1. |
Rough & Ready
03:43
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She says you look a mess
I know that she’s right and its dangerous
I’m a ghost when I want to be, or I can keep it steady
I must walk this line between Rough & Ready
She steps out of her dress
Want in her eyes, and though I must confess
I’m a lot like you, with my feelings showing
But there are things in life better left unknowing
The thing is that I’ve been ready to go
But I’m leaving like the last drunk on the road
And saying bye ain’t letting you go
It’s the only way I know to get back home
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2. |
This Is Wrong
04:32
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Well this is wrong
But we want it so bad to be right
That we deny
And where we belong
Is it so bad that we lie?
Why?
Have we been waiting for so long
Just to watch our lives get on?
I’ve been thinking that I should be long gone
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3. |
Waited A Long Time
04:45
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I’ve seen maps of all the places we can go
With all the traps along the road
So many paths left to follow
Just so, when you ask me how I know
When I tell you that I love you, why I don’t
Think I’m missing anything
And when I think of all the traits I’ve yet to show
With all the wilds I’ve yet to roam
So many miles left to travel
Before I can tell you that I’m sure
And when they ask me how I got this way
I’ll tell them that I waited a long time
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4. |
Fated Son
04:09
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Chorus:
I’ve come to believe it gets easier
The more I realize I’m a fated son
But what I have to decide on my own
Is on which side I belong
I must be out of my mind
or maybe born in the wrong time
because I was the one who got left behind
like the radio and state lines
(chorus)
I think of your god in Gethsemane
If I knelt down beside, would he confide in me?
I think I’d find hope in his misery
And when time to die with dignity
I think he’d say (chorus)
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5. |
Barnburner
04:44
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Barnburner
Should have heard her
Running through the fields
And screaming
Bloody murder
Flames bend
As thought yields
To feeling
Past earner
I preferred her
Rational of thought
But she’s a
Fast learner
Made out with
Nothing that she got
Oh it’s a long way from the sunrise that you hoped
Would light the way through your fears
And now you’ve gone
Set fire to everything you’ve known
And you let it go
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6. |
Idaho
04:48
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You will say that I’m a liar
You will say that I’m afraid
I will give you my desire
You will walk away
And with all that is required
Just to make it through the day
I have set my heart on fire
For that soothing blaze
So when you hear me on the wire
And my passionate display
Hope it weakens your Ire
Hope it dulls your rage
Chorus:
When you go
I don’t know
Where I belong
Anymore
So I will stay
In the sad, lonesome state
Of Idaho
Yes I remain
In the sad, lonesome state
Of Idaho
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7. |
Indian Summer
03:34
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You saw me walking like a ghost
Up that eastern coastline straight to you
I was feeling kind of lost
A rebel without a cause
And I guess that’s why I fell into
The kind of escape
That can only be made
In an Indian summer
In a nowhere place
With the furthest of lovers
Yeah I was sinking like a stone
Cold, dark and so alone
You were the kind of light
I looked up to
Now in knowing that you’re gone
I can get to moving on
From this darkened lake I stare through
Race the sunrise
Get away from mistakes
That can only be made
In an Indian summer
In a nowhere place
With the furthest of lovers
Who’ve wasted their hopes on you
What am I to do?
I can still see your face
Feel your warm embrace
But times they have changed
Lovers estranged
Unknowable pain
Of heartbreak and shame
But now that these truths are told
That’s the end of this broken road
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8. |
Straight To The Bottom
03:58
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Chorus:
I won’t go, no I won’t go
Straight to the bottom
Of the Ohio
No I won’t go
Straight to the bottom for you
Straight to the bottle for you
Straight to the bottom
I’m afraid it doesn’t matter what you think
It only matters how you play
The most ridiculous of games
In which you give yourself away
To those who pander and they prey
And don’t you know they’d have their way
If you were sinking to your grave?
(chorus)
Because I know I’m all alone
You’ll find there’s no waiting in line
For tickets to my suicide show
I hear they’re looking for those
(chorus)
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9. |
Erosion
06:20
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Big River flowing
Love it never stops going
But this erosion never leaves
Without you knowing
Love it never stops growing
With you in my heart I am free
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10. |
Faded Glory
06:33
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I want to be the strand
That guides you through the noise
The modern world began
From which we still enjoy
Freedom from consequence
Without our hearts employed
You follow rope in hand
Another broken boy
Who’s going to be a man
Unlike the ones you knew
He’ll never understand
What they put you through
When you’d dream of wonderland
Far from fear and sorrow
Where only light expands
Before this darkness swallowed
So here we are again
As if we had a choice
Our churches turn to sand
I lead with shaking voice
Devoid of confidence
With former selves destroyed
But you hold in glowing hand
The king of modern toys
I found a flame at last
That’s burning the same hue
And though a distance vast
It almost seems see-through
Just like that looking glass
From your favorite story
And though that moment’s past
Here’s its faded glory
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