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No pics of this CD yet. All tracks recorded off soundboard from a few gigs in May 2000. This info was found on a forum:

“From the included info.txt: For those lucky original 250 people who were included to receive copies of Billy’s Gravity Demos I and Friends and Enemies of Modern Music, an additional cd of *soundboard* performances from several Sacred + Profane Tour shows was included. Billy requested that only “good shows” be put on this cd.”

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 13, 14, 15: Berkeley Community Theatre; Berkeley (CA)

Tracks 4, 5, 8, 10, 11: Music Hall; Austin (TX)

Tracks 6, 12: Aerial Theater; Houston (TX)

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Track List

  • The Sacred And Profane Tour Soundboard Compilation
    •  1 . Rock On
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      Title extra: live 2000.05.24

      Length: 4:12

      Additional Info: Cover of David Essex

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      Hey kids, rock and roll

      Rock on, ooh my soul

      Hey kids, it’s no use sleepin’

      Lost out, summertime blues

      Jump up and die in your blue suede shoes

      Hey kids, rock and roll

      We’re gonna rock on

      Where do we go from here

      Which is the way that’s clear

      Still looking for that blue jean baby queen

      Prettiest girl I’ve ever seen

      See her die on my movie screens every day

      Rock on

      Hey kids, rock and roll

      Rock on, ooh my soul

      Hey kids it’s no use dreamin’

      Lost out and full of doubt

      Shut up, cracked out

      Hey kids, rock and roll

      We’re gonna rock on

      Where do we go from here

      Which is the way that’s clear

      Where do we go from here

      Which is the way that’s clear

      Still lookin’ for that blue jean baby queen

      Prettiest girl I’ve never seen

      See her die on my movie screens every day

      Rock on

      Rock on

      Rock on

      Rock on

      And the cradle will rock

      Yes, the cradle, the cradle will rock

      I said rock on

      Rock on

      Everybody wants some

      I want some too

      Everybody wants some

      Hey how about you

      I said rock on

      Rock on

      Rock on

      Rock on

      Rock on

      Rock on

      Hey kids, rock and roll

      We’re gonna rock on, rock on

      To your song

      Hey kids, rock and roll

      We’re gonna rock on

      Rock on

      We’re gonna rock on, rock on, rock on

    •  2 . The Everlasting Gaze
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      Title extra: live 2000.05.24

      Length: 3:37

      BMI Number: 5090964

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      You know I’m not dead

      You know I’m, you know I’m not dead

      You know I’m not dead

      Now you know where I’ve been

      As you sleep, torn I am

      Weighted down patiently

      Born of love

      You know I’m, you know I’m not dead

      I’m just living in my head

      Forever waiting on the ways of your desire

      You always find a way

      And through it all, into us all you move

      Forgotten touch

      Forbidden thought

      We can never have enough

      You know I’m not dead

      You know I’m, you know I’m not dead

      You know I’m not dead

      Found below, the creatures scream

      Stranglehold, a god machine

      Begin to tear us out

      What is hell

      You know I’m, you know I’m not dead

      I’m just the tears inside your head

      Forever waiting on the ways of your desire

      You always find a way

      And through it all, into us all you move

      Forgotten touch

      Forbidden thought

      We can never have enough

      You know I’m not dead

      We all want to hold in the everlasting gaze

      Enchanted in the rapture of his sentimental sway

      But underneath the wheels lie the skulls of every cog

      The fickle fascination of an everlasting god

      You know I’m not dead

      I’m just living in my head

      Forever waiting

      Forever waiting a cruel death

      You know I’m not dead

      I’m just living for myself

      Forever waiting

      You know I’m not dead

      You know I’m not dead

      You know I’m not dead

      You know I’m not dead

    •  3 . Pug
      Details

      Title extra: live 2000.05.24

      Length: 4:17

      BMI Number: 4353764

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      Kiss and kill me sweetly

      Come and drive me home

      Drag the miles in me

      I am yours alone

      Inside where it’s warm

      Wrap myself in you

      Outside where I’m torn

      Fight myself in two

      In two

      Into you

      Desire me so deeply

      Drain and kick me hard

      Whisper secrets for me

      Try to go too far

      Inside where it’s warm

      Wrap myself in you

      Outside where I’m torn

      Fight myself in two

      In two

      Into…

      Please don’t change

      Please don’t change at all

      Bring your rain

      Bring your rain to fall

      Inside where it’s warm

      Wrap myself in you

      Outside where I’m torn

      Fight myself in two

      In two

      Into you

      Come and kiss me sweetly

      Ride the telephone

      Drag the miles to me

      I am yours alone

      Yours alone

      Yours alone on the telephone

      Yours alone looking for a kiss kiss

      Yours alone

    •  4 . Glass And The Ghost Children
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      Title extra: live 2000.05.14

      Length: 9:10

      BMI Number: 5246447

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      To the center of the earth
      Or anywhere god decides
      Full of fever pulling forth
      We hear our call as all
      And to the center of the earth
      As if written in
      And dna is reaching out
      To your frequency
      I want to live
      And don’t want to die
      I want to live
      I want to try
      All in prayer
      Prayer in all
      All are scared
      Scared of all
      Black rooms are calling
      To men in leather coats
      White labs are cooking
      Up the silver ghost
      The glass migrates under
      Her translucent skin
      And all the spiders wonder
      What we’ve got us in
      All is you
      You are all
      All with you
      You in all
      I want to live
      I don’t want to die
      I want to live
      I want to try
      So, it’s all very obtuse
      Because it’s all like, like, I don’t know
      So, like, I started thinking
      That everything I operate on
      Is based on what I believe god was telling me to do
      God could be my intuition or whatever
      But I always assume
      I always assume that the voice I hear is the voice of god
      Then I started thinking
      What if I’m insane
      So I’m operating on the premise
      That I’m hearing the voice of god
      Or what I perceive to be god speaking to me
      Or through me
      But maybe I’m completely in…
      So all my…
      Demagoguery in my life about me thinking that my life has importance
      My, my..
      Thinking that my life has importance
      My, my, my thought of it
      And the fact that I believe that I’m following my intuition
      Which in and of itself may be completely false
      So then I started freaking out thinking…
      Of itself may be completely false
      And again this creature that believes that he’s acting upon
      Heavenly intuition, but meanwhile he’s totally rampant
      And I started thinking maybe this is the cause
      Of all the negativity against…
      And I started thinking maybe this is the cause
      Of all the negativity against…
      And I started thinking maybe this is the cause
      Of all the negativity against…
      So beats the final coda
      Of our vinyl storm
      One more cherry cola
      To lift up her dead arms
      A dream of soft focus sunsets
      Filters through the din
      We are losing contact
      As she dials it in
      She can hear glass calling
      Or is it someone that looks like him
      She eyes TV reflection
      And nods a knowing look
      She says it doesn’t matter
      She’d never liked her looks
      I have seen a thousand fractures
      I have seen everything
      Cause knowing is its own answer
      Love something in a book
      There’s not much left to ponder
      Not much left to cook
      As she counted the spiders
      As they crawled up inside her
      As she counted the spiders
      As they crawled up inside her
      As she counted the spiders
      As they crawled up inside her
      As she counted the spiders
      As they crawled up inside her
      As she counted the spiders
      As they crawled up inside her
      As she counted the spiders, oh

    •  5 . Age Of Innocence
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      Title extra: live 2000.05.14

      Length: 3:44

      BMI Number: 5246440

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      We dismiss
      The backroads
      And ride these streets
      Unafraid
      Resigned to
      Scraping paint
      From our bones
      Unashamed
      No more the eye upon you
      No more the simple man
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      As you might have guessed
      All is never shown
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      And in my prayers
      I dream alone
      A silent speech
      To deaf ear
      If you want love
      You must be love
      But if you bleed love
      You will die love
      No more the lie upon you
      Cast in stone and autumn shade
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      As you might have sensed
      We won’t make it home
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      Before the rites of spring
      Come to mean all things
      A little taste of what may come
      A mere glimpse of what has gone
      Cause for the moment we are free
      We seek to bind our release
      Too young to die, too rich to care
      Too fucked to swear that I was there
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      As you might have guessed
      We won’t make it home
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no

    •  6 . I Of The Mourning
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      Title extra: live 2000.05.13

      Length: 5:37

      BMI Number: 5246448

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      Radio, play my favorite song
      Radio, radio
      Radio, I’m alone
      Radio
      Radio, please don’t go
      Radio
      I peer through curtains on empty streets
      Behind a wall of caller I.d.
      No one’s out there
      To hear if I care
      About the troubles in the air
      As I of the mourning now come
      Pick up where my thoughts left off
      Cause I’m home to die on my own
      As my radio plays my favorite song
      Radio, radio
      Radio, don’t you know
      Radio, radio
      Radio, I’m alone
      I’ve blown the dust off my guitars
      In the attic with the stars
      I read your letters to feel better
      My tears upon the fading ink
      Cause I of the mourning now come
      Pick up where my thoughts left off
      Cause I’m home to die on my own
      As my radio plays my favorite song
      Radio, radio
      Radio, I’m alone
      Radio, radio
      Radio, please don’t go
      I sit in the dark light
      To wait for ghost night
      To bring the past alive
      To make a toast to life
      Cause I have survived
      What is it you want
      What is it you want to change
      What is it you want
      What is it you want to change
      What is it you want to change
      Radio, radio, radio, radio
      Radio, radio, radio, radio
      Radio, radio, radio, radio
      What is it you want
      What is it you want to change
      What is it you want
      What is it you want to change
      What is it you want to change

    •  7 . Tonight, Tonight
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      Title extra: live 2000.05.24

      Length: 4:02

      Written By:

      BMI Number: 2035564

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      Time is never time at all

      You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth

      And our lives are forever changed

      We will never be the same

      The more you change the less you feel

      Believe, believe in me, believe

      That life can change, that you’re not stuck in vain

      We’re not the same, we’re different tonight

      Tonight, so bright

      Tonight

      And you know you’re never sure

      But you’re sure you could be right

      If you held yourself up to the light

      And the embers never fade in your city by the lake

      The place where you were born

      Believe, believe in me, believe

      In the resolute urgency of now

      And if you believe there’s not a tonight

      Tonight, so bright

      Tonight

      We’ll crucify the insincere tonight

      We’ll make things right, we’ll feel it all tonight

      We’ll find a way to offer up the night tonight

      The indescribable moments of your life tonight

      The impossible is possible tonight

      Believe in me as I believe in you, tonight

    •  8 . To Sheila
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      Title extra: live 2000.05.14

      Length: 3:04

      Written By:

      BMI Number: 4353753

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      Twilight fades through blistered avalon

      The sky’s cruel torch on aching autobahn

      Into the uncertain divine

      We scream into the last divide

      You make me real

      You make me real

      Strong as I feel

      You make me real

      Sheila rides on crashing nightingale

      Intake eyes leave passing vapor trails

      With blushing brilliance alive

      Because it’s time to arrive

      You make me real

      You make me real

      Strong as I feel

      You make me real

      Lately I just can’t seem to believe

      Discard my friends to change the scenery

      It meant the world to hold a bruising faith

      But now it’s just a matter of grace

      A summer storm graces all of me

      Highway warm sing silent poetry

      I could bring you the light

      And take you home into the night

      You make me real / lately I just can’t seem to believe

      You make me real / discard my friends to change the scenery

      Strong as I feel / it meant the world to hold a bruising faith

      You make me real / but now it’s just a matter of grace

    •  9 . This Time
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      Title extra: live 2000.05.24

      Length: 4:23

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      This time I need to know

      I really must be told

      If it’s over

      It’s up to you, you know

      The things you really want to hold

      Are in pieces

      Crashing down

      Crashing down again

      Crashing down

      Crashing down my friends

      I’ve got to move it on

      I’ve got to sing my song

      While I still can

      Dispatch the last alarms

      Hand out the last few charms

      There’s no surprises

      Only love

      Only love can win

      Crashing down

      Crashing down again

      Only love, yeah

      Only love will win

      Crashing down

      Crashing down again

      This time I need to know

      I really must be told

      That it’s over

      I’ve lived my life alone

      My every step fortold

      To never linger

      And yet it haunts me so

      What are we letting go

      Our spell is broken

      Crashing down

      Crashing down my friends

      Crashing down

      Crashing down again

      Only love, yeah

      Only love will be enough, yeah

      Only love will win

      For every chemical

      You trade a piece of your soul

      With no return

      And who you think you know

      Doesn’t know you at all

      Their drain is needless

      Someday we’ll wave hello

      And wish we’d never waved goodbye

      To this romance

      We’ll drink up every line

      And shoot up every word

      Till it’s no more

      Crashing down

      Crashing down my friends

      Only love

      Only love can win

      So cry these tears

      We’ll cry as all

      We’ve held so long

      To fall apart

      As the curtain falls

      We bid you all goodnight

    • 10 . Snail
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      Title extra: live 2000.05.14

      Length: 3:16

      Written By:

      BMI Number: 1361218

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      All your seven dreams

      Are closer than you believe

      As your things come undone

      See you are the only one

      Flower, seize the hour, the day away

      Waiting, waiting for your way, away

      When you wake up you’re away

      Throwing your life away

      Someday, sorry coming home

      Sorry, snail

      What you wait for

      Flower, the pain will wash away, away

      When the sunshine climbs through your window

      Into your bed

      When you wake up you’re away

      Throwing your life away

      Someday, sorry coming home

      Sorry, snail

      Yeah, live in my home

      Flower, seize the hour

      Flower, away

      What you wait for

      Flower, taste the sunshine

      Flower, taste the sunshine

      Flower

    • 11 . Fuck You
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      Title extra: (An Ode To No One) live 2000.05.14

      Length: 4:26

      Written By:

      BMI Number: 2035606

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      I’m never coming back
      I’m never giving in
      I’ll never be the shine in your spit
      I disconnect the act
      I disconnect the dots
      I disconnect the me in me
      And you’re mistaken, it’s you that’s faking
      Living and breathing and dying too
      This message is for anyone who dares to hear a fool
      You can’t bring me back, you can’t bring me back
      Cause I give it all back to you
      Thru sacred alleys, the living wrecks
      Wreak their havoc upon this world
      The disenchanted, the romantics,
      The body and face and soul of you is gone down that deep black hole
      Destroy the mind-destroy the body-but you cannot destroy the heart
      And you, you make me so I need to disconnect
      And you make it so real
      I don’t need you love to disconnect
      To runaround kids in get-go cars
      With Vaseline afterbirths and neon coughs
      Galaxies full of nobodies
      Giving us the farewell runarounds
      I took a virgin Mary ax to his sweet baby Jane,
      Lost my innocence to a no good girl,
      Scratch my face with anvil hands,
      And coil my tongue around a bumblebee mouth
      And I give it all back to you
      No way, I don’t need it, I don’t need your love to disconnect
      And you make it, so real, I don’t need your love to disconnect
      No way to disconnect
      And you make it so real
      I don’t need your love to disconnect
      No way to disconnect

    • 12 . Raindrops + Sunshowers
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      Title extra: live 2000.05.13

      Length: 4:01

      BMI Number: 5246469

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      Rain falls on everyone

      The same old rain

      And I’m just trying to walk with you

      Between the raindrops

      I send my echo out

      To get your love without

      Obscured reflections of

      My love

      Rain falls on everyone

      The same old rain

      And I’m just trying to walk with you

      Between the raindrops

      I’ll save a prayer for you

      So lost and longing too

      Be dragged through dirty streets

      Wrapped up in clean white sheets

      And if you think they’ll watch you now

      You should know they won’t

      Rain falls on everyone

      The same old rain

      And I’m just trying to walk with you

      Between the raindrops

      And I’m just trying to walk with you

      Between the raindrops

      I send my echo out

      To get your love without

      Obscure reflections of

      Of my secret love

      Force down the words about

      To get your love without

      Obscured reflections of my love

      And I’m just trying to talk to you

      Between the raindrops

      Rain falls on everyone

      The same old rain

      And I’m just trying to walk with you

      Between the raindrops

      Rain falls on everyone

      The same old rain

      And I’m just trying to walk with you

      Between the raindrops

      And I’m just trying to walk with you

      Between the raindrops

    • 13 . Heavy Metal Machine
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      Title extra: live 2000.05.24

      Length: 6:04

      BMI Number: 5246449

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      If I were alive
      If I were real
      Would you survive
      What would you feel
      Heavy metal, heavy metal machine
      Heavy metal, heavy metal machine
      As sentimental as our broken dreams
      Let me die for rock and roll
      Let me die to save your soul
      Let me die, let me die rock and roll
      Let the world forgive the past
      Let all the girls kiss the boys at last
      Let me go, let me go rock and roll
      Heavy metal, heavy metal machine
      Heavy metal, heavy metal machine
      We’re the metal, in their metal machines
      Heavy metal, heavy metal machine
      If I were dead
      Would my records sell
      Could you even tell
      Is it just as well
      Heavy metal, heavy metal machine
      It’s elemental, to all the rust it brings
      Heavy metal, heavy metal machine
      Let me die for rock and roll
      Let me die and save my soul
      Let me go, let me go rock and roll
      Let the world forgive the past
      Let all the girls kiss the boys at last
      Let me go, let me die rock and roll
      Heavy metal, heavy metal machine
      Heavy metal, heavy metal machine
      We’re the metal, in their droning schemes
      Heavy metal, heavy metal machine
      Will I survive
      Is it up to me
      Could you understand
      That it’s not yours to keep
      Heavy metal, heavy metal machine
      Heavy metal, heavy metal machine
      Heavy metal, heavy metal machine
      Heavy metal, heavy metal machine

    • 14 . Bullet With Butterfly Wings
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      Title extra: live 2000.05.24

      Length: 4:25

      Written By:

      BMI Number: 1995912

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      The world is a vampire, sent to drain
      Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
      And what do I get, for my pain
      Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
      Even though I know-i suppose I’ll show
      All my cool and cold-like old job
      Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
      Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
      Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
      Now I’m naked, nothing but an animal
      But can you fake it, for just one more show
      And what do you want, I want to change
      And what have you got
      When you feel the same
      Even though I know-i suppose I’ll show
      All my cool and cold-like old job
      Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
      Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
      Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
      Tell me I’m the only one
      Tell me there’s no other one
      Jesus was an only son
      Tell me I’m the chosen one
      Jesus was an only son for you
      Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
      And I still believe that I cannot be saved

    • 15 . Once In A Lifetime
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      Title extra: live 2000.05.24

      Length: 8:28

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      And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
      And you may find yourself in another part of the world
      And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
      And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
      And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
      Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
      Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
      Into the blue again, after the money’s gone
      Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
      And you may ask yourself, how do I work this
      And you may ask yourself, where is that large automobile
      And you may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful house
      And you may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful wife
      Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
      Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
      Into the blue again, after the money’s gone
      Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
      Same as it ever was
      Water dissolving, and water removing
      There is water at the bottom of the ocean
      Carry the water at the bottom of the ocean
      Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean
      Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
      Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
      Into the blue again, after the money’s gone
      Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
      Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground
      Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
      Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
      Into the blue again, after the money’s gone
      Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
      And you may ask yourself, what is that beautiful house
      And you may ask yourself, where does that highway go
      And you may ask yourself, am I right, am I wrong
      And you may tell yourself, my god, what have I done
      Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
      Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
      Into the blue again, after the money’s gone
      Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
      Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground
      Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
      Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
      Into the blue again, after the money’s gone
      Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
      Same as it ever was

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