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Patti Smith : Gone Again
1996

  1. Gone Again
  2. Beneath The Southern Cross
  3. About A Boy
  4. My Madrigal
  5. Summer Cannibals
  6. Dead To The World
  7. Wing
  8. Ravens
  9. The Wicked Messenger
  10. Fireflies
  11. Farewell Reel

Gone Again

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Hey now, man's own kin We commend into the wind Grateful arms, grateful limbs Grateful soul, he's gone again I have a winter's tale How vagrant hearts relent prevail Sow their seed into the wind Seize the sky and they're gone again Fame is fleeting, God is nigh We raise our arms to him on high We shoot our flint into the sun We bless our spoils and we're gone, we're gone
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We commend into the wind Grateful arms, grateful limbs Grateful heart, he's gone again
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Here a man, man's own kin He turned his back and his own people shot him And he fell on his knees Before the burning plane And he beheld fields of gold, his land, his sun And he arose, his blood aflame The clouds pressed with hand prints stained
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One last breath The sky is high The hungry earth The empty vein The ashes rain Death's own bed Man's own kin Into the wind One last breath Hole in life Love knot tied Braid undone Child born The hollow horn Warrior cried A warrior died One last breath Lick of flame Spirit moaned Spirit shed The heavens fed Man's own kin Grips the sky And he's gone again Hey now, man's own kin We lay down into the wind Grateful arms, grateful limbs Grateful heart, he's gone again Hey now, man's own kin He ascends into the wind Grateful heart, grateful limbs Grateful man, he's gone again

Beneath The Southern Cross

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Oh... to be
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Not anyone... gone
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This maze of being... skin
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Oh... to cry
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Not any cry... so mournful that
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The dove just laughs
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The steadfast gasps
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Oh... to owe
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Not anyone... nothing
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To be... not here
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But here... forsaking equatorial bliss
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Who walked through... the callow mist
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Dressed in scraps
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Who walked... the curve of the world
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Whose bone scraped... whose flesh unfurled
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Who grieves not... anyone gone
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To greet... lame... the inspired sky... amazed to stumble
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Where gods... get lost
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Beneath... the Southern Cross
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Cross over boy Cross over
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About A Boy

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Toward another he has gone
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To breathe an air beyond his own Toward a wisdom beyond the shelf Toward a dream that dreams itself
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About a boy beyond it all
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About a boy beyond it all From the forest, from the foam From the field that he had known Toward a river twice as blessed Toward the inn of happiness About a boy beyond it all About a boy beyond it all From a chaos raging sweet From the deep and dismal street Toward another kind of peace Toward the great emptiness About a boy beyond it all About a boy beyond it all I stood among them and I listened I stood among them and I listened not I stood among them and I heard myself Who I love better than you So much so that I walked on into Boy, I knew thee not Boy, now that I have you in my face I embrace you I welcome you I stood among them I stood alone Just a little boy Just a little boy Who will never grow

My Madrigal

We waltzed beneath motionless skies All heaven's glory turned in your eyes We expressed such sweet vows Oh till death do us part Oh till death do us part Oh-oh We waltzed beneath God's point of view Knowing no ending to our rendezvous We expressed such sweet vows Oh till death do us part Oh till death do us part Oh-oh Oh till death do us part Oh till death do us part Oh-oh We waltzed beneath motionless skies All heaven's glory turned in your eyes You pledged me your heart Till death do us part You pledged me your heart Till death do us part Till death do us part

Summer Cannibals

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I was down in Georgia nothing was as real
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As the street beneath my feet descending into air |
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| The cauldron was a bubbling, the flesh was lean And the women moved forward like piranhas in a stream They spread themselves before me an offering so sweet And they beckoned and they beckoned come on darling eat
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Eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat
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You eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat |
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| They circled around me natives in a ring And I saw their souls a-withering like snakes in chains And they wrapped themselves around me, what a treat And they rattled their tales hissing' come on let's eat Eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat You eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat |
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I felt a rising in my throat the girls a-saying grace And the air, the viscous air pressed against my face And it all got too damn much for me just got too damn rough And I pushed away my plate and said boys I've had enough And I laid upon the table another piece of meat And I opened up my veins to them and said come on eat Eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat You eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat You eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat You eat the summer cannibals, eat eat eat
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'Cause I was down in Georgia nothing was as real
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As the street beneath my feet descending into hell
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So eat eat eat
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You eat eat eat
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You eat eat eat
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Eat eat eat

Dead To The World

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Dead to the world, my body was sleeping On my mind was nothing at all Come a mist, an air so appealing I'm here a whispering you summoned I called I formed me a presence whose aspect was changing Oh he would shift he would not shift at all We sat for a while he was very engaging And when he was gone I was gone on a smile
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With a strange way of walking and a strange way of breathing
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More lives than a cat that led me astray
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All in all he captured my heart
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Dead to the world and just slipped away I heard me a music that drew me to dancing Lo I turned under his spell I opened my coat but he never came closer I bolted the door and whispered oh well With a strange way of walking and a strange way of breathing More lives than a cat that led me astray All in all he captured my heart Dead to the world and just slipped away I laid in the rushes the air was upon me Wondering well I just couldn't discern Will he come back come back to me Oh I whispered will you ever return I was feeling sensations in no dictionary He was less than a breath of shimmer and smoke The life in his fingers unwound my existence Dead to the world alive I awoke With a strange way of walking and a strange way of breathing Less than a breath of shimmer and smoke The life in his fingers unwound my existence Dead to the world alive I awoke Alive I awoke Alive alive I awoke Alive I awoke Alive I awoke Alive I awoke I awoke Alive I awoke Alive alive-o Alive alive-o

Wing

I was a wing in heaven blue Soared over the ocean Soared over Spain And I was free Needed nobody It was beautiful It was beautiful I was a pawn Didn't have a move Didn't have nowhere That I could go But I was free I needed nobody It was beautiful It was beautiful And if there's one thing Could do for you You'd be a wing In heaven blue I was a vision In another eye And they saw nothing No future at all Yet I was free I needed nobody It was beautiful It was beautiful And if there's one thing Could do for you You'd be a wing In heaven blue

Ravens

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Common fortune seeks us all
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And slips our binding rings
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We'll turn our heads and make us reel
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We'll bare our arms as wings
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Before our feet a feather drifts
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'Cause time will bid and make us rise
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My love he breathed the air of kings Yet fell beneath his luck And in his heart a yearning yet Before his time time shook All the gifts that God had gave And those by fate denied Gone to where all treasures laid And where the raven flies Oh there are places I agree Where I have yet to roam The Egyptian field the arctic sea Where shadows haunt and moan But none but sky I have to go Should I return to thee Gone to where the feather flies To all eternity But for a time I got more time Till I a raven be |
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'Cause time will bid and make us rise Make ravens of us all And time will bid and make us fly Make ravens of us all And time will bid and make us fly Make ravens of us all

The Wicked Messenger

<Bob Dylan>
There was a wicked messenger From Eli he did come With a mind that multiplied The smallest matter When questioned who had sent for him He answered with his thumb For his tongue it could not speak, but only flatter He stayed behind the assembly hall It was there he made his bed Oftentimes he could be seen returning Until one day he just appeared With a note in his hand which read "The soles of my feet, I swear they're burning" Oh, the leaves began to fallin' And the seas began to part And the people that confronted him were many And he was told but these few words Which opened up his heart "If you cannot bring good news, then don't bring any"

Fireflies

I been walking Wherefore am I walking I been walking If you see me walking A-walking a-walking If you see me walking Don't avert your eyes Don't turn away Don't turn away I'm coming to you Oh-oh oh oh Oh-oh oh to you Living in steps Till I can rest Living in steps Till I'm blessed by you I and I alone Can but do for you To twist in my hand The thorn of thy youth To draw thy seed To turn in birth Thy sighs (living in steps) Thy moans Till we can rest Living in steps Till I'm by you All I ever wanted I and I alone I will wash your feet And dry them with my hair I will give to you Every other tear Thy breath thy spear Thy season of mirth Seven steps Until I can rest Seven steps Till I am blessed by you All I ever wanted I wanted I wanted All I ever wanted I wanted for you Oh-whoa-whoa ... Oh-whoa-whoa ... All I ever wanted I wanted for you Five steps Till I can rest Five steps Till I'm blessed by you Four steps Till I can rest Four steps Till I'm blessed by you All I ever wanted I wanted I wanted All I ever wanted I wanted for you I and I alone Ghost of thy ghost Walk I will walk A burning stem To illume thy night (three steps...) Blood of my blood Bone of my bone (three steps...) Can but do for you I and I alone Two steps Till I can rest Two steps Till I'm blessed by you Oh oh oh ... Can but do for you I and I alone Oh oh oh ...

Farewell Reel

It's been a hard time And when it rains It rains on me The sky just opens And when it rains It pours I walk alone Assaulted it seems By tears from heaven And darling I can't help Thinking those tears are yours Our wild love came from above And wilder still Is the wind that howls Like a voice that knows it's gone 'Cause darling you died And well I cried But I'll get by Salute our love And send you a smile And move on So darling farewell All will be well And then all will be fine The children will rise Strong and happy be sure 'Cause your love flows And the corn still grows And God only knows We're only given As much as the heart can endure But I don't know why But when it rains It rains on me The sky just opens And when it rains It pours But I look up And a rainbow appears Like a smile from heaven And darling I can't Help thinking that smile Is yours