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SIXTY WATT SHAMAN LYRICS
"Seed of Decades" (2000)
1. Fear Death by Water
2. Seed of Decades
3. Poor Robert Henry
4. Devil in the Details (part 1)
5. Devil in the Details (part 2)
6. Low Earth Orbit
7. One More Time
8. Roll the Stone
9. Red Colony
10. Rumor Den
11. Stone's Throw Away
12. Busy Dying
13. New Trip
14. I've Been Down
1. Fear Death by Water
Now come the hell or high water
I'm a take my rest
How long is the river
Where does it end?
Alone
Pleasure of the guest
How long does the river run
Where does it end?
Weight on the levee
Weight on the dam
Don't break down
Drink to drown your sorrow
Sorrow learns to swim
Don't expect to sink too long
Your card is drawn again
The Phoenecian sailor
Pearls that were his eyes
Three staves and a holy wheel
Rivers don't run dry
Weight on the levee
Weight on the dam
Don't break down
Don't break down
Somewhere across the hungry land
Down old Zion's trail
Well the river is sleeping
How long no one can tell
Alone Alone Alone
By the river's edge
Calling me to the water
Mysteries revealed
Weight on the levee
Weight on the dam
Don't break down
Don't break down
2. Seed of Decades
I had the feeling I was carrying my head in my hands
Feet like a mile away and I could barely stand
Seemed I'd lost my way once again
Green absinthe at the liquor store to ask for direction, alright
Direction...
A little bit of...
Direction...
Gotta get some
Hours later west side at the tattoo shop
Somethin' 'bout a bottle of pills and black tooth shots
The soothsayer said a prayer and sent me out on my way
Seeds in hand I made the land with a swagger off into the gray, alright
Direction...
A little bit of...
Direction
Gotta get some
I had the feeling I was underneath the light of the sun
Sowing seeds across the Great Union
Now they grow, now we know somehow we've freed our minds
And we enjoy the fruit of these, an alchemy divine, alright
Direction...
A little bit of...
Direction...
Gotta get some
Be my mama, save my soul
Fill my lungs with rock and roll
Smoke, my mama, smoke the bowl
Seed of decades rock and roll
Seed of decades
Seed of decades
3. Poor Robert Henry
My illusion - dashed to pieces
My collision - damn the son
I counted all my blessings
And the damage of that sum
Your life - numbed and drunken
My strength - a voice inside
Ain't it funny how things worked out
My life began the day you died
Poor Robert Henry
Poor Robert Henry drinkin' broke apart our lives
Lost you from last year
And more
Poor Robert Henry drinkin' blotted out your mind
Blotted out your mind
Your sky - always falling
Like you from barroom chairs
I didn't want to hate
But your abuse was hard to bear
Your life - numbed and drunken
My strength - a voice inside
Ain't it funny how things worked out
My life began the day you died
Poor Robert Henry
Poor Robert Henry drinkin' broke apart our lives
Lost you from last year
And more
Poor Robert Henry drinkin' blotted out your mind
Blotted out your mind
Drinkin' blotted out your mind
Blotted out your mind
I'll go on livin' in all my desperation
Now you're gone
Desperation
Poor Robert Henry
4. Devil in the Details (part 1)
Devil in the details...
The devil in the details
The source of shallow graves and ancient oil
Humming inside the engine
Fragments of the things we'll never know
Devil in the details...
We've wasted one too many weekends
Whatever happened to our lives
Where have all the prophets/profits gone to
Fortunetellers always have to die
Now fuckin' die!
Devil in the details...
We brought the substance
To ease uneasy minds
Waste not, you want some more
Before too short a time
And I will be there inside of you
We'll wash ourselves divine
Cause in the end we realize we know not
We know not what we find
Don't know where to stop begin
Fill the tanks with the fuel of my sin
We've got to keep the engine humming
Don't know where to stop begin
Fill the tanks with the fuel of my sin
We've got to keep the machine moving
Keep that machine moving
5. Devil in the Details (part 2)
Part 2 starts from track 4's lyrics:
"We brought the substance..."
6. Low Earth Orbit
Out of low Earth gravity
We made our way to the tranquil sea
To strike our camps
Beside the ruined spires
Kicking dust from a weightless bed
Extracting frozen polar caps
Distant, distant
The life we left behind
And we ignite every night
When we ascend the spire
To get higher
Sweet sunshine on celestial vines
Come and solarize this sky
Novel eyes
Looking back on Earth
And we ignite every night
When we ascend the spire
To get higher
From here it looks so different
From here it looks alright
From here it looks so different
From here it looks so fine
And we ignite every night
When we ascend the spire
To get higher
From here it looks so different
From here it looks alright
From here it looks so different
From here it looks so fine
7. One More Time
One more time
One more time we cross the lines
And celebrate this crazy life
Past is dying soon has come
Electric now what we've begun
And one more time we may shine
Like coronas of blazing light
Raising hell and rock all night
One more time we may shine alright
Alright
One more time to blow these lines
And celebrate this crazy life
Past is dying soon has come
Electric now what we've begun
And one more time we may shine
Like coronas of blazing light
Raising hell and rock all night
One more time we may shine alright
Alright
One more time
And one more time we may shine
Like coronas of blazing light
Raising hell and rock all night
One more time we may shine alright
Alright
8. Roll the Stone
Wake up in the morning
See the sunrise from my bed
Shake dreams from my hair
Rub my eyes and rise again
Stumble to the bathroom
See the face of my old friend
Bathe myself for a new day
A new day
And every year I make it
Is a triumph of my own
And every chance I've taken
I found the strength to hold
And when my soul is naked
I know I'm not alone
And every day I waken
I roll the stone
Step out on the porch
Got the papers in my hand
Roll the stone into a better place
A better place
Drift myself above the treeline
See the distant mountain stand
Say my prayers again
Say my prayers again
And every year I make it
Is a triumph of my own
And every chance I've taken
I found the strength to hold
And when my soul is naked
I know I'm not alone
And every day I waken...
And every year I make it
Is a triumph of my own
And every chance I've taken
I found the strength to hold
And when my soul is naked
I know I'm not alone
And every day I waken
I roll the stone
9. Red Colony
I spent time on the mountain
Brought blood up from the hills
Wrought iron and stone made company of me
Taught me the way of the lone
Ten thousand years of exile
From the breast of my motherland
Please Mosigh, send spacecraft again
To carry us back to our home
Great sun bleed your breath on my neck
While I strangle the vagrant old soul I reject
Embracing my steps toward the valley's stream
A place for your landing
Erected in symbols that cry to the sky
Stars mark the pathway
Red sand, cold burn
On forgotten Martian Earth
Old fathers, come save me
Your ships sailed here before
Pyramids and temples call to your angels
And long for your return
This red colony left here
Silenced from mother tongue
Don't leave us like you did Egypt
Craving escape from this world
Red colony
Red colony
Red colony
Red colony
Red colony...
10. Rumor Den
Yeah I've been with you before...
Shall we call it our private treasure in the rumor den
All together are songs of pleasure and indulgences
And we break it down like this
Like this
Like this
Like this
We go to the bar get in my car
Where we've never been
And despite it all we'll connect ours
In the rumor den
Hey
And we break it down like this
Like this
Like this
Like this
In the rumor den
Yeah I've been with you before
And I'll be with you again
I said
Yeah I've been with you before
And I'll be with you again
In the rumor den
I will be with you again
11. Stone's Throw Away
Black light and break dust mingle in the air
Far out on a country road ships are everywhere
Now I scream wicked dream
How is this occasion?
I am given to the sky tonight...
VISITATION
Caged up then tied down to the silver table
I would move if I could, if only I was able
For what need you take my seed
I'm violated
Taken off a country road tonight...
VISITATION
Alright
Take me away
I have seen them telepathic nighttime visions
I have seen them telepathic nighttime visions
Above the earth the atmosphere has gone to sleep tonight
Awake in fields to find your soul revealed beneath the lights
It's a visitation
It's a visitation
I have seen them telepathic nighttime visions
I have seen them telepathic nighttime visions
VISITATION
12. Busy Dying
If you're not busy being born, you must be busy dying
Standing up is hard to do when you live a life of lying
If you're not being born, you must be busy dying
Learn to stand up on your own, it's time you best start trying
If you're not busy being born, you must be busy dying
When the truth knocks at your door, your consequence is crying
If you're not being born, you must be busy dying
When the truth done got you down, then get on with your dying
Dying
Dying
Dying
Crippled sunshine dogleg blues and all dogs have their day
Sing old tunes and wash these blues it's calm beneath these waves
Mor important how we take our fate than what it is...
How we live
Busy Dying
Busy Dying
All this time I watch you die
I let you down you waste my time
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Don't you wanna drink the wine you'll find it dying on the vine
Tonight we put it on the line busy livin' busy dyin'
13. New Trip
Come on take a ride with us on crystal ships we'll check out the system
We'll ride our high to other sides and not deny we've got and addiction
To these rhythms
Stars are burning, Haley's screaming, drink some more cause we're just beginning
To make the night and break through spaces we can always keep ourselves spinning
Spinning
You know you wanna take a ride
Don't you wanna come along
We're going to the other side
I knew that you would come along
I'm high all the time
Satellites will light the night and show the way to steer through the vision
Hold the wheel I'll watch the course that lights the way to burn what you need
What you want
Well I believe I can see the truth ahead explodes like a new star
And we're reeling
Towards a supernova tractor beams that pull us in get what we need
What we want
You know you wanna take a ride
Don't you wanna come along
We're going to the other side
I knew that you would come along
So you better hold on
You better hold on
So you better hold on
Y'all come on alive for the ride medicine men track in the sand of the planet where we'll land safe as houses
Burn the peace pipe you know we just might raise the flame of the funk when we douse this
Fire of desire in the gyre we're movin' higher we've got it here just right
And without a sound we can get down take the groove into the night
New trip
14. I've Been Down
(Spoken)
Joe Joe Joe... Gimme somethin' sick my man...
Come on stoney Joe...
Bust out with that slide...
Mmmmmhmmmm. Alright
Yeah alright
Alright
Ooooooooooh I've been down
I've been down to the wrong side of town and I'm never gonna do it again
I've been down to the wrong side of town and I'm never gonna do it again
I been down down down
I been down down down
I been down down down
Never do it again
I been down down down
I been down down down
I been down down down
Never do it again
I won't do it again
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