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I Disagree
04:39
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I don’t know where this boat is going
Just know your secrets safe with me
Its 6 to 9, 7, 12 half of a dozen
I think you always see the other side
Is much more green
When will you realize you’ve been chasing camera spots?
When will you realize you’ve been…
Blinded by the lights
At night
They’re so bright
And though I’m…
Watching all the changes in my friends
They swear its growing up that makes them give in
When you’re talking about holding that candle
Oh so high like you’re looking for a better way
To spend your time
Then I look to your left and to your right
Just to find you been blinded, just to find we’ve been
Kept to string along and hopes were high
Much like I yes much like I
A tug, a shrug, a sweet goodbye
I camouflage my trust with a little sigh
I don’t know where this boat is going, just keep rowing
Just know your secrets safe with me, but I disagree
Its 6 to 9, 7, 12 half of a dozen
I think you always see the other side
Is much more green
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2. |
Keep It Close
02:59
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Keep it close like the bible close to your heart
Keep it close like the bible close to your heart
Lit like a spark, hid from the dark, in the eye of hard times
Keeping it close, keeping that bottle close to my heart
Long before hostilities helping hand
Came along to show you, what you couldn’t understand
Came from such a pretty place; I can’t claim to know it well
She swore growing up was such hell
Convoluted degradation ain’t quite the same
As dealing with a drunkard that can barely recall, the name he gave
Try and talk about it, now understand my good man
Until it happens, you won’t know life without a helping hand
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3. |
Sensible Man
04:57
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She laid down with another man
At times like these I understand
Worse then walk, I pulled away
Long before, I asked you to go
Left you amongst the wolves in sheep clothing
I did my best to warn you / I’m sorry,
I didn’t stay to defend you
I only know because I am one of them but I’m trying hard to just be a sensible man
Minutes turn to hours as I think about all I given up
Because of my pride, my white lies, and yes I...
Despise myself for fearing love, for fearing love, for fearing love
The next man is closer than you think
He is in your house leaning on the kitchen sink
Discussing all the mistakes that you’ve made
And yes he’s swearing I could never do the same
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4. |
Cold Water
04:09
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Down by the water, at the end of the road
Problems seem farther away, where nobody knows
It feels safe, far from the confines of home
Cold water, cold water
My concerns go, as the Cold River flows
You say that you’re leaving, you say I should go
You’re telling me things that I didn’t wish to know
If I had treated you better, would it have changed today?
You’ve made up your mind; don’t tease that you will stay
It’s just fool’s gold
As I sit on the ground with my hands on the pan
I’ll see if I can find you throughout all the sand
Or is it just fool’s gold?
I’m digging so low, the waters so cold
Why can’t I let go?
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5. |
Spare Change
03:29
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Sitting here, just for a while
Like an old porch dog trying not to shut his eyes
Things go by, just look to gods great big sky
Steering wheels and bottle caps
Not a fantasies left behind
Mind is drifting, drifting like the time
No you don’t know what it’s does to me
Or what you’ve done to me
Yet these ticking clocks are never quite the same
Prayers unanswered, hardened from the shame
And life seems too rearranged...
So I sit and watch the change
Photographs of the past of things best left behind
Walked for miles, just no vacancy signs
By the by, only meant to make you sigh
Creaking floor boards, and a key slides in the door
Woke in a cold sweat, what was, is no more
Miles and miles it seems so long ago
But I'm still listening for...
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6. |
Flowers
03:51
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I still smell you in my clothes and in my bed
As the sunlight warms the skin on your chest
And ill wonder who you’ve been
Follow the flowers down to the place I’d like to go
If I tame your heart will you tame my soul?
And I wonder who you’ve been
Clear the gray skies, out of my eyes
Then maybe you’ll dust my broom
Been waiting such a long, long time
Couldn’t have come a day too soon
Well the flowers are in bloom
Hand out the car window as to feel the world breath
Does it cool you down and makes you feel at ease?
Still raise an eyebrow every time that girl says please
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7. |
Intermission
00:40
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8. |
Where It Begins and Ends
02:50
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Demonstration, translation, the movement on the sofa and bed
Mother said you will leave this world the same as you began
To see the love in her eyes, and then she, and then she cries
Where it begins and ends changes the meaning of when
When you lay do you lie?
Does it matter what is said?
Eden calls at the break of dawn with words that stink like gin
Looking for some kind of reason to find out how you’ve been
Over time you will find they just wanted you to do the same
Octane painter, re-arranger
Someone told me Jesus is dead; someone told me he has resin
Other say look out for believes instead
Of walking like sheep in a line to the house to be slaughtered so the others are fed.
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9. |
Porch Light
03:12
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Crossed her legs as she leaned in
Couldn’t look her in the eyes
She gets a glance and sees in it’ll ruin my well planed disguise
One foot in front of the other
Not my place every buddy knows
Can’t help it from the roots is where is grows
Think we could build something better
Still searching for a home
Tell you what you can’t lose nothing
That you’ve never truly ever known
Compare me to a porch light
What if I compare you to a key?
Compare us to stiff drink but that’s not
How you hold me
As I write this letter, know it’s not goodbye, just some things that needed saying over time
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10. |
Send the Line
03:08
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Money spent on walls of gold
To keep her from the bitter cold
Who where they to know
Roots have their way to grow
Send the line and let it go
Send the line and let it go
Send the line and let it go
Just let it go
Woke with an aching head and a stranger in the bed
What a young dream, what a young dream
Now it’s losing steam
“See here son” said the man to his wide eyed little boy
“I built that house with every bit of me and did it with such joy
But now there’s tar on every square of our old back yard
You got to stay kind, for life it does get hard”
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