1. |
Bleary Eyes
03:40
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Living free and easy
Let the wine drip down and stain the lazy chair
You heard a ghost, but nothing’s there
Thrust into tomorrow
Forced out of bed by the buzzing and the chiming
Feels bad, but we’re surviving
Bleary eyes, what does it take to realize
You got your whole life laid out in front of you?
Silver dawn, won’t you sing another song?
You got your whole life to play those lonely blues
Drove out to the country
To that frigid realm of cattails and clouds of sawdust
To start a fire, but no-one saw us
Living like an echo
Of the places and the thoughts you left behind you
No-one now to confess to
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2. |
Theseus
02:54
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Looking to the shoreline and we’re almost halfway there
There’s a monarch on your shoulder but there’s winter in the air
I never felt so low as I was on that astral plane
Theseus and Asterius just standing in the rain
To be slain as quickly as they
Came on down the line
Cigarettes and wine
Living like it’s 1199
Written in the scripture of a thousand empty cans
Is a contract between your liver and your social life’s demands
I never felt to innocent as at that plaza door
Theseus and Dionysus passed out on the floor
To be sure, I miss them and their
Love of the afterlife
No misery or strife
Theseus, he loved the afterlife
But now we’ve gotta walk away
Into a brand new
Now we’ve gotta walk
Away, away, away
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3. |
Tennessee
03:57
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Darling, you left me with no-one to hold by my side
In this big empty rock n’ roll club where our love died
Watching a cover band butcher “Sweet Jane” just because
We sat on the steps by the stage, you said “this ain’t enough,”
“I want to see mountains and streams and rivers and meadows,”
“I’m so sick of the asphalt, concrete and guitar-slinging bros,”
“I’m heading to Knoxville then down to southern Tennessee.”
She said with a laugh and a sigh, “I can’t take my baby with me.”
She said “I can’t take my baby with me,”
“Down to Tennessee.”
“I know you belong with your kind,”
“So I’ve gotta leave you behind,”
“And frankly, I’m sick of your games,”
“Your reckless and rowdy old ways,”
“It’s better that we were apart,”
“Because baby, you’re breaking my heart.”
She walked out so quickly it knocked me right off my feet
The bartender said to me, “Son, you’ve had too much to drink.”
I’ve been pissing my life away strumming this beat up guitar
My baby just crossed the state line
And I’m on the floor of this bar
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4. |
Robes of White
03:28
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I fell asleep in the backseat of your car
As you drove us to the naval station train
Living on caffeine from a pack of yellow pills
So I could wander sleepless through the rain
The leather tannery and the sky so full of smog
Glared down upon the demolition crews
The march of progress turned
The river slowly burned
And some of us would see it on the news
The party people tried to do what’s right
Flowing so freely in their robes of white
But they just can’t contain the blinding light
They shipped the work down south
To Indiana’s gaping mouth
Where power poles and cottonwoods decay
A lake was once so deep
Now a puddle on the street
Where children in the slag debris would play
I watched the world turn
From the northern county line
Where innocence and beauty were for sale
I marveled at your drugs
Bought from suburban thugs
Just miles from the crowded county jail
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5. |
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Feels like this is the end
Where you fall right out of your throne
On the streets of your old Milwaukee
Where you made your new permanent home
Dying, it’s never so easy
But to some it’s fun as hell
Reading last rites on a Saturday night
Boy, I wish you well
And for the years I spent
Thinking you knew what you were doing
I have my regrets
You always knew where to find me
In the gutter of your plans
In the trees of an ancient forest
Turned into a lumber stand
You claw at the gates of heaven
But the gods won’t let you in
You’ve been shattered by the expectation
That we’d always win
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6. |
County Line Interlude
00:30
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7. |
I Don't See You Anymore
04:02
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I see your face out in the hollows
I hear you rapping at the door
All those sacred lines you gave us
Do you believe them anymore?
My king, where did you go?
Can we find you? I just don’t know
Have you retreated too far into your own
Egotistical decay?
Algorithmic day to day?
I don’t see you anymore when I look into your face
Always stayed up until the sunrise
Talking your philosophy
Orbited by crooks and angels
Seeing patterns in the green
My man, what did you find?
Was it worth it to leave all of us behind?
Will you come back now, or are you lost to the
Pulsing interstellar light?
MAGA forums late at night?
I don’t see you anymore when I look into your eyes
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8. |
Profits Are Made
02:38
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The profits are made
Way off in the shade
So far apart from human feeling
Where we die by the blade
Centuries old
Time standing still
In the crevasse of creature comfort
I’ll admit it’s a thrill
Can we laugh until we die?
Can we sing without saying goodbye?
Forgetting what was
Facing a cliff
Lit up by the land of the dying embers
But the past is a myth
Fully erased
In time and in space
Looking for anything of value
As you drift through your place
Feeling high
Getting low
Giving in to the fires below
Don’t you see the bastard company
Burning off their fat so wild and so free
We can shed our skin but they will hunt us down
Feeding frantically, their teeth scraping the ground
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9. |
When You Come Around
02:59
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When you come around in the late summer dawn
I fall backwards into my room
Because honey, you thought you were me
And I thought I was you
The cheapest embraces
And far-away faces of friends who forgot about you
Just swim through your mind
As our bodies entwine in the gloom
Honey, I know that you wanted to be so far
From where I was with you
Some silver linings can keep you afloat
Until the clouds just disappear too
But you’ve gotta believe
One day you will see
Your far-away mind and your body reclined
Bring me back to such happier days
Because lately I feel like I’m stumbling into a haze
I wanted to show you that life isn’t always like this
And you’ll find a new way
One day you will leave
And you’ll forget my song and my name
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10. |
Vogue Beauty
04:00
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A vogue beauty right before my eyes
You’ve got a name I could memorize
I like your hair and you like mine too
Girl, I wanna dress up with you
Would you kiss me in a denim shirt?
Tell me baby, is it gonna hurt
When I fall so hard for you?
You’re the future I can see into
Baby, you’ve got style
And I want to see you shine
I could model your designs
If you will model mine
I like your freaky runway walk
I like your filthy pillow-talk
When the fellas say “Who is she?”
You know I can’t deny my jealousy
But you’re my baby and I’m your man
Through the seasons we go hand in hand
Into thrift stores and new boutiques
Hopping on a plane at the end of the week
Canvas bags filled with shirts
At the outlet mall down on 71st
It’s all so cheap, it’s such a deal
Now come on babe, we got something real
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11. |
Fires
02:04
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Fires away from civilization
Are testing the limits of everyone’s patience
They glow and they smoke
Like it’s all just a joke
Like some devil on the wind
Losing my cool in the heat of the country
With embers that spark up and float all around me
I’m fine and I’m sane
But there’s still so much pain
In just trying, every day
A life half-lived in the city
Half in the arctic wastes
I’ve got to try to live for tomorrow
If I can see beyond today
Leave it to me to be calm and collected
Just pushing my paper where I am directed
I sweat and I save
In my dark little cave
And then burn it all away
The smoldering winter of civilization
Just hastened by rats at the top of the nation
They post and they shout
And they’re plunging their clout
Like a sword into the flame
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12. |
County Line Outro
00:45
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