1. |
Memories and Smoke
03:36
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I lie to you
or bend the truth
I don't quite know
I stay too long
or not at all
of course I don't
mean to break
want to take
what I came for
Leaving me looking for a way out
off into the night
Gonna play out how it plays out
lost enough to find
Like a road that leads you closer
but never takes you home
I don't finish what I started
memories and smoke
So ease the pain
of either way
of one not both
It comes in time
a wear that winds
a force I know
will lead you down
and back around
to hard to hold
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2. |
Making Parachutes
03:07
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Fell in love in an endless summer
you and I there could be no other
used to listen to the radio
park your car on every street
When and why turned to if or ever
I still thought we could be toghther
Too busy making parachutes
to go and tie the strings
Cause boys like gorgeous
boys like lust
boys get high
and drink too much
And only ever miss you
when you're out of their reach
Boys like wild
and not quite sold
ones you touch touch
but don't quite hold
And only every want you
for getting over something
Took awhile i still got you number
that don't mean we ain't going under
if you're looking for a reason
words don't mean a thing
Take me back to the way it started
but the end kinda leaves it marked with
birds that fit in cages
but always miss the wings
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3. |
Midnight Train
04:04
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I'm going on that midnight train
to that house up in the sky
all I had is in my veins
and I won't have to say goodbye
what we had, was it real?
Or just a traveler passing by
with stolen love and borrowed lust
a patchwork quilt of truth and lies
You were such a wicked love
you were just the leaving kind
every time I close my eyes
that midnight train rolls by
Were you cruel, were you kind?
what you gave did it suffice
cause it was like poor mans grace
sacred rites on pagan eyes
and I wore that ring for years
even though you never showed
and what I'd give, what I'd take
to never lost and never loved
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4. |
Melt That Way
02:40
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Melt That Way
Got an all night feeling
we melt that way
you send me reeling
and whose to say ?
That we might not make it
we'll be torn apart
cause I can feel it beating
heart to heart
When the winter comes
you're still my little hurricane
taping on my window
like the summer rain
till were resting easy
in the arms above
we'll figure out the finer points
of this dark horse love
There's a red light burning
outside our door
but I don't think I
could want you more
It's a sweet surrender
a cruel escape
you send me spinning
to melt away
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5. |
The Arms Unknown
02:51
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The Arms Unknown
Taught and an angel man
how to lie
Taught a river bend
how to dry
Like enough was said
walk alone
Tore a bleeding heart
from a stone
From the gallows home
to the arms unkown
to the rebel I see
Feel the thunder come
but you're not in love
with the one that i see
Taught a morning star
how to shine
Taught the evening sun
how to lie
Heard it comes it waves
says the shore
Gave you everything
that and more
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6. |
Like Heaven
03:00
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We were fools dancing on and on
with the false hope and last to know
every night where the waves would break
you could look but you never touch
every star wasn't quite enough
where's the spaces that fall between?
Hide from the fear I know
lost in the queue
it's like heaven
I'll be the nightingale
minus the wings you sell
blessed
Stars in the wishing well
forever always felt
less than
I was safe from the razor blade
and the nightmares that cause the pain
what's a fool do but fall in love ?
When we touch like a mutiny
curse the captain and blame the sea
but the wind always seems to know
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7. |
Only Good at Leaving
03:08
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Only Good At Leaving
Im'a buy an old car
paint it blue or black
gonna break the rear view
to hell with looking back
don't know what they told you
or what you came here for
but I'm only good at leaving
not at letting go
On some lonesome highway
singing lonely songs
after all the sane ones
have come and gone
All you god damn good girls
are the hardest to leave
but if my hearts not in it
what could you get from me?
Wrapped around a finger
that's wrapped around a gun
fair's my favorite curse word
easy with the gloves
don't know what they told you
but truth ain't good or bad
it's hard letting go of
what you never had
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8. |
We Were Liars
04:00
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WE WERE LIARS
Cause we were liars
Every word I ever spoke
Was the fire
And the grapevine where it grows
And we were tired
Like a lie between the wars
When you’re not sure
What it is you’re fighting for
But those days were gold
I feel it roll like the waves
Fairs enough, Hands aloft
Hearts will break
And we’re so sure
What it is we really want
That we get hurt
Or we hurt the ones we love
And no moment
Will never steal your breath
When you hope for
the one that always will
Oh and they’re breaking now
Oh baby hold me down
Oh and they’re breaking now
over me
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9. |
Lost and Lonely
02:27
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Lost and Lonely
Should have been a way to know
Cause I don’t want to say it so
Stay with me tonight
If only I could break your heart
Tear the string that pulls apart
Force the easy lie
Cause I’ve been lost and lonely
Baby I
I been waiting patient
Show no sign
Just a word before you
Up and roll
Learning all the ways to go
Spring and winter autumn too
I don’t want to play the blues
Heavy on my mind
Justice like a paramour
Here tonight and gone before
the break of morning light
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10. |
An Ocean of Islands
02:58
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And you Hold me close
don't you let me go
all the stars light up
for that one last show
singing all I'll miss
on the day your ride
best of luck god speed
but it don't feel right
But i still remember
the winds of september
and they're never gonna take you home
Like an ocean of islands
there were words in the silence
but that don't seem to make you whole
Love like thieves
touch what no one owns
Chain oursevles to free
squeezing blood from stones
But if I'm not yours
and if your not mine
What is this all for
just a waste of time
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11. |
The Coldest Night
03:15
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The Coldest Night
Here in the coldest night
drive untill the wrong seems right
one move to make so try
holding me
Yes I've been missing home
counting the nights alone
reaching across this phone
for a sign
Cause they all say forever don't mean it
but I got a feeling to shake
Got to get on a level to see it
the fall out when it slips away
Left with the last to leave
higher upon my knees
can't fight a war for peace
everytime
I'll get your moment back
blood all along our tracks
ticket to nowhere fast
let it ride
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12. |
How Many Times
03:40
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How Many Times
How many times my baby
Are you going let me know?
This town will drive you crazy
Steady as a centerfold
I don’t ever want to miss her
But I do all the time
This place was made for gamblers
Drifters and delta queens
Can't take the way they want you
Can't take the way they dream
How many times my baby
Are you gonna love like you lie?
Like New Orleans
On and on
Mind up made up on the fray
17
lost and gone
You been earning the name
Lay like a constellation
Scattered out across the sky
We got a thing for mercy
Never had a reason why
How many times my baby
Are you gonna call every bluff?
This place was made for roughnecks
Jokers and Maybelline
Can't take the way they want you
Can't take the way they dream
How many times my baby
Are you gonna love out of spite?
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13. |
Rebel Highway
03:48
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Shes goes west on a rebel highway an outlaw
free as a liquor stores only light
dance like they do in Nashville on Broadway
beat like a marching band never die
home of the smoking gun and the sweet talk
love born in too much sun can't last the night
she got a thing for pause come the free fall
but moments you never choose shape your life
If that's all we are
lightning and jar
is it too late to try
You'll be my man
I'll give a damn
blowing smoke on the fire
she goes east on a motorway towards the lone star
sacred that turns profane given time
treating the things we had like the wind on
pretend like we get to pick how it dies
home of the modern love and the nuance
something between the one and tonight
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When My Baby Plays the Blues
Close your eyes and memorize the heartbeat
Rise and fall like waves off in the night
If it ain’t ours it’s still there for the taking
Never do right
Desperado midnight sky and roll on
They can’t ask for what you never had
Shakedown kids with reckless left abandoned
Moments like this
And I ain’t ever been one for
Long goodbyes or dancing
I’m the kind that’s gonna smoke
Gonna drink it off my mind
And when my baby plays the blues I shiver
Cause I’m not sure what ever makes it right
A town without a queen I know you’re lonesome
A violin sings songs like falling rain
Between the smoke rings double shots and whispers
I hear your name
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15. |
Lust for Life
03:20
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Lust for life with the radio on
back and forth but they dying too young
always the black and white
waking up to a single parade
circumstance and a name on a grave
pray for the young and wild
When the night falls hard
and the moon don't shine
I'll be on your side
You can never walk
Someone elses mile
but ill be on your side
Call the saints and the sinners alike
count the shots ringing out in the night
one love but it divides
Pass a law so whatever can sell
stole the ground for the standing as well
and we got our head on ice
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16. |
Shallow Water
03:52
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So bury me in shallow water
when I drift out to the bay
no applause, sons or daughters
all I'm leaving is the pain
bad advice like stolen answers
the question isn't really gone
so bury me inside the rhythm
of this viking funeral
And like some dime store renegade
I won't ever buy a thing
Like some beat up lonely heart
I won't finish what I start
Bury me in Minnesota
where the Mississippi carved
cut out cliffs bluffs and valleys
like the lines left on a heart
Lost beside a golden record
songs that no one ever sung
so bury me like the devil
somewhere deep inside it all
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