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Sugar, When
03:43
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Sugar, when's it time to let go?
I've been losing my light, but you've been losing your soul
sometimes a lamp just needs a wall with wires to make it glow
and buried seeds just need a little h2o
But too much water ain't right, it's like
my fairer skin getting too much light
tomorrow holds too many reasons why you can't be mine
let's forget about tomorrow and live tonight
and I'm stuck on how your soul looks
when it's stripped naked, and the pictures
that you sent me for my paintings left me
breathless and also restless. I'll caress this world of yours
with words and chords if you'll undress this past of mine
with hands and eyes
But too much looking ain't right it's like
my fairer skin getting too much light
tomorrow holds too many reasons why you can't be mine
let's forget about tomorrow and live tonight
Sugar, when's it time to let go I've been losing my sleep but you've been losing control. Sometimes all you need is someone else to make you whole, that's what you are for me, the missing piece to my puzzle
But too much leaning ain't right it's like
my fairer skin getting too much light
tomorrow holds too many reasons why you can't be mine
let's forget about tomorrow and live tonight
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I adore you because your voice is a little like the sea inside a shell
and your beating heart feels a little like GOD when your chest is pressed
against my ear and it's playing the only song I've been longing to hear
I adore you but sometimes this thing is like looking at a mirror through a microscope, and seeing all my flaws up close, right there staring back at me makes it a little hard to breathe
I adore you but sometimes your touch is a little like swallowing pills
it feels good, it takes away my pain, but it's addictive and soon it'll numb my brain but I'll still feel like all I need is to feel your back arched over me
I adore you and I wear your name on my skin like a tattoo so the whole world knows I'm connected to you, but the ribbon that keeps us tied in is stretched, and wearing thin
Your love is like the atmosphere and I'm a rock entering you here
a few moments on fire but it's fleeting
but once I hit I'm useless, send the next lover to clean up the mess
look put your eyes to the window and stare but I swear that you won't find me there
I adore you but I gotta put my feet on a steel train and ride the rails
and the ocean calls, but the alcohol that's you'r breath on the walls of my neck is still lingering inside my head, and your body is still warm in my bed
I adore you but we can't make us happy
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Drank the blood of Jesus
both the water and wine
on every dollar gave a dime
for to lie with the body of Christ
Gave them all of my secrets
had the faith to be blind
all the while that still small voice
inside told me to run and hide
Drunk late night sweating all my sins out
beggin good lord let good man enter the gate
Could've sworn that I heard you say...
"Heaven ain't got no gate,
heaven ain't got no army,
war is a human flaw,
how can some of y'all act like its godly
but build a life with a lover
they'll say you're livin' in sin
so love is wrong but hate is alright
long as the hatred is over a piece of land
and take the same lovers
give them a piece of paper
that oughtta curb the anger, of the Lord and Savior, and their nosey neighbor how does that make sense?"
I knew every word, I sang every hymn
so much for quiet reverence
Drunk late night sweating all my sins out
beggin good lord let good man enter the gate
Could've sworn that I heard you say
"Heaven ain't got no gate
heaven ain't got no ramparts
by the time you die heaven's
gonna be just another little stamp on the passport
Heaven gate gate heaven ain't got no army
I knew every word, I sang every hymn
so much for quiet reverence
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4. |
I Can't Go On This Way
06:40
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It's getting colder, my skin's not all that's notice
and I'm getting older with nothing to show but a few grey hairs
I haven't been moving in your direction
for a while I thought that'd be ok
but that ring on your finger makes me see
I can't go on this way
We spent a night underneath the trees and I spent every night after on my knees
And I've been carrying too much weight and I know these shoulders are bound to break but I want to be there if you stumble, but I might crumble if I have to wait
I'm getting humbled, lord knows it's been coming
and I've been chasing you with a blindfold on but I hit the ground running when I saw you were still there
somehow I haven't been moving in your direction, for a while I thought that'd be OK, but I'm not the one who put that ring on your finger
and I learned just a little too late
I can't go on this way
We spent a night underneath the trees and I spent every night after on my knees
And I've been carrying too much weight and I know these shoulders are bound to break but I want to be there if you stumble, but I might crumble if I have to wait
I can't go on this way
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Tent Revival (Demo)
03:52
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You only stimulate me//To Assimilate me
brush my hand //Whisper in my ear
Yeah we read the bible//Than we//play tent revival
yeah we touch and kiss//While the word is still on your lips
Guess your love it ain't free//Comes at the price of you trying to change me, darlin' what does that make you?//What does that make me?
I know your heart keeps pumpin' for Jesus//Yeah! That's that royal blood
though I'm one for believin'//I need you to show me the face of God!
cause I can't get enough//Never gonna be enough
So I lie!
you say you're trying to save me//you're really trying to indoctrinate me
trying to make me think//I'm just one of the sheep
you think I'm Fallin'hook line//I'm gonna show you what a wolf looks like//Baby I'm
calm and cool//But who's fooling who?
I lead the bishop's daughter//like a//
lamb to the slaughter but then again//
did I lead you?//Or did you lead me?
You say your heart keeps pumpin' for Jesus
yeah that's that royal blood//And though I'm not one for believin' I need you to show me the face of God
cause I can't get enough//never gonna be enough
So I lie
Yeah, I lie
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6. |
Smaller Than a Sparrow
03:50
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Pale yellow light
leaks through the pane
her golden locks of hair lay on his
shoulder while the rain Is tapping heavy on the canopy
while pink sky turns to grey
with his arms wrapped tight around her
she feels warm and unafraid
she's feeling smaller than a sparrow
but also larger than life
and she'll feel vibrant in her marrow when she's laying down tonight,
lord when she lays down tonight
A dissonance is building,
there’s a clash behind the veil
Yeah, they danced under Aurora
but the dancing’s getting stale
His lips may say he loves her,
but his hands say go to hell
'til the walls that she's been building
fast become her prison cell
So his angry voice is muffled, for the ringing in her ears
circles neath her eyes, a sign she's been tired for years
feels tension in her muscles, she feels his fingers to the bone
with his hands wrapped tight around her arms
she feels hurt and alone
The one she trusted most is now a stranger in her home.
She's feels smaller than a sparrow
she withers without light
and she'll feel fearful, faithless, harrowed
when she's laying down tonight,
lord when she lays down tonight
Sprawled out under ponderosas
a decoration on the acreage
clear beyond the ridge
she can see 50 onstellations
Every rolling hill feels like
a warm comfortable blanket
and every crooked creek looks like
the road to her salvation
And though she’s smaller than a sparrow
out under that big sky
she’ll feel, free and great and endless
when she's laying down tonight,
lord when she lays down tonight
lord when she lays down tonight
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7. |
Buffalo Trace
04:17
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Buffalo Trace
here on this once trampled ground where the golden sprouts up
from the tera cotta where the honored horn, and hoof, and tooth, and claw once made red the raw dust
I listen through the silence for the echo from the thunder of the herd and the screeching of the birds but the sound is just a faint and distant memory, now this field is great and empty for the hand of man that purged
Tell me,will I ever see you in that place with your family on the vastness of the plains? Will you run among the sage, the remainder of your days?
No you're gone without a buffalo trace.
Young friend don't fly forego the skies 'cause It's too soon to say goodbye
every photo of your smile makes my eyes a river wild so I'll write your name across these many Miles. I listen through the silence for your voice atop the mountains I listen to the babbling of the brook to hear your words but the sound is just a faint and distant memory now a part of me is empty for the hand of God that purged
Tell me,will I ever see you in that place with your family on the vastness of the plains? Will you run among the sage, the remainder of your days?
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8. |
Tequila Contigo
03:23
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Our roles are tired, they're ever changing
as much as we've changed It only makes sense
you were my angel, I was a devil
you were divine girl, I was disheveled
I'd trade my comfort for a wild horse
and when she breaks she'll be a creature of perspective
she'll be a wise horse, a little more perceptive
Girl you're a wild one, and I'm a wild one
but every now & then I'll see you when the tide comes
you'll pour tequila make poor man's margaritas
we'll take a bask in belly laughin' mamacita
Cause I only drink tequila with you
the spirit is willing, if the spirits keep distilling
Yeah it's whisky when I'm out with my amigos,
darlin, Solo tomo Tequila contigo
Out in your back yard, got half the lights hung
we'll sip & listen to the music of the birds hum
we'll let those sound waves roll in and out babe
that symphony of chaos painted 'cross your landscape
Girl I'm a hound dog, I'm a mean old hound dog
but if you pet me right I'm loyal and protective
said I'm a hound dog, ya got me hollerin' moon songs
won't you take my hand? Come on let's get two steppin'
(Fiddle Solo)
Cause I only drink tequila with you
the spirit is willing, if the spirits keep distilling
yeah it's whisky when I'm out with my amigos,
darlin', Solo tomo Tequila contigo
Yeah honey I'll keep movin'
mountain to mountain
discoverin' youth is not distilled in some damn fountain
It's in the moments, the sights the smells the howlin’
trust me, the outcome ain’t a goddamn thing without ‘em
Girl when we're tired
after years of agin'
when the color of our hair is finished changin'
we’ll see the beauty in each other’s wrinkled faces
til' thenI plan to occupy a million spaces
But I'll only drink tequila with you
the spirit is willing of the spirits keep distillin
yeah it's whisky when I'm out with my amigos
darlin' solo tomo tequila contigo
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9. |
God, She is Beautiful
05:49
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I held her hand under a blanket, up in an arm chair, down in my basement
we watched a move, she's not too into movies, she'd rather do things while moving pictures move me
The film was our lives, I watched mine unravel because I trampled everything I had loved. Yeah I lit a candle and I rayed her rosary
but all I felt, was the hold that she had over me
And I washed my face in colder water then to wake myself up
and washed my hands in blood but God I'm still concerned there won't be mercy enough, and I'll kick again the pricks, I've kicked again the holy one
Someone take my hand cause I'm about to give up
I couldn't change gods, though I'd forgotten mine his words were still etched upon my soft sides and I was graven upon the palms of his hands
a cut that bleeds my sins away like rain on fickle sand
And I washed my face in colder water then to wake myself up
and washed my hands in blood but God I'm still concerned there won't be mercy enough, and I'll kick again the pricks, I've kicked again the holy one
Someone take my hand cause I'm about to give up
I cried in my temple
I cried god, she is beautiful
I cried god, she's my angle, he replied, "also your devil."
And I washed my face in colder water then to wake myself up
and washed my hands in blood but God I'm still concerned there won't be mercy enough, and I'll kick again the pricks, I've kicked again the holy one
Someone take my hand cause I'm about to give up
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10. |
Lions and Lambs Demo
04:33
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I wanna lay down with you like lions and lambs down
let's rest us voices now. We've been fighting and fussing
instead of holding and touching
I'll put down my pride if only you'll stop being so shy
(whistle interlude)
I wanna lay down with you and let our bodies share the truth
Let's rest our pulses now, turn to older traditions and heal the world with collision
I'll put down my pride if only you'll stop making me fold
I can just walk away now
or you can come and lay down
I'll make your world a little bit safer
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11. |
Screaming For Change
04:30
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You wear your bruises on the inside
a map of who and where you've been is drawn across your pretty eyes
your lips say take it easy there's nothing going on
your eyes say don't go to that city
I don't know what I'll do without you when you're gone.
I've been pushing you out because the last time I loved you I lost you so I know what dying feels like now
Yeah I know that sometimes telling lies only delays the truth
The truth is it's not enough for me in my life to have anything less
than every part of you
And this is not just a display, I miss you and I'm screaming out for a change
It seems to me you don't wanna be tied down, there are burns on your wrists from someone else's rope and I can still see them now
Yeah I watched you get tangled up and held up and put down
all I want to do is to free you so me and you can get out of this town
And this is not just a display, I miss you and I'm screaming out for a change
I've been pushing you out because the last time I loved you I lost you so I know what dying feels like now
Yeah I know that sometimes telling lies only delays the truth
The truth is it's not enough for me in my life to have anything less
than every part of you
And this is not just a display
I Love you, that's all I want to say
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