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Prelude/Drowning
02:36
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Take A Little Walk
05:02
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Every Day
05:03
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Every Day
Words and music by G. Hoskins
Well, the spirits moved his feet
To the music that they played
And they wouldn't let him hear it
And they wouldn't let him stray
From the path they set before him,
From the set list that they made
It would confuse him if he knew it,
They could use him more this way
And he said, "How...did I get this way?"
Well, the angels really loved him,
The devils loved him, too.
On a slow night he was lots of fun,
He wasn't Job but he would do
And they loved how he was empty,
And the shapes he'd bend in to
And how beautifully his heart ached,
And he could do it all on cue.
He’d say, "Whoa, how...did I get this way?
When every day, every day, every day,
I chose to stay.”
He had his head shoved so far up his ass
He could see his heart beat
A pile of laundry in the basement so high that he
Needed a Sherpa guide just to look at it
It's the discipline of housework,
The paying of the bills
The taxi-ing of children
And all the things that kill,
And he said "How...did I get this way?
When every day, every day, every day...
I chose to stay."
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The Devil Deals in Lies
03:32
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The Devil Deals in Lies
Words and Music by G.Hoskins
A shadow crawls across the room
Just as soon as you leave
And the Devil takes his place at the loom
And begins to weave.
Back and forth the shuttle flies
Burning images on my eyes
It’s a good thing I know
The Devil deals in lies
Deals in lies.
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Never A Stranger Kiss
05:34
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Never A Stranger Kiss
Words and Music by G.Hoskins
Never a stranger kiss
When you are spoken for
Never a stranger kiss
Leaving me wanting more
I said the night is a dangerous thing
You said the mornings are worse
For there is no chance to reverse
The consequences daylight will bring
Never a stranger kiss
When you are spoken for
Never a stranger kiss
Leaving me wanting more
The heart is a beggar
It wants what it wants
With no regard for the rules
That guide us and bind us,
That are there to remind us,
Of all one kiss can undo!
Never a stranger kiss...
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It's Always Something
04:52
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It’s Always Something
Words and Music by G.Hoskins
There’s something hot about young flesh
There’s something cool about the clothes
There’s something moving in my middle
There’s something calling I should loathe
There’s something ageless in young love
There’s something burning in my breast
There’s something freeing in our contract
And stale beneath our breath.
If it’s not one thing, then it’s another
It’s always something.
There’s something lonely in a crowd
There’s something rich about the poor
There’s something fleeting in the concrete
There’s something locked about that door
There’s something holy in the church
There’s something selfish in my prayers
There’s something cruel about your mercy
And cluttering your stairs.
If it’s not one thing, then it’s another
It’s always something.
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Slave
07:26
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Carry Me
08:09
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10. |
Waiting
05:43
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Pleasure & Relief
06:55
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41
07:31
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Illuminate Me
06:27
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Illuminate Me
Words and Music by G.Hoskins
I lay down
beside
my religion,
On the bed
in the room
at the top of stairs.
Her skin is brown,
she pulls me down
with conviction…
I don’t mind
this kind
of prayer
Illuminate,
Illuminate me.
Somehow the sun
breaks through the window…
It betrays the room’s
unfinished state.
What is grotesque, what is gorgeous;
All this, and everything in between,
The light illuminates.
Illuminate,
Illuminate me.
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