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We've Got a Situation on Our Hands Here, Walt Whitman

by Justin William

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The Creation Song 04:13
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This is the Creation Song This is the Creation Song Creation Song, Honey Sing Along This is the Creation Song Once there was a big bang explosion Big Bang was bangin' at my door I said, "Bang, won't you go?" She said, "Baby, Don't you know, I am Creation and I made you who you are." Chorus Once there was a Man and a Garden He was naked, with his naked wife He felt his snake's sensation that tingling temptation the threesome that gave birth to human life In the Beginning, the ending masturbation, meditation, inspiration, revelation Woah, Creation When the saints came marchin in here they didn't know they'd have to march back out well the heaven they first came from is an awful lot like Satan they both hate and motivate with fear and doubt Chorus I wanted to write about Vishnu and how he created the world but I wasn't born a Hindu and I wouldn't want to offend you if I said I thought that God is a girl In the Beginning, the ending masturbation, meditation, inspiration, revelation Woah, Creation Once there was a big bang explosion Adam blew his load up in Eve The saints came marchin home satan's gettin stoned and Vishnu's got eight arms hidden up his sleeve Chorus In the Beginning, the ending masturbation, meditation, inspiration, revelation Woah, Creation Creation from up above looks a little like makin love creation from down below we don't know where we're gonna go
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Sea of Love (Song to the Sunset) 03:04
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In the sea of love, we are one with the ocean, we are one with the sea, we are a single drop we are the sea we may be lost we may be floating but we are one In the sea of love, we are lost, we are lost with no direction we've forgotten our way we have forgotten we are the sea we may be lost we may be floating but we are one In the sea of love there are hearts, there are hearts for us to float on we just have to hold on we have so much to hold here in the sea we may be lost we may be floating but we are one and we've only got these simple songs before we float away
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Religion 03:33
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Soft spoken little girl You’re a long, long way from home And you look lost When your house touched down You must have been a little worried Cause the witches were all pretty And the ground was soft No religion, no religion, none Just a bunch of stories we are Just a bunch of stories we are One religion, one religion, one Kiss me, I’ve been telling stories, too Kiss me, I’ve been telling stories to you I’m the curtain, You’re the girl to pull me open I’ll send you home with promises And fairy tales of hopin Some religion, some religion, some Some man’s glory Is a Hollywood allegory We pray for the end to be good Nudge me in the morning Sorry if I was snoring But I was dreaming Of an Enchanted Wood Talking crows and your panty hoes Sliding down a long, long road To where the old folks go When the story’s over And it’s just a couple people Lying naked in a heaven That feels like home Come religion, come religion, come
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The Wanton Realization of Reincarnation 04:09
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Realizing you know That you’ve got to live a life A million times before you ever been born Shine a light on my soul, Your body taught me something That I never could have thought of before If we ever get old Promise me we’ll dance And make a little noise Before we are gone When our bodies go cold Let the fires burn em And the smoke rise to the sky These clouds of Texas Are taking the shape of a bomb My radio reminds me That nothing has ever been wrong This creek bed is dry now But water will always return My favorite guitar string Is loosening the knots in my words. No matter what you believe Help me be a lover And I’ll help us make a lot of mistakes I’ll get down on one knee And tie our shoes together Cause sometimes we’re bound to fall on our face. Maybe freedom ain’t free Or maybe It’s a little bit of something That our minds have to taste Maybe love isn’t easy, Or maybe it’s just seeing That it’s flowing all over the place This love of Texas Is cooking the notes of our songs Let’s throw us a barbecue And bring all our demons along Too late for a memory The past is always already gone This music reminds me That nothing has ever been wrong Over the sound of a sparrow A woman cries Like someone climbed The Wailing Wall She was playing with the Tarot She pulled a card that read That all these lives will end 2-3-4-3-2 This life in Texas Is teaching me to live a little out of control We talk about outlaws And park along the wrong side of the road Reincarnation is Never drinking Lone Star alone This music reminds me That nothing has ever been wrong.
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Walt Whitman 04:30
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Picking feathers from the side of the road Put em in her hair and bring em back to life like the Navajo Situation runnin overload A butterfly in Phoenix Is exasperating lovers In Tokyo Training dogs to obey your words Keep em on a leash Teach em to behave Like a good dog should Children runnin with their arms stretched wide Holdin’ on to freedom Even though it’s not the same As appearing good Misunderstood Misunderstood Misunderstood, It’s amazing how a language Is like grasping clouds From on a plane Fish chopping wood An imageless depiction Of feeling strange [Limited glory, A poet is an anti-hero caught in a story.] Jumpin in when your fully clothed Trustin that the water Isn’t gonna disappear Before you drown your fear Swimmin naked in your mama’s womb You’ll spend the rest of life Trying to recreate The sound you hear Met a madam in a lost and found She was breathin under water You thought you could save her With a long harpoon Took a message from a higher power They were sorry that they missed you They know you are busy so they’ll try back soon Hey Walt Whitman, I was born a warrior And I’ll go like you With your twisted sex And our longing text And a joy that rings The victory bells. Tell Saint Francis That our religion dances With a body electric A little eccentric And a second hand, Second rate, Second chance Acoustic guitar.
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The Setting Sound 02:49
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The dogs are barking On the front porch again The south is rising Like the fog up from the road, dear friend We ride up from San Antonio Where the horses have bucked And thrown us to the ground You will wake with the setting sound These songs are lonely But we are only alone As long as memory remains We are lost along highway 35 You were arrested by the laughs And you made it out alive from the family you once lived through into this town in time for the setting sound The salt is washing out infection From these extraordinary cuts And the water will burn going down To New Orleans and all our sins are washed By the sign of the cross Here’s a love song About a girl you haven’t a found You knew her all along But got lost in the setting sound What kind of picture Did you paint While you stank like babies shit inside your mouth And smelled like coffee you never thought you’d drink It’s been a long time coming There’s a fog in the air The windows are down Blowing Texas in our hair And we are starting to learn to drown Inside the setting sound
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Phantom 04:26
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I have a phantom in my heart She writes the notes On my guitar At night when I am Chasing after her I see a mystic reading stars And giving orders From afar And now the phantoms Picking pockets Like a thief steals air this phantom love affair is like a secret already shared it’s a long gone whisper with a long gone Way of entrancing me The modest dress she wears Is untied just below her hair And a call out to her is like water falling on electricity lah tee dah lah tee dah waking doesn’t end the nighttime fantasy emptiness is dancing with a phantom in me Phantom, phantom in my heart beating blood, and bleeding dark you are tempting me with loneliness Weeping woman let me Touch you where my Brokenness assaults you And we’ll talk to stars And read their blinking cryptic notes I don’t got much time to be with you I’ve got lifetimes coming soon we’ll get a little older But the dreams still bloom Like a mustard seed Your phantom body is all of my wanting Your running, your running, your running And we’re dying, baby, So let’s live, let’s live, let’s love, let’s love Lah tee dah
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To The Dark Again 03:04
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Woke last night to the rain storm Lightning showed your face I’d been sleeping with a shared dream And we’d been floating to space All night The window paints pictures On the bed the covers are just below your neck all glittered with clouds’ affection Oh, what a pretty gift you give Oh what a pretty gift you give Oh what a pretty gift you give to the dark again The light again it fills the room, Everything looks blue thunder coming close to us as I get close to you The window paints pictures On the bed The tin roof makes horses With the rain In time with Easy breathing Oh what a pretty gift you give Oh what a pretty gift you give Oh what a pretty gift you give To the dark again
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Song to the Butterfly 05:16
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I fly away Into the ether Into the ether I take your hand in mine We walk to the edge of time A pantomime theater A shadow box theater Now there is a Butterfly Coming up to my eyes And kissing my lashes Now there is a Butterfly A cloud floating through the sky Gentle and passing You walk by Butterfly laughing You walk by butterfly laughing You walk by Butterfly, you’re entrancing And your elegance captivates me
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A Warmer Place 06:07
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Took a winter walk With a summer’s sun The trees are taking off Their dresses to show me Their beautiful bodies And birds are whistling In perfect harmony with me Going away To a warmer place Kiss a taste of spring Where the gardens grow Friends are blossoms of A seed that was planted Before we were conscious And love is a rusty can With little holes to pour it out Flowing away To a warmer place This kind of romance lets our guards down from their shooting towers with us captivated by the world outside we elevate our minds like a song in tune and out of time that interweaves the words the way your fingers fit with mine this December light coming through your smile Autumn falls away Like every one that we know will And we are no different I’ll take every chance I’ve got To let you show me a way Show me a way To a warmer place Footsteps leaving trails In the mounting snow The ground is preparing A place for receiving our beautiful bodies we’ll cry out little tears holding on as long as we can then we’ll both go away to a warmer place we’re going away to a warmer place This kind of romance Makes it easy to believe In something more Than just our little lives Getting born, growing old And going nowhere when we die

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released October 8, 2010

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