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The Sewing Circle Kills Again

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From "Down the Wrong Pipe"

I am a child

Dressed as a mirror ball

Hung in a darkroom

I stare

At screens (on the concourse)

That take x-rays of handbags

I see

The sinister hearts within

My throwaway girlfriends

As they roll

Roll through the scanner

I didn't know

My chewing gum was a bomb

My glasses shot x-rays

A pure oblivious master spy

Encoded at birth

And my life,

An unknowing series of

Reconnaissance missions

For the shared

Female agenda

So, the sewing circle kills again

Oh, another victim quilted in

So generous

So damn congenial now

So generous

So damn congenial now

You left a bike

Chained to a stop sign in

This town that you moved from

I sit

And commiserate with it

In fettered rejection

For we

Can never be saved and we

Can never be stolen

Oh, never be stolen

So, the sewing circle kills again

Oh, another victim quilted in

So generous

So damn congenial now

So generous

So damn congenial now

Watch yourself

Brace yourself

Push yourself

But pace yourself

If you faced yourself

Youd shoot yourself

Fine

Suit yourself

We 're all sleeping in the crosshairs anyway

You can't afford what Betsy Ross wears anyway

We 're all sleeping in the crosshairs anyway

You can't afford this

The sewing circle kills again

So generous

So damn congenial now

The sewing circle kills again

So generous

So damn congenial now

The sewing circle kills again

(Lauren London - vocals)

The Seventh Sea

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From "The Seventh Sea"

Fish tales and shanties

Fill the ashtrays of the few.

The old man babbles on,

The seaside tavern's gone but still

The barstools stand as tombstones

For the sailors he once knew.

He looks out to the bay

And sadly wishes they could see him too.

The anchor in the sky has danger to outweigh

'Cause old captains never die, they only fade away

Away the moments slip,

So go down with your ship and you'll be free,

To sail the Seventh Sea

It's he notion of an endless ocean odyssey

Where a mariner can share in errant honesty

To possess Poseidon's dynasty once more

The flag of triumph

Dangles limp upon his mast

Soil cakes the boots

That used to draw salutes,

Because he swims against the current

When he dances with the past.

He turns to Babylon

And stands and cries

I'll kneel upon your shores no more.

Though glory dreams create, his vision time enslaves.

He leaps to kiss the face of fate and plunges through the waves

Your Messianic sleep

A thousand miles deep will triumph be,

Within the Seventh Sea

It's he notion of an endless ocean odyssey

Where a mariner can share in errant honesty

To possess Poseidon's dynasty once more

(Maury Loeb - co-author

Josh Siegel - piano, backup vocals)

The Running of the Trolls in Pamplona

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Instrumental

(Tom Kirchoffer - drums

Josh Siegel - bass)

Copright 1995 Zach London

The Quincy Steam Hoist

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From "Approach Approach Conflict"

They say if you blink

You'll miss

The Quincy Mine

The heart of a ghost town west of Dollar Bay

Whenever I think

Of this

Abandoned shrine

I dream of the fortunes left to haul away

They tell me that Old Reliable's done

That none of her stopes are up to code

And all of her veins are now with the groundwater drenched

But we, as miners of old

Will plunder the deep Pewabic lode

And the Quincy Hoist shall run

The Quincy Steam Hoist shall run again

Remember they laughed

They all

Said, "who are you

To tell us the Quince has blood worth drilling for"

But remember the shaft

They call

The number 2

Is deeper than Hell

And burns with copper ore

They tell me that Old Reliable's done

That none of her stopes are up to code

And all of her veins are now with the groundwater drenched

But we, as miners of old

Will plunder the deep Pewabic lode

And the Quincy Hoist shall run

The Quincy Hoist shall run and run

Reliable's done

And none of her stopes are up to code

And all of her veins are now with the groundwater drenched

But we, as miners of old

Will plunder the sweet Pewabic lode

And the Quincy Hoist shall run

The Quincy Hoist shall run

The Quincy Nordberg Steam Hoist shall run again

(Rebecca Biber - flute

Greg Kutcher - electric guitar

Lauren London - backup vocals

Russell Schwartz - backup vocals

Darin Zahuranec - trumpet and french horn)

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The Sewing Circle Kills Again

The Seventh Sea

The Running of the Trolls in Pamplona

The Quincy Steam Hoist

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