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The Long Run
08:08
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There's a lighthouse on every corner of Carolina
Drive two hours from anywhere, and you'll see one
Standing proudly, watching over the black waves
Under a black sky, thinking about the long run
Handing my trumpet to a qualified repair man
Says "there's not much left in this one
Only good for random bleats of triumphance"
Well those are gonna help me in the long run
There will always be a need
For folks like me
Even though they tell us that we're
Going out of style
So hold me tighter as I ignore the calls
From my mother who's worried about her son
There will come a day when I tell her I'm happy like this
'Cause keeping secrets wont help me in the long run.
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2. |
We Have To Leave Home
04:33
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I know a lot about impostors
A lot about knowing about impostors
A lot about knowing about philosophy
A lot about the Benefits of You and Me
Benefits we have to leave home for
We have to leave
They pulled the finish line closer
So we could die young like we read
We can die fast, hand in hand
We can die alone like we planned
A plan we have to leave home for
We have to leave
"Sensitive Pornograph"
Lines across my chest again
Lines arbitrarily tossed
Lines that we need to cross
A crossing we have to leave home for
We have to leave.
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3. |
Woodchuck
02:43
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Apocalypse has come and gone
And we are not satisfied
Woodchuck, chucked out, clocked out, gone
And into the depths of the deep-fried
Pinched a nerve and it bled all over
Now I'm out on the curb
Have you heard the word?
"We survive, I'm alive"
I wrote your name in the sand
And watched it float away
Death by train track
Foretold by cliche
Severed toe and out in the cold
New York, you're beautiful, don't change!
Homeless on the range
"We survive, I'm alive"
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4. |
Death of Valley Folk
03:32
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I like my coffee with a little bit of raindrop
I herd my children away until the rain stops
They're trying to drive us away from our home
We put wheels on the bottom of our house last night
Little Johnny, spreading warpaint, looking for a fight
They're trying to drive us away from our home
Hide away
Better soon then never
Our picks and our tenderloins
Frost bitten fiery weather
Better hide away
Valley family
Sun spot, son, stop, the man is here for what is his
Your new family can raise you righter up than this
They're trying to drive us away from our home
Send word, send note, a different address every day
By crow, by blow, by any other faster way
They're trying to drive us away from our home.
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5. |
Beautiful, Once
04:17
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They took my heart away
My nylon strings, my timpanis
They took my home away
My equal living, my symphonies
Oh my dear sweet countryside
You were beautiful once
Now it's time to hide
Oh my dear sweet local boy pride
You were beautiful once
Now it's time to hide
Carolina cares about us all
My simple pleasures, my fantasies
Carolina cares about us all
My hidden measures, my tragedies
Oh my dear sweet dying boys
You were beautiful once
Now it's all destroyed
Oh my reverb, my modulated noise
You were beautiful once
Now it's all destroyed
Don't tell me that it's too late
We can save them, we have the technology
Oh my dear sweet piano shack
You were beautiful once
Now I want it back
Oh my head colds, a whooping hack
You were beautiful once
Now I want it back
Oh my dear sweet countryside...
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6. |
Ghost Blood
05:52
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Bossgaze, bossgaze, I'm lazy these days
Can't keep up with the death rays
Can't keep down the voices of
Men pregnant with choices and
Women fighting for one
Only twenty one, gotta have fun
I'm gonna die soon, midnight's son
"I'm gonna live" I shout into
An upturned spout and blew
All my blood away
Ghost bleeding, that's how it rains
Ghost blood powering electric trains
Ghost blood slowing down the process
Of men too prolonged with success
To know we fight to win.
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Bethesda Theme no. 2
05:04
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Spent little engine
Slow down, sleep
Lower attention
Six thousand sheep
Oh Bethesda, fountain bound
Serenity, bow down
Go go quiet go go dancer
Tights untightened, relax
Shit, shower, shaved for the answe
Diapers on flour sacks
Oh Bethesda, fountain bound
Serenity, bow down
I keep hitting you when you sleep
Every move I make in the bed
We need a bigger one and I
Need more room in my head
Oh Bethesda, heaven bound
Serenity, bow down
I keep missing you when you sleep.
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8. |
Satan In Amber
05:32
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I can't rely on my memory
Memories of ponds filled up again
And the roads underneath them
Haunt my thoughts like mountain men
Skyhook hooked me and carried me away
Trapped Satan in amber and buried him
I wake up on our wedding day
A thousand lips chanting "you shouldn't have married him"
But God is on my side
I'm a short drive
Off a long cliff, you knew that
My feet are torn to shreds
A ticking pipe bomb under my heat
Skyhook hooked me and brought me to Heaven
In your hair I fall asleep and sleep for days
I wake up to a yelling screen
A thousand articles saying I'll be back to my old ways
But God is on my side
God is on my side.
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Other Burlington
05:00
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I fear the hearts of men are falling
Other Burlington, outer calling
And the skylights and the skyhooks
Work together
These our latter days we know
Other Burlington, through the snow
The forecasts calls for a recount
About the weather
A great depression now is spreading
Other Burlington, we're heading
For burnt ceilings and washed out floors
We still walk on
God's word declared it would be so
Other Burlington, another show
Tire stores and answering machines
We still talk on
I'm going where there's no depression.
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al Riggs Durham, North Carolina
Sad Songs For, About, And Written By Birds
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