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Into the Dark Unknown

by Holcombe Waller

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1.
Atlas 05:20
"Atlas" (lyrics) The soul of all things Floating around In echoes of darkness Specters of sound Cyphers of dreams Flown from the deep Floating around in his sleep And from the East came the sun And the morning light All morning white To cut a line in the corner of his eye And Atlas awoke Jonesin' to toke To quiet the thoughts all rumbling down Like a dam that done broke You lost your touch, he says Maybe you've got too much, he says Maybe you've got too much For what it's worth It was the sky on his shoulders Not the earth But Atlas just shrugged He's going back on the drugs Oh man I'm back on the drugs It's hard to get up When you're stuck in a rut When you're spinning around and around and around 'Til you don't know what's what And I want to see every leaf On every tree, every leaf On every tree As he walked through the whirlwind of his home Every thing in the whole world that he did own Fell to his feat, calling for Change, Change, Change O, Change But Atlas just shrugged He's going back on the drugs Swallowed down that bitter slug And in full seriousness, he looked to the sky And he said, O! Why I want to see every leaf on every tree Who put all this burden on me? Let the beauty of the world rise around him Let the beauty of the world rise around him Let the beauty
2.
Risk of Change (lyrics) I don't know much, but I know you You are the kind of magic always breaks my heart in two The house all trashed, the wine uncorked Maybe I should call you when I get back from New York The barlife strays along your street Poor girl's got a cough and that man's checking out my feet They look for signs and they make plans To forge for the better good of all those children in their hands hands hands hands Home on the range, who knew life could be so strange All boils down to a risk of change Pick up the pieces of your life and rearrange All boils down to a risk of change Change The midnight shoppers stretch for miles Bundled up all coffee cups and cigarettes and smiles I search the stars across your chart Through the constellation of your hands, your head, your heart This city's tiring out my feet Penny rolls a joint, and all the men who pass smell sweet Oh penny I can't win this race Boy you are like Jeff and you must walk to that dark place place place place Home on the range, who knew life could be so strange All boils down to a risk of change Pick up the pieces of your life and rearrange All boils down to a risk of change Your pretty eyes cut like the devil through my brain They're so smooth, so sharp, so strange Pick up the pieces of your life and rearrange All boils down to a risk of change Change I think I'll sleep alone tonight Cuz babe we both know I could never love you right The house all trashed, the wine uncorked Maybe I should call you when I get back from New York You've got your barbs, you've got your stones Pool them in your pockets with the ox meat and the bones I've got my bags, I'm on my way Cruising like a bandit 'neath the dark Northwestern day I don't know much, but I know you You are the kind of magic always breaks my heart in two I've got my wings, I'm on my way Cruising and communing with the vine to meet the Saints The river sleeps alone tonight Tucked around those cities that will never treat her right I've got my wings, I'm on my way To cruise and commune with the vine and the spirits and the Saints Saints, Yajé, Yajé, yes Home on the range, who knew life could be so strange All boils down to a risk of change Pick up the pieces of your life and rearrange All boils down to a risk of change Your pretty eyes cut like the jewels on your pretty frame And you're pretty hot, and you're pretty cool and you're pretty strange Pick up the pieces of my life and rearrange it All boils down, it all boils down To a risk of change
3.
The Unicorn 04:24
The Unicorn (lyrics) Deep within the dream of love Caution burns A heat beyond the point of no returns Deep beyond the thicket and The grandma tree The unicorn is grazing on the leaves You're poised to make yourself so inconsolably alone No more breadcrumbs lead you home No more breadcrumbs lead you home And all your fear is gone Your calm is spreading through and through Like you know not what you do Like you know not what you do Like all the means to happiness are here They are here They are here Like all the loves you're looking for are near They are near They are near As darkness falls your loosened voice Will float across the fold His ears will perk to track the singer And through the mist and gloam he'll come Careening 'cross the cold To sting you with his pure white stinger Barreling down, careening down The world bends in his wake Laws and leaves just tear away All that fabric tears away Your eyes all filled with blood Your heart impaled upon his horn Now you are the unicorn Now you are the unicorn Now all the means to happiness are here They are here, they are here Now all the loves you're looking for are here They are near, they are near They are near.
4.
Baby Blue 03:30
Baby Blue (lyrics) Baby blue In the kitchen sun you stand Oh your shoulders, oh your hands Your weekend plans trapped in the orbit of your bed As your heart pounds in your head Like a prisoner left for dead If he were only dead These quiet conversations you've been having with yourself Bruise your ribs up with the iron that once belonged to someone else I take two steps back and then three steps up Still I'd fall back to stand by you And back to sleep, baby blue For the case was true, yes it was true These quiet conversations you've been having with yourself Bruise your ribs up with the iron you wish belonged to someone else I take two steps back and then three steps up Still I'd fall back to stand by you Back to sleep by you Back to sleep But that kind of dream is done Nothing lost and no thing won And the best is yet to come And that old bull dogging my friends I've outrun
5.
Hardliners (free) 04:30
the bar closed and the whole day went not much to your liking fresh rain on the beer green glass broken where you're biking a dark cloud over your bed you're so sad that you just might die but the sun will still rise the sun will still rise now don't laugh cuz i just might be the soft curve in your hardline there's no doubt that you are mine babe there's no doubt that you are mine you act so shy but you know you're pretty you act like there's no one left alive in the whole city well maybe the end is upon you and what then, here repeat after me it goes, i won't stop loving i won't stop loving you don't have to be perfect you don't have to play well you don't have to fix everything all by yourself now don't laugh cuz i just might be the soft curve in your hardline there's no doubt that you are mine babe there's no doubt that you are mine mine, here repeat after me it goes i won't stop loving i won't stop loving now don't laugh cuz i just might be the soft curve in your hardline there's no doubt that you are mine babe there's no doubt that you are mine
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7.
Shallow 06:01
muddled in the plans to be a woman or a man to be a woman or a man spinning in the wake of an apple and a snake oh an apple and a snake i set out alone out, out of house and home out, a toothbrush and a comb looking for you but i don't know how to find you i don't know how to recognize you i have fought for you, I have put my needs above you made a pederast of you i've rustled through the leaves, oh your bushes and your trees, oh your fables and your thieves and i don't know one thing don't know one thing about you don't know an emptiness without you but stillness is the proof in stillness i can tell you move stillness i can tell you're moving and when you finally floated up for me to see you shallow enough for me to meet you i could not accept that i was floating within you ocean with no land to swim to and it was only time that moved the boundaries to hold me moved the pattern to enfold me and it was only prayer that echoed like time was even there echoes like time is even there one way or another we are going to meet each other one way or another we are going to meet each other we are going to meet each other we are going to meet each other
8.
Into the Dark Unknown (The Marriage Song) - lyrics Like a vision she stepped out And all the fear that fed his doubt Just surrendered to the hour The bridesmaids and the flowers The promises they made before the gathered here todays Well I crept through the reception Like a child freshly scorned I caught up with all my old friends Tending to their newborns I thought I could have cried But all my ghosts laid down and died I'm ready to go my way River life take your knife and cut these tethered weights Cut them free Let me be the way that I must be Let things flow where they must go Into the dark unknown Mother will I disappoint you If I can't make it back upstream I am fighting, I am fighting But I don't make the team Son I've stood here by your father Over 30 some odd years If there's one thing I should tell you You have to face your own fear Whether married or alone, you are always on your own I'm ready to go my way River life take your knife and cut these tethered weights Cut them free Let me be the way that I must be Let things flow where they must go Into the dark unknown Hey look, now There we go
9.
About Time 04:41
You’re a figment on my radio flyer A family ghost asleep in my bed like a brother That’s the truth, yeah, and I’m a big liar Cruising like I’d ever fall for another I wanna fell the world in your honor So bad I wince and I pray and I think, hey Its about time so figure it out Or I’ll figure my own way out of all this baby It’s about time so figure it out Or I’ll figure my own way out It’s about time so figure it out, or I’ll be Looking back not missing one bit of all this baby It’s about time so figure it out Or I’ll figure my own way out I bend however you want me I bend however I fit against you, baby I take the baight when you taunt me I take whatever I get from you, baby I wanna fell the world in your honor Don’t wanna write no song about moving on, oh It’s about time so figure it out Or I’ll figure my own way out It’s about time so figure it out, or I’ll be Looking back not missing one bit of all this, baby It’s about time so figure it out, or you’ll be Looking back just missing the hell out of all this, baby It’s about time so figure it out, or we’ll be Looking down just kicking ourselves for all this, baby It’s about time so figure it out Or I’ll figure my own way out
10.
Bored of Memory (free) 05:52
Bored of Memory (lyrics) Oh my love Oh my one and only light of hope that turns to me I never dreamed you would die so far away All the history, all the wars The ever distant dangers frightening us All return to us, the bold forgetful senders And that's all, and that's all I need Bored of memory the man said Let me trade the future for a war nobody understands And that's all I need Bored of memory the book said Leave me to my T.V., I am history, never been read If I'm your lover, if I'm your friend If I'm the protest laying down for you All you have to do is lay yourself beside me If I'm the Roman, if I'm the fighter If I'm the puppet dangling here for you All you have to do is put your hand inside me And that's all, and that's all I need Bored of memory the man said Let me trade the future for a war nobody understands And that's all I need Bored of memory the book said Leave me to my T.V., I am history, never been read And that's all I need Bored of memory the queen Ordered up the moat bridge, never been kissed Never been seen And that's all I need Bored of memory the book said Leave me to my T.V., I am history, never been read You can leave me to my T.V., I am history Never been read You can leave me to my T.V. I am history Never been read
11.
Down & Cried 06:48
when john was young, he put the old horse down and cried down and cried the gun went off his silver girl just bowed her head and died down and died john i'm alone in my bed looking down the road in my head and nothing's gonna fix the kind of trouble ahead trouble ahead, oh ahead john i'm alone in my skin looking down the road where i've been and nothing's gonna fix the kind of trouble i'm in the trouble i'm in oh i'm in, oh i'm in john stood up william laid before him flushed and still fevered and ill their lungs filled up breathing in the air, ye save and kill john thought he'd shake fate with his will william, you've stood in my stead no doubts, no fears to be fled if all these years of living's just a skin that you'll shed a skin that you'll shed, well well, let mine be shed i may be down, i may be down lord lord, but i'm not dead i may be down lord but i'm not dead trouble, trouble up ahead i may be down, lord, but i'm not dead and the rain poured down like a poison bled and mercy crumbled and the last breath fled and the truth still trembles in the morning bells to tell the unknown story of william evans and doctor john wells
12.
i can feel, i can feel it the truth is rising and the truth is, the truth is is neither with or against us and the system, the system always reflexing 'gainst ourselves but the truth, yeah, the truth is now we're on to something else for the fallow overgrown for we come here with our hands up for the answer unknown for we come here with our hands up for the ending overblow for that we shall die as gods died for the present, not the past pulls you in for it's not over i can feel, i can feel it the truth is rising and the truth is, the truth is is neither with or against us and the system, the system always reflexing 'gainst ourselves but the truth, yeah, the truth is now we're on to something else

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released June 21, 2011

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