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Blueblood
02:08
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There's a part that yields to green pleasant fields
And a part that grows amidst these neon rows.
There's a part that screams apocalyptic dreams
And a part that knows time is half repose.
So I’ll be on my best behavior
I won't see anyone until the day I die.
I’ll be my own ward and jailer
But I’ll go to heaven without a tear in my eye.
So if there's anything I can do for you
Let me know.
To be tapped on the shoulder by a blue blooded soldier
Is a gift from the time when fruit clung to the vine.
And I don't know but I heard it whispered lowly
Gentry is only a trick of the mind.
So I’ll be on my best behavior
And I won't heed anything but these visions in the sky.
I’ll be my own lord and savior
But I’ll go to heaven without a spear in my side.
Baby don’t you think I want what's best for both of us?
Baby don't you think I want what's best for all of us?
So if there's anything I can do for you
Let me know.
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2. |
Our Island Life
02:41
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I only step out with you but you’re never around
I only step out with you but you’re never around
And I know I’m just your pale dog
And it always gets me down
Hey, bridge and tunnel I know they
Call you trouble but
They don’t see you the way that I do
We’re tougher than them
As we’ve always been
I’ve got a feeling that we walk right through
I’ve got my island life and
I don’t mind at all
There’s only room for you
But you’re never around
I only go out with you but you’re never around
I only go out with you but you’re never around
And I know I’m just your pale dog
And it always brings me down
I know you work too hard
And the tension in your hands is to blame
On all the others
But when the sky splits seams
The rain ends you and me in a flame
That never gutters
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3. |
I'm Your Man!
02:48
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Well life was hard
And they needed a plan.
Someone to face the burning bush
And relay God’s commands.
To drop the plague and kill the Passover lamb…
I’m Your Man!
Well Pharaoh thought it over
Decided to spring ‘em free.
But then his heart was hardened
And he couldn’t let them be.
Now who’ll part the waters
Serpent staff in hand?
Lead ‘em through the sand?
To the Promised Land
They call Canaan?
I’m Your Man!
The Church had gone rotten
It was feeding on the poor.
Well Marty he took action
Nailed them theses to the door.
I can do no other, here I stand…
I’m Your Man!
He traded fame and fortune
For a Texas nursing home.
To shoot the breeze with Kennedy
In peace and left alone.
But when evil strikes
Who’s going to take a stand?
And fight the mummy’s hand?
But a guitar man
From ‘ol Graceland?
I’m Your Man!
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4. |
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My skeleton parts the waters
I have to save a madman's daughter
Her sighing on the wind calls to me.
I’ve been lying low and aimless
And I need to ease all your distress
Think it nothing more than means for your escape.
I’ve thrown my fate to waves that serve the lost so well.
Deliver me so I may free my drunken belle.
I, Manowar, have come for you. I’ve come for you.
I know that you forget me
But know that you have never left me
Though we float in placid bodies far apart.
I won't ask you to go with me
I know you need your room to breathe
But if you do I can assure you a love you've never known.
I’ve thrown my fate to waves that serve the lost so well.
Deliver me so I may free my drunken belle.
I, Manowar, have come for you. I’ve come for you.
O! that quest is never painless.
Believe me darling and let's rest,
For when the day awakes we must steal away.
I, Manowar, have come for you. I’ve come for you.
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5. |
Kathleen
02:50
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Oh Kathleen what do you mean
That you won't come and see me?
Don’t you remember how long it's been?
Don’t you remember the good times when
I had no strife, had a good job, had a good wife?
I left the best of my life on the hills of my home.
I left Kathleen, you see, back in 1963.
And I don't remember my other friends.
But with Kathleen I must make amends,
Because I miss the coal fires, I miss feeling like I’m not a liar
And I pray that my pyre's on the hills of my home.
I don't even know the names of the people she loves.
Oh Kathleen how could this be?
You were so much sweeter than me.
But I pushed you past the point of faith.
Past the point where the heart breaks.
…the hills of my home.
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6. |
Leviathan
04:54
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We rode a million miles
Leviathan had stove us in
And I could not believe
That he once had been my friend.
He replaced my homeland
With a desert as blue as ice
Where I learned to believe
The demons that visit me at night.
Everyone around me
Is lost in their fright,
And our hell is this clapboard
That holds us in tight.
He left us to the whim of the wind.
I don't know if I could leave them.
We're forever held to, in our minds,
Strut and fret upon the sea
To come to peace with our pagan designs
I have seen white zombies
Paw at sand like it were gold,
And I have seen the maker
Turn his back on his fold.
And leave them to the whim of the wind.
Release them to the whim of the wind.
And everyone around me
Is lost in their fright,
And our hell is this clapboard
That holds us in tight.
He left us to the whim of the wind.
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Big Dan was a jhwell of a man
Stood about 7’5”.
Woke up every morning
And he took on the day,
He was happy to be alive!
Well, I don’t know what killed him.
Some say it was his good looks.
But when his debts were paid
And his bills were laid
He gave away more than he took.
It took 16 men to carry him down
His coffin was 10 feet long.
Had to put the casket on a semi-truck
‘cause a hearse just wasn’t that strong.
The day he died, the women cried,
The men just stood around stunned.
But the wind kept blowing
And the weeds kept growing
And the river kept rolling on.
The river kept rolling on,
The river kept rolling on.
The winds kept blowing
And the weeds kept growing
And the river kept rolling on.
I heard the word on the street today
Big Dan was back in town.
His good clothes looked a little worse for wear
And dirty from being in the ground.
I can’t look him in the eye
When I see him shambling around.
But winds kept blowing
And the weeds kept growing
And the river kept rolling on.
The river kept rolling on,
The river kept rolling on.
The winds kept blowing
And the weeds kept growing
And the river kept rolling on.
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8. |
Oh My God
02:41
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I can see us standing on that rocky cliff's edge
On my brothers I was reliant
For what we saw below in the port's eerie glow
Left us all in a deathly silence
The next thing that we knew
We were herded by the crew
But Niko was always defiant
He set to throw a left but the porter just laughed and said
We're taking you to see your father
Then halfway across me and Gussy got the pox while
Niko's was walking pneumonia
It was the evil in this world that put us there
It was the evil in this world that put us there, I swear
But time always does
Just like it always has
Rips your past apart at the seams
So I’ve been living here screaming into millions of deaf ears
Some messed up American dream
While Gussy, he is dead, and Niko
He just fled
And I ain't never been back
I just can face that dear old rocky place
I can't even speak her true name.
It was the evil in this world that put us here, I fear.
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9. |
Don't Leave Queens
02:12
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As every age of empire
Sees a sun that never sets
As to the underground will thrive with night
The scavengers and miscreants
So I found myself a pirate
In the county of the Queen
Take what I want what I can get
Thought nothing’s what it seems
As I wind these mangrove backstreets
On the nights when I may roam
I think of you and the life I’d give up
If I had anything at all
So I’ll board up all the windows
‘cuz there’s a blackout on the way
There’s a fog outside
So we don’t leave Queens tonight
I don’t know how I went to shambles
And I don’t know if you get my letters
And this island life is so stressful
That it seems I’ve lost all my direction
The last thing I remember
I was at a pub in Woodside
In a cloud of Skull and Bones who tell me
Everything’s alright
As I wound these mangrove backstreets
Trying to find my way back home
I thought of you, so far away
Just like my lonely bungalow
I came to via satellite
At some power plant, unsure
Of what the circumstance could be
That led me here,
But intoxicants seem certain
So like Washington fled Brooklyn
I was found East River bound
When the law caught up
I was so messed up
They just took my to my house
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10. |
Peloponnesia
01:58
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Peloponnesia, I can't front how I need you
You're to blame for how thick my blood is
We were but the dreams of Grecian kings
Seared onto meadowlark wings
You're to blame for how thick my blood is.
Joe got kinda drunk last night
He nearly lit the fuse
And even the kids from Cleveland both bowed their heads to pray
When he showed them some infinite American decay
Then he started preaching about the dangers in the sky
And if you ask him, he'll tell you why
But what he fails to mention
Is the cradle of invention
That still holds a claim on his rogue's eye.
Peloponnesia, I can't front how I need you
You're to blame for how thick my blood is
We were but the dreams of Grecian kings
Seared onto meadowlark wings
You're to blame for how thick my blood is.
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11. |
New Rome
03:48
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Standing tall on top of a hillside,
My city, shining bright.
A beacon in the dark,
Man’s last light.
I see New Rome burning,
It’s getting weaker inside.
The pillars are cracking,
The fear in their eyes.
New Rome,
Don’t ever want to see it
Fall to the ground
New Rome,
Won’t let it burn down,
On my watch.
New Rome,
Brightest star
In the night sky
Vandals at the walls of the city,
Darkness just out of sight.
Tea and circuses for all.
Dance all night.
How could we fall so far,
From this state of grace?
I want to open the floodgates!
I want to try to erase!
New Rome,
Don’t ever want to see it
Fall to the ground.
New Rome,
Won’t let it burn down
On my watch.
New Rome,
Brightest star
In the night sky.
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12. |
The Crawl
05:27
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Join me now and we’ll burn
Like a torch across time
Over once mighty kings
Let us creep like slow vines
Should the earth end tonight
Though we both sulk and gloom
Upon my back, I’ll carry you
To the moon
Did we not live loud?
Did we not howl at the sky?
Did we not share a life
Of volume and speed?
Do we not burn our bridges,
And maraud the countryside?
So we part now
And I don’t know why
‘til we crawl to each other again
I love you so much
I can love you no more
I love you so much
I can love you no more
And here’s to you
My witch of the trees
I’ve kept all the envelopes
The ink and the leaves
So severed we are
With still so much to say
You don’t seem to mind
My friend Marck says it’s okay
Did we not stand proud?
Did we not drink the port dry?
Did we not share the dreams
And the spirit of the times?
Do we not feel the pressures,
The storm and stress of the minds?
I died last night
Or so I felt
Over foxfire town
Saw the twilight melt
As the transit streams flowed
To the strain of the Ninth
I wept away years
At the beauty outside
We survive!
We’re alive!
Blame it all on the tides
We two are all
And all is as one
But it’s all in my head
It’s all in my head
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