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Apology
03:37
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Pushed away like a rose to bare feet
For where thorns have grown, they have gone too deep
Here's to Baltimore & your broken heart
I lost you there -- I'm still unarmed.
With want to die, I'd go back.
My heart has grown & left you last.
They say Heaven waits right through this door
While they curse that place -- they denounce thy Lord.
Here's to Maryland & your broken heart.
I lost you there -- I'm still unarmed.
With want to die, I'd go back.
My heart has grown & left you last.
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2. |
Call For Cadence
02:22
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Could you taste the money if it were pressed up against your tongue?
Could you see their bill fold if it were pressed up against them clothes?
When we were young we would cry -- we would scream for most everything that we want. Now, that's under my belt -- I sing 'cause I think that that should be inside of me. I don't know what it's good for.
Could you smell the question brewing on my mind?
Did you hear yourself say that you'd just be passing me and my friends by?
When we were young and most everything that we wanted was in our hands already -- that's not how we felt! I don't know what it's good for.
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3. |
Passing Will
02:12
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Open them eyes --
Do not look down.
& don't you lift up that nose --
Just get off the ground!
It's all gone.
Odds do tell when
It's been enough time.
But how does anyone live?
How does anyone die?
It's all gone.
Now, here or there --
I still ask where to go!
But, does anyone care?
Does anyone know?
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4. |
Tired
00:56
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5. |
Of Monson
03:04
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Well, have a seat love
I don't bite.
We'll count rich folk
As they sip on wine.
I'll play one more
Yes, just for you.
You got that right --
You could bet that too!
But, now you know -- so do I.
'Cause B said one
Or two days down.
Fourteen more
Fore that hundred wild.
Up there in Maine
You may find The One.
Right there with
North country love.
But, now you know -- so do I.
Sun sure slept
All through that ride.
Sixty two
Turned quick to five.
They dimmed their flame
We cut ours close.
Family ties
Ain't like city folk.
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6. |
The City
02:25
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Wear that down on 34th.
Take that now for all it's worth.
City lights -- they may catch your eye.
It's true you knew this town don't tire.
If we go in, won't you first?
Do your best & I'll do my worst.
They could watch -- all that pleasure's mine.
It's true you knew this town don't tire.
Keep it quiet, let it pass.
Tape thin twine to the mass.
They could shout -- oh no, I don't mind.
It's true you knew this town don't tire.
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7. |
Lozenge
04:10
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Another late night -- another midnight ride.
I'm on that train back to you.
Another early morn' -- I'll put my boots back on.
Wait around to get word.
But you don't know me so well.
A moonlit sky -- a drunkard skill.
Yeah, you might not know me so well.
The taste of rust on that boiler's steel.
A lover would match my hand -- I never do ask to dance
Taste that old, sour tune.
I loved her enough to beg -- I guess I'm off to bed;
Stumblin' dry, whisperin' wet.
But you don't know me so well.
A moonlit sky -- a drunkard skill.
Yeah, you might not know me so well.
The taste of rust on that boiler's steel.
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8. |
Grey Rock
05:24
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Feel that lonesome city wind
All them mornin' songbirds gettin' their feel
Like a fool I'm out that door
Fool's heart too -- I'm headin' north
Ooh, winter ain't here -- here in the dawn.
Wake her up in my arms
Some quiet house & a bed that's warm
Swearin' she knows what it's like
Every moment with them blue eyes
Ooh, winter ain't here -- here in the dawn.
Miss that old, cold country breeze
All them mornin' songbirds shakin' my knees
If I knew then what I know now
I'd have stayed out west -- I'd have settled down
Ooh, winter ain't here -- here in the dawn.
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Joshua Arthur Tison Jacksonville, Florida
singer / songwriter currently in jacksonville, florida • ig : @joshuaarthurtisonmusic
owlcreektapes.bandcamp.com
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