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Apache Midnight
04:27
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Motorcycles turn the heads
Of all the passersby and pigs
Frying in the summer heat
Faster than a lightning bolt
Drowning out the thunder rolls
You’re the ruler of the road
Apache midnight
Flames on the frame
You won’t ever be the same - again
Motorcycles move in packs
Wholes lives stored in gunnysacks
Leave tonight and don’t come back
Underneath the overpass
Waiting out the sudden storm
Wishing you were never born
Apache midnight
Flames on the frame
You won’t ever be the same
Even though you didn’t play
You still lost the game
You won’t ever be the same again
Motorcycles move in packs
Wholes lives stored in gunnysacks
Leave tonight and don’t come back
Leave tonight and don’t come back
Leave tonight and don’t come back
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Cactus Flower
04:32
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Cactus Flower blooms in the sun
Just like all the others but it’s the only one
That can live without the rain
Painted colors with no name
Petals soft on thorny skin
Life comes only from within
Cactus Flower grows where it's hot and dry
Waves on a wind as the tumbleweeds tumble by
A puppet on a string
As the whirling of the wind
spreads its wings
And cold rain is a distant fading dream
Life comes only from within
How much can you take
and just get a little lost in space
And still make it back
to the same old place and time
Cactus Flower you don’t seem to mind
When they hang a price on your precious time
You’re selling off your fruit
At the cost of your roots
Who knows the will of the wind
Life comes only from within...
Petals soft on thorny skin
Life comes only from within...
And cold rain is a distant fading dream
Life comes only from within...
Petals whisper in the wind
Life comes only from within
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Scarecrow
03:00
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Scarecrow – corn in a row
Hanging around where the cornsilk grows
Scarecrow wears his old clothes
Holds in the straw til the cold winds blow
Won't you stay away
Won't you be afraid
You've always known
It was all just a game that we play
Scarecrow – puts on a show
All dressed up with nowhere to go
Scarecrow; crow on his shoulder
Hanging around and slowly grows older
Won't you stay behind
You can rob me blind
But you've always known
It was all just a waste of your time
They ate of the fruit
they drank all the wine
And all that was left over
was bitter and dry
And the ground was left barren
ashen and gray
They took what they wanted
And then flew away
Scarecrow; dressed for the kill
Hanging while the crows eat their fill
Scarecrow; where is your gun?
You're not fooling anyone
I won't go away
I won' t be afraid
I've always known
It was all just a game that you play
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Downpour
04:59
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I wish I had a name
To put with your face
But you never thought to tell me
And I never thought to say
Hey by the way
What’s your name
Can’t even catch a break
From a random phone book page
Hoping it would spell out
the letters of your name
But it blew away
Stolen by the wind
I will call you downpour
You give me what I want
then you’re gone
And I want more
Heaven bursts wide open
Soaks the greedy ground
Turning dust to mud
And chills the blood
Covers up the sun
I name you downpour
You give me what I need
And then you’re gone And I need more
Flawless untouched blue
Burns into my face
Hoping for a trace
Of a stormcloud high in space
I will call you downpour
You gave me what I asked for
And now you’re gone
And now I ask for more
I will call you downpour
You gave me what I cried for
Then you’re gone
And now I cry for more
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