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Taxidermy
04:31
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When did I learn oh when did I learn to twist my face like that
Taxidermy bugs the memory of my childhood
You taught me that shit like that builds character
Get it off my chest my message met with radio silence
How much longer ‘till I’m safe
Stuck in a cycle of my own creation
I’m nearing bedrock and I’m deadlock with my own self hatred
You love I loathe you give I take
It’s how we were raised
When did I start oh when did I start to lose my grip
Saturday morning how I mourn I’m trying
You taught me that Im my own worst enemy
Most nights my pillow turns to a shoulder to cry on
How much farther ‘till I break
Stuck in the backseat of my roaming daydream
Im holding on to something long gone and Im suffocating
My lungs are filled with yesterday
It’s how we were raised
There might be something in salvation
There might be heaven in the moments in between our waking breaths
But if yesterdays keep weighing on me
There’ll be nothing left
You taught me
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River Jordan
03:57
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When you wake up and you wonder when you’ll fall into yourself again
Troubles coming in a windfall
When you try to find the funny in the bottom of a bottomless pit
Kind of loving makings your skin crawl
Someone said you were headed down to the River Jordan
How they’ll make a fool out of you
Sell you snake oil and laugh at your misfortune
Ain’t it funny what hope can do?
Someone said that you forgot what is important
Trying on a truth that isn’t true
Fix your face up from crashing on friends porches
Ain’t it funny what hope can do?
When you wake up and you wonder when you’ll fall into yourself again
Troubles coming in a windfall
When you try to find the funny in the bottom of a bottomless pit
Kind of loving makings your skin crawl
Someone said that you had something you were sorting through
You held your breath till you turned blue
You drank your snake, oil collapsed next to your doorstep
Ain’t it funny what hope can do?
When you wake up and you wonder when you’ll fall into yourself again
Troubles coming in a windfall
When you try to find the funny in the bottom of a bottomless pit
Kind of loving makings your skin crawl
Wake up
When you wake up and you wonder when you’ll fall into yourself again
Troubles coming in a windfall
When you try to find the funny in the bottom of a bottomless pit
Kind of loving makings your skin crawl
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Saratoga
04:02
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I get high just to see you
I got a letter written out but I know you’ll never read it
I ain’t lucid I sure as hell ain’t dreaming
I get high cause letting go ain’t easy
There ain’t a vice in all New England that could curb the urge
I keep holding on to you
I keep holding on to you
I keep holding on to you
How’s your folks I ain’t talked to them since Christmas
Does my name come up does your family forgive me
I know I’m useless but I’m working on it
How’s your folks, how’s your car, how’s your studio apartment in the city
There ain’t a vice in Massachusetts that could curb the urge
I keep holding on to you
I keep holding on to you
I keep holding on to you
There ain’t a vice on Saratoga that could curb the urge
I get high just to see you
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Caught Up
04:05
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Sea of green, distant blue
Curse the heat, keep it cool
The woods keeps singing that sorrow song
Comfort’s coming, won’t be long
Waste all your hard-earned time right here
Too far to walk back in the clear
Don’t get caught up
You’ll get caught up
Holy flag, windblown words
Double back down to Earth
Patience running, I’ll stay here
Spring makes another hollow year
Waste all your hard-earned time right here
Too far to walk back in the clear
Don’t get caught up
You’ll get caught up
Don’t get caught up
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Rolling Hills
02:50
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The rolling hills find quiet time
But unlike the i'm not as wise
The stars that shine away from here
They shine away to better years
The barn that creaks and shakes alone
Finds company through little songs
And the pond it sits ons overgrown
The way it should be all alone
The way it sits and stares
Is a sight I can't compare
To the waving city lights
My peace and comfort will deny
The mountains that lay far out west
Don’t communicate through contact lists
And the trees that fight for sunlights kiss
Are some things that we all should miss
The way it sits and stares
Is a sight I can't compare
To the waving city lights
My peace and comfort will deny
I know you might not see it now, or maybe it's the other way
Or maybe I can't see much further than the sun that's setting low today
But I can't find the evidence, or what i'll think five years from today
All I know is that I love an open field, and that distant mountain range
The way it sits and stares
Is a sight I can't compare
To the waving city lights
My peace and comfort will deny
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Park Bench
03:26
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Flip a coin with your strange hands not quite woman not quite man
It might land somewhere in the middle 0r somewhere out of reach
And if I ever learn my name I’ll carve it in a park bench and I’ll stare
Till the letters don’t look like anything
I’ll stare, just like you stare with judgment and uncertainty
This park bench is a sacred place though it’s far from Eden’s garden
It protects me from intrusive thoughts and eyes made prone to wander
And if you ever find me here, you best leave me to my thinking
Or I’ll be going, going, going, gone I’ll be traveling on
Cast a spell with crooked teeth not quite dull and not quite sweet
It might look something like a photo out of frame and out of focus
And if I ever learn my name I’ll carve it in a dogwood and I’ll cry
With a weight that shoulders as broad as mine could never bear
How much you carry too much you carry
This dogwood is a sacred tree though it’s far from Satan’s garden
It holds me like my mother and it smells just like my father
If you ever find me here, you best leave me to my thinking
Or I’ll be going, going, going, gone I’ll be traveling on
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Shenandoah
04:46
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Oh Shenandoah I long to hear you
I look away rolling river
Oh Shenandoah I long to see you
Away oh bound away across the wide Missouri
For 18 years I swore against you
I look away rolling river
My oldest friend I tried my best to mend you
Away oh bound away across the wide Missouri
I left you there for snowy streetlights
I walked away up to New England
Oh Shenandoah I’ll come back slowly
Away oh bound away across the wide Missouri
I’m headed back I’ve heard you holler
Your beauty grows your rolling river
You’ve always had my heart from yonder
Away oh bound away across the wide Missouri
Oh Shenandoah I long to hear you
I look away rolling river
Oh Shenandoah I long to see you
Away oh bound away across the wide Missouri
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Palmyra Richmond, Virginia
Drawing from the sounds of Appalachia and Midwestern Americana, folk trio Palmyra captures the the collective spirit of three Virginia natives.
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