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Lagoon Blues, Pt.1
01:16
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2. |
Venice Shoes
04:37
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Sweet Bergman unmasked
Does arabesques for us unasked
She melts into flight
Laughs in the face
Of this dusty traffic
Once she held
The golden east to fee
She laughed in the face
Laughed in the waves
Of a devious sea
You know unselfish love
Waits to cross
The impassable square
With nothing to lose
Nothing to prove
Just her Venice shoes
Once she held
Once she held
The golden east to fee
Sweet Bergman unmasked
Does arabesques for us unasked
She melts into flight
With nothing to lose
Nothing to prove
Just her Venice shoes
With nothing to prove Nothing to lose
No nothing to lose...
Just her Venice shoes
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3. |
Gracefruit
03:37
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Borne through the darkness
From the beach at St Ives
To the northern shore of the Western Isles
Fruitgrace
Trumpets return
Then the Empress of hope
Finds you alone
Where can I find you?
If I push for a rose in the night
And I’ll seek you little gracefruit
Yes I see you little graceful one
Little gracefruit of the heart
And Cupid revealed
I was under his wheels
And a swansong you sang on the straw coast
And the red bow of Astarte
Ties the moon to the car
Down by Cape St. Vincent baby
Under the stars
Can I find you?
Yes I’ll push for a rose in the night
Yes I’ll see you little gracefruit
Yes I’ll seek you little graceful one
Fruitgrace
Our streets sweeps divine
Out of breath
Out of time
Any peaceful pose
Catches you up now
Get to the top
And I love you little gracefruit
And I’ll push for a rose in the night
Yes I love you little graceful one
And I’ll push for some pearls in the night
Pearls in the night
If this could last forever
With the moon and the car
Down by Cape St.Vincent
Underneath the stars
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4. |
Never Too Late
02:44
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Someday she’ll blow her trumpet
Someday she’ll ride the waves
Walk out, blow out the candles
Just dismiss, just misspell your name
In the morning devour the glory
She’ll follow on in your footsteps
Florentine in your footsteps
Fog I am in your footsteps
All the way
For it’s never too late
No it’s never too late
If you are ever to
Rise like a phoenix
Heady drive for the sun
Trade in the horses
For a home in the south
Where golden-eyed girls
Sway on the beach
And move through the sunset
On wings of desire
Just last night I checked it out
And I got word
I heard it was Amapola on foot
As you said Mahler had his Alma
Yes Mahler had his Alma
I saw her last
You had me and I had you
For it’s never too late
Hey, it’s never too late
Like a sunset
On faraway lakes
Never too late
If you’re ever to
Rise like a phoenix
Heady drive for the south
Trade in the horses
For a home in the sun
Where golden-eyed girls
Sway on the beach
They move through the sunset
On wings of desire
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5. |
Fermina Fair
02:34
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Bronze mistress sugar
Playful in design
Passion playing through her
Mysterious in time
Fermina in the garden
Wearing sunset shades
Seek her in the arbour
Bring her some lemonade
Even as she smiles
Even as she sighs
Fermina of the angels
Diaphanous and wild
You can see her now
Down a road so muddy
Through winds unclean
Love your confusion
Love her unseen
Fermina of the angels
Fermina of the dreams
Fermina on the rich coast
Fermina in the rye
Tall and flowering
In Dutch sailors’ eyes
And love her as she smiles
Love her as she sighs
Fermina of the angels
Fabulous and wild
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We’ll see you sometimes
Hear your footsteps
Eating ice cream
Below Spanish Steps
79th & Madison
Down rainbow’s end
Soft trumpets plead
Through Eden’s groves
Down Eden’s lanes
Oh, Raphael
If you...
See her as Natasha
Laughing on the screen
See her by the fountain
Seraphic and serene
Born in fragrant season
Under old confetti bowers
Shadows in the garden
Will fall on every flower
Furies in the mansions
Serpents in the wells
A golden cloak of radiance
Broken like a spell
Just like a spell
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Penned in a pissoir
The pursuit will end
For a poison flower
Down rainbow’s end
And all along seven bays
With opium smiles
She’s crouched like a sphinx
On these indigo tiles
Listen for me
I said listen for me
“Is this the face
That launched a thousand ships
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium Sweet Helen
Make me immortal with a kiss...”
Lost on a trip
On the streets of Brussels
In a heliotrope haze
Where acacia blossoms
Forevermore
I saw her last
Up on Claremont Pass
She came for some more
She came for some more
Honey at the core
For a poison flower
Youth will die
Penned in a pissoir
You cry
“Do I believe in you? Do I believe in myself?”
“We once had one of those
In my father’s house
The aperture from which the sand runs Is so tiny that at first
It seems that the level
In the upper glass never changes
To our eyes it appears
That the sand runs out
Only at the end and until it does...”
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8. |
Through The Old Holmwood
03:11
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The harpies are gone
Can’t you see them fly away?
Flap their wings and sing
Sha la la la la...
Kiss some new dreams
In my tired mouth
Place your mystery on my lips
Still you ask me if I’m so alive
You must come with me
Through the old Holmwood
Birdsong ringing
Across the orchard true
And the trees so heavy
With the sweetest fruit
Kiss some new dreams
In my tired mouth
Place your mystery
On my lips
Hey now listen
You’re so alive
You must come with me
Through the old Holmwood
Your eyes they glisten
In this wondrous night
The harpies missing
Blown or gone
Kiss some new dreams
Kiss some new dreams
We’ll find mystery
In the old Holmwood
In the old home
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9. |
Sweetheart Sessions
03:45
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I knew a girl
In her sweetheart sessions
Amphetamine blown
Fogged at dawn
Who left here several years ago
To get in the groove
And maybe let the good times roll
All the madder fruits
Of Italian summers
Down on the moonless sands
In limitless nights
In the rush of our delight
Too honeyed to move
Too smothered in pearls
Dance little star
Will you shine in the sky
Surely baby, we’re going home tonight
From Grand Hotels
Grand delusions
Everybody calls you
Promising you reunion
Grand Hotels
Grand illusion
Everybody making
Merry in the ruins
I knew a girl
In her sweetheart sessions
She was mahogany browned
So fogged at dawn
Down on the moonless sands
On limitless nights
On streetcars she travels
In confusion through the night
She stayed in Grand Hotels
In Grand Hotels
In grand illusion
But maybe baby... we’re going home tonight
Yes we are
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10. |
Lolita
01:27
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Oh, Lolita
Light of my life
Fire of my loins
She drew her dancing fingertips
Across my swollen lip
Half in her yellow dress
Half in her mouthly caress
There my brightling stood
Languidly finally nude
Laughing she’ll go
She said...
“Me faire casser le pot”
Ah, Lolita
Light of my life
Fire of my loins
Mûri au soleil
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11. |
Via D'Oro
03:20
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Via D’Oro
Down beneath the law
Moonlight on your face
Cast this mystic coast highway your spell
Hired at sunset
Still you look at me
Laughing in a doorway
Like a promise all too sweet
Via D’Oro
Down beneath the law
Then you kissed me
In your old way
“Will you always feel this way? Will you always feel this way?”
And you know I said
Yes I will
Yes I will
Yes I will
Yes I will
Shy like horses
Sky-wide tempest in blue
Dreambright in garlands
Tiepolo Blue
Moonlight on your face
Moonlight on your face
Down on Via D’Oro
Down in Via D’Oro
Dreambright in garlands
Down on Via D’Oro
Down beneath the law
Down on Via D’Oro
Moonlight on your face
Down on Via D’Oro
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12. |
Ave The Leopards
04:30
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Ave little Mamma
Meet me at the fountain tonight
Ave little Mamma
Meet me at the fountain tonight
Bring your Egyptian pistols
And blast them in the cool of the night
Two Latin leopards
Moving on the shore of the bed
Two Latin leopards
Moving on the shore of the bed
Wearing French silver fixtures
You shake them from your beautiful hair
Gone forever
Moving down on ghostly Marie
Yes she’s gone forever
Moving down on ghostly Marie
You used to smile like you knew something
Like a rumrunner
Playing Pavane in the shadows
Playing Pavane in the shallows
Ave little Mamma
Make me chose you all night
Ave little Mamma
Make me chose you all night
Hear the daybreak rustling
Raise a smile in the teeth of the night
Ave little Mamma
Make me chose you all night
Ave little Mamma
Make me chose you all night
Hear the daybreak rustling
Raise a smile in the teeth of the night
Ave little Mamma
Run as Sophia can
Ave little Mamma
Trust in Sophia again
Meet me when mischief befalls me
From the whispering drains
Two Latin leopards
Moving on the shore of the bed
Two Latin leopards
Moving on the shore of the bed
Waving blowing kisses
Waving to the Beats and the Reds
Ave Latin leopard
Mobile in the whispering rain
Ave Latin leopard
Mobile in the whispering rain
Mind me when mischief befalls me
From the cruel and the vain
Said mind me when mischief befalls me
From the cruel and the vain
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13. |
Carnival
03:49
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Night-time
We can’t lose
As we blindly tarantella
Bold enough to choose
Freedom’s angel is calling
In the winding violins
In the city night is falling
Can you let the music begin?
These few dying coals
Cast the only light in the room
And of your slender shoulders
Make gold
Play some tambourine
Like a Spartan girl
Promise me
From deeper in the lanes
Promise me
Promise not to change
Kiss me starface
Across celestial miles
From down the southern arbours
Way down the wooden aisles
Play some tambourine
Let our friends glow
Twist and shout
Lovers on the new bridge
Yes they call us with a shoutL
In sweep the swallows
Vital and sublime
To go down to the casino gardens
Play underneath the vines
Play some freedom angel
Play some freedom angel
Play for freedom
Let’s ride the streets imperious
Mile after mile after mile
And make the walls of Eden
Tumble beneath your smile
Kiss me sweetness
Both vital and sublime
We’ll go down the casino gardens
Play underneath the vines
And bring you violin
In a French gown
Play me out of time
Yes we’ll scale the walls of Eden
Yes we’ll scale them every time
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14. |
Easter Sorbonne
01:22
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A stranger perfect
In every movement
In Paris singing
Your Easter song
You seek her purring past
A phantom slender
A phantom bold
Ornella, you seemed to me
Bright with impossible...
Light with impossible dreams
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15. |
Lagoon Blues, Pt.2
00:52
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