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Work Release
03:14
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Maybe you'll be here
and maybe they won't
selling out to someone else's ghost
You pay the dues
like you pay the rent
You can't tell me that this what you dreamt
I can't hold out hope forever
is it worth it?
Lead me on to sink or swim
no one's listening
This wait and see that you you're doing to me
It's got my heart on work release
you got me sunk
Who's side you on?
I've got this feeling
That's deep in my throat
Like something that'll never ever go
I wait for answers
While I waste my prime
I seem to do this every single time
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Klonopin and Alcohol
02:58
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Klonopin and Alcohol
Can make you feel nothing at all
They say you can't go home
but I guess we'll keep trying to prove them wrong
but that's never been a cure at all
It's hard to believe it
When you can't perceive it
It's hard to believe it
When you still need it
Imitrex and Tylenol
Leave no side effects at all
Wake up face down with a headache
and a mind that's ready to break
but that's never been a cure at all
Hoping for some kind of release
Looking at some kind of defeat
Klonopin and alcohol
Can make you feel nothing at all
Klonopin and alcohol
Klonopin and alcohol
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Dakota
02:57
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Dakota, you lost your mind
don't even care enough to call
I told ya
You've crossed the line
don't even care enough to call
don't even care enough at all
to call
Time flies now that it's over
and your postcards still keep coming
and they're tearing me apart
Wish you would go away
Wish you had never gone away
Wish that you were here today
Thanks for the apologies
They don't sit very well with me
They don't dry these crying eyes
You go your way and I'll go mine
Dinner for two has become drive thru
and I lost my sense of time
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That old highway doesn't sound like it used to
That old car is long gone
took a hit outside of the Turf
Had no money nearly lost my shirt
that old car is long gone
Is it you, is it me?
Why can't we agree
Is it that we're supposed to be
just where we are
Like that old car
Never got that far
These old freights
They can't wake me up
Grinding that steel on down
Passing through
I don't know
Where they come from
or where they go
Grinding that steel on down
Is it true, you can't see
The hold you have on me
Keeping your eyes closed
I know your awake
These old freights
run so far away
Is it true, you can't see
The hold you have on me
Keeping your eyes closed
I know your awake
So take my hand to see through
if this gets too much for you
I told a lie
so your wish would come true
shooting stars, never got that far
shooting stars, never got that far
These old pictures running through our heads
grinding that steel on down
All the places, meant to see
Everything that could have been
That old car is long gone
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5. |
Life Can Get So Long
03:06
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Maybe we were born to lose
Maybe this time we'll choose to wait it out
Maybe we'll find the right words to say
to get us through the day or maybe not
Life can get so long if we get this wrong, wouldn't it?
Weddings, kids and funerals on and on rinse and repeat
drives me to distraction with the things they say every now and again
Life can get so long if we get this wrong, wouldn't it?
Life can get so long if we get this wrong, wouldn't it?
Wake up feeling far from me
It takes everything I got to get on my feet
Everything will work out fine
That is the line I must repeat
Life can get so long if we get this wrong, wouldn't it?
Life can get so long if we get this wrong, wouldn't it?
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Moving on is easy when you have a voice
Falling apart is easy when you got no choice
News channels hum along
Screaming their versions of truth
While we stay in bed wondering what we're gonna do
We wish this moment gone
it keeps going on
When you're alone
hold tight, sweetheart
How did you sink so damn low?
How do you feel when you're alone?
Your conscience clicking
Coast ain't clear
While you ask America to hold your beer
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Relax
04:15
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The answers coming soon
but like the "Dark Side of the Moon"
I never got it at all
Addition by subtraction now
What's the point and what's the attraction now?
She said relax
but I'm not gonna crack
You got something to say
You better say it now
The answers in my blood
What comes up can only bring you down
No one cares what's going on
and if it's the truth or what your saying's wrong
She said relax
but I'm not gonna crack
You got something to say
You better say it now
She said relax
but I'm not gonna crack
You got something to say
You better say it out loud
The sound of your voices is what I love
It keeps me on my feet and off my back
Addition by subtraction now
What's the point and what's the attraction now?
She said relax
She said come back, come back
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Daylight Instead
02:02
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The clock is ticking
but what is it saying
You better keep going
You better stop praying
Hang on, better stop before too long
It's some kind of crisis
It can seem so lifeless
Hang on, better stop before too long
Daylight Instead
you're never gonna know where you'll wake up next
Daylight Instead
you're never gonna know where you'll wake up, wake up
A change in the weather will block out the pressure
Hang on
Better stop before too long
So what the hell are you saying?
What kind of games are you playing?
Will someone come and knock me around?
Wake up
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True tales and no expectations
that's how it comes to pass
progress is a busted line
some years are a pain in the ass
Hopeful youth with your busted heart
Lead you back to where you start
time slips as the layers reveal
blurred lines with your hands on the wheel
It's a detour you'll find that you're lost
better make up your mind
Is this a place where you can still go
or is a place that you've always known
feels like I'm slipping slowly
rusty strings and feeling lonely
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10. |
Hold Me In
03:03
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Now the numbered days have shown
you can look at me to know
I'm leaving, I'm leaving
Seven rounds to reflect in
Never ride this way again
I'm leaving, we're leaving today
Destinations been rerouted
Hold it together won't come back again
I'm counting on you to hold me in
I'm better than I used to be
Lost in my own company
We're even, I'm leaving
I keep falling till I touch the ground
No time for me to turn around
I'm breathing, I'm breathing in
I'm counting on you to hold me in
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11. |
Stop Right There
04:42
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Stop right there
You've been going on for days
I've been listening to all the things you say
Stop right there
You've been going on so long
You're a ticking, ticking bomb and wasted air
and it's hard these days
The first one makes you quiet
The second kicks you awake
Like a Diamond Dog or thin white line
Life gives and it takes away
We are all pulled closer now
To the great escape
We live the lives that are etched in stone
Life summed up in a phrase
She has her head up in the clouds
She doesn't need much help
but she'll take anything you have to give
She likes to medicate herself
I'll be chasing that night
for the rest of my life
I don't have much choice in the matter
you took what was mine
You keep calling, calling me out
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12. |
8 Track Song
03:28
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I can't tell you the beginning
I can't remember that far
It's something about a light
and nothing more, nothing more
but pure love
pure love
Each day I grew older
Bigger and bigger each day
The sky changed from red to purple
Somehow it stayed that way
Was it pure love?
That's calling me?
Was it pure love?
love
That's calling me
Each day I tried to learn
each day the less I know
Each new place I never been before
but I was looking for more
Was it pure love?
that's calling me?
Was it pure love?
love
That's calling me
Someday when you're older
You're gonna try so hard to understand
Someday when you're older
You're gonna learn that you were born to never understand
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