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Somewhere (live)
04:29
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Come running with me tonight where the hills touch the sky.
If the moon is shot and tumbles we'll be somewhere else.
It's a place where you can hide and you don't have to think of tomorrow.
Your teeth are thin white doors
That keep on opening and closing wherever you go.
I may be somewhere else, but I'm with you tonight;
No matter what happens somewhere tonight.
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Forward (live)
00:47
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I am not tired.
Rest is not what I need.
After all the passing time
I can only keep going forward (not backwards)-
With the clock ticking like an axe in my head.
For a reputation is all a man has.
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I heard someone- they fell apart on the radio.
While out to lunch some years ago,
The white lights went on to signal
Blue boats on black lakes and the white lies went sinking like a stone.
Blue boats on black lakes.
Could you meet me down the well,
Where the crickets tell time in song?
Your hair turned to water in my hand.
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Four Hours (live)
08:53
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Long ago in my mouth people stood but made no sound.
Now horse heads hit the tabletop and roll around.
Ooooooo.
In my hat slept crushed flies.
They smelled of you.
I don't know why your nails choked the vertebrae under my clothes.
Ooooooo.
"It's amazing how you spend most of your time figuring out how to spend your time!",
I hear eyes blinking back.
Help me up! My legs can't move that fast.
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Boxcar Serenade (live)
03:48
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And when I woke the leaves were orange
And the green grass had died.
The branches wound up
The jack-in-the-box sun or the moon or whatever you see anytime.
Anyway, her head fell with the leaves-
Unfastened, like the clapper of a bell.
Skyline met with beds to burrow under the hills- around or over or however it was any way, anywhere, any time, any place that you choose.
Open the door and let it fly out the window, into the stream any way, anywhere that you choose.
She laughs in a way that sends the lemmings from the cliff.
There's murder in her smile but no one seems to mind.
But now's the time
To hide all your children in the ribcage of a dead dog, Or whatever you choose to do.
Anything, any time that you choose.
Open the door and let it fly out the window, into the stream
Any way, anywhere, any thought, any song, Anything any time that you choose.
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Little Dreams (live)
03:17
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My dear you've gone to sleep
With one eyelid twitching, like dolphins do.
How high the moon? No deeper than the grave.
Any man can tell -
There's a pebble in every pair of shoes.
Little dreams can keep you from noticing I'm gone.
The smaller the dream,
The more you can't help feeling what you know inside.
Time's faults are not yours.
You know the snow will fall from tear ducts
When you can't let yours go, my dear.
Little dreams can keep you from noticing I'm gone.
The smaller the dream,
The more you can't help feeling what you know inside.
Little dreams can keep you here.
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Tattered Clouds (live)
02:29
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Once I tried to carry a tattered cloud and
In my hands it crumbled.
Once I tried to sit on a tattered clouds and
In my hands it crumbled.
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What is all this space meaning now?
Oh my goodness gracious!
What is all this space?
Here's a kick in my ass that makes me smile again.
How do you smell now?
Is there ever any moment's pause?
I'll kiss you again, but
With a distance that may not be the best
And when things pickup we'll spend some time again.
My, oh, my, oh, my.
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I fell asleep and in my dream I lost hold of you hand.
As the season pulls my skin off for me
I hope the flowers will soon be coming to help me.
The train was old and full of steam.
She walked into the river, but
There's not much we can do.
When the flowers come they'll need the sun too.
Ask just once of my dream where
I lost hold of your hand.
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Tavo Carbone
Experimental Folk Distopic Songs sung on voice/gtr/pno. Tape+CD orders or booking: email or Insta-DM
Will tour again before the next Presidential transfer of power.
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