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Easy Out
04:11
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Lately I’ve run out of reasons
The turning of seasons helps keep the pressure down
Holding some obscure substance
Man you would love this
If you could mellow out
Blessed by the catch an easy out
Not worth all the sweat or cursing bouts
Fading out like a gradient,
Grown so patient, just to wait your turn
Never could bottle it closely
Left it open so you’d hear me out
Afraid that you’ll consume me
so unruly just to settle down
take it overboard push it forward and you’ll sing it to
Blessed by the catch an easy out
Not worth all the sweat or cursing bouts
Disappointment, misery abound
Feed the instrument that makes the sound
I keep fighting but there’s just no place for it
Keep relying on others to change for me
So dishonest in this situation and every possible aspect
Running off with my dreams, they’re controlling me
Know I won’t make a dime and pay everything
All this victimization I harbor is just wasted energy
Blessed by the catch an easy out
Not worth all the sweat or cursing bouts
Loving others know what it’s about
Kept close to the chest and pulled right out
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2. |
Elevator Lobby
04:15
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Navigate through the words I’ll say to you
Like an ocean, we’ll drift endlessly through
Left me hoping you wouldn’t patronize
Just two people, did you have to vocalize
Play something I can hear at parties
And turn right off
The noises that you make are sloppy
And self involved
Strip malls and elevator lobbies are where you belong
Older brother, easy to reminisce
Where we once stood, looks nothing quite like this
All these landmarks, how we stack on the shelf
Are illusions we put upon ourselves
But now I’m taking it personal, the weight of the whole world
It was for my own growth, the phrase you uttered first
Play something I can hear in headphones and tune right out
Unlikely words casually spilling out from your mouth
Even the finest elevators need to break down
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3. |
Leaving Chicago
04:06
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Spoken like a real soldier
Spoken like a man with discipline you wish you’d follow
Sinking into nights so low
Climb out in the morning from all the debris and rubble
Visiting a town I know
Each time that I go there swear that I feel like a local
But now that it’s time we go
Gonna push the limit tell myself we’re gonna make it
Home before dark
Leaving my love Chicago
Hope it won’t be long til I call her my home
When the time is right you’ll know
Clean out all the beer cans, sweep the floor and dust the headboard
Just another night for sure
Playing it cool when you know that it’s something special
But just to keep the lights aglow
Take her on her way now, promised to her mom you’d have her
Home before dark, leaving my love Chicago
Hope it won’t be long til I call her my home
Driving through those state lines so comfortably
Thankful for all your hospitality
Another part of my life fits where I need
Disappear back into the old routine
not before
I’m home before long
Missing her love sweet sorrow
I’d right so many wrongs
Just to end up back in her arms
Home before dark, leaving my love Chicago
A sprawling masterpiece
Far from where my folks won't be watching over me
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4. |
Unsheathed
03:13
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You’ve been talking in your sleep much
Longer than you did last year
Whisper that you feel at peace now
fills me up with jealousy
Is there something I’m not doing
A weapon yet to be unsheathed
Hiding in my corner begging
For some untimely disease
Sometimes it feels like I won’t see tomorrow
Or time hangs around
Break the bread and bring them in for supper
That’s what you’re about
I’d like to run with the bison
On an old frontier from centuries past
Nothing needed to keep indoors
Every step another path
Yes I know it’s incongruous
The world will just keep spinning along
Hoping for another answer
Hoping for another song
To be unsheathed darling
Comes at too great a cost when
You’ve never found that love again
The duel is so exhausting man
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5. |
Small Talk Conversations
04:43
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See rose petals on the sidewalk down on through the park
This collective conscious gives back what you’re putting out
Tried my best to hide you from the cynical routine
This exposure is exactly what I think you need
All these small talk conversations leading me to a place where I’m not alone
I could walk across the nation and find some weary place to rest my bones
In the morning I’ll be waiting and surely my brother then you’ll come to see
That this life we both are living
is rooted in a place of harmony
YEAH!
A finite timeline you’ve been given boy where’d you go wrong
Stuck in screens so obsolete yet pulling you along
Here upon this moment nowhere for us left to go
Lifelong friends from random seats in classrooms or at shows
But hold up before you head out just before you skip town
I will frame you the picture the specific reason why I came around and put my full trust in
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Lonely late night driving state of mind
With the old jazz station keeping time
Felt a slight vibration on my side
With the message open I reply
I’ll take you to the greasy spoon
To share a meal or two
It’s what we came here to do
Indulge child
Left the waiter three or four bucks more
Such great service for a midnight meal
And the tension rising through the night
In separate beds our heads will lie
Take me to the greasy spoon
Tell me all about what’s new
Care a great deal for you
You know you know you know child
On this dark misty moon
All I see is you
Share a slice of the sky and
indulge child
Lonely late night driving state of mind
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7. |
Best Version
04:27
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Where were you how could you remember
In the black out of hope
Can’t go on like it’s like late December
Waiting for the lights to turn on
I feel the wind pass over
I’m conscious now
Consume your words like brownies with big grains of salt
‘Cause ain’t nobody know the best version but me
So hypnotic runs the boards and plays for keeps
Take an honest look at who you’re supposed to be
waiting by the front door
Peeping through that small bedroom window
Hanging on the fire escape
As radiant as a summer morning
punch yourself in the face
No one can do it better
Playing the fool
It’s not unique or clever to ignore the truth
That ain’t nobody know the best version but me
So hypnotic runs the boards and plays for keeps
Take an honest look at who you’re supposed to be
waiting at the front door
Link it to a distant metaphor
Articulate the way you want more
Something about the way she explodes on by
Cause you don’t need to change a thing my love
You don’t need to change a single mark
It’s time to take the day you can’t define
And make it amazing, for sure
(I keep waiting by the front door)
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8. |
Lucy
03:25
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Lucy’s running around the garden and I should probably be home
But fiscal’s ending and boss man’s sending the golden yearly review
But I hope for her sake she’ll break through the game and get by on her own
Yes I prayed everyday that she’ll heed
My mistakes but in time she’ll know them to
When the shot the lined up for you
and all you have to do is take it baby
Contradicts the news that all you got to do is fake it to get by
Lucy’s out there in the ether
A dream not materialized
Before I give myself a daughter
Lord knows that I’ll need a bride
What a trip it is to know
How much there is in store
And with everything unseen
I could call her up and say hello
I’ll take my chance once more
Lucy running through the garden is what we’re working towards
I pulled her hand out from the white shroud
And brought her through the world
How sweet is the reward
My Lucy girl
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9. |
You Make Me Love Home
03:37
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When there’s nothing for ya and no one seems
to care
Things the mind will tell ya
When I stumbled through ya
Skipped rock sank through the shore
When my eyes were opened
Make me love home
Well we wrestled for space fit through the window frame looking at the buildings
They look old and boring said I know these streets too well but to you they’re soaring
Cause you came to me so easy it’s obscene
Like those soft melodies that last beyond my dreams
I don’t want you to be in just in the routine I want it all
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10. |
Gold & Blue
05:48
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I’ve been hurting
I’ve been loving you
You wore your fathers tie
The day they put your black lab down
Through your old friends eyes
Reappeared the boy you once were
You had to wait a lifetime to see me get right
I see the colors so bold do you see them too
They grow more vivid with each stroke, rising from the pew
A screened in porch we’ll share
And a ranch style home
If that’s too much to ask for
I will love my own
Oh to be where the light shines
After the show
To drink lemonade while growing older
Better watch your friends back
Hope they don’t take them too
Dug out from the crates
the characters from comic books
lost in their own way at once
Dogeared and engaged flip through another origin story then take the hero off the page keep the hero on the page
Better watch your friends, man
Hope it don’t take them too
If you’re hanging back
I hope you see more gold than blue
You waited a whole lifetime to finally get it right
I sewed the colors so bold on my Sunday suit
It complements each part of the soul lined it with gold and blue
The dishes adding up in sinks unused
You will build the wall covering it all
bet you won’t complain if they intrude
I’ve been hurting, I’ve been loving you
You are gold and blue
I’ve been loving, I’ve been hurting you
I can’t tell what’s true
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11. |
I'm a Fucking Dog
03:28
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I’m a dog in an empty house
Lord knows why I can’t learn
Assume that each tiny creaking noise
Is master’s return
Cause I could let it all out
To supplement this news
That you want nothing to do with me
No toys nor treats subdue this pain
So go on and fill your life out
With the colors I can’t see
Replicate our experience on a large flat screen
Time is pushing us rapidly
Makes sense you made the call
Just wanted to share one more walk with you
Before the lights go out again
I’m the dog who begs
I’m the dog who takes
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