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Four Leaf Clover
03:34
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You and I have demons
And every day we meet them
We've known them for so long that we gave them names
Wide awake and wonder if the sky we're lying under
Would even feel or look the same
If you and I hadn't happened
If one of us had looked the other way
I think of all the people who
Just as soon as able
Would write me off and cuss you out
What's so devastating is the time that we spent wasting
'Cause we don't even know them now
If we are what we're not
Then I don't even know who I think I am
But I'll get over a world gone colder
I'm still a day too late and back where I began
While I'm getting older you're my four leaf clover
And I'm way too sad for a lucky man
But here I am…
Here I am ready to tell you in so many ways
That everything in this life it can all be re-arranged
We might not yet know what we're even out in this for
But every day in your arms it's like a new open door
Opened just for me
For me
Open them to me
to me
And I'll get over a world gone colder
I'm still a day too late and back where I began
While I'm getting older you're my
Four leaf clover and I'm way too sad for a lucky man
But here I am…
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2. |
Oh Emily
02:52
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Oh Emily I,
I want you to meet you
‘cause you’re just you’re type
Emily, I’m stuck in the middle that is eight long miles wide
You’re not much of a dancer
And I’m not much one to say it but
I am glad to know you got a day job
And how I want you to take me
And make it hurt just a little
But who would you want me to be when you stop?
Oh Emily I,
I want you to meet you
‘cause you’re just you’re type
But Emily I,
I’m stuck in the middle that is eight long miles wide
If someone keeps you from running
Someone else runs away
Always something to keep you where you are
And Emily I would buy you a ticket
But I’m just passing through
And I’m not sure where you’d get would get you too far
Meanwhile the band plays you soldier on
You crashed into my life like you wrote this song
What feels so right is it feels so wrong
Oh Emily I,
I want you to meet you
‘cause you’re just you’re type
But Emily I,
I’m stuck in the middle that is eight long miles
that is eight long miles
that is eight long…
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Will you share my fate
If the chips are down and I start to fall?
Or is it too late?
Roughly translated is it written on the wall?
And I take my time
But time isn’t something you think’s worth waiting for
And you are mine
Or so I thought but you’re showing me the door
You’re telling me that everything happens for reasons
And still your reasons don’t make any sense
And now I am a lonely, bitter millennial
Writing songs in the present tense
Do you hear my words?
They’re coming out to find you in real time
And if they hit a nerve
They will be forgotten by tomorrow
And I will just write more
And throw them to the ether and then
What’s mine is yours
And the pain of you leaving will reach me in the end
I know it’s not right to wish someone unhappiness
But wish in one hand and shit ‘til I’m spent
You’ll see I’m a lonely, bitter millennial
Writing songs in the present tense
If “You and I” are prepared to die
Then let’s let some others sing songs of love
Because the meaning of is now lost on you and me
You’re telling me who I should always be scared of
And that beggars aren’t choosers - they lie
You’re telling me that happiness isn’t a virtue
But that you hate it when you see me cry
Or when I think the world could never look more beautiful
And I thank the man in the sky
Or when I hurt so much I thought I could die from it
You said that pigs if they could they would fly
You’re telling me that everything happens for reasons
And still your reasons don’t make any sense
But now I’m a lonely, bitter millennial
Writing songs in the present tense
Yes this is the introduction to my psychology
And it begins just as sad as it ends
Yeah I’m a lonely, bitter millennial
Writing songs in the present tense.
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4. |
Starfucker
03:38
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Starfucker in a beat up dress says
“I’ve known ‘em since about 1988”
“And only then can I appreciate”
Starfucker in a beat up dress says
And here I think “Hey!”
I remain reticent
“Hey I – Hey I’m over here!”
Shoe-gazer on the interstate
Come watch me musically masturbate
Is there anybody out there who can satiate
Shoe-gazer on the interstate?
I hear her say
“Hey, I am yours impenitent.
Hey, I – Hey I’m over here!”
Hey, I heard you had a friend they call Victoria
Shame, she got a little bite out of the Gloria
Now when is a friend
Just a friend
Let’s pretend I’m blowing out your mind
And you’ll love me in time (prime time)
Starfucker in a beat up dress says
Starfucker in a beat up beat up dress
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5. |
Without Going Over
02:57
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The wolves of tomorrow
Will find you with your pants down
The problems that follow
When all you have is such a let down
But it’s over now
And it worked somehow
If you looked you found you came ‘round without going under/over
When yesterday happens
It might come back to haunt you
If that don’t leave you laughing
Who knows what’s going to?
Still it’s over now
And it works somehow
If you look you found you came ‘round without going over
But I don’t think about it
Everything is OK
Years and tears of practice have taught me to look the other way
Take a look at who you are
And who you’d like to be
Cut the expectation in half and sit right next to me
And we’ll go
And we’ll go
Well it’s over now
And it works somehow
If you looked you found you came ‘round without going over
Without going over
Without going over
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6. |
I Would Like
03:28
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I would like to find the words to say that I know nothing lasts forever
And each day we are together my troubles are a million miles away
But it’s a shame that I still let ‘em in
Come find me where I’ve set them and we’ll see
How much harder it could be
I would like to sit with you a while
And while I already know you I’ll find something more to show you
Yes you can overthrow me with your smile
From ten thousand conversations and every rank and station that we’ll find
I’m so happy you are mine
And when I reach out for you in the darkness
You walk to me like a song in a white dress
Tell me it’s all in my head and I’m a hot mess
If only I could see
I would like to say that I love you
Oh yes, say it and then mean it
Not just talk about but be it
I’m afraid to say we haven’t got the time
To put off ‘til tomorrow because our time my dear is borrowed for a while
Yesterday I was a child
I would like to find the words to say…
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7. |
Alexander
03:42
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Alexander, I think of you tonight
And I drink ‘til I get tight
But you’ll never know
Alexander, I suppose we’ll never see
Just who you were meant to be
But you meant the world to me
Alexander
What’s in a name – The one your parents give to you?
Is it part of a game – and win or lose it suits you (to make the whole thing suit you)
It was part of a plan
When you became a man
But you didn’t understand
Alexander
Alexander, you see I talk but make no sense
I have lost the innocence
If I had known Alexander, that they would put you in the ground
I would have come around
To try and turn your world around
Alexander
That was your name, and on these lips I sing to you
From beyond the grave, I hope my words will find you
Between you and me
No one knew you like me
And I hope you find peace
Alexander
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8. |
Falling Star
03:40
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Love me a while as we dance for a mile in the garden
Take me away to where fairytales play in your dreams
I cannot hide so I’ll tell you the truth
This feeling inside I hope you feel too
Too many days melt like candlewax onto the page of my life it seems.
Into the mountains and under a sky of a black sea
Tell me again that the magic within is just for me
I am a child who is far from his home
But wherever this is I don’t feel alone with you
In love with you madly I give myself gladly up all for you
I wished on a falling star
How did we get here – the same time and place dear?
Imagine this minute ordained was just moments from not coming true
A long time ago it was something to see
The moment in time I knew you were for me
But true as my heart was handedly won
I’m forever amazed by the power of one who is
Perfectly timed to the place she arrives now I’m falling too.
I wished on a falling star
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Look at the sky I should be moving on
The sun was here but now it’s gone
I don’t want you
I don’t want you
I don’t want your love
I’m bleeding out but you could never tell
If I was up or at the gates of hell
I don’t want you
I don’t want you
I don’t want your love
Is it me your even hearing now the final note is sung
Leave me staring into something that I just can’t overcome
If it’s really what you’re saying that the miles we ran are run
Then I want to play the winner but I just can’t move along
Moving along the highway of a memory of running from the memory of that highway
Oh it’s taking me back to where my heart could wait for someday
To be happy and to know just where it is
Into the night I would rather go
The things you’ll learn they aren’t mine to know
But I know I don’t want you
I don’t want you
I don’t want your love
But I’m leaving second guessing ‘cause I just don’t understand
Why I want to see you crumble and still be the better man
Better to take more than I can handle than to leave with an empty hand
When I want to play the winner while I’m stranded in the stand
Yeah I want to play the winner, but things didn’t go as planned
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10. |
You & I
03:24
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Our little backyard, though weathered and worn
Looks much the same as the day you were born
I’m sure it looks huge to your wild smiling eyes
I’m hoping that I do right by you boy
I’m only a man in this full-time employ
The things that my father and his father might say
But that was another day
Time isn’t lost on me
These wires are a ghost you don’t see
We’re entwined in a destiny
You and I
All of your worries, hand them to me
As long as I’m with you, you will not need
I need you like this music needs a soft, steady beat
Now people don’t say it, and to me it seems weird
But you make me happy, and I’m glad that you’re here
Now that may sound simple, but the honest things are
And honesty will get you far
Find you a love that’s free
Be kind and remember me
When time takes me home you’ll see
It takes you and I
Time takes and waits for no one
Our little backyard, though weathered and worn
Looks much the same as the day you were born
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11. |
Yesterday's Kid
05:28
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Give it some gas and the motor will whine
Keep your eyes on the road and the rest will go fine
If you don’t take a chance, your star it won’t shine
I’ve been fooling myself only some of the time
And you know now I’m not so sure if this old car can take anymore
When even the bright lights seem to fade on all I did – yesterday’s kid
The lines on my face could tell you a tale of a story I knew
I could tell it so well
But I don’t recognize the person I see
who feels forever young and still 23
With every year that passes by it’s a wonder at all that we’re still alive
Where every pull of whiskey measured how we lived – That was yesterday’s kid
And I’m not saying that I’d change a thing
But brother I’ve been thinking that I’d do it again and again and again
Be kind to the young, for they’ll never know
What they called a man when we ran the show
Because seasons will change and old hearts will grow cold
You don’t have to like it, you just do as you’re told
For each little treasure that I chased I realized it wasn’t a race
But kicking up dust in my rear-view look who it is – Here comes yesterday’s kid
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