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Medicine Sword
02:56
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Medicine Sword
Separate the flesh from me
And purify the blood I bleed
So I forget
This lost cause
A stone you tied around my neck
They pushed me off the ship and sent
Me to the depths
This young wound
Is singing on a balcony
The people at the party leave
So upset
I wanna run but I don't know where to go
The house is burning but you can't see through the smoke
I get the feeling that you're waiting
To come with me
I'm not afraid of the distance or the wild
It's not a secret that we've felt this for some time
I get the feeling that we're falling
So come with me
We feel the rope with our open hands
And then we start to swing on it
When we believe what we can't understand
The floor drops out from underneath us
We could live off the ocean air
If we could find a way to get there
We feel the weight of our heavy lives
Melt away like snow in sunshine
I wanna run but I don't know where to go
The house is burning but you can't see through the smoke
I get the feeling that you're waiting
To come with me
I'm not afraid of the distance or the wild
It's not a secret that we've felt this for some time
I get the feeling that we're falling
So come with me
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A Shadow Doused In Flames
Met a holy ghost
I even shook its hand
We built a bridge to the coast
Over desert sand
Underneath the waves
Hung a midnight grace
We were lost in a dream
Mercy was currency
Oh, oh oh
It it quiet here
We hardly speak
And in the dark I can see it
A shadow doused in flames
Oh, oh oh
A thousand years going by in just one day
We run through fields blindfolded
We feel nothing
Oh, oh oh
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Told them it was time attached
This could be another trick
We caught you sleeping on the forest floor
Thirty miles off the interstate
Hot blood shaking in a cage
Killing time that I can't shake
If there is any good in you, won't you show me now
And maybe we'll be friends
Guns blaze in the heart of man
Stand up if you think so
I couldn’t see it when I was younger
But now it’s all that I think about
After the show in Pittsburgh
We kissed her there on the bed
And when we shook the ancients knew that we were living up
To everything
We drank down everything we could
Cut loose like a sheet in a storm
If there is nothing to look forward to
We might as well take the burden off
Hot blood shaking in a cage
Killing time that I can't shake
If there is any good in you, won't you show me now
And maybe we'll be friends
Guns blaze in the heart of man
Stand up if you think so
I couldn’t see it when I was younger
But now it’s all that I think about
After the show in Pittsburgh
We kissed her there on the bed
And when we shook the ancients knew that we were living up
To everything
I don't want to be the one
That always has to lift you out
Of the cold that you've been ambling through
We can learn to swallow doubt
And make it do whatever we want
Baby, we will pull right through
I don't want to be the one
That always has to lift you out
Of the cold that you've been ambling through
We can learn to swallow doubt
And make it do whatever we want
Baby, we will pull right through
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Hurricane
04:05
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We saw some holy people walk out
Preaching on the lawns and the gardens to the faithful
Some knife was playing on a big stage
Strumming all the right chords for a good mood
Down in the canyon all through the night
Ten thousand lives I've lived singing side by side
Why won't you let me break your heart?
See the light of day drifting through the dark
And I know that everything is falling off
Maybe it's better to cope instead of fighting it
Why won't you let me break your heart
And see the light of day drifting through the dark
I sipped my hurricane and waited
For my thoughts to turn vicious
I kept quite calm and clever
But you got up to dance without me
Down in the canyon all through the night
Ten thousand lives I've lived singing side by side
Why won't you let me break your heart?
See the light of day drifting through the dark
And I know that everything is falling off
Maybe it's better to cope instead of fighting it
Why won't you let me break your heart
And see the light of day drifting through the dark
And then the people started to leave
So I kissed your blushing cheek
Let's keep it good and simple
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Vacations
03:18
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Holy death
Can't you wait
For the young
To have their say
By the time that we think to run
It's too late and our body's crumble
Just like quiet buildings at the dusk
In my mind
There's a place
Clean and sure like an easy day
So sorry that I left you out
I didn't think that you could last here
Living in a cold so pristine
Does it tear you up
To think of what you'd do
To stave off loss
All this complaining
Like workers saving
Up for vacations
To lush destinations
Future wound
Sacred past
I'd forgive you but it wouldn't last
Admit it, you are just as scared as me
To lose life and find out what it means to fall asleep and not wake up
I can't stop shaking at
The restless thought of you
And all I've lost
All this complaining
Like workers saving
Up for vacations
To lush destinations
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Straight White Teeth Kansas City, Kansas
Straight White Teeth leverages everything from startlingly intimate lo-fi folk to club-ready electronics to make songs about grief, longing, hope, depression, sex, spirituality, love––the endlessly complex and fascinating pursuit of what it means to be a feeling, conscious human being. ... more
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