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She comes in peace

by j elijah

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1.
Here she comes Here she comes Here she comes No, I don't want her to come but here she comes yes, here she comes What's she look like they ask me in town I say, I don't know this time around Where's she been I wonder to myself Maybe she'll tell me where Maybe she'll tell me where Pretty thing you coming around I like the way you're movin' around Pretty thing don't make a sound they'll snatch you up they'll snatch you up and carry you out yes, carry you out ooh, you know oh, you know you know she's comin' you know she's comin' you know she's comin' out she's comin' out, yes she's comin' out she's comin' out
2.
Breathe 05:06
Maybe we're just fooling ourselves believing in something someone this situation I don't know I think you're a little confused, darling maybe we're all just a little confused, darling just look me in the eye and tell me you know what's going on in here I'll know you're lying you're lying now let's just step outside let's just step outside and breathe never understood all the strange things happening in here around this time of year if you could just help me out darling and give a little translation of these situations maybe you'll just help me believe their stories they go around but I don't know if I I can believe I need to breathe love it's like one of those things you forget about one day and you wondered where it went to and I said hey, and I said darling, I know you're just fucking with me I know you're full of shit I know I can't believe a single word you say 'cause you're just a bitch but I still listen anyway but I can just step outside and breathe I thought you were so sweet in the beginning then I found out, yes the truth that you were just like all the rest why'd you have to do it to me, darling no wonder you never loved anybody else but youself
3.
Go On 04:10
and then I say and then I say and then I say and then I say and then I say, hey and then I say, hey then I say maybe I don't really care then I say maybe I don't really care then I say, darling won't you look at me awhile tell me, yes am I real am I here can I feel, yes am I here and then, oh I solidify and then, oh I solidify and tell you another lie then go on, go on, go on...
4.
Remember 04:50
If I just had one thing to say I'd say just leave me alone If I just had one thing to say I'd say just leave us alone If I just had one thing to say I'd say go home If I just had one thing to say I'd say just leave us alone leave me alone Do you know why we're so hesitant to let you into our home I bet you don't remember all the times you just came in and took what you wanted then just left left us here all alone hey, hey, yes, you, you know, you, why Did you think you could just step in and kiss and make it up it doesn't work that way, darling no, it doesn't work that way, darling, no two, three in the morning I'm waking up screaming your name two or three in the morning, yes and I'm waking up and screaming your name oh, it's the middle of the night there's a ghost passing by I hear it there is it just my memories of you I don't know if you remember if you do, would you help me remember it, too if you remember it all won't you tell me the things you know if you remember at all won't you tell me the things you remember
5.
All the Time 03:41
all the time my eyes I do love it how only your eyes all the time my lies I do tell it the way it flows so nice all the time I said it's so nice all the times you took my life all the time step inside step inside you'll find this so nice step inside love is in there turned, twisted around somewhere I know it it's in there it's been a long time gonna be right to be waiting here wish one more time that you could go home well, we'll see about that, dear I can tear you down one more time oh, when you want me I'll be there you know, you know a long time gonna be right here for a long time a long time for the ride hold on tight for the flight don't you hold on for the show don't you it's time the way to flow just let it flow now go
6.
Traveling 03:53
all my life I've just traveled the seas and I've found islands here and there the prettiest treasures everywhere that I turn to I see your face I see your face everywhere I end up I see your eyes see your eyes when I come back home yeah, when I come back home yeah, when I come back home, yeah it's just darkness it's just dark and quiet there then I remember why I left I remember why I left
7.
when you came in I think you saw I think you recognized what was waiting for you there when you came in you felt the presence of everyone else but not yourself but not yourself at all where'd you go for so, so long where'd you go where'd you go for so, so long won't you tell us, please? please let us know if you plan to go I want to be here when you step out the door please let us know next time you go I'll be waiting at the door, darling remember the time we all waved goodbye remember the time you called up and said "oh, oh, oh, oh..." oh, the things that you say "oh, oh, oh, oh" I don't really care, anyway if you happen to come across a letter I wrote one day won't you tell me the things I forgot to say won't you tell me the things I just couldn't say if you happen to come across anything that belonged to me won't you just throw it away come on, just throw it away you don't need any of that, anyway hmm, just throw it away, yes throw it away, away, yeah throw it away, yeah mmmhmmmmm
8.
Hallelujah 03:40
that's when I came down and said, I don't like I don't like any of it, no that's when I came down and said I think it's over, yes that's when I came down and said to go, just go home that's when I came down and said get out of here get out of here I know you had a lot of fun but the end has just begun and I'd like to get this over quickly, I have to run, yes I have to run, got places to be and love to see love to see, today you can just play all the games that you may play you can just say all the things you say you can just say hallelujah, hallelujah you can just say praise, praise him yes, praise, hallelujah hallelujah
9.
Stay 01:33
I know that I'm not the nicest guy in the world I know I don't care sometimes I know sometimes I wish it would all just go away then something says stay
10.
Happy Town 03:47
I'm told that I just need to stop believing everything I'm told that I just need to stop holding on to dreams darling, tell me the truth one more time cause I forgot the words to your line, yes and take me home take me home to your town I don't know I'm just going down down, down come with me come on down to this happy town, yes I know you wanted me to be there for you my baby I know that I've been flying I know I'm just taking so long to do this and maybe I just think I'll be going on forever like this and darling won't you just show me one more time the way that you believe that I should be and I'll go on praying trying, pretending maybe I don't know I don't know do you know you just play with me do you know you just play with me I wondered where you get your information I wondered where you found this thing out I wonder where you've become so wild this time I wonder what's the station
11.
oh, it's mine I went into this I was hanging onto a little piece of you oh, I'm just swinging around a dream that I had that I had if I had just taken a little more time to feel out, to feel out the situation, darling if I just had a little time to explain, explain, explain to explain these things mhmm, mhmm hmm mm mm... you know, you know if I could just feel like I was a part of an angel part of the sky if I could get by you know this is the only thing that's keeping you from bliss from bliss it's this your hands in your hands she wore the blue dress, the blue dress she wore the blue dress and flowers in her hair she wore, she wore the blue dress the blue dress, yes she wore the blue dress the blue dress, yes she wore the blue dress the blue dress, yes and flowers in her hair she wore the blue dress the blue dress, yes she wore the blue dress the blue dress, yes oh, oh, and flowers in her hair the flowers, the flowers, the flowers the flowers, the flowers, the flowers oh, yeah, oh, oh, oh... the flowers
12.
In myself I said she was the one to go and say wonderful things don't you know just who she is in there wonder where she's gonna take me to to baby a got to get there wonder where she's gonna take me to hope you will find me go... and stop my baby want to know what you want to want to know what you are don't stop, baby want to know what you know want to know what you need I, I, I, I I, I, I, I I just can't stand it having to wonder all the hanging around oh, watching you do this and that all the people say what will people say what will people say oh no, the people say oh, what they don't know what they don't know If I had a little bit of everything you took away I might be a very rich man If I had a little bit of all the things you say oh, I could sleep in peace

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Sonic visitations: All songs were written and recorded spontaneously in one take, except "All The Time," which includes additional vocals added immediately after the initial visitation.

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released October 31, 2008

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