“TROUBADOUR” (Exile on Mainstream Records, 2O24)

1 HOLY MOTORS

The train wreck is still burning / The hands are never clean / I wish that I was hurtin´ / The way I used to be / But i´m afloat in scattered skies / And certain stars do smile / Dream to dream, go break your bones / And rack them up the pile / Yoohoo. Yoohoo. / The tidal waves are moving / Moving us around / Since I am too scared to stand still / By the wonders that I found / The smoke is creeping through our eyes / Certain stars do smile / And we get pushed over the moon / For just a little while / Holy Motors, on a serpentine / If it feels like dying, will you make it right / Holy Motors, when we come undone / You just keep on prying, holy motor run / Yoohoo. Yoohoo.

2 COOL BLACK STARS

Here´s to the world, in a coccoon and such / Here´s to my moan, and the powers that you´ve unredeemingly lost / And the curses cast, and the love at last / And the rhymes that pass unrecognized / I wish i had a soul / Here´s to the world, all knives and all ranks / I try to be okay, but every straight line just draws for a bend / For the verses cast, and the love at last / Make me say i wish i had a soul / I got it wrong, haven´t we all / Cool, black stars /Cool, black stars / Cool, black stars are shining / are shining, still / shining / are shining

3 TROUBLE ME

Crows on the mountain are clawing out my eyes / How the hell did i get up here anyways / Nightmares in the city, nightmares in the field / Screams around the corner, who cares if you´re for real / And everything i don´t believe /Would just not stop to trouble me / Spittin´ in the circle while everyone has gone / And every maps has failed to tell you right from wrong / I pack my things and break the door to make some room outside / The stars should now be falling, but it´s pitch black night / And everything i want to be / Would just not stop to trouble me / And everything i want to be / My legs to run, my heart to bleed / And everything i don´t believe / Would just not stop to trouble me / Would just not stop to trouble me

4 EDGE OF LOVE

Hangin´ from the edge of love / As i see the world from up above / something itching in my soul, / as i am hangin´ from the edge of hope / I came across the needle´s eye / Oh yea, here´s what you got / Hanging from the edge of love / All that i am trying to say, is that / Slowly are the words taken away / Hangin´ like a pendulum, as i am / Trying not to jump the gun / You came across the needle´s eye / Oh yea, now what you got / Hanging from the edge Of love

5 CRAZY HORSE

Voices, voices on the deck / I wish I´d understand a single word they said / hear them banging at the doors / Crazy, crazy, crazy horse / Crazy, crazy, crazy horse / Crazy, crazy, crazy / You´re a crazy horse / If the sky was yours to blame / Would you burn the stars and count them all the same / How it´s all so curious / Crazy, crazy, crazy horse / Crazy, crazy, crazy horse / Crazy, crazy, crazy / You´re a crazy horse / Just some things never change / You are not the same / You checked out of the game / So strange, who´s not lost their ways / Voices, voices on the deck / I wish I understood a single word they said / Voices, voices at the doors / Crazy, crazy, crazy horse / Crazy, crazy, crazy horse / Crazy, crazy, crazy horse / Crazy, crazy, crazy horse / Crazy, crazy, crazy / You´re a crazy horse

6 THE BOXER

Spending his whole life, spending his whole life / up in that ring, up in that ring / Sick of it alright, sick of it alright, / up in that ring, up in that ring / Oh I wanna get home, oh I wanna get home / Oh I wanna get home, home again / Behold who got away for now / I wonder what it´s all about / I count you in, don´t count me out / Behold who got away for now / Stick out your head then, stick out your head then, / Dreaming away, dreaming away / Spending his whole life, spending his whole life / Dreaming away, dreaming away / Oh all of that dreaming, oh all of that dreaming, / Oh all of that dreaming, shy to say / Behold who got away for now / I wonder what it´s all about / I count you in, don´t count me out / Behold who got away for now

7 WASP TRAP

Wasp trap hangin´ outside / I squirm like you squirm and we do alright / Boiling in shades of light / Time is running out, is running through our hands / Put a record on, it´s just a scratch again / Everything goes, everything /Everything goes just as planned / Time is tickin´ like a bomb / where is that coming from / ideals anyone? / Put a record on, it´s just a scratch again / Time is running out, is running through our hands / Everything goes, everything / Everything goes just as planned / Everything goes, everything / Everything goes just as planned

8 INSIDE THE MAN

Inside the man, there´s a wheel and a drive / he´ll dream of coming home, for the time of his life / people in places wave at him and smile / and he´ll be strange with a heart like a knife / Put on your big boots and walk on the land / Ghost dogs and witches are inside the man / Outside of town there´s a hole in the ground / would you believe there´s a light shining out / Inside the boy there´s a word that don´t stay / always with the swallows flyin´ away / Put on your big boots and walk on the land / Ghost dogs and witches are inside the man / Oh what can he do, oh what can he say / Oh what can he do, the wind takes it away / Put on your big boots, and walk on the land / Ghost dogs and witches are inside the man / Put on your big boots, and walk on the land / Ghost dogs and witches are inside the man

9 CROW HONEY

There is a darkness fallin´ on me / With the weight of a visceral sun / Like a crown of cold fire, ashes and gold / And you´re shinin´ now as you become / Black pages, black soul / White as light, black as coal / All that crow honey

All that crow honey / Is just glue to the scattered remains / There is a darkness there, calling for me / Will you reach out if i will respond / Like a crow on the wire, pickin´ up speed / Of a dream that it cannot outrun / Black pages, black soul / White as light, black as coal / All that crow honey / All that crow honey / All that crow honey / Is just glue to the scattered remains

10 RUN WITH THE DEVIL

Take a broom and clean me out / I won´t make a fuss about / The fortune tellers coming out / But I don´t wanna know / The less I care, the right the wrong / The moon has turned into the sun / And every dream now has become / Where´re you gonna go / With the devil you run, it´s coming on / And you know he knows you / Run, run, run, run, run / To you I run across the plain / It´s later than it´s ever been / And how the moon looks paper thin When we are on the run again / With the devil you run, it´s coming on / And you know he knows you / Run, run, run, run, run / With the devil you run, it´s coming on / And you know he knows you / Run, run, run, run, run / With the devil run, with the devil run / With the devil run, with the devil run / Run, run, run, run, run / Run, run, run, run, run / Run, run, run, run, run

11 WAY OF THE FUTURE

Every street is leadin´ us away / Every needle´s stingin´ in the hay / Every road is ripped out of the spine / Stumble on, as we´re walking the line / And in god mode we fan the fire / the birds are set to go, places on the wire / Hey hey, how far have you come / Forever on the run / Way of the future, way of the future / Every street is leadin´ us away / Every needle still stings in the hay / Cemetary eyes, we failed the test / Do expect the worst to be the best / And in god mode we fan the fire / The birds are set to go, places on the wire / Hey hey, how far have you come / Forever on the run / Way of the future, way of the future / Come again, come again / Come again, come again