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Grains Of Sand
03:33
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There’s no math in how I feel
No prime numbers, ain’t no handshakes in this deal
Ain’t no fool shouting songs up to the band
Ain’t no distance between the grains of sand
Language fails me and nothing comes out straight
Since I first spoke your name my tongue’s burned to the taste
If you’re not here, may as well be Kin, Japan
Ain’t no distance between the grains of sand
Little traces of your scent still fill the room
Since I first breathed you in, my brain has been consumed
I have endless good intentions, I just want to hold your hand
Ain’t no distance between the grains of sand
There’s no math in how I feel
No prime numbers, ain’t no handshakes in this deal
Ain’t no fool shouting songs up to the band
Ain’t no distance between the grains of sand
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2. |
No Longer Looking
02:32
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Spend all my time in my lonely gray room
I’m praying to stars and I’m cursing the moon
Sleep through the days and I’m counting the nights
Reaching out through the darkness in search of a light
I’m better off living than whatever that was
Second chances are for trying and I ain’t had enough
You gave me more reasons than one man could need
You led me to living and you made me believe in a love
I’m no longer looking for a place to go and lose my mind
Sadness and hard times, they come and they go
Now I’m finding the lessons are like mining for gold
And I’m getting better and stronger with each passing day
Making up for the moments I pissed away
I had to crash a little while to let the light shine through
Now I’m counting up angels and I’m staring at you
No longer looking for a place to go and lose my mind
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I Don't Wanna Know
03:53
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I saw him bend down and tie your laces
A sliver of moonlight flashed across your faces
Please keep me in the dark
I don’t want to know
(I don’t need to know)
You can always stay right here
I’ll be on your side
(I’ll be on your side)
I don’t want to know
Oh, how you burn them bridges
To light your mistakes or to cover your ass
Please leave me in the dark
I don’t want to know
(I don’t need to know)
You can always stay right here
I’ll be on your side
(I’ll be on your side)
I don’t want to know
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Turn me out and pick me up
I’ve just come off prescription buzz
My bright Green lights all turned to red
Dark Grey thoughts speed through my head
I’m always learning, but I’m from the wrong school
While singing the clouds like cast iron blues
There ain’t no friendly fire
When hearts go running wild
When the knots untied and ends hang loose
We’re singing the clouds like cast iron blues
Got nothing left but the memory of a lover’s breath
My own regret’s just and uncashed check
I’m not lost, I’m still searching
Light me up and lead me on
Been loving you from minute one
I’m speeding through all the signals Red
While singing the clouds like cast iron blues again
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5. |
Nobody Needs Nobody
05:27
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You’ve had your moments and I’ve got time
Wrote your number on a napkin, said “I’ll be on the line”
“Call me on Sunday about Saturday night”
“You can can ask my momma if it’ll be alright to take me out”
Hard fought love we sparked as kids
Crucifying ex-lovers while you burned through their stand-ins
But you are the mainframe, hero to our tale
And I curse those countless nights I wasted to get here
Nobody needs nobody more than I need you
Sometimes I hate waking up next to you
When I think of all the things that we both slept through
Whisper to me, your love, like a secret
Raise up your voice, sing my name like a song
Cosmic eternal, we take it or leave it
Stone still I stand here, been here all along
Nobody needs nobody more than I need you
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6. |
Elia Avenue
03:48
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Small cry coming from a baby’s room
Moon is making way for a sun that’s rising soon
Young mama’s up and now she’s showered and dressed
Every ticking second’s like an unplaced bet
She lives on Elia Avenue
Each new day’s another to get through
From the cracks in the pavement, the promises bloom
Moon pushes past an Orange sun that’s setting soon
Overtime, underlined, live from check to check
Sun keeps making way for the storms not pouring yet
Young man searching for a way to make it work
Keeps a stack of his dreams in the pocket of his shirt
He lives on Elia Avenue
Each new day’s another to get through
From the cracks in the pavement, the promises bloom
Moon pushes past an Orange sun that’s setting soon
Elia Avenue is a hard way to live
How can you give up when you’ve got nothing left to give
But we don’t get down, things are looking up
Some people want more while we just want enough
We live on Elia Avenue
Each new day’s another to get through
From the cracks in the pavement, the promises bloom
Moon pushes past an Orange sun that’s setting soon
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7. |
I'm Cold
01:17
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Sometimes I’m cold
Reach out and touch your heat to my hands
Sometimes I’m cold
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Well, I didn’t even want to leave the house tonight
I didn’t even want to wake up
I ain’t looking for a good time
Maybe, some nights, just going out is good enough
And I don’t think I’d met you
But I must’ve seen you somewhere, somehow
Although I’m scared by this feeling of falling
There’s nothing I can do about it now
You know that crushing feeling that sometimes surrounds you?
You can’t breathe or even open your eyes?
But there’s no enemy just beyond your front door
See, it’s a fight that happens on the inside
I didn’t know I even want out
You shone a light on the depths where I dig down
And while I’m scared by this feeling of falling
There’s just nothing I can do about it now
Run with me, baby, ‘til the end of time
I’ll be your golden couplet
Won’t you be my closing line?
Well, I didn’t want to leave everything I know
But I only want to be where you are
We’ll shake the rust from the hinges way out past the fences
See the future from the windshield of a car
And it’s clear that I’ve known you
Longer than our lifetimes allow
I may be scared by this feeling of falling
But there’s just nothing I can do about it now
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11:11
03:45
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How long have we known each other now?
I must’ve forgotten how we met somehow
Turn me out or pick me up
Days like these don’t come enough
Eleven Eleven, Eleven Eleven
Living can’t come to the ones that wait
Time won’t sell at any kind of rate
I’ll be waiting at those parallel lines
Out all day and up all night
Eleven Eleven, Eleven Eleven
I think I can hear you, the way that you talk
The sweep of your feet as you move down the hall
These two pair of lines they summon a ghost
I’m a man without proof, it’s just something you know
Eleven Eleven, Eleven Eleven
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High Stakes
05:30
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Mystery Maria mystifies me all the time
She laughs at ancient rules designed to keep her in a line
She found me broke, still dripping from that Alamosa rain
Standing just inside the door of the Holiday Arcade
And didn’t roll on
Through a crooked little grin, she said, “that storm’s a give and take”
I slumped into a corner booth to contemplate the moment I can’t shake
She said, “be careful what you wish for,
Fear the world as much as being alone,
Those with everything want more
And never question what you know
To be high stakes”
Mystery Maria, she was naked all the time
She said, “it’s how we’re born and how I plan to die”
She must’ve been an angel, but from where she’d never tell
Kept a cast of actors, quoted books she’d never read
And she rolled on
In her little wisdoms always lived the center of some truth
But I’m afraid the messages weren’t clear enough to be conveyed to you
Except when she said…
She said, “be careful what you wish for,
Fear the world as much as being alone,
Those with everything want more
And never question what you know
To be high stakes”
Hearts get heavy like the burden of a lie
We all need help to do the lifting, it’ll eat you up inside
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11. |
Little Tears
04:06
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Love don’t dissipate, it breaks and catches fire
Me and your momma left no bridge unburned
But I’ll still see you on the weekends
And every Christmas when it’s my turn
Daddy had to move out, but I’m not too far away
I even fixed a room here of your own
Just remember that daddy always loves you
And you’ll never be alone
Little eyes won’t get to see me tonight
Little hands that won’t hold mine
Little ears won’t get to hear me say “I love you”
Little tears in exchange for mine
When you’re older, I hope you’ll understand
But for now it hurts like hell
Just remember daddy always loves you
Close your eyes and sleep well
Little eyes won’t get to see me tonight
Little hands that won’t hold mine
Little ears won’t get to hear me say “I love you”
Little tears in exchange for mine
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12. |
Quitter
04:48
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Perfect the art of a little too much
Been called defeatist and it fits like a glove
Pressured my friends to cut me out of their pictures
I stopped searching for the answers to questions I don’t know anymore
The single rule of a lonely love
Is giving none and never having enough
Been crowned the king of giving up
Add a zero to a one and then that one is always doomed to dancing alone
Their favorite song and they’re still dancing alone
I’m a quitter, baby
(I’ll never stick around)
I’m a quitter, baby
(Got a love for the lost and found)
You need not worry, wish you the best
There’s just one thing that I feel I must confess
I crossed your parents, pissed off your friends
Never intend to, but I’m doing it again and again
I’m fucking up and I’ll still do it again
I’m a quitter, baby
(I’ll never stick around)
I’m a quitter, baby
(Got a love for the lost and found)
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Todays gonna be a good day
It’s the mantra I tell myself
Losing the bruises of last week’s losses
Down and out, but I woke up well
I found my way down a crooked road
To well marked streets filled with light
Found the flickering of a lantern’s flame
Your eyes, like moons in a country night
Today’s gonna be a good day
I can say it and I make it so
Stretch my arms and I straighten my back
Highwire walking over hell below
I see the sun rising over the trees
Oblivious to its task to set
She just keeps coming up and shining
A flood light perched on her Pine minarets
Today’s gonna be a good day
Just like all the optimists say
Today’s gonna be a good day
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