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Tin Can
02:47
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I believe in fairytales
You believe that light
Falling from the window is the prettiest
I believe in saving up,
what's good is yet to come
One foot then the other
You're in a tin can travelling
900 miles
Carried by the theory that
All things come down
I believe in cutting teeth
show them all you're serious
You believe in nothing of the sort
Green glass and garden twine
and improvised excuse
to take the bottle from last night and
put it to some use
You're in a tin can travelling
900 miles
Carried by the theory that
All things come down
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2. |
Come To
03:03
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I wait for the day when he will finally find out
what I'm really like
He could be sweet, you know he has been til now
He could come to
The same conclusion as you
How sweet is release how sweet is just coming home
and the lights are on
I know it won't last by definition, never has
You're gonna laugh when I call
But I won't give up at the start
I won't give up
I won't give up at the start
Besides it'd kill me to live apart
The sky is the color the sound of a car
the shadows break my heart
I messed with you easy but you, you took it so hard
that night you set off the smoke alarms
We all stood out in our clothes it was something like 2
We all stood out
We all stood out in our clothes it was something like 2
We all stood out
We all stood waiting for you, you would never come clean
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Change Her Name
04:56
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10 AM and we're past Chicago
shouldnt've asked if you didn't wanna know
great white shark laid out toe to toe
shouldnt've asked
Indiana had a heartbeat
tried to tell em but it got sunbleached
from my position in the front seat
Indiana had
I never asked, did she change her name?
Did she change it back again
did she make you happy when
Brown mercedes in the car port
it's been sitting there something since '94
so he says but he can't say for sure
the brown mercedes
Little ladies, cinnamon
Big Red ready for any occasion
big or little fat or way too thin
little ladies
I never asked, did she change her name?
Did she change it back again
did she make you happy when
It's a riddle its a blessing its a curse
secrets out in the parallel universe
the rain begins just like the angels rehearsed
I never asked, did she change her name?
Did she change it back again
did she make you happy when
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Parade
03:16
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Take me to the parade of black tshirts
line them up so I can see
Rosewell New Mexico, your band
of wolves and a UFO
Where'd you get that perfect frown?
was it years
or indifference from the first
heavy metal blessing comic curse, the words
tatooed of your heaviest hurts
You always sang from the stage of your own making
sang so that I could hear
She was a lively little thing back when
she could dance and she could sing
picture perfect pixies steely dan, the blessing
you loved her with and open hand
She always sang from the stage of her own making
sang so that you could hear
Say it one more time say it loud it's too good
the white boys underemployed
shelling out for studio time, the works
cardboard box of black tshirts
He always sang from the stage of his own making
sang so that you could hear
right from the heart of his own taking
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Beholding
02:09
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Cloaked in the cover of darkness beholding
adrift alit and asleep
Soft as the skin on a butterfly's finger
soft as the breath of a kiss
Whisper to me of the things you are dreaming
spin for me each cotton thread
start at the end and go straight through til morning
place each of them in my hands
Think of me not as a lover adoring
think of me not as a wish
I am a lion whose hide came from pouring
August inside of a fish
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Shoulderbird Chicago, Illinois
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