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venerdì 26 luglio 2013

Holcombe Waller

Holcombe Waller - Risck Of Change:




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Lyrics:

I don't know much, but I know you
You are the kind of magic always breaks my heart in two
The house all trashed, the wine uncorked
Maybe I should call you when I get back from New York
The barlife strays along your street
Poor girl's got a cough and that man's checking out my feet
They look for signs and they make plans
To forge for the better good of all those children in their hands hands hands hands

Home on the range, who knew life could be so strange
All boils down to a risk of change
Pick up the pieces of your life and rearrange
All boils down to a risk of change
Change

The midnight shoppers stretch for miles
Bundled up all coffee cups and cigarettes and smiles
I search the stars across your chart
Through the constellation of your hands, your head, your heart
This city's tiring out my feet
Penny rolls a joint, and all the men who pass smell sweet
Oh penny I can't win this race
Boy you are like Jeff and you must walk to that dark place place place place

Home on the range, who knew life could be so strange
All boils down to a risk of change
Pick up the pieces of your life and rearrange
All boils down to a risk of change
Your pretty eyes cut like the devil through my brain
They're so smooth, so sharp, so strange
Pick up the pieces of your life and rearrange
All boils down to a risk of change
Change

I think I'll sleep alone tonight
Cuz babe we both know I could never love you right
The house all trashed, the wine uncorked
Maybe I should call you when I get back from New York
You've got your barbs, you've got your stones
Pool them in your pockets with the ox meat and the bones
I've got my bags, I'm on my way
Cruising like a bandit 'neath the dark Northwestern day
I don't know much, but I know you
You are the kind of magic always breaks my heart in two
I've got my wings, I'm on my way
Cruising and communing with the vine to meet the Saints
The river sleeps alone tonight
Tucked around those cities that will never treat her right
I've got my wings, I'm on my way
To cruise and commune with the vine and the spirits and the Saints
Saints, Yajé, Yajé, yes

Home on the range, who knew life could be so strange
All boils down to a risk of change
Pick up the pieces of your life and rearrange
All boils down to a risk of change
Your pretty eyes cut like the jewels on your pretty frame
And you're pretty hot, and you're pretty cool and you're pretty strange
Pick up the pieces of my life and rearrange it
All boils down, it all boils down
To a risk of change

venerdì 28 giugno 2013

Fossil Collective

Fossil Collective - Let It Go:




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Lyrics:

I'm on the inside everybody knows what you will say
Leaves on the ground, already came
We were an island, you were the one who broke away
I was a mess before you came

We started something, tried to make a fire without a flame
Why it wasn't right I couldn't say
There's a light in the sky and it's coming up high
And why did I ever go - the longest night I've ever known

Only when the moon is high enough
Only when the stars are lining up

Let it go - now is not the answer
How can anybody else have known
Let it Go - now is not the answer
Call me when you see the sun lie low

You were the ocean - I was drawn into you
But you can't always get where you are going to
Where are we going ... where are we going
There are mountains to climb so let me carry you

venerdì 21 giugno 2013

David Wax Museum

David Wax Museum - Born With A Broken Heart:




Lyrics:

I was born a broken-hearted boy
Give or take an ounce 

And the world wouldn´t give me a break
Waiting, ready to pounce 

I was born with a broken heart
With a broken heart, sure was broken in two 

If you´re out wandering the streets
Knock on my window it´ll open 

My bed is small, but so are we
Let love lay us low -- here´s to hoping 

You were born with a broken heart
With a broken heart, sure was broken in two 

Sometimes we get so confused
We get taken for a ride
We get worked over
Some of us come with new hearts
Most of us come with used hearts
Baby, why do you look so sad? 

There are men who will stand accused
But they won´t be told the why 

They were strong so were beaten down
But the stars look gold through blackened eyes 

They were born with a broken heart
With a broken heart, sure was broken in two 

Were you born with a broken heart
With a broken heart, sure was broken in two? 


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David Wax Museum

David Wax Museum - Yes, Maria, Yes:




Lyrics:

Your broken taillight eyes
I get too near
Oh, time runs counter-clockwise
In your rearview mirror 

Yes, Maria, yes
No, Maria, no
Your careless heart
Invites me in just to see me go 

You invite me into your kitchen
For huitlacoche and armadillo
I talk talk talk you don’t listen
You’ve had your fill 

Yes, Maria, yes
No, Maria, no
Your careless heart
Invites me in just to see me go 

To you love’s as light as froth
You skim the top
Just an afternoon’s afterthought
All you can feel are its aftershocks 

Yes, Maria, yes
No, Maria, no
Your careless heart
Invites me in just to see me go 

You spread your kisses out
Just like a blanket
Your mouth is a water foundation
Tell me who will wedding cake it? 

Yes, Maria, yes
No, Maria, no
Your careless heart
Invites me in just to see me go 

Brown Bird

Brown Bird - Gallows:



Lyrics:

Black blood red sky
And a belly all full of fire
Why I ask why 
I don't know, I grow so tired
Of the battle of wrong and right
That's waged inside
Every time you speak your mind
We're the same damn kind 
Or don't you know

With the devil's eyes and a dagger tongue
You fill the sky above us with the sound
Of fatal words like fire flung
From a careless bow
I grow so tired
Of the battle of wrong and right
That's waged inside
Every time you speak your mind
We're the same damn kind
Or don't you know

We all walk down to the hill 
Where the gallows are swinging still
Nooses still clenched tight 
'Round the necks of 10 million ghosts
They whisper don't forget us
But don't forget to keep moving on
We're the same damn kind 
Or don't you know

Black blood red sky
And belly all full of fire
Why I ask why 
I don't know, I grow so tired
Of the battle of wrong and right 
That's waged inside
Every time you speak your mind


Brown Bird - Severed Soul:



Lyrics:

I am a child without you near
My strongest love reduced to fear
For when you're gone I'm a severed soul
My poor heart bleeds from a gaping hole

Love please don't leave me evermore
With you I see what life is for
If you should go where would I be
There'd be no joy in life for me

Lord lift me up from this cold earth
Let judgment day declare my worth
For if my love should not want me
By death alone would I be free


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Brown Bird

Brown Bird - By The Reins:




Lyrics:

I have not quite thrown
Enough of me away
I have tried to rip the rest of me apart
But still a little bit remains

But if you hold me too tightly by the reins
I will crumble to a powder
I will shatter and be swiftly swept away

I do still want for you to love me
I just don't know who I am
But I know that who I'm not is who I've been
And I will never be again

Please don't hold me too tightly by the reins
Or I will kick and I will buck
And I will run right out the nearest open gate

I may just graze until I'm lonesome
I might just run right back again
With my tail between my legs
And with a look that begs you baby to forgive

But if you hold me too tightly by the reins
I will crumble to a powder
I will shatter and be swiftly swept away

I do still want for you to love me
I just don't know who I am
But I know that who I'm not is who I've been
And I will never be again

Please don't hold me too tightly by the reins
Or I will kick and I will buck
And I will run right out the nearest open gate


Brown Bird - Danger & Dread (Live):




Lyrics:

Come on baby let me take your troubles away
Some mean old mama's got your head all in a horrible way
Still for all your crying and all your pain
You're just the sweetest woman that I've seen in my day
So come on pretty mama let me take your troubles away

I've heard you wake up crying from the evils lying under our bed
You say there's no use trying to protect you from the danger and dread
Though this world is made of fearsome beasts that bark and bite
We born to put these creatures through one hell of a fight
May we feast upon the flesh of any fever that befalls you tonight

Sooner sides will spread wide open 
we shall feast when darkness falls
sing until our jaws are broken
'neath the black and waters cold

Lay down your burdens don't you let them drag you into the ground
I know you're hurting but there's plenty of your pain to go around
Lord knows that everybody''s got a cross to bear
Don't see no use in trying to contrast and compare
There's always someone being slaughtered 
by a bigger stack of splinters somewhere

If one day should break in anger
Patience we can temper strong
Put our able hands to labor
We will work through what went wrong

sabato 20 ottobre 2012

Brown Bird

Brown Bird - Thunder & Lightning:



Lyrics:

I heard the thunder and lightning
Struck by your tower today
And though the world wasn’t frightened
You sent the whole world away
And now you cower there alone in your tower of tears
Every step and every stone filled with millions of fears
Your poison blood and brittle bones
Start to clutter and crack
Beneath your hell of a home

Cut down by the cruel and the crass fold
Catch hell from the mighty and high
Ain’t nowhere left for the good to go
No truth in a world full of lies
Our unforgiving fettered foes fumbling stumble around
Gather all their greed to go back to their hole in the ground
To wash their hands of all the blood begged borrowed and stole
To keep a good man down

Shake the hands of holy ghosts
Dance along an ivory coast
Share your flesh with passing shadows
On a bed of broken hopes
Be sure to breath in deeply every bit of sin
That your lungs can hold
Welcome all your bastard actions back home

Why do we cry cry our eyes out
In them low lowly graves
Mourning all the times
We would’ve could’ve should’ve had our way
We were hard hearted heathens
To their soul saving saints
Spilling blood in the same God’s holy name
We were the heathens to their saints
Spilling blood in the same God’s holy name

Shake the hands of holy ghosts
Dance along an ivory coast
Share your flesh with passing shadows
On a bed of broken hopes
Be sure to breath in deeply every bit of sin
That your lungs can hold
Welcome all your bastard actions back home

giovedì 4 ottobre 2012

The Mountain Goats

The Mountain Goats - Alpha Rats Nest:



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Lyrics:

Ah the lengthening hours in the refinery
Belching fire into the sky
We do our best vampire routines
As we suck the dying hours dry
The night is lovely as a rose
If I see sunlight hit you
I am sure that we'll both decompose

Ah the fitful sleep and the fire engines
That I dream of when I dream
Some day we'll both wake up for good
I will try hard not to scream
The evening wind will shake the blinds
You're stirring from your slumber
We've got something hateful on our minds

Oh sing sing sing
For the dying of the day
Sing for the flames that will rip through here
And the smoke that will carry us away
Yeah sing for the damage we've done
And the worse things that we'll do
Open your mouth up and sing for me now
And I will sing for you

Brown Bird

Brown Bird - Down To The River:



Lyrics:

Lord I can't feed the baby, mama's sick and in bed
I've got a world full of worry running wild in my head
I spent all my money just to make ends meet
I'm begging Lord won't you send me relief
There ain't nobody in this world who'd bet a dime on anybody like me

So I went down to the river of insufferable sins
Lord I tried but the water wouldn't let me come in
Too many lives have been broken
There's too much blood on my hands
There ain't no water in this world could turn me back into an innocent man

So I made up my mind to find that palace of fire
Surely the Lord's fallen angel understands my desire
He's been defiled and defeated still he never gives in
I know he'll help me on my feet once again
Can't no soul in this whole world but Satan understand the state that I'm in

But I went down to the fires of insufferable sin
Lord I tried but the devil wouldn't let me come in
Unholy trust has been broken
He don't know on which side I stand
There ain't no room among the damned for such a broken and a penitent man

And then my good woman rises from her sickness in bed
Puts her hands on my thighs and plants a kiss on my head
Says if the water won't have ya, if the devil's too blind
I know that truly you were meant to be mine
And then she takes me by the hand and shows me how to leave my worries behind

I went down to the river of insufferable sins
Lord I tried but the water wouldn't let me come in
Too many lives have been broken
There's too much blood on my hands
Only one soul in this whole world would have me just the goddamned way that I am

giovedì 26 luglio 2012

Delta Spirit

Delta Spirit - Idaho:



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Lyrics:

Thunderclouds have been making faces
My friends are on the front porch getting wasted
Freedom sits this side of the hill
Calling me back but I never will

We’ll hang low like they do it down in Idaho
Don’t run, we roll, as we’re headed out to Roady’s Bowl

Some say that sleep’s for dreamers
We pack up our things and make our way to the theater
The suits, they dropped the ball again
We’ll pass the hat and make another plan

We’ll hang low like they do it down in Idaho
Don’t run, we roll, as we’re calling up the radio

Suburban crimes of using words
We hear out in the distance our ghetto bird
Big brother’s got his eye on you
Walk a block and it’ll tell the truth

We’ll hang low like they do it down in Idaho
Don’t run, we roll, as we’re headed out to Roady’s Bowl
Don’t run, we roll, as we’re calling up the radio
Don’t run, we roll, as they’re locking up another soul

giovedì 24 maggio 2012

Brown Bird

Brown Bird - End Of Days:



Lyrics:

Winter caps the rooftops
And shrouds the earth in silence
Skadi howls and mourns
And revels in the whiteness

My world is so small
Inside our cozy walls
So warm and so threatened by the end of days

The time will surely come
When all is blown undone
But I will still be with you my love
This deafening quiet
May grasp around my chest 
But I will pry it’s bony fingers free

Silver lines the windows
Cobwebs in the corners
Of the homes where once human minds did dwell

The earth is thrown asunder
The god’s deafening thunder
Sweeps over and crumbles all we knew

The time will sure come
When all is blown undone
But I will still be with you my love
Cold may come surround us
Death’s hand try to bind us
But I will pry his bony fingers free

The time will surely come
When all is blown undone
But I will still be with you my love
This deafening quiet
May grasp around my chest
But I will pry it’s bony fingers free

Brown Bird

Brown Bird - Nothing Left:



Lyrics:

There’s nothing left of this day
There’s nothing left of this town
Our time has ceased with such sorrow
There’s no one left here to mourn
There’s nothing left of this day

Outside there cry wolves in the night
Dark with their howls all around
We’ll just lie here clothed in our sheepskin
Trying to pretend there’s no harm

It’s a cold twist confined
To the courage of a catalytic heart and mind
Over God’s cry and goat’s god’s goodbye
And I am bloodying the garment
Of a ghost inside
Making damn sure the body doesn’t die

mercoledì 16 maggio 2012

Brown Bird

Brown Bird - Bilgewater:



Lyrics:

It don’t matter if the cold wind blows
I’m gonna wind up working in the thick of it
Sunshine through the rain and snow
There’s an oily brine bilge water baptism waiting below

That’s just the waves slamming against the topsides’ sound
Don’t let the ever rolling motion go and get you down
Don’t let it shake your steady thread cutting hand
Keep stealing ribbons from the steel and giving hell

To every halyard you can
In spite of all the wherewithal
To fight it all I will face it all
In spite of all the wherewithal
To fight it all I’ll embrace it all

When everyday’s like a war between the will to go on
And a wish that the world would spiral into the sun
Turn your head toward the storm that’s surely coming along

If the sun was always shining and our load always light
We’d be shaking like a leaf with every God given night
And we’d break under the weight of any pressure
That was ever applied

Will you be ready when the straw boss calls?
He’s got an ever loving bone to pick with one and all
Don’t let his condescension get you down
Just have the strength to know you’re wrong
And when you’re right the strength to stand your ground

In spite of all the wherewithal
To fight it all I will face it all
In spite of all the wherewithal
To fight it all I’ll embrace it all

When everyday is like a war
You find no strength from your usual source
There’s no peace, there’s no rest
Your fortitude is feeling put to the test
When everyday is like a war between the will to go on
And a wish that the world would spiral into the sun
Turn your head toward the storm that’s surely coming along

If the sun was always shining and our load always light
We’d be shaking like a leaf with every God given night
And we’d break under the weight
Of any pain that ever came in this life

venerdì 2 marzo 2012

Chris Pureka

Chris Pureka - Wrecking Ball:




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Lyrics:

I pushed it hard
That goddamn wrecking ball
And I waited for
He weight to swing around but it never did
And the crows they fell
Around my eyes and still
No sign of that ball and chain

I pushed it hard,
That goddamn wrecking ball.
What kind of pendulum
Never comes back home?
You start to miss it some
The way you miss the rain
The way you miss the fighting when the war is won...

But what I miss the most is knowing just exactly
Where it hurts
Is knowing just exactly
What is wrong
And what I want
And what I want...

I miss the ghost trees
The weary midnight drives
The taste of loneliness
In the air beyond the towns.
I miss the resonance of those trigger words
That crazy one track mind.
Sometimes I miss the cold...

But what I miss the most is knowing just exactly
Where it hurts
Is knowing just exactly
What is wrong
And what I want
And what I want...

I'm remembering the sunlight
Coming down in shades of blue
The sorrow of the aftermath tightening the noose.
I'm thinking of the night
That all the lights went out
And how I learned to see
In the dark, in the dark, in the dark...

I pushed it hard
That goddamn wrecking ball
What kind of pendulum never comes back home?

giovedì 26 gennaio 2012

Poor Man's Poison

Poor Man's Poison - Friends With The Enemy:
Poor Man's Poison - Friends With The Enemy (live):

giovedì 14 luglio 2011

Rocky Votolato

Rocky Votolato - White Daisy Passing:



Link:
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Lyrics:

Please
Slow it down
There's a secret magic past world
That you only notice when you're looking back at it
All I wanna do is turn around
I'm going down to sleep on the bottom of the ocean
Because I couldn't let go when the water hit the setting sun

Passing white daisies taking turns
Close the door walk into the street
Catching raindrops on your tongue
And for a minute it all stops
But it won't last man
It's just a passing moment gone

Please
Slow it down
There's a secret place that I know where
I could dig a grave out and climb underground for good
All I want to do is turn around
I'm going down to sleep on the bottom of the ocean
Because I couldn't let go when the water hit the setting sun

Passing white daisies taking turns
All those evenings on the back deck of our first apartment
They meant everything but the wind just carried 'em off
And you can't go back now just a passing moment gone

Please
Slow it down
There's a secret magic past world
That you only notice when you're looking back at it
All I wanna do is turn around
I'm going down to sleep on the bottom of the ocean
Because I couldn't let go when the water hit the setting sun 
Because I couldn't let go a passing moment gone