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So Long

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From "Sleepy Hollow: The Rock Opera"

The builder winds

Through boundless maiden orchards

His journal bright with wide-eyed praise

His satchel's lined

With faded pillbox portraits

And sterling charms of better days

Too many love songs spoils everything, I know

But we've got no place left to go

So brew a draft of song and sky

And they make books to judge us by

By anyone at all

The ripe ones plucked

And this I know

A little wordsmith told me so

Long anyone at all

The crushing lure

Of terra incognita

Evokes a spell

Of kingdoms cast,

Each moldered stone,

As chronicle of ages.

Each ashen crumb,

Our savage past.

No stage for children's tales, no accolade insured

The builder's rendering obscured.

So brew a draft of song and sky

And they make books to judge us by

By anyone at all

It's all been done

And this I know

A little wordsmith told me so

Long anyone at all.

(David Fernandes - drums

Josh Siegel - piano solo)

Sleep Stages

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From "and then the training takes over..."

I Won't Go to Sleep

I won't go to sleep

I'm not tired at all

Why divert a third of every day

To frittering my tender life away

Frittering away

I don't get my dreams

They're so hard to read

Don't attempt to ply me with your soporific lullabies

That will only strengthen my resolve

All your shushing won't successfully coax me to shut my eyes

It'll take all night but I'll outstare these walls walls walls

I won't go to sleep

I'm not tired at all

Why divert a third of every day

To frittering my tender life away

Frittering away

Dream 1: Permission to Run Free

Permission to run free, Sir

Permission denied!

Stapes do not run free!

Permission denied!

Stapes do not run free!

Dream 2: Wedding tables

Our wedding tables

Were dressed in wedding dresses

Each guest ate off of a fitted gown

A tabe shaped wedding dress

There were three fittings

Each of the last three years

There were three fittings

Each of the last three years

There were three fittings

Each of the last three years

There were three fittings

Each of the last three years

Dream 3: Fish Pix

I've got a business

An internet business

Uploading pictures of fish I have caught

Hundreds of pictures

Internet pictures

Of fish that I caught

They're surgically altered

To make them look bigger

They're fish that are surgically bigger

There's millions of creeps who

Like looking at pictures

Of unnaturally large

Or surgically altered

Fish that I caught

(Lauren London - additional vocals

Russell Schwartz - additional vocals

Geoffroy Sisk - additional vocals)

Silent Movie

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I've got more ghosts than Omaha Beach

Dripping down my chin like a Georgia peach

I've got more ghosts than Omaha Beach

And they'll rattle these chains a thousand years each

So Ooh Ooh

Rest your eyes, my child

Ooh Ooh

Rest your eyes, my child

I'll whisper the words that make you love me

I'll carve my soap into a skeleton key

I'll whisper the words that make you love me

'Til my voice turns sour like vitamin C

So Ooh ooh

Rest your eyes, my child

Ooh Ooh

Rest your eyes, my child

I'll be the soundtrack to your silent movie

A melancholy throwback to safer times

And every hole in the piano roll

Is a window to asylum

Every object has its rightful place

Like horn-rimmed glasses on a melting face

Every object has its rightful place

And sleep is the smoke that burns in space

So Ooh ooh

Rest your eyes, my child

Ooh Ooh

Rest your eyes, my child

I'll be the soundtrack to your silent movie

A melancholy throwback to safer times

And every hole in the piano roll

Is a window to asylum

I've got more ghosts than Omaha Beach

Dripping down my chin like a Georgia peach

I've got more ghosts than Omaha Beach

And they'll rattle these chains a thousand years each

So Ooh Ooh

Rest your eyes, my child

Ooh Ooh

Rest your eyes, my child

Ooh Ooh

Rest your eyes, my child

Ooh Ooh

Rest your eyes, my child

Sign of the Times

As if things weren't huge enough already

This telescope just makes it worse.

My eye must look pretty small

To the universe

There my princess goes with her cheerleader pose

And her cracker jack valedictorian ring.

There my princess goes

She's my gunmetal rose

Is she everyone's angel

Maybe too soon to tell, I don't know

Take one for the show

This divinity I shall bestow

It's all that I can do

This charmed life I give to you

It's a sign of the times

It's in our field holler rhymes

It's in our white collar crimes

Sign of the times!

I have done my part to keep you famous

Been your pedestal, your engineer

Traced your face, crafted it by hand

Very grand, very cavalier

There my champion goes in luminary repose

With a notch on each gun and a girl on each arm

There my champion goes

He's the toast of The Pros

Is he everyone's hero

I should think, I don't know

I don't know

Take one for the show

This divinity I shall bestow

It's all that I can do

This charmed life I give to you

It's a sign of the times

It's in our toilet stall rhymes

It's in our white collar crimes

Sign of the times

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So Long

Sleep Stages

Silent Movie

Sign of the Times

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