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Paper Crane

by Walri

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1.
Cookin' 01:31
Hope is the best spice you can find keep that in your mind too much worry spoils the stew and fear tastes bitter too you're cookin' with a lot of heat and you got no recipe
2.
Look out now for all the joyful things that the day brings in bring her in and give her a seat at your table things would be so much easier if you'd just give in just give in and things will turn out for the better It takes a while to reconcile this faceless land where time flies by and people create their own troubles when trouble comes she just sleeps around and hangs out a while cracks a smile she's cruel and she's willing and able You know I'm trying oh so hard I'm dying It tears me apart! Lalalalalala love will make you want to sing! Until it goes away oh then you'll say "How could I ever feel this way? I should have saved it for a better day." But don't let the blues turn your happier hues to gray I would be cold if I were alone but I'm not I'm with you! its 8:52 and I press on the snooze I would be sad if my words weren't clear but they are and sincere! And I'm droppin' the clues... I haven't said the things in my head were running around well now they've settled down so now I can discern They've given me a price for clarity which I do not deserve Haven't they got the nerve
3.
Everything was great until you showed up late to the dinner party The guests were stark raving mad that I'd never mentioned my Long Lost Twin Dad and until this moment, I had never met him And he must be a magician because the room began to spin is it really him? It's the talk of the town The candles are burning down Quicksand for every memory And member of the family You'd have to squint to see...(it wasn't me) Everything was great until you woke up late in a field of poppies The Dream had already ended leaving you feeling fuzzy headed and what are you doing looking through my eyes? I can only see out one eye and through a rosy-colored lens I couldn't tell if he's my friend It's the talk of the town The candles are burning down Quicksand for every memory And member of the family You'd have to squint to see... ...oh but secretly he was just as confused as me I looked at him he scratched his chin and said "Well I'll come back here later if you let me in" and as he waited for my reply cousin Ed hit him with a pie! AND as the pandemonium broke He pulled me close and he spoke and said "I'm not yr dad and yr a clever lad but yr like the son I never had" I said "its gonna make you sad, man, but yr gonna have to go, I said you can't stay here anymore, no you can't stay here anymore"
4.
The Easy Joy 03:24
5.
Bear the Dog 03:29
You know we're only trying to help you you know you're chewing on the rope it's the only thing holding you back from your own hapless death but your eyes are filled with hope Wouldn't it be nice to live on open fields in the country side the hills are soft and green and the valleys wide and everybody can see here you're so uptight yr uptight! When I met a woman who knew you well she just smiled when I mentioned your name she said how sweet it is to see you and she let you kiss her on the mouth And I was shocked that she would do that here in the public square where everybody can see in the open air but that don't matter to you no you don't care you don't care! You don't care! You're far too busy dreaming for the stage...
6.
Morning Day 03:42
Waiting for the crack of dawn you put your bathrobe on You crack a smile cause you've found that there's nobody round tellin' you to hurry along The paper awaits, and as you open the gates, you start to sing this song........ you said I love the morning Sunshine in my eyes The Sun is warming as the wind blows by I love the morning And you go inside And night presides Dreaming till the clock strikes 3, you sleep away your misery You stay in your bed, you're not lookin' ahead, but you have a lazy jubilee the crossword is done, and there's plenty of sun...sun you'll never see you'll say I love the morning Sunshine in my eyes The Sun is warming as the wind blows by Sundays and Saturdays And you go inside and night presides I know what you'll say as the day passes away yes i know, I know it's so easy to say but did you really want to give yourself away...
7.
Fill up your cup and take your order cause there's nothing to lose except salty water to choose is a gift, my soul is adrift, cut from the anchor no schooner, no skiff I have been careful with my navigations but the stars have been lying and triangulations are made difficult for a man worth his salt...waves of compassion wash over all You and me on a walk my friend, do you recall, the last time we had this talk You and me round the bend my friend, all good things must come to an end The lobsters play poker, the seagulls play craps the search is called off and the bugler plays taps this I have realized in between naps but I must not tire of tending the fire You and me on a walk my friend, do you recall, the last time we had this talk You and me round the bend my friend, all good things must come to an end
8.
Bike Ride 03:00
Fenders flashing, children laughing wind in my hair Three speeds, can't be seen All the cats in the neighborhood they always turn their heads they haven't seen what I saw a peacock painted red! My eyes jumped out of my head out of my head I put them back and this is what they said I wish you could see what I saw on my bike ride home A man with whiskers and pink suspenders sellin' snakes to the sky above they rained down on the asphalt and fell in love the man told secrets I'd never seen writing paragraphs of rhyming verse he met my gaze and grinned and said look at the page My eyes jumped out of my head out of my head I put them back and this is what they said I wish you could see what I saw on my bike ride home Take a bike ride just to take it all in ponder wonders and the meaning of all no time in that urban sprawl Take a day trip all tippin our hats to all the cats on the street that we see I can't even be seen on my racer green! My eyes jumped out of my head out of my head I put them back and this is what they said I wish you could see what I saw on my bike ride home
9.
Ghost Cop 03:00
Please don't do what you shouldn't do don't be bad when you know you should be good and I shouldn't have to tell you to heed me you've gotta believe me! Well you don't want any trouble in this town so keep the violence and the volume down because he doesn't need to take any time and he'll catch any crime and he certainly doesn't sleep and if he does he never dreams and he always gets his man a ghost cop cannot be stopped at all!! don't even think of grave robbin' they are his family you better pay for what you take because if you're not careful...stop!
10.
The Knack 04:20
It's a done conundrum how theory leads to theory it's late at night and I'm weary bleary eyes barely open and I still can't get the knack of things if you could see the reason you could see the rhyme and you may find that it's your season waking up with new ambition but I still can't get the knack you know i've been wandering you know i've been wandering wondering how i'll pass the time pass the time away away you know i've been runnin' i'm so tired of runnin' running out of time if only I could multiply my days well you're such a good student you're always on time but your heart is as empty as your mind is sublime turn your gaze inwards and see if you can find yourself some new ambition 'cause I'm starting to get the knack and I see now where it's at I need a calculator stat! no time for the jocular diversions I have been assured waking up with new ambition and laughing as I look back on things you know i've been wandering you know i've been wandering wondering how i'll pass the time pass the time away away you know i've been runnin' i'm so tired of runnin' running out of time if only I could multiply my days everyday I walk the planck never found the antidote for the poison I once drank
11.
Lady D 03:17
Thank you Lady D everything's coming along nicely if you would only drop in for a moment for some tea Lady D has come today with important things to say she would like to tell you now but she can't remember how and something over there grabs her attention ::snap:: the slightest noise leaves her lost with no direction ::snap:: on a bicycle! Thank you Lady D everything's coming along nicely if you would only drop in for a moment here with me Lady D goes into school and the school goes to the dogs and the dogs go to the pound and the pound just lets them out! And that's when something happens to remind her ::snap:: she'd come to tell you about something unrelated ::snap:: she thought of yesterday But Lady D can see colors and visions and though she acts a bit differently she's ok with me People say she has bad intentions but the people refuse to see things as they really are until its far too late... Thank you Lady D everything's coming along nicely if you would only drop in for a moment for some tea so I can thank you for the things you've given me such value to take in all the world and let it be
12.
Decisions 05:14
She gave me wings beautiful things said I'm not goin' nowhere 'till the end of spring I had the room to sing a tune said I'm not goin' nowhere 'till the end of June I had decisions, decisions to make and courses of actions to take but then in walked fuzzy with a look in her eye she said I'm not goin nowhere till I get mine I waited at home by the phone and I did a lot of thinkin' with my time alone Spring turned to summer, and summer to fall and I grew a long beard but she never called I had decisions, decisions to make and courses of actions to take but then in walked fuzzy with a look in her eye she said I'm not goin nowhere till I get mine I'm feelin' wiped out today like the city of Pompeii like a sabre-toothed tiger or a dodo bird let the memories fade away let the memories fade away let the memories fade away
13.
Paper Crane 02:30
I would be in heaven and I'd be there soon if I could make the night up in her yellow room I've folded up the paper calling out her name she's prepared to travel like a paper crane I told her that I love her she would not believe because I'd told her once before before she had to leave Music's on her pillows she was in my dreams those are the two things that I will ever need but she does not believe me she's going on a plane and I've folded up my sorrows into a paper crane

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released August 11, 2010

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Walri Rochester, New York

Psychedelic love-rock...its vintage-flavored indie pop, with a twist (tm)!!

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