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What I've Done
03:56
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Driving east through Alabama
and its rainy and its cold
see the world through dirty windows
waiting for the sun to show
And the road is a black ribbon
through a pretty woman's hair
that i've seen from every angle
without finding something there
So take from me my worry
as my life will take its own
my hands have hurt no others
just my eyes know what i've done
The morning light looks different
but every day ends just the same
and the road goes on forever
for those who got stuck or couldn't change
but don't break me with your pity
my hands have hardened into this
i live a life that some would envy
i live a life that's what it is
So take from me my worry
as my life will take its own
my hands have hurt no others
just my eyes know what i've done
just my eyes know what i've done
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2. |
Caroline
07:13
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...and then the rains they came
from thick unbroken clouds
and washed out all the names
from tired little towns
and summers gone away to some California coast
hey i don't mind, i never saw here around much anyway
but i cannot be stilled
it's coursing through my veins
the songs that never lived, the songs that stayed the same
they turned around the truth, knocked you from your feet
the world was on your back and you wouldn't carry that weight
Caroline you should have captured their hearts while you still could
but you just threw it away, did you really think you'd live forever
Caroline?
And one by one they fell
barely clinging to their names
technology overflowing
until it was flowing from their brains
Nobody knew the words, nobody knew to sing
nobody had the time to talk about it anyway
Caroline you should have captured their hearts while you still could
but you just threw it away, did you really think you'd live forever
Caroline?
they all just sold you down the line
and now your looking for forgiveness every time you shut your eyes
but your faded and old, did they never tell you?
Caroline you should have captured their hearts while you still could
but you just threw it away, did you really think you'd live forever
Caroline?
Caroline you should have captured their hearts while you still could
but you just threw it away, did you really think you'd live forever
Caroline?
you should just throw it away
did you really think that you'd live forever?
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3. |
New Day
03:24
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Every day is like a new day
the sun has broken through the night's haze
i drink my coffee from a big cup
and i ain't ever gonna get up, get up
If i was a writer well i'd lay around
smoking cigarettes and thinking about
the life i'd live if i was someone else
if love was lost and i was by myself
by myself
But your love it is a mountain stream
what's rough and rocky turns the valley green
and just to love you is not enough
I just want to drink you up, drink you up
So my head is heavy and my tongue is slow
but i just want to call to let you know
your words weren't wasted baby i'm doing ok
and every day is like a new day
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4. |
April
03:05
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You smile's been broken by 100 cloudy days
you say your heading down to California
because the living is easy there, nobody knows your name
but its only time before they find you
You just can't name your enemies
when you don't know what they've done
you get so strung out on all their gossip
it becomes your only source of fun
But April you're doing fine
writing down your column in the Portland times
listening to the records of the friends you've known
trying to hear their stories and the truths they've told
And the sun falls fast in the winter sky
but these clouds are going to stay a while
try your best to show a smile
April
It get so dark down there, in your basement room
sometimes its days before the sun shines
and you get so tired, and your bed fits like a womb
sometimes its hard to see the point in trying
But you stay that way when you stay alone
you don't answer the door, you don't pick up the phone
and the smoke turns the room a hazy blue
those habits, they fall over you
But April you're doing fine
writing down your column in the Portland times
listening to the records of the friends you've known
trying to hear their stories and the truths they've told
And the sun falls fast in the winter sky
but these clouds are going to stay a while
try your best to show a smile
April
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5. |
Kangaroo Lake
03:35
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Busted in Bellingham, waiting on a friend
watching the headlights through the mist and the rain
and i wouldn't stay if i was given a choice
but i'm cold and flat, just like the sound of your voice
when you promised to go straight
and i waited their for you on Kangaroo lake
Even the morning sun seems tired and cold
pick up a paperback just for something to hold
but the words aren't clear, and the language unkind
and i'm staring at those pages until i think i'm losing my mind
and the hours growing late
and i wish i could see you on Kangaroo lake
And to say this is easy is to say you don't know
and there's nothing to talk about
seeing life through your eyes
everything's black and white
well i was never that kind
Just give some kind of sign that your still alive
send me a picture, a postcard, just drop me a line
because i didn't know that this was our final goodbye
i should have seen, but i was barely getting by
and you don't negotiate
and i wish i could see you on Kangaroo Lake
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6. |
Abilene
03:51
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Abilene, inside of me
misunderstood and cruel
a casual slip betrays my point of view
I can see for miles and miles
but i can never call your name
Oh Abilene, too many sunny skies
I'd leave this town, i'd forget your skin
forget your name and everything
but you let me down, left me hanging around
like some strange fruit from a tree
I'm afraid to sleep, afraid to walk these streets
for the day they'll find me out
there would be no sympathy for ones like me around
So nevermore, your hurried breath
because you would never compromise
Oh Abilene too many sunny skies
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7. |
Ordinary People
05:29
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Punctured, painted
spoiled and jaded
rebellion by numbers, your studied subculture
is pulling you down
and your digging desperately to get into the underground
your friendships, they're like fanzines
all missions and pipedreams
they sparkle at midnight, but come morning they quickly fade away
Claire we've got nothing to fear
my car is running in a moment we'll be out of here
All of my friends are pretty and thin
sleep through the day and wake up to the moon again
don't think i'm unkind if your world is not mine
and you are ordinary people
So take off your makeup
and take off your california rags
your skin seems familiar
its speaks in words much clearer than you'll realize
Claire we've got nothing to hide
we stand hear naked like two virgins waiting for the crime
All of my friends are pretty and thin
sleep through the day and wake up to the moon again
don't think i'm unkind if your world is not mine
and you are ordinary people
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8. |
Cinnamon
04:33
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The sun has a way of going straight to my head
i get hazy and lazy, can't get from my bed
so i lay there and stare at your seraphim hair for a while
and its crawling and creeping and covering my skin
i can't breathe, i can't see, find anything
except your lips and your tongue and we're moving as one
here as one
Just let me lay in your bed for a while
i'm drunk and i'm happy inside of you
and if this thing will help get you through
if it gets you through
it gets you through
then there's nothing else more i will do
So your body is blushing like blood from a rose
its zipless and perfect like obsidian stone
from the flush of your skin to the secrets within
here within
Just let me lay in your bed for a while
i'm drunk and i'm happy inside of you
and if this thing will help get you through
if it gets you through
it gets you through
then there's nothing else more i will do
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9. |
Sir Robert Scott
02:51
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Well sir Robert Scott did someone break your heart
and send you on out in the cold
to the ends of the world on a Manchurian pony
four men who believed every word that you said
Sir Robert Scott you're a different sort
and you had the whole world on your back
you carried that load like a good Christian soul
to plant England's flag deep in the Antarctic soil
but somebody beat you and now you don't know
you say "My god, my god has left me behind,
Forsaken, forgotten in this ice and this snow
i'm getting weaker and i will not write anymore"
Sir Robert Scott you set back for your ship
for your men they were hungry and tired
and you're not to blame for the blizzard that came
eleven miles out from your food and your bed
Sir Robert Scott lay your head down to sleep
its ten years that are wasted and gone
lay down for a while let the warmth overcome you
and wait for the summer to come,
because that's when they'll come back around
you say "My god, my god has left me behind,
Forsaken, forgotten in this ice and this snow
i'm getting weaker and i will not write anymore"
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10. |
Susan
04:31
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Susan's floating weightless through the atmosphere
the sunlight makes it hard to see her
not far to go until the is floating out of here
the sunlight makes her skin translucent
and every single fiber twisting
every neuron firing in me
all my blood in constant motion
every breath i take
thoughts roll like a fire engine
strings of words but no intention
hey will you remember me
when you have lost your head?
Lost the date must be the mid of may
Because you can see the lilacs blooming
falling into catacombs corralled in sleep
and absence fills the empty space
until the scent itself seems out of place
and every single fiber twisting
every neuron firing in me
all my blood in constant motion
every breath i take
thoughts roll like a fire engine
strings of words but no intention
hey will you remember me
when you have lost your head?
Its only in the silence that you move in me
my blood runs red and i can feel you
sifting through the quiet of the afternoon, the trees they bend and sway
they have no knowledge, but there's something in the way
and every single fiber twisting
every neuron firing in me
all my blood in constant motion
every breath i take
thoughts roll like a fire engine
strings of words but no intention
hey will you remember me
when you have lost your head?
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