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The Search For Mr. X

by Curl

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1.
Freefall 06:25
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Freefall Don’t believe me When I say it’s too late We’re staring at the ceiling It’s times like these I question fate I just might Buy a lonely ride On a freefall Onstepping over the edge Freefall to nowhere To all you never said Get it together And we can make it to the end My friend I drown in your conversation I could talk about a 2 ‘o’ clock road And travel through, then maybe Creep out from below I’m the stranger Held in shadow When early light Becomes tomorrow, A shuffled-tie collector Of wonderful high... Big town twister gate-crashed Baby’s cool set-up Sleeping off a hangover That just wouldn’t quit. Spring, ’95.
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Vanity Shines 03:18
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Vanity Shines Are you alone now, is it alright If I remember to turn out the light Somewhere inside me you’re chasing around Sometimes I’m flying, sometimes I’m down, But when vanity shines You’ll see me smile Bringing it all back home When vanity shines the night away, Changing your hair now and all of your clothes Breaking away from Security Road Taking the time to shake me away Losing my mind when the streetlights fade, When this voice responds Could we ride against the near dark streets And maybe talk it over Beneath these violent skies, Would you forget it and maybe lose sight If I remember to turn out the light Somewhere inside me you’re chasing around Sometimes I’m flying, sometimes I’m down. January 18th, ’95.
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Auburnesque (Into The Night) 04:44
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Auburnesque (Into The Night) I lay Without your warm familiar Hide with me In this fallen statue we call home I lay Crushed & down on broken winged Sympathy, I called you For peace of mind And where the others fail We run into the light After a while We curtaintail Into the night They evoke Near to twenty years Of staring a way Through this fourwall town The laughing wood provoked A clinical reaction In protective arms Is where I hang around. Spring, ’95.
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Cool Graffiti 03:19
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Cool Graffiti In the field You revealed Something fine, make believe I’ll never leave You hanging off your line Only streets where nothing’s said All the girls lay their beds Of childish charm And misforgiven signs Cool graffiti Life is easy Cool graffiti On the sunrise Windy city I’m going crazy tonight It was pure It was fun It was all we’ve never done Since a better time with no ties And as rivers run me dry It’s harder not to try And live without your Beautiful advances When the trains came in I fell alone In wilder country If I were to relive it And travel home I’d drive inside you. ’95.
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Dawn Treads 05:40
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Dawn Treads Headed out for something Near our city on this raked morning When the river bled us dry We thought it was cool, yeah... Anyway I’m higher Than the light that shines in you From the garden flier Here’s a rose to guide you through The hour... I’m coming round Chill mother dragged me down Yer all unsound I’ve found my rightful place on this ground Oh yeah, oh yeah I’m coming round for good this time Anyway, believe it There’s some secrets you can never hide I’ll take this moment, receive it Then maybe friends’ll care to confide This hour... It’s only life That keeps us going on Going on, going on for something It’s just the night Which made a difference A difference, a difference to the way I feel I don’t remember ... Oh, it’s just the way I feel Early dawn treads on me... Tonight. Additional lyrics by Graham Albery. Spring, ’95.
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Shine On 05:51
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Shine On I can make you, I can break you I can take you all the way I got a lazy walk on the other side Where the fields are grey Believed in magic Maybe even loosened up the sky Dived on in where the current’s higher With the evening tide Shine on Shine on me I don’t need anyone To say I won’t believe Shine on Shine on completely And we’re a world away From one-track reality Don’t even try And waste away inside Fluttering down on a drunken line Shaken on delay There’s an exit sign for the rest of my life To follow and obey I can lose it, I can choose it Just a way I gotta go And if I’m up for the rest of my life Pray you’ll take it slow Here’s to the prince of alienation Here comes the messiah Crawling off an early train High and clowning fire I can make you, I can break you I can take you all the way I got a lazy walk on the other side Where the angels lay. Additional lyrics by Graham Albery. Spring, ’95.
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Riverboat Mary (live at BBC) 04:41
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Riverboat Mary Mary By the river If you should see me now you’d maybe Shed a stream of tears No, no, no Girlfriend Fill this bottle Been sinking deeper here so slow And I can’t lose these fears No, no, no Oh, take me to the valley I want a piece of the open range Thunder rocked our small hick town Burned my faith to the ground In your flesh There’s everything to attain Mary My riverboat Mary Everybody’s laughing at this drunkard Who’s fallen over you No, no, no I never found the time to ask you Just exactly how much you knew But hey I heard you left me waiting As the high storm passed on through I’m shaking While the rain it reclaims me If you should see me now you’d never Think of us again No, no, no Mary By the river If you should see me now you’d maybe Shed a stream of tears No, no, no. Additional lyrics by Johnny Love. Written sometime around ‘93 / ’94.

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released September 1, 1995

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