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Tishomingo
02:56
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Tishomingo, my dearest amigo
How long have we been on the trail?
I know there's been times I've been a fool
I know there's been times I've been cruel
But I didn't want to be
Take a look up from your book
and see the passing world
It's not waiting for us to change
It's not waiting for you to rearrange
The best and worst of thee
I woke up and looked around you were nowhere to be found
so I went to the dancehall
You were waving your gun around telling everyone you found to try
Tishomingo, tell me why
With fire you split the night
Tishomingo, my dearest amigo
Soon for you they will come
As you sit behind iron bars
Behind a hearse follows black cars
For no reason at all
Then my friend looked up
And with these words made me shut up
"When pain feels like rain
Then it rains most every day
Thunder and lighting is on its way
My amigo"
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2. |
Night I Lost You
03:59
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The night I lost you
I hung on a stage
I forget now the song
but it sounded twice my age
I remember how every word
Hung on the bone
I remember how no one
Looked up from their phone
That's always how it's been
For those who ask why
Haunted by half truths
Like you and I
The neon totems
On the highways mark time
Like arms outstretched from the earth
Into the sky
And that's okay
That's alright
You know me, I'm good at pretending I'm fine
You know me, I'm good at pretending I'm alive
The night I lost you
Your Marlboro man stands
He darkens your door
He needs a new messiah
A new world war
But pay him no mind
For his kingdom will fall
Like Babylon before
Like this song off the wall
And that's okay
That's alright
You know me, I'm good at pretending I'm fine
You know me, I'm good at pretending I'm alive
The night I lost you
Hungry, unfed
You can see it in my eyes
Yet you cast yours down
Tell me, what do you hide
I can change I swear
Just tell me what to do
Every hour deeper down
In despair for the night
I lost you
The night I lost you
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3. |
Preachers Kids
03:48
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Preachers kids worry about the bad things they did
Over and over again
Can't get baptized enough to realize
What exactly is wrong with them
They may not say but they still pray
When it's dark and they're all alone
They wait for a reply but all they hear is there mind
Asking, "why won't god talk to me?"
In this life there are two ways
Any one of us can see
Either it's a dogwood or a cross to be
Preachers kids atoning all sins
The world is riding in a hearse
Our towns are dilapidated, constantly hyperventilating
For tomorrow
They put it on the screen and ask us, "what does it mean?"
"How did we end up this way?"
But Adam raised a Cain and our fathers did the same
The earth reaps what it's sown
In this life there are two ways
Any one of us can see
Either it's a dogwood or a cross to be
In this life there are two things
Any one of us can be
Either you plant the dogwood or cut down the tree
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4. |
Drones
03:11
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Did you hear the buzzing of a drone?
Or was that vibrations from your phone?
Do you know which one you should atone?
Do you know which one makes you feel more alone?
Jump up right now for the red, white, and blue
The cops are running wild, child, you better sing hallelu
Honey, I don't mind at all
To break some rich man's law
Your saviour bleeds red like this state
He always agrees with what you think
He hangs real low from around your neck
Every drop he spills signs a welfare check
Look at him hang gold he never breaks his gaze
His cross they wield it like a vampires stake
Honey, I don't mind at all
To let false idols fall
Do you know how it feels when your chest swells?
And the life inside it doesn't feel real?
You can see it on every news hour
Something in us all that wants to devour
It don't matter the books you've read
If your hat is pointed or if it's red
There is a truth that cannot hide
You can see it right now if you look me straight in the eye
Honey, I am terrified
Honey, I am terrified
And I don't mind at all
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5. |
Magnolia
03:21
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There's a magnolia in my heart
And it withers every time it parts
From the love that gave it life
From the heart that's close to mine
In a southern town with an Indian name
You're bound to lose, you're bound to gain
Some rusted fenders, some fading life
Some weeping willow crying for you every night
And my life is like some old country song
Been waiting on the right time to tell you that I've done you wrong
It ain't nothing new
It ain't nothing new
There's a magnolia in your mind
And it's been there a long ol' time
A redheaded boy with Cherokee blood
On the banks of the red clay mud
You ask me where the wind doth blow
I'll tell you right now, I don't know
You ask me if this is forever
Yes, I believe it can stand any weather
And my life is like some old country song
Been waiting on the right time to tell you that I've done you wrong
It ain't nothing new
It ain't nothing new
It ain't nothing new but it's true
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Stranger
03:39
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I go to the bar downtown
It's witching hour and there's no one around
Except the pound of my feet and me
On a world still, waiting just to breathe
These walls were once filled with laughter
Now I'm living in the after
Sharp and fine as razor
The line between me and a stranger
This bed seems so long and wide
What lays between us? I'm terrified
Do you remember dreams, were they lies?
When the motions wasn't keeping us alive
Her touch lingers and wavers
Then I feel the danger
But a heart it cannot hold
No, love you cannot own
Sharp and fine as razor
The line between lover and stranger
I wake up in the night to sirens
A tornado has touched down on Christmas eve
Ain't it strange that in this tinsel cheer
In the dark looms something I fear
In the mirror I see the same
I know something has changed
Sharp and fine as razor
The line between me and a stranger
Sharp and fine as razor
The line between me and a stranger
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A man can only take so many broken dreams
But darling you know that broken makes me, me
Look upon me now, I'm not the same anymore
The lines on this face are carved by those that I adore
On my knees
Begging the Lord
Begging please
To tell me why
He says
Don't ask if you don't want to know
Don't ask if you don't want to know
Don't ask if you don't want to know
Palomino or El Camino this ghost keeps up either way
I see him in every mirror but I don't recognize his ways
That's the thing about time they never tell you
In a blur it walks by but head on it's so cruel
In your eyes
Trying to find
Some kind of sign
Tell me what do you hide
You say
Don't ask if you don't want to know
Don't ask if you don't want to know
Don't ask if you don't want to know
I've been keeping low
Crying with my dad, watching late night shows
I've spent every night
Cutting up each thought with a knife
I guess I don't mind
Not knowing my truths from my lies
If the world's on a string
Or if it's burning down and no one wants to be
The first
The first
The first one to leave
I don't want I don't want to know
I don't want I don't want to know
I don't want I don't want to know
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8. |
What Sins Are For
04:31
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I hear dog barking on Christmas Eve night
I bet he thinks he is the one that brings that sun back to life
But don't laugh, that's just like us you know
We got both hands off the wheel but we think we're in control
I've been thinking about what you said at the Motel 6 the other day
Life ain't the dreams we blame, it's the beds we make
Cause these old songs they ain't getting me by anymore
Sometimes I wanna take off running right through the screen door
Lord, ain't you tired of being old?
Don't you want to be young?
If you are and you can't take anymore
Find me and we'll know what sins are for
I'm the first son of the fifth sharecroppers daughter
And I'm first in line if this heart it needs a martyr
I'm tired of trying, I'm tired of just getting by
Salvation lies just beyond that state line
Lord, ain't you tired of being old?
Don't you want to be young?
If you are and you can't take anymore
Find me and we'll know what sins are for
Your brother, he never came back home from Iraq
You sent off your heart, they sent you a flag back
They call him a hero, you're strong, you're a saint
But all you want is to see him come thru the front gate
I listened to your heart beat a old song on Christmas night
Like the star of Judea, in the quiet it shined bright
But don't cry, that's just like the world you know
To demand a song when the beat wants to be alone
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9. |
Highway Patrol
04:07
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I was born in the country
Not a moment too soon
The great highway came
And split it into
Now I ramble
With a head filled with rain
I've tasted earth's wine
I've tasted its pain
The world got in a hurry
For itself to consume
There's crying refugees
And car bombs on the news
Then a ad for a cola
Then a ad for a pill
To ease my mind
To keep it still
So I push the pedal down
For it's all I control
And keep one eye open
For the highway patrol
In the back of my car
After we made love
You said the devil will someday
rain fire from above
Like those bombs
In the streets of Bagdad
Like those sermons
From your dad
So I push the pedal down
For it's all I control
And keep one eye open
For the highway patrol
Every night
I've been having the same dream
Of my mother
On bended knee
With tear stained eyes
On the lord she calls
She say, "How long
Till your curtain falls?"
So I push the pedal down
For it's all I control
And keep one eye open
For the highway patrol
So I push the pedal down
For it's all I control
And keep one eye open
For the highway patrol
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Cody Rogers Mississippi
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