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13th Floor
06:34
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You wanted me to serve as sweetener in your tea
to tame when bitter tannins soured
to cheer you up in your dark hours
For me you offered safe security
said if I'd only have eyes for you
then you would keep an eye on me
You wanted me to serve as sweetener in your tea
to tame when bitter tannins soured
to cheer you up in your dark hours
But your home had only windows and no doors
located on the 13th floor
you locked me up there like a whore
More times than I can count on hands or toes
I thought of leaping to the ground
watching trees rise as I fell down
Instead I swarmed when the summer weather warmed
out the window a dark cloud
I blocked the sun out like a shroud
You wanted me to serve as sweetener in your tea
to tame when bitter tannins soured
to cheer you up in your dark hours
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2. |
Living with Alcoholics
06:52
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3. |
Ballad of a Derby Girl
05:27
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Trying to grow up with some sort of dignity
I'll warn you right now it aint always pretty
There's times I have too much to drink
There's nights when I can't even think
and there's a low place where I sometimes sink
I question my judgement I doubt my decisions
Sometimes success is just a trick of the vision
The writer has run out of ink
The skater grows tired of circling the rink
The writer has run out of ink
The skater grows tired of circling the rink
Sometimes the grass is greener wherever I'm not
and there's a whole lot of answers that I haven't got
Sometimes the answer is no
Sometimes green doesn't mean go
A kiss is as good as a fist, when its delivered like this
A kiss is as good as a fist, when it's delivered like this
It didn't work but I wanted it to
Still worth the trouble from my point of view
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4. |
Don't Go Away So Far
03:26
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Don't go away so far
I've got what you're searching for
Put your head against my breast
I'll show you a place to rest
You haunt me like a ghost
I loved you most
The way you took my heart
You tore that sucker apart
Little children hide your eyes
You won't witness our demise
It was a terrible surprise
to find you gone
People go so soon
We fell in love in June
Was this all it's all about
Just when it started to work out
Your soul decided to move out and left you empty
You left me empty
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5. |
Devil, Please
03:35
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Devil, please, get off my shoulder
Rabble rousing when the party should be over
and trouble is one friend that never leaves
though I'm corrupted by what she says to me
Then there's you, you're a champion
unaffected by my afflicted companion
and to you love is a river where you swim
and you wonder why I'm too scared to get in
To me time is a gravedigger's trowel
and I pause it by remaining here and now
but it's stuck in my throat like an unwritten love note
and I prefer harvesting to pulling plow
Go ahead pour us another
We both know that we're awful for each other
What the hell, now what's the use
I know there's poison in this juice
If it don't kill me maybe it'll make me stronger
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6. |
Poor Me
04:11
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The beer tastes like piss
The weed's full of seeds
My stomach is growling
and there's nothing to eat
Poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me
Poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me
There's a good show tonight
but I've got no money
My apartment is trashed
and I've got no honey.
Poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me
Poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me
The only cup that runneth over is a beer
If mistakes paid I'd have a career
Yet I rage into the night and it's clear
that my life is going nowhere
Poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me
Poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me
I'm in love with a girl
She's in love with another
She don't call me back
I don't know why I bother
Poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me
Poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me
I'm at the bar and I know that it's bad
Cause it's happy hour and I just feel sad
Poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me
Poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me
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7. |
Yodel Song
05:42
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Get your finger out of my face
Don't tell me how to behave
I'm a big girl I can do it myself
My life is mine not no one else's
Don't you judge me
Don't you worry
I don't need your help
You scrutinize, well you can go to hell
Sailors threat and huff and curse
but they can't force the breeze to blow their way
But if you adjust your own sails
You can work with the wind to get on your way
Judgement written all over your face
It's disappointing when you glare that way
You had a light heart now it's full of cynicism
You had kind words now all you got is criticism
Don't you judge me
Don't you worry
I don't need your help
You scrutinize, well you can go to hell
You can yell at a seed but you can't force it to grow
But show it kindness, soil, sun, water, give it room
and it might just decide to bloom
Get your finger out of my face
Don't tell me how to behave
I'm a big girl I can do it myself
My life is mine not no one else's
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8. |
Happy
05:44
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I wish she was as happy as she seemed in the picture
I wish she was as happy as she looked back then
Had her head on my shoulder and my arm was wrapped around her
We were glowing like we'd both swallowed sun
Someone said smile, so we did
Shit-eatin' grins, two silly kids
As if nothing could go wrong
Two young girls with eye-liner on
and her voice was like a poem
and we'd just danced for hours
I loved her mind and I was hers and she was mine
Said she's not afraid of dying cause she's got a lot of friends there
And if one thing is for certain is that we'll all be there soon
And her calm when she talks about god waiting up in heaven
makes me wish I could believe in that too
I wish she was as happy as she seemed in the picture
I wish she was as happy as she looked back then
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Wax Wings Gainesville, Florida
An original compositional folk quartet featuring Brian Turk on upright bass, Andrew Cook on fiddle, Mike Dorsey on drums, & multi-instrumentalist & vocalist Chelsea Carnes.
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