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These Dogged Blues
04:46
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I'll walk this off
crack my knuckles, punch the clock
'cause when I get off
I'll leave my cell back on the dock
'cause I don't want no one to find me
I don't want no one to find me now
And I feel burned
like this pain is what I've earned
and all I've learned couldn't prepare me for the worst
of 28 to 35
and I haven't felt alive since I was 23
and I'm pretty sure my father never cried himself to sleep
The nights get tough
and I don't know what keeps me up
so I fill my cup
but it never seems enough to take away that nagging edge
it just scrambles up my head and makes me sick
i'm pretty sure my mother'd be ashamed to know how much I drank today
All I ever wanted was a place to lay my head down next to you
a quiet place to rest my mind, wet my line, and a chase away these dogged blues
I want to grow old here
I'm learning to want to live
I'm learning to want to live
but I learn so slow
and I know you know
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Summer Holiday
05:18
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I went all around this town
I put my ear close to the ground
and I heard everthing
from my brother at the bar
he talked to the boys on their golf carts
and I heard everything
What gives you the right to come into my home and tear down all the walls?
This town's too small for secrets you should know by now exactly where you are
So here I am washed up amongnst the jetsam of your love on Sunday morning
I'm awake before the dawn, enjoy the peace before the songs of all the yuppies on their pontoons
Ruin everything I ever though I loved about this place in summer time
before the rich folks took the trees, brought their disease and their jet skis and all their noise
Oh, it's harder than you know
to face alone the cold and snow
but I'm better off alone
than scratching at the door of where you stay
on your summer holiday
here i'm sitting on the grass and I can see you through the glass of your picture window
it's taller than my house, it makes me feel so small somehow
I can't remember
what I ever saw in you
and I think about the days when I was young and i still believed most folks were good
well i've aged 100 years, and i've got far too many fears since i met you
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