Pushed Around

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Time: 2:55

I’ll do anything to get along.
All my shrugs and my weak-willed ways
started back in my younger days
where I’d do anything to get along.

I took it good when I was back at school.
They liked me, Laur, I swear they did.
They never told me though, God Forbid.
What I’ve taken from the old boys, I’m a fool.

And when I go to get mine
I’m sure the Lord’ll say it’s truth I’ve found.
I’m just tryin’ to get by.
There’s nothing wrong with being pushed around.

It’s my place to let the good folks put me down.
Yeah it’s my place to let the good folks put me down.
All that matters is saving face.
I’m not worried, but just in case,
I’ll sit back and let the good folks hold me down.

When I go to get mine
I’m sure the Lord will say it’s truth I’ve found.
I’m just tryin’ to get by.
There’s nothing wrong with being pushed around.

Nothing’s wrong it’s just the whiskey talking now.
Oh my Laura, just the whiskey talking now.
Ill tell you, though, between you and me,
I wish the world would just let me be.
I guess it’s just the whiskey talkin’ …

Not The First

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Time: 3:34

I’d like a word.
I’d like a chance to clear the air
and clear your mind

I’d like to think that I can give you
all it was you thought you’d find.

I could tell you’d been where
you’re not supposed to go.
I want to tell you things:
You’re not the first, you know.

And all you read, all those words are
lies I’d never tell a soul.

You know they say you shouldn’t ask for
answers you don’t want to know.

You spent time elevated,
you spent time on the floor.
The whole time, overrated.
It’s no lie.

On My Feet Again

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Time: 2:45

Long day, I’ll tell you how it went:
we come back two souls lighter than the way we left.
The earth moved when I set ground again.
I’ve still got my sea legs and I’m falling over them.

I’m not proud of myself watchin’ her go down …

I still can’t stand
to think about her sinkin’ in.
I still can’t stand,
but I’ll soon be on my feet again.

They both stopped knee deep in the stone
with a short haul overboard, done before I’d know.
On I went tossed about the sea.
The floorboards rise and fall, up and down beaneath my feet.

I still can’t stand
to think about her sinkin’ in.
I still can’t stand,
but I’ll soon be on my feet again.

If I’d only found her in that bed alone,
I wouldn’t be here waiting for the spinning earth to slow.

Old Guys

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Time: 3:08

Where’d it start? Late July up north.
All your friends around a fire outside,
and you 3 sheets to some foreign wind,
watching over her, and hating him, alone …

Why does every drink have to taste
like the last 7 shots?
Why does every sigh that you waste
on that girl have to bring me down?
Well here’s how it is:
You and I, we’ve bottomed out
when we get into the sauce
like a couple of old guys.

There you go half way ‘round the world.
It seems to me you’ve got a lot to learn.
I’d tell it all if I could see your face,
but it sure gets dark in this Old Stable late at night.

I Meant To Remember

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Time: 2:58

It’s a long day gone, there’s something in the wind.
I swear I saw you come back again.
3 years on the pattern stays the same:
you keep waking me up.

You were wide-eyed girl, lovely as the day
there’s nothing but a summer night smells this way.
I hear your song out among the trees,
you’re still callin’ to me.

Did it mean a lot,
the way you looked when I promised half the world?
I didn’t mean it all,
but I meant to remember you smiling girl.

And where there’s smoke, there’s fire,
but I could never tell
you’d had enough when you stopped and fell.
So all we are is everything we do.
You found the worst in me too.

Did it mean a lot,
the way you looked when I promised half the world?
I didn’t mean it all,
but I meant to remember you smiling girl.

There’s a soul at peace,
out above the lake.
Under the moonlight I’m sure she’s safe.
But there’s no word for all the pain I feel.

Did it mean a lot,
the way you looked when I promised half the world?
I didn’t mean it all,
but I meant to remember you smiling girl.

The Prayers I Pray

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Time: 4:38

Speak to me before you get down and we’re through.
I didn’t meant to turn you so fast.
I’ll be more than fine in a minute or two.

The morning weighed in heavy with advice
on all the acts last night that weren’t so wise.
The night was full of holes I hadn’t planned.
Still my mind goes first to memories
when I try to understand

Why the fire won’t turn
And the car won’t burn
And the prayers I pray aren’t for nothing

One last time around should be all I can stand.
One last chance to find my way down.
My head and heels don’t know
where the both of them’ll land.

I get lost in music on a whim,
and I get lost in cheap booze quicker still.
I’m well aware the drink is my best friend.
But when I wake up tomorrow, I’ll ask myself again

Why the fire won’t turn
And the car won’t burn
And the prayers I pray aren’t for nothing

Storm

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Time: 4:16

Look at the wreckage you’ve left in your wake
fallen down bodies you go for.
You tore the roof off our old secret place.
Gusting in knocking things over.

When’s the storm blowing off?
When’s the night that you figure it out?
All those guys are me …

Just like the last one that starts with an ‘m’
you’re blowing me back 15 years.
I’m more cautious now, shuttered and safe,
and you’re out there taking it all on.

When’s the storm blowing off?
When’s the night when you figure it out?
All those guys are me …

I’m cold like the water
You’re calm like the wind

One Beautiful Summer

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Time: 3:36

On September nights, up above the city,
with the warm air, songs, and you and I alone.
All at once we knew the wind was gonna change,
the long nights coming on …

With our heavy hearts back into the city
where the fools all talk and I don’t wanna be.
Oh, we’re doin’ time undernearth the sullen sky.
Why can’t we leave?

Save me from this place, and lets pretend
the last one beautiful summer never has to end.

With a perfect sky, and you and me together
“there’s nowhere else,” I say to you, “I’d rather be.”
You, the boat, and me was all I ever wanted.
You, the boat, and me was all I ever wanted.

Save me from this place, and lets pretend
the last one beautiful summer never has to end.

Go ahead, girl, say “Let’s run away together.”
Go ahead, girl, say “Let’s run away together.”

Little Things

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Time: 2:49

I was a rattle in the whistlin’ wind,
you could blow me about like a child, girl.
I never wanted to be the one who was letting go.
Living on the fence, I’m always happy to say
that “I’m alright now, I’m makin’ out fine”, girl
I never was and I’m willin’ to bet you know

Time won’t wait for this careless guy I’m told
and the world won’t change like before.
The sun will fade.
But I wish I was so sure there’s no room in my life
for all the little things I’ve never wanted more.

Back up in the forest by the flickering fire
with the kids, back in the middle of June.
I supposed that you were lookin to change my mind.
Me, I want to find a little corner of town
where there’s nothing there but “nothin’ to do.”
I never want to have to ever be bothered tryin’.

Time won’t wait for this careless guy I’m told
and the world won’t change like before.
The sun will fade.
But I wish I was so sure there’s no room in my life
for all the little things I’ve never wanted more

I remember hearing all the stories you sold
and I’m thinking you were thinking of me.
You never figered I was lookin to change my mind
Yeah, you never figered and I’ve never told
and nothing’s ever done about it …

Brand New Car

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Time: 3:13

Let’s go home.
You know, I think with every drink she’s more like me.
There’s wrong and right, but we don’t need to say it.

I was nothing but a passenger back then.
She liked it in her brand new car.
All loaded up, I swear we never got far

We kissed the night goodbye, but she and I
should be restrained.
We rode like kids, we hung out of the windows.

I was nothing but a passenger back then.
She liked it in her brand new car.
All loaded up, I swear we never got far

And now we go, and the truth came out, she knows
I couldn’t drive …