Monster Ballads

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radio waves are coming miles and 
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miles
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bringing only empty boats
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whatever feeling they had when they
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 sailed
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somehow slipped between the notes


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out on the desert now and feeling 
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lost
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the bonnet wears a wire albatros
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monster ballads and the stations 
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of the cross
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sighing just a little bit
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sighing just a little bit

i was thinking bout what katy done
thinking bout what katy did
the fairest daughter of the pharoes 
son
dressed in gold neath pyramids

out on the desert,etc

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ones and zeros bleeding mesa noise
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and when your empty theres so much 
space for them
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you turn it off but then a still 
small voice
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comes in blazing from some vast 
horizon


and i was thinking bout my river 
days
i was thinking bout me and jim
passing cairo on a getaway
with every steamboat like a him