1. |
Travel Song
05:39
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I’m packing very light
For a three AM train ride
To see a friend, take a tour or two
And if my calculations are right
Its been too long since I’ve seen you
And too long since I’ve loved anyone
Since I’ve loved anyone
Nothing much has changed
Except I’ve slightly aged
And missed a couple flights
Avoiding every stage
Avoiding all that’s right
The locomotive makes it ‘round
As I move through aching towns
Tomorrow’s here, it’s not here for them
Surrounded by those you love
What a foreign concept:
Unfamiliar streets and strangers
That’s more like it
Does she look the same?
And did she change her name?
Is her brother doing fine?
Is she still playing games?
Still just killin’ time?
She was a wanderer
A wayward hitchhiker
Who stumbled straight into my home
The timing was wrong so she didn’t stay long
In the morning she left me alone
As each day passes, I forget her face
All I’ll remember is her shape
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2. |
Few Summers Back
07:38
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I think one day a few summers back
I may have had a heart attack
One quiet morning, while in the woods
As I laid in the grass, head in my hood
I think I hit my head on a rock
At the bottom of a stream
My family must’ve had quite a shock
When they realized
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3. |
18 Years
08:16
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Air was humid and your tongue was dry
18 years in a blink of an eye
Sky was gray and your shoes were worn
Happiness is an eye in the storm
One more year of waiting
One more thing to hold onto
Still unsatisfied, waiting for the eye
Air was humid and your tongue was dry
18 years and you’re barely alive
One more year of waiting
One more year to hold onto
Still unsatisfied, unsatisfied, unsatisfied
One more year of waiting
One more year to hold onto
Still unsatisfied, unsatisfied, unsatisfied
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4. |
Unfamiliar Streets
04:24
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The streetlights around me are dim
As you stare out to an ocean with him
Oh, and the waves and the warmth are so inspiring
I can only imagine places so far away from me
The sea salted air feels so nice
As you stare out, strong, full of life
While the wind wisps through your hair
You quietly and powerfully don’t care
And in the dark and the silent streets
I’m a stranger to myself and to those that I meet
What I knew is what I know
So I can’t be surprised, this is how you’d go
What I knew is what I know
So I can’t be surprised, this is how you’d go
And as the cars pass me by
Pollutes the light and the stars in the sky
And as they go to their works and their homes
I quietly and feebly feel alone
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5. |
Strangers
05:45
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Restlessness and self-oathing
Propagates a deeper wound
Fever dreams of the city
Permeating through my skull
Questioning my decision
Living day to day on second guess
Motioning through the American Nightmare
With nowhere left to run
Family keeps disappearing
One day they won’t be there to hear you cry
While those you thought you knew are busy living
One by one, by one, by one, your heroes die
What’s left?
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6. |
Shame
05:03
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The last joke
That you told me didn’t use a single word
Instead, a gesture – a smile
That carried on for miles
Something broke
In that moment I would do away with hope
I drown in daydreams, you’re there
Every time, every time
It’s a shame that it happens
But it happens all the time, all the time
Just don’t read in between the lines
You don’t think it will happen
But it happens all the time, all the time
Just didn’t think it would be mine
In the crowd
Through commotion, and the voices crying out
I saw you standing, you smiled
Did you see me, I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know
It’s a shame that it happens
But it happens all the time, all the time
Just don’t read in between the lines
You don’t think it will happen
But it happens all the time, all the time
Just didn’t think it would be mine
I drove around the other day
Down past the buildings where you used to stay
At least it might have been
Hard to recall where anything begins
Just retracing my steps
Through the place that you left
In this town of unrest
I’m no longer a guest
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7. |
Dashboard
03:32
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So many dreams, so much raw ambition
Rain covers the windshield as you make a decision
In this world that I love
In this world of reaction
In this world that defeats you
Still we search for a passion
Momma went searching
Daddy stayed home
Big brother found love
And you are alone
In this sky without clouds
In this storm without rain
A life without love
Is a life without pain
My head on the dashboard
My mind is in space
‘Shoulda had more to drink
‘Fore I left for your place
My head on the dashboard
My mind is in space
‘Shoulda had more to drink
‘Fore I left for your place
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8. |
Arrival Song
05:32
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Nine aching hours without the sunshine
Too many years since the downpour
Factory smoke corroding the skyline
Assembling a pathway to your door
Playing in my head how I would greet you
I must’ve had that thought a thousand times
I knew that I was ready, ‘till I saw you
Bringing with you, all the fear I left behind
Like a ruby-tinted stove-top
On which a naïve child rests their hands
Plainly unaware that it will burn me
A pain that I have yet to understand
The station was crowded
And there I was, waiting
For judgement from those passing by
Saxophones ring for a lady who sings
As my only way forward arrives
I was a wanderer, not too much unlike her
In ways I could never have known
No good things last
Now I’m lost in the past
On a six am train ride back home
I’m going home
To the unknown
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9. |
Alarm
03:59
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Hard to decide
What to do now?
Fill in the spaces?
Find you a crowd?
Take a couple pictures
Make the day stop
And beware the front lens
(Or you’ll be in focus)
Start a new thing
Try a new food
Count every raindrop
Think about you
Crumble your to-do list
Mute your alarm
Losing all focus
(No one will notice)
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