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Up Nights
03:18
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You wear indifference well.
It gnaws on you, though.
You're the one with all the baggage, it ain't your kid. You're the one with all the habits keeping hid.
You're the one they gotta stop, before you start up again.
You'd just been making the month. They're going to cut the kid up . It got you, flipping you out. It got you, keeping you up nights.
Go put another notch in your belt. You've just been mad at yourself. You should've stopped at this. Well, it got you, keeping you up nights, you've been up nights all month long.
You're right, you've always been right. Wrong! Go take another look at what you did when you took it all out on him.
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Saint Nick on the Fourth in a fervor,
what church do you belong to?
I'm owned by that one as well
Pledge white, red and blue.
KK Highway and I'm on my way
I'm going down to old Norfolk.
We wear those canoes like old river shoes all the girls to on cut off jean shorts.
A set of prerequisite items are on board all of our aluminum floats.
Let's get one thing straight from the get-go.
This glimpse of brilliance is better than a long look at mediocrity.
I own all of my ideas. I stole just one or two.
Every six month a savior born in Eden our petting zoo
Let's jump off Bidwell!
Let's jump off Big E!
Let's climb to the top of our world and see if we can't jump off, cannot jump off.
I owe all of my ideas to the ones I stole from you
Every 6 month a sucker born in Eden our petting zoo.
I nipped at all of those high heels.
What church do you belong to?
Saint Nick on the Fourth in a fervor
Pledge white, red and blue.
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Gusto
03:20
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Gusto, Gusto!
Don't give me motion sickness.
You are my second weakness.
I'm working on the first.
Gusto, Gusto! It is a simple science. Don't count out self-reliance. Don't count on anyone but yourself, trust yourself.
Discovered a new found freedom, wearing those same sad dollar bills, rubbing up on you. Hearing those same old comments, having that same old kind of fool
Giving you all that makes you ill.
She lost her infant baby.
She'd never even named him.
Headstone read "my beloved child."
Now she knows, she knows!
She cooked up a pot of crazy, fought off a fit of madness.
She'd never even named that child!
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4. |
Falling In
02:08
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On a desert day in Meremac Spring
Our lives were changing.
Well, I was floating down to that river way
And there's no other place I wanted to be
Cause she's new to me
And I can't get her off of my mind.
I keep falling in and out with you.
My skin's burnt and she started laughing.
What am I gonna do?
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Hangman
01:34
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Hangman, hangman, hangman
Slack your rope a while
I think I see my father, coming across the mile
Father did you bring me any silver?
Father did you bring me any gold?
Father did you come to see me hanging from the gallows pole?
Hangman hangman hangman
Slack your rope a while
I think I see my sweetheart coming across the mile
Sweetheart did you bring me any silver?
Sweetheart did you bring me any gold?
Honey did you come to see me hanging from the gallows pole?
Yes I brought you a little silver
And I brought you a little gold
No I didn't come to see you hanging from the gallows pole
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Caney Mountain
03:18
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Can he climb old Caney Mountain?
Can he outrun that crusading mob of men who aim to kill him
With the crucifix they'd fished out of Hodgson's Mill?
They drug her cold, blue body from its depths.
That old relic served to drown her as a millstone round her neck.
Can he clear that western wall which looms large out the Ozarks' side?
Calls of men and dogs are closer as in the end of his life.
Could he ever find forgiveness from those gospels he came to preach?
Held her down as he baptized her
So that heaven she might reach.
High shined sequined buckle in that bible belt.
High shined sequined buckle in the middle of that bible belt.
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Diagnosis, tits on a mule. worthless!
Wooden nickels will purchase products placed in a bunch of false advertisements.
They'll treat symptoms that you don't even have.
This is not a cure for the common cold,
It's just the best thing
That they know your money will buy.
And I'm sold!
I'm sold out and I don't have any plan to buy back in again.
I'm not kidding it's a circle system spinning spitting pennies at the many medicinal maladies that we're faced with;
Bigger than life, bigger than life.
Now they'll put plenty into this and that and toss money at the fat cat rolling out the fully loaded sled.
A harelipped monument, circle what's wrong with it,
I just don't suggest getting sick in America.
Don't dance the waltz
Unless your talk is chalk white, toned and tempered.
Oh no, we invented the wheel.
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Bully in the Pulpit
03:24
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Dogs on the heel and we are all thrilled to death
Yes, we are all coming forward tonight.
Mortgage off our souls and take a loan out on the lord.
Yes, we are all coming forward tonight.
Bully in the pulpit
He gonna spit fire, he gonna give you guilt
Go on Sir, with your bad self.
You can turn around and get right back to where you come from .
Dolls in the pew and there's a Fox loose in the aisle.
Babies silenced by the backroom of the church.
If you ever held your tongue, these times are troublesome.
You ain't a sinner at birth.
(traditional)
Troublesome times are here, filling out hearts with fear.
Freedom we all hold dear now is at stake.
But our troubles will soon be o'er
Happy for ever more,
When we meet on that shore and we're all safe.
All of the dead shall rise, a righteous meeting up in the sky,
Going to where nobody dies, heavenward bound.
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Cureall
02:17
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This big old world needs
A little girl's voice
That you could employ when you want something.
Cureall those waters cure what ails you
Your problems will dissolve.
This old world has a vicious side to it
And it's an age-old truth that you've always had a fortress built inside you
And when attacked there you escape to.
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10. |
You Lit Up the Night
02:37
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I know, I'm poor, we've been over this before.
But one day I'll come into money and we will make those changes surely.
These days and nights will intertwine,
Ours the next house on the line.
And when that surge comes with the power the dark of night will be devoured.
I know I've had a moment called a watershed.
My childhood well it ended then.
My second one could not begin.
For 50 years or twice my life,
You've lit up the darkest night.
No city sought or stole your love.
You both gave it all to us.
You lit up the night.
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Ha Ha Tonka Missouri
Ha Ha Tonka is the unmistakable indie-meets-Southern rock band comprised of Brett Anderson, Lucas Long and Brian Roberts. The band toys with the theme of living beyond a normal lifetime- the concept of reliving and rewriting our lives, and the lessons we can all learn along the way. ... more
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