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Shining Light
02:34
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I can't help
But keep myself
Dragging that line
To find success
It's trying my health
Shining light let me be
Let me just shine for me
Shining light let me go
Let me burn awful slow
I grind my teeth
Sweat in my sleep
Drink too much
Don't rest enough
Just chasing that shine
Shining light let me be
Let me just shine for me
Shining light let me go
Let me burn awful slow
And it's all right another night
Spent wasted in my home
With my guitar and nothing more
I'll miss it when it's gone
Shining light let me be
Let me just shine for me
Shining light let me go
Let me burn awful slow
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2. |
Don't Ever Go Alone
02:42
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My friend said he ain't got a friend
But I told him I was his companion
He said he didn't need it
Friends only keep him grounded
His brain became a cloud
And it floated away
Don’t go don’t ever go alone
Don’t go don’t ever go alone
Don’t weep and don’t moan
I moved into a new apartment
Completely filled up my bookshelf
I read them in the morning
I read them in the evening
I talked into the pages
But they never talked back
So don’t go don’t ever go alone
Don’t go don’t ever go alone
Don’t weep and don’t moan
When the sun light
And the moonlight
And the starlight
Are all you need
When you're Standing
In that spotlight
May be lonelier indeed
Don’t go don’t ever go alone
Don’t go don’t ever go alone
Don’t weep and don’t moan
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3. |
Love Will Carry Me Home
05:18
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Well I kept hearing my friends saying
They want trouble
And sure enough there’d be violence
In the future
Some blood then we’d all go home
Hung in Boston with some boys
Too loud for living
Every weekend swung some punches
Won’t be forgiven
Maybe so, guess I’ll never know
But love will carry me home
Love will carry me home
Love will carry me home
And I won’t be back no more
Well I grew older and moved away
From all that trouble
Sure didn’t miss it
Didn’t realize I could escape it
Some towns
You don’t choose your friends
You’re young
They’re just around you back then
But love will carry me home
Love will carry me home
Love will carry me home
And I won’t be back no more
But there’s times
You take your head and you hang it
Set in your way, should be ashamed
You ask for forgiveness
But in who’s name
But love will carry me home
Love will carry me home
Love will carry me home
And I won’t be back no more
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4. |
Did You Ever Know Boy
05:07
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Did you ever want to be boy
Out on the sea boy
All of your possessions
Below the deck
So when they question
What’s your direction
You can say south boy
And know it’s fact
Did you ever have a daydream
That made you cry
For a lovely lady
To call your own
Then you ask that lady
Does anyone really know me
Well I know those worries
Like my own strife
‘Cause I’ve slept alone boy
Most of my life
Do you want to know me girl
I can see in your eyes
A look of pity for the way I live
Well I may not be striving
But I’m surviving
And I love the nighttime
And I can dig that sunshine
Each morn’ before I lay down
And go to bed
But all you know I lie
And exaggerate my life
But in the tales I tell
Are some truths themselves
Well don’t you know
Thought everybody knows
Well don’t you know
She said farewell boy
You sleep too much dear
And it’s too cold up here
You promised me Nashville
So I lost my lady
To the state of Tennessee
But I want her back boy
Yeah I need her here
Well I want her back boy
Yeah I need her here
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5. |
Every Girl
02:30
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I’m at the mall
This girl passed me by
Blue hair on her head
I don’t question why
I see one girl with a book
One’s got a weave
I like them all
It’s all the same to me
‘Cause I’m in love with every girl
No matter what they do or say
Something ‘bout them draws on me this way
Peisin mentioned
She can’t go to sleep
Without pasta
It seemed so compelling to me
They’re alway texting
Always crying
Always annoyed
Always perfect to me
‘Cause I’m in love with every girl
No matter what they do or say
Something ‘bout them just rubs me this way
And they can wear their stupid heals
Watch reality TV
Stare into their phones it’s fine with me
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6. |
In My Time
04:04
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Love’s a liar and a mystery
That shakes and turns your stomach
Gives you diarrhea
But there’s good times too
In bed she knows just what you want to do
I always knew that it would end this way
Records all strewn across the floor
They look like faces
Of the friends I’ve loved
The friends that keep me company
They sing like ghosts
And teach me who I’m supposed to be
Be with me in my time
Stay with me in my time
And love
Life is lonely life is complicated
I can see the reason why you’re so frustrated
But it’s pointless to lose your cool
It only hurts you
I ain’t sorry to see that you’re happy
It’s just hard to fathom because I’m not happy
With the way life goes
The highs and lows of it all
Be with me in my time
Stay with me in my time
And love
The waves they roll on all we know
And leave the pearls behind for us to find
Live with me beside the sea
We’ll leave our landlocked ways for better days
Just the time it takes to row this
Restless wreck up to the shore
Be with me in my time
Stay with me in my time
And love
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7. |
Portland
03:42
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Spent my nights on the couch
Rent is free in someone else’s house
And food is handed out in the park
Found old fruit in the trash
Now there’s oranges in the house
Let’s eat!
I removed the moldy part
Portland’s cheaper than LA
And we have more fun anyway
There’s a hot tub down the street
If you can jump the gate
Don’t you think that you want to live like me
Compost thrown out the window
Now there’s bugs crawling on the floor
Oh shit
I think we made a mistake
Portland’s cheaper than LA
And we have more fun anyway
Got a novel and a box of wine
And I’m doing fine
Don’t you think that you want to live like me
Portland’s cheaper than LA
And we have more fun anyway
Carhartt pants and an Aus Rotten tape
And I’ll smash the state
Don’t you think that you want to live like me
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8. |
Out Tonight
01:30
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Yeah my friend they talk shit
All the time about everyone
But they can take it
If you want to give them some
They don’t let it hurt them none
Every town’s a small
Don’t be afraid to fuck things up
You’re wasted and too loud
Try and forget tomorrow comes
It won’t really help you none
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9. |
Our Home
02:28
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Our apartment is pretty small
Stacks of my shit in the closet
You’re on the bed looking at Vine
I’m on the couch
Drunk most the time
We have a home
You’re not around too much
I sit and play my lonely songs
You stand at the door
And say “I love you”
But you won’t go
’Til I say it too
You work too much
I don’t work enough
You need me to say
You’re pretty each day
We have a home
You’re not around too much
I sit and play my lonely songs
For you
Song for you to love
To take you home
Say the things that I can’t tell you
We have a home
You’re not around too much
Six plants to call our own inside
You say my name
It sets my mind to wander
Hope you know the spell I’m under
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Got a lot on my plate today
Got a lot on my plate today
Got a lot on my plate today
And it’s you
Made the bed and cleaned out the ‘fridge
Made the bed and cleaned out the ‘fridge
Ate all the food that was in the ‘fridge
For you
Put all the dishes away
Poured Draino into the drain
Spent my day waiting around for you
Got a lot on my plate today
Got a lot on my plate today
Got a lot on my plate today
And it’s you
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11. |
Talkin'
05:07
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Saw and old friend wandering today
He said he’s leaving town
He said he’s changed
But he’s judged for the man he was before
And he ain’t doing too much talking anymore
My chest it hurts most all the time
From one of those youthful mistakes
That brings us closer to dying
So I drink and it doesn’t feel so sore
And I ain’t doing too much taking anymore
My girl she’s yelling in my ear
Says I’m avoiding her
says you’re never here
And I try to tell her I’m just plain bored
But we ain’t doing too much talking anymore
Give me a lady and give me a bed
The bed to hold me close
And the lady to rest my head
Give me direction and give me a home
I always feel far gone
When I got no place to roam
Give me a lady and give me a clock
I can deal with all her ticks
But use less of her talk
Give me a lady and rent control
It may take one or it may take both
To satisfy my soul
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12. |
You Were Alone
02:53
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I couldn’t help but notice since winter has come
No one can get you out of your home
Yes you were alone
You were alone
You were alone
And that’s fine
Someone is sick in our tight group of friends
Diesso asks you what card should we send
But you were alone
You were alone
You were alone
And that’s fine
I bought a new shirt I thought you would like
You didn’t look up when I was in sight
Yes you were alone
You were alone
You were alone
And that’s fine
Walking the dog, singing a song
Drinking a Coke, calling someone
Yes you were alone
You were alone
You were alone
And that’s fine
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Fletcher C Johnson Brooklyn, New York
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