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101
05:49
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Another night the cars scream past, on the 101
Tail Lights blazing comet tracks, she sticks out her thumb
Two pairs of jeans and a wrinkled blouse, in an old knapsack
It don’t matter now just where she goes, just as long as it ain’t back
Breakers crashing on the beach, dancing in the sun
Three years gone to hell and back, why walk now if you can run
Got a friend up Frisco way, says come stay with me
Phones shut off and nobody's home, ain’t got no place else to be
Put your head down and soldier through
As the lies pile higher you can't see the truth
Everybody wants to buy a piece
but you ain't got nothing left to sell
It was s'posed to be different this time
Another man never learnin’ how to walk that line
The only thing that you can trust is you
The moon so high over Ventura again today
Headed south to that Hollywood freeway
Got a message from a buddy sayin call if you're around
Maybe it's time she up and left, this whole goddamn town
Running harder just to make the gate, got a flight out east
Floor to crash on for a couple days, time to grab a drink at least
Starts up all over again, no place to call home
Airport full of bodies, but she never felt so alone
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Blacktop Road
05:40
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Twilight sky fades from black to blue
like the colors of a bruise
but without the hint of pain
The sun dives deeper behind the mountains like a stone
into darkened waters thrown
never to be seen again
All I knew used to feel like it was home
and I never felt alone
never had to say goodbye
Is it the rule all passions have to fade,
forever’s made to give away,
turns like wine to alkali?
Blacktop Road, rushes by the tires –won't be long till I expire –
and nobody needs to know
About the pain that goes through a soul, when he’s all out of hope, they’ll forget him when he’s gone...
They say the more things change the more that they all stay the same
so I guess I’m not to blame
any more than you are too
We were young and we were only having fun
whys it hurt now that it’s done
or am I giving up too soon
Blacktop Road underneath my feet –knows this world just has me beat –
and no one needs to know
About the pain, that goes through a soul, when he knows , they’ll forget me when I'm gone...
One night in dreams, I saw the ghosts of who we were
when it was so free and pure
in every thought and every deed
but i just woke, and put my shoes back on my feet
headed back down to the street
on these roads in which I bleed
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Body In The Well
04:51
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Our story starts in the dead of night in a lonely prairie town.
After the people have gone to bed, someone rides through,
the horse as quiet as a ghost.
The man gets off his horse, loosens a bundle,
and drops it down the town well, riding off as silent as he came
In the morning the sun comes up, and people awaken to a scream.
Ring the bells, we best gather round
Woke up this morning, we can’t believe our eyes and what we found
In the bottom of the well, so dark as caverns deep
Lies the body of a woman, peaceful as in sleep
the water hides the details of her face
how did she come to end her life in such a dismal place
Or did somebody here, think to hide
The evil deeds that lurk behind their cold dead eyes
And in the morning they scream
There’s a body in the well, dropped so far we couldn’t tell
Look around you brother, evil lies among us here today
You best repent for all your sins, or he may come back here again
Before the sun sets there is gonna be, a hanging out this way
Gathered in the town square, suspicious looks are cast around.
Was it you? Was it you? Whispers swirl around the collected mass
Until finally one man steps forward -
and on the steps, he speaks
Brother Mark, can you explain us why,
Your cousin left us, and never took the time to say goodbye
Or brother Bill, down in the sawmill camp
There's a lot of shadows dancing, in the night light from the lamps
Reverend Joe, the farmer's daughter’s been,
spending time, you call it prayer but could it be a lie
Or was it you, who choked the life from some poor soul
Who knew your secret, and now she lies in that hole
And in the morning they scream
There's a body in the well, dropped so far we couldn’t tell
Look around you brother, evil lies among us here today
You best repent for all your sins, or he may come back here again
Before the night falls there is gonna be, a hanging out this way
Secrets lie, in the bona fide
Dark and dusty evil corners of collective little minds
Everyone knows what they’re gonna do
But what happens
when the fingers
point at you
And so they drag him to the tree…
There's a body in the well,
dropped so far we couldn’t tell
Look around you brother,
evil lies
among us here
today
You tried to cover up your sins
The devil came you let him in
before we string you up
have you got any
last words left to say
And as his body swung and swayed
All the people kneeled and prayed
with their knees that sank so deep into the mud into the ground
they hardly even noticed that
A rider came in oh so fast
and shouted to the group
A man...just confessed...in the next town
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She pulls the secondhand ring from her finger and sets it by the bed
Her head just hurts from thinking about all the lies he said
It’s not fair that he gets away and he needs to pay for leavin
A box from the drawer with her dad's .44,
now it's time for her to get...
She’d always been a tough one, but for him she’d been forgiving
filled her heart with dreams about the life that they’d be living
The day finally came of his getaway, house empty and the money too
Now the time had come for vengeance and she knew just what to do
Better settle up your debts and go back home
Won’t be alive when night turns into dawn
Better make peace with your maker because she's getting even
and she's moving on
She's got a shovel in the back and a gun in the rack
and she knows where he’ll be hiding
As the hours just go slippin away in the time he thinks he’s biding
She knows she wont get her money, and there’s no way to get back time
But a six foot hole and a pine box that says that
she’s the winner this time.
Better settle up your debts and get back home
Won’t be alive when night turns into dawn
Better make peace with your maker because she's getting even
and she's moving on
She walks him to the dark hole, in that sweaty Georgia night
and as he begs for his forgiveness, she knows she’s done things right
She says this must be your lucky day, but I suggest that you should run
Cuz if I ever see your face again, the last thing you’ll see’s my gun...
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Psycho Killer
04:28
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6. |
Story
04:53
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Tell me a story
I like the ones where you would lay out for an hour
like the most elaborate song
Tales of the glory
that is wasted on those too young to realize
those days are almost gone
And if I try,
I can close my eyes real tight and
I’ll pretend you didn’t break my heart
Empty words for absent ears,
and that's a start
Sell me illusions
I’d rather think that this is all that we’ll ever have
and it’s all within our grasp
And the confusion
will roll away like swollen raindrops running down
the paned and broken glass
And if I try,
I can close my eyes real tight and
I’ll pretend you didn’t break my heart
Empty words for absent ears,
and that's a start
and all the times i wasted, all the things i didn’t say
the future just becomes a bunch of yesterdays
and when i told you I’d take it all in stride
I guess i lied
But i had no idea what lay inside
Whispers of reasons,
hardly loud enough, to hear among vibrations
that shake like memories
we try and reach out,
trying to grab on and hold them, before we forget
just like the need to breathe
And if I try,
I can close my eyes real tight and
I’ll pretend you didn’t break my heart
Empty words for absent ears,
and that's a start
For Nic and Tim
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The 44 Territories Detroit, Michigan
The 44 Territories know they are different. In taking their interpretation of Americana music – heartfelt lyricism, twangy guitars and evocative imagery – and marrying it to a distinctly Detroit rhythm and drive, they believe they have created something special. Now, they look to prove it, on record and at shows. ... more
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