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Wild Woods Alone
03:50
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The twisted game of life it's told will cut you down when you grow
Start again until the end return to the dirt
For all it's worth it's weight in Gold and the Earthly things bought and sold
The wicked names we gave ourselves when we were at our worst
Always trying to live up prove your god damn word from the day of your birth
We're all on our own trying to build a home in the wild woods alone with a future so unknown
The list of names fade to Black and Red like blood and wine
There is no end where I begin and of your heart and mine
For all it's worth weighed down so low all the Earthly things we can hold
We're all on our own trying to build a home in the wild woods alone with a future so unknown
The twisted game of life it's told will cut you down where you grow
Start again until the end return to the dirt
For all it's worth it's weight in Gold and the Earthly things bought and sold
The wicked names we gave ourselves when we were at our worst
Always trying to live up prove your god damn worth from the day of your birth
We're all on our own trying to build a home in the wild woods alone with a future so unknown
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County Road 99
03:16
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Driving in the rain low on gasoline looking for a station to fill up the tank
There's a light up ahead pitch black behind crossing my fingers I made it in time
But the sign says closed so I'm dead on the road until the next morning when they open at 5
So I spent the night sleeping in my car dreaming out on County Road 99
Wake up kid are you dead it's morning bright pounding in your head
There's nothing left here for you friend so move along or I'm bringing you in
Says the man with a gun in his hand it's your last flipping chance
I'm not gonna tell you again there's nothing left here for you friend
So I spent the night sleeping in my car dreaming out on County Road 99
Driving in the rain low on gasoline looking for a station to fill up the tank
There's a light up ahead pitch black behind crossing my fingers I made it in time
But the sign says closed so I'm dead on the road until the next morning when they open at 5
So I spent the night sleeping in my car dreaming out on County Road 99
Wake up kid are you there it's morning light pounding in your head
There's nothing left here for you friend so move along or I'm bringing you in
Says the man with a gun in his hand it's your last fucking chance
I'm not gonna tell you again there's nothing left here for you friend
So I spent the night sleeping in my car dreaming out on County Road 99
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Suture
03:37
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Here is a place of disaffection sleeping on a sidewalk in a city buzzing
All of the reveries that keep us going while a massive boulder rests upon our shoulders
You must never stop proving your worth to the World
Start off with nothing turn it into something
Are you feeling unlucky all of that effort slow dying of thirst in an endless desert
Here is a place of warm affection sleeping by the fire in the woods of violence
Surrounded by memories faces glowing stories told and voices singing
Until the dawn was a breaking we live for these moments when nothing else matters
But they can be so hard to find when you feel them you have to grab them
Our whole life is a suture infinite moments sewn together like a quilt of patchwork
Some will always be none the wiser to the bigger picture the effects our actions
A season for growing, one for dying, one for rest, one rejuvenating
In a circle the cycle goes on and on since the day's been all forgotten
Come to think of it all there's gotta be something far beyond what our hands are holding
If there's nothing at all let's make sure this life is a good one
It's a good one this life it's a good one
We're all trying to find something we can hold forever onto
With a mind like minefield self immolation from the fire we're always rising
From the fire that we started
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Who Do You Trust?
03:15
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Careful on the road my friends oh the things I've seen
Everyone is packing iron or staring at a screen
You can never be too careful these days so it seems
It's true we live to say goodbye to all our youthful dreams
That is why memories make us cry
Remembering before time came in between promises made in vain
I wouldn't have it any other way staring into the empty space
Somewhere out in the distance a single flower blooms
Growing all alone like some kind of sad sad song
I coulnd't hold it if I wanted too it's just too damn far removed
Singing the quiet parts out loud left a bitter taste in your mouth
Like a seed spit me out on dry and barren ground
What it means someone knows the hardest truth is letting go
Racing thoughts start to slow we're living in the now
We all have our stories to tell living the dream til we're burning in Hell
The things we love we couldn't hold the fire and the burning coal
It still stands where it once stood a severed stump in the wild woods
Cut down in a blind rage by some old rusted blade
I never cared for much ado about nothing more than loving you
I hope our paths cross someday in the great divide
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As Long As I Remember
02:40
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Where the trail ends only to begin again
A circle lying flat all of that time upon your back
Images of hate and love the sky above the ground below
Where the roots grow they intertwine like your nerves touching mine
It's getting late honey are you ready to go?
No one's ready for this no one's ready for it
There is an ache in the pit of my soul it's gonna last forever as long as I remember
Where our story ends only to be written again
A circle lying flat all of that time can come back
Instances of love and hate always tempting fate
It's getting late honey are you ready to go?
No one's ready for this no one's ready for it
There is an ache in the pit of my soul it's gonna last forever as long as I remember
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Don't Mind Saying Now
03:55
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Fault line grows between You and I passing the blame to another night
Ain't asking for much but a word or two heaven knows I still care a great deal for you
In the blink of an eye it could turn to dust like twin volcanoes when we erupt
It was always too much it was never enough the harder we lived the harder grew our luck
Time like River carved lines on our faces an abstract expression of those heavy days
The night I took much you picked me up on some dead end road on the edge of town
Trying to hitch a ride to nowhere won't you take me as far as you're going down
It was always too much it was never enough the harder we lived the harder grew our love
I don't mind saying now them times were good that we had together
It's so different when you're living it than how you remember
I don't mind saying now them times were good that we had together
It's so different when you're living it than how you remember
Fault line grows between You and I burning the flame through another night
Ain't asking for much but some solitude heaven knows I still care a great deal for you
In the blink of an eye it could turn to dust...
I don't mind saying now them times were good that we had together
It's so different when you're living it than how you remember
I don't mind saying now them times were good that we had together
It's so different when you're living it than how you remember
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SOS (Same Old Shit)
02:46
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These days it feels like the same old shit ain't working
In a life before out the door always searching
Coming up on half a lifetime passed by still learning
I still feel the same old way but the same old shit ain't working
So I'm turning and burning the page
My way was a highway of roadkilled memories
Book of life drive 65 stay awake til morning
So a million miles passed by without warning
I still feel the same old way but the same old shit ain't working
So I'm turning and burning the page
The same old shit ain't working no more
These days it feels like the same old shit ain't working
In a life before out the door always searching
Coming up on half a lifetime passed by still learning
I still feel the same old way but the same old shit ain't working
So I'm turning and burning the page
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Wolfcrow
02:41
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Maybe we held on a little too long thinking it all could be fixed with a song
It's all going right then it's all going wrong I shut my mouth and just tried to hold on
But the silence has taken on a life of it's own out of our hands we lost all control
Dragged down so low the wolf and the crow
Eyes in the sky falling far behind in the fading light
Lately the memory of you is so strong some things come back where they belong
It's all going up then it's all falling down I closed my eyes just tried to push on
But the darkness has taken on a life of it's own out of our sight there's nowhere to go
Dragged down so low the wolf and the crow
Eyes in the sky falling far behind in the fading light
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Before Your Long Journey
03:10
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Hold me closer and closer before your long journey
You'll be going to places mortal eyes have not seen
Going further and further away beyond the nethers
Promise one day my darling that we will meet
At the gates of the sky on our favorite Mountain
The one that we climbed when we were just kids
So peaceful and quiet you could hear a pine needle drop
Footfalls were like Thunder that rolled over hills
It's a crying shame but we all go away
It was a fair trade for the time we spent and the memories made
It gets harder and harder every moment that passes
Going through with the promise that I made to you
But we both know my darling there's no turning back now
This will be the hardest thing we ever do
Hold me closer and closer before your long journey
I cannot imagine what's going through your mind
I know that you're scared and I'm so damn scared too
But I will come find you when it's the time
It's a crying shame but we all go away
It was a fair trade for the time we spent and the memories made
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The Dog And My Guitar
03:05
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Is this farewell with you I can't tell so let me take a picture of your face
To have and to hold it can't be sold frozen in time while we melt away
I don't feel like myself these days there's pieces missing that can't be replaced
Trying to push on through this fate always remember what you used to say
Maybe it's better this way you go and I'll stay in the arms of the dog and my guitar
Maybe it's better this way you go and I'll stay on the farm with the dog and my guitar
Is this farewell only time will tell so hold me in one last embrace
It's hard getting old trying to uphold trying to maintain living with grace
I don't feel like myself these days there's pieces missing that can't be replaced
Trying to push on through this fate always remember what you used to say
Maybe it's better this way you go and I'll stay in the arms of the dog and my guitar
Maybe it's better this way you go and I'll stay on the farm with the dog and my guitar
With the dog and my guitar...
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We always save the worst for last none left standing through that
You can take it all and I'll take what's left
Made my peace out at the crossroads took a left fork down the old road
Telling myself things gotta change there's no future stuck in them tired old ways
Heart was beating like a drum on the long way down
Couldn't see nothing with tears in the way
Took off running when the dust settled never to return to that dark place
Made my peace out at the crossroads took a left fork down the old road
Telling myself things gotta change there's no future stuck in them tired old ways
We saved the worst for them none left standing through that
You can take it all and I'll take what's left
Made my peace out at the crossroads took a left fork down the dirt road
Telling myself things gotta change there's no future stuck in them tired old ways
Is it all for a reason like the burning of seasons rising and falling all over again
True Love is acceptance without reluctance to have and to hold in truth and in sin
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12. |
Sick Rose
02:53
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