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Blindside/Roadside
04:03
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Three on ten
Two on five
It’s a weight off your hand
On a northbound drive
Around and around
On the edge of town
I’m twenty minutes out
With my feet on the ground
I want to care like you don’t care
To feel what you feel when I’m not there
But I take you with me when I go
God, I just want to go home
Free to the end
Six for life
The blame I can stand
But I can’t take the spite
Coast to coast
I’m blue on red on brown
Got all my doubts
In my hands on the ground
I want to care like you don’t care
To feel what you feel when I’m not there
But I take you with me when I go
God, I just want to go home
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Crooked back in the morning
Beauty over bay water
I’ll take your words
Only as a warning
Baby, you’re no author
Bending daylight
There’s a tide rising
Washing on the mess we made
You keep on trying
But you can’t surprise me
Cuts and bruises
And fucked up feelings
It doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t hurt
Walk around
Keep yourself believing
That it doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t hurt
Is this all the trouble you’re worth?
Here’s to another stiff evening
The years turn to days ahead
The tears are yours for keeping
Silence in all my laments
You’re a rain cloud above
You’re water straight from sun
And better, better, better, better
Is what you’ve become
At your blue-sky punch
Cuts and bruises
And fucked up feelings
It doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t hurt
Walk around
Keep yourself believing
That it doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t hurt
Is this all the trouble you’re worth?
Baby, we’re haze gray
It’s the same as yesterday
Baby, we’re haze gray
And underway, and underway
Baby, we’re haze gray
It’s the same every day
Baby, we’re haze gray
And underway, and underway
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3. |
Elm Street
04:04
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It's a matter of pride
Not a matter of time
You know where to look
Are you afraid of what you'd find?
And I'm so sorry
But you don't sound sorry
The words slip your mind
Like water, through your fingers
I'm the only Elm tree
Left on Elm Street
The only one
Right where you left me
Still here on Elm Street
An only son
Sitting on the rims
Of my broken glasses
Can you see outside
To find what to be
Hold a candle to what you knew
Step back and forth
Through the wake
Of your burned out grace
I'm the only Elm tree
Left on Elm Street
The only one
Right where you left me
Still here on Elm Street
An only son
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4. |
Stay Awake
04:38
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Bring me my father, my grandfather
I don’t know where he’s been
Show me my mother, my grandmother
Or anyone who’s seen
I’m alone now, I’m in my hometown
But I don’t know where I live
Coming down now, coming unwound
Somewhere in a dream
What you don’t know
Isn’t everything
What you can’t see
Isn’t buried deep
Broken promise, the sickness got us
Or was it that last drink?
Sing for the tall grass, you play just for solace
It all just overthinks
And it’s a shame, a god-damned shame
You grew so upside down
What did you say, thought I heard my name
It’ll all come back around
What you don’t know
Isn’t everything
What you can’t see
It isn’t buried deep
Forget this day
Forget this place
Get what you need
Can’t stay the same
You can’t drink it away
Can’t go back to sleep
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5. |
No Fortuna
03:57
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I see the neon
I hear it buzzing
Must be a reason
It's gotta be there for something
And I read your old book
Read it cover to cover
Got a dark spot to prove
Won't be a sucker
There's moonlight in the foothills
There's more to this
You can't see what you won't build
There's more to this
There's no goldmine
Under the gallows
Can't hope to find
What's only in shadows
If you don't believe
That I'm only a man
Watch me set myself free
And stay on the land
There's moonlight in the foothills
There's more to this
You can't see what you won't build
There's more to this
Whoever digs a pit
Will be who falls into
And whoever rolls a stone
Will find it back too
You are your brother's keeper
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6. |
Far & Away
04:15
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Was it alway just a dream?
Was it less than what came to be?
Maybe your heels are dug in too deep
This one I’ll keep just for me
Is that really the last thing?
Is it what you really think I think?
Maybe people aren’t always what they seem
This one I’ll keep just for me
Just out of reach
How low does the bottom go?
Have we been down this far before?
Maybe this is just a well-worn road
This one I’ll keep just for me
Hard to know what to believe
Hard to know if we’re ever really free
Maybe we’re just sum of what we need
This one I’ll keep just for me
Just out of reach
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Luna
07:29
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It was a dark night
On the north side
He walked alone
In the light of the half-moon
He’ll be gone soon
Wouldn’t make it any better
If you’d been together
It’s not your fault
In the light of the half-moon
He’ll be gone soon
We will mine for coal
And dig further down
Than we meant to go
And we’ll find there
That we’re not alone
Because we’ve always, always
Been walking with the ghosts
And you said
All I ever wanted to
Before I took a breath
In the light of the full moon
He’ll be back soon
We will find a path
Through the tall grass
To bring him back home
In the light of the full moon
He’ll be back soon
We will pave a road
To drive away
And go further down
Than we ever meant
And we’ll find there
That we’re not alone
Because we’ve always, always
Been walking with the ghosts
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8. |
My Backwards Walk
03:33
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I'm working on my backwards walk
I'm walking with no shoes or socks
And the time rewinds to the end of May
I wish we'd never met and then met today
I'm working on my faults and cracks
I'm filling in the blanks and gaps
When I write them out they don't make sense
I need you to pencil in the rest
I'm working on drawing a straight line
And I'll draw until I get one right
It's bold and dark girl, can't you see?
I've drawn between you and me
I'm working on erasing you
I just don't have the proper tools
I'll get hammered forget that you exist
But there's no way I'm forgetting this
Working hard on walking out
My shoes keep sticking to the ground
My clothes won't let me close the door
The trousers seem to love your floor
Working on my backwards walk
There's nowhere left for me to go
Except back to you just one last time
Say yes before I change my mind
Say yes before I...
You're the shit and I'm knee-deep in it
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9. |
Pillar of Smoke
04:14
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Am I going blind
Looking into the August sky
Trying to find the light
But it’s still snowing
In the summertime
Tonight while I sleep
I’ll hope for no more dreams
Wrote you a letter yesterday
That I’m never going to let you read
Feet were on the ground
When I closed my eyes
See the tracers where
The sunset meets the rise
And I know now
On the highway home
Threw it all out on the five
Trying to let go
On an eighty-mile-an-hour drive
When the morning comes
I still won’t speak
Of what I saw last night
The wrecks and the broken things
Feet were on the ground
When I closed my eyes
See the tracers where
The sunset meets the rise
And I know now
Wherever you go
There you are
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Walking in the window
Breathing down my shadow
The Moon is low and gold
And this feeling’s getting old
There’s wind in the valley
It’s blown them away
No more sun over the sea
Drowned down in the waves
It’s good to not know
What I don’t know
It’s good to be alone
It’s good to not know
What I don’t know
It’s good to finally be home
I’m down at Shit Beach
We’re not all made of iron things
But I’ll be fine when I get home
Be good, be re-known
There’s wind in the valley
It’s blown them away
No more sun over the sea
Drowned down in the waves
It’s good to not know
What I don’t know
It’s good to be alone
It’s good to not know
What I don’t know
It’s good to finally be home
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