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Aching Heart
01:41
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My heart...
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2. |
She's Back
02:18
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She’s been seen around
The outskirts of town
Playing lost and found
With your picture
You might not remember
It was back in December
You had sent her to fetch your
Violets
She’s gonna getcha
She’s back
She’s gonna getcha
Getcha back
Cloud sucked the bloom
Out of the room
As if the moon
Were an oyster
It deepened and it darkened
On the fields of wildflowers
On the disappearing towers
In your window
She’s gonna getcha
She’s back
She’s gonna getcha
Getcha back
She’s gonna getcha
She’s back
She’s gonna getcha
Getcha back
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3. |
California, Girl
02:02
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California girl
The California girl
Blew me a kiss
It struck me in the wrist
The California girl
California girl
California
California girl
The California girl
Offered my hand
Man, she filled it full of sand
The California girl
California girl
California
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4. |
They Are Here
03:04
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Ain’t prophets for profits
They ain’t idols for idles
They don’t practice their smiles
In black labeled bottles
In a world where some cents
Did destroy innocence
They live in a sense
Senselessly
Live in the street
In with the heat
Know where you sleep
Out on their creep
Everywhere and nowhere, son
They’re everywhere and nowhere, son
Everywhere and nowhere, son
I think I am one
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In the vain of the father
Queen of the beat
Crown of brambles
No shoes on her feet
No news is her news
She come bearing smoke
She ain’t got no money, honey
But she never broke
She threw my weight around
She threw my weight around
She made me feel
Don’t mind her howling
Howling at the moon
She know salvation
Ain’t coming too soon
But a wolf’s gonna howl
Howl nonetheless
And all in the vain of
Anyone’s best guess
She threw my weight around
She threw my weight around
She made me feel
Feel
Like no one was watching
Feel
The way the driving rain do
She threw my weight around
She threw my weight around
She made me feel
Getting up
Upon her getting gone
Roses on the table
Crow breaking dawn
Before she did go
She got this off her chest
“When you see my killer
Tell him God bless”
She threw my weight around
She threw my weight around
She made me feel
Feel
Like no one was watching
Feel
The way the driving rain do
She threw my weight around
She threw my weight around
She made me feel
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6. |
Stone Cold
03:33
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I dig your touch, you dig my kisses
Because we know all of this is
Washed away with the bones of the fishes
Because we know, too, our wish is
Stone cold - sinking
Stone cold - sinking
Stone cold
Sinking in the middle of the riddle of old
I can’t take the punch of the pang here
The highs are lies and the lows are so clear
I know you know I got to go
And if it’s nothing, we’ll never know
Stone cold - sinking
Stone cold - sinking
Stone cold
Sinking in the middle of the riddle of old
Stone cold - sinking
Stone cold - sinking
Stone cold
Sinking in the middle of the riddle of old
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7. |
Hugo, Wild Bores
02:48
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Moonlight ever so
Lightly upon
The chime on the porch
Shatters twice in the harbor
Closing in and the walls are tightening
And the grapes upon the vine are ripening
Lock the door, it’s getting frightening
They’re closing in, they're closing in
Sometimes I scream
While crawling the floor
Replaying the dream
In which I kissed your
Neck
Closing in and the walls are tightening
And the grapes upon the vine are ripening
Lock the door, it’s getting frightening
They’re closing in, they're closing in
Closing in and the walls are tightening
And the grapes upon the vine are ripening
Lock the door, it’s getting frightening
They’re closing in, they're closing in
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Red Rose
03:28
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"I don't feel well," he said as he fell
Under her spell and died
"I know I told you I would've pulled you up
I lied"
Red rose, red rose rose from the dead
Red rose, red rose rose from the dead
Balancing an apple on the bridge of her nose
Dancing in the window on the tips of her toes
Faceless fools spit barbs and throw
Pretzels and peanut shells at her soles
Red rose, red rose rose from the dead
Red rose, red rose rose from the dead
"Pretty thing, could I walk your pace?
Down crooked roads wolves are known to chase
I know a place they can't trace
Behind the moon. What's wrong with your face?"
Red rose, red rose rose from the dead
Red rose, red rose rose from the dead
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Achilles (In Route)
02:26
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Mustang minus the hairpiece
Sixty-six, mad moonlight
Stood ‘em up for a bucket of cold wheat
Sparked the dark with a punch of light
Alright? Alright
Valley boy bound for the mountain
Valley boy bound for the fame
Valley boy bound for the mountain
Valley boy on that glory train
Tell me all about my features
While I practice my mug in mirrors
I dreamed reality birthed big creatures
Big enough to eat my fears
Alright? Alright
Valley boy bound for the mountain
Valley boy bound for the fame
Valley boy bound for the mountain
Valley boy on that glory train
Valley boy bound for the mountain
Valley boy bound for the fame
Valley boy bound for the mountain
Valley boy on that glory train
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10. |
Nightcrawler
02:14
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Fetch the vodka, kid
The one bundled in
Bull leather
They raised her
Can almost feel the moonlight warming
Her hand breaking through the earth
Pour the vodka, kid
She knows what we did
She's got strange powers
Pour the vodka, kid
She knows where we live
Can almost feel it
Tightening around her left shoulder
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11. |
The Boneyard
03:58
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12. |
Joy Revival
04:44
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Undone in the sun
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13. |
Sleepyhead
03:28
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Matt Oleksa Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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