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Jersey Knights
04:51
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Wandering the streets at night
In the surreal glow of the pale moonlight
Like phantoms
They're here and then they're gone
They roam every block of these dark roads
Keeping watch
And just talking about how to save the world
Yeah the Jersey Knights are out tonight
Just like the last and all the nights past
If you listen
You can almost hear their voices on the wind
You can hear their footsteps move with the rhythm of the night
You can catch a glimpse as they move
Beneath the streetlights
They're just trying to find their way through the dark
Trying to find a way
To get their place in the stars
Yeah the Jersey Knights are out to fight
And I think I saw them talking
To another wanderer in the night
She said
"Have you ever been to hell and back?
Well I know someone who has."
And the knights said
No we're just normal men
We live our lives and do the best that we can
To save the world
To save our souls
It's easier to think in the dead of the night
That's when we can get our thoughts just right
Someday we're gonna live like kings
Gonna live in a castle and never worry about a thing
We're gonna have our place in the night time sky
But 'til then
We're just gonna try
Try to get by
Yeah the Jersey Knights are out again
Just trying to save the world
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2. |
Into The Night
03:46
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Lights and colors blur as I forget my past
All I hear is the whir of the engine as I crash
Into the night
Find myself a better life
As I become one with the night, dissolve into the air
All the petty problems of this world were just too much to bear
Gonna watch the world get washed away
And on a bed of stars I'll lay
And tonight I'm gonna drive until I get somewhere
Don't matter where I'm going and I don't care
Disappear into the night
Gonna save my soul tonight
Shotgun down 80 West
Feel my heart pounding out of my chest
And though I've never been
This is how I imagine it feels to be blessed
And tonight I'm gonna drive until I get somewhere
Don't matter where I'm going and I don't care
Disappear into the night
Gonna save my soul tonight
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3. |
Catherine
04:11
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Nearly 10:30 pm
Pulling into the Bloomfield station lot
Delivering you to be taken away
When the train makes it's final stop
Turn the music down low to say our goodbyes
I wasn't ready
I can't lie
Choosing every word and syllable
Carefully stalling for time
So please, please, don't get on that train
Cause I just might never see you again
Oh please, please, don't get on that train
Cause I just might never ever see you again
Oh Catherine
Oh I may just be a lowly street rat
I may not be like the intellectuals and scholars up in Boston
And all I can offer to you
Is every industrial skyline and factory
And I know that it's naive
But if the smoke should block out
The north Jersey sky and you can't even see the stars
I'd tear them all down and lay them at your feet
So please, please, don't get on that train
Cause I just might never see you again
Oh please, please, don't get on that train
Cause I just might never ever see you again
Oh Catherine
And I can feel the world rumbling now
As the metal goliath comes to tear my world down
And I just can't stand the sound
Of that whistle telling me that you're leaving town
And all that I could do as you left
Was turn up the radio
And let Rivers Cuomo sing to me
The whole way home
Cause how stupid is it
For all I know, I may never see you again
Oh Catherine
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4. |
Upper Mountain Ave
03:01
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Cruising down Upper Mountain Ave.
Saw everything that I'll never have
Big mansions sitting on top of the hill
Can't even get within
Throwing distance
Of those big windows glaring down
Taking away every ounce of my will
Sometimes I gotta wonder who's inside
Doctors and lawyers, barons of industry
Everything I'll never be
And I thought to myself
If I could just catch a little break
Maybe I could find out what it's like
To not be stuck
Down here with the rest of us
And I could still remember the words that Janie said
Spinning round in my head
She said, she'd like a doctor or lawyer of her own
Maybe spend the rest of her days on a throne
In a tower
Never leave, never dream
For everything would come with ease
Sometimes I gotta wonder if it's really better
To trade your soul for security
Well it damn well better be
And I said
If you'd just let me pull you down
From those columns you'd see
It's still a pretty good time
Down here with the rest of us
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5. |
Forever Faded
05:08
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I had just begun to discover
The rebellion of truth
A young boy lost
Caught up in the haze of youth
I was searching for an escape, for a spark
A place to lay my weary head and rest my heavy heart
I found it amongst the waves of sound and crests and troughs
A way
Cause all I ever wanted was a way to ease the pain
To ease my restless mind and have all my demons slain
Beneath a sea of frequencies I hope to remain
The only way I know to drown the feelings away
I had just begun to discover the true meaning of the revolution
Lost beneath the meaningless words and elocution
I am tired of subtlety and ambiguity
I'd make a deal with the devil if he came up to me
I am desperate, dishonorable, worthless, and weak
I'd give up all my dignity for
All I ever wanted, a way to ease the pain
To ease my restless mind and have all my demons slain
Beneath a sea of frequencies I hope to remain
The only way I know to drown the feelings away
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6. |
Savior
05:02
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My eyes awaken to nothing but the black emptiness
Taste of fermented grain still lingers on my breath
While my heart pounds like a freight train in my chest
No rest for my eyes from faint indistinct outlines
My mind races faster as I start to think
Of endings in failure and going down in flames
A blaze of glory or incinerated dreams
These thoughts they haunt me like a ghost
As the anxiety gets worse
Restlessness gives out to desperation
Of how I need someone
To save me from
The hand life has dealt
But I can't keep waiting for a savior to come
I can't keep waiting for a savior
Oh I can't keep waiting for a savior to come
I can't keep waiting for a savior
So I've learned to revel in the dark
Where nothing's as it seems
Nothing makes any sense
But the fabrications that you weave
Light would shed truth
On what I don't wanna see
So leave me
In the shadows and just let me be
As I wait for the coming
Of the inevitable sun
But I can't keep waiting for a savior to come
I can't keep waiting for a savior
Oh I can't keep waiting for a savior to come
I can't keep waiting for a savior
My mind racing all night
Collapse from exhaustion
Fall to my knees and
Pray for everything I've always wanted but never gotten
No answer, no surprise
Just the wind rustling the trees
And a moonlit soliloquy
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7. |
Daisy
04:25
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Tonight tonight
There's a wistful breeze in the air tonight
Coming in over the Sound
And I hope you can hear it too
Rattling your windows baby
Telling you to come on out
Cause I feel like I've been waiting for you most of my life
It's not hard to find me
Just follow the lights
I'd go looking for you Daisy but baby that just ain't right
So come out, come out to the party tonight
It's always for you but you never arrive
So I'll keep everyone swingin' through till dawn
Until you show up with that red dress on
Oh Daisy
I've been waiting so long
And there's a burning in my heart tonight
And this fire it never died
I just wanna see those sad sad eyes just one more time
Because I feel like I've been waiting for you most of my life
It's not hard to find me
Just follow the lights
I'd go looking for you Daisy but baby that just ain't right
So come out, come out to the party tonight
It's always for you but you never arrive
So I'll keep everyone swingin' through till dawn
Until you show up with that red dress on
Oh Daisy
I've been waiting so long
And I used to stand
With my legs quivering
The sand on the beach shaking under my feet
My arms outstretched to the silvery stars
But not anymore
No not anymore
No more no more no no no more
No not anymore
And I've been acquainted with the liars and the cheaters and thieves
And I've talked with all the donnas and the stars and the queens
Just trying to find that diamond among the ashes
Come on Daisy it was only a crime
But you left me all alone
And I still hope that you will come back home
And go out go out to the party tonight
It's always for you but you never arrive
So I'll keep everyone swingin' through till dawn
Until you show up with that red dress on
Oh Daisy
But you never came out came out to the parties those nights
They were always for you but you never arrived
So now I've got nothing better to do
Until you show up
With that red dress on
Come on Daisy
I've been waiting so long
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8. |
Green Light
06:08
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This time when I meet
With the queen of the garden
Gonna win her heart
But it's closely guarded
And just like every other
Time I tried
Grab me another drink
To get it started
Oh your majesty
Your as radiant as can be
But something's amiss
Can't you see
In this kingdom
I want you to share with me
Cause nobody knows you better
Though I know this could never be
Oh yeah
You used to dance to that rock steady beat and
All the boys
Wanted a chance but they couldn't take the heat
So come on, come on
Don't leave me hanging on
I wish I could be
Everything that you need but
What could I give
To a girl who has everything, so I
Guess I'll be
Forever waiting
On my queen
I heard you dance now
To that tarantella of desire and
Make all your money
Off of crooks and liars
Yeah, the last time I saw you
You lost the luster in those
Big brown eyes
I was still
Just a young boy looking toward the sky and
You were all
About crosses and dollar signs
So come on, come on
Don't leave me hanging on
I wish I could be
Everything that you need but
What could I give
To a girl who has everything, so I
Guess I'll be
Forever waiting
On my queen
So now it seems
Forever I will stay
Chasing the green light across the bay
So now it seems
Forever I will stay
Chasing the green light across the bay
Come on, come on
Don't leave me hanging on
I wish I could be
Everything that you need but
What could I give
To a girl who has everything, so I
Guess I'll be
Forever waiting on my queen and
Chasing
The green light across bay yeah
Forever be
Forever be waiting
On my queen
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9. |
Saint
06:27
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Please just let me be
I just want to lie here for a while
I don't want the dawn to come too soon
Cause I can hear that rain
It's pounding down
On this old house
And it's driving me insane
I can't take it anymore
And when tomorrow comes I'll move
Like a mad man into the storm
All my fears from all these years
Washed away in the sweet, sweet rain
So hey hey hey hey hey my savior
Where've you been, I've been here waiting
But now I've found that all I need
A major chord lift and a sweet melody
Flow like blood in my veins
And straight to my brain
Set me free
Free from the pain
So hey hey hey hey I've been waiting
But now I've found something better
Better for me
Now I'll navigate these seas
With black sails raised high
I'll wander this world alone
With tired bloodshot eyes
Let my hair grow all
Greasy and long
A beard that's stained with alcohol
Write some stupid songs
For everyone to sing along
Isn't that
What you look for in a saint?
So hey hey hey hey hey my savior
Where've you been, I've been here waiting
But now I've found that all I need
A major chord lift and a sweet melody
Flow like blood in my veins
And straight to my brain
Set me free
Free from the pain
So hey hey hey hey I've been waiting
But now I've found something better
Better for me
So hey hey hey hey my tormentor
Please give me a break
There is nothing now but anger
And pity left in my wake
Flow like heroin through my veins
Just to hide the pain
So hey hey hey hey
I've been waiting
But now I've found
Now I've found
Now I've found
That it was all in vain
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10. |
Spirit In The Night
04:27
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Crazy Janey and her mission man
Were back in the alley tradin' hands
'Long came Wild Billy with his friend G-Man
All duded up for Saturday night
Well, Billy slammed on his coaster brakes
And said, "Anybody want to go on up to Greasy Lake?
It's about a mile down on the dark side of Route 88
I got a bottle of rose so let's try it"
We'll pick up Hazy Davy and Killer Joe
And I'll take you all out to where the gypsy angels go
They're built like light
And they dance like spirits in the night (all night), in the night (all night)
Oh, you don't know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night (all night), in the night (all night)
Stand right up now and let them shoot through you
Well now, Wild Billy was a crazy cat
And he shook some dust out of his coon skin cap
He said, "Trust some of this, it'll show you where you're at
Or at least it'll help you really feel it"
By the time we made it up to Greasy Lake
I had my head out the window and Janey's fingers were in the cake
I think I really dug her 'cause I was too loose to fake
I said, "I'm hurt." She said, "Honey, let me heal it"
And we danced all night to a soul fairy band
And she kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can
She felt so nice
Just as soft as a spirit in the night (all night), in the night (all night)
Janey don't know what she do to you
Spirit in the night (all night), in the night (all night)
Stand right up and let her shoot through me
Now, the night grew bright and the stars threw light
On Billy and Davy dancin' in the moonlight
They were down near the water in a stone mud fight
Killer Joe gone passed out on the lawn
Well now, Hazy Davy got really hurt
He ran into the lake in just his socks and a shirt
Me and Crazy Janey was makin' love in the dirt
Singin' our birthday songs
Janey said it was time to go
So we closed our eyes and said goodbye to Gypsy Angel Row
Felt so right
Together we moved like spirits in the night
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Joe Moretti Montclair, New Jersey
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