1. |
Exit
02:57
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I will find you at the exit of my highway
I will find you at the bottom of my glass
No drink is strong enough
No drink is strong enough
No drink is strong enough
To still my shaking hand
On a highway west of Davenport and Kansas
In the moonlight of a broken Red Roof Inn
No night is dark enough
To tell you where I been
I will find you in the arms of yet another
I will find you in her medicated eyes
No god is cruel enough
No god is cruel enough
No god is cruel enough
To pay me back in kind
I will find you painting crosses in the courtyard
I will find you walking backwards with a child
No fall is high enough
No fall is high enough
No fall is high enough
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2. |
The Flood in Color
02:37
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Clap of lightning
I awaken
To a foot of water standing in my basement
It started rising
It took me under
The flood is coming
This is not history
In black and white now
In a perfect storm there isn’t any high ground
The end of childhood
The end of summer
The flood in color
They tried to warn me
I wouldn’t listen
And now all at once I’m drowning in my kitchen
My legs are broken
From treading water
The flood is coming
The flood is coming
I tried to bargain
I tried to reason
But the sky was deaf, the rain was never ceasing
It’s not some cheap bet
I can cover
The flood in color
The flood in color
So listen close now
I was dead wrong
To think that things would work themselves out in the long run
Pay attention
Heed the thunder
The flood is coming
The flood in color
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3. |
The Letdown
02:34
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The night’s so long you can almost hear it groan
The night’s so long you can almost hear it groan
And we walked so far that our shadows turned to stone
It was a wretched room but we hung up Christmas lights
It was a wretched room but we hung up Christmas lights
And the girls played house while the neighbors froze outside
Brace yourself for the letdown
The holy ghost with his hands out
No peace on earth is cheaply found
Do you see my colors now?
She had long black hair and you bought everything she sold
She had long black hair and you bought everything she sold
And she taught you the fine points of doing just as you were told
Brace yourself for the letdown
The holy ghost with his hands out
No peace on earth is cheaply found
Do you see my colors now?
Do you see my colors now?
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4. |
Long Midnight
02:13
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Like a morning star
Like a first born son
Well my blistered heart
Has been lifted up
And through narrow eyes
I have seen so long
Now my road is wide
And my grievance gone
And my own, my own
My own, my own
My own long midnight is done
Like a steady job
Like a heavy rain
I’ll be close at hand
When they call my name
I couldn’t say as much
Even yesterday
But I have seen the flood
And my heart is changed
And my own, my own
My own, my own
My own long midnight is done
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5. |
Blues Came Down
02:25
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I woke up after breakfast
I left her bedroom late
The streets were filled with strangers
Half expecting a parade
I never saw it coming
As the first applause began
Then the blues came down
on the heels of a marching band
Silver on my fingers
Sugar on my tongue
My father stood behind me
And he asked what I’d become
I said I speak a language
That you’ll never understand
Then the blues came down
on the heels of a marching band
Blues came down, Blues came down
They say that truth and justice
Must be their own reward
I grew rich pretending
While the honest all went poor
Don’t you play dumb about it
When you’re on that witness stand
Why the blues came down
on the heels of a marching band
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6. |
Moonlight of Your Room
02:07
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You don’t have to love me to prove yourself right
People can change, it don’t mean that you lied
I’m broken in half but I’ll sleep the night through
Instead of standing guard in the moonlight of your room
I followed your footsteps they led to St. Paul
I taught you to smoke and you taught me to cough
And I bought you a ring but you thought it too soon
Then I turned to stone in the moonlight of your room
The streetlights are golden on my empty hands
What make a good boy don’t quite make him a man
These chains look so weak in the late afternoon
But they hold me fast in the moonlight of your room
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7. |
Here Again
01:59
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Here again
Here again
What I wouldn’t give
To completely disappear and then
Float back down to earth
With a heart that didn’t want
To end up here again
Back and forth
Back and forth
It’s all fun and games
Until you find out what you’re fighting for
Is the very piece of chain
That’s held you here in place
Wandering back and forth
I keep on waking in the middle of the night
To make a promise, maybe one day I can keep it if I try
Here again
Here again
There are voices speaking truth
Far away, you know I’m hearing them
Can I follow where they lead
Or will I fall asleep
And wake up here again
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8. |
After Curfew
03:02
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We found you in the street with a list of all our names
There were stars beside the strongest and the weakest
They cut you quite a deal almost too good to refuse
But some of us don’t just worship what’s convenient
Fall to your knees if you need
The truth is hard to handle
You are not fragile
You are not fragile
You are not fragile
Your father rest his soul, the finest man I ever knew
Spoke a truth that was clean as an island
They gave him every chance to repeat the party line
But he shattered their windows with his silence
So they took him out back in the rain
And they made him an example
You are not fragile
You are not fragile
You are not fragile
Now they’re rounding up the boys in the nation off to war
And they left behind the two-faced and the useless
On the first of every month the neighbors gathered on our lawn
And we dance for they’re mercy like we’re minstrels
They dug up the headstones last night
And broke them into gravel
You are not fragile
You are not fragile
You are not fragile
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9. |
The Stranger I've Been
01:50
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Have you noticed a young man about just my height
Coming and going at all hours of night?
Did he knock on your front door?
Did you let him in?
Are you familiar with the stranger I’ve been?
Are you familiar with the stranger I’ve been?
Well I started out honest and true to my word
But somewhere I lost it
I took a wrong turn
Now it’s over and oh how
The disguise has worn thin
Are you familiar with the stranger I’ve been?
Are you familiar with the stranger I’ve been?
You can fit all he stands for on the head of a pin
Are you familiar with the stranger I’ve been?
Are you familiar with the stranger I’ve been?
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10. |
Joe Pug Maryland
A singer-songwriter known for his lyrical acumen and plaintive harmonica style. Paste Magazine wrote of his music: “Unless
your surname is Dylan, Waits, Ritter or Prine, you could face-palm yourself to death trying to pen songs half as inspired”.
He has appeared at Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, and The Newport Folk Festival.
Additionally, he is the creator and host of The Working Songwriter podcast.
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