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Heliotrope
04:35
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Kings and Queens of old
Knights in Armour bold
A Kingdom of your dreams
Beyond the cystal streams
Spires tall and bright
Beyond the realms of sight
Pierce the clouds above
And shower us with love
Come and take my hand
Across this pleasant land
Away from all the strife
The butcher and the knife
Where the people all are lost
And the land covered in frost
And the magic is now dead
And the forests have been bled
And hearts have grown cold
And love is brought and sold
To where the sun is made of gold
and the young never grow old
And watch the Unicorns at play
At the dimming of the day
Dance around the fires at night
Sing songs of strange delight
Behold the beasts have come
To celebrate the sun
The Lion and the Lamb
Oversee the promised land
The stars will dance and sing
In celebration of the King
To see the sun awake
And ride the silver snake
Across the mountaintops
To where a veil of silver drops
Down to the turqoise sea
A new home for you and me
Behind the midnight sun
A new Avalon begun
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Achilles Heel
03:31
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Your heart is hollow
Like a wooden horse
And when I let you in
You did me in
Of course
My Achilles heel
Your soul is hollow
Like a wooden horse
And when I let you in
You burnt it down
Of course
My Achilles heel
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Miss America
06:30
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When she’s bad she’s best
A little Monroe a little Mae West
Dancing into the white light
Out of her mind and outta sight
Miss America is on the skids
Daddy left her with a couple of kids
she set fire to the drive in
Now there’s panic in the Valley of the Dolls
Can you feel it as the pressure drops
While she’s hiding out from the cops
With her back against the wall
It just makes no sense at all
Now she’s dancing till the dawn
Lying naked on your lawn
While the stars above you yawn
You know they’ve seen it all before
She goes from blonde to brunette
Smoking a marijuana cigarette
She will drag you from your bed
And she'll pull you under
You won’t feel the knife go in
You’ll just bleed and wonder
She'd tell you all about her life
But she hasn’t got the time
She says why worry about the past
Needles and pins
She’s outrageous and absurd
Till you can’t take it any more
So sick of hanging on every word
You just put your headphones on
Turn up Mott the Hoople
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Jesus in the back
Of a Cadillac
Did you hear those tires squeal
He was born that night
Underneath that lone star satellite
While the storm raged on
Above the city of the damned
Zero and the Thunder Kids
When the cops busted Crazy Jim
Word hit the neigbourhood
The kid all alone again
Like it always was
Golden in the gutter
Summer out on the street
Hiding out with the hookers
And the junkies in the heat
Zero and the Thunder Kids
Never knew her father
Mama was a runaway
But she always seemed
To find a way to get by
In her hand me downs
She roams the underground
Zero and the Thunder Kids
On the night they met
They set the stars on fire
But fireworks sound
Like gun fire in the night
They cut him deep
Left him lying there to bleed
They say the angles cried
The night he died
Dont waste your tears
On me I'm dead
Is what he said
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5. |
Avalon Blues
04:51
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As the Sailor cries for beauty lost
Face down in the gutter covered in diamond frost
And the Angles weep and they count the cost
Of the dead kids whose hearts are tossed onto the heap
Of the going cheap
And left to rust
And turn to dust
AND the Astronaut kneels and prays to the sky
(a tear of blood trickles from his eye)
For the silver ships to carry him away
To the stars beyond the Milky Way
Now the ocean horn calls the King awake
(from beneath the hill)
The castles shake
Excalibur shining in the sun
The restoration has begun
As the King once more takes up his sword
The time has come to strike the chord
For HOPE and LOVEs eternal reign
Arthur has returned again
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6. |
Wunderkind
03:55
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Syd Shelley Dallas, Texas
Long after the great rock n roll wars were over it was whispered that its return would be heralded at the midnight hour of the new blood moon when on opening your bedroom window you would hear a distant sound like the thunder of angels wings getting slowly louder ... ... more
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