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Payin' Dues Blues
03:25
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Well I've been running away from everything
Running away from everyone I meet
Except you, somehow I always play your fool
Cause I've been singing playing everyday
Singing and writing every single day
Once I tried to vacate but felt hollow in my space
Just Payin My Dues
To Them Blues
Cause I’ve been blowing off everything
Blowing off everything that's in my way
Burning these bridges, swimming these lakes
Cause I've been down for far too long
Been doubting myself a little too long
Too many half songs, this time I'm going to finish them all
Just Payin My Dues
To Them Blues
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Destination Unknown
02:40
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The moon was laying low, waiting for the clouds to go
They were escorted out by a friend
I sat down at this old cafe, just praying that I would get paid
Looking for a place to play
I've been traveling down these roads all alone
But the destination is still unknown
Because my belly screams and my mind yells, possibilities are like sea shells
See them scattered across the shore
So here I am now, all broken and bruised - I'm so sick of being lied to by you
I get used to playing your fool
I've been traveling down these roads all alone
But the destination is still unknown
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I was walking sideways, beneath the crooked rain
When I spotted a figure, she was alone by the interstate
That’s when the food chain was suddenly rearranged
Once I got a taste of your loving girl I couldn't stop eating for days
I couldn't tell up I couldn't tell down
Should I wear a smile or should I sport a frown
I tried to get high but always ended up coming down
I plotted my escape ya'll but got stuck in the same town
I was wearing your jacket, but it didn't quite feel the same
And like a badge of honor, I was displaying all of my pain
So now the meaning, were suddenly rearranged
As I stood emotionless like some fully illustrated blank page
I couldn't tell up I couldn't tell down
Should I wear a smile or should I sport a frown
I tried to get high but always ended up coming down
I've traveled state to state ya'll but got stuck in the same town
First you’re hot, then you’re cold as ice
How can you be so mean, yet be so nice
You say yes, when you really mean no
So tell me baby how I am supposed to know
Which way to go
I was skating backwards, over some thinning ice
You were offering a discount baby, but ya know I paid full price
I felt defeated, a little faithful, a little cheated
But ya gave an took, while you clung to your books and now I'm just depleted
Come on give it to me baby
I couldn't tell up I couldn't tell down
Should I wear a smile or should I sport a frown
I tried to get high but always ended up coming down
I plotted my escape ya'll but got stuck in the same town
Stuck in the same damn town
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Catch & Release
03:01
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I was foul hooked, when you first caught me
And like a fish out of its water, beneath the cruel suns heat
You ripped my lips, as I struggled to breathe
But then you let me go, to dissipate into deep blue seas
I was swimming around the sea, the next time you captured me
Like a bird with a broken wing, you had come to hear me sing
You always lived so free, so unnaturally
You were the cleanest freak, in between them dirty sheets
Still you’re haunting me
Please set me free
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5. |
Luminous Moonlit
03:48
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While the bar flies, do their drinking
And them house flies, are cleaning kitchen,
No open doors
It’s a cool night, for thinking
We could write it all down, forget remembering
That it's all a joke
Except no one is laughing now, maybe they've forgotten how
Just close your eyes and take a step into now
While noon and eve, smoke up their secrets
Cradled by fog, luminous moonlit
Oh it's such a sight, that night
It's a tattered template for a silent movie,
I couldn't move, even though it moved me
I won't let up
Wish I could back in time
Back when everything was fine
When I was yours, and you were mine
Remember when you had told me,
Well the thing about love is it gets really lonely
Still I pretend
It's a blue lesson learned to early
How many heart breaks before they bury me
I won't keep count
The spun spiders sling their ribbons round
They cast at anything that resembles sound
So how come no one can hear me now
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Meandering River Blues
03:57
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There’s this lonesome sort of feeling, it seems to follow me everywhere I go
There’s this lonesome tone in every key babe, of every song that I call my own
Just take me to the river baby, and let me float there all alone
I’m writing these songs from the banks of the river, where time just seems to stop
I’m writing these songs from the banks of the river, this lonesome aching never seems to stop
I live my life like that there river, I’m always flowing ya I never stop
And I’m flow on
From muddy to clean waters baby, yeah you know I’m clean
From the muddiest of cleanest of waters baby, yeah you know I’m clean
Because I can filter all through that I gather up, yeah I meander until I’m clean
Just like Keb’ Mo’ I gots ta holla, got them Perpetual Blues
And just like Doc Watson pretty momma, I got them Deep River Blues
Maybe blind to how wide the river is, but only a fool thinks he knows just how deep
That’s deep
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8. |
The Great Divide
03:25
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There’s a river in between, what used to be you and me
Some kind of divine divide, a dark and lonely stream
And at the mouth you will found me, just wading in the deep
So lonely yet so free, it’s just who we choose to be
Drifting out to sea, me falling out of the frames, Out of our lives
Can’t seem to conquer myself, the greatest divide
The greatest divide, the great divide
There’s a mountain in between, what used to be you and me
This damned divine divide, has got me bursting at the seams
In the valley nestled deep, my haggard heart it sleeps
So lonely yet so free, it’s just who we just to be
Drifting off to sea, me failing at my disguise
It seems that I lost you there in this great and grave divide
The greatest divide, the great divide
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Hello again my old friends, see I never fit in with you to begin
And I know you’re out there listening, just stewing your hate and drowning in your
Endless head space debates, I and can relate
Always throwing them stones, in my pathway
I don’t need them, anymore
Got to move like the river, make my own path as I go
Because nothing is going to stop this flow
Once you let it all go
Hello again my old friend, talking to the one that sits inside of my head
Set back and trapped, fretting future and pondering the past
Going nowhere going fast
This is a message to myself, don’t let them stop you
Don’t put that blame on no one else, just keep it moving
Be true to yourself, and no one else
So you want to hold the keys to being set free, well it ain’t about the know
It ain’t about the show, it’s choosing to expose your soul
And just let it go
It’s time we vacate your endless head space debates
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Sure, It's Ok
03:50
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I got my thoughts put up on the fence, smoking tired cigarettes
Waiting for you, just like I always do
Come get lost in the unknown, we’ll travel journaled catacombs
Lost in translation
Looking for a way to say, it will be ok
But how can I honestly say “Everything is Ok”
When I just don’t feel that way, at least not today
No matter how loud I’d scream, there ain’t nobody hearing me
But I continue to scream, and all the pain that it could bring
In a sea of other voices, all competing for your ears,
I’m in the corner unnoticed
Still searching for a way to say “Everything is Ok”
But how can I honestly say “Everything is Ok”
When I just don’t feel that way
Sure, it’s Ok
You know it’s alright
Everything is Ok
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11. |
Great Wall
02:51
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Come on and rise from your fortress
Of emotionless bliss, and try to focus on the notion
Is it as real as this?
At any given moment, you could drop me to my knees
At any given moment, you could cure this disease
Now baby please
You’re neither here nor there, trapped in a parallel
That’s why I climb your wall, in search of it all
See me climbing your wall, somehow I always seem to fall back down
Now your marathon running, from this undeniable truth
I was put here to love you, but for you to love me too
But you don’t well hey that’s cool
You’re neither here nor there, trapped in a parallel
That’s why I climb your wall, in search of it all
See me climbing your wall, somehow I always seem to fall back down
You see me falling down
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12. |
Shakespearean Ascend
03:01
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When you’re strung out on a thought that keeps haunting your head,
It’s four a.m. and you’re out of your bed with no direction to go,
No place to call your own
When you’re walking down the street with your back against the moon,
Not a care in the world you got nothing to do, so you roam
With nowhere to go
This feeling deep inside me, with nowhere to go, no place to call your own
But with the mile markers behind, exposing my soul, touching the world
Out on that road
Well I don’t remember when all of this started, the first breathe I took left me broken hearted
With thirst from birth and a road sick curse
I don’t know why I try so hard to weave the fodder and negative thought that a lot of us talk
We all walk that walk
See I’ve been cursed since my birth, to roam this here earth, singing my words
When the lines of the road lead home, I feel so all alone, with nowhere to go
But back on the road
When you wake up six to the sound of hard rain, it’s beating your soul and pounding your brain
You think to yourself I must be insane
When your float down the river of thought has run dry,
And you’re stuck in a rut just smiling at the sky and you think to yourself
This life is so strange
Before I go I need to be heard, I’m not a part of your herd, that’s just absurd
I’ll live eternal through the pen, a Shakespearean ascend
With no beginning or an end
So now the destination is known, the road is my home
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13. |
Wake Up Call
05:03
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I seek solutions through their poisonous pollutions
And wish to find myself amidst all of this confusion
Ain’t got no answers, only questions, need conclusions
And day by day brings more decay, lives are in ruins
There goes the ringing of the telephone, yea but nobody is home
There goes the ringing of the telephone, yea but nobody is home
Roads keep winding she’s at home alone crying,
He’s on the phone, far from alone, and always lying
She’s making excuses again just trying
And day by day so far away she’s slowly dying
She’s slowly dying
There goes the ringing of the telephone, yeah but nobody is home
There goes the ringing of the telephone, yeah but nobody is home
So people why can’t ya see that it’s time we all just get up,
Turn off TV’s let minds be free come people stand up
This is your wake up call
There goes the ringing of the telephone, yeah but nobody is home
There goes the ringing of the telephone, yeah but nobody is home
Still there ain’t nobody home
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