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September
04:03
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Why try to remember
Let go let go let go
Don’t fear the change, surrender
I know I know I know
The calling song, I will come along,
To September, or whenever.
Yeah, we’re deep into September
Falling into fall and then
Say goodbye to the summer, yeah it’s fine
Feeling wrapped up in your sultry nights
I say “Baby can we stay?”
In your lying eyes, “forever yes we can.”
But the truth is we can only stay
As long as the day is long
In September.
Yeah, the truth is we can only stay
As long as the day is long
In September.
Why try to remember
Let go let go let go
Don’t fear the change, surrender
I know I know I know
The calling song, I will come along,
To September, or whenever.
Now the days are cool, with nights on top
The skies are falling with the rain
I’m counting breaths and tracking steps
Reaching out to catch your wave
Grab around your waist and hold on tight
We’ll take the long way to that place
Where we can stay, forever yes we can.
But the truth is we can only stay
As long as the day is long
In September.
Yeah, the truth is we can only stay
As long as the day is long
In September.
The sweet unknown,
The bright and gold.
The sweet unknown,
The bright and gold.
The fall.
The sweet unknown,
The bright and gold.
The sweet unknown,
The bright and gold.
The fall, the fall.
We fall.
Why try to remember
Let go let go let go
Don’t fear the change, surrender
I know I know I know
The calling song, I will come along,
To September, or whenever.
To September, or whenever.
To September, or whenever.
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2. |
Power Outage
05:28
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He lost all his power
He raged without control
And to his joy and pride he passed
The burning of his soul.
Blinded by the darkness
In the days of discontent
He walked into the river
And stayed there till the end.
I lost your time
I stole your rhyme
I gave your love away.
I stopped your heart
I did my part
To lead you all astray.
She lost all her power
She learned it on that day
The love of life he gave her
In the water washed away.
No matter how her light shines
She’ll always feel a fool
Like she wasn’t good enough but
We know that that’s not true.
I lost your time
I stole your rhyme
I gave your love away.
I stopped your heart
I did my part
To lead you all astray.
Power…
Power…
Power…
I lost your time
I stole your rhyme
I gave your love away.
I stopped your heart
I did my part
To lead you all astray.
I lost your time
I stole your rhyme
I gave your love away.
I stopped your heart
I did my part
To lead you all astray.
Astray…
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3. |
The Weight of It
04:20
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Will the bottom fall out beneath it?
Will the bottom fall out beneath it?
Sometimes it’s Saturday
Sometimes I am blue
Sometimes I forget about the tender hearts
Weak like fractured glass.
The wait for it
The weight of it
The taste of it
Erased by it.
We step and save
We build and cave
We tilt the frame
To win the game.
Yeah, I’m okay
Like everyday
Define okay
And fake my way.
Sometimes I think it feels
Each tiny breath of wind
Sometimes I think it knows from which direction
It will be blowing.
The wait for it
The weight of it
The taste of it
Erased by it.
We step and save
We build and cave
We tilt the frame
To win the game.
Yeah, I’m okay
Like everyday
Define okay
And fake my way.
Sometimes I think the luster may fall,
If we have too much
Sometimes it feels as though we’re at the top,
And our heads are swaying.
The wait for it
The weight of it
The taste of it
Erased by it.
The wait for it
The weight of it
The taste of it
Erased by it.
Sometimes the walls go up
Sometimes the house comes down
And now I hear your complicated heart
Beat inside my head
Laying down foundation
To hold a heavy load
Of the thoughts I can’t disclose…
Sometimes it’s Saturday
Sometimes I am blue
Sometimes I forget about the tender hearts
Weak like fractured glass.
Weak like fractured glass.
Weak like fractured glass.
Will the bottom fall out beneath it?
Will the bottom fall out beneath it?
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4. |
Whiskey in the Morning
03:39
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Rocking hand in hand with you
In darkness once disguised as blue
Sinking coffee, night sky storming
Pull the blanket on a migraine forming.
Talking about the days events
Protests, lies and truth laments
Trifling at the end of time
Need to feel the numb sublime
With a shot of whiskey in the morning.
Wondering when the normal will return
Wound up, tied down, esophagus burn
Strumming till the aching soothes the pain
Bang the drum to bring down the rain.
Talking about the days events
Protests, lies and truth laments
Trifling at the end of time
Need to feel the numb sublime
With a shot of whiskey in the morning.
Voicing all the mixed and muddled thoughts
Tangled with the hearts you have not lost.
Talking about the days events
Protests, lies and truth laments
Trifling at the end of time
Need to feel the numb sublime
With a shot of whiskey in the morning.
With a shot of whiskey in the morning.
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5. |
Birdsong
01:50
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Birds sing
Birds fly
Sun shines
But you died.
I hide
Don’t try
Denied
When asked why.
No pain
Inside
No blame
(I lied.)
Got lost
In a free fall
Hearts crossed
But gone now.
So goodbye
You died
I never cried
but never tried.
Birdsong
In sky blue
Feels wrong
Without you.
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6. |
All Here Together
04:59
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Under the thunder and rain
A rocky and ragged shore lay
A girl in a pink flower dress
She stands in the wind and she says.
Hey little bird where you goin’?
Is your little black wing all a’ broken?
You don’t have to run from me
And you needn’t be afraid of the sea.
It’s big and it’s loud, but don’t fear
We’ll wait out the storm safely here
This fury, well soon, it will pass
This darkness and madness won’t last.
We’re all here together
It will all soon be better
‘Cause we’re all here together
We’ll get through this dark stormy weather.
The storm raged all around the world
Breathless and endless, it swirled
A year, maybe two, on it went
Then one day the little bird said.
Hey little girl why you crying?
Is your lionheart broke from the trying?
Well, last night I flew to the moon
From there saw these dark days end soon.
We’re all here together
It will all soon be better
‘Cause we’re all here together
We’ll get through this dark stormy weather.
Along a seashore so calm
The girl walks and sings a new song
She calls out the verse on and on
And the little bird sings along.
Hey little world are you rising
From the doom and the gloom and the lying?
We move with the love from the light
We shine so divine and so bright
All here together
All soon be better
All here together
We’ll get through this—aah-oh-oh-oh.
All here together
All soon be better
All here together
We’ll get through this—aah-oh-oh-oh.
All here together
All soon be better
All here together
We’ll get through this—aah-oh-oh-oh.
All here together
All soon be better
All here together
We’ll get through this dark stormy weather.
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7. |
Wichita
04:11
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Meet me down in Wichita
We’ll give this town one last hurrah
Then head towards the evening sun
To a place where we can be someone
Driving through and on and on
Breaking free of Babylon
Cross the desert in the dead of night
Toward L.A. sun and L.A. lies.
Wichita, I wish I might
See you again in the morning light
Wichita, oh which it was
The wrong time for one of us.
Meet me down in Wichita
On the edge of the Arkansas
Prairie town of wind and dust
We heard the song, it wasn’t us
Faded streets and father’s lies
Sorry signs to native shrines
The blowing wind turned us color blind
We packed our bags, left you behind.
Wichita, I wish I might
See you again in the morning light
Wichita, oh which it was
The wrong time for one of us.
Meet me down in Wichita
Let’s give this town one last hurrah
We’ll sing and cry and hold on tight
To all that was, to all we might
We’ll fall in love to the dance hall band
Electric Gage at Shadowland
We’ll walk along the promenade
One last time in Wichita.
Wichita, I wish I might
See you again in the fading light
Oh Wichita, where did you go
You’re lost somewhere and I don’t know.
Wichita, I wish I might
See you again in the morning light
Oh Wichita, I wish it was
The right time for the two of us.
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8. |
Can You Hear Me?
05:48
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So happy I’m high
So crushed I could die
The moon is shining bright tonight
On one side.
You’re praying to a god
You don’t believe in
Obeying rules in the nature
That you were conceived in.
What is right
It should be clear
But I’m so insecure
Yet never have I been so sure.
Hey there my friend
Why must all good things end
Do I cast a shadow
When you’re standing near?
And I can still see
And I can still feel
And I can still sing
Can you hear me?
One day I woke to find
The person that I had in mind
Had crawled and walked and ran
To a finish line drawn in the drifting sand.
Each night I sleep
To the sound of your breath
So deep that I can’t hear
So deep I almost wish for—
And I can still see
And I can still feel
And I can still sing
Can you hear me?
It’s not perfect
And with me it’s ok
I’m feeling all four seasons
Yeah, I feel it every day.
And I can still see
And I can still feel
And I can still sing
Can you hear me?
And I can still see
And I can still feel
And I can still sing
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
I take your heart in my hands
With deliberate regret
And by choice I slowly squeeze it to death
And by choice I slowly squeeze it to death.
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Long, long time ago
You walked in and you said hello
Your green eyes blazing your hair aglow
I felt so small, I felt so low.
I’m going down to a place
Where I can bury all my shame
I’m gonna undo all the shit
I did that caused you pain
I’m going down to a place
Where we can dance the night away
I’m going down, I’m going down
I’m going down.
Well I say you’ve got a lotta nerve
To sit there telling me
What you think you deserve
You can’t undo, you can’t unset the sun
You can’t unbreak this heart
What’s done is done is done.
I’m going down on my knees for sins yet to confess
And I’ll dance all night to the rhythm beating in my chest
Then one more look in your eyes, and in the darkness, I’ll undress
I’m going down, I’m going down,
I’m going down, I’m going down.
And now here we are today
A world of color gone cold and gray
The booming downbeat won’t set us free
But that don’t matter to you or to me.
I’m going down to a place
Where I can escape the blame
To leave behind the hurt and just feel right again
I’m going down to a place
Where we can dance the night away.
I’m going down, I’m going down.
I’m going down, I’m going down.
I’m going down, I’m going down.
I’m going down.
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