1. |
Forest & Trees
04:31
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why can’t you see me
for what i be
for the mountains
for the oceans
for the t.v.
for the magazines
i’ve been set free
you’ve let me be
in the good times
in our old minds
in the gulf stream
in your sheetrock dreams
in the heat
In the beat
in the people in the houses on the street
i grew up on
and the ones that i could never leave behind
or your eyes
or the ones that I left out there high and dry
through the regions all the seasons
and why i stay up all night
all the lines
i grew up on
for the mountains
for the oceans
for your histories
for your made up dreams
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2. |
I Won't Drag You Down
03:47
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I was counting on you, my closest friend.
You would keep me from my restless thoughts.
Now my mind’s gone in every direction.
But I won’t drag you down.
We honeymooned near a church on a hill.
Dead gods saw everything.
We were happy and we smiled at the thought.
Now our lives go in different directions.
But I won’t drag you down.
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3. |
Catholic Toll
05:16
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A Catholic toll tunes my present life
A Catholic toll warms a severed life
Amid second season strife
I’m seized by this smash up feeling
The sound of trumpet clouds
Their seams bursting loud reports
The rain and its angry cohort
Clamor in the sunflower folds
Near a village off the Adriatic
Keeping time with superficial static
You’re the one pushing me to lose
Hope you’ll help me when I do
Hope you’ll help me when I do
When I do
My happiness is in the airwaves
Hope you’ll breathe it, feel it Sunday
Out in the olive grove
It’ll be our perspiring love
I need you to show me what I’m made of
You’re the one pushing me to lose
I think now that you’d love me to
God help me when I do
When I do
I put my hands to the seam to help them along
A U.V. ray song buzzes and cusses my face
Pushes me deep down, so underground
That I’m out of place
I’m out my shoes, grasping blue
You’re the one pushing me to lose
It’s only sane for you to want me to
Know you’ll be there when I do
Hope you’ll be there when I do
When I do
When I do
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4. |
Specters
04:06
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I slept soundly with your beauty
It wrestled away before I knew it
I slept soundly with your specters
Remnants of your sweet composure
I learned and grew and now nourished
I don’t need your reassurance
Cause now I can love so happy
Happily I’ll count and pass the days
It’s only a matter of time
Before I realize the feeling’s not mine
Then I’ll just need someone like you
To make me feel like the boy I once knew
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5. |
School Days
03:07
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6. |
Rome
02:32
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Chased you down to a rust-belt town.
Lost my fight when I hit the ground.
I’m down, let’s run.
Instead of weathering in this southern sun.
Going to Rome in a couple of days.
Misuse my life in a number of ways.
You’ll stay. I’ll change.
Toss three coins that we’ll stay estranged.
Bed down early on a Friday night.
Lean over, honey, turn out the light.
You’re right. I’m gone.
But I just put it off and put you on.
I want a crush. I want a desire.
I want it to touch like I’m feeding the fire.
Deathlessness she’s going to be there.
An interminable toss of the hair.
A likeable but sordid affair.
Ordinary reason to hate myself.
Chased you down to a rust-belt town.
Lost my fight when I hit the ground.
I want a crush. I want a desire.
I want it to touch like I’m feeding the fire.
Deathlessness she’s going to be there.
An interminable toss of the hair.
A likeable but sordid affair.
Ordinary reason to hate myself.
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7. |
Hondas Away, Jesus
02:29
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Jesus, meet me, Jesus.
Meet me in the middle of the morning.
Wash my, wash my sins away.
Wash my clothes, clean my home,
Wash my sins away.
I ain’t loved a woman
Since the summer girls went.
Took their Hondas away.
Took to their cities, took their frowns,
Took their Hondas away.
Go down, Moses, go on down.
Go down, Moses, go on down.
Go down, Moses, go on down.
Go down, Moses, go on down.
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8. |
Rejoice
01:56
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9. |
Steel Guitar
03:45
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When I left you standing there
A main amusement that had gotten old
Like your steel guitar with two broken strings
I still thought of you in the darkest of my lonely nights
But you weren’t the kind to think of tomorrow
Or to call up things that you stole or borrowed
We’ve no use keeping two lies
I could forget if it’s just tonight
But you weren’t the kind to think of tomorrow
Or to call up things that you stole or borrowed
We’ve no use keeping two lies
I could forget if it’s just tonight
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10. |
It's All On You
02:26
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even though it’s alright
i don’t want to be with you
oh my heaven
i’m still waiting for the day
when i won’t run into you
and it’s all i can do
it’s all on you
oh sin, oh sin
it’s all i do
it’s all on you
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