1. |
Head Above Water
05:05
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Well I was so much younger
So much younger than today
Oh when I discovered
Exactly What it to takes
To break somebodies heart
Leave em blue, leave em broken
Leave them drowning in the deep dark ocean
and when sink comes to swim
well I hope you have what it takes to
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Don't you be drowning on me
Oh you were best teacher
at the art of breaking hearts
You split me right open
And hit me where it hurts
And with no heart beat pounding
My limbs gave quit to work
As I began drowning
The only words I swore I had heard were to
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Don't you be drowning on me
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Don't you be drowning tonight
It was a disaster
A shipwreck in the dark
My lips blue and frozen
You had me exactly where you wanted
But I kept on going I had a fire in my heart
with waves crashing winds blowing I kicked with all I got
And I know its hard
To keep yourself afloat
But you gotta keep going
keep on reaching for the rope
Because when I reached that shore I looked back at you and smiled
for you were just nothing but a tempest raging wild
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Don't you be drowning on me
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Don't you be drowning tonight
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Don't you be drowning on me
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Don't you be drowning tonight
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Don't you be drowning on me
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Don't you be drowning tonight
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Don't you be drowning on me
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Keep your head above water
Don't you be drowning tonight
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2. |
Changes
05:02
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There comes a time, comes a time for changing
There comes a time, time for some rearranging
And you got yours and I'm on my own now
There comes a time to pay the debt ya owe now
You got your family, and I need a friend now
And you got love, I need a helping hand now
But you're still lonesome writing your thoughts down
There comes a time where you best move along now
Don't lie, Don't lie, you've been telling all your friends
Your alibi, all about how I drove ya to your wits ends
It does your conscience good to put the blame on what ya heard
I'm not sticking around to feel the pain
Let me tell ya a secret I'll probably love ya til my last day
But it don't matter it don't matter anyway
I got my freedom, you got your whole life now
And you'll get married, you'll settle down now
I'm on the road playing what could've been now,
There comes a time where you rewrite the lines now
I won't lie, I won't lie I've been telling all my friends
My alibi, all about, how ya drove me to my wits ends
It does my conscience good to put the blame on what I heard
I'm not sticking around to feel the pain
Let me tell ya a secret you might've loved me til your last day
But it don't matter it don't matter anyway
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3. |
Trying Times
04:19
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Sitting round the apartment doing nothing all day
Wonder when this is all gonna come to an end
Waste away the days and drink the nights away
Wonder if there's anyway out of my head
These trying times they ain't got no reason no rhyme
These trying days they feel so out of place
'Miss going outside I miss my friends
Wonder how everyone's doing these days
Think of starting over think of making amends
Feels like it could be so easy these days
These trying times they ain't got no reason no rhyme
These trying days they feel so out of place
Things ain't alright, things ain't okay
I'd hope it'd pass on by, looks like its here to stay
These trying times they ain't got no reason no rhyme
These trying days they feel so out of place
These trying times they ain't got no reason no rhyme
These trying days they feel so out of place
These trying times they ain't got no reason no rhyme
These trying days they feel so out of place
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4. |
Heavy Krown
03:24
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There's someone, who's keeping you down, there's an awful weight on the head under crown
And see those chains at your feet, watch them climb from from your roots to your neck back down
to your feet in the deep where those snakes all sleep at ease oh please darling please you said you would be fine it was a lie why do you lie
Oh love, you gotta get away, get away
you better run as fast as you can before its too late
Because this man hes gonna use and abuse
hes gonna take you for all that you got til there's nothing left of you left to lose oh still you swear, swear that you're fine
You better get out hold your knife at your side now its due
to be freed from the hilt of your hip so poignant so poignant and so true
and as you feed it to that handsome bastard whos made you so blue
better hit the road change your name and hide it, hide it from all who knew
Oh love, you gotta get away, get away
you better run as fast as you can before its too late
His lust, his evil ways, fingers touch, hands clasped as you pray
begging don't stop hands shake knees quake, you're somewhere between heaven and hell
the sun rose and fell on his face, guiding his hands so swiftly over your waist
the pressure builds spells crawling down your spine before you leave for one last time
There's someone, who's keeping you down, there's an awful weight on the head under crown
and see those chains at your feet, watch them climb from from your roots to your neck back down
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5. |
Kathleen
03:13
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You said you had a loss for words well tell me honey how is life with no tongue
You said you had a feeling then but that feeling's just like you, you've gone on
and I saw you dancing in my shadow with your fingers running through my thinning hair
and there was a word I tried to find and I remembered it while I was sitting there
Kathleen, you haunt me in my sleep
Kathleen, I get no rest from the things you do to me
Kathleen, you're the specter in my dreams
Kathleen, stay away from me Kathleen
I'd sooner sell my soul to pay back the debt I owe to your mother
and your father he told me once I needed an education to be your lover
and those words I took to heart but surely paid no heed to them
and it was truly a mistake on my end for I found out I needed so much more than wisdom
Kathleen, you haunt me in my sleep
Kathleen, you don't know the things you do to me
Kathleen, you're the monster in my dreams
Kathleen, stay away from me
Well you're singing in your velvet gown and I'm wondering what has got you down
for I know we have been in this place before
and you told me how you felt so heavy like you were just a friend
and I was leaving you out in the cold
And if your tongue is broke tell me how do you still sing with a broken tongue
And if my hands are broke tell me how do I still keep strumming along
And if my heart is broke tell me how I can spend it, yeah, on your love
And tell me now that you feel broke and broken down just like I had felt before
Kathleen, you haunt me in my sleep
Kathleen, I get no rest from the things you do to me
Kathleen, you're the specter in my dreams
Kathleen, stay away from me Kathleen
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6. |
Used To Say
05:06
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You used to say you had to go on just what you knew
You used to say you had a notion that I'd soon be leaving you
Well I heard every word you spoke but I could never read your mind
How could I read your thoughts like that while you were creeping up from behind
Well mama turn your thoughts around things will be better I swear it's true
I may not be your lover no longer but I know just what you'll do
What do you want from me baby, what could I possibly give to you?
Is there something you'd like to see my thoughts are hiding in plain view
If you simply just cannot believe I'd stick my neck out for the likes of you
Then there's not much left to say nothing I could do to convince you
That mama my thoughts are spinning round and I know not what to do
Once was your lover but now I'm absolutely nothing to you
Come down from your golden tower for you know I need a friend
One that I've had one time before and I will never see again
What card do you got up your sleeve is it temperance is it death
And when will you show it to me and reveal my true end
If there is a single thing a single stone you left unturned
Nows time to see the other side or leave those feelings in the dirt
Well mama turn your thoughts around things will be better yes it's true
We may not be lovers no longer but you know just what I'll do
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7. |
Total Obliteration
03:29
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Love is a lie from a broken heart it tells itself to mend
dreamin on and dreamin away lonesome days until ya find a friend
who's gonna take you as you please who's gonna satisfy your needs
who's gonna give you everything you wanted or wish to be
They say what ain't broke don't need no fix til you cant get your kicks
your lover found another and you caught em undercover what a wicked trick
that the one who took you as you please the one who satisfied your needs
the one you gave with all your heart to turned out to be so sick
The moss on my rolling stone well it ain't got no home
I've searched high and low but I ain't found no place, no place to rest these bones
Somebody said true love was dead but I dont agree
so keep dreamin dreamin away lonesome days I'll play make believe
that someones gonna take my hand that someone will make me understand
someone will destroy obliterate and then disband
The moss on my rolling stone well it ain't got no home
I've searched high and low but I ain't found no place, no place to rest these bones
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8. |
Jimmy O'Kane
04:24
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He was found dead and alone
Nobody had heard his last faint groan
Or knew when his sad heart ceased to beat
No mourner lingered
With tears or sighs
But the stars they looked down with their pitying eyes
And the chill winds passed with
A wailing sound
Over the lonely spot where
His form was found
His name was Jimmy O'Kane
He was Stillwater bound
In 1844 is when he broke ground
On his lonesome camp, how he would
Build it out of that good Adirondack wood
There he would spend the rest of his days
Choosing to live in more
Natural ways
Jimmy O'Kane was a man with no name
A man with no god, no government, no law
And he chased down his days with a free soul, untamed, unbound
That Mr. O'Kane
Well he came, He saw, and he
Conquered all
His woods were his kingdom
And to his kingdom he did call
With a silent howl
A howl known to all like a gale force wind, or a hard rain on a stone
And his stars became one
With the branches of trees
As his mind it wandered
Through the darkness of the pines
He was burdened, and alone
But not alone at all
He had the means to survive, the means to know all
At his lonesome camp how he would
Learn all the things one could know to be good
There he would spend
The rest of his days
Choosing to live in more
Natural ways
Jimmy O'Kane was a man with no name
A man with no god, no government, no law
And he chased down his days with a free soul, untamed, unbound
That Mr. O'Kane
Well his moon hangs low
As its gales they blow
I have known death
And it is not my enemy
Death come take me
Over into the light
Release my burden
With martyred sips of wine
Let the door hang open
For all who choose to see
We are not of a divide we are only I and I just you and me
Our bodies are the vessels
And our souls are their rule
When we want nothing more of this life only then shall we learn the truth
Jimmy O'Kane was a man with no name
A man with no god, no government, no law
And he chased down his days with a free soul, untamed, unbound
Jimmy O'Kane was a man with no name
A man with no god, no government, no law
And he chased down his days with a free soul, untamed, unbound
That Mr. O'Kane
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9. |
Teeth
02:15
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She got her teeth in your neck, she's sitting on the phone
Twiddling the line taking complete control
And you, the boy, boy she's been looking for
Don't try to say what you don't, what you don't know
You got 3 months to live before the summer, the summers over
You wanna cut your teeth on some dirty rag and bone
But you better watch your lip as you're walking through her front door
It's just a bite, a bite, you've never had before
And out in the sunshine, you feel the heat in your bones
You need it, you need her, you need it, no, no, no
She got her teeth in your neck, shes sitting on the phone
Twiddling the line taking complete control
And you, the boy, boy she's been looking for
Don't try to say what you don't, what you don't know
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10. |
Lamentation in C
05:10
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Ain't it hard when you're alone and living in the city
Ain't it hard when you're alone and feel so unpretty
Ain't it hard when you're trying so stubborn to go back to bed
Ain't it hard with these thoughts stuck in your head
And you feel so alone when you're trying to go back to sleep
You feel so alone lying next to her with no love to keep
You feel so alone now that your lover has finally pushed off
You'd feel so alone when she'd laugh and when she'd scoff
Well between you and me we both got a lot to learn
and between you and I, I'm just trying to get back what I've burned
well your anxiety sits on a broken shelf that you built for her in the winter
with your nihilistic crosses straight nails to deliver
and you feel it in your knees as ya, as you try to please her
well ya bite your lip and it'll suffice, left with nothin as ya quiver
Well between you and me we both got a lot to learn
and between you and I, I'm just trying to get back what I've earned
Well Grace she sits like a dutchess, pretty, while casting her spell
and her mother is sweet and her father does quite well
and me I'm just sitting here alone waiting to hear those wedding bells
but they've been dubiously and deviously swapped out with a funeral knell
Well between you and me we both got a lot to learn
and between you and I, I'm just giving ya back what ya spurned
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11. |
Lucky Dog Daydream
04:34
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I walked down-down to the village below
Walked a broken mile down a broken road
My ride was all rusted my engine forlorn
My hands were bleedin my palms were all torn
I got-got down on my knees to pray
Said please lord take this burden away
I'm a lost soul sinner got nothin on my mind
I'm a real breadwinner got nothing to line
These poor mans pockets no penny do I keep
I'm a lucky dog thinker with no place to sleep
uh huh
uh hu-uh
The people there drank their rum and coke
Their noses powdered yes indeed they did smoke
The rocks from their spoons in their places to hide
There was no shotgun weddings no shotgun brides
And the preachers keep quiet in their sunlit rooms
No rings around their fingers got nothing to lose
I'm a lost soul sinner got nothin on my mind
I'm a real breadwinner got nothing to line
These poor mans pockets no penny do I keep
I'm a lucky dog thinker with no place to sleep
uh huh / uh hu-uh / uh huh
uh hu-uh
And it's easy to see
You got to see it to believe
Yes it's easy to see that I am free,
I am free
I'm just a man with no answers in this place I dwell
These rules I've delighted and broken in so well
Is this pearly cocaine heaven man or heroine hell
I'm one bad Fetanyl trip from that graveyard bell
I'm a lost soul sinner got nothin on my mind
I'm a real breadwinner got nothing to line
These poor mans pockets no penny do I keep
I'm a lucky dog thinker with no place to sleep
uh huh / uh hu-uh / uh huh
uh hu-uh
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