1. |
Closure
05:59
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They rolled me in the snow
while I was on fire.
Heat clung to my coat,
I was young and tired.
It’s shame to survive
and have nowhere to go.
Forgive me, I want to be alone
Use the trauma I have known
I was burned and I was broke,
but the lines and chords found me
I’m never going back to Buffalo
I may lose everything.
Oh Marlene, I’ve seen the world
but the world has not seen me.
Come fall apart in the songs I wrote
They’re someone else’s now to know
I want to close it
I need to close it
To see it through the end
I want to hold you
I need to hold you
To see it through the end
You never wanted me
But, the world will remember
it wasn’t my intention to live
but this town, it suits me well.
Flowers of the forest, come and go
wither and die on the steps of our home.
I can’t distinguish the night from the day
or the joy from the sorrows.
The drums, they beat slowly
as they lowered me down.
The dirt, it cracked and crumbled,
my fears disappeared in the ground.
Oh Marlene, I’ve seen the world
But the world has not seen me
Come fall apart in the songs I wrote
They’re someone else’s now to know.
I want to close it
I need to close it
To see it through the end
I want to hold you
I need to hold you
To see it through the end
Flowers of the forest
have withered away
withered away, my love.
(Flowers)
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2. |
We're Not Here
03:36
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We are the sum of what we’ve lost.
We are the parts that don't add up.
We are the sky as it grows dark.
We are the choices we made
when we were still in love.
Found out what I came for
Found out what I am
You stood for something
I just stepped aside.
You were like nothing
I've ever tried.
We’re not here, we never were.
We are the water as it falls down.
We are the sun as it burns out.
We are the pieces where they are cut.
We are the mistakes me made
when we were still in love.
Found out what I came for
Found out what I am
You stood for something
I just stepped aside.
You were like nothing
I've ever tried.
We’re not here, we never were.
If you leave me, I won't cry
I won’t cry alone.
If you leave me, I won't cry
I won’t cry alone.
When u go dark
I just shut up and sleep.
All my memories
are no longer wired
I can't get a read on
just what you need
We’re not here, we never were.
Found out what I came for
Found out what I am
You stood for something
I just stepped aside.
You were like nothing
I've ever tried.
We’re not here, we never were.
We never were.
We never were.
We never were.
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3. |
Fight Clean
03:08
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This is the last rumble.
This is the final scene.
All the people keep coming
asking where I’ve been,
asking where I’ve been.
I aint looking for trouble
I’m just a wire hanging free.
You can close the curtains.
This world wasn’t meant for me.
This world wasn’t meant for me.
Meet me in the street
The way it used to be
I was kicked out
It’s time to fight clean.
Give me a little,
a little loyalty.
Meet me in the street
The way it used to be
I was kicked out
It’s time to fight clean.
Give me a little,
a little loyalty.
I was kicked out
it’s time to fight clean.
Roll out the credits
Turn your head from the screen
I had no intentions, of hiding
of who I wanted to be.
Who I wanted to be.
Life goes on if you let it.
It bends and twists and breaks.
There are worse places
than the ones we’ve made.
Meet me in the street
The way it used to be
I was kicked out
It’s time to fight clean.
Give me a little,
a little loyalty.
Meet me in the street
The way it used to be
I was kicked out
It’s time to fight clean.
Give me a little,
a little loyalty.
Meet me in the street
The way it used to be
I was kicked out
It’s time to fight clean.
Give me a little,
a little loyalty.
Meet me in the street
The way it used to be
I was kicked out
It’s time to fight clean.
Give me a little,
a little loyalty.
I was kicked out
it’s time to fight clean.
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4. |
Steve's Song
02:53
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I’m the one who made the moon land.
I’m the one with my back in the sand.
I’m the one with my hand in your hand.
My mother left, my father slept,
My brother and I figured it our on our own.
There’s no more anger.
There’s no more sorrow.
Cast aside your dreams,
come on home to me.
You need a friend,
before I leave.
This town is just a square
I awoke and you were standing there.
These roads don't lead anywhere.
I’m the one who drained out the sea.
I’m the one who bends down their knees.
I’m the one who follows your lead.
My hate is wired, my body’s tired,
If I wasn’t here, I’d be someplace else
disappointed in the way I turned out.
Cast aside your dreams,
come on home to me.
You need a friend,
before I leave.
This town is just a square
I awoke and you were sitting there
We could have been born anywhere.
We’re not here,
we never were.
We dropped out
for something good.
We dropped out
while we could.
We dropped out
because we could.
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5. |
Feel Everything
04:41
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I got in my car.
It started up fine.
Drove to a bar
so I could stop shaking.
I don’t remember you
not the way that I should.
I split myself in two,
just to follow you around.
Feel everything.
Feel everything.
Feel everything.
Stop trying hard not to.
There are words I don't have.
There are sounds that won’t match.
The way I feel
so I stopped talking.
What a strange way to die.
You just folded up from inside.
No trace left behind
of who you were.
Feel everything.
Feel everything.
Feel everything.
Stop trying hard not to.
I checked into a room
right outside your neighborhood.
I shut the shades
and fell asleep in the tub.
Thank you for looking at me
like I ain’t a disappointment.
Thank you for confiding in me
there were never expectations.
Feel everything.
Feel everything.
Feel everything.
I let my dreams move
from the outside
to the back of the room.
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6. |
Here For The Lights
04:36
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The moon in the sky
has turned a blind eye.
I ain’t hidin’.
I’m just here for the lights.
I’m just here for the night.
The ocean has called.
Tomorrow I’ll find
what I was looking for.
The river will do.
It’s shallow and through.
It ripples and breaks,
but it’s not far enough away.
It’s never far enough away.
The moon in the sky
has turned a blind eye.
I ain’t hidin’.
I’m just here for the lights.
I’m just here for a time.
I know it don’t make sense
who lives and who dies,
and who’s memories last.
Put your hands in my coat.
It’s a cold night.
Move away from the crowd,
I’m just here for you now.
The moon in the sky
has turned a blind eye.
I ain’t hidin’.
I’m just here for the lights.
I’ll see you tomorrow.
I know you are tired.
I’ll turn the sound down,
and close your door for a while.
Behind the fires and trees,
Between the valleys and streams,
the world was not meant for me.
I’m just here for a while.
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7. |
Patty's House
03:08
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It was raining, pretty bad.
I was finishing my dinner from a brown paper bag.
I need a beer, an ice cold beer,
from the back of the fridge,
It’s in the kitchen, in the rear,
behind the box of butter.
I walked in without asking,
and told her I love her
I laid on the couch
and peered out, at the window,
at our town, from Patty’s house.
Whoah, oh. Patty’s house.
I live my life
in black and white.
I sort of dream of colors
when I’m asleep at night.
I get my sense of justice
from how fast my friends follow me into a fight.
Break a glass,
bend a knee,
or pull a knife.
There’s no aurora
floating above Tulsa tonight.
You’d be lucky to see a star
or a satellite.
Sh, quiet, so her father doesn’t find out.
Woah oh, Patty's house.
She says she’s saving herself
for someone she hasn’t met.
I’m working up to it slowly,
but I ain’t that person yet.
When her little brother and sister
are just lying in bed,
she says I can kiss her, but I have to stop at her neck.
I try keep my composure,
but i’m falling apart.
There’s a earthquake every minute
between the blips of my heart.
They vary in size and space and distance
It’s the only corner of the world
I can be myself.
Woah oh, Patty’s house
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8. |
Long Death
03:22
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A well lit path,
free of pain and full of love,
a death where I am proud.
I want a long death.
A kind spoken word,
my mother by my side.
A death I can’t deny.
I want a long death.
I want a long death.
I see fields,
fields of marigolds.
I see a life,
a life that’s all my own.
A good, clean fight.
Kicking up dirt from behind.
A death where I decide.
I want a long death.
Fall asleep on the road
A good night on the radio
A death that’s long and slow.
I want a long death.
I want a long death.
I see fields,
fields of marigolds.
I see a life,
a life that’s all my own.
A well lit path,
free of pain and full of love.
A death where I am proud.
I want a long death.
I want a long death.
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9. |
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I walk my neighborhood
and I hear bells.
It’s a sound I’ve heard before.
It’s a song I carry around.
A melody to wind down.
The beginning of a night,
just waiting to be found.
You said, you said it all before.
There ain’t no need to say more.
You said it alone, If you know,
you know where to look.
I know where I belong.
If I walked backwards
I could redraw my life.
Instead I occupy myself
with distractions and white noise.
Though I’m quiet,
I am not quiet.
I have forgotten how to be loud.
You said, you said it all before.
There ain’t no need to say more.
You said it alone, If you know,
you know where to look.
I know where I belong.
You said it alone, If you know,
you know where to look.
I know where I belong.
You said it alone, If you know,
you know where to look.
I know where I belong.
You said, you said it all before.
There ain’t no need to say more.
You said it alone, If you know,
you know where to look.
I know where I belong.
I know where I belong.
I know where I belong.
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10. |
Nothing Happened
05:38
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We both know
how this will end.
Each one of us
wondering what went wrong.
Sometimes there’s no one to blame.
We grew up, and we grew apart.
Nothing happened.
Nothing happened.
We were foolish and young,
but we could leave here as friends.
Wish each other the best.
Carry on and love again.
Nothing happened,
Nothing happened.
Nothing happened,
Nothing happened.
It’s alright to finish here.
Save a few photographs.
Look at them every few years.
Nothing happened.
Nothing happened.
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Roadside Graves Metuchen, New Jersey
Roadside Graves are educators and an environmental scientist and a tech guru who hail from all over New Jersey with one stray up in Providence, RI. They’ve been a band for 25 years and have no intention of ever stopping because why not.
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