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Morpheus Dreams the Golden Coast

by Heralds of Lightning

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The thinness of my slumbers disturbed by my lost summers rustlin' at my window howling through the palms The great white pacific an image of splintered docks the cool windswept harbors and the wetness on the rocks I drove that pacific highway but my heart never found a port though I anchored for a short time on the edge of my true love's shores and I said come with me my love to my broke down carnival we'll chase its echoes down from here to San Diego And across this country my companions must be singing over near the atlantic in that big ol' New york city but I'll stick to my west coast and I'll comb these beaches with my memories of the marshlands of Big Sur and Monterey where I say come with me my friend to my broke down carnival we'll chase its echoes down from here to San Diego and I wont be alone and you wont be alone we'll chase its echoes down from here to the unknown to the unknown into the unknown cause these oceans are glistening with promise and pent up tears and if I catch a piece of driftwood would it bring me back a hundred years? or all the ones that I held dear held dear held dear
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Haunt the fields where the oak tree bends in the Indian summer wind take the path to where autumn begins in the late September rush of water rush of stream in my solitary dream is there a secret for my sin? oh I know there's a secret for my sin take the road to where souls sleep sound in the autumn burial ground where the silence falls like wings in the Indian summer streets rush of water rush of stream in the day's quiet dream is there a secret for my sin? oh I know there's a secret for my sin They're spinning our fates at the tree of the world on threads of silk at the tree of the world and the witches fly in the burnt September skies in the Indian summer in the gypsy summer in the Indian summer in this private summer in the Indian summer in the gypsy summer in this private summer in the Indian summer wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind
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awake from your dreams be born from sleep and I'll be your mother tonight show me your hands are they stained like the madman's? does he speak in whispers and sincere replies? drive down the coastline forget what you promised love is the worst kind of human bondage and you can't go home again don't you get it don't you get it we went into china town to celebrate there you had silver dollars in your pockets and I was like a merchant always ready to sell who knew what that dreaded New year could foretell? with the dragons on stilts it was the year of the bull the noisy fire and the streets were so full so I covered my ears and I looked at you with the knowledge that it wouldn't last driving the coastline forget what you asked but I wish it was a trip where we didn't have to come back cause you can't go home again don't you get it don't you get it
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He walked out on Sunset Blvd to the cafe he's been drinking since morning now evening falls on L.A. its christmas in the window of every shop on the street here's a seasonless greeting he felt loaded and free put a light in his heart put a light in the dark put a light in his heart put a light in the dark when i first met him he was full of tears and sweat selling his body for a meal and a bed so I gave him shelter said I'd be his girl despite what he promised he wouldn't leave his hustler's world put a light in my heart put a light in the dark put a light in my heart put a light in the dark Tony come home tonight put your thieving soul to rest Tony come home tonight its gonna rain in Los Angeles
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Stranded under the California skyline getting lost and losing all of my time if you stay gone then I just can't feel alive my blood's as cold as the lies you told when you said goodbye but things are worse for other people not like you and I everybody's got their cross to bear everybody's had a little part of them die we come to love the places that have jailed us more than anywhere our feet have freely roamed if we live inside those moments that surround us then our house might start to look like a home for we are just Americans beguiled and dismayed and I am just the weaver of shadows gathering the glitter from all of my days waiting for the ground to shake and rattle these foundations waiting for the time it takes to finish what I begin
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Always 04:23
Caught between the earth's fortune and deception romance and disillusionment maddened by the chase or chased by the madness sometimes we are all exalted always seeking, desiring always changing, always always making, desiring always changing, always never to be overcome by a delicate poison to absorb it all and live and live again setting out with the innocent someone who does not want to be harmed to touch and touch and rage against dying always seeking, desiring we are always changing, always sometimes brooding, desiring we are all evolving, always
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The ghost of a thought sails through the morning am i awake just drifting along? there is no place that i am going there is nowhere that I belong there's no time to say goodbye for when you arrive I will be gone the dawn comes early through the bedroom pushing and pulling me out of the dark I set my feet to wander the daylight burnt out and hazy as ever before the ghost of a thought sails through the morning am I awake just drifting along there is no place that I am going there is nowhere that I belong I drive all the highways of California am I awake alone on this road? through cloudless skies and delirious passions is there no place that I belong?
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Seaside Home 04:06
what waits behind the curtains tonight a painful pastiche of the painted sky a tourist shop for all the memories of youth hanging on abandoned playgrounds of truth but I could tell you my story tonight here in my seaside home and we could live out a lifetime tonight here in my seaside home what waits in the theater of the mind bells that ring on the waterfronts tonight a tired witness to the setting sun with an emotion that's always run but I could tell you my story tonight here in my seaside home and we could live out a lifetime tonight here in my seaside home bells ring on the bay side tonight midnight stands on the water a painful pastiche of the painted sky and an anchor on the water
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Foggy seacoast lights so far away from them far away from catastrophe nights waiting at the end I want to be where the earth don't move where the ground don't shake I want to be where the love endures beyond every kind of heartache and I want to ask for nothin' more than a blue jay on the rails Just the kind of morning you'll remember on your dying bed with just as much significance as the birds that go flying overhead and I want to ask for nothin' more than the white foam on the shore Morpheus dreams the golden coast highway morpheus dreams the golden coast highway the bonds of love are chained to time the bonds of love are chained to time
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released December 23, 2012

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Janessa Ann James Santa Ana, California

Janessa Ann James writes and records under a number of monikers, with a varying cast of collaborators. This page features albums from each of these projects all in one place.

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