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Merry Christmas!

The Joy Thieves - Cities in Dust

Water was running children were running

You were running out of time

Under the mountain, a golden fountain

Were you praying at the Lares shrine?

But oh your city lies in dust, my friend

Oh, oh your city lies in dust, my friend

We found you hiding we found you lying

Choking on the dirt and sand

Your former glories and all the stories

Dragged and washed with eager hands

But, oh oh your city lies in dust, my friend

Oh oh your city lies in dust, my friend

Your city lies in dust

Water was running children were running

We found you hiding we found you lying

Water was running children were running

We found you hiding we found you lying

Your city lies in dust, my friend

Oh oh your city lies in dust, my friend

Hot and burning in your nostrils

Pouring down your gaping mouth

Your molten bodies blanket of cinders

Caught in the throes

Oh oh your city lies in dust, my friend

Oh your city lies in dust, my friend

Oh oh your city lies in dust, my friend

Oh your city lies in dust, my friend

Your city lies in dust, my friend

Tears for Fears

Five Times August

Remember, Remember...

On Joy

Violent Delights...

[Verse 1]

Had a dream your father died

I couldn't scream, I couldn't cry

The second night, I dreamt you drowned

You couldn't fight, you were not found

[Chorus]

These violent delights

Keep creeping into my nights

And they're reading my rites

And I'll never sleep alone again

And these violent delights

Keep bleeding into the light

And I'll never be right

But they'll never sleep alone again when I'm gone

When I'm gone

[Verse 2]

A photograph will steal your soul

An epitaph won't make you whole

If I disappear, thеy'll say I killed myself

I nevеr feared for my own health

[Chorus]

These violent delights

Keep creeping into my nights

And they're reading my rites

And I'll never sleep alone again

And these violent delights

Keep bleeding into the light

And I'll never be right

But they'll never sleep alone again when I'm gone

When I'm gone

[Bridge]

I don't want to see it

I don't want to see it

I don't want to sleep alone, no

I don't want to see it

I don't want to see it

Never sleep alone again, no

I don't want to see it

I don't want to see it

I don't want to sleep alone, no

I don't want to see it

I don't want to see it

Never sleep alone again when I'm gone

[Chorus]

These violent delights

Keep creeping into my nights

And they're reading my rites

And I'll never sleep alone again

And these violent delights

Keep bleeding into the light

And I'll never be right

But they'll never sleep alone again when I'm gone

When I'm gone

Alone again when I'm gone

When I'm gone

Lord, it's a feelin'...

Box o' Bones

Tattoo...

Kandinsky

Last Night at the Stop & Go...

Joy Formidable

Superstars...

Modern Reflections of Echo & Narcissus...

Ghost

BNW

When the Music Stops....

Trailer Trash

Love in the Time of COVID

Bats in the Attic

And I've gone silver in my travels
Growing silver in my sideburns, I'm starting to unravel
Heard my heartbeat on a downhill
I counted eighteen on my pulse as Kilrenny Church struck three for three o'clock

What else?

What else?

And you said twelve years in retirement
The hours go by like sips of water, the record lies unbroken
And no doubt it's white flour in my diet
It's going to be the death of me, sweet drumroll for those embittered big ideas

It's such a waste of all that I had

You mentioned bats in the attic
So now you're lifting up the tiles to get around those conservation rules
I walked down to the basement
I'm hanging upside down, a gag across my mealy mouth

And how I'll laugh out loud about that
When I read your simple novel that uses all our real names
And go make yourself a fortune
There's nothing left for us than us left dangling just a little shamefaced

It's such a waste of what we had
And it's such a waste of all that we had
And it's such a waste of all that I am

Bugglemania

Reverse Engineering...

Cultural Cheese Eating...

Schizophrenic...

Collaborative Wellermen...

The Smiths

I Can't E.L.P. Myself...

We'll be rich in memories of all the places
We've captured without camera
We've seen the pyramids
We've seen the Louvre
We've seen Orion upside down
Total eclipses and the moonlight shadows
We've seen dolphins jumping waves
We've ski'ed the mountains and we swam in the rivers
And let the sunlight dry our skin

But freedom, freedom never greater than its owner
Freedom is the mastery of the known
Freedom, freedom never greater than its owner
No view is wider than the eye

Show a view to someone who chose to live his whole life in a cave
He'll raise his arms to protect his eyes from learning
And the blindness to which he belongs
This time it's me, it's me
Cascades of chances I'll just let them be
The unfamiliar is right below our eyes
Don't look for what we know
The unfamiliar is right below our eyes

Freedom, freedom never greater than its owner
Freedom is the mastery of the known
Freedom, freedom never greater than its owner
No view is wider than the eye