time
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missives resplendent 04:56
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missives resplendent with shining guitars bridges that bring you back to yourself i could not have wished you a greater bounty i could not have given you all of this wealth and it's been such a long time, a long time coming you've battled your demons, your devils so long i wish at least i could've held your banner you are Joan, Elizabeth, Boudica, God you suffer these slings and destiny arrows they've rained down upon you for so long it's just noise these lists you make and you free to the ether protect, project your sorrows and joys these lists you make have unmade me they carry truth beneath their facade your madness is wisdom, just takes time to see it you are Joan, Elizabeth, Boudica, God i have remade you you have remade me your silence the poison your silence the cure Ouroborus hemlock Orphean refrains your silence the thorn your silence the balm you may not believe me but i think you do methinks that this lady doth protest a bit too much yeah, 3 in the morning ain't no time for phone calls but why do you keep on calling my name? you cannot refuse what's offered up freely you can only keep quiet, keep to yourself but i am patient, i seek such divinity you are Joan, Elizabeth, Boudica, God

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released September 13, 2011

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