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Crowding 'round the set like everyone they knew
All stood by when men first walked on the moon
What Aldrin didn’t have, this avalanche of life around
Down here in over your head, light is up and dark is down
Beacon Hill housewife, female aquanaut
Walk the ocean floor, untethered Aqua-Lung
“Brave mom’s dive to the bottom of the world”
Are we in the deepest twilight or the earliest dawn?
Whale songs of the ’60s were more beautiful
No great efficiency in feeding on what takes so long to grow
The whale songs of the ’70s were more perverse
No limitless supply, no endless wonder
“Sylvia sails away with 70 men”
The subtitle read, “But she expects no problems”
Heard the change between the generations
It’s not too late if we’re a part of the action
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Get Away
02:42
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I don’t always hate myself or where I’m from
But I can’t deny the damage that’s been done
That we’ve done
We have a racist dotard for a president
I don’t know which planet he represents
But it’s not mine
I’ve gotta move
I’ve got to get away
I don’t know where I’ll go
But I can’t stay
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The Hot Heat
02:42
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I never thought I'd win
I knew I'd get burnt again
But something went my way that day
Pinned up against the best
No way to study for the test
But something went my way that day
I knew the end was near
Had to swallow all my fears
An olive branch was handed down
Turned my frown right upside down
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Halfway Home
02:58
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To the west uprooting what was started in your old town
Jilted by a lover or life or whatever it was that you'd announce
Now you vanish; an island, a stone
Halfway there, just barely aware
Receding to depths of places unknown
When are you coming home?
Don't let yourself go
Any further than I have
When are you coming home?
Some of us won't be around by the time you return
While you're away what lessons were we all supposed to learn?
When I was your age I was flying you around the room
Now I fear the next I'll hear is of you falling to your doom
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Spread Too Thin
02:36
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Well I'm spread too thin to be a good friend
But I've never said no to a party
And in no time I'll drink all your wine
and I probably never say I'm sorry
I’ll forget what I say, I’ll forget your birthday
I won't even ask how you're feeling
I'll be thinking I'm free way back in my creek
With all of them fish I should be reeling
Because my week's way too long
And green does no wrong
I'll get my fix back in the sticks
On the south side of 206
Well I miss my friends and I miss my sins
I still ain't got time for my family
But all the while I fake more smiles
I’m never depressed because I shan’t be
But I'll be a good host and I'll listen close
I'll cook you up some food and pour you brandy
I don't want to be sad, I don't want to be mad
So I'm just the best that I can be
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Please Be A Light
04:21
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Your head on my shoulder
Watching the day sink to the sea
I don’t dread getting older
As long as you’re getting older with me
We’ve been here a long time
Shared a few trips around the sun
I’m too tired to be afraid
I just want to have some fun
As we go around the sun
The sea keeps coming closer to our home
Graying and growing everyone
As we go around the sun
I can’t know the future
For you or your brother
There’s so much hatred and division
Please be a light, please be a lover
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Dadgum
02:49
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Dadgum I’m grown up
And I wanna be here
I don’t wanna be there
I’d rather be anywhere
I ain’t got no time for memory
Today gets in its way
I’m not a fan of self promotion
But I’m guilty everyday
I ain’t got no time for memory
The past is faded gray
And I never seem to focus on anything I say
Life lived in the moment
They say it’s the better way
Well it’s nothing to be proud of
Hybrid moments slip away
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Screwballs
04:45
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I was looking for some good kind of weird
The kind that draws you near
And holds you without fear
I didn’t know where to begin
No comfort in my skin
A symptom of our disease
Feeling like a lost puzzle piece
Now I don’t feel so
Out of place
An outlier
In the human race
I was looking for some good kind of weird
I stopped when I found it here
Where I can be
With all the other goodhearted freaks
Didn't know where to begin
But we're holding on while this rock spins
With the strangers and the strange
And the friends we make along the way
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Island In The Sky
04:18
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Problems-you've got problems too
Will we ever see your problems through?
Problems-hey they won't last long
Will my love's problems ever be gone?
Problems-you've got problems too
Will we ever see your problems through?
Problems-hey they won't last long
Will our worry ever be done?
You know I love you
There's just one more thing we could do
Grind your teeth just as I do
I'll sing this lullaby all the night through
In the darkness, I can't see
I hold my breath over ears that ring
Just to hear you breathe
In the morning there's an island in the sky
Hope I don't share my limits and you'll pass on by
Problems-now we've got em on the run
When we're together they vanish with the setting sun
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Lost Cause
03:02
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I don’t know why I try
It’s such a short precious life
And we only hear what we want
It doesn’t make much sense
Start a war to justify defense
When there’s nothing to fight
I don't how we made it 'til now
We're a lost cause
I know I don’t have it figured out
We can sit around and catalogue our flaws
But it's a lost cause
We're a lost cause
Adrift and overcome with doubt
We can sit around and catalogue our flaws
But it's a lost cause
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Summer Haven
02:31
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When the dim corners call you
And the dark places hide you
Find the outer circles
Between the shade and sunshine
The tide splits between two inlets
And I’ve been seen on the southside
Between the shade and sunshine
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Distant Seconds
04:00
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Spending days turning keys
Not knowing where the same doors lead
Wasting time all alone
Surrounded by those I'll never know
I think of the distant seconds I'll get to spend with you
If I could find a way to spend my days
In a loving display I would
But I spend most my waking minutes with the distant seconds
Instead of those I should
I think of the seconds in the distance I'll get to spend with you
I think of all the seconds I missed while you grew
I think of hours not too distant where I won't be me but you'll still be you
I think of the distant seconds I hope you'll remember we two
I think of now how to make our seconds last but just watch them tick right on through
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St. Augustine, Florida record label since 2004.
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