1. |
Real Put Together
03:14
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I don't know I guess I thought you'd say
"Hey you're looking pretty good today
Got yourself cleaned up
Looking real put together now
Even acting way different now
Somehow I never was enough"
And I don't know I guess I thought you'd probably say
"Hey you never even meant that much
Let's never talk again"
All
I feel
Today
Is a longing I can't recognize
In how
I know
I feel
When I really take the time to stop
And think
We don't talk about Margaret
How she nearly drank herself to death
For the love of her man
We don't think about what should have been
Or anything that could've been
If we'd have just leaned in
And I don't know I guess you'd probably say
:Hey it doesn't really work that way
We can start again"
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2. |
Moon Says
04:06
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One hour
I'll be out of your hair
And I'll spend the weekend
Thinking up ways to leave
But for now on your patio
Resting my arm on the ledge
While out the window
I see the moon in the light of a clear day
And the hardest thing
That I've ever had to do
Was to leave you there
Alone in your living room
Down the road
Another town to call your own
They got your bed made
Kettle whistling on the stove
And night turns to day
So you're thinking that you'll finally stay
And try to make your own way
Relying on the kindness of strangers
But in the morning you're gone
Gone but you left them a note
Well we do whatever
The highway and the blue moon tells us to
They will follow
You wherever you go
Take control now
Let it all come to you
And I'm forgetting
Time's where I found myself
In another state
In a room in a bed on a loop
Where I thought I could hide
With the minimum rate of abuse
And my mind returns
To a place where it knows I belong
And that was summer and love
And home
They will follow
You wherever you go
Take control now
Let it all come to you
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3. |
Last Little Breath
03:09
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It's the song I sing
The search for meaning
In the air that I breathe
Like a hard goodnight
An outbound flight
I know to say goodbye
To lose sight of someone
I know to come undone
At the sight of you
When you want the truth
We've got lists of things
We'd like to see rearranged
Goodbye to whatever I used to think
It only served to drive further away
But I'm afraid
Afraid for my life
Afraid all the time
You were born
Born to survive
Born to give light
To those in need
The ones that can't see
To tell me with ease
To take one last little breath with me
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4. |
Returner
04:01
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Closer to spring
And every living thing
Since then been lame
I've been the same
I bleed you win
You bleed for him
You leave I stay
Forever in May
Return to me, returner
Return to me, returner
Return to me
I'll be singing forever
I don't need it
Anymore I'll be it
The light you gave
The night the day
I'm weak you're strong
You're right , I'm wrong
I'm here you're there
I turned away
It's only fair
Return to me, returner
Return to me, returner
Return to me
I'll be trying forever
Don't you have someplace you'd rather be?
Don't you ever feel the need to stay with me?
And the nights are always cold
Whenever you go
But I try to put myself in your shoes
But I don't know what it takes
I even learned to meditate
And I learned not to wait for you
Can't have someone
All to yourself
We've been over
Old ground covered
Sing me, lover
In all different colors
Our green our gold
Will never grow old
Return to me, returner
Return to me, returner
Return to me
I'll be trying forever
Return to me, returner
Return to me, returner
Return to me
I'll be singing forever
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5. |
Another Story
03:55
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The heart has a rhythm
And I can't keep up
I'm always out of step and out of time
I lost count the second we tried to rhyme
The heart is a river
And I'm a poor swimmer
You keep rolling on around the bend
I'll be sitting with my pen in hand
That doesn't mean that it's never gonna happen
All I see is just another story unraveling
I'm like a car
From the nineteen nineties
That you drove around when you were bored
Riding around in the Midwest
You're like a star
That shines from afar
Every couple of decades
Any excuse that I can see you today
That doesn't mean that it's never gonna happen
Growing more worried as the days are passing
But I got faith
Faith that stranger things have happened to me
Well I reconfigured
My living condition
The things most important were the things left out
Sunday breakfast off the edge of your couch
So I'm gonna lean
Real in
Cause I figured out what's important to me
More or less it was that obvious thing
When I write this down
Will I live it as well?
Only I know the answers and the answers are "Sure
Why not and what the hell?
That doesn't mean that it's never gonna happen
All I see is just another story unraveling
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6. |
Something Something Love
04:04
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I take too much for granted
I ask too much of friends and family
Spend most my nights
Mixing weed and cheap wine
But the only thing that's stuck in my mind
Is you on the roof
Under Christmas lights
Where we talked for hours and then got quiet
Shrug it off all you like
But I've acted most of life
Like there's something close behind
Catching up to me
Tried every way to run
I count myself as lucky
To look it in the eye
And see how very wrong I can be
Something something love
Something something love
Then I'm reminded of you
Whenever I get in these moods
I can be mean and stubborn
Cold and distant
And if there's any kind of lesson
I haven't learned it
I try to make some sense
Try to put it in words
And hope I find the right way to say it
Something something love
Something something love
Something something love
Something something love
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7. |
Don't Carry On
03:17
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Maybe
Don't carry on that way
It's okay
You got a lot to say
But I got a lot to say too
Maybe
We can take turns
Talking
You gotta talk it out
But I gotta talk it out too
Maybe
We can talk for hours
It's okay
I will not get tired
As long as you're here I'm good
But maybe
We can take turns
Talking
About all the things we want
Cause I want a lot of things too
What are we going to do about you
You're always saying things that you know aren't true
Someday soon I'm gonna get over you
Until then what'll I do
Maybe
Don't carry on that way
It's okay
You got a lot to say
But I got a lot to say too
What are we going to do about you
You're always saying things that you know aren't true
Someday I'm gonna get over you
Until then what'll I do
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8. |
Fourth of July
04:56
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Fourth of July
Twenty something
I can still remember the last time I felt this way
It was on your roof
How was that possible
If we found the link
To keep alive the dream
Whatever it takes to get back to that way of thinking
We create it
We find a ladder to the top
What have I become
Doesn't seem so long
Shell of a man I was I have found the terrorists
Staring at the void call off the search boys
And it was all okay
At least you said it was
Your face was disappearing but I was still hearing you
You rose above the din
Your voice is still ringing in my ears
In the dark our love was shining
Brighter than the light above the city we were bathing in
Oh one day this will feel so far away
So just remember me
We can meet here
What would you like
Anything at all
I can help facilitate the passing of time
Even though it feels so wrong
Separating life and poem
It was not the lie
It was not truth
It was just a night and it was all of us together
For the first and last time
We were at the top the whole night
Power outages a tower shouting hate
People everywhere enveloped in a fear
Oh one day this will feel so far away
So stay in my memory
Where we can always meet
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9. |
Everything I Do
03:25
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I can feel the Earth move
I can feel the world breathing down my neck
And I hope you're out there noticing
But I couldn't care less
The weight of all the songs I'm singing
All the live long day only to know what comes next
Are you thinking of what to say
What to do wherever it is that you are
You can't make another list and you can't run away again
So either you or me
Will finally find some peace
Knowing that nothings ever owed or guaranteed
And there's nowhere to go
Nowhere to go
Nowhere to go
From here
But up
And everything I do
I do for you
Everything I do
I do for you
Speak up my man
Bring a song to my ears
You talk to low for anyone to hear
And I am lying to your face
I'm looking past your faith in me and my
Love of the next best thing
The stillness, silence
The space between us
Hurts more than word ever could
But I meant what I said
I don't believe in luck
Or anything that ever comes between us
And there's nowhere to go
Nowhere to go
Nowhere to go
From here
But up
And everything I do
I do for you
Everything I do
I do for you
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10. |
I Know What It Takes
04:17
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This apartment used to mean
Something more than a place to sleep
The couch outside where we would sit
Might as well not exist
A toss up how long it stays away
Or whether or not I stay awake
Here I am colder than you'd think
Mornings spill into the sink
I like to have anyone else to blame
Maybe you or what's his name
Lose all track of time and have someone to miss
But the thought alone now makes me sick
One of these nights I'm gonna sleep
Under the cloud of an older me
It occurs to me like it most have you
That I enjoy a kind of abuse
A juvenile sadness that's the oldest trick in the book
And honestly I never knew what it took
Thinking about what it means to stay
In tune with my surroundings
In the moment and not so far away
Letting things bend not break
Time stopped making sense
Walking in our old neighborhood
I'm confused but focus on the good
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11. |
Tomorrow All Today
04:34
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Well I thought about tomorrow all today
And I don't even know why
Cause you take my breath away with every word that you say
And I don't even know why
My life flashed before my eyes
When I heard you say goodbye
You're leaving on the very next jet plane
And we won't ever be the same
Sometimes I think you really want to be alone
For the rest of your life
Cause you push away from everyone you love
And I don't even know why
What's wrong with living the way that you want
What's wrong with even giving a damn
Well it's taking by breaking it piece by piece
So take it, leave it, leave it in peace
Well I thought about tomorrow all today
And I don't even know why
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Bible Belt Los Angeles, California
Bible Belt is a Bible Belt that's what it is
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