[unrecordednight]

Whyguy wrote:

no idea how to add to those pages but i've got official lyrics sheet for all the songs and can supply however

please post them here! then whoever can add em to the wiki

[Whyguy]

Dragon Slayer

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I watch the red fire rise and become all the water
I watch the red fire breath
How many days will it blind?
I saw a red kite fly
Was it held by an anchor
I saw a red kite burn
I saw a string gone astray
Enemies change their minds
Don’t think you're above it
Infinite blasts of light on wooded cares
Elements in the mine are tipping the public
Focusing on design from burning stairs
Hold them let them bleed let them bleed
Find the main Road
Hold them hard to see hard to see
hear the seagulls
Slayers
Soul Stars
I heard the red fire whine
And simmer in the water
Where the red fire wanders
I’ll walk in its veins

Car Keys

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get me back the car keys
go in my back pocket
and rob the quick one
(sit a spell and)
go and grab me sharply
give it a once over
and ready the weapon
with a ringer in the hand
and one stuck up in a bush
(get me)
come and get me softly
enter the right chamber
sap in a rush
wrinkled papers on the sidewalk
mess when they blow over
fault of no one
and how is it goin now
and how are we gonna know
a hole in the ground
and on a holy ground
a show of gratitude
and on your way
And the minutes can’t make up their mind
Just how long they'd like to be
And the hours are wondering
Why are we in such a rush?
And the bluest mood isn’t blue
Did you ever meet your dark side?
And raincoats are retiring
Even they need kinds of sun
go and hold me tightly
give me the once over
and ready the weapon

Cherokee

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Late for its arrival
My mind’s begun to find
Early peculiarities are how it defines time
And there are turkeys out the window
That i appreciate
There’s plastic like a barge somewhere
Thats got no docking date
And on a tour i saw Focaccia treated like it’s jade
Someone in the lobby
Is dressed down just like me
An Infant won the Lottery
But really it was he
With a pocket full of ruffies
And a pocket full of teeth
Some people call that pleasure
And some people call that grief
At the Exxon they were confused if i was American
And so i left offended with a pack of MnMs
I’ve been driving for a long while
Spent some time in a Cherokee
learning things
Out there in Black Mountain sprouts education seed
But you can learn a lot just take a walk above Montreat
They gathered round the easel and spelled Community
I go looking for my teachers and wondering what that means
There will be lots of lonely mailboxes when language disappears
And people on the subway sit so far to be so near
I smile from a screen you touch I’m waiting on the bed
Listening to voices talk about where i am headed
People hid out for a long while
In the hills of Cullowhee
Cherokee
The stoop that you love is fiending for meaning
Someone’s at a grill top
And someone is Tom Hanks
Suckered into party games
And building words for Leisure
Here it’s 11 and there it is 19
I’m missing all your breakfasts
And you’re missing my evenings
Wish we’d been touching for a short while
Driving back from Cherokee
Dreaming things

Passer-By

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It was my favorite day
Until the movie show
That's when the fight broke out
In front of floral scenes
Faces got all bent up
“Beat him real good” she called
I saw a distant girl
Point at a Hummingbird
I felt the burning sun
How does it last so long?
Out in the Pisgah trees
There's a discarded song
Left for my open ears
Left by the Passer-by
Who had imagined I
Would come looking for life
Bumped a passer-by
Who smiled as if he knew me
He didn’t have a face i recognized
But i keep on thinking about your smile
Thanked a passer-by
For pointing out a thing
I probably would have missed without her eyes
Now i miss the passer-by
Passer-by
stepping on
Always stepping
Always passing
Thank you passer-by

Royal & Desire

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Do you fall before the sun?
And in the face of each trial
Are you sure that it’s down down
down down?
And what’s this lie that you place
Before the birth of your world?
Just trying living now now
now now.
Decide “I’m one and I sing.
Inside I’m still as I move.”
Now forget all that down down
down down.
Now I’m washed in Bywater rain.
These water oaks and the train
And that song singing loud loud
Loud loud.
Song shuts my eyes.
Reminds me of my fight
To know the way.
The way to love like a child;
To always see what he chase.
But it never holds how how
how how?
Don’t hold too long.
think you feigned in insane for sane’s sake.
Don’t break for song.
Don’t break your name.
‘Cause you taught me to stand
And that splinters will rise
And we’ll always come ‘round ‘round
‘round ‘round

[Stories and Games]

thanks for providing the lyrics! i just created all the lyric pages, tried to tidy everything up regarding formatting and also just making sure it all matches what's actually being sung on the record lmao.

looks like the links to the pages are all still red, maybe an admin needs to sign off on the edits before they become official?

[jfw7]

thanks! some sort of caching thing maybe? i just resaved the album + home pages and it fixed it

[Stories and Games]

thank u :]

out of curiosity, do you know if there'd be a way to put a more direct link to lyrical collective on ca? it seems to be a bit hard to find your way there from here as is

[jfw7]

surely a question for the admins... i imagine there are ways to put links in the phpbb navigation but idk if the link really belongs in the header. maybe a sticky thread in this forum would be enough?

[infiniteblastsoflight]

hey everyone! first post here. took an attempt at stride right's new lyrics:

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stride right


here once again i lie beside you
staring through your open heart
explaining that i'm not

let's invite all the songs that we wrote so we know
and let them go

and she's lying sideways peering through the open blouse discovering
her mother's dying heart

and feel same/safe through the arms she'd grown old just to know
and let them go

and this winter sorrow's hard i know but you've been through worse
and back
all in time

don't hide behind this love is wide just take a stride might even have to climb

lost one to cancer, two to sorrow, three by losing patience with the people who we are

let us tend what's not broke
nothing's wrong
let it go
and oh we know

like the rise and the fall of love's repeating answer to the quest of
our extraordinary lives

let us find what we know in the fog of the old
and let it go

and this winter sorrow's hard i know but you've been through worse
and back
all in time

don't hide behind this love is wide just take a stride might even have to climb

above the walls inside

but the teachings you'll find everywhere from your lover's eyes to the loss that makes you cry

ahhhh....

[howsoever]

Bumping to see if we have any consensus on the Skiffs 2 lyrics. Mostly looking for Broke Zodiac…

[evan6032]

I don’t know about the second verse but the first to me sounds like

On the attack with a plan that’s intact
With a weight in the air, on an impulse in prayer
With the sweat on the back, from a broke zodiac
Stumbling into the lair and can’t find no one there

Hearing angels, kept in cages
Gonna sing open my head but I won’t save them
Skipping danger, being strangers
Getting mixed up in the pot among the papers