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Senatohoba
00:55
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Wuthering
05:08
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Wuthering
A street light through the front door screen
Paints a blue on everything
Another day is coming to an end.
You said you'd never dreamt on sleeping pills
But it's faster if you run downhill
And either way we'll both crash in the bend
Close the door again,
Cause the outside's coming in...
I'll see you out on the other side
After the river has washed the stones;
A broken sky wuthering above it all
Just like the wind that you came in on.
With bottles stacked like dominos
And blood stains on your birthday clothes,
Last New Years Eve you swore you were getting clean.
So we rode down to the beach that night
Counting all the satellites
And soaking all your smokes in kerosene.
Close the door again,
Cause the outside's coming in...
I'll see you out on the other side
After the river has marked the stones;
A broken sky wuthering above it all
Just like the wind that you came in on.
When we were young you said you'd lived
Every day as a punishment
And carved your shame across the things you loved.
Tomorrow brings another light
All born to grow but grown to die
So let's not think too much about the end.
credits
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3. |
Chant (Portland 2020)
02:40
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4. |
The Valley Below
05:36
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The Valley Below
Take your faded golden memories from the old days
And bind them to the wind like a winter rain
As evening falls around, and shatters without sound
Til morning at the window taps the pain.
There’s a road not far from here.
We can leave tonight when no one knows.
Drink to the spirits talking the fire from our wounds.
Take them down to The Valley Below.
You said as we walked the wires above this
“It’s a lonesome fragile star that burns most clear.”
To navigate the time keeping diamonds in your mind;
What you love today, tomorrow just disappears.
There’s a road not far from here.
We can leave tonight when no one knows.
Drink to the spirits talking the fire from our wounds.
Take them down to The Valley Below.
I was dreaming when they called to say you’d moved on.
So hot that day the sidewalks cracked and blurred.
A lonesome cardinal cried beneath my window all through the night
And stayed until the Autumn began to turn.
There’s a road not far from here.
We can leave tonight when no one knows.
Drink to the spirits talking the fire from our wounds.
Take them down to The Valley Below.
(dedicated to Neal Casal)
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5. |
Nashville Babylon
04:18
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6. |
Fifty-Two
03:10
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Fifty-Two
He stepped out on the porch
Said “do you mind if I sit a while
And whittle your name into this wall
Cause I’m afraid your’re gonna leave soon
And that’ll be all
We’ve gotta change something
We’re strangers and it’s so cold”
And as the door let out a scream
It slammed at that was all.
It was the winter of ‘52
And all was torn down and broken
He listened to the radio each night
Remembering how they danced
And he poked the fire a little more
Cause it was cold outside
Downstairs is a picture of the day he came home
All battled down and broken
Just a shadow of before
And she’s holding him tight
Like you hold on to something
You’re so afraid of.
And as he pulled down the shades
All alone and cold
The door let out a scream
And it slammed and that was all.
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7. |
Winter Mourn
04:13
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9. |
Petrichor
05:41
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