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Wild Guitar
04:24
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Packing up your suitcase
Packing up your shoes
Packing up the little things we always used to do
Throw the sheets in boxes
Throw the mattress down the stairs
Throw the leftovers in plastic bags, who really cares?
And tonight
When we settle
In our old harmonious tears by the fire
I’ll sing to you
I’ll write another song
About that wild guitar
Packing up a lifetime
Pack up what we said
Packing everything except where we will lay our heads
Dusting off the pictures
Dusting off the walls
Dusting crevices where we made sacrificial calls
But giving up isn’t in our blood
We’ll stick it out when things get hard
Yes, it’s in our blood to survive
We shall endure this whole ordeal
Listening to voicemail
Listening for love
Listening when things return we cannot speak of
Hold me when it’s raining
Hold me in the dark
Hold me when the blacks are cold
and the whites are just as stark.
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2. |
Plectrophyla
03:36
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[Instrumental]
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I Will Dare
06:35
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The phone’s ringing
in metronomic time
Dinner’s out on the table, it’s getting cold
You used to throw things
when you got angry
The phone, it’s ringing off the hook tonight
I don’t know you anymore
I wish I knew what you were going to do
And I don’t want to be here anymore
The cat’s screeching
in underwritten rhymes
The TV on, the radio static bursts loud
You used to yell in my face
You used to use me for what you wanted
You used to tell everything, but it doesn’t
even sound like your voice anymore
And I will dare
Yes I will dare
To find you again
I will dare
To keep you whole
The words are piercing
like dirty syringes
The cursing palate it serves me a slap, ice cold
I call your mother
You call my father
And say “he’s doing it again”
I’m so fucking sick of your lies
I’m sick of the stories
So I’m leaving tomorrow.
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Boys On My Mind
02:30
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Sammy’s by the shore house
Ken is always overly aroused
Brendan is wearing a blouse
Matt rides on the train for the superficially couched
Scott throws himself on the red carpet
Lewis huddles in the secreted darkness
Thom listens and listens but never speaks
Roberto is atoning for sins never done
Oh, there are these boys on my mind
They never flake, they never bring down their stakes
Trent is the boy who didn’t exist
Though everybody thought that he did
Benjamin is caught in a personal crisis
But he can’t help himself, he can’t help anyone
Willy is the boy that wanted love
but asked for it way too soon
Kyle didn’t even have to try and
now he tells me which of these chords sound good.
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Longitude
03:42
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I’ve stood the test of time
until I fade out to gray
I’ve prayed the last of my appearances
will snuff out into the fray
I’ve taken lies and truths and such
This tumor in my heart doesn’t speak very much
Anymore I only see the wind
That blows through my curtains
and harvests my mind games into solid gold
Anymore I only find the dreams
that soak through the fabric,
that turn me inside out, that got me sold
These overwrought contenders
for such a menial thing
Turn me down into alleyways
and I insist that the killer will sing
I’ve taken lies and rumors and such
Yet this callous on my finger doesn’t play very much
Anymore my longitude and latitude
Splay out like a carving
And turn me down streets I’ve not traveled before
And bury me here under the sands of your shore.
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Stagecoach
04:16
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If you ever come to my town
Your soul better be sure of it
If you ever set foot down
Your mind better be waking up
If you ever go with the flow
Your feet better be dancing with the gun
If you ever write me a letter
Your words better be strong enough
You cry to me
You cry to me
Inside your sleeve
You disappear, you re-adhere my life
If you make it onto my list
Your legs better move fast enough
If you make it into this garden
My sprouts better not move an inch
If you make me bad, then worse
Your hands better clap to the beat
If you make yourself the enemy
My friends will track and hunt you down.
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Choir
03:14
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One war
One song
One choir
That sings you inside
That sinks into the ground
Two hearts
One love
Under covers
Until we get to three
Until we get to the sea
Three books
One story
Three words
That turns you back inside out
That turns your back in and out
Don’t you look at me in the eye
Don’t you look at me in the eye.
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8. |
Roadrunner
02:21
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[Instrumental]
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Answers in the Rain
04:01
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The dust settles when it settles
and it settles when you call my name
You're stealing threads from cotton shirts
but when you steal them it's just for me
The Hallelujah chorus stamps your mind
It's worth the time but not my space
You say you belong but you're so hard to find
It takes long to take the blame and search
for answers in the rain
It's there under your skin
The story ends when it ends
and it's ending when you make or break
You're stealing hearts from the freezer
but when you steal them it's just for you
You've dealt with heartbreak
You listened in on him when he took your name
You've dealt with sinners and killers and maybe then you'll see
It's not for you
Your fingers touch when they touch
and they're touching keys on this piano
You're stealing cards from the bars in the stars, you see
and they're not for me
You've killed ten thousand souls
You listened in on him taking his virginity
You killed ten thousand men that have the righteousness
and you never learned their names.
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10. |
Rinse & Repeat
02:06
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[Instrumental]
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Evan Schafer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
My name is Evan Schafer. I am an indie musician with a strong grounding in traditional composition, but the material always has a unique flair. I guarantee not being bored out of your gourd when turning on one of the records. I produce, mix, and engineer everything myself, and have done so since late 2005. ... more
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