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Do Not Let Them Fool You
02:54
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Do Not Let Them Fool You! (words: B. Brecht, music: J. Panic)
Do not let them fool you,
there’s no way back home
The day’s on the point of going,
already the night wind is blowing
And no dawn will come
Do not let them gyp you,
life’s not very big
Drink it and go on drinking
and when, at last, you’re sinking
You’ll want another swig
Don’t let them get your hopes up,
today’s all there is
Let pious people suffer,
cuz life’s all earth has to offer
And there is no life after this
Don’t let them lure you into
exhaustion, duress
Why all the trepidation?
You die like all creation
And after: nothingness
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Glory Holes
05:26
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Glory Holes
I found a life inside of me
I thought that I could tell
just what I’d want it for
I ask my friend “Where would you go?”
She says “I don’t know,
but you can only be more”
Your time, it hangs in holes
above every street,
the parking meters weep,
signposts compete
Your time, it hangs in holes
but when will heaven know
that you don’t want just to believe
cuz every baby must conceive
and learn to walk alone
The only light is fire light,
that's obvious as hell
With the sun in your face, you feel like gold
but it leaves a bruise,
so you use up every space
Your time, it hangs in holes
but on the other side of the wall
someone makes you feel so good but they're concealed
behind a glory hole
But the glory shows you
that the glory is shown
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Only Give Light To The Morning
How can you even know that you’re right?
There’s a right and a wrong way of knowing
So you walk into Paradise
like you didn’t even know it was growing
What’s the point of this longing for night
If your lover can’t wait for the morning?
If we train ourselves to only give light
to the morning
If we start to only feel safe
in a discount store
There’s a seed that can separate
what you want
from the reasons you need it
What’s the score if your game isn’t tied
to the warning bell?
What’s the matter if the mind doesn’t matter?
The brain is always climbing
So, what are you waiting for?
The Holy Design of the valued corpse?
The obvious place for you?
The sacred and golden rule?
Well, what are you gonna do for light?
Man like peace and ballooning with pride
‘til they start eating baby together
How could they even know that they’re right?
There’s a right and a wrong way,
a weak and a strong way,
of growing
If we train ourselves right,
we’ll only give the light to the morning
To the morn’ if the first is all phantom and grey
and microphoning
And what are you waiting for?
The Holy Design or the Valued Corpse?
The obvious place for you?
The one becomes me becomes you
So, what are you gonna do for light?
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David Poe
03:16
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David Poe (words: J. Panic, music: J. Panic/J. DeMars)
David Poe has a bow
and an arrow
that he will sink
into young Kathy’s heart
If she’s not smart
And it will go
to the center of a union
Like a spider and its art
A tongue may do
Cuz it’s not like, if you don’t use it,
it’d be wasted
And there’s nothing,
I said, there’s no one,
that you could want for tasting
And the platform licks her feet
when she steps from the train
and hands him a letter
signed with the Name
It’s clear she wants the same
That makes him feel better,
but not glad she came
David Poe doesn’t know
that she wants
each and every body
No, he can’t guess
that when she goes
She won’t be saving his place
and the painter, with a stroke,
could change the face
He’s finding many ways,
not just to get her,
but then to get away
David Poe has a bow
and an arrow
that he will sink
into young Kathy’s heart
And it will go
to the center of a union
It’s a lonely kind of smart
that keeps them apart
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5. |
The Reason, To Know
03:51
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The Reason, To Know
The reason to know
is never to grow
The reason put forth
‘til now
Never too low
to be undersold
Never too low
To be undersold
I couldn’t say what I wanted
I couldn’t say what I wanted
but He knew
How to carry on
The Word
become Name
can never explain
the move inside a life
Never too low
to be undersold
Never too low
to be undersold
Though it was all that I wanted,
I had to think things through
But He knew how to carry on
Oh Lord,
how could You be wrong?
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6. |
Two Sounds
02:05
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Two Sounds
Two sounds:
one that can only mean trouble
one that was meant to be subtle
but understood in time
Too nervous -
you call love one form of seduction
then you sit around and wait for instructions
you cannot receive
because of what you’ve got hidden
in your sleeve
and what you can call it to know
how to grow into innocence, oh yeah
Two sounds
But what if the sound was a bell
that you knew too well?
And what if the sound was a bell
that proved you to hell
so that you, and only you,
could reunderstand what you knew?
To know how to love is to know
how to grow into innocence
Oh yeah!
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Fear of Open Spaces
03:59
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Fear Of Open Spaces
You looked for a sinner
because you’re a priest
and can’t keep your heart from
the ones you love least
People will find you,
but people can leave
and don’t you want more
than the things they believe in today?
Though a prayer floats away
Some die for silver
and some die for gold
That’s easy to sense,
but it’s hard to behold
that even when you keep
all your thoughts so pristine
heaven surrounds every space
between you and the world
Though you may never be sure
So you fall,
cuz you’re frail
and it’s all been a fraud
And space
is your only god
You fall,
cuz you’re frail
and it’s all been a fraud
and cuz space
is your only god
Only G-d
Only G-d
Only G-d
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The Blues of a New Man
03:22
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The Blues Of A New Man
You wanted something you could die for
but, lately, a new plan
has shown itself to your eyes
You’re a new man
Branches that could no longer bear fruit
have bloomed and now the Son has taken root
Taken root in your soul
A new, a new man
The blues has started anew,
a new man
But when will heaven know?
And, though I brought all things to reason,
my heart found a new land
Walking through the valley, I take a new hand
He leads me past the shadows of my doubt
and gives to me the silver in the cloud
For that which makes me sicker with the truth,
for that which sees me through every abuse,
I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever
I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever
I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever
I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever
I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever
Forever and ever
A new, a new man
The blues has started anew
A new man
But when will heaven know?
When will heaven know?
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9. |
Baby Divine
03:21
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Baby Divine
Baby divine,
you’re so pretty
Baby divine,
you’re so lazy
Baby divine,
you’re divine for me anyway
Baby divine,
you’re so sweet
Baby divine,
you knock me off of my feet
Baby divine,
you’re divine for me
Now when death comes a-knockin’,
got you knockin’ your knees,
you can always think of something
to make your life more than consumption
You can plead
But, you know, that pockets have pockets
and holes have holes
But the Lord is a rock in the stream
in the stream
In this dream
Baby divine,
you’re so fine,
so amazing
Baby divine,
with your guilt
for this watery wine,
you’re divine
you’re divine
for me anyway
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10. |
To Be Right
04:09
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To Be Right
So it takes a lot of work
and a foreign kind of heart
You could cease to hit the mark
Or get tied to thinking dark
and never start
Did you come to be alive
or just only to survive on what they give?
They don’t give you the right
It’s a value you create
in the backwoods, in the alley,
And it takes a lot of work to be hard
The Names have all erased
The brain decides what everything’s worth
And what remains
makes you feel that you’re right
Just like everyone else
And you feel that tonight can’t be wrong
And you know that tonight can’t be wrong
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11. |
Silver Sound
03:43
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Silver Sound
Silver road is your own way to go
The Silver Sound makes it
so much faster to get where you’re going
The other sounds are wasting your time
Because they never bring the reason to rhyme
Walk alone if your heart is too full
The space between your lips is a black hole
And the words that you think, that you know,
they work just like a ghost in your brain and you say:
“I know what I mean, I just can’t explain”
The Silver Sound destroys
the verb and noun that brings us down
Your tongue is just a flag
that makes you gag
If you can’t stand the sun in your face,
The Silver Sound is a shady place
With the light that we capture at dawn,
we’ll wake up every shadow and ghost
and throw away the candy nobody chose
The Silver Sound creates
a destiny that keeps it free
from every ‘yes’ and ‘no’
that makes you slow
Silver road is your own way to go -
the Silver Sound makers
Walk alone if you think they’re too slow
7 out of 9 are fakers
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June Panic Vienna, Austria
June Panic is a singer-songwriter from Grand Forks, North Dakota, currently residing in Vienna, Austria.
Since 1990, he has
recorded 13 solo albums of indie pop/folk/punk songs in addition to records with the bands Free Jesse and June Panic's Wife.
June's 7th album, Glory Hole, was the first release of the indie label Secretly Canadian.
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