1. |
Border Agent Blues
01:34
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on the border with the sands around
for miles above what used to be
there i lean upon my gun and stand
upon the roof so i can see him
he is standing on a dune
below a blinding moon and taking aim
thru the wind and sand
with a steady hand
he shot me down from miles away
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2. |
Tar
03:00
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and now my heart is breaking
and i think i know why
you know it just starts aching
while you're splitting your sides
i wish you wouldn't do that
because i see what's inside
and you know i can't look, babe,
i would rather die
what's going on
without me
all the time
i think i might
stand around
your group of friends
starts to get weird
and never ends
my shit job
the dance of time
you say you will, oh
i think you might
the raining sky
from the car
the silent roads
the smell of tar
and i was
you were
chewin me out
and now my heart is breaking
and i think i know why
you know it just starts aching
while you're splitting your sides
i wish you wouldn't do that
because i see what's inside
and you know i can't look, babe,
i would rather die
well it's been 19 years, man
inside of this car
with the old gravel roads
and the look of the tar
i'm not a god damn frontman
i just play the guitar
and then she laughed that off
and said i know what you are
try it on
just for size
you say you won't, but
i think you might
the way it looks
from down here
oh it's so bad
it could take years
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3. |
Grey (Under The Sky)
02:56
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grey, under the sky
i was told to waste my time
and now i have
black, below the rain
i was tied beside your chains
beneath your chair
and barely there
fixing your new face in the cold of the class
you were pasting your hours on the fog of the glass
with his new story eyes
your pocketbook heart
i could finish him off if you'd just let me start
oh i'm right
once in a time
feeling just alright
kicking time by candlelight
along your hall
there i saw your saint
in his sandals, chipping paint
from on the walls
and taking calls
his face thru the slats of the venetian blinds
with his life before him, and his goals right behind
and his dogs at his feet
with his thoughts on his head
i took him for a man
now i see he was dead the whole time
neither yours nor mine
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4. |
January
02:52
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it's january
and i want to go away
i put a lid on it
i've got nothing to say
but unfortunately
i'm running
it's january
and i want to be alone
far away from friends
and away from home
away
thrown like a stone
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her face is blowing in the wind
and my easy mind can't keep from wandering
i was gone inside the room between her eyes
behind my face without a trace inside my mind
and it used to be me outside your gate
watchin my watch just kicking time before
you're always late
and it used to be me along your road
and i thought i was the one choosing where you drove
but now i don't
her face is floating on the breeze
and you don't have to ask nothing is going on with me
i was there i didn't care i couldn't see
that every hour folds in it's flower below the trees
that grew beyond the days beneath the sky
they climb and bloom and burst inside my brain
and if i try then i
see them in their place along the path
i'll greet the one that's first but i will kill the one that's last
because it's fast
and now it's past
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6. |
Ivy Day
03:46
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i sold it all for a song
and it worked
(i said you were)
but i wouldn't last very long
as it were
(i said you were)
i said you were
just when i thought you were
but she's in the hands
of a dancing young man
(i said you were)
she's sweeping stars
thru the skies of his mind
(i said you were)
i saw you were
just when i thought you were
tell me you'll call me
tell me you'll be there
tell me you'll want me
tell me you'll even care
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