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Visions

by Mineral Stills

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1. Are you going where I'm going? People I know go there all the time Are you going where I'm going? People in love in the summertime I'll always remember you In the summertime 2. Echoes ripple in time While they ricochet, ricochet, all through the night We circle the dead With a gentle wind whispering All in our heads Oh, beautiful lights! The neon is flickering— Bright, blurred retinal burn And we're circling, circling, falling in love In the summertime 3. Sunrise Over the rolling hills Light falls in the cracks in the city Daylight Bright as a golden coin Tell me it'll be all right, my darling
2.
I fell in love with a beautiful woman Dark brown skin wrapped so tight around her elegant frame She moved like a phantom Held me at bay Devil waits at the window Stands in the doorway Love on his lips and holding a white rose Ever so patient Ever so faithful Beautiful words, such beautiful words He sings like an angel Sings just for me I took out my rival That military bastard The ring on his finger was as sharp as a dagger to me He fell on the front lines He fell down on his knees Devil waits at the window Stands in the doorway Blood on his lips and holding a Bible Ever so patient Ever so faithful Beautiful words, such beautiful words He sings like an angel Sings just for me
3.
Sea of Trees 03:13
So you go Out there in the day-old snow Pretty things Winter wings Dusting off your black hair Hollow bones and feathered hands Frozen trees Evergreens Covering the moonlight As you slip away Out before anyone knows All the sound Ripples through your body now Dreadful things Chattering Out there in the moonlight As you slip away Out before anyone knows What ghosts live in the sea of trees I'll take a better lie: Bodies made of flowers and leaves On the ground in the sea of trees
4.
In the shadow of the tent Low breath drifting Showman blows cold air And the big cat is caged Crying out with paws raised up in supplication If it sulks and weeps, then it's human after all Lovely thrones all around Keep it on the level now I was young and out of sorts Holding out for a sign, for anything Until the golden lady stole my breath I watched like a lover With jealous eyes and a throbbing heart But in these violent times, you can't trust in anyone Lovely thrones all around Keep it on the level now Oh my darling, it breaks each morning Tarred and feathered with wings outstretched Holy rollers on velvet highways Lovely thrones all around Keep it on the level now
5.
Oh my Absalom! Would you see what you have done to me? When I held you as a child you were all my wild eyes could see Your face was beautiful and your hair was something to behold (like silken gold) You stole your nation's heart Stole the heart that once belonged to me To the king Well, they found you With your head stuck in the boughs of a mighty oak tree Between the heavens and the earth Your body dangling Like an apple on a branch about to fall When he stole your sister's secret She poured ashes on her head and tore her clothes So you took my battle sword, blessed the Lord And ran that son of a bitch right through Then you built an army of crazy men Chariots and arms in your command, in the palm of your hand You sent the scouts and got those pigs on the march And they came chasing after me After their king When they found your body hanging there These ten young guys—they cut you down Threw your corpse in a deep, deep pit Buried my heart along with it
6.
Loss 04:07
A red drop falls from your finger like a leaf from a tree Oh, Jitterbug A little bit of you is a little of me Behind the slick glass of a windshield The morning growls at the whitewashed sky And I'm stuck here thinking: "I've never been too good with goodbyes" Tell me what I did and I'll make it right It makes no difference but I might as well try Love will come and love will go Don't let it get you down Tell me what you need and that's what I'll do I know it doesn't matter but I'll give it to you Love will come and love will go Don't let it take you where you don't want to be I want to plant a tall, strong tree In front of the house where I used to live I'd plant it secret in the night When I knew everyone was asleep I'd form some different memories Brighter than the drop from your little white finger Then come back in five years to see if anything had survived The dark of night should never be this warm I'm just as bare as the day when I was born I think I might let you go for good I want to be good For you For me
7.
Strangers 03:00
Where are you going to? (I don't mind) I've killed my world and I've killed my time So where will I go, and what will I see I see many people coming after me So where are you going to? (I don't mind) If I live too long, I'm afraid I'll die So I will follow you wherever you go If your offered hand is still open to me Strangers on this road we are on We are not two, we are one So you've been where I've just come From a land that brings the losers on We will share this road we walk And mind our mouths and beware our talk 'Til peace we find—tell you what I'll do All the things I own I will share with you And If I feel tomorrow like I feel today We'll take what we want and give the rest away Strangers on this road we are on We are not two, we are one Holy man and holy priest This love of life makes me weak at the knees When we get there you'll make your play 'Cuz soon I fear they're gonna carry us away In a promised lie you've made us believe For so many men there is so much grief And my mind is proud, but it aches with rage And if I live too long I'm afraid I'll die Strangers on this road we are on We are not two, we are one
8.
Change 02:57
When I fill my cup with worries And pour the sadness down my throat Something inside me starts to deaden 'Til I can't feel it anymore It takes some time to filter While my senses lose their will To distill it for me When I lose my head in sorrow And get swept out by the waves I keep pumping my arms and legs in rhythm To get back from where I came But it's so damn hard to fight it When you're caught up in the tide And pulled out to sea Change is coming now But I'll keep running 'til my life runs out
9.
All Right 04:08
I fell asleep With that song from "Talking Book" inside my mind And it felt so lovely Then I awoke in a daze, in a strange place Your arm around my neck That's not what I expected to find You know I'd give the whole world To hear you sing me, sweet and sleepy But the days are running out It's a nest of tangled tape in my head I've just spoken my own condemnation And, damn it, I'm a mess Just tell me I'm the best and I'll tell you: "Everything is fine, everything is all right" My days keep running out My days keep running out
10.
Visions 03:35
I dreamed I was drifting, caught in the rise Of rushing waterways In the foothills of the Sierra Snow-melt twisting under the trees A chilly hallelujah In the towhee's call at daybreak I was drifting away In rushing waterways While the snow-melt filled my veins with crystal Then sunlight burst into my eyes And into the corridors Of blood and bone within me I raised my head and looked to the sky A flood of color Like no one had ever seen I was drifting away In rushing waterways While the sunlight filled my eyes with fire

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released July 23, 2010

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