"Oh My God, Charlie Darwin"

1. "Charlie Darwin"

And who could heed the words of Charlie Darwin
Fighting for a system built to fail
Spooning water from their broken vessels
As far as I can see there is no land

Oh my god, the waters cold and shapeless
Oh my god, it's all around

And who could heed the words of Charlie Darwin
The lords of war just profit from decay
And trade their children's promise for the jingle
The way we trade our hard earned time for pay

Oh my god, the waters cold and shapeless
Oh my god, it's all around
Oh my god, the world is cold and formless
Oh my god, where are we now

2. "To Ohio"

Lost my love before her time, oo oo
Lost my love before her time, oo oo
On the way to Ohio On the way to Ohio

Now every new love is just a shadow, oo oo
Every new love is just a shadow, oo oo

‘Cause once you've known love you don't know how to find love, oo oo
Yeah once you've found love you don't know how to find new love
All the way to Ohio All the way to Ohio

Heard her voice come through the pines in Ohio
I heard her voice singing in the pines in Ohio

She sang bless your soul you crossed that line to Ohio
Bless your soul you crossed that line oo oo
All the way to Ohio
All the way to Ohio

3. "The Horizon Is a Beltway"

You'll hear that distant love song when the wind blows right
Hear the whistle blowing put a tear drop in your eye
You hear the distant love song but widows know the lie
The horizon is a beltway, the skyline is on fire.

The skyline is on fire, the skyline is on fire
The horizon is a beltway and the skyline is on fire

You come up from the lowlands to the city on the air
Where pilrims and commissioners currate Christian fare
From Havisu to Brownsville feel the long unbroken stare
I wonder what it smells like in that city on the air

You'll hear that distant love song when the wind blows right
Hear the whistle blowing put a tear drop in your eye
One and the same lovesong that made my Grandad cry
The horizon is a beltway, the skyline is on fire.

The skyline is on fire, the skyline is on fire
You'll hear the distant love song, when the skyline is on fire
The skyline is on fire, the skyline is on fire
The horizon is a beltway and the skyline is on fire

This old house stood empty now for fifteen years or more
Willows falls half way to meet the weeds around the door
Time throws up her curtain and we know not who we are
The horizon is a beltway, the skyline is on fire

You'll hear that distant love song when the wind blows right
Hear the whistle blowing put a tear drop in your eye
Jagged as the jaw bone once the flesh expires
The horizon is a beltway the skyline is on fire

4. "Home I'll Never Be"
by Jack Kerouac and Tom Waits

5. "Ticket Taker"

They say the sky's the limit
But the sky's about to fall
Down come all them record books cradle and all
They say before he bit it
That the boxer felt no pain
But somewhere there's a gamblin' man
With a ticket in the rain

Mary Anne, I know I'm a long shot
But Mary Anne, what else have you got
I am a ticket taker, many tickets have I torn
And I will be your arc, we will float above the storm

Many years have passed in this river town
I've sailed through many traps
I keep a stock of weapons should society collapse
I keep a stock of amo
One of oil and one of gold
I keep a place for Mary Anne
Soon she will come home

CHORUS
CHORUS

6. "To the Ghosts that Write History Books"

To them ghosts in the train yard
All them ghosts in my drink
Your money's no good here just write one about me

And when you go, where the winds are strong
When you go where flowers bend
Please take along all the best of my luck and come back unchanged
Your demons all tamed
Your flowers uncut

And when you go where the winds are strong
Where soldiers carve their stones
Please take along all the best of my luck and come back unchanged
Your demons all tamed
Your flowers uncut

To them ghosts that write history books
To them ghosts that write songs
Everyone asks would you write one about me

To them ghosts in the train yard
All them ghosts in my drink
Your money's no good here just write one about me

7. "Don't Tremble"

If yor pilot light should die
Do not quake and do not bark
You will find the spark

If your tree should bare no fruit
Do not turn and do not spill
You are beautiful

If your clarinet should break
Do not cry a million lakes
Do not cry a million lakes

When the winds surround your house
Do not twist and do not shout
Wait it out

If your hand should lose it's grip
Do not tremble do not sweat
For where then would you get

You have got the looks my dear
To make a mountain shake
Imagine me

You have got the voice my love
To melt a lake of ice
Imagine me

If your heart is unemployed
Do not rush but do not stall
For I am waiting

8. Music Box
Instrumental

9. "Champion Angel"

Throw up your voice but not you mind
While them agents of change go monopolize
There colors and there faces are just shades of the same
All lost in the game

And we don't need no personal saviors here
Just a warm hearth and water. It's purely biological
No posturing manequin man or woman
Shall receive my hand

Among all you angels is a champion angel
Among all you devils there's a free soul
Up from the disenfranchised the engine cries
Up from the circle there's a hole

The child insubordinate disrupts the pecking order
So go marry yound while you can
‘Cause the weave of the rug and the cut of the throne
Testify before the ocean's open hand

I promise you this promise we are not alone
But why is it I alone that promise this
Deny the forces that would hurry men
If you still can

CHORUS

We come now to a fracture in the road
Here time has taken her toll
The endless freezing and the thawing of the heart
Would eventually divide us apart

What's that you found in the pocket of your coat
Looks like a small sentiment that she wrote
Don't be my personal savior I would not be saved
I chose to walk alone

CHORUS

10. "Cage the Songbird"

God cage the songbird
Before the feathers run brown
God bar the windows
That we may though hollow be sound

And this island be shackled to her waters
Here I will promise not to change
Here I will stand at last for something
With no desire to pretend

Can it be, can it be, have we evolved
Did we grow, did we weather, did we wane
We are here so surely we've arrived here
Be it peak, valley, or plain

God cage the songbird
Before the feathers run brown
God bar the windows
That we may though hollow be sound

And the street lamp be teathered to her station
The poor man be teathered to the flesh
The wiseman be teathered to his wisdom
We drift through her light through the mess

Was your hunge the awareness of salvation
Was your fear the awareness of your past
Are you tortured by the changing of the seasons
You obsess to watch the sand that slips the glass

God cage the songbird
Before the feathers run brown
God bar the windows
That we may though hollow be sound

11. "OMGCD"

When I go, when I go
Sure don't know, where I'm going
I look up high, I look down low
Sure don't know where I'm going when I go

Do you job and I'll do mine
I'll do my best to hold the line
Do my best like Charlie said
You don't eat here, you're not to sleep, you hold the line

Oh my God, Oh my God, Charlie Darwin where are you now
I set these tiresome codes down where you lay
Oh my God, Oh my God, it ain't nothing but the cold hard ground
My better half will stay but I must go

12. "To Ohio" (reprise)