Dear Prudence - thanks Beatles

This is the happiest song on 'Animals,' and it still manages to come off as a post-colonial ashen husk of expired hope. And if we shield that candle from extinguishing it shall never shine its light forward.

Going from 3+3+2(8?)/8 time to 3/4 and back was trickier than expected.

Pigs on the Wing - full version cover

World On A String - Neil Young cover

Walls - Tom Petty cover

Buckets Of Rain - Bob Dylan cover

Angel of Montgomery - John Prine cover

Rosie - Tom Waits cover

Streetlights hum to life, flicker faint against the sky
We all long for the night
Twilight’s colors cast in pinwheels cross the clouds
our front door opens wide

Away from sin and the soft magic 
of how night begins, mother calls come inside
Stars blink through the haze, the endless end of summer days
And we are shut away

{chorus}Watch the moonrise from your window
Sing with the nightbirds from your pillow
The dark calls you to dream, but all that you can see is the sky falling, sky falling, sky falling down{/chorus}

The sun sets like an old dog laying down to rest
Now let your body be
A new god rises from the dew upon the grass
We only know the gods of the past

In the hedges all along the sidewalk's edges
Overgrown dark with weeds
Are the darkest shadows, those of midday August heat
Coming with the murmur of flies

{chorus}Watch the moonrise from your window
Sing with the nightbirds from your pillow
The dark calls you to dream, but all that you can see is the sky falling, sky falling, sky falling down{/chorus}

Streetlights (Murmur)

The feeling of having something, but being unsure what it is you have

It Was Always There

Lay the stones out before me
Lay out the flowers to die
Lie your reasons for calling
But your falsehood is quicker than I

Hot and bleak in the desert
As pointless to move as sit still
Ask what remains of compassion
A silent child mistakes purpose for action

[Chorus]
Soft and refined, courtly and cold, radiant gold
Made up, watching television
[/Chorus]

You came here with words full of rain
Like a prophet renouncing their faith.
Who walks alone in the desert?
Who rejects eternal embrace?

Not prideful of doubts,
Always minding the tides,
My lips are as dry as a doorway
As I walk out into the night


[Chorus] [/Chorus]

[Falsetto] [/Falsetto]

Cut the cables and coils
Before they get any hotter
Flood the world with a stream
I'd part the stars for one droplet of water

Hot and bleak in the desert
My face is the sun on the sand
I've traveled backwards in time
And wasted the time that I have on my hands

[Chorus] [/Chorus]

[Falsetto] [/Falsetto]

Swann

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