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Sometimes you just make your own sunshine
Sometimes you're making thunderheads
Sometimes you just daydream in a worn-out chair
Sometimes you just can't get out of bed
For all those times, you're lifting folks up
For all those times, you lay your troubles down
For all those times you're lifting good folks all the way up you're layin' your troubles down
Some days I can be what Mama taught me
Some days I'm the back of Daddy's hand
Some days I can write like I'm a Nashville cat
Some days I am told to leave the band
For all those days of lifting folks up
For all those days there's nowhere further down
For all those days of lifting good folks all the way up Someday is where we're bound
Somewhere there's a life that used to know me
Somewhere to hide ‘til I get old
Somewhere is nowhere then you pack your bags
For somewhere in the myth my story told
For all those times
For all those times
For all those times
Somewhere we'll have more time
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Man Down River
04:43
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You catch a man down river
I could’ve run that way forever
I have worn a path through the great green world
Overflowing every bended bank
Just leave me here down river
I lived my life so quickly
So young and sweet and sickly
I know my lies never left the walls, stained glass never made a sound
It all went by too quickly
We all are walkin’ home tonight - Leave a light on
Breathing in my baby’s bright - Leave a light on
Your silhouette is such a sight - With the light on
Can we spread you any thinner
Like an L.A. double winner
Living like a hustle on her bended knee
The wind will make your prayers collide
You’ll fade away never been here
We all are walkin’ home tonight - Leave a light on
Breathing in my baby’s bright - Leave a light on
Your silhouette is such a sight - With the light on
Open up your eyes my Dove
See how far you fly above
But really what’s it matter if they never stay
She whispered in a tired smile
It means everything undreamed of
We all are walkin’ home tonight - Leave a light on
Breathing in my baby’s bright - Leave a light on
Your silhouette is such a sight - With the light on
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3. |
We Are Giant
03:31
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They said we’d never make it out
A younger fool that leads to older doubt
Buried deep beneath a breathless crowd
My words are swallowed when I try to shout
We cast a shadow and it’s good to see
The sun just parts the way for you and me
And when it sets we always be
A rooted firm, sturdy standing tree
We do not go it alone
Proud and strong, even on our own
Together we are giant
We are
The house is lathe and plaster strong
Who gives a damn if it all is gone
Climb out the window to the roof at dawn
And wake the sun with a pin drop song
We do not go it alone
Proud and strong, even on our own
Together we are giant
We are
I’ll wait for you when you’re gone
On my own even seems like strong
Together we are giant
We are
An empty house is bare of misery
Our curtains wide so every soul can see
Take to the air saying we all are free
Once we are one we will forever be
We do not go it alone
Proud and strong, even on our own
Together we are giant
We are
I’ll wait for you when you’re gone
On my own even seems like strong
Together we are giant
We are, we are, we are, we are
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Grandma's Sound
04:00
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So Grandma's sound is cold and empty
And Papa's heart would callous gently
They gave us all of this forever and for show
That may not look like much to you
We watch like hawks and then we do
The dogs recline with all the blows they've ever known
I am now emptier than solo
The sun is gone yet there's my shadow
And all this bad news that we made
Flushes my skin here in the shade
We let the daytime travel slowly
Cause shorter nights are not as lonely
Remember when stars were all that ever filled your eyes
Then as the years bowed with the heavy
Our limbs gave up so slow and steady
The city lights made all the stars just little lies
And woman I dreamt we'd last forever
Isn't our head just lies and clever
Glasses half full with make-believe
Now I never talk and you can't leave
And woman I thought we'd last forever
Isn't our head just lies and clever
We've got glasses half full with make-believe
Now I never talk and you can't leave
So Grandma's sound is cold and empty
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Deep, deep lines among the shallows
These are deep, deep times keeping us dull
You can think yourself clean you can be what you mean and then lie
You can let yourself go you can be a big show and then slide
They don't give a damn when they're shaking your hand off the bone
Though these words got you strong it won't take very long to be gone to be gone
Deep, deep lines among the shallows
These are deep, deep times keeping us dull
Keeping us dull
You can never fit in and burn out from within like a flame
You can follow the road and keep lugging the load of your name
You may think you've arrived and they are watching you drive by your home
No, they don't give a damn while they're shaking your hand from the bone from the bone
Deep, deep lines among the shallows
These are deep, deep times keeping us dull
Deep, deep lines among the shallows
We will fall asleep thoughtless and full
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6. |
I Do
04:38
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Singing songs so deeply felt
Wordy and intense
She thinks that I am full of shit
And genuine a mess
This is here, this is happiness
This is ever after
This is sickness, maybe health
If she is mine I cannot tell
I do, oh Lord I do
I do, yes I guess I do
I do declare she is the sweetest thing
That ever stabbed me in the back
I cannot speak as she walks away
Singing verses from Back in Black
This courthouse love is a dying kind
Giving up just gets too easy
So we fight all night until eyelid light
Passed out she finally frees me
I do, oh Lord I do
I do, yes I guess I do
I do even though her Mama says I’m the laziest man she knows
I do even though her Mama says I’m the simplest man she knows
We did the dance as long as we did
Tenderness has reached its peak
But nobody cares and the cops don’t come
And it never makes the cover of Newsweek
I do, oh Lord I do
I do, yes I guess I do
I do even though her Mama says I’m the laziest man she knows
I do even though her Mama says I’m the simplest man she knows
Singing songs of deeply felt
Wordy and intense
She thinks that I am full of shit
And genuine a mess
I do, oh Lord I do
I do, yes I guess I do
I do even though her Mama says I’m the laziest man she knows
I do even though her Mama says I’m the simplest man she knows
I do even though her Mama says I’m the leastest man she knows, she knows, she knows
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Julietta
03:47
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Julietta Julietta
So the sunset has a name
and they made you into punk rock dreams
Then left you all the same
Julietta Julietta
When the fog has all rolled in
Did you dance to all the Black Flag songs
Or get lawyered up with Ginn
Julietta Julietta
How'd the platforms get so high
Were they built by all the broken hearts
And heavy-hearted sighs
Heavy sighs
Heavy-hearted sighs
Julietta Julietta
Someone drove all through the night
Rock the Casbah on the radio
Well it always sounded right
Julietta Julietta
Means the lipsticks always red
Means the choruses are meaningless
Cause the verse sticks in your head
In your head
The verse is in your head
Julietta Julietta
I know we never talked again
But I was happy just to play a show
With the other local bands
Local bands
Local shitty bands
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Well indeed I am sorry
That the rabbit hole led to you
She left me in Berdoo one night
And I didn't know what to do
I'll always find some sweeter thing
With maybe less a clue
And bless her heart with sensitive words
Until she says what I can do
Get the hell gone
Ain't there a road you need to be on
Get the hell gone
Make it quick and make it long
Get the hell gone, Get the hell gone, Get the hell gone
See all these good folks used to know me
A little rough around the edge
But it just ain't true I swear to you
On the better days ahead
We can drink our way to kinder talk
Find a modest home to hide
Sleep on the floor in a bed of lies
Until the police say it's time
To get the hell gone
Ain't there a road you need to be on
Get the hell gone
Make it quick and make it long
Get the hell gone, Get the hell gone, Get the hell gone
To get the hell gone
Ain't there a road you need to be on
Get the hell gone
Make it quick and make it long
Get the hell gone, Get the hell gone, Get the hell gone
Well indeed I am sorry
That the rabbit hole led to you
Nowhere else to hide my hide
The snake's successful coup
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9. |
No One Does
03:28
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Down in Laurel Canyon where the echoes good
They pretend they aren’t Kings of Hollywood
Haystack and the needle, no one could
Find any humble in words so good
Drove in from Carolina, left the quietest woods
They said I’d make it real big here in Hollywood
But no one does
no one does
no one does
I know it sounds strange Mama, but no one does
Bright lights have got they arms around me tight and good
A prelude for the darkness in all likelihood
Just hear me sing so lonely ’round the neighborhood
I really hope they love me here in Hollywood
But no one does
no one does
no one does
I know it sounds strange Mama, but no one does
But no one does
no one does
no one does
I know it sounds strange Mama, but no one does
Down in Laurel Canyon where the echoes good
They pretend they aren’t Kings of Hollywood
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10. |
Shine a Light
05:21
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Oh beauty please, don’t leave our home
We have too much love here to be left alone
We come full circle and burn the bridge
We lose our old house down a crumbling ridge
(shine a light)
Dead leaves in the driveway slowly turn to earth
As we all die the same way, no matter our birth
So we sing out some porch songs to whites of blue eyes
That start seeing colors and then hastily blind
(shine a light)
We now give heed to, we now give heed to
The shadows in the far reaches of the yard
We didn’t need to, we didn’t need to
Then they crept right up and stole our Daddy’s car
They won’t get far
I don’t know my neighbors, we rarely say hi
We close sturdy wood doors and essentially hide
We make our hate muted like a brother gone bad
But there will be hell to pay by the fist of our Dad
(shine a light)
We let the house linger, weathered and aged
The hardwood is cracked and old, it makes a cacophonous rage
Do we pay no attention, it’s some other’s turn
Or do we take hammers and hands until our muscles burn
(shine a light)
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The Legion of Decency Sacramento, California
The Legion of Decency is a band out of California. Debut album, Deep Lines Among the Shallows, features Rami Jaffee, Doug Pettibone, Gabe Nelson who was in Cake, Dusty Watson of the Supersuckers and Nashville Pussy, Tay Strathairn from Dawes, and many more. ... more
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