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A Father's Instruction
03:12
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Oh my son, how you have grown
from a cask of bluebird bones
to a man. On a sailor's song
you've flown into the ocean.
But when you're done with the sea
my son, come home to me
And even though you're going off to see
how bright life can be
in the merchant marines
Oh my son, what have you done?
You've thrown your days from an old tin cup
to a sea of kings and queens
and coins you plucked from fallen trees
But when you're done with the sea
my son, come home to me
And even though you're going off to see
how bright life can be
in the merchant marines
And so my son, if ever you meet a gypsy girl
don't give her ropes of pearls
or combs to tame her ringlet curls
don't let her sanguine lips uncurl
but pass her palm with a blade of silver
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A Holiday in Cottingley
01:24
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Celluloid and paper dolls
summer days suspended
on the court yard lawn
bathed in golden sun
And you and me
were king and queen
of humble bees that
waltzed about our toes
and knees, lolling over streams
And germany was looking for the sun
While you and Oberon
made daisy chains on the lawn
until the war and fall
had come and gone
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Hide my legs all turned to roots
and climb my arms that call the moon and
see my fingers branch and bloom and
sleep with me beneath the dew
Place a wreath around my brow and
lace it through with lilac boughs and
lay my cheeks on gosling down and
stay with me beneath the ground
But I would rise with your cries
in the twilit skies and let collect
your tears in my material
that's bound around my skull
But I'll get no rest, oh
while tears on your face still flow
Hold my hands that rake my cloak
and fold my ribs inside its oak
enclose my eyes in clouds unbroken
over mead and bed of clover
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We Happy Two
04:28
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Let's build a fort and hide away
put a mattress in the old foyer
let's use our father's finest chair
and wire from the chandelier
and you could let your beard extend
and fill the holes inside your head
and I could use this old machine
so we would never have to leave
Let's build a fort and hide away
behind our dusty book brigade
let's our mother's squandered things
and all those rusty copper springs
and you could play the old Steinway
and man the upright barricade
and I could use this bit of scrap
and fashion homemade booby traps
Let's build a fort and squirrel away
our parasols for palisades
let's use that empty dowery chest
and remnants of a vintage press
and you could picnic in the dark
with tangerines and chocolate bars
and I could crawl in old newsprint
behind our paper parapet
Me and you
we will sing a song of Hallelujah
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A Song For Clarice
02:04
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Oh Clarice, your hands
are plump and ready for romance
so come on, Clarice,
give this man a chance
and hold me in your giant, meaty hands
And oh, you know Clarice
our love will only ever grow
and grow and grow and grow
and grow
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You and me took the interstate
straight to the sea when we set off
to be the ones to sail east beneath
the western sun, one summer gone
And song and tale of ancient beast
and alabaster whale we laid to heart
and laughed to see our sails with
the wanton wind conceive on hoisted yard
Oh, Vheissu! Oh, Vheissu!
And Hera's spite that held Calisto's
natural son confined, we made our guide
but forced to veer by a sickly crew
of godless privateers one stormy night
Until we came at last, our little clipper ship
was made a wrack upon the isle
where we made a home—a shanty built on silt
and dragon bones and sandy mile
Oh, Vheissu! Oh, Vheissu!
Oh, Vheissu! Oh, Vheissu!
But as a fledging gull you left adrift
a clamshell coracle for ocean's end
while I roamed the shore 'til you returned
as I had once before on western wind
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In The Circuit Of The Sun New York, New York
In The Circuit Of The Sun is the ongoing project of Tofer Moran. It started in a bedroom in 2009 after dissolving his former band Proud Valletta and moving to San Francisco, and has since become an evolving collection of songs recorded in his home over the years. ... more
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