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Dead Reckoning
04:17
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Fifteen men
On a deadman's ship aground
Take your leave
And a switchblade in case you need
To cut the throat of any ghost you meet
And keep you safe from
Sailors like me
In a port town for now
On a dock working cargo
Oh, but you won't be long
Your address is spread far and wide
Through ghost and almost-ghost towns
All the towns you
Found your way into
The stars have all done their part
Now they're tired of us watching
Lined up as ever always
Where to now
What to put your bare hands to
Oh, but we won't belong
Our address is spread far and wide
Through border and empty mine towns
All the towns you
Found your way into
The stars have all done their part
Now they're tired of us watching
Lined up as ever always
Could not be easier than now
No one left to let down
They lost you to dead reckoning
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Birds Are Waking
06:26
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The grace is gone
And along with it the goodwill
We've inventoried what's ours
And locked it up
Blue lights flashing pictures quickly
And oh boy did they get you cheaply
You're lonely cause you're never alone
And in lines and rows we head home
I want to be the scenery
The birds the clouds and the trees
I want to be the scenery
The birds, the clouds and the trees
And in lines and rows we head home
There was a pretty blue lake I found
And in this early light I could not see bottom
All around it birds are waking
And warming up their singing voices
Their voices form a warning chorus
And in lines and rows we head home
Back to the beds we made of shit and stone
And oh how safe and sound
For now, for now, for now...
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Who put your eye out
Who cut the lights
And sent you to stumbling
I found out the easy way
The more that you think it
The less you should say
Now I see
How you're like me
And how you hate
Those faces you make
Brother of mine
How you lied all this time
Choking on what
You didn't ask for
Found this picture
Of you falling
Mouth half-open
And they're laughing
Are you fooling
Who's the fool
Now you now now you
Now you know
What I wouldn't do for your you
Now I see
How you're like me
And how you hate
Those faces you make
Brother of mine
How you lied all this time
Choking on what
You didn't ask for
Found this picture
Of you falling
Mouth half-open
And we're laughing
Are you fooling
Who's the fool
Now you now you
Now you know
What I wouldn't do for you
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Travel Light
06:16
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Lost your fight
Now travel light by my side
Loose the chains
The gates are swinging out wide
Is it easier now
Is this how you wanted
Curtains that won't open
Answer to no one
I grew spare and silent
It fouls the air
So I close my mouth
And I've lived off your cast-offs
Carry your debt in my name
There's a word for what you've done
There's a name for what you've become
Curtains that won't open
Answer to no one
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Clean Starts
03:00
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If you took every hostile atmosphere
And pumped it full of air
Until the deadly gases disappear
Would a heart start beating
Somewhere i know it's starting now
And though there's no way to really know
It's growing arms
And it's growing legs
And soon it's starting thinking
Clean starts or starting over
It just can't happen here
I'll never know what you want
All the space is already taken
And all that's broken off
Comes back to circle you
Get clean, start breathing again
Those broken-off things
Are sickening
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Ruined New Life
05:18
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Let yourself go
So far nobody knows
That's what you get
For coming out wet
In this kind of weather
I won't hold my breath
I know what's not coming next
Don't bring back to life
What you beat in the fight
Be glad it's dead
A gold photo-stream
And we're back in a new dream
I know that's it's you there
Canyons and blues skies
Your ruined new life
A gold photo-stream
And we're back in the very same dream
And I dream a lot
Love what I got
A ruined new life
I let you do it
Cause I thought you needed it
More than I needed you not to
I let you do it
Cause I thought you needed
More than I needed you not to
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Program Ten
08:46
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sitting by the canyon
with my hands in my pockets
and my head holding high to the sky
listen to the rhythm
of the canyon as it calls
and can you hear the canyon call inside?
I still have my life
something's wrong inside
it's just that Sunday morning song
flashing in my eyes for all to see
Sunday morning song
take me on to sleep
and I'll be free
I still have my life
something's wrong inside
it's just that Sunday morning song
flashing in my eyes for all to see
Sunday morning song
take me on to sleep
and I'll be free
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'Til the Death
06:05
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Already no, too much
Enough dust to choke all Oklahoma
And blot the sun
Give up, gave too much
Lay the ghost go effortlessly with it
Oh
I fight 'til the death
And you're next
Crash-land
Escape
Pick up sounds
That never got to tape
fFght til the death
I'll see you in the next life
fFght til the death
I'll see you in the next life
Fight til the death
With a dull blade
It could take all night
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Amy Annelle Austin, Texas
A prolific writer and interpreter of songs, Amy Annelle maps out the farther reaches of American music, while conjuring visions of our restless musical past. Over the course of ten albums & thousands of miles logged on the road, Annelle has cultivated a rarified voice and repertoire that "blooms with open-hearted, lustful vulnerability and a harrowing naturalistic solitude”(Crawdaddy). ... more
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