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{{Infobox song
{{Infobox song
| Name = Always Turn Away
| Name = Cleopatra Jones
| Cover = ME-60Watt.jpeg
| Cover = ME-60Watt.jpeg
| Caption = ''60 Watt Silver Lining'' cover
| Caption = ''60 Watt Silver Lining'' cover
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| Format = CS / CD
| Format = CS / CD
| Length = 4:26
| Length = 4:26
| Label = [[Warner Bros.]]
| Label = [[Warner Bros.]] (US) / [[Virgin Records]] (UK)
| Writer        = [[Mark Eitzel]]
| Writer        = [[Mark Eitzel]]
| Producer = [[Mark Eitzel]]
| Producer = [[Mark Eitzel]]
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# "[[No Easy Way Down]]"
# "[[No Easy Way Down]]"
# "[[Sacred Heart]]"
# "[[Sacred Heart]]"
# '''"Always Turn Away"'''
# "[[Always Turn Away]]"
# "[[Saved]]"
# "[[Saved]]"
# "[[Cleopatra Jones]]"
# '''"Cleopatra Jones"'''
# "[[When My Plane Finally Goes Down]]"
# "[[When My Plane Finally Goes Down]]"
# "[[Mission Rock Resort]]"
# "[[Mission Rock Resort]]"
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'''"Always Turn Away"''' is the 3rd song on [[Mark Eitzel]]'s 3rd album, 1996’s ''[[60 Watt Silver Lining]]''.
'''"Cleopatra Jones"''' is the 5th song on [[Mark Eitzel]]'s 3rd album, 1996’s ''[[60 Watt Silver Lining]]''. The song was planned for single release, but it never came to fruition.


==Lyrics==
==Lyrics==
There are pools across the tidal plain<br>
The people I was with said you were nothing<br>
that look like white sheets draped across<br>
but a fag hag and a dope fiend<br>
the vacuum beyond our conversation<br>
but the song of your eyes<br>
the thread of our lives unraveling
was of the loneliest woman I've ever seen<br>
we talked drunkenly at the bar<br>
I thought there's a sweetness here<br>
the world is missing<br>
you just got fired and now you're out<br>
high and drunk and celebrating


Always turning away<br>
Cleopatra Jones<br>
away<br>
if they don't see you then they're blind<br>
away
Cleopatra Jones<br>
liquor and love and everything that's kind


The tide makes all our decisions for us<br>
Always kind to strangers<br>
It breathes just like a pearl accordion<br>
but you know enough never to look back<br>
The water softly inches for your eyes<br>
you never know if they're about to<br>
Kisses the soft skin under your disguise
pour salt in the knife wound on your back<br>
people in this bar are all smiles<br>
but that doesn't mean they'll give you the air<br>
you need to breathe<br>
when the show's over they'll take a big part of you<br>
when they decide to leave


Always turning away<br>
Cleopatra Jones<br>
away<br>
she can kung fu just like Hercules<br>
away<br>
Cleopatra Jones<br>
Always facing away<br>
leaves evil men on their knees
away<br>
away


Under the sun we flood across the shallows<br>
Cleopatra only answers to a higher source from above<br>
and lay on our backs, gleaming like liquid pearls<br>
a sensitivity to bright light<br>
The wind and the light give us up a show of hands<br>
and an unfounded belief in love<br>
Gives us to any justice that'll have us
and a soul a little bigger<br>
a little bigger than politeness can endure<br>
lighter than air and harder to hold<br>
and much much bluer<br>
much bluer


Always turning away<br>
Cleopatra Jones<br>
away<br>
is in exile with a lot of class<br>
away<br>
Cleopatra Jones<br>
Always facing away<br>
teach me how to kick a little ass<br>
away<br>
Cleopatra Jones<br>
away
scales of justice under her head wrap<br>
Cleopatra Jones<br>
crown of thorns, wears it like a nightcap


==Video==
==Video==

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