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Cigs
06:19
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Man, I’ve been trying to quit smoking
but the nicotine keeps lying and joking.
And it’s impossible to quit cigs
When all my friends be smoking so many cigs.
Blow the smoke in my vicinity
Because smoking second hand is free.
I want you know right now
I’m rollin up the windows now
When I hate my job, my car,
my hands, and my guitar.
And when a contacts bothering me
and driving in traffic makes it hard to breathe.
The only thing I need. The only itch other than weed.
I want you to know right now, itching for cig somehow.
I’m laying here by myself.
Until I’m out from under the heat.
And I keep moving on
Getting shtoned
I hit a week off smoking.
My blood is still bubblin boilin.
I don’t need to smoke right now.
I’m trying to make Augie proud.
I’m looking at the veins in my hands.
They look like ropes with cement strand.
Like a shark that’s smelling blood.
A single whiff of a cig and I’m done.
You know that this whole damn week
I thought I was sick man I felt so weak.
I had a constant drip in my throat.
Even food makes my gag and choke.
Turns out what was ailing me
Wasn’t a cold and wasn’t allergies.
Withdrawals were the source and the sign.
Because I smoked one cigarette and was fine.
I’m still laying here by myself till I’m out from under the heat.
And keep moving on getting stoned.
Until we can both stop jokin.
I’m hear alone and I’m tokin.
I want you to know right now
You make me wanna quit cigs somehow.
But if I were to put it on, lay it on real strong.
I want you to know right now, you’d be letting me know somehow.
With the cigs I’m stuck chilling in between purgatories.
But smoking is fine with me
So I’ll chill until I’m freezing.
But the silence that follows our jokin.
Hits harder than any words we’ve spoken.
Man, it hits me so damn hard.
I need suck a cig so damn hard.
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2. |
Life Ain't
01:54
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Life’s not working out for you
But you’ve got nothing to hide
I never thought I’d see you in town tonight taking a year off of life
Last I heard you ran out of wind
couldn’t tell left from right now
Nothing but a passenger next to me but somehow life’s figured out now
Rainy days will last much longer
Especially when you’ve got nothing to do
I walked alone until I ran into a stranger
Said he was a doctor for most of his life
Saw too much of reality
Gave it up to live on a boat
Drifting away out at sea on the only thing in his life that floats
High above the water
Down beneath the sun
Another night to be be alone
Here without no one
Throw them the bone and go on home find another reason to be
Living long’s overrated When everything has a fee
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3. |
Cancer in the Dark
04:55
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When you think your whole life has been lying and there's not even a sliver of truth in your reach.
Morality, trust, and greed all tie into a web of well constructed lies that they weave.
Letting go of what you know
Could be so much scarier than you already know
You can fall back and forth and sway to and fro.
Well so, you're sitting at the table wondering why your stable.
They fed you cancer in the dark
You didn't think things could get so hard.
If you’re sick of wondering when life gunna give you some answers
Anymore living is something they’re giving but at a cost you can’t meet.
Grab life by the collar and beat it till it give you some answers.
Try your best to make it happen but you end up where you started safely.
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Sarasota Sun
02:36
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Good times to come in the Sarasota sun
Pennies flat on the tracks
Live true to the task
My eyes are shut
Sleeping out on the yard
Where time let go and left me aside
Good times to be
I never thought I’d see that sometimes the things you love must be set free
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5. |
Country Song
02:34
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Patch and his men set out to find their lost friend in the valley that ran deeper than the grand canyons
Knowing in the end that time don’t make the task any easier
Moonlight fire put me out
They journeyed longer than they’d planned on the lonely road with not even a map to go off of
Knowing in the end that they’ll never see their friend again
The tattered men cried into the moonlight fire Bottles emptied of desire
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Lolita
04:55
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I’m sitting out here in the sun
Thinking about the things I’ve done
Lolita come and rescue me
It’s seems like everybody has got me beat
Im held to standards that I can’t meet
Lolita
When you can’t get back the lost and unsung And you can’t control what comes your way
Lolita
Now you gotta get your life on track somehow but even the people that you love will bring you down
Afraid of my friends,
I was Afraid of myself.
Thought I was having a stroke.
I was afraid for my health.
Walking up the bridge
of the intercostal,
I felt like my brain
was going postal.
I walked in my room to take
a load off of my feet.
I got scared of the toons
playing on the tv.
I tried to close my eyes.
I’m wrapped up in my sheets
And I saw geometric patterns
melting right in front of me.
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7. |
Laura
03:24
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Heaven is in your eyes
Don’t let me fade away this time
I have it all my best but time has stood to test my strength
And I can’t lie I was scared
I saw the moon and it cried
Maybe someday I’ll feel more than fine
Tell me if I’m okay
By your side I’ll always stay and in my mind you’ll be by my side
Laura it’s 9 in the morning and I’m waiting on you
Your heart speaks and you’re out of reach
I’m only a child in your eyes
But i don’t mind if its the last thing I do
Everyday I’m with you is like purple skies never blue
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8. |
Friend Named Steve
05:36
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Wait I had a friend named Steve.
In school was friends with me.
First band was him and me.
Now is an alt-right four Chan fiend
Can’t relate, but it’s sad we heard about you.
Moved to New Orleans to go to school.
Can’t relate, but it’s sad we heard about you.
I don’t have any feelings there toward you.
I had a friend named Ben
Friends from the age of ten
Friends till the grade of ten
Till he decided to talk shit about my band
Can’t relate but it’s sad man I heard bout you
He DJ’s at a spot that serves Italian food
Can’t relate but it sad man I heard about you.
Man, I don’t have any feelings there toward you.
I knew this girl named Jan
Yeah I didn’t hear back from Jan
I accidentally scratched her with my hand when it was in her pants up her clam.
Can relate but it’s sad man the jokes on me.
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9. |
In the Rain
03:26
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When we were young I thought we’d find our way to the sun
Now it’s been years and Im still waiting here
I stepped outside just to feel alive
Move on son out towards the sun
Tomorrow might you something new
Flippin the pages and knowing just what memories can do
And I can’t remember a time where I wasn’t looking out there for you
living my days without you in the rain
The sky’s crying on me
You’ve been gone so long.
Feels like a couple of days.
You left me here alone to pay the rent
that we were both supposed to pay.
Thinking back to a time
from a different day.
I left that part of me behind, yeah
we threw it all away.
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10. |
New Orleans
03:40
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Me and my grandpa eating crawfish on the beach.
He taught me unconditional love in forms of subtleties.
It’s leaving slow. I can’t let go. I cannot believe.
He’s been gone so long and it feels so wrong.
We never made it to New Orleans.
A memory much to vivid of him putting up his feet.
Tv stand, a cig in hand and watches Batali.
Now he’s gone and I can’t hold on.
The best I could ever need.
Picking at some pickeled food.
He picked while gardening.:9
Often times I ask myself how I let it get this way.
distance mySelf from our family
distant without trying to be.
Nana Sue prescribed for you.
But I think she’s doing okay.
Robert moved back in with her
to help while you’re away.
Since then I’ve been back Houston
And stayed in your domain.
A framed picture of you up on the wall
Of you winning a poker game.
Now I’m here so sincerely
Praying for a heaven to reach
The final holy land of peace thats you and me
and crawfish in New Orleans.
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11. |
Tootsies
04:22
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I was pure innocence till the day I turned thirteen.
The spitting image of wonder.
Sex was nowhere close to me.
But I can forget about the heat.
That came of that night from her feet.
Couldn’t pass up the opportunity, so I just took a seat
In my backyard by the lake I had had my first christening.
She was sitting back a foot from me.
Feeling her toes made me dizzy.
Her arms were crossed, her eyes on me
She watched as I became putty.
Like bird without a soul I keep on flapping my faulty wings.
It’s like finding bugs and termites when you open up a tree.
I can’t believe how wrong I thought I was for liking feet.
But at the ripe young age of thirteen, I found the job that best suited me.
Had been wandering so careless who knew my life had been so dim.
had been getting dressed in darkness until someone pulled the lamp.
I’ve seen the light and it only grows
And all thanks to her nasty toes.
Like Dorothy when she first saw oz
Or when Clyde and Bonnie met.
I knew there something was there
once fought off the regret.
I was lost and now I’m found
It’s like my first time hearing sound.
Like a fine tuned symphony
playing Mozart’s Coronation mass in C.
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