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Have the 80s spilled their curse over my night?
Have we woke up early fumbling for a light?
With a mile of mist and a fist I need to fight
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minor me
it's the legend of the western sky
I could be
no elementary slim coat guy
mind on meat
you got a lotta nervous working
sell your deeds
tell them luck is falling from trees
no life complete till you belong
and I'm coming home
you got a leader in me
I'm talkin bout the silly shit
that you need to remember where you came from honey
and oh I know you'll remember where you came from
with me
out on the beach
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I wish you'd make your silence a hello
(just so you know)
and push all pain violence out the door
(whether weather is outside)
and stash it all in a box and put it where you never go
and leave me without trying
shut the door
since then I've been living with a lump in my throat
since then I've been living alone
so keep your bloody frames on those high hopes
some friends will tell you
some friends will help you with a smile
(whether weather is outside)
some friends will buy you drinks
some friends will let you be alone
never gonna leave you
I need you
won't keep you
I'd meet you in a dump
and what could be amends if all your naked miles cut your bones?
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that guy calling you inside
my size
longer waistline
no I can't think forward
it's piled high on my shoulders
laugh lines: a gift from always
no sign of slips and palsy
don't mind
it's them that's changing
cuz I'll fight and kick for your love
to keep you satisfied
in the back nine of your life
and no one
could look you in the eye
in the back nine of your life
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north perfume in the reading fields
meadowed to your eye
it won't take us long
gotta lean full speed on my searching heels
spread across the sky
why? we're gonna get away with this one
all of last night flies out the back of my mind
fading from the times like a song
gotta beat that heat not hide from the street gonna dive into the world/whirl
we're gonna get away with this one honey
and don't the river will be going till your liver won't last you ask me we gonna get away this one?
keep your wide eyes off of my backside and I'll keep mine of your thighs and we'll ride like a song
with some old steel wool scrape the coals of the grill it'll wipe of like a fine wine
we're gonna get away with this one
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never gonna reach that tower
keeping in my office hours
sweating like a beach bleached mother lying about the clock
and other men could do this better
academic and blue collar
never gonna say I bother sighing about to rock n roll
(paying rent)
slow purpose in my blood
(makin ends meet)
every morning I wake up
(stayin in bed)
no words can beat the stuff
I think about enough
whether weather's bringing mud or rain
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manners too slow can I bring you a salmon egg from the grass? never could show caught in my hand cuz I couldn't afford it's time for light and speak fast man I know that it's off it's terror to show where you been where you're going oh I won't get back there won't get in there I wanna be your need to fret stare on the go it keeps you flirting keeps you working it's terror to know where you been where you're going it's time for light and speak fast man I know that it's all terror to show where you been where you're going
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he landed softly where they long for great escape
he lived in offices in towers
he had his coffee weeks and alcohol fridays
he never added up his hours
oh would i think about you now?
there'd be hell to pay
oh would you ever live it down?
so turn your cheek if "can't believe it" is your first say
what longer goners livin sour at the bar say
he saw his sheets and never better if he don't say why
what a rifle lonely and a flask and a song say
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turning wheels roll away
i'm just lounging on a sunny summer day
made a meal on the way
break the seal on a sunny summer day
ways to feel all the same
pay-per-real every day
i'm not an addict
not automatic
keep it real keep away
we're just lounging on a sunny summer day
melting plastic off my face
far from the future on a sunny summer day
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surround me in the middle
i got a lotta little things like
things memphis a toy elvis and the blues
go easy when you see me
it's not so hard to feel uneasy
so don't tell me you won't tell me the truth
i try being awful
i lie to be normal
you like me when i'm close to you
so many kinds of power
the minute of the hour honey
don't scold me just hold me til we're through
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heard you went back it wasn't the same
it's never gonna be happy recess and laughing days again
took a look then i took it away
there's nothing glad about empty halls and forgotten names
local anchor hasn't been the same
since we drank away autumns slept away summers and paid for it
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tune the 6th to E
sing "you belong to me"
tune the 5th to A
sing "love's just a game"
tune the 4th to D
sing "love will set you free"
i dont wanna sing that song
i dont wanna sing a bad song
tune the 3rd to G
sing what i wanna be
tune 2nd to B
sing who i wanna see
tune the first to E
sing something rhymes with me
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no wistful needle smile
could turn my white lips around
fuck Edwin
Mr style
and fuck his i mother earth song pile
no wistful serial smile
could turn my cracked lips around
keep on the million miles
you got enough guile in that smile
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oh merry lows
you say you're going to America
you never let a moment own you
unless it belonged to somebody else
and every puff could kill you
whatever cut's been yawning in your heart
and every note could fill you
whatever cut's been yawning in your heart
oh hey no way
oh hey no way
you'll find a reason back to Canada
if only problems could complete you
you'll find a reason back to somewhere else
and on your way
you'll notice something that you won't forget
it's not ability to kill you
unless the Carolinas fill your lungs
and every puff could kill you
whatever cut's been yawning in your heart
and never enough to fill you
whatever cut's been yawning in your heart
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released June 3, 2010
