Lyrics Holy Bones
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- Something is not finished
- Something is left to be done
- The air is weighing down on us
- It makes us want to run
- There is a message written on the wall
- A call the king should heed
- Blinded by his anger
- His eyes refuse to read
- The messenger on the balcony
- Breaks his nails on the window pane
- The king he does not see or hear
- He swears and swings his cane
- The tears that should be cried
- Are locked inside a cage
- He has thrown away the key
- No mercy in his rage
- The queen got up and headed for the door
- The king he moves on his checkered floor
- His face is stern
- He believes that kings don't cry
- (Keeping his cold logic by his side)
- And his smile, bitter as bile
- Is eating us up inside
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- Caught in a beautiful lie
- A Red Rose waiting for her White Knight
- A flower that changes her ways
- With the passing of time
- There were sides of her she didn't show
- There were sides of her I didn't know
- Feeling perfectly safe in my bubble
- I rolled with the flow
- Now at night my mind goes numb
- As the questions outnumber the answers
- In the dark my heart rolls the drum
- And the rumors start dancing
- I tried and I tried and I tried
- To believe what she told me each time
- I thought I saw the deceit in her eyes
- God knows I tried
- Now I'm rolling down a dead end street
- And grief sits in the passenger seat
- And I know I'll have to make a turn
- But I can't
- Just yet
- Caught in a beautiful lie
- A Red Rose waiting for her White Knight
- A flower that withers away
- As the time goes by
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- Olds and Ford they made it real
- Ore was melted into steel
- For Model T and Oldsmobile
- Sturdy engines spinning wheels
- Hardship at assembly lines
- Kept it going for a time
- Till depression hit the straits
- And all the workers moved away
- First to go were the well-to-do
- They took the money and the bank
- The middle classes followed soon
- And left the poorest in their ranks
- Windows break in broad daylight
- It spreads like a creeping blight
- Trouble, sorrow, come what may
- He tries his best to keep the faith
- The emperor struggles to swallow his pride
- When he has to face the fact
- That empires rise and empires fall
- And end up as history text
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- I am building a contraption
- To catch my broken dreams
- I really need to mend some, you see
- And when I catch one
- I'll wipe of the tears
- And look for the Great Mystery
- A band of hungry warriors
- Was crossing the Great Plains
- Looking for sanctuary
- On the run since the day
- The long railroad came
- They were lost in the Great Mystery
- On the Rosebud River
- A man by the name of Crook
- A general in the US Cavalry
- Planned an attack
- On the Cheyennes and Sioux
- Unaware of the Great Mystery
- Right on the frontier
- Mr. Drinker Cope
- Was doting on his discoveries
- He was digging deep
- For them Holy Bones
- On his quest for the Great Mystery
- Try to catch a fraction
- Of all your broken dreams
- I'm sure that you can mend some, you see
- So, if you catch one
- Just wipe off the tears
- And look for the Great Mystery
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- A restless soul on a fishing trip
- His colors nailed to the mast
- The strong wind made him lose his grip
- His directions didn't last
- His trawler scaling the big black sea
- All maps untouched in the berth
- Fishing for creatures that one might agree
- Would be better left undisturbed
- His ropes and nets all tangled
- He was lost in his own triangle
- Crude oil was flattening the waves
- The storm had left his city stunned
- The Big Easy regaining its ways
- As he was sailing into the sun
- He fled port after blowing a fuse
- For some off-shore contemplation
- And the fisherman's blues
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- I found the trunk of the old beech
- It was lying on the ground
- I found our names, carved in the bark
- On two sides of a heart
- Did you hear the chainsaw whine
- Did it appeal to your dark side
- After all that we've been through
- Did it mean anything to you
- I've heard it said that you have gone
- Completely around the bend
- You were seen with bloodshot eyes
- And with sawdust on your hands
- Two sides of a heart
- Carved in the bark
- One side was bright
- The other side was dark
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- In a classic testosterone confusion
- When all negotiations fail
- You can hear this call for a revolution
- In the black mood of the heyday male
- It's the power of a grand illusion
- The old-time heroic tale
- This call for a revolution
- In the black mood of the heyday male
- Again and again we reach for the gun
- When the icing on the cake is thin
- When the mental scurvy is kicking in
- We need to take some vitamins
- We need some kind of healing power
- Why not let it be feminine
- When the mental scurvy is kicking in
- We'd better take some vitamins
- Let bygones be bygones
- We need a resolution
- 55 Founding Mothers
- To draw up a constitution
- Pick up the slate and wipe it clean
- Leave matters to 55 queens
- Wipe the slate
- Unite the states
- Wipe it clean and make way for 55 queens
- In an ancient abduction case
- It's a well documented fact
- Europa was carried off by Zeus
- Now is the time to bring her back
- With one of them male chauvinist Gods
- It's just what you can expect
- Europa carried off by Zeus
- Now's the time to bring her back
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- Yeah the man with the cholesterol head
- Fills the screen completely and says
- A man like him can't have no flaws
- He operates within the law
- And the surfer is out on the net
- Lots of cheap thrills to be had
- XXX-sites with teenage love
- A recipe for a home-made bomb
- All the sinners, all the saints
- Citizen Abe and citizen Cain
- They dip their faces in the cream
- On the boulevard of low priced dreams
- All roads lead to Rome, they say
- If you like to call it home, you may
- All dressed up and nowhere to go
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- Smell the fear on the breath
- Of the impostor on the throne
- He has just dialed 666
- Nobody answers the phone
- And the crowd in the square
- Has come to watch his palace burn
- They've come to call for
- The real King to return
- It's an excellent time to panic
- It's an excellent time to run
- Nobody knows how bad it's gonna be
- But it sure won't be any fun
- Have you seen the look on his face
- At the prospect of his subjects
- Dancing on his grave
- They only care about one thing
- The return of the King
- Camera crews embedded on-site
- Defy the heat in the endless line
- They'll give just about anything
- To catch a glimpse of the new King
- Somebody has the nerve to ask
- Who is this King exactly?
- Well, the King of Kings of course
- They answer matter-of-factly
- The King of Kings
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- The end of summer marked a change
- The neighbors they are acting strange
- Behind closed curtains they watch the street
- Possessed by suspicion as decreed
- There's a paper tiger on the loose
- Slam the door is what he boosts
- He views the world in black and white
- Nothing between wrong and right
- Winter came with a moon
- That soaked the world in a cruel light
- It drained the color from its face
- Austerity in white
- Met a hapless man in the fall
- Selling homeless papers in the cold
- And I haven't seen him for two months
- I can only hope he's safe and warm
- Winter came with a moon
- That soaked the world in a cruel light
- It drained the color from its face
- Austerity in white
- There's a cruel moon in orbit
- For wayward immigrants
- There's a cruel moon in orbit
- For hobos, vagrants, bums
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