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Aquarium
04:08
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Lights flash red, green
Cars they dance
Held up, strung out
In a trance, though it seems
Chainlink fences hold you in throughout your day
Hoping, praying, for something to change
In your aquarium
Lift your eyes from the ground, you weary child
Don't let them fear you from their ivory towers
In your aquarium
Anxiety, you have become my best friend
They're watching you...
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2. |
In Dependence Day
04:10
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I never wanted to find myself a part of
Something so separatist, tearing us apart
Superior belief is not what dreams are made of
But who am I to say that we can't have a party
Everybody waits, everybody watches
Everyone's so proud, on the 4th of July
I can't help but think we've got something else jaded
Beliefs systems misplaced, papers torn and faded
We sit upon a thrown of bones fueled with hatred
A nation all alone, indivisibly restrained
Everybody waits, everybody watches
Everyone's so proud of it and everyone's a part of it
Everybody stands with hands above the heart of it
Feared with stars and stripes, on the 4th of July
Don't you take a stand and screw the whole bunch over
The ignorance of man has never been so sobering
You bring attention to the tensions in our differences
Carelessly believe while
Everybody waits, everybody watches
Everyone's so proud of it and everyone's a part of it
Everybody stands with hands above the heart of it
Feared with stars and stripes, on the 4th of July
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3. |
Dressed in Red
04:13
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She is now the same as she once came
With whiskey on their breath she invited them into their bed
His hands were stained black, a sign he'd been working all day
The dawn of a new age, well that's what some would say
Mighty engines roar, reaching to the oceans
She's dressed in red and her garments line the foot of the bed and
She's moving in, she's pulling you in
Her harlotries are known, but few are the eyes that have seen
She's haunted by the glances outside her walls
Romanticized embraces of men she's unwilling to recall
She's dressed in red and her garments line the foot of the bed and
She's moving in, she's tugging you in
She's pulling you in
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4. |
Lover's Hope
04:18
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If I were a boat I'd swim and I'd float to your shore
If I were a lighthouse I would guide you home evermore
If I were the moon I would shine upon your face
Light up every corner of your room
With my picture in your pocket you'll fondly reckon
Though your ship has been beckoned by the sea
And there in its wreckage they will see my smiling face and know we're
Together happily
You and me we're together and we are set free
Together and we are set free
You and me together we're set free
Together we are resting in the sea
As we sink to the bottom know I often thought of the love we often made when you were home
Resting by my side is your solemn pride
A boy who will always bear your name
You and me we're together and we are set free
Together and we are set free
You and me together we're set free
Together we are resting in the sea
And when I am a bird
I'll fly and I'll sing
Fly until we meet merrily
Out at sea
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5. |
Faith as your Alibi
05:10
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Looking for a memory in my mind
Forgetting all the things lost in time
I wonder where it all went
Wondering if I ever spent my common sense
The fractured specks of ego fill my soul
The grindstone will surely take it's toll
The heart only heals when you forgive
And timid you give away your willingness to live
And I don't need ask why
Thinking faith as your alibi
Searching for a meaning in what went wrong
You buried your sorrow in your song
The lights don't reflect on the television
Ever they illuminate every connection
And I don't need ask why
Thinking faith as your alibi
And I don't need ask why
Thinking faith as your alibi
Blinding yourself to see the light
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6. |
Trapeze Swing
03:58
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Sometimes I feel I'm a part of a three-ring circus
People running around they're feet don't touch the ground
It's like they've got a short circuit
Why oh why, oh why, can't we make amends
You and I, you and I, used to be the very best of friends
Trapeze swing you are hanging upside down
Inches from the ground
You realize you ain't got nothing left
So you cut the line
It's a solemn fate teetering and fleeting
Emotions fade away
Curtain's bound to bow how do we elude this
Doleful litany
Tethered by the seams of the marionette strings
Hopeless as we are we keep dancing
Trapeze swing you are hanging upside down
Inches from the ground
You realize you ain't got nothing left
So you cut the line
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7. |
Sweet Goodbye
03:21
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Your sweet goodbye well it made me cry, a little
But you do what you got to do to make it through
It killed me seeing you blue
Baby we've bent but baby we're broke and it's a joke paying dues, after dues, no wonder if we'll make it through
But the Earth, She'll lay me down to rest
And I'll sleep in Her sweet sway
Until I get back home
Don't rain on my parade, on my parade
Even though it's a mighty charade, a mighty charade
I'm fit for a clown
Girl you've got it good
You've got it so damn good
But they'll take from you and they'll take some more unti
Your bow it's gonna break
But the Earth, She'll lay me down to rest
And I'll sleep in Her sweet sway
Until I get back home
With this compass shaking in my hands
I'll keep it due north
Until I get back home
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8. |
For Wallaby
04:44
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It was in the closed book you had already written in your head
And in an instant we all felt what we hoped were false promises
It had already been years since you had dug your grave and filled with
The callous memories of providence far too dense for even man to see
Or even feel all the pain that you were in
'Cause it's so damn hard for me to let you move on
And I know that I'm too selfish to admit that you're gone
And every soul knew the laughter and love that you radiated
But you tried not to show all the weight that
Your shoulders couldn't have beared
Now every time I hear the sounds of the mastodon
Decapitated cattle I heal, with every pick squeal I heal
'Cause it's so damn hard for me to let you move on
And I know that I'm too selfish to admit that you're gone
And even though there's no absence in the ashes you've sown
I can't seem to build the courage to delete your number off of my phone
'Cause it's so damn hard and I know you're already gone
It was in the closed book you had already written in your head
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9. |
Bound to Roam
04:36
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It's a slow but sure unraveling of all I fought so hard to mend
No one's trying to blame you
Only hope you'll understand
I'm trying my damnedest dear, it takes all I got to stand here
With one foot out the door
See there's nothing left to cling to
The ground I used to dig my heels into
I'm a lost cause you can't ignore
I've got to go
Lost soul I'm bound to roam
I've got to go
Forge my broken road
Well it ain't about the good times that we often had
Just my special way of making all those good times so bad
Never been good anecdotes so I'll try me best not to cry
Honey when I let you go, a piece of me is gonna die
As the distance grows between you and I
you'll be fine, I'll be alright
Cast no reproach beneath these lies you will find, time realized
A fork in the road that gets me high, internalized
A sacrifice
I've got to go
Lost soul I'm bound to roam
I've got to go
Forge my broken road
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10. |
My Own Name
05:01
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Seek and ye shall find
I'm so far behind
A thousand miles from home
Between space and time
I'm half alive
Time is like a shape I've never known
Question and I doubt
Time is running out and I respond with "yes, I know"
There's a song in me, a pounding melody
Pouring out my reveries
Oh, and I'll survive with each refrain
So that I might know my own name
Pain and misery
Permanently reside in me
Though I'm quiet and composed
You'll never know the plight that I hide
Beneath this surface I am bare
There's a song in me, a pounding melody
Pouring out my reveries
Oh, and I'll survive with each refrain
So that I might know my own name
I'll keep on, I'll keep on, I'll keep on
I'll keep on, I'll keep on
Well, I'll keep on, I'll keep on, keep on, oh, oh
Well, I'll keep on, I'll keep on, keep on, oh, oh
Well, I'll keep on, I'll keep on, keep on, oh, oh
Well, I'll keep on, I'll keep on, oh
There's a song in me, a pounding melody
Pouring out my reveries
Oh, and I'll survive with each refrain
So that I might know my own name
There's a song in me, a pounding melody
Pouring out my reveries
Oh, and I'll survive with each refrain
So that I might know my own name
So that I might know my own name
So that I might know my own name
So that I might know my own name
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Me & Betsy Lee San Marcos, Texas
Inspired by sounds of musical tradition, this native texan duo collaborates through song craft and individual artistry to perform an amalgam of American roots music with an ethos of indie and punk DIY sensibility.
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