1. |
Soul On Down
03:27
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I'm like a dog wagging my tail
When you open up your mouth
The sound of your voice leaves me with no choice
I'm like a dog wagging my tail
I've got the running for the long way home
I know that you believe in me
You make me shiver from my soul on down below
To the street
Street
Yeah
I'm like a train off of the rails
When you rattle down my spine
The things that you say, they blow me away
I'm like a train off of the rails
I'm on my way back up the hill
You're like the storm stealing my sails
When you swallow me whole
Your eyes are so cold when the wind takes hold
You're like the storm stealing my sails
I've got the running for the long way home
I know that you believe in me
You make me shiver from my soul on down
Soul on down below
To the street
Street
Yeah
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2. |
Strange Winter
03:19
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True love is not a flash in the pan
It's a slow burning steady hand
It's hard to see around the bend
It's harder yet to find a friend
It's been a strange winter
The tail end of your darkest night
Is a light of day that feels so right
You can lose yourself to magic spells
You can lose your name to wedding bells
It's been a strange winter
You're the best thing that I've found
In the side street rivers that run this town
I won't try to make you stay
I trust you enough to let you go your way
The switch you pulled that no one else flipped
Was not your eyes, your hips or lips
The simple code that cracked
Was that from day one, you had my back
But it's been a strange winter
Leaves left on the ground
Dull green, gray and brown
It might be a record cold day
Or might be February rain
It's been a strange winter
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3. |
Bad Bad Bounce
02:15
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4. |
When You Love Somebody
04:17
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The angels wait in heaven
Demons down below
Nothing's really sacred
Come to know
There's an hour for laughter
There's an hour to cry
There's a lot of gray for who, what, why
All I know is when you love somebody
You don't leave 'em in the cold
You give time, space to face
The days of growing old
You can walk the whole wide world over
And only hear one voice
When you love somebody
It doesn't leave you much choice
One drink for old times
One drink for news
Another drink to cover up the bruise
Night sky is littered
Daylight is trashed
We're breathing in the black smoke where we crashed
All I know is when you love somebody
You don't leave 'em in the cold
You give time, space to face
The days of growing old
You can walk the whole wide world over
And only hear one voice
When you love somebody
It doesn't leave you much choice
All in a day
Call it a day
My mother's in the back yard
Father's in his chair
I'm playing in the gutter
Growing out my hair
City light is pretty
The food is just on par
There's a wish adorning every star
All I know is when you love somebody
You don't leave 'em in the cold
You give time, leave space to face
The days of growing old
You can walk the whole wide world over
And only hear one voice
When you love somebody
It doesn't leave you much choice
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5. |
As Long As You're Close
04:10
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The whole sky could come down
And turn right around
To take the place of the ground
Cities will end
But you'll still have a friend
As long as you're close to me
Buildings will crumble
Our words begin to fumble
As we sit, watching it all
But you don't need a word
For you to be heard
As long as you're close to me
As long as you're close to me
There's nothing you need to try and be
You be the sun
And I'll be what follows
As long as you're close to me
The highway could split
And open a pit
Send the cars rolling down below
My brakes could give out
But I'll have no doubt
As long as you're close to me
As long as you're close to me
There's nothing you need to try and be
You be the sun
And I'll be what follows
As long as you're close to me
They always want more than they will ask for
You can see the intent in their eyes
You end up in the part you were cast for
The sad part is heaven was just down the road a mile
As long as you're close to me
There is nothing else I need to see
You be the flame
I'll be your sinner
As long as you're close to me
You be the sun
And I'll be what follows
As long as you're close to me
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6. |
The Man Upstairs
02:48
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Say a little prayer to the man upstairs
Say a little prayer to the man upstairs
He's watching you
Everything you do
He's watching you
You
Say a little prayer to the man upstairs
Say a little prayer to the man upstairs
Beats me
I gave up trying to figure it out
Handed Him my worry
And resigned to him my self-doubt
He's watching you
He's watching you
Everything you do
He's watching you
Say a little prayer to the man upstairs
Say a little prayer to the man upstairs
To the man upstairs
To the man upstairs
The man upstairs
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7. |
Come On Come Over
02:44
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Baby won't you meet me by the one-post fence
I know nothing I say is gonna make much sense
I'm dying on the in for someone to be true
Begging you baby don't leave me blue
Come on
Come over
Come on
Baby, come over
Baby won't you meet me by the one-post fence
I know nothing I say is gonna make much sense
I'm dying on the in for someone to be true
Begging you baby don't leave me blue
Come on
Come over
Come on
Baby, come over
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8. |
For the Birds
03:03
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Throw all of my things out on the front lawn
For all I care, they can float away
Said a lot of things that don’t make any sense at all
Most particularly, nothing
And words
Are for
The birds
Grass is always greener in a new town
‘til you realize it’s just you again
Woke afraid alone just before the fall of Rome
You were worried you missed it
Well words
Are for
The birds
Everything you see is a cinema scene
Everything you hear is a dream, dream, dream
Everything you say sounds stupid to me
To me
Let it be a lesson for remembrance
To watch for falling rocks along the road
Look up once a while, you’ll be heading out in style
In a held handbasket
But words
Are for
The birds
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9. |
In the Arctic
03:05
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In the arctic
Where my love lives
It's been 21 degrees below zero
As the crow flies
It's not very far
But to walk across the tundra on your own...
In my wildest dreams
I never thought you would send me away
So far from Morrow, I thought you'd just say
"I'm get tired
Turning in..."
For the night
For the night
For the night
For the night
In the desert
Where my heart has been
It was 21 degrees above a hundred
You may ask me
Where my loyalty lies
It's all written up above into the stars
Where you mapped out my soul
I never thought you would send me away
So far from Morrow, I thought you'd just say
"I'm get tired
Caving in..."
For the night
For the night
For the night
For the night
Oh, my frozen rose
Living on the skids
Lying on the floor
In a black hole
In your retinas
Where you taught me how to walk in zero gravity
What you may know
Is if you float too far
Then the silver cord that ties you to the world
May strand you out in space
In my wildest dreams
I never thought you would send me away
So far from Morrow, I thought you'd just say
"I'm get tired
Turning in..."
For the night
For the night
For the night
For the night
For the night
For the night
For the night
For the niiiiiiiight
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10. |
For Ahmaud Arbery
04:02
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Late February, Glynn County, Georgia town
A pair of well worn tennis shoes laced up and hit the ground
Shut the front door and took off around the block
Ahmaud Arbery went out on his daily jog
Working up a sweat, black skin shining hard
Ran right past Gregory McMichael’s front yard
Greg told his son Travis "go and grab the guns.
I just seen the enemy outside on the run”
They hopped into their good ol’ pickup truck
In self-defense, up behind Ahmaud they snuck
Loaded weapons, intentions a-best
Placed an innocent man under citizens arrest
Greg and Travis chased Ahmaud through the neighborhood
When he kept running, they knew he was up to no good
They finally met and Travis stepped out with his shotgun
Ahmaud reacted and towards Travis he lunged
They struggled some and shortly several shots were fired
Ahmaud lay breathless there and misidentified
You’re blind and mute if will not see and say
There is an Ugly Side to U.S. of A.
3 months gone by, and not a soul’s been charged
Two cold blood murderers walk free and not at large
In 2020 we like to think this can’t be done
But we’re still much closer than we think to 1961
Don’t you recognize me?
In the darkness of your day?
I’m the shadow hanging
at your bedside as you pray
I follow you through each doorway
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11. |
Wasting Precious Breath
01:12
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12. |
Money On It
03:30
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I see infinite points above me
They don't know any more than I
If I can't find it here, I probably won't find it there
I've learned that over time
And I'll put money on it
I'll put money on it
I've got x-ray sight on you, man
I can see right through your mask
I could've pushed a tall building down the railroad track
Somehow I didn't have to ask
And I'll put money on it
I'll put money on it
That no one else knows what anyone else is thinking
No one else knows what anyone else is thinking
No one else knows what anyone else is thinking
And I'll put money on it
If my past is my dictator
How would I be any different now?
Anyway, we'll all find out later
Which way we take that final bow
And I'll put money on it
I'll put money on it
You keep saying that you're not my baby
Well, how is it that you make me so blue?
This love is not some kind of numbers game
The way you make it is the way you make it true
And I'll put money on it
I'll put money on it
That no one else knows what anyone else is thinking
No one else knows what anyone else is thinking
No one else knows what anyone else is thinking
I'll put money on it
I'll put money on it
I'll put money on it
I'll put money on it
I'll put money on it
I'll put money on it
That it doesn't matter
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13. |
In Every Way
04:19
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I wanna hear the things you say
With your teeth across my mouth
I wanna feel your body change
In nature’s holy house
I wanna bite the bullet down
At the risk I lose my face
I want you in every way
I wanna hold your hand from harm
I wanna die under your arm
I wanna steal your legs and silver breath away
I want you in every way
When the rain outside your window
Is all that you can hear
And a wind of fear is howling to your face
I will wait outside your door
'til you’re strong enough for more
But let you change,
Your wild heart in place
Let you change,
at your own chosen pace
Storms will come, but they’re not meant to chase
I have lied to myself
I have lied to you too
There are wrongs we can’t make right
There are sounds that still ring true
Like the something in the night
That won’t give up the fight
I want you in every way
I wanna wake up in your bed
To the sun around your head
Where I can feel your sadness
And kiss it all away
I want you in every way
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14. |
Metal On It
05:08
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Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh
*sniff*
Well, I see infinite points above me
And they don't know any more than I
If I can't find it here, I probably won't find it there
I've learned that over time
And I'll put money on it
I'll put money on it
Well, I got x-ray sight on you, man
Yeah, I can see right through your mask
I coulda pushed a tall building down the railroad track
Somehow I didn't have to ask
And I'll put money on it
I'll put money on it
That no one else knows what anyone else is thinking
No one else knows what anyone else is thinking
No one else knows what anyone else is thinking
And I'll put money on it
I'll put money on it
If my past is my dictator
How would I be any different now?
Anyway, we'll all find out later
Which way we take that final bow
And I'll put money on it
I'll put money on it
Well, you say that you're not my baby
Well, how is it that you make me so blue?
This love is not some kind of numbers game
The way you make it is the way you make it true
And I'll put money on it
Yeah!
Yeah, I'll put money on it
That no one else knows what anyone else is thinking
No one else knows what anyone else is thinking
No one else knows what anyone else is thinking
No one else knows what anyone else is thinking
And I'll put money on it
Yeah, I'll put money on it
Yeah, I'll put money on it
I'll put money on it
I'll put money on it
Money on it
That it doesn't matter
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15. |
Columbia Rd
04:33
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I’ve got a lot to lose
In these well-being blues
Half of me
Half of me
It’s not going anywhere
Yet, robs you blind
You can’t forget
To hug the ones you love
Tell them everything
Everything, everything
That’s just life coming down like it does
When you start to thinking
You’re out of the woods
That’s where trouble lives
That’s where trouble lives
It’s not missing when it’s there
And all along, you can’t compare
To feeling what it’s like
To fear everything
Everything, everything
That’s just life coming down like it does
Dark angels sing louder
Especially when you ain’t in your own bed and room
The never-ending sun of the loneliest summer
Is poised to greet you
When you’re through
Columbia Rd
Columbia Rd
Tell me one thing
If it’s darkest ‘fore the dawn
In the absence of light
How you just keep hanging on?
To stand on one leg
For forever in the cold
You must be so tired
You must be so tired
Of everything, everything
That’s just life coming down like it does
Dark angels sing louder
Especially when you ain’t in your own bed and room
The never-ending sun of the loneliest summer
Is poised to greet you
When you’re through
Columbia Rd
Columbia Rd
Columbia Rd
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16. |
Let It Come to You
01:40
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17. |
Standing Next to You
03:36
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Killed a Saturday running new brake lines
Calipers and rotors, too
By the time I was done letting the bleeders run,
Mama, I was really just thinking of you
If I knew what to do
I'd be standing next to you
Ah, ah, next to you
I walked in and I sat down around 11:30 on the clock
I took my usual spot at the back of the restaurant
I was more alone than you could've ever known
You got to change your mind or at least change that tone
And be careful where you point that smile, it's a dangerous thing!
If I knew what to do
I'd be standing next to you
Ah, ah, next to you
Sometimes you got to settle for less than what you want
And it's probably just staring at the same old faces
Drinking in the same old haunt
She was crawling on her belly
and red horns grew
Her eyes glew red,
and that's when I knew
I was probably better off
Staying home
If I knew what to do
I'd be standing next to you
If I knew what to do
I'd be standing next to you
If I knew what to do
I'd be standing next to you
Ah, ah, next to you
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18. |
Wrong
03:21
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Could you let me off with a turn and cough?
I've already been to this place before
Your dark spot eyes keep me in disguise
That's the second time this week
I've had to slam an open door
It feels wrong
Ayayyyyyy
Feels wrong
Wooooooo
You didn't have to try, leave my bones to dry
When I fell down out of your tree
It's been 4 long years and 5 or 6 careers
If I could have made your mind,
I would have made it free
Something feels wrong
Ayayyyyyy
Feels wrong
Ayyyyyyeeah
I've been thinking about my car
Going to where it is you are
I've been hitting my alarm and going back to bed
I've been looking at the stars
Standing outside all these bars
Where I'm stuck back in the corner singing songs for you
All night long
Is it such a task just to sit and bask
In the cool cool waters of a river that just wants to flow?
You can leave me here all alone, my dear
It's just easier to change if you don't know
Something feels wrong
Ayayyyyyy
Feels wrong
Wooooooo
Feels wrong
Something feels wrong
Without you
Feels wrong
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19. |
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Over the hill on the wrong side of the road
I'm all hunched over trying to gather a load
Dodging cars, losing the sun behind me
I don't think too much about the point of it all
I just wait around until I get a call
Go over the hill on the wrong side of the road again
Money drives us to love and hate
I can't afford new jeans, I been trying to lose some weight
I hate to admit it, I ain't quite what I used to be
Nothing you hear is what's really real
The only thing that matters is the thing that you feel
When you've been over the hill on the wrong side of the road again
Read some writing on a bathroom wall
At a Love's down in Arkansas
I've been sick to my stomach trying to forget what I saw
I guess everybody ain't too fond of everybody else
When you're miles apart, I don't think that it helps
To be over the hill on the wrong side of the road again
Feels like I knew you since you were two
There have been some things said that have been less true
When I look in your eyes, I feel like a kid again
Still don't think much about the point of it all
I was thinking of you and I ran into the wall
Getting bruised, making calls
From up on a tightrope, trying not to fall
I got stopped in a swamp for doing 75
He let me off the hook when I had no cheese to hide
Some day we'll all travel freely down the road
And we'll stop where we want without getting towed
Instead of over the hill, on the wrong side of the road again
Over the hill on the wrong side of the road again
Oooooooooh oohoohooh
Oooooooooh oohoohooh
Oooooooooh oohoohooh
Oooooooooh oohoohooh
Over the hill
Over the hill
Over the hill
OVER THE HILL
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20. |
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The only thing it takes
The only thing it takes
The only thing it takes is to hold you
I can prove it with my arms
Mama, with these arms
With these ah ah ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-arms
With these arms
The only thing that's fake
The only thing that's fake
The only thing that's fake is that I don't care
I can prove it with my tears
Mama, with these tears
Wah-wah wah wah wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah
Wah-wah wah wah
You can say what you wanna
You can say what you wanna
You can say what you wanna
You can say what you wanna
The only thing it takes
The only thing it takes
The only thing it takes is your heart
I can't take it all folded up
We've got to open up
Woo-woo woo woo woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo
Woo woo woo woo woo-woo
You can say what you wanna
You can say what you wanna
You can say what you wanna
You can say what you wanna
The only thing it takes
The only thing it takes
The only thing it takes is to hold you
I can prove it with my arms
Mama, with these arms
Woo-woo woo woo woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo
Woo woo woo woo woo-woo
You've got to open up
You've got to got to open up
You've got to open
I can prove it, mama
I can prove it but you have
You got to, you got to
You got to got to open up
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21. |
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I don’t wanna put doubt, in the hearts of the ones I love
no doubt no doubt no doubt no doubt no doubt, gunna work it out
I wanna be gone, so long
to a place, respawn
where I can remake myself with my own hands
but I don't wanna put doubt in the hearts of the ones I love
no doubt no doubt no doubt no doubt no doubt, gunna rip it ou
oh, how we gunna talk about it?
Do I have to keep inside, avoid the light
make no sound?
oh, how we gunna talk about it?
must I be meek and quiet, keep it silent
say it out loud?
no doubt no doubt no doubt no doubt no doubt, gunna work it out
I wanna be dust, if I must
be anything at all
I wanna be dust, if I must
be anything at all
but I don't wanna put doubt, in the hearts of the ones I love
oh, how we gunna talk about it?
Do I have to keep inside, avoid the light
make no sound?
oh, how we gunna talk about it?
must I be meek and quiet, keep it silent
say it out loud?
say it out loud
it's a lie it's a life romanticized it's a lie it's a lie
and I just sit here and fake it
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22. |
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For a minute, I am peaceful and I think I am alone
'Til you appear and put me in a trance
I have tried to dismember every memory, day by day
Though pieces of you hang on down the road
I can't find you in the daytime
You don't want me, honey, that's fine
But when I lay down
Stay out of my dreams
Now, when I was a confidant, I made a grave mistake
I gave you up to forces still unknown
Your light shined like angels as I tried to touch your hand
But I took you wrong for someone still unseen
I can't see you in the daytime
You don't love me, honey, that's fine
But when I lay down
Stay out of my dreams
Because I've committed no crime
And when I'm sleeping, that's on my dime
So when I lay down
Stay out of my dreams
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23. |
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Take me out of the running
You know I've had my fun
You're the only work that I've left to do
It's a level-headed game
But the time has got to change
I'm just k-k-kicking dirt to say it's true
Take me in
I've been barefoot and sore
Trying to start a war
Between the liars and the people who know
It's a chosen few
And one of 'em might be you
But there are so many places we've yet to go
Take me in
Come on, don't be a stranger
If there's love that you want, we can make it on the fly
We're just two rearrangers
I've got 8 lives, honey, I've been working on 9
And in the morning, you'll be the death of me
Out for glory, I wave my flag outside of your window
Where you have lately just been sleeping in
But the ice is getting thin, mama, ice is pretty thin
Why don't you take me in?
Take me in
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24. |
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Watch me leap down from the mile high ledge
New York to Cali, gonna wonder what it is
I know where to put this thing, I can put it back
Shove off for home and watch the window lights pass
I can put it back
It's a long drop down to the bottom of the earth
Where the seemingly proud figure what they're really worth
You wanna take some time? That's perfectly fine.
I'm the freest faller, I'm so perfectly timed
I can put it back
I'm flying past the high school gowns
The 21st's all spinning around
There are some people that I left behind
I ain't ever been the smoothest at having to say goodbye
I can put it back
I'm gonna build a mental time machine
The most impressive thing you've ever seen
What's it mean to you mama?
What's it mean to you mama?
It's just a smokescreen, mama.
Before the tail between my legs
Rethought it back to distant days
I put it down inside my heart, it never needed to be in yours
When every thought is just another set of swinging doors
I can put it back
Watch me leap down from the skyscrape ledge
Where each year's a floor, I'm rewriting full-fledge
Won't have to use my trusty feat of strength
No one expects me to sprout wings before the concrete
What's it mean to you mama?
What's it mean to you mama?
It's just a smokescreen, mama
I can put it back, but it's still there
Still there
Well, it's still there
Yeah, it's still there
Well, I can put it back, but it's still there
Still there
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