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Downwind
02:48
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Downwind
Oh I'll be coming home with a diamond ring
Them hounds can't sniff me when I'm downwind
Yeah I'll be coming for the last whiff
Of your hazel hair, I'll love you stiff
Swinging low from the gallow in bliss
Downwind, I'll drown in ale
Oh I'll be coming back a brigand
Them high brow folks will lose their contraband
Yeah I will sink my teeth into a pound
Of their choicest meat for each command
That I endured, digging stolen ground
Downwind, they'll crown me
I lived a life of misery
Commiserated and lead on by
Golden lies and fantasy
In eulogy
Oh I'll be slinking with the ball and chain
Swimming hard against the tidal rain
The day they find me, I'll be pale as grain
Stripped of cover and the earthly stain
Downwind, white as sin
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Stories I'll Never Tell
02:32
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Stories I'll Never Tell
Serene scenery seen
From astral height
Singing, storing sordid
Stories never told
Canvassing convalescence of her wounds
Converging the essence of her light
With blight wombed in ground
Mind beneath her brows
A troubled seed, pineal
Mining for her heart, burrowed
Scrape to bleed, reveal
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Whiskey Sour
01:58
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Cold and Hungry
02:50
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Cold And Hungry
Pray tell me sire
All your heart's desire
A cold brew or fire?
Come to me, miss
Your comfort is amiss
A blanket of kiss
A last resort, or a dying wish
Alas you'll extinguish
Strike on a match and catch
A glimpse of a scrumptious batch
Console your frozen limbs
Without shadow play, the world is grim
High above, soft glow
A halo of stars surrounds you
A deep space in blue
He lays low, real slow
But time always passes by you
A mitosis in two
A lasting memory unfolds
Casting gray veil of sorrow
A languishing mind is cleared
At last, the great gate of morrow (is near)
Is anybody sorry?
Was anyone truly holy?
And in our life stories,
Are we just cold and hungry?
(Well?)
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Osamu & the Peripheral Ghosts Long Beach, California
A nature-loving Japanese musician born in Germany and raised in Japan/UK now hailing from southern California sings songs about wanderlust, parallels between life and the meandering trails, and other random musings that occur to a tired hiker's mind.
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