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The Beehive of Selfish Selves

by The Tomorrow File

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1.
(Waiting For) The Wrecking Machine
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2.
Jennifer Morgan 02:08
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Jennifer Morgan rode her bike All through my neighborhood In the summer of '75 She turned and smiled at me When Jennifer Morgan rode her bike I hid like Robin Hood Even when her sister said She was in love with me Do you want to row to China? I'll meet you on the moon In my dreams it's always summer and green Time catches up so soon Jennifer Morgan moved away I never saw her again And I wonder to this day Did she ever know? Could she ever see? What she meant to me When I was fourteen?
3.
Get Out Of Boston 03:08
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Do you ever wonder where The lights go when the curtains are drawn? A good friend said You can't fake destiny I gave my word I'd see it through And spite the ghost of me and you Now I see It cannot be Get out of Boston while you can And learn to take your medicine, man She's not what you need and she'll sink you like a stone You're already gone But it wasn't always rust and sawdust There were good times, but the hard truth showed us That wishing for peace cannot make it so You've gotta let go Get out of Boston while you can And learn to take your medicine, man She's not what you need and she'll sink you like a stone You're already gone Do you ever wonder why The need to love Clouds our eyes with gold And dead rainbows?
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What I Saw At The Tea Party 02:44
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Lance me, kick me You wanna brick me Your only mission Is to put me down Green paper greed You wanna make me bleed Ink flows drowning In the sound of Striking confessions Blinding perceptions Come and storm the castle its a crime Blank resurrections Perfect imperfections Come and join the party it's sublime Tempt me, preempt me I'm heaven sent, G! Time bomb Blows away the crowd Old dead tree The weight of liberty Your revolution makes A funny sound Striking confessions And crowded redemption We'll build you up before we tear your down Grant me and keep me Before you sleep me Heavy is the head that wears the crown Old ways, new ways Tell me it's the End of Days Raise me and teach me You know you'll never reach me I'll show you what it means To live in light Striking confessions Bend to go the distance Burning witches bellow up in smoke We light the fire, of passion's desire All this human conviction makes me choke
5.
Flutter 00:44
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Here in this infected lounge Asylum of graceless sighers Just below the surface lies The sound of someone trying You don't know me You don't know me
6.
Going Home (By and By) 02:03
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I'm going home where the angels receive me I'm going home to the angels on high I'm going home where the angels will greet me We're going home, by and by Break me, take me Turn out my soul soul and save me I'm going home where the angels receive me I'm going home with angels on high I'm going home where the angels will greet me We're going home, by and by
7.
Under The Canopy (Katrina)
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Worm's-Eye View
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You say your future is unguessed You say you life's like a crow's nest When your love's thrown back at you Remember what you were born to do and feel You say your life has No reason You say your heart's Out of season Life is more than shifting dirt Or painting with dead arrow root Or drawing with the blackest soot It's everything we know we should If Time's a ruthless sower Of bones and whispers and rough-lunged crowers To heel to toe in wooden shoes And throw away your worm's-eye view
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The City of Broken Toys
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Every tick follows every tock Every sparrow, every falling rock Every shepherd, every hungry flock Every anger, every broken lock Every inch before every mile Every grace before every smile Every sacrifice, every hungry child Every seed, every field grown wild A savaged dream become blind rage The dreams of freedom broken in a cage A song of summer overplayed A one-act play on a burning stage Blow on, like sand, But theres no hiding place, All alone Completely on your own Stay with me darling, I'm coming home
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Hunted 00:39
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I don't recognize These broken hands before my eyes Listen cunningly Thinking joylessly Always there with me
11.
The Ticking Of the Clock 04:14
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I never meant to hurt you I never wanted my words To bruise or to beat you But I was in pain and so I said Some things that I needed to say And now you've turned your face I drove you away because I could not see That pressure was building in me So if I pushed too hard It was only because of the goddamn ticking of the clock I cannot say that I knew All along I'd be leaving my home When I first met you But you felt so good For a moment I thought I'd pause Before I broke on through This cynical shell that I've been living in This mind that has put me through hell Was wearing a smile It was a terrible shock This goddamn ticking of the clock I had to wonder: is there really something here to choose? Have a drink and a laugh between the on and the off I tried so hard to get through Oh, before I had to go I should have told you from the start That all I wanted from you was a warm soft spot in your heart And that I would leave inside you A message destined to explode into your future I had so little time, for I knew I was leaving Still I'd hoped that we could both reach out And make it matter somehow And shelter ourselves from the killing ticking of the clock It makes me sad, it makes me sorry That I tried in a letter to tell you what was going on I should have known better Instead of being a man and taking your hand Sometimes it feels like I'm destined to misunderstand That the written word can turn promise to sand But I never deceived you Now resentment and anger are the order of the day Is there anything I can do To sweep all the sadness away? All I really tried to say was need it only be one day Since soon I'll be leaving? And so you see, I didn't know That I was coming on strong Because there was no time to go slowly Time slips away Always leaving the gentle and good ones shattered So Thal, I'm leaving today Because my life as I'm living it is killing me as surely as Tomorrow will come So remember that for a while With your laughing eyes and with your smile You came and you held me and you relit the flame That reels and rocks And shelters us all from the goddam ticking of the clock
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I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs
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Being Human 00:28
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You told us hang on You told us to be strong You skated in fragrance But you never quite belonged In castle or hut You live what you've got How dare you say You'll wash away The pain of the buckshot
14.
The Math Of Madness
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Church Of Wolves
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Zealous in advice Avarice of love Watching bishops fall like rosewood gloves Praying to dead leaves and strangled love Fleecing clover flocks Praying tender in the fields Tilling earthly offices, feeding earthly needs They're hanging holy thieves beneath the marble eaves Pass along the Kingdom's keys Send them down to hell on their broken knees The Lord will know his own
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Lord Of Lies
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You never thought you'd stay When they drove your ghosts away But you found an answer And you brought it on home And you never thought you'd pray For a wind that does not stray They want the demon in you Burn clean, burn true Open up the cipher in your eyes The Tree of Man's all thistle and thorns Open up the cipher in your eyes Go ask your lover, the Lord of Lies
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Straw Dogs (Tiananmen)
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A sad excuse With bloody fingernails Like a bird Crushed in it's shell Just like a mirror Without the silver Just ike a mouth Without a tongue This sorry state Of disappointment This short sharp shock That tries to hide the pain WIth songs of decay and disharmony Satellitle makes it all too real too me Something like this should be dissected Something like this could never be any good A gentle word takes less than a life Even if it falls stillborn from my mouth Picture a mother Who's grayed and fading Her brittle bones snapping as she falls It's not surprising that such a lady Would gnash her teeth And scratch and crawl I had a dream And in this dream I stumbled Tearing my knee On cracked and sympathetic road And the sky turned black with flame Spitting teeth, dying for shame And scores of puddles wwelled by the roadside Twisted finger feel dull and swollen lips Then finally my head exploded As I but down on the rifle butt On a night that thinkc with eternity Satellite makes it all too real too me Picture a mother Who's grayed and fading A middle kindgom with such a winning smile Tell me how can such a lady Live with herself While she devours her young
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The River In Us All
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released November 4, 2012

All songs written and performed by Daniel J.S. Lewis unless otherwise indicated.

Recorded and Mixed by Daniel J.S. Lewis at Dead Dog Studio.

Copyright 2012 CV Music. All rights reserved.

Cover photo by Erik Graham.

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