Song Of Myself

[00:46.43] The nightingale is still locked in the cage

[00:50.27] The deep breath I took still poisons my lungs

[00:55.85] An old oak sheltering me from the blue

[01:01.20] Sun bathing on its dead frozen leaves

[01:06.78] A catnap in the ghost town of my heart

[01:12.13] She dreams of storytime and the river ghosts

[01:17.72] Of mermaids, of Whitman's and the Ride

[01:23.33] Raving harlequins, gigantic toys

[01:29.17] A song of me a song in need

[01:31.82] Of a courageous symphony

[01:35.32] A verse of me a verse in need

[01:38.25] Of a pure-heart singing me to peace

[01:41.96] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying

[01:44.64] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing

[01:51.01] All that great heart lying still

[01:55.00] In silent suffering

[01:57.92] Smiling like a clown until the show has come to an end

[02:03.23] What is left for encore

[02:04.29] Is the same old Dead Boy's song

[02:07.79] Sung in silence

[02:09.92] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying

[02:12.57] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing

[02:26.91] A midnight flight into Covington Woods

[02:31.96] A princess and a panther by my side

[02:37.57] These are Territories I live for

[02:42.88] I'd still give my everything to love you more

[02:48.73] A song of me a song in need

[02:51.66] Of a courageous symphony

[02:55.14] A verse of me a verse in need

[02:57.79] Of a pure-heart singing me to peace

[03:01.53] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying

[03:04.19] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing

[03:10.57] All that great heart lying still

[03:14.81] In silent suffering

[03:17.99] Smiling like a clown until the show has come to an end

[03:23.05] What is left for encore

[03:24.11] Is the same old Dead Boy's song

[03:27.32] Sung in silence

[03:29.75] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying

[03:32.40] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing

[04:03.78] A silent symphony

[04:16.01] A hollow opus one, two, three

[04:29.55] Sometimes the sky is piano black

[04:42.32] Piano black over cleansing waters

[04:54.27] Resting pipes, verse of bore

[05:06.24] Rusting keys without a door

[05:19.51] Sometimes the within is piano black

[05:31.99] Piano black over cleansing waters

[06:12.37] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying

[06:17.96] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing

[06:24.34] All that great heart lying still and slowly dying

[06:30.73] All that great heart lying still on an angelwing

[07:19.38] I see a slow, simple youngster by a busy street

[07:19.65] With a begging bowl in his shaking hand

[07:21.79] Trying to smile but hurting infinitely

[07:22.33] Nobody notices

[07:22.86] I do, but walk by

[07:27.10] An old man gets naked and kisses a model-doll in his attic

[07:31.62] It's half-light and he's in tears

[07:34.81] When he finally comes his eyes are cascading

[07:39.85] I see a beaten dog in a pungent alley

[07:43.04] He tries to bite me

[07:45.17] All pride has left his wild drooling eyes

[07:48.88] I wish I had my leg to spare

[07:54.73] A mother visits her son,

[07:56.85] Smiles to him through the bars

[07:58.72] She's never loved him more

[08:02.17] An obese girl enters an elevator with me

[08:05.62] All dressed up fancy

[08:07.75] A green butterfly on her neck

[08:10.66] Terribly sweet perfume deafens me

[08:14.13] She's going to dinner alone

[08:17.84] That makes her even more beautiful

[08:21.29] I see a model's face on a brick wall

[08:23.96] A statue of porcelain perfection beside a violent city kill

[08:31.40] A city that worships flesh

[08:47.61] The first thing I ever heard

[08:49.46] Was a wandering man telling his story

[08:52.65] It was you, the grass under my bare feet

[08:57.19] The campfire in the dead of the night

[09:00.64] The heavenly black of sky and sea

[09:05.72] It was us

[09:07.85] Roaming the rainy roads

[09:10.53] Combing the gilded beaches

[09:13.98] Waking up to a new gallery of wonders every morn

[09:19.02] Bathing in places no-one's seen before

[09:24.34] Shipwrecked on some matt-painted island

[09:28.06] Clad in nothing but the surf

[09:32.31] Beauty's finest robe

[09:37.36] Beyond all mortality we are

[09:40.56] Swinging in the breath of nature

[09:43.48] In early air of the dawn of life

[09:47.20] A sight to silence the heavens

[09:54.10] I want to travel where life travels

[09:57.29] Following its permanent lead

[09:59.42] Where the air tastes like snow music

[10:02.08] Where grass smells like fresh-born Eden

[10:05.80] I would pass no man, no stranger, no tragedy or rapture

[10:11.11] I would bathe in a world of sensation

[10:14.29] Love, Goodness, and Simplicity

[10:20.15] (While violated and imprisoned by technology)

[10:27.06] The thought of my family's graves was the only moment

[10:30.78] I used to experience true love

[10:31.58] That love remains infinite

[10:35.57] As I'll never be the man my father is

[10:40.34] How can you "just be yourself"

[10:43.04] When you don't know who you are?

[10:44.90] Stop saying "I know how you feel"

[10:47.56] How could anyone know how another feels?

[10:52.34] Who am I to judge a priest, beggar, whore, politician, wrongdoer?

[11:00.13] I am, you are, all of them already

[11:16.87] Dear child, stop working, go play

[11:20.86] Forget every rule

[11:23.79] There's no fear in a dream

[11:28.31] "Is there a village inside this snowflake?"

[11:32.83] A child asked me

[11:36.82] "What's the color of our lullaby?"

[11:41.61] I've never been so close to truth as then

[11:46.46] I touched its silver lining

[11:54.41] Death is the winner in any war

[11:58.18] Nothing noble in dying for your religion

[12:01.37] For your country

[12:02.96] For ideology, for faith

[12:06.69] For another man, yes

[12:17.57] Paper is dead without words

[12:20.50] Ink idle without a poem

[12:22.90] All the world dead without stories

[12:25.81] Without love and disarming beauty

[12:32.45] Careless realism costs souls

[12:37.77] Ever seen the Lord smile?

[12:41.00] All the care for the world made Beautiful a sad man?

[12:45.29] Why do we still carry a device of torture around our necks?

[12:49.55] Oh, how rotten your pre-apocalypse is

[12:52.99] All you bible-black fools living over nightmare ground

[13:02.29] I see all those empty cradles and wonder

[13:06.27] If man will ever change

[13:08.67] I, too, wish to be a decent manboy

[13:13.19] But all I am

[13:14.27] Is smoke and mirrors

[13:17.47] Still given everything, may I be deserving

[13:22.78] And there forever remains

[13:25.96] That change from G to E minor