SIXTY WATT SHAMAN LYRICS

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
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
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
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
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

Direction
A little bit of
Direction

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

Direction
A little bit of
Direction

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

Direction
A little bit of
Direction

Be my mama, save my soul
Fill my lungs with rock 'n' roll
Smoke my mama, smoke the bowl
Seed of decades, rock 'n' roll

Seed of decades
Seed of decades

3. Poor Robert Henry

My illusion, dashed to pieces
My collision, damn the sun
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 you
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
Drinkin' 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
I'll go on
Livin' in all my desperation
Now you're gone
Desperation

I'll go on
Livin' in all my desperation
Now you're gone
I'll go on
Livin' in all my desperation
Now you're gone
Desperation

Poor Robert Henry
Poor Robert Henry
Poor Robert Henry
Poor Robert Henry...

4. Devil In The Details, Pt. 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 gone to
Fortunetellers always have to die
They fucking die

Devil
In the details

5. Devil In The Details, Pt. 2

We brought the substance
To ease uneasy minds
Waste not, you'll want some more
Before too short a time

And I will be there inside of you
We'll wash ourselves divine
Because 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

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
Keep that machine moving

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 blow these lines
And celebrate this crazy life
Past is dying and soon has come
Electric now, what we've begun

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, we blow these lines
And celebrate this crazy life
Past is dying and soon has come
Electric now, what we've begun

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

One more time, we may shine
Like coronas of blazing light
Raising hell and rock all night
One more time, we may shine, 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

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

Go out to the bar
Get in my car
Where we've never been
And despite it all
We'll connect ours
In the rumor den

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

I've been with you before
And I'll be with you again
And again
And again
And 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
A 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

Take me away

I have seen them
Telepathic night-time visions
I have seen them
Telepathic night-time visions
Yeah

Above the Earth, the atmosphere
Has gone to sleep tonight
We awake in fields to find our soul
Revealed beneath the lights
The lights
It's a visitation

It's a visitation

I have seen them
Telepathic night-time visions
I have seen them
Telepathic night-time 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
Dyin'...

Crippled sunshine, dogleg blues and all dogs have their day
Sing old tunes and wash these blues, it's calm beneath these waves
More important how we take our fate than what it is
How we live
Busy dying

All this time, I watched you die
I lay you down and waste my time
Get up, stand up
??

Don't you want to drink the wine
You'll find me dyin' on the vine
Tonight we put it on the line
Busy livin', busy dyin'

13. New Trip

Come on, take a trip 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 an 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

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

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
Now, I believe I can see the truth ahead
Explodes like a new star, and we're reeling
Toward 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

Alright
So you better hold on
You better hold on
So you better hold on
You're comin' along 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 even without a sound, we can get down
And take this groove into the night

New trip
New trip
New trip
New trip
New trip
New trip

14. I've Been Down

Alright

I've been down on the wrong side of town
And I'm never gonna do it again
I've been down on the wrong side of town
And I'm never gonna do it again

I've been down, down, down
I've been down, down, down
I've been down, down, down
And I'll do it again

I've been down, down, down
I've been down, down, down
I've been down, down, down
And I'll do it again
I wanna do it again

I've been down, down, down
I've been down, down, down
I've been down, down, down
And I'll do it again

I've been down on the wrong side of town
And I'm never gonna do it again
I've been down on the wrong side of town
And I'm never gonna do it again

I've been down, down, down
I've been down, down, down
I've been down, down, down
And I'll do it again

I've been down
I've been down
I've been down, down, down
I've been down, down, down
I've been down, down, down
I've been down, down, down
I've been down, down, down
I've been down, down, down
And I'll do it again

Down, down, down

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SIXTY WATT SHAMAN LYRICS