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Lakeview
05:34
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We aimed for New York, landed in Lakeview
The future you wanted, I just couldn’t make you
But the seasons don’t care, for any despair
Now that I’m sinking, I’m longing for air
My darlin’ Sweet Catherine, Chicago was magic
But turned into witchcraft. Was I your habit?
I just can’t care, for my Quilted Clare
Now that I’m sinking, I’m longing for air
The coldest I’ve been, been since my birth
Thrust in alone, to a suffering Earth
But the seasons don’t care, for break and repair
Now that I’m sinking, I’m longing for air
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I've Been
04:56
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I’ve been, I’ve been dreaming of you
Say you love me, you’ll take me back
I’d be loving you take me back
Never cared for this fighting anyway
Say you love me, you’ll be all mine
I’d be loving you be all mine
Give you loving until the day I die
I’ve been, I’ve been dreaming of you
Four kids are driving home
Wet hair and skin tanned gold
Give you loving until the day I die
Say you love me, you’ll take me back
I’d be loving you take me back
Never cared for this fighting anyway
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Hal McClure
03:12
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Hal’s walking down to the lake to see
Two bodies lying slain on the shore
Got his pencil and his pad in his pocket
He sees the girl from the kitchen floor
Close-up on his face, sweat beading up
He feels her pulse and checks the girl once more
Hal’s nervous as he walks to her
He knows the girl will never leave the shore
She’s lying there, body cold as ice
He calls for the doctor now
She’s lying there, skin lying soft
She’s gone and with the daylight goes
Lights are flashing and the sirens all are blowing
He checks his pocket for a light and a smoke
She’s lying there, skin lying soft
She’s gone and with the daylight goes
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Accents
05:24
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As you passed you brushed my shoulder
Emphasizing you were older
Towering over my thin body
Speaking now of father
The taste of this game makes me sour
Haunting longer dreaming hours
Never strong but always falling
Screaming from your tower
Well, Beth let’s run where we’ll have accents
Shake our troubles off of our scents
Lay around I’ll stare right at you
In a shattered time
I’ve left the taste of darker heartache
A trembling sound inside my mind makes
Then I stumble on your body
I taste your sweeter wine
So lay your hand upon my shoulder
I’ll try my best to act much older
Tower with me in this hour
Tell me how your time’s spent
I’ll trade my sand for ocean fluid
Smiling gorgeous, I knew you would
Come with me I’ll keep you warmer
In the lives that we meant.
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Winter
03:31
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Winter’s come
Winter’s sad and lonely
A heart gets hard
When you’re sad and lonely
I don’t know what we’re gonna do
My wife she’s down, the gal is sad and aching now
Ain’t got no dough, for no city doctor
I don’t know what we’re gonna do
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Grandfather
05:40
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I’ve been smoking my mind away
Never thinking of any other way
I’ve been drinking my money away
Never dreaming of any other day
I need help my friend, for once again I am lost
I’ve been sleeping my youth away
My black hair is fleeting, and grows a solemn grey
I need help my friend, for once again I am lost
My grandfather told me, “Son, don’t you start no fires.”
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Romeo
04:09
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Oh Romeo, Romeo when are you coming home
There’s a fire in my kitchen and my mama won’t go in alone
I’m feeling kinda dirty, my mind’s all wrapped up in woe
And the heat is something awful, it’s getting out of control
Sassafras is lonely, she’s waiting out in the cold
Since she had her baby, the angels done left her alone
But it’s better to lose everything you own
Than to spend your time wishing, while you’re going down
Could anybody here spare me some smoke?
For my mind is sorta hazy, in need of some kind of joke
To rest my weary feet upon, to sing and say
“The miles ain’t nothing, compared to the days”
Kodachrome my darling, it’ll make you sick
You can’t swim in color, as you’d like to think
It’ll tempt and taunt you, like the eve of a day
Saying, “All is black and white between the shades of grey”
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Pillows and Sheets
05:36
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God called from the mountain
So fiery and strong
“Love’s a gift from heaven,
You just can’t do it wrong”
I will burn your picture, all your letters too
Every word you wrote, “With love from me to you”
And I will walk away girl, to my peace I’ll tread
And I will quit this game, but darling just not yet
I will burn your scent, love, from pillows and from sheets
Every word you spoke, and the secrets that we keep
I will fill your absence with emptiness instead
And I will quit this game, love, but darling just not yet
I will roll on home, in sunlight I will drive
Back to breezy sights with windows for my eyes
You will be so far girl, lying in your bed
And I will then forgive love, but darling just not yet
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Roman Romance
08:24
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Spring has come, all in the air
I can smell the romance and I hope you care
I dreamed of blood all in my mouth
The kind of dream my fear comes from
It’s four a.m. there’s no one out
Main Street’s silence hangs like demon clouds
Darkness brings me to my knees
It makes me think of all the kinder things.
If you would have left that day
Without all things seeming ok
I would have drown in silence fell
for silence floods just like demon swells
But your dearness darling, it drove away my chains
Liberating freedom-types of downpour rain
No more dreaming bloody mouths
I dream of Oldsmobiles way down south
Spring has come, and with it rain
Cleaning healing all my dirty pain
Someday soon I’ll lie near you
But until that day my dear the phone will do
Now Monday’s come, and with it so much shame
One more week until us again
I’ll drive home that dead man’s drive
I try my best just to keep from trying
Where would we be?
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del Brutto Hamtramck, Michigan
del Brutto is a heartbreak. A dirty, sweaty, nasty heartbreak.
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