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Snakes
02:50
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Down in Atlanta we got drunk before the show
Smoked delta-8 somewhere on a porch up in Decatur
Bought chicken at the gas station
And found another cat staying
Somewhere under the house
Can't remember where I've been
But it's just an hour from New Orleans
Somehow I caught the wrong flight
Can't remember where I've been
But it's just an hour from New Orleans
And there's a thunderstorm in Austin tonight
On a beach in Florida a sand crab passed me by
Somewhere there's a band playing but I had to step outside
In tears on the phone, I begged you to take me home
Crickets for breakfast and crickets at the show
Can't remember where I've been
But it's just an hour from New Orleans
Somehow I caught the wrong flight
Can't remember where I've been
But it's just an hour from New Orleans
And there's a thunderstorm in Austin tonight
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Rules of the Game
02:34
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I take things just a little too personally
I don't mean to
But every time I think I hear my name
I get this feeling
Everybody in here's got it out for me
Just like you do
It's like I don't even know the rules of the game
But I'm still playing
I don't know what happened
To make me act the way I do
I can't believe it's you
But it's no wonder why at all
You told me I fly too close to the sun
It's gonna burn me
But my wings float on more than wax
I know they'll carry me back home again
You told me I'd be the only one
I believed you all that time
But things turned around when I turned my back
I guess I knew it was a lie and I went a long
I don't know what happened
To make me act the way I do
I can't believe it's you
But it's no wonder why at all
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3. |
Wandering Shadows
03:32
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Long walk in the city
The kind of night to make you feel unclean
A suitcase is a nice place
For a young man to call home
There just ain't nowhere you can hang your hat from
The wrong taste in the right place
Will burn an image on your tongue
Then you've gotta know where I'm coming from
You hang your shadow
Over me
Small price to pay to pretend to be free
You hang your shadow
Over me
I don't ask much for just you and me
Not a truckstop or a roadblock
That's gonna make you lose your mind
It's the uncertainty of the date and time
Foul smell in the hotel
Think I'm gonna sleep outside
Man you've gotta know you've put us in a bind
You hang your shadow
Over me
Small price to pay to pretend to be free
You hang your shadow
Over me
I don't ask much for just you and me
Don't you turn out the light
Don't plan on shutting my eyes
Don't you turn out the light
Some things go bump in the night
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Sunflower
06:24
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I remember you even if you don't want me to
I saw the light over the field
When you took me out
When you brought me out here
The burnt end of a smoky day
Stale smell of morning
The lamp dies out, the night is over
You made it easy to leave
I won't say it twice
With me all the time
Your ghost is still here
Just leave me alone
I don't want you here with me
I don't remember who you are
I hope you know I still have scars
What you want
I can't get you anything
You are a sunflower in a field under moonlight
You twist and turn while the lantern burns
What did I tell you?
Touch me, you'll understand
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The Bridge
03:05
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Proud swagger out of the churchyard
Waiting for the world's applause
Rebel without a conscience
Martyr without a cause
Static on your frequency
Electrical storm in your veins
Raging at unreachable glory
Straining at invisible chains
Did you hear my voice
Under the bridge
Did you believe
A word I said
It's not as if this barricade
Blocks the only road
It's not as if you're all alone
In wanting to explode
Set a bad example
Made surrender seem all right
The act of a noble warrior
Who lost the will to fight
Did you hear my voice
Under the bridge
Did you believe
Now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
Staring down into a heartless sea
Done with life on a razor's edge
Nothing's what you thought it would be
All of us get lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars
All of us do time in the gutter
Dreamers turn to look at the cars
Turn around and walk the razor's edge
Don't turn your back
And slam the door on me
Paperback scrawl your hidden poems
Written around the dried out flowers
Here we are, still trading places
Try to hold on
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6. |
A Song for Someone
06:08
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I hitched a ride on the back of your wheelchair
The old folks were staring, like we cared
Back at home you ripped your bong on the floor
While I read your diary, desperate for more
Your dad hit me up for a chemical snowflake
I put it in the mailbox, told him it was your take
I've known a few who reminded me of you
But I've never seen anyone do what you do
You're still living at your mom's apartment
You had the nerve to ask what that part meant
I never told you the truth, not one time
You didn't care cuz you had your own line
You don't have to wonder why
After all this time
You still take my lies
Every time
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Little Red
05:19
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8. |
In the Waves
03:50
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The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion
Nothing in this world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle
Why not I with thine?
In the waves
I hear my name
You called
See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?
We all circle
A dying sun
In the waves
I hear my name
You called
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Dead End
03:24
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Hold on to yourself
Cuz I'm rocketing back up
From depths I've created
On the way to a star
I've only begun to imagine
Turning a crank on the side of my head
We watched videos of people pulled into machines
Take me out of this dead end nightmare
Take me out of this hell I'm in
Take me out of this dead end nightmare
Put me back in a world I can live
I thank the hot asphalt driveway
When I step on it with cold feet
You laughed to yourself quietly
As you followed that thing on its path
Take me out of this dead end nightmare
Take me out of this hell I'm in
Take me out of this dead end nightmare
Put me back in a world where I can live
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One day these arms will be covered in human skin
Til then I am nothing but bones
One day this hair will fall out
Til then I am peeling my scalp
Bone Job claws his way from the coffin
Breaking fingernails
Pulls up through the loamy soil
To the sky and trees
What a day to find
What a day to find God
My only fault was that I was Job
God's fault was that God was God
What does Job declare?
God is still
He walks ashen paths
His bones grow gray with dust
He wipes himself clean
But the dust stops him up
Job listens for the angels
Nothing but insects
One day these arms will be covered in human skin
Til then I am nothing but bones
One day this hair will fall out
Til then I am peeling my scalp
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