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tysm
01:04
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thank you for coming to the show
i was kind of scared everyone would want to stay home
so i practiced hard and i didn't write a song
so
im singing the first one that comes along
here is the twenty-first song of the year
i appreciate everyone coming with ears to lend and helping hands
so thank you for coming once again
i love to write the songs but it feels good to play them
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20,000'
02:15
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sweet conditional love
show me what youre afraid of
and ill be yours
when im enough
sweet conditional love
grey is gone
those days we prayed for
holding on to what we saved for.
something small
and not yet here
sweet love
theres always next year
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3. |
tangerine
03:51
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4. |
take the ∆∆∆
04:10
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gonna take a holy war to figure me out
then a couple hundred more to bring me down
i wont
i swear i wont
let it happen,
i wont
i said i wont
quit that bible thumping passage you pull
to fill the bucket that has always been full
i dont
i swear i dont
think its easy
i dont
i said i dont
sit around perched on your throne
wait on the massive masses to bring you their bones
i wont
i swear i wont
wait forever with you
i wont
i said i wont
extra-ordinary stories you tell
not just the old sense
the new one as well
they're all just so basic
youre pouring bull shit from your finger tips
fuck the freedom if its keeping you down
and if you want it man then you take the crown
ive said
all that i should
we both saw how it fit me no good
now everyone's a stranger
everyone ive met
and if im really such a good man
whys there no one left
blueprints in the basement
cold and tactical
and if im really making waves here
why does no one ever call
youve got such nice teeth
aand lots of pretty things
youve got such nice teeth and no one to eat
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5. |
houses and houses
05:44
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wanting for nothing and hearing the birds sing
highways at twilight and smoke from the chimney
rest in my own be and waking up next to you
your blood is so sure and i think i can be too
but when im too drunk and lonesome and i sing out of key
i cant play these songs right but it doesnt bother me
because you love me simply
bare-boned and pure
when im at my worst i know its not easy
i hide in my own world and hope you forgive me
and it comes in waves of grace like sunlight after winter's spent his rage how you understand me
and who i think i can be too
when we have our house i n the country with room for your garden and a working fireplace
i dont think ill care too much how the single sold
or how we got so old
if you still love me
and if my temper should enter you laugh right in his face
and send him retreating because he doesnt have a place here
and i know when you kiss me you dont care who i used to be
you love me simply bare-boned and pure
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6. |
say what you mean
03:57
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i drank in hiding
i placated soul
i played for a sea of vacant faces in a plastic fog
that young wisdom you come across
when you feel all alone
hide your face and let that fear control
say what you mean
say what you wont
tell em something
that youre scared you know
baffle minds and crack the sky
sing what you've sung all along
hold the world
youve never been alone
this is the future that you warned us of
no its not
this is the you that they warned us of
no it cant be
this is the hell that they swore would come
no its not
this is the future that you warned us of
my head keeps spinning
pull out all the rules
like who i am or what i cant say like words arent mine to chose
the simplest of problems
seems impossible to solve
kill that voice it wasnt there at all
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7. |
cave dweller
03:20
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whats to wonder as the ocean is blinding
sunlights dancing and it held me there
i want a lover who goes swimming in the city
crowds around me and they cut my hair
meta-thinkers in your pools of romance
all your wisdom always sounds like shit
conductors wear the suits and pull your strings
i had a million and i let go of it
i am an american centennial wastoid
a cave dweller in the digital age
waking up and it feels like dying
i dont belong until i draw the shades
but your eyes
your eyes look just fine
we braved the winter in a color cut blanket
we drank the river til the river ran dry
painted pete moss and the sweet smell of pine trees just kids out on the country side
now im in manhattan on a monday morning
i smoke a dozen and i still hate the taste
i try to talk to people who dont like me
and wonder what i gain from their distaste.
i am an american centennial trainwreck
writing songs the way they've always been
waking up and it feels like dying
was it me or was it something i said
but your eyes
your eyes look just fine
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8. |
B L V D. Bliss
04:32
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got a pile a mile wide
stacked on the desk
a fresh shave and after balm in an old suit i just pressed
51 now the hard parts done
states from penn yann
a couple groups to avoid i think i called them friends once
but its all for the best i made it out
without being a drunk or killing myself
i used to hop the fence every night
run until my lungs were heaving
dreaming i was driving all the cars gone by
off to find something to believe in
i did my time on the national line
and i cam home clean
lost a couple in the metal that swarmed and fed the rest to the factory
but giving up arent words i use
i went to work
i burned my youth
hitched up the first one i could
and nine months later we had you
i want boulevard bilss
i want my own rules
that white picket fence and skies that are so blue
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9. |
feel the bern
03:50
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wait until the morning comes so nothing's overlooked friend
yes im sure thats what youre called so sure i wont be wrong again
oh i know its
been so long but
one by one
things keep going wrong
life is flat and so's the sky you once had filled with dreams man
money's gone your friends moved on you still have no degree man
oh i kow
this cant happen to
anyone as real as you
but oh well.
drink all day and marvel at the summer that you waistband
stuff it in your pocket til its wrinkled up and tastes bad
oh i know
its ending faster
than either of us imagined
but oh well
burnt the earth and killed the rain you watched it as it happened
saw them ordinate the president the country bled red
oh i know
its out of your hands but what if
maybe you took a stand
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10. |
morning breaks
03:58
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crowd of kids with your hair all did
man you look so nervous
its all gravy til the moneys gone baby
then its over with
its all the same man those winds of change
you bought us with
its all gravy til the trucks stuck baby
then its over with
now i got $1.75
just smoked my last cigarette
i hope that its for good this time
morning breaks with a gin headache
novacaine
it was so easy when it felt worth keeping
now its burdening
im wide awake on a pointless day
those suicide machines
it was so easy when i felt like screaming now no one wants to dream
i got $1 and 70 due
ill just keep handling my own shit that no obne know im going through
but im a canvas who's approval do i need
i wrote a record and i fucked the whole company
whats the matter
now its shattered and its over
givce it up man youre only getting older
but you want to live in the golden age
before the fall when all they said was
sorry what you made just isnt good enough
for us
its a funny feeling when a dream you never owned gets stolen
the promises you told yourself amount to shit and now its over
this is the sound of a mind gone wild and violent
blame it on whatever
then take the parts of you you hate and hide it
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one final load of heaving timber
broke the horses back
now im a wreck
treading water
wearing my good clothes to bed
in the old days
id be bringing heat to a knife fight
id be yelling blue in the face when the rain came down
or grabbing for the heels of a western town
but we don't
have to
sing to-
gether
no
we dont
have to
think to-
gether
it all goes on
and i wish it would stop
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12. |
stars collide
05:16
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last night i saw stars collide
in a brilliant supernova
that rained down golden skies
and i wondered if their parents knew
after all the hell that they went through
what happens when stars collide
do they keep all of the pictures,
and wear each others tee shirts?
do they owe each other money?
what happens when stars collide
do they dream of playing big league ball or just coming off the high
do they count the days
since they lost track of time
could it burn forever
would it kill you if it died
do they talk about the good years
do they talk at all
do they owe each other money
all that it takes to be is to do
all that it takes to see is the truth
and i can change
when our work is over our world is over
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13. |
see you soon!
02:59
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brent martone Buffalo, New York
retired buffalo rock star releases records to the void
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