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Tyler Lyle
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I was born outside of Lexington
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The first son of Oblivion
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I came with a name that was on my tongue
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I thought it might be You
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I came of age and fell in love
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I always pushed too hard or not enough
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But I kept that song stuck too my tongue
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I've been trying to get it out
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See, I tried to marry Jesus Christ
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It didn't take, but the dress was nice
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So I filled my pockets with bread and wine
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And I went on down the road
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Caught a train to Babylon
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Learned to sing the secret Songs
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I dreamt of God in foreign tongues
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And I learned how to starve
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In a beautiful dream you were walking
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In the city by the sea
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and you wanted me
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like I wanted you I wish that were true
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I learned that Dionysis dances well
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But the hangover she hurts like hell
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Apollo robs the wishing well
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He's a liar and a thief
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Blind Lemon, Jack, and Kerouac
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Henry Miller in my gunny sac
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Blind Willie Johnson and Kierkegaard
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Taught me the Texas Blues
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I found a sleeping river man
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Swore he would take me across the river to Jerusalem
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But he wanted more than I could offer him
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I memorized some quotes and wrote some songs
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Now I sing for food and cigarettes
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In these noisy bar and cabarets
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Cough up the songs stuck in my chest
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and I trade them for a beer
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In a beautiful dream you were walking
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In the city by the sea
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and you wanted me
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like I wanted you I wish that were true
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The rain came in Vichy France
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In a rented room by P탩re Lachaise
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Calypso on the unmade bed
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She wears grey, but you wear blue, don't you
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There, I dreamt that I met Kind Louis
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Who was waiting on the guillotine
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He said "They just don't see the things I see"
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I said "They see more than you think"
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He said "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani"
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Like the Son of God of or a fallen Beast
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C'est ne pas mon pais
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this is not my home
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Then I awoke by a chestnut tree
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In the Garden of Gethsemane
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For a moment I saw Everything
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Hallelujah and God Damn.
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In a beautiful dream you were walking
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In the city by the sea
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and you wanted me
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like I wanted you I wish that were true
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Oh Penelope, she ain't waiting on me no more
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Queen of Tennessee, every street to her was paved with gold
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A thousand song I have sung
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I got a hundred thousand in my lungs
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But they never seem to be enough
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To keep you by my side
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All the lovers I have known,
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Most for fun and some for show
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They were only just a place to hold
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The space I keep for you
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And What may be the only sin
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Is: life keeps you hungry to the bitter end
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And one trip to the well ain't enough to get
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Every thing you'll ever need
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But I do not tell the world my dreams
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They are alone for me to keep
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Like a forrest in a mustard seed
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Like the fire in the black coals
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In a beautiful dream you were walking
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In the city by the sea
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and you wanted me
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like I wanted you I wish that were true
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Oh Penelope, she ain't waiting on me no more
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I heard that she left town, heard she settled on another shore
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I made it back to Ithaca
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a high rise where the vineyard was
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No magnolia trees up above
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Blue grass hills had turned to stone
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Then the oracle came at last
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Said "Everything has come to pass."
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Disappeared in a camera flash
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And left me with the bill
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I am a dying leaf upon this tree
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I'll maybe last a century
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Just waiting for a gentle breeze
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To cast these sails to shore
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Then I'll return from where I came
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Without a face or family name
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And I'll dissolve in the winter's rain
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Back into Everything
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In a beautiful dream you were walking
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In the city by the sea
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and you wanted me
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like I wanted you I wish that were true
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Oh Penelope, she ain't waiting on me no more
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I sailed the seven seas
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But she don't want a man, she wants her King
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and that ain't me
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I'm sorry
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