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I am a lonesome cowboy
03:04
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i am a lonesome cowboy
riding on the track
i look at all the details
i take in all the facts
i love you sweet sonora
i love your brutish charm
i ride a little faster
get a stride in my step
and you all play dirty
and you all take sides
my my what a surprise
i always take them with me
the souvenirs i got
they're cheap and they're plastic
but they're all i got
i wont take your offer
it costs me too much
i don't want your baggage
i don't want your rust
and you all play dirty
and you all take sides
my my what a surprise
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2. |
Destroy the family
02:13
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it was the second trial
of learning how to fend for myself
you were mean
and i've tried planting seeds in infertile soil
so come to me i'm so alone
come and see the nature
it circles our home
i wish i knew how to leave
i wish i knew why this happens to me
and i wanna leave
give myself my own name
find joy in my own ways
is this how
how you wanted our life to be?
i don't know
so come to me i'm so alone
wildflowers waiting down
deep in the soil
you didn't know they were there
and one day when nobody's watching
i'm gonna bloom
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Tough guy
03:59
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you're trapped
of course you don't wanna leave
turn back on those
who choose to believe in some magic
a sort of calmness that comes
when there's comfort in weeping
its been dragging on and on and on
all while you've been sleeping
you took the easy way out
and now its gone too far
you cant even smile
he's flipped on his shell
he waits on his back
and its all gone wrong
but he knows
he can wait
he don't like thinking back
he likes his excuses
we both know
that it's come to
circling his cage
i'm frozen in place
i'm traumatized
but you wont hear that from me
i'm sore i would like the day off
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Sauvie Island kids
03:15
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sauvie island kids
meet up after 10
don't step into the mud
you got your favorite boots on
sauvie island kids
head out the passenger window
walk over the cattle guard
its 8th grade graduation
never mind the tourists
sauvie island kids
never mind the tourists
sauvie island kids
hey! sauvie island kids!
your news blows down south
don't know if you can sell it all
you can tell that to state patrol
yeah! sauvie island kids don't know that
times they are a-changin
the answer don't grow in the grass
now you're off to pre-med school
the world tries to bore us
but we won't let them win
never mind the tourists
sauvie island kids
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5. |
Tumwater
01:51
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traffic jams and farming lands
muddy banks and countless yanks
here where we call home
here where we call home
restless punks and metal heads
here they're better off and dead
here where we call home
here where we call home
and you're not getting into heaven you redneck pricks
patriotic billboard stands
lying lying radio man
here where we call home
here where we call home
you better move up north
where opportunity knocks the doors
here where we call home
here where we call home
and you're not getting into heaven you redneck pricks
gotta find another way
live to shred another day
don't wanna scream into the dark
don't wanna play my chosen part
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6. |
San Pedro kids
03:25
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friends bail we know
and you call pull all the rabbits out of your hat
and you call play all your little tricks
but you're still in the house with your mom in san pedro
we know how to play
we sync up at special times
a locked in connection i know you well
balance ends you know
and you can try to hold a building under collapse
and you can run into a burning home
but you still won't know going in who's still breathing
you said you know pain
float a little closer to the top
hold on tight i'm heading up
i go where we first met
it hasn't changed
i wish i knew what i know about you now
its so far away
but i can see it coming towards our way
so far away
but its getting brighter day by day
things move fast
i wonder if you saw it coming
we don't have no backup plan
we are flying by the seat of our pants
we're still the kids in the park, we're immortal
it might take all day
it might take all year
a locked in connection
i known you well
i read your words it's strange
you had so much to say
but theres no point in backtracking now
its all so far away
but i can see it coming towards our way
so far away
but its getting brighter day by day
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welcome to the ghost town!
where the wellspring runs dry
we found water
to all you gold miners
the riches that you found are buried with you and your town
it didn't matter
and thats what i get for chasing doves
no one wants it to be this way
bury me in gold
i know that i'll just end up like the rocks and all the other bones
welcome to the ghost town!!!
where the wellspring runs dry
we found water
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Being sick
03:39
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she'd like to go outside
got a sickly look in her eyes
she don't wanna wear herself out
she's got an aching in her bones
she didn't ask for this
she didn't ask for this no
bedridden and worthless
bedridden and worthless
she'd like to go
to prove to herself that she can
but the further you go
the further you gotta walk back to your bed
nobody asks for this.
and sometimes she wonders
was she supposed to die?
where do we draw the line?
why do we keep someone alive?
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hike up the lower pathway
where the bamboo sprouts real short
68 degrees overcast
i smell compost coming up
each stair takes two steps
don't you spoil the quiet
smile at the elders
and what this represents
let the leek grow
let it take root underground
let it climb high
let it be fruitful in its supply
take a little walk outside
you know as well as i do
that we'll all be a footnote at best
and its been a long life yes it has
most don't get a mention at all
its okay to take a rest
don't you spoilt the quiet
smile at the elders
and what this represents
let the leek grow
let it take root underground
let it climb high
let it be fruitful in its supply
take a little walk outside
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i'm in love but i don't stand a chance
i've been taking long walks, i've been having these thoughts
and it's not that i won't cause i can
and if we did, well it wouldn't last
i just wanna see if i am onto something
i'm in love but i don't stand a chance
and i can wait, i can bide my time
we don't know about each-other
but that's a better mystery
i just wanna see if i am onto something
just one more day.
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yes it's lonely to remember
impossible to forget
the death of a close close friend.
we knew life through each-other
when you shaved your head
i shaved mine.
you are impossible to forget
my sweet innocent friend
i tried to shut it off
i tried to hit the breaker
i helped your mom move your things.
i am not done grieving
we never really made it
but we tried.
you are impossible to forget
my sweet innocent friend
(transition)
it happened in a cold rainforest
it happened under light
it happens once or twice a year
rolls off the pavement
down into the gutter
and it will follow down
into the pile of everything
kids got a demo
you'll be found some day!
its what you always wanted!
its what you couldn't fathom!
statistically impossible
to find the needle in the haystack
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13. |
Life in mono
01:27
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its a long life
to learn how to touch
to be taught to sing
to say what i really mean
to learn to drive
learn what i like
and find out whats important
i don't know
somethings i wont
and somethings i'll get real good at
there's lots of time
to wait for a new song to sing
bide your time
and find some better words to say
new friends will come around
I like to think that life's in mono
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14. |
French riverboat song
03:00
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fell asleep in the boat cabin
the afternoons gone to dust
the air was wet and i felt dirty
got myself a drink
i see a couple holding hands by the docks
they don't seem to know my name
and life is simple
and i see your presence float towards the captains quarters, clear as day
when you find yourself in rome
have a backup home
take that from me
as i float further down the creek
overcooked the eel i had for breakfast
the fresh fish stuck between my teeth
i sing a song for old friends, i sing a song for tales long ago
i sing for sailors who never made it home
i see my fresh cut hair on the deck
in moments it will be in the wind
and life is simple
and i hear you calling from the riverbed, clear as day
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15. |
Teen thrash
02:36
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lets meet after school
i don't have nothing to do
bring your 40 watt amp
bring your squire guitar
lets take off our shirts while we play
let's rock out like gods today
the neighbors complain
have you heard the new hüsker dü?
we could do something like that
mix it with some black flag
nobody cares what we do
let's come up with something new
so far gone
throw your horns in the air
that was me
for a second we were kings
i thought of a name
and i know some friends
who can get us a show
tell everyone you know to go.
so far gone
throw your horns in the air
that was me
changed the world at 17
so lets meet after school
i don't have nothing to do
bring your 40 watt amp
bring your squire guitar
let's take off our shirts while we play!
let's rock out like gods today!
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Totaled On Xmas Portland, Oregon
Totaled On Xmas is Canadian-born-Portland-Oregon-raised songwriter, producer, and multi instrumentalist Cortez Ravarra.
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