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Ten Thousand Promises

from Live at Ken's Steak House by Proprietary Pty.

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Part 1: “Call to Arms”

I’ve been locked inside
Can’t jury rig my way out of here
My only friends the mop and Pine-Sol
But all your promises still hold
Too much unrequited love
How will I get out of this place?

I can sense something foul
Brief flashes of futures to come
Block my unintended qi of the door
I need to get out quickly
Warn my best friend who’ll most likely
Consider it more Xbox hearsay

All of those hours waiting to be free
And I still play GoldenEye ‘til 5 am
Of course I have to go to school
Maybe I don’t – maybe I do
All I know is that I need
To tell my friend that she won’t be
Living for too much longer
Unless if she gets this “orb of wisdom”

But the minutes pass and I’m afraid to speak
Since the prophecy is too crazy to be believed
What should I do? The world’s up to me!
Just let it be preserved…

Ever since I moved to Norway in another timeline
I’ve been able to perceive the things
No one else can see – metaphysical green
And I’m forever haunted by the images of war and blood
So I ask my friend about these daily occurrences
And she validates my hopes by noting that some
Archaeologist named Henry Jones
Called her up to find this “orb of wisdom”

Most of my fears were alleviated
Though I still had the nightmares
And they gave me headaches
That Tylenol took the pain away
Of course, I was stupid to get hooked
Because I had to leave those pills at home
And that fateful 4 am waking up
And I walked away from middle-class America

Standing at the bus stop per orders
Waiting for a bus to come out of the fog
I turned to my friend and she said
That she didn’t know what was going on
Or what she was fighting for
Or why the visions came to me and not her


Part 2: “Flight”

And out the fog came the bus
Like one of the ancient Frisco cars
Emblazed with the number 1979-A
On its rusting-intact side
And we climbed aboard, suitcase and all
And who should greet us but a dog-faced man
He had the bus in control to another land
Looked at us like we were mad

But he was integral
The ferryman from one world to the next
Or rather to plane that would take us
To the central hub of things

I asked my friend if the attack began
And she said no as the airport come into view
Appeared in the middle of an empty field
And the homes we lived in faded out of view
But we both kept the surprise low
Since we didn’t want to cause too much
Suspicion
And off we boarded

Walked into the empty airport
Down the corridor to terminal B
A metallic prop plane on the runway
“Faith-Tester”

Up the air is where I feel so safe
Up in the air is where ten thousand promises come true
Up in the air, Kim can finally prove her worth
Up in the air, where my worries melt away
Up in the air, Studebaker’s phone booth flies
Up in the air, the tear fades in from the sky
Up in the air and off we go into the limbo
Up in the air, there’s no air, so where do we go

When they say major turbulence they mean it
Falling down, down, down to my doom
Go play Aoxomoxoa once before I die
Turbulence turbulence turbu we’re done
And we land


Part 3: “Ride”

The hub, the central hub, all the universes collide
Me and Niko Bellic in the back of Latka’s taxi
Or maybe it’s some Arabic guy – I don’t know. I don’t watch Taxi.
But the orb – I gotta get the orb and I just realized

That I’m in a taxi with these video games and
I don’t know why this happening
The excitement of my ecstasy
And my eventual love

Down the highway, down the road
The rips all over the land
Familiar faces all around

Down the road, mansion on the distance
Down the road…tell me what’s on your mind
Down the road, relapse hitting me so bad
Down the road, down the road.

Drift into the nightmare which I can’t let go
Grandma just passed on the pain
Look at myself in the mirror
Pills in my chapped hand
Take the pain away medicine
Let me feel alive again
And I’m on cloud nine
Feeling alive – Listerine breath

But Kim doesn’t like it
Never cared for me at all
Only about that Josh kid in her eye
And she goes

Down the highway, off the road
In front of Jones’ mansion
His face reminds me of someone
His face looks too iconic


Part 4: “Here He Goes, Mr. Jones”

There he goes, Mr. Jones
Got into his fedora
Kim asked why he needed our help
He said the prophecy said so

Once in ancient Colorado days
Some mages made an orb
That had the power to preserve
But someone stole it

Now it’s time to retrieve it
Save the day forever
But who should do such a thing
Because prophecy is so obtuse and weird

There he goes, Mr. Jones
Down the beaten path
To the place where the orb was placed
And told us to think of a plan

But we just winged it
Just grabbed the orb
But a boulder came down and
Crushed poor Kim’s toe

Now it’s time to save her
As far as I know, I’m done
But who would outline such an easy
Escape and an easy solution

There he goes, Mr. Jones
Bandaging her foot
And the mansion we stayed at
And where she kissed me

She and I went into embrace
But the fireplace
And there shoes
Singing her passioned song

Now it’s time to dream
Dream of the relapse and its effects
I’ve been locked inside this janitor’s closet
For God knows how long


Part 5: “Call to Arms (reprise)”

I woke up the next morning
Didn’t jury rig my way out of here
No prophecy in my head
Somebody get me out of this janitor’s closet!

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from Live at Ken's Steak House, released June 6, 2013

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