Scrimshaw's Lyrics
LYRICS
37-44
LYRICS TO THE SONGS OF SCRIMSHAW
Words & Music by Marlin Collins
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37. KILL THE PAIN
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Atop a high bridge, a man stood sauced, considering all he'd lost.
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Young men dying for the graveyard, in the name of the sword.
Old men crying for the last night, in the name of the Lord.
Young punks lying for a fist fight, taking care of a need.
Old girls wishing they were still tight, long since past the last seed.
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I want to be on, the last train, that's never coming, back again.
It's going to be the best time, that I'll ever see,
Gonna open up a new mind, inside of me.
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Picking all the flowers, in your back yard, picking them for hours
It's not that hard.
And neither is thinking, or going insane, or too much drinking,
To kill the pain.
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Fools are trying for the big time, in the name of their ego.
Bums are throwing up on bad wine, unintentionally steal the
show.
All the continents are sinking, back into the deep blue sea.
Women doing too much thinking, crying about equality.
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Picking all the flowers, in your back yard, picking them for hours
It's not that hard.
And neither is thinking, or going insane, or too much drinking,
To kill the pain.
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I want to be on the last train, that's never coming, back again.
It's going to be the best time, that I'll ever see,
Gonna open up a new mind, inside of me.
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And below, this bridge we're told, the water, runs deep and cold.
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38. STEVE'S GET DOWN BLUES
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I want you to know,
Won't see me crying.
I want you to know,
I want you to know.
(3 times )
Even if so,
Our love is dying.
Even if so,
Even if so.
(3 times )
I sure can't see,
No use in trying.
I sure can't see,
I sure can't see.
(3 times )
Well I know, that I'll never have a baby
That I'll love quite like you.
Even though, you never saw me crying
I wept the whole night through. Boo-Hoo.
Well I would hope,
This experience is just
Another side
To paradise.
(3 times )
And I would hope,
Your cement head
Could see its way
To take some advise.
(3 times )
That a knife,
In the back of your lover,
Ain't very nice
No it ain't nice.
(3 times )
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39. A Wishin' Star
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Star bright, the last star I see tonight
I wish I may, I wish I might, spend my life with you.
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With no love, I know I cannot rise above
When the push will turn to shove, I'll say I never knew.
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About your light is what I sing
Planet Earth behold your king.
Even when there are clouds above
They cannot hide this kind of love
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Star bright, though your view is out-a-sight
All that you can see is right, there before your eyes.
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BRIDGE
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Your light, takes away the darkest night
So that I can win the fight, the victory realize.
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Even though you're far away.
I know you hear each word I say.
Though it seems we're far apart
I know you're right there in my heart.
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Star bright, someday I will take to flight.
Ascend upon your beams of light, singing a new song.
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Until then, I'll break the rules I cannot bend.
My inconsistent ways amend, and try to get along
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40. HELPLESS MAN, HOPELESS DREAM
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Now if you want a chance to get a glance at our old king as he passes.
Be sure to watch your step or you can bet that you'll be trampled by the masses.
Fighting for the right to their own sight in a world filled with classes.
And the steady stream would seem to mean that all the people dug his highness. [Tell me more] (6 times )
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Now this king was said to bring so many gifts of many things to the city.
What a pity that his thoughts were always directed on only that which he could buy.
Always one coin and another always enough to smother any other friendships.
Told he the people that others riches were the only thing that made them poor. [Made them poor] (6 times )
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Need a little cash I see that everything is need a little cash to me.
Now won't you come, and won't you fight those bad old men that make their measly cash at night.
Oh the nerve, the nerve it's time to grieve soon they'll make you pay before you leave.
Oh help me out dear Lord the things that I need most are the things I can afford. [Can afford] (6 times )
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Oh we were born, in another, sort of world, or so it seems,
That doesn't care, about another, helpless man, or hopeless dream. (4 times )
Oh love it stands inside my heart, not apart. From dreams of always seeing space, [an empty sort of place.] repeat
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Oh truth it's been a rocky road, can't carry the load. In the sight of the darkest, stormy night, an endless search for light, begin your search tonight.
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41. EQUATOR
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When the team of furious, fiery young courageous soldiers,
In the face of defeat, wave to their lives good-bye.
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Doesn't that just deplore you. Too many places in space.
Or did that come before you, joined the society.
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A little bit of ambition, claims good fortune every time.
But it's an old rendition, of saving the best till last.
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Well that's a little bit sadder, to walk through life with no shoes.
But as a fact of the matter, the only life you can loose; is yours.
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Well laughter forever is all that you know.
Don't take the time to think as you go.
You may end up giving yourself to the dead.
Without no regard for the life that you led.
The last piece of the puzzle will fit better now.
You've sharpened your knife and you'll show me how,
To carve and to shape till the picture is clear.
My god I am seeing myself in the mirror.
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Now the seed that you've sown, could open the gates for politicians.
But not that close to home, your neighbor might be your friend.
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And to our right wing forces, have you the hope to carry on.
A set of old remorses, a seat in the house is gone.
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A little bit of ambition, claims good fortune every time.
But it's an old rendition, of saving the best till last.
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Well that's a little bit sadder, to walk through life with no shoes.
But as a fact of the matter, the only mind you can loose; is yours
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42. JUST WHO NEXT TO YOU STANDING
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Although you could not know it, a very special feeling,
And many ways to show it, are on themselves reveling.
A quietly gentle sunrise, as to the dawns companion,
Are taking time to realize, just who next to you standing.
Believe me that I could not lead this toast to the day,
Could not think of anything to say,
So I wish to kneel down and pray.
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And in a touch of madness, there lies interpretations,
A certain kind of gladness, within every nation.
So all who call me brother, in their good giving way,
Should look at one another, believe in what they say.
Believe me that I could not lead this toast to the day,
Could not think of anything to say,
So I wish to kneel down and pray.
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Speak to Him. (repeating in background )
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We should endeavor to let Him control all the things that we do and we've done, and we've done.
For we can never be honest and true in a world where good isn't fun, isn't fun.
We shouldn't have to be half of a memory though half of the melody's through, through.
We shouldn't have to take kindly to beggars though one of them might just be you, be you.
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Although you could not know it, a very special feeling,
And many ways to show it, are in themselves reveling.
A quietly gentle sunrise, as to the dawns companion,
Are taking time to realize, just who next to you standing.
Believe me that I could not lead this toast to the day,
Could not think of anything to say,
So I wish to kneel down and pray.
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43. MOONDREAMS
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Listen, listen carefully my sweet moon.
Without you, without you I cannot stay in tune.
I wander, wander up into the high hills,
To follow your trail,
While across,
The sky you sail.
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And you listen, listen faithfully my sweet moon.
Without you, without you my skies all fill with gloom.
And gloom is clouds and clouds are dark skies of pain,
And blatant fear,
That remain,
Until the clear.
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And your glistening, glistening light shines down to honor me.
With purpose, purpose in the first degree.
Then take me to the only right place and taste,
Eternal light,
A sky,
Where all is right.
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And we christen, christen the new moon with old dreams.
And sail away across the sky on light of moonbeams.
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Light moonbeams. (6 times )
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Oh sail away, across the sky, on light moonbeams.
And right away, reality, becomes your dreams. (2 times )
Becomes your dreams.
Becomes your dreams.
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44. EVERYBODY
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Walking through the park one night
I'd sure love to avoid a fight.
Three Mr. Karates sure can bite.
Maybe if I wasn't me,
They wouldn't call me ugly.
Opinions are my destiny
My destiny, my destiny, my destiny.
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When the rain
Drips on my shoulders
I cannot feel
The splashing and so
How I am
As I get older
Allows me to see
The way that I grow.
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Now and then we loose our sight
Without direction take to flight
But you'll never see black turn white.
Maybe if I wasn't me,
They wouldn't call me ugly.
Opinions are my destiny
My destiny, my destiny, my destiny.
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