Mary Miracle (Official Video)
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Camelot
03:51
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i’ve been sleeping in
the unfinished basement
i said it as a joke
but i’ve come to really mean it
when i go to play
don’t let my bed just blow away
you know it’s never felt that permanent
am i just wishing stones were standing?
am i just pissing in the wind?
and when i need some understanding
can i count on you to let me in?
back in camelot
i really learned a lot
circles in the crops and
sky-high geometry
i asked my lineage
about my living wish
but they just held me in the mystery
it isn’t you, and it isn’t me
it isn’t blue, and it isn’t green
it isn’t four, and it isn’t three
it’s the two of us
and whether we can be
i hear the sirens and the desert deities
they travel on the breezes enchanting ladies
they’ll tie a knot around this house
and it’ll sound just like the wind
blowing long and low
songs from ancient places
and if i’m not mistaken
these hearts can handle breaking
i think i tried to save us
i hope i’m not forsaken
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Some Friends
02:42
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some friends come with two different faces
one on the moon recite bright and beaming verses
and one on the sun as hot as a curse is
i haven’t begun to really purge it, and what’s worse is
it really builds up, bubbling just below the surface
i gotta move on, gotta keep up, gotta get through this
want to hold hands while i’m walking through tall rushes
want to feel shy every time you make me blush
don’t want to succumb to the patterns of time
and i don’t want to rush it
got to lift hands up and open heavy curtains
outside is a land, and i’ll walk it when i’m certain
you tried to make me feel so small, but nobody’s perfect
you had to be right, so i guess that i’m wrong, but i didn’t deserve it
some friends come with two different faces
one on the moon recite bright and beaming versus
and one on the sun as hot as a curse is
as hot as a curse is
some friends
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Trust
02:42
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hypocrites leave the crust
take from you what they must
cynic see disbelief
find in you ever thief
angry vein pumps with pain
finds in you bloody blame
jealous is as jealous does
lashes out in camouflage
corporate went to bed
with the bill and lost his head
government separates
people and subordinates
gurus do preach the truth
through gilded and golden tooth
critic can and critic do
blow their smoke into you
lovers scorned
show their horns
nostrils flared
charge towards you
who should i trust?
scientists insinuate
that facts are facts and lines are straight
doctors say they can help
then stoke you with the fear of death
and bottom line, every time
beats kingdom and humankind
people on the great divide
curse you from either side
and church is good
church is great
i’ll meet you at heaven’s gate
who should i trust?
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in the tidal pools of pain
swimming in the seas of fate
you know how this came to be
and it rhymes with the lucky number 8
lay it on its side, sweet angel
sleep eternally
are you really my archangel
summoning for me?
well, you know i can reason
i reason with the best of them
i’m sitting at the diamond table
and i’m marvelling at the charts and diagrams
what percentage am i spirit?
what percentage is machine?
come on, baby, let me hear it
what are you whispering to me?
and when’s the last time that you
you tried the theory of collapse
and all the multi-felt dimensions
came to you and coalesced at last
and you marvelled as the spaces
came to represent
nothing more than the orbits
that we circumvent?
so just give the money to the dancers
while their hips go figure eight
and they entrance us with the answers
and we hope and pray the message ain’t too late
and i know that i have to get going
cause every good night turns to morning
and i hope i can find my way back home
cause i’ve wandered out
and i’m all alone
and i don’t want to lose ya
you’re my only audience
nor will i abuse ya
by not making sense
just give the money to the dancers
while their hips go figure eight
and they entrance us with the answers
i hope it’s not too late
just give the money to the dancers
while their hips go figure eight
and they entrance us with the answers
i hope it’s not too late
i call my friend, and she comes over
while this trip begins to fade
i ask her gently for the answers
she says it’s getting late
she says it’s getting late
she says it’s getting late
she says it’s getting late
i hope it’s not too late
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Louis
04:25
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i wonder if louis can hear me now?
i talk to him as if he can somehow
you got to live how you want to live
lately i don’t see myself in it
don’t see myself under this midnight sun
with my stances and my smoking gun
what’s the chances that i’ll harm none?
what’s that dance, and can it be done?
what’s that song, and can it be sung?
where’s my hat, can it be hung?
free when my heart has a tongue
and talks with you, my beloved
but what’s the chances that i’ll harm none?
what’s that dance, and can it be done?
what’s that song, and can it be sung?
what’s that song, and can it be sung?
what’s that song, and can it be sung?
i wonder if louis can hear me now?
i talk to him as if he can somehow
in the village, streetlights flashing
in the meetinghouse, fires crackling
on the pier window-shopping
in the springtime by stinging nettles
in my mouth tastes heavy metals
i’ll transmute it! case is settled
but in my northeast aura
i sense a canyon of goo
i’ll conjure the unicorns, they’ll fight too
pleaides, this one’s for you
the fountain of youth and the blue lagoon
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Full Moon in Leo
04:04
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i did not come here
to talk about orange
and all of the things
that have come up before us
and florida and that warm catchy chorus
the season of dreams
and our clothes on the floor
i solemnly swear
that forever more
i’ll remain bare naked
underneath my chores
i push my broom
in my underwear and my attitude
and nothing more
i got big hair, don’t care
cause its full moon in leo
emotional ocean
chinese zodiac trio
monkey rat dragon
good luck and good fortune
wherever we go
i get tired of sending
my songs off and waiting
for some foreign agent to say
let’s make bank
i’ve got friends going grey
just awaiting my face
to arrive on a billboard
on fairfax avenue
in sunny l.a.
better like what you got
going right here and right now
i don’t cast my eyes
down some future scenario
i pledge my allegiance
to this moment between us
can you feel me?
when i’m dead and i’m gone
don’t you come to my grave
saying things should have gone
for her some other way
how it folds and unfolds
only time can tell
may i leave you this laugh
on my stone epitaph?
the dream is alive and well
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mary miracle, you cried blood!
down the cheeks of the non-believers
on the marble floor came a flood
on the television disbelief
and i want to know how you
came to value
the practice of dragging
by the hair those pals who
on their invisible crosses
of their capitalist bosses
who in the trash tossed out
that red beating thought that
that all is not lost and
that belief at all cost and
mary miracle, you cried blood!
down the thighs of the porcelain angels
there by the riverbed thrashing in the mud
swimming upstream against all odds
like a scene of wild horses
all those natural forces
that can’t be coerced by
all this language of non-myth
hey, my life without it
is just an opulent pageant
of continuous non-death
i need that red beating thought that
that all is not lost and
that belief at all cost and
that believe at all cost
mary miracle, you cried blood! yeah
down the thighs of those porcelain angels
there on the riverbed thrashing in the mud, yeah
swimming upstream against all odds
like a scene of wild horses
all those natural forces
that can’t be coerced by
all this language of non-myth
hey, my life without it
is just an opulent pageant
of continuous non-death
i need that red beating thought that
that all is not lost and
that belief at all cost and
i need that red beating thought that
that all is not lost and
that all is not lost and
that belief at all cost
mary miracle, you cried blood!
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choose to enjoy
one’s time by the water
and let one’s future flow out,
on and in her honour
no words to fumble with
i’m not a beggar to language any longer
a state of mind
only a god could come up with
and don’t get it twisted
my heart’s still in it
my dedication’s a star
and it shines on our differences
and there’s love in the meantime
i’m so proud of this moment
in the simulation here with you
i’m so fucking honoured
can you feel me?
can you feel what i do?
i’m at the front of the moment
and i’m blowing my little kisses to you, baby
i’m blowing my little kisses
can you feel what i do?
i’m at the front of the moment
so don’t be mad
if i choose to spend my time down by the water
and i let my future flow out,
on and in her honour
there’s no words to fumble with
i’m not a beggar to language any longer
it’s a state of mind
only a god could come up with
only a god could come up with it
only a god could come up with it
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my hopes for you and me
are very worldly
wheel of fortune
roll on this property
and touch all that i can see
beyond the boundaries
earthsong and in between
heaven and underneath
i’m still a child at heart
playing my childish part
laughing through the light
crying through the dark
i’m never just your girl
i belong to the world
and sometimes i feel that pull
succumb to it and start to twirl
and doorways will have to do
hallways and mirrors too
step through, i’m feeling free
from this landlocked modernity
mary, i know it’s thee
folk mother pouring tea
safe and sitting on the seed
from gates and his misery
now i don’t like to name names
names are small, and names are games
and forces gain good ground
when light moves at the speed of sound
when light moves at the speed of sound
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10. |
Fractal Canyon
04:25
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out on the river where i go with my friends
they push cars off the banks
i take pictures where they landed
dirt bikes are going by
i hear the echo laughing
forest gnomes go dancing
through the fractal canyon
and what’s more, i could say anything
one door leads to another
metronome or a woodpecker
i don’t know one from the other
all of the glory
with none of the spending
i take part in the part of you
that’s never-ending
out the corner of your eye
you can see how i’d be tempted
to pretend i’m not alone
and let the memory bend
i’m with paul, who’s speaking in an irish accent
him and i wear tiger eye
and that’s no accident
i take comfort in the stripe
the stone of protection
from daffodil bill and the thrill of rejection
and what’s more, i could say anything
one door leads to another
metronome or a woodpecker
i don’t know one from the other
on a holy night like this
when the whole wide world is making a wish
you can find me in my kitchen, i’ll be breaking the dishes
or i’m down on my knees, i’m giving the river my kisses
i’ve been walking for miles
tell me, baby, do you miss me?
out the corner of your eye, can you see how i’d be tempted
to pretend i’m not alone and let the memory bend
and take part in the part of you that’s never-ending?
and i’m not alone here
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