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Fallen Tree
04:00
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Fallen Tree
Watched the wind tear Autumn’s last leaves
From limbs with the moon in the trees
Here in this hollow
I won’t see tomorrow
Heard a sound crackle behind
Thought a dog paid it no mind
My neighbor’s son
I started to run
It’s nothing that we planned
He’s not an evil man
The lord will understand
Both of us victims of circumstance
Now there’s blood in the mud by the river
As I leak and I shake and I shiver
While he cleans his hands
I breathe while I can
They won’t find me nigh on a week
As I lay beside this fallen tree
Here in this hollow
I won’t see tomorrow
It’s nothing that we planned
He’s not an evil man
The lord will understand
Both of us victims of circumstance
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2. |
Fragile
04:13
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Fragile
I can see right through doors
Hiding in places most ignore
I hear your dress drop down to the floor
I can see your heart pulse
Your eyes flutter like a rocking horse
If my blood’s racing fast you’re the source
I’ve been looking for the longest time for you
There is something that I know I shouldn’t do
My resistance is a fragile waning force
Still this weary night must run its course
I’m always listening right outside
I smoke my smokes and bide my time
The sound of you there sleeping so sublime
I put out my cigarette
Sneak inside and hold my breath
Lay my weary head upon your breast
I’ve been looking for the longest time for you
There is something that I know I have to do
My resistance is a fragile waning force
Still this weary night must run its course
Outside the flag is flapping wildly
Against the pole a distant lovely chiming
They say America is dying
But I can feel her growing deep inside me
As you expire here beside me
I was looking for the longest time for you
There was something that I knew I had to do
My resistance is a fragile waning force
Now this weary night has run its course
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3. |
Made Up
04:37
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Made Up
I brush your hair
Put on your mascara
Run red lipstick over luscious red lips
Around and around and around
I dress you up
In your flowered summer dress
Put the locket back around your neck
Just the way I found it you
It seems I’m dreaming this scene
But I found you and now you believe
Jesus I’ve made you clean
I feel your weight
The gravity of the situation
I know the whole of it
I see your everything
I built a box
In the basement
Where you’ll sleep
And dream of me
It seems I’m dreaming this scene
But I found you and now you believe
Jesus I’ve made you clean
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4. |
Taut
05:17
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Taut
Everything I see the trees and the leaves
Slowly churning to dirt
Where these two rivers merge into one
I dry my shirt (skin) in the sun
This jagged granite softened in moss
I breathe every molecule in
Feel it all coursing through my thick veins
The vibrations ring in my teeth in my teeth in my teeth
Here in this forest
There used to be wolves
Tonight will be dangerous
Please watch yourselves
Bring on the blanket of dangling stars
I can’t bear this light in my eyes
Nothing means anything anyhow anymore
Make me feel that I’m alive
I smell the smoke from the fire in your house
I hear your breath hit the air
All of my muscles taut as a rubber band
Holding the braids in your hair
Here in this forest
There used to be wolves
Tonight will be dangerous
Please watch yourselves
I’m sorry for all the things that I have done
Sorry for what’s yet begun
I feel the night air approaching like animals
And animals can’t be outrun
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5. |
Still Standing
03:52
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Still Standing
Well I know that this may remind you of your childhood
The light from a fire burning in your eyes
A beacon in the night sky a wavery witchy dance
Everything burns everything burns everything burns real fast
And all you do is watch
A broken rusted clock
The smoke in your blonde hair
As you bring your sullied past to bear
It’s the same wind blowing past it circles around and around
Still you stand where once it knocked you down
The red and wrinkled skin a map across your chest
All the boys in Covington have learned what to expect
And all you do is watch
A broken rusted clock
The smoke in your blonde hair
As you bring your sullied past to bear
All those times you warned him there’s only so much you’ll take
You will find a new road you won’t make the same mistake
Passed out like a fighter he’s out cold on your bed
This time you’re the lucky one it’s him who’ll burn instead
Everything burns everything burns everything burns real fast
Everything burns everything burns everything burns real fast
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6. |
Heavy Hand
05:06
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Heavy Hand
Captain Edward Morrow a salty surly sailor
Who ruled like a tyrant nothing good inside him
Seven men’s been drowned in half a year
Me the lowly cook in the galley stuck
A rat down in the hole stirring stew below
Serving salty pork to aching men
I hear them complain
As they bear his heavy hand
Worried wives on the mainland
Waiting for bad news again
Through the living gale with taut and tattered sail
Miles from fishing ground another man has drowned
The clouds finally waft and disappear
Men in hammocks sleeping the quiet is deceiving
With blood upon my apron the night has just begun
As I climb slowly from my hole
I hear them complain
As they bear his heavy hand
Worried wives on the mainland
Waiting for bad news again
The light of sliver moon sails and cordage strewn
William asleep at watch I close the galley’s hatch
And find the captain standing at the bow
Smoking his meerschaum pipe breathing in the night
In one determined motion I push him to the ocean
His salty soul back where it belongs
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Worm
04:32
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8. |
Believer
03:37
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Believer
The birds tonight are squawking
As snow around me melts
My aching head is wheezing hard
A faulty old fan belt
My friends said you’re no good for me
Well I am no good neither
Never have been never will be
Now you’re a believer
Mary Mary you’re a liar
Mary Mary you’re on fire
Burning where you sleep
I hope it’s a happy dream
You came home from the party
Missing a high-heeled shoe
You’re no Cinderella dear
You’re just a drunk old floozy
I always liked the weight of you
But you are not so great for me
All I do is work and drink
While you do as you please
Mary Mary you’re a liar
Mary Mary you’re on fire
Burning where you sleep
I hope it’s a happy dream
I can hardly see the light
From inside this hole
I’ve been digging for so long
I don’t know where I’ll go
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9. |
Seperation
04:49
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Separation
I am steadfast tonight I am certain
All my every molecule determined
There’s nothing what can sway me from my course
I will drive you straight to the earth
I will drive you straight to the earth
Look my hands shaking like the limbs
Swaying, bending, leafless in the wind
Don’t take what you see as being fear
I have followed this path twice before
I have followed this path twice before
All I know is this crooked road
All I see is in front of me
Take my word as a hungry bird
Please believe I’m a salty sea
See this saw gleam in the moonlight
A hammer in a hand needs to strike
I wish you could know what it feels like
To separate a body from a life
To separate a body from a life
Please keep your eyes clear and open
In god’s hands you are chosen
Fight like you’re fighting for your life
The lord sees everything tonight
The lord sees everything tonight
All I know is this crooked road
All I see is in front of me
Take my word as a hungry bird
Please believe I’m a salty sea
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10. |
Insides Out
04:18
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Insides Out
I’ll see your insides out strewn about like a banquet
All that you once were laid out like science or art
Run my scabby fingers through your sticky gray matter
Try and feel every memory that caused you joy or hardship
I’ll hold your heart in my hand like a delicate flower
Imagine it thumping thickly with a first kiss or a car crash
I’ll rearrange your parts like Mr. Potato Head
Form an new and absurd you a lovely version of you
On this night we’ll be bounded before god
All we once were will drift away
And I’ll love you like anything
I’ll love you like crazy
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