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Abraham
04:03
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Oh Abraham, Where have you gone
You went out through the back door to the setting sun
With a spoon full of oil from a paper bag
It looked just like the medicine and tasted just as bad
you wanted something that's solid gold
But sometimes the brightest things are better left untold
Cause the pretty things come with pain
and you can watch them roll away
or you can wonder round the back roads
til your feet land in their place
Oh Brother John, What have you done
You fought your way through the pain now your body's torn
Once was a giant brought down to his knees
With his index finger raised he tests the strength of the breeze
you wanted something that's solid gold
but the illness of age makes the bright seem dull
Cause the prettiest things decay
and you can watch them roll away
or you can wonder round the back roads
til your feet land in their place
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Gasoline
03:10
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Poor old Matthew
Stuck changing lanes
Stuck lighting matches
And playing games
On dirty couches
And dirty sinks
And used up friends
that pour the strongest drinks
Where you going
Who you gonna be
If you want fire
I've got the gasoline
Take a train to Asheville
Find your bible there
It looks just like the last one
'cept you're older here
Find a god divided
He deals in wasted time
He'll take you down to Charleston
Yeah he'll take your mind
Where you going
Who you gonna be
If you want fire
I've got the gasoline
A hand written address
Addressed from home
It says your father's gone
Now you're all alone
Once a sturdy attic
Now run aground
You fumble with the pieces
But you'll make it count
Where you going
Who you gonna be
If you want fire
I've got the gasoline
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Into the Wind
05:04
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Gone are the days I breathed
The smoke in the air and the make believe
I turn my lantern down low
While everybody's burns free
Cause only time can break my fall
And wash the tide over us all
Put your weight into the wind
And put your faith in me again
I got this wound from playing knives
Bandaged it up and took another man's life
I'd trade this trouble for a gram
Dammit Mary won't you show me how to be a man
Cause only time can break my fall
And wash the tide over us all
Put your weight into the wind
And put your faith in me again
Isn't anybody gonna show me out
What once was my body lay covered in this shroud
Take what is left of me
Bury it below these trees
Where I can be earthbound
Where I can be earthbound
I put the bottle on the shelf
And I put my hands over my mouth
I may not be a proper gentleman
I don't know where I'm going, but I sure know where I've been
Cause only time can break my fall
And wash the tide over us all
Put your weight into the wind
And put your faith in me again
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One
05:14
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Amber swigs in the front yard
Of a church that's closed for the night
You keep me wrapped, You keep me dangling
Oh just for the sight
Sprawled cross sheets, Yeah I scrawl your name
From my bed to the foot of the door
It's unlatched for the breeze to walk through
In hopes that I'll wake next to you
In the dark of a crowded room
I put my hands on your hips
You may not recall but I sure as hell do
I can't get my head over this
Now I sit in the back of empty theaters
Where the light can hide my face
Killing my time as the days unwind
And my body can drift back to place
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Release Me
04:26
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Hope, I've fallen from the trees
Wounds open wide
What I found
Was much to fine
Oh, The branches underneath
They break my fall
Now the birds
Don't trill at all
I am not broken yet
Wait till you see what I have made
Me and my bloody fists
We will claim the rest someday
God, I'm good with what you gave
You gave to me
but you ripped
Me to my seams
Oh, It wasn't only me
There something more
And life
Below these boards
I am not broken yet
Wait till you see what I have made
Me and my bloody fists
We will claim the rest someday
Release
Release
Release Me
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Standing Down
28:06
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This name stolen out from your mouth
But you know it gets pretty dark in Nebraska
On a plane belligerent but conscious
I am wasted and wasted on
Standing down
Head in place
Take the water
Or take the road
Take it out of me
This book, we started it together
But on a park bench there I let it die
Take a hard look, I am not your woman
You gave me so many, so many reasons why
Standing down
Held in place
Take the water
Or take the road
Take it out of me
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