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Anyplace But Here
03:27
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All we have is our own selves
Some love you can buy but you can't sell
I was living like a pile of dirt
So many ran away and I left hurt
It don't matter where you go
The good times come but they don't stay
I shoulda known better
Shoulda left that day
It's so harder when you're old
All we have is our own selves
Some love you can buy, but you can't sell
Well life gets turned around
Hung up left bad mixed up
Spun down left dead being strange
So stuck
Why does it stay that way?
And I've been fucked around
So long changed my mind
I wont go anywhere other than
Where I cant go this time I leave today
Anything, anyone, anyplace but here
Anything, anyone, anyplace but here
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Visions
03:28
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I’m having a vison
You see them as a face without a name
In a war of attrition
Where you’ll be the last one who remains
So baby listen when the sun lies down
And the nights roll round
Through the quiet out on the street
Hear the broken hearts just trying to beat
And some may struggle through it
And some may find a path and some may stray
And some will never do it
And some may endure until the memory fades
So baby listen when the sun lies down
And the nights roll round
Through the quiet out in the street
Hear the broken hearts just trying to beat
I’m having a vision, baby
Baby listen when the sun lies down
And nights roll round
Through the quiet out on the street
And maybe when there’s no one around
And you hear a sound like an echo that’s played on repeat
Maybe it’ll never bring you down
Or ever knock right off of your feet
Hear the broken hearts just trying to beat
I’m having a vision
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3. |
Say Okay
03:23
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Truth has come around to me
It's plain that I can only see the lies now
And everyone who knows of you
Has done all that you've asked them to
Is a shadow
And they'll say okay
They lost
And they'll say
They are fine you've won
And so I try to wait and see
What is, and isn't supposed to be
But I don't care
The day returns with the sun
I know you're the only one
Who thinks it's fair
So if you say okay
I'm yours
And if you stay
I will lock the doors
And I'll say okay
I've lost
And I'll say I am fine
You've won
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4. |
From A Machine
03:22
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When the night comes and I know I'm going nowhere
And that's just somewhere I don't want to be without you
You're the one who takes me out and makes me happy
And it's just sad if I try to do it on my own
If I thought you wanted to be
The girl of my dreams then I'd think that
I'd be going somewhere with you
In the night you say you're coming but you're nowhere
And that's just somewhere I can't be without you
If I thought you wanted to be
The girl of my dreams then I'd think that
I'd be going somewhere with you
But I know you, I know your kind
And I can see all the signs
But I refuse to be resigned to the truth
And I can tell, I can tell I saw your letter on the shelf
And I could read it by myself but I don't want to
So I asked my computer "Can you read this thing to me?"
Maybe it won't seem what it seems from a machine
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5. |
City Song
03:51
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I love the smell of the city at dusk
Working metal beams and concrete dust
And the rows of glass and grids of rust
They say “Go big or go home bust”
And I want to work with my bare hands
And I’ll learn to create from the land
And I’ll build a structure for this life
She said “Baby don’t give yourself to the night”
Big city misery so eager to welcome me back
Maybe I’m just walking into a trap
I got my start my on highway 9
I was pulling freight up and down the line
With the roads that run out of view
She said “Baby I don’t wish it was true”
And I want to work with my bare hands
And I’ll learn to create from the land
And I’ll build a structure for this life
She said “Baby don’t give yourself to the night”
Big city misery so eager to welcome me back
Maybe I’m just walking into a trap
Big city misery so eager to take me back
Maybe I’m just falling into a trap
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6. |
Keep it in Your Lungs
06:19
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Well I don't know where my mind has gone
Been on the country side since she's been young
Breathe in the summer air to keep it in your lungs
What made you turn your back?
Whatever made you lose your spine?
Where trouble lives, it lives too long
And I don't know where my mind has gone
I don't know where my mind has gone
I don't know where my mind has gone
Trouble lives, it lives too long
Trouble lives, it lives too long
She grew up on the country side
Ever since she's been young
And breathing in the summer air
To keep it all inside your lungs
To keep it in your lungs
These moments feel like days
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7. |
Virginia
02:53
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Yellow is the color of my skin
And oh, how you have worn it thin
Green is the shade of my heart
From all the lovers who keep us apart
Grey is the curtain on my days
What I would give to see it raise
Blue is the shadow on my soul
What I would do to see it go
Virginia, now you know I won't forget you
Virginia, now you know how hard it is to go
Virginia, now you know I can't forgive you
Virginia, now you know how hard it is to say no
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8. |
Alabama Death Song
04:25
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We drowned where we could
Leaving the sun out of frame
Until the nights run together
Separated by the rain
Alabama angel
My ocean sweetheart
Send me to your burial mound
So I can watch ya
From underground
And they'll come aboundin'
Same as they always do
Hungry eyes aglowin'
And the smell of the air
Really gets 'em going
Oh Alabama angel
Oh my ocean sweetheart
So I can watch ya
From underground
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Strange Lovelies Chicago, Illinois
Strange Lovelies: 21st-Century-New-Wave-Garage-Rock.
Strange Lovelies
are:
Michael Slovenkay,
Zach LaBomascus (Elephant Gun),
Jim Drake (Jaime Rojo, Elephant Gun, Mucca Pazza), and Jon Drake (Barbara).
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