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New England Shame
03:21
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My New England shame
My Puritan days
Are weighing heavy on me today
I keep to myself
replay the images that keep me up at night
try and do whats right
I spend the days locked away
it keeps me safe
I can’t decide
whats right in my mind
but I will in time
My New England Shame
My Puritan days
Isn’t life great
When the leaves start to change?
but if its the same
lets get drunk all day
I could use the distraction
why don’t you stay?
I keep to myself
replay the images that keep me up at night
try and do whats right
I spend the days locked away
it keeps me safe
I can’t decide
whats right in my mind
but I will in time
My New England shame
Keep home sweet soul
What you know can hurt you
this night is black and gold
watch the street lights unfold
from your window
but keep home sweet soul
what you know can hurt you
I can’t justify myself
sitting and rotting at home
maybe i’ll go out tomorrow
When I drive home to Rhode Island, the number of street lights that burn out as I pass underneath dramatically increases once I cross the states border. I think it knows I’m home.
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Northern Exposure
02:34
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You talk with your accent now
caught in your rural ways
but you're a city babe
and it takes more than six months
to wash this dirt from your veins
i hope the roads don’t freeze
when you're coming home to me
i hope the roads don’t freeze
it’ll be dangerous enough
trust me
You're back up north
I hear you're loving it there
winters hard
I can see the frost in your hair
but the sun on the snow makes your pale skin glow
if I saw you now you’d be beautiful
i hope the roads don’t freeze
maybe
You're back up north
I hear you're loving it there
winters hard
I can see the frost in your hair
but the sun on the snow makes your pale skin glow
but things have changed
and thats just typical
I wrote this song in 2013
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Black Clouds
01:58
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Hey man,
It’s been a while
how have you been?
I saw a picture of you
you look pretty good
I’m fine and not much has changed
the cities the same
still living hand to mouth
not going out much now
I got that voicemail you left last month
and you sounded pretty good
I’d call you back if I could but I’ve
been preoccupied, no, that’s a lie
Maybe this city and all its shit it fits me
Like the black clouds rolling in
i am fear
i am regret
i am deafening
Everyone that we used to know has gotten out or settled down
bought a house
have a family now
are you ready now
is time running out?
Maybe this city and all its shit it fits me
Like the black clouds rolling in
i am fear
i am regret
i am deafening
gonna get down
or get out
I’m going back to school
I gonna sell out
not like I was before
young, broken and poor
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We are the company that we keep
Like we’re the last on earth
this isn’t what we wanted
but it’s what we deserve
is it your fear of the unknown
or is it the devil you know?
is it the things that you do?
is it your mile stones?
the time has come to pull them out of the ground
look them straight in the eye
and throw them into the crowd.
the more you know
the less like me you’ll be
what was once so perfect
is now a fallen thing
If I had my way
the poor would turn to flowering trees
in full bloom
and if I had my way
the rich would turn to fruit trees
in full bloom
and we would bask in the glory of Eden
feasting
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5. |
Somethings Change
02:34
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I saw a kid in the mirror I knew ten years ago
Somethings change
you know I don’t
Get up out of bed
knot your shoes and right your head
Is it cold to know you're getting closer to the end?
It isn’t everything I wanted
It isn’t everything I said
Life’s just how I made it
I guess I sleep in my own bed
I ask too much of this life
you ask, but i cant remember what its like
When I die I hope the energy inside of me becomes the northern lights
and shoots across the sky
we’ll dance all night
I reached for my gun
but I don’t have one
somethings change
you know I don’t
Saw a kid from my window I knew ten years ago.
We were only friends for a month or so
and that’s how it goes
one day you know me and then you don’t
I hope I never see him again
I ask too much of this life
you ask, but I can’t remember what it’s like
you ask, but I’m not alright
When I die I hope the energy inside of me becomes the northern lights
and shoots across the sky
we’ll dance all night
but while I’m alive lets take this energy and set it free
dance until the sunrise
never saying goodbye
Pretty much anyone who knows me knows what a stubborn bastard I can be. That stubbornness translates to not trusting doctors when they tell me I’m healthy. Anxiety about death is a constant. Sometimes I try thinking about what would happen to me after I die as a way of calming myself down.
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