1. |
The Railroad
03:59
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Night train leaving, eastward bound
To Ohio, turn the dirt around
My old man, he waits for me
Pay respects to loved ones 'neath the trees
So here we go
With the train on the tracks and flowers in my hand
Here we go
Night train leaving, westward bound
Out to Rocky Mountains lover found
Sallie Ann, she waits for me
For to sign the papers, then to leave
So here we go
With the wind at my face and ink pen in my hand
Here we go
Night train leaving, southward bound
Corpus Christi beaches, sacred ground
My own conscience waits for me
In the shape of cold, transparent breeze
So here we go
With the Bible on the shelf and the devil in my hand
Here we go
So here we go
Want to take my past lives, sit them down
Here we go
Want to make them tear the railroad out
Here we go
Well the wind, it blows my guilt around
Here we go
Night train leaving, northward bound
To Chicago lights and siren sound
My own bed, it waits for me
'Til the morning train is set to leave
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2. |
Delivering Hands
03:41
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Gethsemane in dead of night
Searching for the pale moonlight
Bathe in bark and borrowed time
I let my mind go, I let my mind go
A sycophant and so polite
Cross my hands and hold them tight
Whatever gets me sleep at night
Alone in my home, alone in my home
In the storm, I'm watching the water rise
Drowning every root
Can't you reach with delivering hands
Lift me up to you?
Cozied up on gallows eve
Back against a maple tree
Begging for some help for me
But the garden, it grows, the garden, it grows
If I make it home in the morning light
Hurt like hell, but free
Can't you reach like delivering hands
Lift this spell from me?
But I'm never gonna sleep in the garden
Dug a hole and I threw my sorrow in
I'm never gonna sleep in the garden
Not tonight, no, never again
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3. |
The Killer
03:05
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Asking you to go
Come on, let me be
Let the time stay
Still in front of me
Let's slow this down
Love isn't everything
In pursuit, a row
Dip into the sea
Twisting sideways
Left and right of me
Nothing slows down
Heart, a raging beat
Oh, I could feel it about to change
In my dream, we made it out of the river
Leapt as the boat broke in two
And I breathed in the crooked air as you shivered
Wrapped both of my arms around you
Oh, I could feel you about to change
In pursuit, a road
Driving with my knees
Twisting sideways
Hand upon your cheek
I must slow down
Siren following
Oh, I could feel it about to change
And I'm not even close to the man you think I am
In my dream, it was me, I'm the killer
No, it could not have been helped
And I wiped all the fingerprints from the trigger
Cleaned with the guilt that I felt
Oh, I could feel it about to change
There's a bastard in my head who says that something isn't right
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4. |
Menudo
05:05
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One by one, they came
A choir of liars turned insane
Desire squeezes reason from your brain
Water in their socks
Crashed their boats into cliffs and rocks
And left their sons and daughters in the rain
And when they heard the sirens' song
They couldn't help but sing along
Singing all night long like they're doing nothing wrong
And when the cops came and hunted them down
They couldn't believe it
'Cause in the dark forest where they were found
There's nobody grieving
Where'd the call come from?
Up and gone away
You're never gonna find me yesterday
I told you put that camera away
The creek runs cold today
Running through tunnels to get away
Karaoke at the carnival on Main
And when I heard the sirens' song
I couldn't bear to sing along
I was terrified just hearing it was doing something wrong
And when the cops came and hunted me down
I couldn't believe it
'Cause in the dark forest where I was found
There's nobody leaving
There's only me
Odysseus was wise to turn away Parthenope
So I cut off my ears for anybody who can sing
Been waiting 20 years for my reward for drifting
And now I'm waiting on my confidence to wander back to me
We live a million lives, but only one that we can see
Somewhere I'm your neighbor, I can help you if you need
I'll be in my backyard, slowly raking up the leaves
Bag 'em up and tie 'em off and leave 'em by the street
And when the cops came and hunted me down
I couldn't believe it
'Cause in the dark forest where I was found
There's nobody breathing
There's only me
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5. |
Lorelei's Song
03:09
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A patriot, a catholic
And both their families walk into a bar
You be the floor, I'll be the wall
We'll drink our fill and sing our fathers' songs
Remember we saw, just the other night
A beautiful bird who couldn't fly
Since the six-pack rings embraced her in the lake
You can admit that it wasn't fair
But you're not the one who placed it there
There's a criminal in the past who got away
Lorelei curses me late at night
Pulling her strings from the afterlife
I'm a marionettist choosing where she'll go
She'll never know all my love for her
Just that I left and left the curse
There's a criminal in her past who got away
I'm a criminal in her past who got away
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6. |
Little Energy
03:00
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God in love with eons of everything
What beast slouches toward hell to be born?
And beastly hands can rub the Rockies like a scab
Or peel them from the surface all at once
Like the consequence
Of an open dress
And the black maroon
Of a lovers room
And to hide away
In a tidal wave
Like the rippled sheets
When their bodies meet
Peering out to diamonds falling from the sky
What beast slouches toward hell to be born?
To want to take the globe and fit it in your palm
To want to be everywhere all at once
Like the father's wish
For the son he missed
And the prod-along
And the right-and-wrong
And the open cage
With surveillance tapes
Like the burst cocoon
In the child's room
Once created this
Staring over it
But to meet again
Wash your feet and then
Look them in the eye
With a final cry:
Do your best for me
Little energy
Do your best for me, little energy
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7. |
Love Among the Ruins
04:23
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The broken roads from here to home
A family's connected bones
Was born before my body rose
Head to my toes
The atom splits and god awakes
Amazing what a pellet makes
We keep track of all our days
Day to day
I climbed to the window of my childhood room
But someone pulled the ladder out
I can stay hanging from the windowsill
Or plummet to the holy ground
Just wait, we'll get it figured out
When Michael's home
When Michael's home
The plans, the plans, the plans you make
I called her from the interstate
What would it mean to run away
Or if I stay?
All the hands, the hands it takes
To lift the one you love away
A ball of stardust in a case
With your last name
There's no such thing as ghosts, I was watching
It's a spider that woke you up
I can keep this candle burning if you need
I climbed to the window of grandma's room
Too old to pull my body in
She said, "Just you wait, just you watch that flame
The wind will blow the candle dead
When Michael's home
When Michael's home"
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8. |
Continental Drift
04:17
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Don't leave me, my darling
Don't leave me, my light
A big bang corralled us and put us here side by side
Don't leave me, my angel
Ignore the cracks in the ground
You can't float away with both of my arms around
You won't break my heart into pieces
You won't turn my soul royal blue
But if you come here and always stay near
Then nobody else will, too
Don't leave me, my darling
You can see where a hand reached out
Look out to the sea
Stretching thousands of years to now
This tectonic romance is severing you from me
Don't leave me, my beauty
Such a beautiful ornament
Forget this earthly mess
Little token of permanence
Where sands in the east long for the sand out west
You said to be where your feet are
I hold the fossil to the light
Like you had a say at the time
See it shine
Darling, don't go, just take all your toes
And interlock them with mine
Don't leave me, my darling
Don't leave me, my friend
The let's-get-to-know is easier than regret
Don't leave me this instant
I wish I knew the tale, somehow
Give me a little more time
Just an imprint of longing now
Aeons from now, we won't see the same sunshine
You can say you'll think it over
I hold your reaching hand in mine
It's not the end of the world
Take you home
My wildest dreams, I think I believe
You'll stay here beside me
Darling, please stay
Don't drift away
Stay here beside me
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9. |
Ellen, Oh Ellen
04:12
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Oh, my darling
Well I’m lost in the smoke
I would die to save our son, I think we're dying for us both
I write it all down, when you get here, to prove
That our god, he left the coal mine, and the devil came through
It’s half past two
Everybody from our crew
Cannot think or speak or move
But for a lonely, lying few
Tell me who
Can come and save me from this tomb
Give me strength to stand and move
And bust through boulders back to you
Found a safe haven to wait out the wreck
Little Elbert is saved by the lord, so he says
It don’t seem right, now that I’ve come to
That in the fight for our lives, we’ve got nothing to do
There’s so much to lose
Summer nights in county pools
Halloween costumes
Breathing with you
Tell me who
Can come and save me from this tomb
Give me strength to stand and move
And bust through boulders back to you
Oh, I want to go back
To this morning, when I woke and saw your face
To the breakfast that I left there on the plate
There’s a yearning now, what more is there to bear?
To never leave them, never leave them there
Oh, Ellen, oh, Ellen
Well it’s been done before
Why can I not be the man who turned the ocean to a floor?
Oh, Ellen
Well it’s just not fair
That I praised the man who did it, and now he’s just not there
Oh, I want to go back
To the ‘90s, we were dancing in the rain
To my 20s, when you couldn’t test my faith
Now I’m leaving, if it’s for a better place
Will you meet me there?
Will you meet me there?
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10. |
The Kite
05:16
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The kite that I flew by the ocean
Bitter wind propels it
I tie the string to a tree branch
It don't need me to hold it
To fly
The night: a creator of crisis
Someone came and turned off
The light that'd shine on our vices
Now it's all too easy
To hide
And every blonde that I see on the trail
Is a version of her with a ponytail
Calling like a siren on the shore
When I stop moving forward and turn to the sea
I can picture my family searching for me
Bitter, raging wind
But the kite holds on
And the water brings a current from a source we cannot see
And it summons waves of pushing, patterned air
I don't want to see their faces when they find that swaying tree
With nothing but a kite string waiting there
And the kite holds on to cable by a hair
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11. |
The Colored Window
04:01
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And the colored window keeps me in the room
Some kind of half-wit
I'm dropping to my knees beside the pew
Run along now, son
And you could learn a thing or two
About good habits
And how to keep attention from a room
It's a long two hours
And I keep thinking of my home
Could reach and grab it
If only my poor body wasn't small
Now the song I hear
From on the balcony it rings
Some kind of travesty
Not to hear the beauty that it brings
I was wrong, I know
And the colored window keeps me in the room
It's not so bad
It can take this crummy town and turn it blue
Can make it golden
The color is completely up to you
And where you're standing
And you can stay and use the window too
It's a long way home
It's a long way home
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Ludlow Chicago, Illinois
Indie-folk band from Chicago, IL.
Debut album 'Siren on the Shore' now available.
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