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[00:12.38]I'm Don Juan's reckless daughter
[00:14.72]I came out two days on your tail
[00:17.85]Those two bald-headed days in November
[00:20.19]Before the first snowflakes sail
[00:26.50]Out on the vast and subtle plains of mystery
[00:29.80]A split tongue spirit talks
[00:32.42]Noble as a nickel chief
[00:34.62]Striking up an old juke box
[00:38.14]And he says:
[00:39.35]"Snakes along the railroad tracks."
[00:41.63]He says, "Eagles in jet trails ..."
[00:44.24]He says, "Coils around feathers and talons on scales ...
[00:50.35]Gravel under the belly plates ..."
[00:52.95]He says, "Wind in the Wings ..."
[00:56.10]He says, "Big bird dragging its tail in the dust ...
[00:59.32]Snake kite flying on a string."
[01:08.30]I come from open prairie
[01:10.45]Given some wisdom and a lot of jive!
[01:13.96]Last night the ghosts of my old ideas
[01:16.57]Reran on channel five
[01:22.30]And it howled so spooky for its eagle soul
[01:25.73]I nearly broke down and cried
[01:27.69]But the split tongue spirit laughed at me
[01:30.25]He says, "Your serpent cannot be denied."
[01:35.06]Our serpents love the whisky bars
[01:37.27]They love the romance of the crime
[01:40.57]But didn't I see a neon sign
[01:42.68]Fester on your hotel blind
[01:46.09]And a country road come off the wall
[01:48.82]And swoop down at the crowd at the bar
[01:51.74]And put me at the top of your danger list
[01:54.71]Just for being so much like you are!
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[02:03.36]You're a coward against the altitude--
[02:06.95]You're a coward against the flesh--
[02:09.40]Coward--caught between yes and no
[02:12.38]Reckless this time on the line for yes, yes, yes!
[02:18.60]Reckless brazen in the play
[02:20.89]Of your changing traffic lights
[02:23.56]Coward--slinking down the hall
[02:26.13]to another restless night
[02:29.58]As we center behind the eight ball
[02:32.82]As we rock between the sheets
[02:35.19]As we siphon the colored language
[02:38.24]Off the farms and the streets
[02:42.40]Here in Good-Old-God-Save-America
[02:44.98]The home of the brave and the free
[02:47.20]We are all hopelessly oppressed cowards
[02:50.48]Of some duality
[02:52.84]Of restless multiplicity
[02:56.40](Oh say can you see)
[02:59.86]Restless for streets and honky tonks
[03:02.58]Restless for home and routine
[03:05.76]Restless for country-safety-and her
[03:08.38]Restless for the likes of reckless me
[03:14.54]Restless sweeps like fire and rain
[03:16.88]Over virgin wilderness
[03:19.01]It prowls like hookers and thieves
[03:22.43]Through bolt locked tenements
[03:26.61]Behind my bolt locked door
[03:28.89]The eagle and the serpent are at war in me
[03:31.61]The serpent fighting for blind desire
[03:34.04]The eagle for clarity
[03:38.14]What strange prizes these battles bring
[03:40.81]These hectic joys-these weary blues
[03:43.34]Puffed up and strutting when I think I win
[03:45.91]Down and shaken when I think I lose
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[04:00.40]There are rivets up here in this eagle
[04:03.10]There are box cars down there on your snake
[04:06.12]And we are twins of spirit
[04:08.17]No matter which route home we take
[04:10.66]Or what we forsake
[04:14.50]We're going to come up to the eyes of clarity
[04:18.06]And we'll go down to the beads of guile
[04:20.56]There is danger and education
[04:22.82]In living out such a reckless life style
[04:26.75]I touched you on the central plains
[04:29.87]It was plane to train my twin
[04:32.88]It was just plane shadow to train shadow
[04:35.08]But to me it was skin to skin
[04:38.36]The spirit talks in spectrums
[04:41.20]He talks to mother earth to father sky
[04:44.36]Self indulgence to self denial
[04:47.36]Man to woman
[04:49.57]Scales to feathers
[04:50.97]You and I
[04:55.50]Eagles in the sky
[04:57.38]You and I
[05:02.68]Snakes in the grass
[05:04.91]You and I
[05:08.53]Crawl and fly
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[05:18.43]You and I
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