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Ditchdigger
05:13
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I choose my eyes wide open and my heart half broken every time
Over a gilded golden shackled reassuring sentimental lie
I've seen the rolling meadows and the cruelest ghettos in this town
I know the baker and the undertaker and the girl with stars on her gown
But the song that sounds the best to me is the chorus of the maple leaves
And the river bends into the sea its course is fixed and so are we
But I got sunshine, sunshine all over me
Brown eyes, blue skies are all I see
I do not care to offer any commentary on the world
I only sing for the pleasure and for a certain sentimental girl
And I did not come to establish any new world somewhere up in the clouds
I just want to make love in the morning work till evening and then watch the sun go down
Over this aimless and upward climb
The hidden hand guides the searching vine
And the river bends into the sea its course is fixed and so are we
But I got sunshine, sunshine all over me
Brown eyes, blue skies are all I see
And strangest fruit grows from the ledge
Oh my friends, my friends go near to the edge
But I got sunshine, sunshine all over me
Brown eyes, blue skies are all I see
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Eighteen
03:51
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I wish I met you ten years ago
When I was eighteen
A tragic late bloomer with no sense of humor
dreaming of my gypsy queen
You would've found me on the couch
playing with my flip phone
at some house party off campus
waiting to walk home alone
You would’ve offered me a pot brownie
When I imagine it now
and we would’ve talked all night
danced till sunrise
and I would’ve kissed your mouth- without a doubt
It would’ve saved me so much time
Knowing it was always you
on that far end of forever
That I’ve been singing to
Forever is not enough
I want a whole life through to love you
I wish I had junior year to disappear in your brown eyes
My first song
It should've been your song
My first high
It should've been your arms
A life to love you
I want a whole life through to love you
I want a whole life long to love you more
I wish I met you at five years old through a crack in the fence
back when when clouds were angles
and your hair was in tangles
and the world was its own sacrament
Those halcyon flashes
through the hour glass sand
Now I only see in pictures
when I once could've held your hand
I couldn't saved you from your parents fighting
I could've joined you in the closet hiding
You could've saved me from the prejudice
and those goddamned fundamentalists
In the time that I have left
I won't waste the rest of these years
I want twin Roman candles shooting
I want twin liter beers
Forever is not enough I want a whole life through to love you
we coulda had swim team and spring steen and blue skies
Forever is not enough
I want a whole life through to love you
I wish I had junior year to disappear in your brown eyes
My first song
It should've been your song
My first time
It should've been your arms
A life to love you
I want a whole life through to love you
I want a whole life long to love you more
And if we come back here, let's find each other first
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Lost & Found
04:12
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When you find your love you'll find your song
Even though you've been digging through the break of dawn
You've been pushing when the push is gone
You think it makes you strong
Oh, but nobody knows where it goes
When it goes
Love takes some time to bloom
When it's right it'll find you
When it's right it'll find you
Like sunlight breaking through
When it's right it'll come to you
When it's right it'll find you
When there's nothing left to mediate
You take your coat and you close the gate
And you grow your hair and branches long
And you lose your days in the LA sun
Oh, but nobody knows where it goes
When it goes
Love takes some time to bloom
When it's right it'll find you
When it's right it'll find you
Like sunlight breaking through
When it's right it'll come to you
When it's right it'll find you
We are mostly wasted time
Half asleep and half divine
Waiting for the faintest light
Waiting for these wounds to heal
No we're never as lost or as found as we think we are
No we're never as lost or as found as we think we are
Love takes some time to bloom
When it's right it'll find you
When it's right it'll find you
Like sunlight breaking through
When it's right it'll come to you
When it's right it'll find you
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Hollywood Forever
04:43
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The sunset sky
he's leaving your home town behind
The pine trees fade
Tiny cars on their way
They're almost there
Almost where?
What do you call the fear of being forgotten
What if no one remembers your name?
What if we are just the food for the cotton
The roots of the garden one day
Does it frighten or free us
to think the world doesn't need us
at all?
The valley is wide
You can see the lights from the sky
The silent shimmering earth
Another young fool takes his turn
And arrives at LAX
With a kick drum in his chest
What do you call the fear of being forgotten?
What if no one remembers your name?
What if we are just the food for the cotton
The roots of the garden one day
Does it frighten or free us
to think the world doesn't need us?
And out memoirs
And our cave our
Our walk of fame star
Our trophy wall
Everybody's walking away
and nobody knows what to say
Except to make it clear
By God I was here
Hollywood knows
Where the stars really go
and it's not where you think
But the parking is free
I'm not being clever when I say
Hollywood forever
What do you call the fear of being forgotten
What if no one remembers our name?
What if we are just the food for the cotton
The roots of the garden one day
But we'll honk our horn
And forget that we were born naked
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Don't Want To Struggle
04:59
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I have to struggle with the office calls
And pretend that money's gonna break my fall
I have to struggle on the 405
And I have to struggle not to lose my mind sometimes
But I
Don't want to struggle with you
I just want to lay my head down
On your bed
And see your face
When I've got nothing left
Oh love love love, just take my love
This life is hard enough
I have to struggle with the IRS
And the voice of my father inside my chest
And I have to struggle to keep my pace
With at world that's always running away
But hey
Don't want to struggle with you
I just want to lay my head down
On your bed
And see your face
When I've got nothing left
Oh love love love, just take my love
This life is hard enough
I've been so low
Just let me get close
No more doors slammed
Just red wine and soft hands
I've had hard times
I want blue skies
And I
Don't want to struggle with you
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Winter is for Kierkegaard and mapping out those shining stars
and over coats to Pont Des Artes and reaching through the vast expanse of sky
oh holy night
You always ask the how and why, I always answer "pourquois pas"
we are young and we are free and all the world rests at our feet, and why
well why not?
I’m not sorry about the weather
It’s cold it’s calm and it’s clear
We’ll sit inside and we’ll talk about whatever
Till the sky falls down around us
I take my coffee with my cream and all the world is as it seems
and home is not too far away but it is for another day ahead
I think
and the solid world melts into air, and permanence becomes a prayer
an echo rising from the deep, to wake the hearts of those who sleep alone
we've miles to go
I’m not sorry about the weather
It’s cold it’s calm and it’s clear
We’ll drink some wine and we’ll talk about whatever
Till the sky falls down around us
I've seen the world in black and white, and I've seen the fire and the light
in violence and calm respite, and fumbling through I decide that I
know nothing
But winter is for Kierkegaard, and reaching, reaching through the dark
and holding onto that honest heart with every bit of life you have and it's all
it's alright
I’m not sorry about the weather
It’s cold it’s calm and it’s clear
We’ll sit inside and we’ll talk about whatever
Till the sky falls down around us
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Lucky Ones
04:29
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You could've said goodbye to me
While you were packing up your limousine
I would've wrote you a song to sing
With tears in my eyes
And what did you take away
From your years upon this stage
All the souls you helped saved or the tears in your eyes
They say some folks make it and some folks fake it and some just break your heart
I’ve been lost in the lowlands drunk with the house band brother i’ve been torn apart
They say we are the lucky ones
Then this is my lucky song
Step up step up you would be dancers
Are you seeking answers tonight
Well I’m not here to guide you
Just to remind you how to move your feet in time
While the lucky ones, the lucky ones cry
How deep did you have to cut
To forget the rest of us
Down past the fear and pain and love
And pride and doubt
But brother where do I go now
To fight the demons out
When you're just a song I'm singing out
To a weekend crowd
They say some folks make it and some folks fake it and some just break your heart
I’ve been lost in the lowlands drunk with the house band brother i’ve been torn apart
They say we are the lucky ones
Then this is my lucky song
Step up step up you would be dancers
Are you seeking answers tonight
Well I’m not here to guide you
Just to remind you how to move your feet in time
While the lucky ones, the lucky ones cry
They say some folks make it and some folks fake it and some just break your heart
Some folks fight it
Some folks hide it and some don't say goodbye
The lucky ones, the lucky ones cry
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One Beating Heart
04:23
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The thrill of being five years old
When he thinks about one thing he thinks about one thing
It's like his heart could just explode
I know that burning, I know that yearning too
The wisdom feeling of 24
When he thinks about one thing, he thinks about her
Now he’s not so self assured
I know that world view
I’ve seen that girl too
I remember the stars growing up in Georgia
They don't shine as bright tonight in California
I've walked a thousand miles, and I've been a thousand people
In this life- in this holy light
And the only thing I'll ever know is
Life is bigger than we are
And it's mending and breaking and it's radiating
We are one beating heart, we are one, we are one
We are one beating heart
The wisdom of my dad the carpenter
When he thinks about one thing
He thinks about all things
Like time and symmetry and form
I’ll build my own house on my father’s old house
A thousand voices in this tide
Some are yours and some are mine
Won't you wade with me in the water
I hear my grandfather I hear my granddaughter
I remember the stars growing up in Georgia
They don't shine as bright tonight in California
I've walked a thousand miles, and I've been a thousand people
In this life- in this holy light
And the only thing I'll ever know is
Life is bigger than we are
And it's mending and breaking and it's radiating
We are one beating heart, we are one, we are one
We are one beating heart
The wisdom of a falling star
We're all just stage hands
In a play that
We could never understand
I've seen the sunset
I have no regrets
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Against The Dark
03:37
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AGAINST THE DARK
(David Hodges, Tyler Lyle, Ryan O’Neal)
years running out of me
a promise i could never keep
nearsighted covenants
the soaring hope of innocence
this beating in my chest
feels infinite to me
but even stars will pass away
but not before they paint their flames
across the canvas outer space
our love will leave a mark
against the dark
can i hold on to you
forever spring always in bloom
i curse the fading sun
erasing our elysium
these heartbeats we have left
feel infinite to me
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Somebody's Someone
04:31
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Dracula saw her from across the room
He got his cane and walked up to her
Said “you and me we can make believe the world is just beginning”
The wicked witch said watch your back
You don't wanna die from a heart attack
He said “if i go down, Mrs. Brown you're going down with me”
She said “you look like this boy i used to know”
Who wore his socks up high
And took me to the picture show
They say when you know, you know
And this is not my first rodeo
Everybody wants to be
Somebody's someone
Somebody's someone
But when you're dancing next to me
You know that you got one
You're somebody's someone
The cake was stale and punch was bad
But the jello brains weren't the worst he'd had
It was quite the scene, that halloween in the Morris Hall Cafeteria
The Wolfman waltzed with the orderly
And rose the ghost didn't need a sheet
And heaven came down on the festive crowd in the Morris Hall Cafeteria
She said “you look like this boy i used to know”
Who wore his socks up high
And took me to the picture show
They say when you know, you know
And this is not my first rodeo
Everybody wants to be
Somebody's someone
Somebody's someone
But when you're dancing next to me
You know that you got one
You're somebody's someone
Dracula he kissed her neck
And said “we've had some good years, Bess”
He saw surprise in her eyes like maybe she remembered
She squeezed his hand a little more
Ss he led her off the floor
They shared the light the final night they ever danced together
She said “you look like this boy i used to know”
Who wore his socks up high
And took me to the picture show
They say when you know, you know
And this is not my first rodeo
Everybody wants to be
Somebody's someone
Somebody's someone
But when you're dancing next to me
You know that you got one
You're somebody's someone
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Young Men
03:57
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Young men
They don't take what they've been given
Young men
They write songs about young women
They just want to live forever
They just want to live forever
Amen
In a song, when they're gone amen
And girls
You know I hear that they buy potions
Girls
They buy creams and lotions
They just want to live forever
They just want to live forever
Amen
Like a daisy never fades amen
Young brides
They live on through their children
Architects
They live on through their buildings
Presidents get statues of themselves
Novelists get their books on dusty shelves
But Old men
They are never in a hurry
Old men
Their faces free from worry
They don't care to live forever
They don't care to live forever
Amen
Just to greet the end like a friend amen
The Stone
It returns to the ground
There are no ghosts
No promises of sacred sounds
Every statue disintegrates
And ever word fades from every page
Young Men
We don't take what we've been given
Young Men
We do write songs about young women
We all just want to live forever and we are sorry we will never
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Feel Free
02:42
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If you’re worried that your heart’s been broken
If it takes a little time to open
Feel free
Feel free with me
You always tell me about your fear of falling
Oh, but darlin’ if you hear the calling
Feel free
Feel free with me
And when you’re ready to jump
Just let go
I’ll be waiting darling, don’t you know?
And when you’re so convinced that you’re sinking
Maybe baby you’re just overthinking?
If you’re worried that your heart’s been broken
If it takes a little time to open
Feel free
Feel free with me
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