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Church Bells
04:00
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Used to drive into work
An hour each way
Old mans on my mind
They'll be no escape
Used to bury in work
They'll be no work today
Were all furloughed
Them thoughts all stay
We cant face the pain
And you they're ain't no dreams to chase
But its all fine and cool
Ive got enough beer to wait out the plague
(Chorus)
Carved out a little peace
Of life for you and me
The kids are still around
Some have all moved away
The world is changing
Its getting hard
To find my place
The churches are closed
But them bells still ring
Them bells still ring
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Got my cigarettes
Got my political marionettes
Voices scream of the great deplorable fray
Ive got secrets
I know many things
You could really benefit from
Picking my Brain
But nobody asks me anything
Oh lord im waiting for the day
Holding the weight of the wide world on my shoulders
I wouldn't wanna bring my work home with me
But home is a place the wreaks of void
A great hole within
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(Chorus)
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(Bridge)
Who do you think you're staring at
How could you begin to know my pain
35 years with my nose to the stone
No more battles to wage
No more kids to u-bring
What do i do with all these things
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Sometimes i think of my old man at the end
The shadow he had cast
And how far it had dimmed
Passing the sins of the father to a generation and then
Settle down in the grave
Take a rest with old friends
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Good Eye
03:38
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Aint nobody gonna lend you a hand
But you can lend one to somebody else
Aint nobody gonna show you around
You got two good eyes to see
People living on the outskirts of town
Garbage man stopped comin' around
I make my rounds im the post man
I got hell hounds on my trail
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(Chorus)
Where the hell's this road
Gonna Take me
I heard there's a place
Far beyond the pain
Some gardens. never grow
Some lonely shadows swallow your soul
Sometimes you feel so low.
That day it aint today
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(Intro riff)
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V2
Saw a photo of you standing around
Over your shoulder your house burning down
What a grand smile on your face to be found
Seemed like the suburbs were bringing you down.
You can make it outa' that little town
Lotsa' people done figured it out
Dont let em' ell ya there aint nothing see
When they cant see beyond.
They cant see beyond the lawn meticulously cut
The filling station and the grocery store
The PTA. meetings
And the only two places in town
Where we get drunk.
(Bridge)
I've got a desire for a dire Situation
Wanna feel some blood under my fingers
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(Chorus)
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Ain't nobody gonna lend you a hand
But you can lend one to somebody else
Aint nobody gonna show you around
You got two good eyes to see
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3. |
17 & 23
04:31
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Nothing going right
No good luck in the air tonight
Never been this lost
Never been this free
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(Chorus)
Double up, Double up
Double down on everything
Double up, Double up
Everything you see
In the car, highway
Blow it all to smithereens
Double down on all of your dreams
You aint been right since seventeen
You still aint right at 23
Aint been right since Seventeen
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Memories, memories
Images on a screen
They cant hold me now
Im immune to their disease
(Repeat chords)
Where will i be in ten years
I feel,
Im fading away
And if i settle down here
Im just one foot in the grave
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(Chorus)
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Dancin' with that girl
Full moon up above,
Bon-fire in the distance
Two hearts intertwined,
Turned to ash in my hand
I spread them ashes on the lake
DeRuyter lake that is.
Where I asked for your hand
Couldn't bring myself to return again
(Bridge)
Traveling the whole wide world
You still got that same head and those
thoughts deep within
Sometime Life feels like a prison
But i dont know if it is
We gonna ride the railes till we fall off the
edge.
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We gonna hear that engine wail
Feel that wind in your hair
And thats all that their is
That's that place where we live
I wont lie to you my dear
Couldnt tell you how this ends
But we gotta stake it all
Hold this moment its just around the bend
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4. |
I Stood Up
04:15
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I Stood up
Gonna Dig my way out
Gonna bury it all behind
Aint nothing beyond
This point that is mine
And thats a sweet, sweet relief
I dont wanna own a thing
And im gonna be weightless
Take it all to the grave
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(Chorus)
Fill that gravel so heavy
Build that fire sky high
Spill my guts on the levee
And you can never rewind
Im made of smoke and ill float
Ore this whole god damned place
Ive amounted to nothing I'm alive im
amazed
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Did i jump?
Did I swim up?
Did I fly to the heavens?
How in the world could i get here
I held deeply to the fray
And my lifeline is frayed
Its breaking and im feeling broken
I aint long for this world
I aint sleeping in no coffin
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(Chorus)
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I got a fire in my blood
& my eyes caked in mud
I squinted so hard
And I could just see your face
And for once
I didnt give in
To that evil voice in my head
I reached for your hand
Pulled myself up instead
Hanging by a thread
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( Chorus)
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I remember a time
You all pushed me down
I stood up
I stood up
I stood up
I stood up
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5. |
Free, Objectively
04:10
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Consequences favor
A man who questions
I've seen it all
Thought id seen everything but
In reality i was
Nothing more than a babe
Just cutting teeth
Hadnt seen a god damned thing
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(Chorus)
Open my eyes to that blinding light
That fell all around me
It was warm and waging war
It was just like being free
Id fly away.
(Back to intro)
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Crushing pages
Weighing down the words desperately
Flowing tears of the great white worm
Oh how i sing to thee
Divided nation
Never ending house still standing
Never knew what they were talking about
Never knew what they were saying
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(Chorus)
Educate the masses
Put on your mask
And they can really see your face
Final destination
Desire to be free
Objectively
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Wandering skies take me
To your side
Teach me
How to live
Lay me down on a high bridge and I'll
Promise not to
Jump off the top of it
Look down on that sprawling city
Pick it up with one hand and I'll
Wipe off the bacteria
Watch the whole world scatter round
Watch the whole world shatter
Mick jagger showed me the road
Hitched a ride on that rolling stone.
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(Chorus)
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Jump in to my jet stream
Come in to my kitchen
Climb
Climb into my ear canal
The carnal and the cunning grey wolf
And the whippoorwill
Outside your door
The berier between you and the earth
Everything you own
Inside a dream
Inside a dream.
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6. |
Whale Hunt
06:41
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Pulled a pearl from the ocean
And my ship it gleamed in the sun
Looked over the edge of the earth
It was black
Oblivion
I didn't scream to no one
No I didn't scream to a soul
Maybe Prometheus
Shoulda left us alone.
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(Chorus)
When the fire was found we moved
From the cave
To the sawn off shot gun
Killed everything in our wake
Ourselves and our sons
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V2
Look upon my works ye might and despair
The kingdom is long gone
But the artist lives on
Lone and level sands stretch far away
To no one
No prayers persevered this tyrants iron hands
The wild moved on
The dark Tower called upon
The dark tower called upon
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(Chorus)
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Navigating my ship through icy waters
Black rain fell like the hand of God
Harpoon in my hooked hand,
Met eyes with the devil
That behemoth I chased for so long
My crusty old eyes
My beard drenched in rain
Sweat stung my wounds
Fire in my veins
My aim was true
The wicked whale pulled me to my doom
We, forever sealed
In an Icey black tomb
(chorus)
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7. |
Granddad's Racecar
04:41
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Concentrate on the things you can't change
Center your mind.
Those things will not fade away
You can find me
On the corner of confused and strange
See the stranger in the shadows enraged
Casting his eyes and catching spare change
Put your little hands together
Tonight in desperation we pray
Trauma passed from our.
(Chorus)
"Tell me now,
How?
Have you been sleeping lately?"
I haven't slept a wink
"How you been by the way
Double shot of whiskey?"
Passin' out under the Christmas tree
Closest thing I've got to a best friend
Is the bar tender
And I'm pretending this stuff aint
Killing me
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V2
Shallow water wailing
And the breakers bite hard
My teeth files down
Lyin on a cold slab grave
Im out for a run
And the rains pouring hard
Promised my feet I would stop running
Then i lit a match and my breath caught aflame
Everything before my eyes began to burn away
Hands tied behind my back
Couldn't speak couldn't think
Could the universe be conspiring to kill me?
Trauma passed through our DNA
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(Chorus)
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Grandpa had a heart attack
Trying to save the bar
It's still running
But it aint been the same
He's still pouring drinks
You can see him if you look hard
A Shadowy figure in the stairway
That old place sat
On them rusty railroad tracks
Some day a trains gonna barrel down that place.
He said
I was a dreamer and i died for my dream
Racecars rolling through grave
Wind blowing hack my toupee
Trauma pass through our D N A
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(Chorus)
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Some nights I see those hands
And i want to reach back at them
Reaching out through time and space
I was a dreamer and I died for my dream
If you get lost
Find my car
Come see me
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8. |
Wander
04:14
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Crippled and crooked
Sick of looking at the photographs
Phantasms and fantastic psychopaths
I'm going Bateman
On forces spreading hatred
Ridiculously slick and rough.
And roughly never good enough
Envious disguise
Guilty conscious in your eyes
Antagonize the creed
Of concrete disgusting lies
But i called you up
From the bottom of my makers mark
Red wax,
Battle axe discretion
Devils calling card.
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(Chorus)
Its powerful and terrifying
The way she kinda makes me feel like dying
Simultaneously wishing
I could live forever
Tangled in her long blonde hair
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The fever hit me like a nine pound hammer
Her perfume split me down the center of my pride and anger
Was it meant to be?
Life was pressing me into a
brand new diamond
I was a broken man
In many ways i still am
But now a broken man
Without an empty hand
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(Chorus)
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Is there a place where i belong?
Am i getting closer to a
Freshly mowed lawn
Or will I forever wander
The corrosive sundown
Will you come and wander with me?
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Come wander with me
Come wander with me
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(Chorus)
Its powerful and terrifying
The way she kinda makes me feel like dying
Simultaneously wishing
I could live forever
Tangled in her long blonde hair
(Outro)
Come wander with me
Come wander with me
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ryan sutherland Rochester, New York
A singer songwriter Living & working in Rochester , NY. Weird chords, and Slide guitar
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