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I held on for so long
Dusty quaint old song
Things attach with glue
Live and die and gone
June flowers are so bold
on the devil’s paintbrush road
The devil paints a double life
and there I dare not go
Live and die and gone
Live and die and gone
The devil paints a double life
Live and die and gone
I’m not the cheating kind
It snuck up from behind
Kicked in the door to someday
I can’t get her off my mind
All or nothing now
Might as well be true
and leave the dream of hearth and home
that never will come through
Live and die and gone
Live and die and gone
Leave the dream of hearth and home
Live and die and gone
Sweet wild road ahead
Sweet wild road ahead
If I lied and said that all was well
I might as well be dead
Single I was born
and single I will die
I’ll marry myself to the whole wide world
and never make her cry
Live and die and gone
Live and die and gone
I’ll marry myself to the whole wide world
Live and die and gone
Live and die and gone
Live and die and gone
The devil paints a double life
Live and die and gone
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2. |
Glory Bound
04:24
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When I hear that trumpet sound
I will lay my burdens down
I will lay them deep into the ground
Then I’ll know that I am glory bound
I’ll be travelin’ far from home
But I won’t be lookin’ for to roam
I’ll be crossin’ o’er the great divide
In a better home soon I will reside
Hallelujah
When I’m in my restin’ place
I’ll look on my mother’s face
Never more will I have to know
All the loneliness that plagues me so
So I’m waitin’ for that train to come
And I know where she’s comin’ from
Listen, can you hear her on the track
When I board I won’t be lookin’ back
Hallelujah
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3. |
Begin
03:30
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Hey maybe the time
just wasn’t right to hang on
When are you gonna learn
things sometimes turn instead of turn out
Hey when are you gonna stand
and stop looking over your shoulder
Me with a head full of words
and not one useful expression
Hey let go
We with holes in our hearts
were whole at the start
our story began
We film ourselves ’til the end
try to suspend our lives in the dark
Hey when are you gonna stand
and stop looking over your shoulder
See there’s a sun in the sky
and a moon that will take us ’til morning
When are you gonna stand
just stop and begin this moment
Hey let go
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4. |
Things That You Know
03:49
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It’s been a long time since you saw your home
Even those you call the closest
have slipped away somehow
Feels like a lifetime you’ve been on this road
With so many miles behind you
you’d think you’d have left this world by now
You’ve seen more than they could ever know
No matter what they say
you’ve earned the right to be so bold
But this life it takes its toll on you
Every face around you looks so tired and so old
And you have not seen everything
You have not seen everything
But there are things that you know
Things that you know
From where you’ve had to go
Where you’ve had to go
Maybe soon you’ll find a place
To call your own, to call your home
You’ve walked a good mile
in your brother’s shoes
’Til your legs would walk no further
and your tired soles would burn
You know there’s peace somewhere
around the bend
It’s been a long time coming
and you’re ready for your turn
And you have not seen everything
You have not seen everything
But there are things that you know
Things that you know
From where you’ve had to go
Where you’ve had to go
Maybe soon you’ll find a place
To call your own, to call your home
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5. |
Swallow
04:14
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Oh swallow
What did you swallow?
You swoop so low
You come and you go
You flew right in from that ship on the sea
Pirate sails on the wind coming for me
You wooed me, pursued me
You hooked me, you booked me
I signed up my name
Said I’ll be your game
You got me, arrow shot me
Now come connect the dot me
And if you don’t want it
then free me, I will flee
Oh swallow
What did you swallow?
You swoop so low
You come and you go
Something, something
You think you got something
Something to show
For all that hellbent letting go
I got me a handful
A handful of pebbles
One ball of light
One shining flight
You glide on the air
You swivel and turn
Fast beating heart
What do I gotta learn?
Oh Swallow
What did you swallow?
You swoop so low
You come and you go
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6. |
Starlight
04:43
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I have come back to you broken
take me home
And my body bears this trouble
take me home
Take me back to my beginning
before the hell of night set in
and I came to this border
take me home
I have toured this endless starlight
take me home
I have shattered under midnight
take me home
There are no vultures in this clearing
except the ones who brought me here
and I’ll no longer feed them
take me home
Kingdom come their will was done
and now the earth is far away
from any kind of heaven
Hallowed be these frozen fields
and every single one of us
still left in want of mercy
take us home
All the bells hang still and hollow
take me home
and no one has come to mourn me
take me home
Find me where I closed my eyes
beneath this sky of power lines
and let me see us clearly
take me home
Kingdom come their will was done
and now the earth is far away
from any kind of heaven
Hallowed be these frozen fields
and every single one of us
still left in want of mercy
take us home
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7. |
Apolcalypse Lullaby
04:10
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Hurricanes will come
Earthquakes break the walls
Oceans rise
Empires fall
Enter world light unshown
Follow heart, follow home
Here we are light unshown
One round heart, one round home
Spin the speed of light
Tetrahedron blue
One last paradise
You can make for you
Enter world…
Faster than a ship
Further than a bomb
See the glowing grid
send love throughout the throng
Enter world…
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8. |
This Heart of Mine
04:39
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If all is fair in love and war
I haven’t seen the score
But it can’t be either of those
All this time, thought I was in control
But fate she held her own
Even when I thought I chose
Now the coldest day of winter
has made a home of my heart
And it burns a cold right through me
tearin’ me apart
When did I lose you
It feels like such a crime
When did I lose all
the reasons for this rhyme
So many questions burnin’
in this heart of mine
A thousand memories
of when and where
Four walls and a rockin’ chair
Our story stickin’ to my skin
A dusty wind
blows through this broken frame
Echoes of your name
Shadows fall and night pours in
Now the coldest day of winter
has made a home of my heart
Says it plans to stay forever
just like you did at the start
When did I lose you
It feels like such a crime
When did I lose all
the reasons for this rhyme
So many questions burnin’
in this heart of mine
Now the coldest day of winter
is here and here to stay
And it burns a cold right through me
’round the heart you threw away
When did I lose you
It feels like such a crime
When did I lose all
the reasons for this rhyme
So many questions burnin’
in this heart of mine
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9. |
Long Time Traveller
02:10
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Ye fleeting charms of earth, farewell
Your springs of joy are dry
My soul now seeks another home
a brighter world on high
I’m a long time travelling here below
I’m a long time travelling away from home
I’m a long time travelling here below
To lay this body down
Farewell kind friends whose tender care
has long engaged my love
Your fond embrace I now exchange
for better friends above
I’m a long time travelling here below
I’m a long time travelling away from home
I’m a long time travelling here below
To lay this body down
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10. |
Avila
04:04
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O sweet peace, never have you fallen
never have you fallen upon this town
O sweet peace, never have you fallen
never have you fallen upon this town
The black crows are loaded
with the call of things discarded
the ribboned shards of battle
and everything burned
Have they forgotten we live here
Do they think that we gave up
lay down and and grew over
weeds at every turn
O sweet peace, never have you fallen
never have you fallen upon this town
O sweet peace, never have you fallen
never have you fallen upon this town
I will not rest
until this place is full of sunlight
or at least until the darkness
is quiet for a while
And we will not wait
for that murder to come calling
The night will simply fall
and the morning will rise
O sweet peace never have you fallen
never have you fallen upon this town
O sweet peace when will you be calling
when will you be calling upon this town
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11. |
Some Good Thing
03:17
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Think of this heart as an old accident
a hardened hit and run
Looking ahead but just a little scared
to keep all eyes on the road
Can you be sure
Will this be some good thing
Lucky stars to reckon appear again and again
Can you believe all that has brought you here
You say come on baby let’s go ahead and live
Who ever knows if love’s a slight of hand
or will it hold up to the light
And do you ever stop unravelling a happy end
with a mind still wound up from a fight
Can it be real
Will it be some good thing
Weathering the fortunes,
what those stars are gonna bring
Will it stay true
Will we both see the whole thing through
You say come on baby let’s go ahead and live
Bird on a wire or a heart in your hand
Looking for a place to find some rest
If you batten it down it’s not living at all
And leaving’s just a different kind of death
Could you believe
Will this be some good thing
A place to lay your head down
and the will to look again
Could it be true
Will we both see the whole thing through
You say come on baby let’s go ahead and live
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12. |
Prairie Town
05:02
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When it rains it snows in this prairie town
There’s a good three inches on the ground
It seems I’ll be losing any peace I’ve found
I see your face all over this town
But I know you’re nowhere to be found
You’re far away you’re safe and sound
Far from this prairie town
Far from this prairie town
So leavin’ seems the thing to do
When I’m here I’m lost in thoughts of you
And in my dreams I’m city bound
But when you ask me to come to you
To leave these fields and these skies of blue
You know I’d be leavin’ my sacred ground
Leavin’ this prairie town
Leavin’ this prairie town
No one’s love comes close to yours
Nothing’s like it was before
My eyes are heavy and my heart is sore
Leavin’ this prairie town
Leavin’ this prairie town
When it rains it snows in this prairie town
And we just watch it fall to the ground
And wait for love to come around
So ask me in that way you do
And I’ll leave these fields and I’ll come to you
You can watch my heart as it breaks in two
I’m leavin’ this prairie town
I’m leavin’ this prairie town
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13. |
Firecracker
03:51
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A is for apple, B is for blind
I jumped so fast I left the ground behind
You set your sights a homeward
and you are more than wise
It’s late night heading into morning
You can get used to almost anything
Deep sea eyes and porcelain skin
Love sweet nests and their boxing rings
It’s late night heading into morning
Firecracker firecracker sparkling in the sky
To those of us who saw
looked like the fire should die
Knowledge pulls the reigns against
the bliss that I once knew
When you set your sights on me
and the firecrackers flew
Ocean of friendship, diamonds far and deep
We still talk of the future
remembering soft sleep
A is for apple, apple of my eye
It’s late night heading into morning
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