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diff --git a/eli/message/slowtrain/track.eno b/eli/message/slowtrain/track.eno index f303342..23b6915 100644 --- a/eli/message/slowtrain/track.eno +++ b/eli/message/slowtrain/track.eno @@ -1,105 +1,105 @@ -more_label: Lyrics - ---more - -[VERSE 1] -I got on at Blood on the Tracks -Midwinter, mid-thirties, suitcase cracked -Tangled Up in Blue seats, torn upholstery -Every love’s a wound if you tell it closely - -He’s beside me, hat pulled low -Says names don’t matter, then says his does -Talks in riddles, coughs up smoke -Says truth is just a different joke - -[PRE-CHORUS] -I ask him straight, he laughs and stalls -Says “I contain multitudes” then denies it all - -[CHORUS] -First rule of Bob D -You don’t explain Bobby D -Second rule, you change the tune -Right when they start to listen -I’m riding shotgun with a ghost and a grin -Trying to work out where belief begins -Slow train coming, fast blood drying -Am I watching history -Or am I next in line? - -[VERSE 2] -He says Desire’s just a mask -Scarlet bandana, rolling cast -Hurricane stories, violin crime -Truth bends better when it rhymes - -Street-Legal sermons, horns too loud -Choir creeping in from the crowd -I say “Is this where faith kicks in?” -He says “Kid, faith is a different skin” - -[PRE-CHORUS] -He points ahead, track starts to glow -Says “You don’t find God — He boards you slow” - -[CHORUS] -First rule of B. D. -Never trust the phase -Third rule, burn the map -Fourth rule, praise and blame -Blood on the tracks, then a ticket stub -From heartbreak hotel to the Book of Job -Slow Train Coming, no return fare -I don’t know if I’m following -Or already there - -[BRIDGE – UNRELIABLE NARRATOR] -Maybe he’s real -Maybe he’s me -Maybe I read him into history -Charlemagne with a harmonica crown -Founding empires, burning them down - -He says “Saved isn’t irony” -I say “Neither is Shot of Love” -He says “You want sincerity?” -I say “Yeah — but not enough” - -[BREAK] -The train won’t stop -The questions stack -Every answer changes the track - -[VERSE 3] -He quotes scripture, then quotes himself -Leaves both unlabeled on the shelf -I say “Did you mean it?” -He says “At the time” -Which feels like truth -Or feels like a crime - -I check my reflection in the window glass -See Eli Mercer wearing someone else’s past -If he could pivot, vanish, return -What’s the lesson I’m meant to learn? - -[FINAL CHORUS] -First rule of influence -You swear you’re not influenced -Second rule, deny the debt -While you’re counting interest -Blood on the tracks, slow train hum -Faith or fracture, here it comes -He tips his hat, says “You’ll be fine” -Leaves me alone -With a voice that sounds like mine - -[OUTRO] -Train keeps rolling -Names decay -History’s just a long delay -If Dylan’s Charlemagne, what am I then? -Another passenger -Learning when ---more +more_label: Lyrics + +--more + +[VERSE 1] +I got on at Blood on the Tracks +Midwinter, mid-thirties, suitcase cracked +Tangled Up in Blue seats, torn upholstery +Every love’s a wound if you tell it closely + +He’s beside me, hat pulled low +Says names don’t matter, then says his does +Talks in riddles, coughs up smoke +Says truth is just a different joke + +[PRE-CHORUS] +I ask him straight, he laughs and stalls +Says “I contain multitudes” then denies it all + +[CHORUS] +First rule of Bob D +You don’t explain Bobby D +Second rule, you change the tune +Right when they start to listen +I’m riding shotgun with a ghost and a grin +Trying to work out where belief begins +Slow train coming, fast blood drying +Am I watching history +Or am I next in line? + +[VERSE 2] +He says Desire’s just a mask +Scarlet bandana, rolling cast +Hurricane stories, violin crime +Truth bends better when it rhymes + +Street-Legal sermons, horns too loud +Choir creeping in from the crowd +I say “Is this where faith kicks in?” +He says “Kid, faith is a different skin” + +[PRE-CHORUS] +He points ahead, track starts to glow +Says “You don’t find God — He boards you slow” + +[CHORUS] +First rule of B. D. +Never trust the phase +Third rule, burn the map +Fourth rule, praise and blame +Blood on the tracks, then a ticket stub +From heartbreak hotel to the Book of Job +Slow Train Coming, no return fare +I don’t know if I’m following +Or already there + +[BRIDGE – UNRELIABLE NARRATOR] +Maybe he’s real +Maybe he’s me +Maybe I read him into history +Charlemagne with a harmonica crown +Founding empires, burning them down + +He says “Saved isn’t irony” +I say “Neither is Shot of Love” +He says “You want sincerity?” +I say “Yeah — but not enough” + +[BREAK] +The train won’t stop +The questions stack +Every answer changes the track + +[VERSE 3] +He quotes scripture, then quotes himself +Leaves both unlabeled on the shelf +I say “Did you mean it?” +He says “At the time” +Which feels like truth +Or feels like a crime + +I check my reflection in the window glass +See Eli Mercer wearing someone else’s past +If he could pivot, vanish, return +What’s the lesson I’m meant to learn? + +[FINAL CHORUS] +First rule of influence +You swear you’re not influenced +Second rule, deny the debt +While you’re counting interest +Blood on the tracks, slow train hum +Faith or fracture, here it comes +He tips his hat, says “You’ll be fine” +Leaves me alone +With a voice that sounds like mine + +[OUTRO] +Train keeps rolling +Names decay +History’s just a long delay +If Dylan’s Charlemagne, what am I then? +Another passenger +Learning when +--more |