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Pennsylvania Turnpike
02:21
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I remember the last time ever watching them go
Steady growing smaller rear view mirror rear window
Faintly fading backwards in the middle of the road
Every time it got weird every time it got bad
Every emptied out hollowed out feeling we had
In our our minds we can always go back to
Our thumbs out on the side of road
Shoulders under heavy load
Out running the night
On the Pennsylvania Turnpike
I remember sleeping skin to stars in a stand of pines
Close in love as we were to the Alabama Florida line
The gulf drinks the Delta the pain fades each passing tide
Don’t the Allegheny, Susquehanna, Fox, and Illinois
Flow into the ocean carrying blood and rust and soil
They carry a trace of every place they’ve been on their way to the sea
And so the love we gave was not in vain it joins all the love that ever was and will be
so it will be
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Lost At Sea
02:12
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When you were lost out on the water at the height of the storm
I couldn’t help but recall a time when we were both just baby boys
And the stripes on the road struck by a streak of light from the east
Shimmered and changed in dawn’s glimmering haze from yellow to pink
When I heard of the wreck my heart left my chest tears came rolling down
The same sun shone through the window I thought of a world without you around
And i will not lie my dear friend it was the lonesome-est sound
Then i picked up the phone and they told me that you had survived
And i fell down on the floor and continued to cry
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Everybody Out
02:36
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Everybody out the place is hot
Some blue nosed bastard blew the spot
We got to get going or we’re gonna get got
Let’s go ah yeah let’s go
Bust the hoop on the barrel, dump the hooch and the gin
Any moment that door’l come bustin in
But the excise man ain’t gonna get no grin from me
Oh yeah he’ll see
When the government dog comes snooping around
We throw the dog a bust for the run run around
He thinks his head in the sand is his ears to the ground
But he’d never know
It’s a Kentuckiana man running the real Mcoy
With a fiery fellow under his employ
And he’s from Galway Bay he ain’t no Boston Boy
Watch his convoy roll
Every time they close another bottle shop
We whoop up the ponies move it down the block
We sell to the priest’s, politicians, and cops
That’s just how it goes
So you can break every barrel you can crack every pot
You could shut down every still that you think we’d got
But we’d still stoke the fires stoke them burning hot
Watch them glow yeah watch them glow they glow low
So all good people won’t you make no mistake
Every bossman is on a another bossman’s take
There’s no free human except the one that you make
Let your true light show
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Insomnia
03:15
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Still awake and it’s sunrise
my eyes are blue and black like the skies
Luckily I’m unemployed I can watch night as it turns to morning
Birds sing in ignorant bliss
I’m feeling lucid
No sleeping cause i'm a mess
Only my guitar to caress
I toss and i turn in my bed every night
I’m sober but my mind is high as a kite
And even these pills don’t bring no rest for me
New day beginning seems like a night that’s never ending
People are going to work in ties sport jackets suits and shirts
Productive cogs in the machine really need their beauty sleep
But no no not me i’d rather be ugly
I toss and i turn in my bed every night
I’m sober but my mind is high as a kite
And even these pills don’t bring no rest for me
I toss and i turn in my bed every night
I’m sober but my mind is high as a kite
And even these pills don’t bring no rest for me
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5. |
Lonesome Low
04:52
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I woke up this morning and my mind was wracked with pain
My bed a set of railway tracks and i’m fresh hit by a train
Should i even get up or should I just remain
Sprawled out on these cold hard tracks never to rise again
But I strain
And I pull
And I pull myself out of, out of the lonesome low
The lonesome low, lonesome low, that keeps you ten times low
You keep it in the low and lonesome low that is lower than low
Lonesome low, lonesome low, lonesome low
Lonesome low, lonesome low, lonesome low
The ugliest thing we all ever did see
Was a man swinging by his neck from a tree
And we kept that all our lives and we keep it in tow
And we keep it in the lonesome low
The lonesome low, lonesome low, that keeps us ten times low
We keep it in the low and lonesome low that is lower than low
Lonesome low, lonesome low, lonesome low
Lonesome low, lonesome low, lonesome low
There’s a dead snake hanging on my old man’s fence
And he’s the only one who knew what it meant
I’m just a boy and it don’t make sense
so I keep it in the lonesome low
The lonesome low, lonesome low, that keeps us ten times low
We keep it in the low and lonesome low that is lower than low
Lonesome low, lonesome low, lonesome low
Lonesome low, lonesome low, lonesome low
The prettiest thing I ever did see was little clear eyed curly headed bouncing baby
And she had a smile cause she didn’t know, about that low and lonesome low
The lonesome low, lonesome low, that keeps us ten times low
We keep it in the low and lonesome low that is lower than low
Lonesome low, lonesome low, lonesome low
Lonesome low, lonesome low, let it go
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6. |
Want One
01:36
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When I want one i will take one
When I need two I will take three
I’ll eat a red one when I’m feeling blue
now I’m to jacked up where’s my green?
Shake shake shake
Rattle and roll
My pockets go when I move my feet
That tiny little bottle feels big empty and hollow
When I get to the bottom
I am incomplete
There was this one time
Where I was so high
That I thought i had died
And passed out in the street
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City Lullaby
04:05
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Every single day is a ballet in the streets
and everyone's a dancer light and lively on their feet
twinkle-toes all stand in rows where roads and sidewalks meet
and then they leap, how they leap
to a symphony of crashes, brash and harsh and loud
makes the city seem a place where sleeping simply ain't allowed
when the day is over and the heads are hanging down
eyelids heavy all around, dreams falling from the clouds
you hear a most peaceful and beautiful sound
Feel the city heave a sigh
hear it start to softly sing itself that concrete lullaby it's
Sleep little city, do not cry
Glass and granite canyons, never go abandoned
They just gleam with the lights of those who live the life demanding
and when their electric lights drive off the night they are still standing strong weary and strong
Now feet pound on the ground downtown and the rhythm of that step
is the living city's heartbeat and air inside it's heaving chest
and when the sun again sinks below buildings in the west,
we cease our work and seek our peace
ourselves and souls to rest
in the comforting cradle of the city's sooted breast
Feel the city heave a sigh hear it start to softly sing itself that concrete lullaby
and it's, "Sleep little city, do not cry."
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8. |
Slipknot
02:09
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Have you ever seen a hangman tie a slip knot
Have you ever seen a hangman tie a slip knot
He winds and he winds and after 13 times
He’s a got a slip knot, he’s got a slipknot
Tell me will that slipknot slip, no it will not,
Will that slipknot slip, no it will not.
Slip around your neck, but it won't slip back again
The slipknot oh that slipknot
Tell me who makes the laws of that slipknot?
Who makes the laws for that slipknot?
Who says who will go to the calaboose?
Get the hangman's noose on a slipknot.
I don't know who makes the law for that slipknot.
I don't know who makes the law for that slipknot.
But the bones of many a men are whistling in the wind,
Because we tie our laws with a slipknot
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9. |
Poverty Draft
04:44
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Black country girl Mississippi
White boy big city hillbilly
Doesn’t matter your race just your class
Send you to college and on top you get paid
The fight for freedom pays more than minimum wage
But if you don’t make it through as one of the proud and the few
Who don’t come back battered and tattered or shattered sick or insane
The trauma deniers and tuition check signers can say all that we did was ask
And that’s the hell of the poverty draft
They say it’s just like a video game.
They’ll disassociate you, frame by frame
When comes the real pain
you just might break
You took the job for the money
Took the shrapnel for your country
Took lives so that others might live
Brother that we forgive
Live or die that was it
But when you close your eyes
Fire lights up the skies
And the screams and the cries are some hellish refrains
Dark demons still haunt you
Uncle Sam he still wants you to get on the big airplane again
And back home to a war without end
He says young woman look how you’ve changed
An army of one strong with a warrior’s brain
Your friends and family seem strange
You have no first name and the cycle of sickness remains
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10. |
Love After Death
03:03
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We climb so high just to fall so far and it’s always the good ones that die
And when they leave it gets so damn dark like the lights fell out of the sky
I wish heaven was train we call could ride
Together forever, my dead friends and I
We would sing as we crossed the great divide
I love you ‘cause you’re perfect and the only thing I’d change
Is that you could come back to me and we could be together again
I love you ‘cause you’re perfect and the only thing I’d change
Is that you could come back to me and we could be together again
It hangs around, a thick dark cloud
It’s enough to make a grown man cry
Everytime I think that it’s alright
It begins to tear my eyes
The cloud did not appear until you died
But it's not the only thing you behind
And when i think of that the cloud is pushed aside
And it is bright
And it’s time, time, time, time and again
We clutch to the living and weep for our family and friends
Who’ve met their end is this really the end?
Will I see you again? I don’t know
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