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McWay Falls Overlook
03:51
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Either way
I understand that
Where you're going
Is not with me there
If you're not here
By this time next year
Guess it might have just ended
In the summer
Wear your hair down
Drive the coast in a Winnebago
Off the road
By the cliff's edge
Think of walking with you down there
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Easy now
Let it be
Easy does it
Stand your ground
A nasty realization is coming ‘round
Ahead of me
Without a sound
Won’t you just
Go ahead
And let me down?
Your energy and patience are running out
They oughta be
You know
Fading out
In an old
California border town
The desert in December
That empty sound
Of memories
Never know
When the storm is coming down
But I see the constellations
Clear for now
A canopy
And then the wind
The night closing in
I wanna give you love and make amends to how it’s been
You’re leaving instead
Easy now
Let it be
Easy does it
Stand your ground
A slow evacuation is going down
In front of me
But where’d you go?
Won’t you come back to me
And sort it out?
I know I’d been difficult to be around
But I wanna feel
Your skin again
The night closing in
I wanna give you love and make amends to how it’s been
You’re leaving instead
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3. |
In the Rain
03:09
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Wandering eyes
Across the avenue
Something dies
Right in front of you
Oh remind me because it’s been a while
And I won’t leave it alone
Rewind
Plans were falling through
Highway signs
Were passing by you
Oh besides it was a call into the wild
And that was years ago
In the rain
Towers in the cityscape
In the rain
Flowers off the interstate
In the rain
The way that you would color everything
In a day
A new indifference fell over your face
I could say
I know that you don’t owe me anything
But I’m afraid that either way I’m nothing anyway
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My New House
05:24
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I like my new house
It’s old and beautiful
It’s got a backyard
And my own cubicle
They’re gonna tear it down
Build an eyesore
But it had a nice run
A hundred years long
I like LA
Don’t mind the interstate
I like the Mexican food
On the side of the road
I go to the desert
Like when the sky gets gold
Over the mountains
Far as the eye can see
But it don’t feel right without you
And when I go home
Back to the east coast
And see my family
Smiling at me
They’ll ask about my life
About my new world
They’ll ask about you
But it’ll be nice
Around the Christmas tree
And there’ll be alcohol
To ease the feeling
That it won’t feel right without you
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Swimmers in the Atlantic
05:55
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Mary in red
By the pool on a humid day
Where the summer sky dissolves in
Storm clouds on the horizon
The dark grey blue horizon
Midnight Orleans
There’s a ball game across the street
And the porch light’s on and you still hear
Swimmers in the Atlantic
Yeah, I miss the Atlantic
But I love the road
To feel the breezes blow
And though the tides were shifting
Was only paying dues
Midnight alone
Cicadas sing out the bay window
And though the clouds are collecting
It’s only passing through
Devious
I get older
It’s always
Easier
Not to know when
The debts are sinking under the island
Until then keep abiding
Summer ends
Before you know it
A storm is blowing in
Oh a lifetime is gone
And you’ve been south too long
So I love the road
To feel the breezes blow
And though the nights are restless
I’m only missing you
Oh lazy eyes
Find the road in the fading light
And though the clouds are lifting
I’m only passing through
Oh how I’m hoping
One day to meet up
Out of the blue
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Recoil
04:01
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Seedling growing in winter
Rain is coming and it’s open season
Wait around to see that there’s nobody else in this town
Still I’m searching it high and low
Stolen hours and lousy timing
You come around when I’m spacing out
and I’m runnin’ round and I’m freaking out in the pouring rain
I’m on your heels, gotta see ya when the sun goes down
And I’m at your service
‘Cause I’m
Hoping
But I’m choking
‘Cause I’ve got nothing to say
Late arrival in misty North End
You’re hardly trying and you’re not excited
Wait around to see that there’s nobody else in this town
Can’t scratch the surface
And I’m
Stowing
Up my
Tokens
And I’m
Going away
Darling
You know I’m
Hurting
So give me
Something
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Hall Ave
06:22
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2009
saw you on the Fourth of July
Blue moons and card games
On a house on Hall Ave that's now empty inside
Roman candles through the night
Pasty skin, hazy eyes
Every sentence staggered through
In the melting candelight
Said, “hey, I'll see you soon”
Hoping to see it through
New England winter nights
Waiting for the flick of the café light
Walking the streets on any occasion
Cribbage games inside
Always the one to lose
Every town
Blanketed in snow
I go out
And you will be out there
In your tall leather boots
After three hundred miles
Left with a physical outline
Resting my feet for hours a day and
Don’t you wanna go outside?
Not here for questioning
Questions
Don’t ask me none
Was my lie not good enough?
2016
What are we missing?
Other friends are married
And witnesses don’t say a thing
My head says to leave you be
But it’s not simple
With your possessions in my room
See you under a clear blue sky
To hear what you’ve been thinking
And you keep your talk beyond us
Beyond us
There’s no beyond us
The light of the moon vanishing
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Ten Below and Smiling
02:39
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9. |
Breaking News
04:38
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Guessing the word is out
Tried tucking it away
Breaking the news to you
From the other side of the shore
Friends are silent now
Just a patter from the rain
Don’t say that I was leaving it all
You’d stay here forever alone
Evenings in our old house
Sitting out the blizzard all day
And drinking red wine
With the girls that came by
Word from the hospital
Says the line is straightening out
Don’t say that I was leaving it all
You’d stay here forever alone
I wake up in the morning and I’m wondering
Where are you now and why?
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10. |
Thick Skin
05:13
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Never burn a flower
Never burn a tree
In your own backyard
Here we are in rags again
Here we are in bliss
There’s no ending the cycle
Standing as the floor gives out
Fireplace is overflowing
Radio is fading out
As I cut a line on the highway south
Reading from a text message
She just says, “it’s fucking weird, it’s life”
Looking at you sideways now
Drift into the sea
There’s no ending the cycle
Any more?
What’s the thick skin for?
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11. |
For Dan
02:57
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Those December nights
I remember
Sitting picking through the crackling embers
Oh, a luxury
Reading updates from my grandpa’s funeral
Six months since my friend died
And the tears fell for the first time in years
Now I’m somewhere in Louisiana
Clouds are rolling in over the river
Oh, to welcome me
Your father changing with the weather
And I never saw you two together
Oh, a tragedy
And I love the sound of going
But I hate the thought of knowing
You were wondering
Why I
Could never pick up the phone
Why I
Could only answer
When it worked out for me
I love the sound of going
I’d like the undertow
To pull me out to sea
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Mines Falls Los Angeles, California
Skirting the sonic expectations of a history of music forged in garages and bedrooms, LA-based duo Mines Falls summons up dense soundscapes that marry art-rock grooves with eerie downtempo. Anchored by Carson Lund’s resonant and melancholic baritone and Erik Lund’s inspired weaving of electronic and analog texture, the band’s music locates pockets of beauty in the anxious flow of the modern world. ... more
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