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The Chicago and Frisco Bootlegs (Live, Download only)

by John Wesley

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1.
So we stay at morning they come she was gone at the first sign of trouble see how she runs then you're paralyzed her silhouette in light and she's dancing on your grave The sunrise breaks what's done is done the wind blows cold through your bones and you see how they run when you're trice denied and you're paralyzed I'll be the last man by your side All of your castles may crumble and your ministers may lie I will still be standing I'll be the last man by your side
2.
Last year, is a terrible place to live Before that, is someplace ya go when you cannot forgive Your own misguided attempt, at changing the world Wake up in the dark you're all covered in sweat I ain't much of a gambler but I'd be willing to bet You've been chasing monsters Looks like you've already been found... You wear addiction like a second skin Well this is one fight you never fought to win Try as you might You're the only fool that still believes Well I'm here with you Chasing monsters with you I still believe, so tell me Where do they come from? Where do they come from? Well I'm here with you Hunting monsters with you I've got the big guns so tell me Where do they come from? Where do they come from? The chime of a full glass, taste of the first pass, aroma of butane laid out before you Slit of a short skirt, a blade on a glass tray Bliss of a raised vein, chained to the spoon again The life of the party, center of gravity A shroud of mystery surrounds you The smack of a freight train. Crippling ghost pains Cower and hide, monsters have found you again Well I'm here with you Chasing monsters with you I still believe, so tell me Where do they come from? Where do they come from? Well I'm here with you Hunting monsters with you I've got the big guns so tell me Where do they come from? Where do they come from?
3.
Disappeared 05:37
There was a time That you were so bright, and so strong There was nothing that you feared Nothing you could do wrong Dreams glowed in the sun Your world was alive So full of life, hard and wild You were the golden child Head-long into the withering fire Of a life in a dark space Your conscience, became misplaced Smoke that would not clear No kind words offered to your ears Shot down in a steep climb You disappear in a haze of smoke and wine Well I'm waiting and I wonder Where've you gone why are you not here We're waiting and we wonder Where someone goes when they've been disappeared Seperation of your thoughts Words that no longer rhyme Days spent in your room Spinning webs with the threads left of your mind Dreams you no longer face Hidden away in some far place A shame of a kind that does not erase Hold onto your pillow and drop out of the race Head-long into the withering fire Blindfolded, stumbling across a tightwire Shot down in a steep climb You disappeared in a haze of smoke and wine Well I'm waiting and I wonder Where've you gone, and why are you not here We're waiting and we wonder Where a soul goes when it's been disappeared I see you and I speak tyo you There ain't nothing in your eyes but the glow of fear I beg you to tell me Why have you been disappeared The struggle of these last years Brought me to this place Where I hold my beautiful wife My beautiful child I reach and touch her face All the hurt of my lost years The uncertainty, all the fears The losses, regrets and the tears Have in time been disappeared Have with time been disappeared They will with time
4.
I was a child, life in your arms you hold me the fire in your eyes stopped the bleeding the love in your heart kept me breathing I feel I'm dying again. I've got nothing but hatred for my lover and friend the lion in your eyes watches me screaming the cold in your heart keeps my blood freezing Thirteen days, before you left me here staring thirteen days, before you tried to stop caring Stare into the dark the emptiness of hell comes to enfold me take a long look at your sweet creation did you get a thrill to watch my heart breaking Thirteen days, before you left me here standing alone thirteen days, before you left me to die on a phone I cannot pretend, can't find an end oh, how I miss you I was your lover and you were my friend I pray to God I never see you again Thirteen days, before you left me here waiting to hold you Thirteen days, before you forgot what I told you Thirteen days, that you gave to me only to take from me Thirteen days, before you left me here breaking
5.
Fly Boy 04:27
Mama their eyes burn Holes right through me when I walk by them How do I offend? They make me wanna hide Sometimes I turn my head away and try Yet I cannot disappear She said they don't know you They don't shine the way that you do This world ain't good enough for the likes of you You got to get away You got to fly boy, find your powers and a cape You got to make your escape, and get away These years have not been kind Each new day brings a struggle of a different kind But hell I don't mind A busy man looks through me His money'd eyes blind to what he will not see He don't know the secrets I keep Well I am happier than he, 'Cause I'm gonna fly boy, gonna find powers and a cape I'm gonna make my escape, gonna get outta here I know about it, I know about it. The world has lost all its dreams I know about it. The world won't let us breathe. Won't set us free Each day we run this race Consumed by self we miss the brave face Or we look away But not me. I'm gonna rise above this caste you made for me Gonna be everything you dream but will never be. I'm gonna fly... 'Cause I am Flyboy, got my powers and a cape Gonna make my escape, gonna get outta here
6.
I must guard this precious heart I must close these jaded eyes My small world has come apart Under the weight of our demise The words you say, the way you move The lies you tell, the bones you bruise Cannot be mended, cannot be healed I am the soul that no longer feels You must leave, you must go I am better here alone I have nothing left to steal I am the soul that no longer feels You must leave, you must go I am better here alone I am better here A velvet veil covered your head White like the satin on our bed These vows were never meant to be so mean This is not my velvet dream You must leave, you must go I am better here alone I have nothing left to steal I am the sould that no longer heals You must leave, you must go I am better here alone Be this hell or in between These are not my velvet dreams These are not my dreams
7.
Look into the sky, you can't erase what's in your eyes Look into the sun, you cannot face what you've become Through the shopping malls, you blend into the human walls Your eyes search the faces, as you move within the places That you once moved with her, that you once knew with her When you were arm in arm showing happy to the world You were arm in arm showing happy to the world arm in arm showing happy to the world is no one happy in this world Grateful for breath, more than once you've cheated death Crushed till you scream, you can't awaken from this dream This I will pray for you, this I will promise you For every lover that's gone, another comes along And you will move in her, as if you always knew in her You will be Arm in arm showing happy to the world Arm in arm showing happy to the world Arm in arm showing happy to the world you will be happy in this world...
8.
Well here we are boy and I'm through dreaming all these colors I've been flying have lost the will to keep me high and I'm not amused... So I said hey you're no a star so are you through screaming cause all this paranoia's got you hiding in the dark and I can't see you... Well shine the light and you can come on in can't you see I'm on a mission you can stay if you are wishin but I'm waiting... see my daddy hit the doorway when I was just a kid said he'd gone to find the sunshine and bring it back for me and I'm waiting waiting for the sun to shine Do you see my scars it's dark and they're glowing all these tiny little punctures are a doorway to the sun a doorway to the sun think I'll have another one I know he's in here I can feel him lookin for me I hear him laughin like he did like he did when I was young daddy's bringin me the sun and I'm waiting waiting for the sun to shine
9.
Domino 03:08
10.
Gold Mine 04:05
11.
So Bad 02:05
You took a turn for the worse when I caught up to you last night flickering it's saving light And though improper thing we may do not always just or always right every once in a while I see you smile like everything will be alright You always wanted to be so bad you always wanted to be one of the stars in the evening sky one of the doves flying free Winter stole upon you in your twenty second year fragile as a wedding smile you began to disappear and as the worst of this comes on you you know I'll never leave your sight as the night goes out of this room child just pray and hold me tight It's time to close your eyes child it's time for you to sleep there ain't no more pain and no more tears and this promise I will keep And though improper things we may do not always just or always right in your heart an angel smiles and guides you through the night
12.
13.
Sometimes we run we trip and fall Sometimes we look we don't see at all Sometimes we heal, it leaves a scar Sometimes we run we go too far And then we slide... You and me we been through this before Seems the bruises that won't heal got bruised some more Through these towering waves of malice we rise The only way we lived was side by side But then we slide... You know I've got no shame for what we are It's a miracle we ever come this far And the only way we ever did survive Was side by side Some days I was your only friend Some days I thought we would be again Some nights it was you kept me alive I can't face this world without you by my side But then we slide...
14.
Disappeared 06:49
There was a time That you were so bright, and so strong There was nothing that you feared Nothing you could do wrong Dreams glowed in the sun Your world was alive So full of life, hard and wild You were the golden child Head-long into the withering fire Of a life in a dark space Your conscience, became misplaced Smoke that would not clear No kind words offered to your ears Shot down in a steep climb You disappear in a haze of smoke and wine Well I'm waiting and I wonder Where've you gone why are you not here We're waiting and we wonder Where someone goes when they've been disappeared Seperation of your thoughts Words that no longer rhyme Days spent in your room Spinning webs with the threads left of your mind Dreams you no longer face Hidden away in some far place A shame of a kind that does not erase Hold onto your pillow and drop out of the race Head-long into the withering fire Blindfolded, stumbling across a tightwire Shot down in a steep climb You disappeared in a haze of smoke and wine Well I'm waiting and I wonder Where've you gone, and why are you not here We're waiting and we wonder Where a soul goes when it's been disappeared I see you and I speak tyo you There ain't nothing in your eyes but the glow of fear I beg you to tell me Why have you been disappeared The struggle of these last years Brought me to this place Where I hold my beautiful wife My beautiful child I reach and touch her face All the hurt of my lost years The uncertainty, all the fears The losses, regrets and the tears Have in time been disappeared Have with time been disappeared They will with time
15.
I was a child, life in your arms you hold me the fire in your eyes stopped the bleeding the love in your heart kept me breathing I feel I'm dying again. I've got nothing but hatred for my lover and friend the lion in your eyes watches me screaming the cold in your heart keeps my blood freezing Thirteen days, before you left me here staring thirteen days, before you tried to stop caring Stare into the dark the emptiness of hell comes to enfold me take a long look at your sweet creation did you get a thrill to watch my heart breaking Thirteen days, before you left me here standing alone thirteen days, before you left me to die on a phone I cannot pretend, can't find an end oh, how I miss you I was your lover and you were my friend I pray to God I never see you again Thirteen days, before you left me here waiting to hold you Thirteen days, before you forgot what I told you Thirteen days, that you gave to me only to take from me Thirteen days, before you left me here breaking
16.
Fly Boy 04:42
Mama their eyes burn Holes right through me when I walk by them How do I offend? They make me wanna hide Sometimes I turn my head away and try Yet I cannot disappear She said they don't know you They don't shine the way that you do This world ain't good enough for the likes of you You got to get away You got to fly boy, find your powers and a cape You got to make your escape, and get away These years have not been kind Each new day brings a struggle of a different kind But hell I don't mind A busy man looks through me His money'd eyes blind to what he will not see He don't know the secrets I keep Well I am happier than he, 'Cause I'm gonna fly boy, gonna find powers and a cape I'm gonna make my escape, gonna get outta here I know about it, I know about it. The world has lost all its dreams I know about it. The world won't let us breathe. Won't set us free Each day we run this race Consumed by self we miss the brave face Or we look away But not me. I'm gonna rise above this caste you made for me Gonna be everything you dream but will never be. I'm gonna fly... 'Cause I am Flyboy, got my powers and a cape Gonna make my escape, gonna get outta here
17.
I must guard this precious heart I must close these jaded eyes My small world has come apart Under the weight of our demise The words you say, the way you move The lies you tell, the bones you bruise Cannot be mended, cannot be healed I am the soul that no longer feels You must leave, you must go I am better here alone I have nothing left to steal I am the soul that no longer feels You must leave, you must go I am better here alone I am better here A velvet veil covered your head White like the satin on our bed These vows were never meant to be so mean This is not my velvet dream You must leave, you must go I am better here alone I have nothing left to steal I am the sould that no longer heals You must leave, you must go I am better here alone Be this hell or in between These are not my velvet dreams These are not my dreams
18.
Well here we are boy and I'm through dreaming all these colors I've been flying have lost the will to keep me high and I'm not amused... So I said hey you're no a star so are you through screaming cause all this paranoia's got you hiding in the dark and I can't see you... Well shine the light and you can come on in can't you see I'm on a mission you can stay if you are wishin but I'm waiting... see my daddy hit the doorway when I was just a kid said he'd gone to find the sunshine and bring it back for me and I'm waiting waiting for the sun to shine Do you see my scars it's dark and they're glowing all these tiny little punctures are a doorway to the sun a doorway to the sun think I'll have another one I know he's in here I can feel him lookin for me I hear him laughin like he did like he did when I was young daddy's bringin me the sun and I'm waiting waiting for the sun to shine

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Wesfest Productions has put together this special live release. The Chicago / San Francisco Bootlegs, features 2 complete acoustic shows from the Porcupine Tree tour, plus all 4 B-Sides from the Under the Red and White Sky days that were previously only released in France.

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released December 31, 2002

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John Wesley Riverview, Florida

Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist. On tour with Vertical Horizon. Performed with Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson, Fish, Sound of Contact, Big Elf, Mike Tramp. Newest album, a way you'll never be... Free music downloads at www.john-wesley.com check them out.... ... more

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