1. |
Relief
03:17
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2. |
Memorial Highway
01:58
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eight flights in the sun
waking up from reality
springing forth to sobriety
with eight flights in the sun
we live on a memorial highway
standing in my picture window
the cruel, cruel water is clear
and it lights me up from the inside, dear
like eight flights in the sun
just when you’re trying to have fun
just when you’re trying to have fun
we live on a memorial highway
we live on a memorial highway
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3. |
Restaurant
02:00
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down here at the restaurant
I gotta go but I played a part
now I’ll drift out the parking lot
and exotic it shall be
corn fields and cherry blossoms
a library with the toxins
banana dreams and a new tv from 2013
but don’t waste time remembering me
a pack of almonds from the dollar tree
i’ll set ‘em up you knock ‘em down for me
it takes some time and fantasy
give me a river to rock my soul
four wheels and a desert highway
we filled up twice and now we’ll do it mine
a transistor on 93 from 2008 but please
but don’t waste time remembering me
a pack of almonds from the dollar tree
i’ll set ‘em up you knock ‘em down for me
it takes some time and fantasy
give me a river to rock my soul
give me a river to rock my soul
give me a river to rock my soul....
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4. |
My Strings
02:51
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my strings I didn’t play for her
I didn’t savor the possibilities of what could have been
the mountain thistle girl in the corner of my world
i couldn’t navigate or appreciate
my strings were never made for her
i never seen her before
my strings
my strings
my strings i didn’t play for her
i didn’t save her
my strings were never made for her
i never seen her before
in her head, she’s such a hot commodity to her friends
and the weakness inside
my strings
my strings
to watch you fall apart every night
and put yourself together again…
every night
from downtown i hear the cursed sounds of
my strings
my strings
my strings
my strings
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5. |
I Bought the Farm
03:14
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you can’t keep too close to your secrets
i’ve never known for you to keep it
but the certificate i’m showing you
in plain old English says
I bought the farm and the farm won
I bought the farm and the farm won
I bought the farm and the farm won
I bought the farm and the farm won
clean fill and forest havens
frost heaves outside the basin
but the certificate I'm showing you
in plain old English says
I bought the farm and the farm won
I bought the farm and the farm won
I bought the farm and the farm won
I bought the farm and the farm won...
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6. |
She Leaves in Spring
04:05
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fake plans I’d like to diminish
polar resource, I don’t know where you’ve gone now
you went away when I beat you at Scrabble
fake plants and I don’t need no trouble
you’re always with me now
(oh she leaves in spring)
you’re always with me now
(oh she leaves in spring)
wild life but you never travel
coma patient ready to unravel
with fake plans I’d like to diminish
polar resource, I don’t know where you’ve gone now
you’re always with me now
(oh she leaves in spring)
you’re always with me now
(oh she leaves in spring)
wild life but you never travel
coma patient ready to unravel
with fake plans I’d like to diminish
polar resource, I don’t know where you’ve gone now
you’re always with me now
(oh she leaves in spring)
you’re always with me now
(oh she leaves in spring)
halo on me like an empty glass
wild life, and I see black bears who sing
remember my name
to hell with Spain
come on and hear
my ragtimes aren’t the same
you’re always with me now
(oh she leaves in spring)
you’re always with me now
(oh she leaves in spring)
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7. |
Society Ball
02:50
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I’ve been wearing this shirt for three whole days
at the society ball there was a turtleneck craze
and I went right along
felt this way since the 4th of July
carried you up the stairs and you started to cry
found I wasn’t the kind of guy
you wanted to stick around with throughout your life
Charlotte, I saw the moon dancing back and forth between your eyes
freely coming from around the bend sped a four-wheel cruiser
and I tried to pretend
found out quickly, oh no, so this is how it's gonna end
but then, you bury me like a sunset
terribly i watch it go
you bury me like a sunset
you bury me like a sunset
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8. |
Wilson Pond
02:48
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honest mistakes where you want them to be
I played a guitar like a violin
a moldy sitar you were playing for days
you treated me so well, then anyway
i guess we ain’t two types of those people
who pick up just right where they left off
a burned out castle in the blossoming sun
stow me away sometime, I’ll never know
honest mistakes where you want them to be
I played a guitar like a violin
a coral sitar you were playing for days
you treated me so well, then anyway
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9. |
City Schools
03:02
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halo light performance is lit this year
by evil types playing with matches
so we feel all right skipping our classes
city schools, I can’t understand them
oh, you’ve seen me waiting on the free meals and the hard details of love
lost between the sadness and the potions we can’t ever even know
the october lightning
and the big flood it diminishes
you row
meth-eating rapscallion idiot juggalos
yes, i’ve had my fill
with icing on the heat-seaking missiles
i’ve had a thrill you never will
oh, you’ve seen me waiting on the free meals
and the hard details of love
the october lightning
and the big flood it diminishes
you row
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10. |
Another Detail
05:00
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of the times the sedentary style of my host has come up to you
rejected and frustrated though we were i have not done much to
separate myself from this leech which, you know, lingers on
foreseen and fixated on the what has been and what will be
tangled up fishing off the canyon walls
a thousand feet you know we'd fall
wishing all the way down low
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