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On the lonely end of history / swingin’ and swayin’ to the murder mystery / rhyme and reason fled the crime scene / of new penthouses next to tents in the streets / oh, how do I steer my early 30’s / before I shipwreck before im 40 / oh, ain’t it a shame what we choose to ignore / what kind of monsters did our parents vote for / lately I feel like i’m in puppet vichy, france tryin’ to teach the devil how to dance / to these sing-alongs of siren songs / to ooh’s to ahh’s to big applause / with all of my anger I scream and shout / america, I love you but you’re freaking me out / driving through the bible belt / billboards claiming how jesus felt / oh, how’d his words confuse themselves? / With cranks for christians in powerful positions / i’ve always felt like all their pomp and circumstance is just cover for the devil to dance / america, you’re freaking me out / with all my anger I shout / can’t you recognize truth from clever lies?
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Anna
03:29
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I’ve memorized every single moment / every fleeting passage of time / the way you’d laugh and dance in the kitchen / after drinking too much cheap red wine / I always rewind, the home movies in my mind / back to the times, first moving in with you / I have so much to tell ya / please come back to philadelphia / this place ain’t the same without you anna / you got a great big new promotion / but now you travel so damn much / it's like our studio apartment is just a place to keep your stuff / and when you’re away, I walk around in a haze / reminiscing the days, first moving in with you / I have so much to tell ya / please come back to philadelphia / this place ain’t the same without you anna / and oh, how the neighborhoods changed / and all our friends keep asking for ya / this place ain’t the same without you anna / but I will wait, for you babe / take as long as you need to take / i’ll be fine on my own / counting down the days until you come home / but I will wait, for you babe / I have so much to tell ya / I have so much to say / take as long as you need to take / I have so much to tell ya / I have so much to say / oh, anna.
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High School Friend
04:26
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Raisin’ hell in wayne county / with a copper on our tail / hoping that he drives on by me / but knowing this town he’ll probably throw us in jail / we’re both so paranoid in our hometown / there’s so much unclaimed baggage at the carousels / and though we’re guilty of nothing / we feel like fugitives running / towards the great white north or a border town in mexico / there’s former you, there’s former me / we’re telling tales of revisionist history / ah, remember the days we couldn’t hardly wait to end? / I was getting fucked up with a high school friend / wondering where all the good times went / we left town the minute we turned 18 / we moved to different corners of the country / now we come back for holidays and funerals / so much has changed but wayne county is still the same / driving down 191, theres an old memory of someone / as a little white cross just popping out from the bend / I was getting fucked up with a high school friend / wondering where all the good times went / don’t let the overwhelming sorrow shred all hopes of tomorrow / don’t let ‘em tell ya how to live your life / ‘cause they may never understand / but its okay because I do / we know all the ups and downs each other have been through.
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Last To Know
03:53
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Jesus christ be damned / I held the dagger in my hand / I killed another man / pictures carved in stone / see your reflection in your phone / and know we're not alone / cemetery walls / klonopin and alcohol / tonight I won't start a fight / you barely made a sound / we put your mother in the ground / some words are never found / promises were made / on and alter in blood / sacrificial children's voices / echo on and on / we're the last to know / they told us who we are / in spiral ladders to the stars / collect our memories / we'll be back again / each time a little different / it ends where it begins / promises were made / on and alter in blood / sacrificial children's voices / echo on and on / we're the last to know / मनति
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Strangers Forever
03:01
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My inner monologue is writing / SOS on deserted islands / And there’s no one out there to read the signs / Just distant oceans and great blue skies / But my miserable memory is making me more miserable / my mundane mind is waiting on some kind of miracle / Oh, maybe it’s for the better we both stay strangers forever / Maybe it’s for the best we pretend like we never met / forget everything that we’ve ever known / Maybe it’s for the better we both stay strangers forever / Well I built a raft out of total desperation / And I got kidnapped by a pirate nation / Now somewhere out there I ramble and roar / You wouldn’t recognize me anymore / But if I come into your periphery / please just act like you don’t see me / out here looking for a glimpse of shore / a mirage of the life that we had before.
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Hello Exile
04:26
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Her language was a perfect phrase / her playful prose followed me for days / down the alleyways of my desires / to their final resting place / in a vacation town where I lived year round / she migrated here with the summer crowds / and we fell in love under impossible smiles / life was perfect if just for a little while / oh, hello exile / and a thousand years may come and go / we may never meet another soul / here on our own island of elba in the poconos / oh, hello exile / and we bathed in the sun / cut our jeans into shorts / outstared every star in the sky / under the cover of nowhere the present was a present / it looked beautiful on you every night / but we knew it would end yeah we knew it all along / it was a future never reconciled / it’s as if letting your shackled heart feel loved was more difficult than total denial / oh, hello exile / and a thousand years may come and go / I may never meet another soul / here on my own island of elba in the poconos / oh, hello exile / now I imagined her memory would fade in the void / she’d only reappear every now and again / i’d smile at the thought of us / go back to my day / but that was purely wishful thinking / oh, hello exile.
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Portland
02:44
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We're two strings shaking in a minor chord / we're survivors of life but we're prisoners of war / it was recklessness, what we came here for / started on the bed ended up on the floor / we're two strings shaking in a minor chord / allison I love you, but I can't change the past / bring the part of me you love back / you wake up shaking in the middle of the night / a voice from the past back looking for a fight / seize your sorrow, breathe with me / the pause between is all we need / they say it hurts til it doesn't / you said "the future is unwritten, let the past stay in the past / bring the part of me you love back" / cheap champagne and roses / I know one day you'll notice.
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Strain Your Memory
04:04
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May the highways cross their fingers and hope / that we may one day find ourselves home / she sticks her head outside the passenger window / sighs as traffic stops and goes / it’s been two weeks now living in this southern town / we hoped the change would change our restless minds / a little rewind to a simpler time / I swear it’s temporary living in this cheap motel / somewhere in the bible belt / we made love at that marietta motel 6 / you fell asleep on my shoulder of commitment / took it as a sign everything would be fine / sometimes it takes these kind of nights just to realize / how we want to spend the rest of our lives / could a diamond in the rough ever be enough / i’ve been mining for your love / since the day that we met i’ve spent every second in your minefield digging it up / can you strain your memory back to the times / when trouble wasn’t always on our minds / and now the hotel maids were bangin’ down the door / as if they came looking for some answers / when ya gonna leave? / Where ya gonna go? / Will you get your shit together / when are you gonna marry her? / Well maybe you don’t deserve her / maybe the whole thing was doomed from the start / this inquisition is tearing me apart.
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I Can't Stop Drinking
05:10
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Champagne drunk tomorrow is out of luck / when the celebrations come to an end / when the parties over sunday morning wakes up sober / begs for me to start up again / i’m whiskey drunk in the shop rite parking lot / i’m waiting while anna buys milk and eggs / sometimes I wonder why she hasn’t found another / one that her girlfriends would recommend / our worst fights are when we get silent / just a disappointed you shaking your head / when the cards and flowers don’t work I sleep on the couch when i’m a jerk / whats gotta give / ‘cause I know what you’re thinking / that I can’t stop drinking / every time you try and ask me to I just throw a fit and storm out of the room / ‘cause I know what you’re thinking / i’m cheap beer drunk in a bar off passyunk / i’ll be here until the lights come up again / feel free to join me if you’re bored or feeling lonely / I could sure use the company / I miss you so much when I was your drunk lush / you knew me so well I knew you half as well / well love’s a cruel cruel joke when the tools in the shed can’t fix what’s broke / so you leave it broke.
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Strawberry Mansion
03:04
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Hurtling toward the earth / set the atmosphere on fire / we'll put another notch in the kuiper / climb down from the trees / to die from a disease / brought back from the dead by the liars / I don't mind, I'll stay behind / transmission in static / the silent monastic / exiled to an island of plastic / waiting on translation / the fool's coronation / a permanent summer vacation / I don't mind, I'll stay behind / set a course for the sun / to bittersweet oblivion / the time has come, the rain has gone / back to hell where we belong / the games we've been playing / the real estate is changing / the mountains and rivers to lake beds / concrete to dust / iron to rusted statues reign over the ocean / I don't mind, I'll stay behind
Set a course for the sun / to bittersweet oblivion / the time has come, the rain has gone / back to hell where we belong.
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London Drugs
03:18
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What’s it gonna take to fix me up / I don’t want your london drugs / every time i’m with you I take too much / I don’t want your london drugs / every once in a while when i’m in denial / I wind up doing something I don’t want to do / what’s it gonna take to fix me up / I don’t want your london drugs / on a rainy night in soho / the wind was whistling all its charms / I think we overstayed our welcome / they’re giving us the look at the argyll arms / you happened to notice my anxious commotion / as my heart bled through my shirt / i’ve been a little heavy handed keepin’ it at work / my anxiety can sleep easy / the show was everything I hoped it would be / now we’re sitting in the back of the theater / binging everything that’s left to drink / ‘cause in a moment it’s over / the high and the thrill / then i’m leaving here so unfulfilled / well if I don’t change now I never will.
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Farewell Youth
04:37
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Pa turnpike, northbound on a dark night / driving into scranton for a difficult occasion / when you first got your license we were nowhere to be found / I was just a little kid back then but you let me hang around / but we’re older now / farewell youth, i’m afraid I hardly got to know you / I was always hanging out with the older kids / always in a rush, but I was never sure from what / I was always hanging out with the older kids / the grief starts when bumping into friends turned acquaintances / we stumble around the small talk / we break the silence with jameson / but once we were inseparable / we were the only punks in town / we spent every weekend raisin’ hell in the basement of your parents house / but we’re older now / in someones apartment / getting fucked up / to all our favorite records / drinking the cheap stuff / we couldn’t get enough / of growing up / I saw my childhood flash before me in the death of your closed eyes / at your irish wake we celebrate by trying not to cry.
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