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Tidal Wave
04:58
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I got me a mirror
but it told me lies
So I boarded the windows
and closed my eyes
All the while I just saw you
There was nothing I could do
I lost my reflection
in the dead moonlight
Oh, well he was never even on my side
I don't mind to say goodbye
It's alright to say goodbye
I followed your shadow
she told no lies
She told me your secrets
and where you hide
It's alright I'm not out to make you cry
Darling, I just want to waste your time
I bend just like the riverbed
I don't know who I'll be tomorrow
You break like a tidal wave
Hold my breath and aim for the bottom
Me, I've died a hundred times
and I'll die ten thousand more
If you'd like to kiss death tonight
I'll be waiting at your door
I bend just like the riverbed
I don't know who I'll be tomorrow
You break like a tidal wave
Hold my breath and aim for the bottom
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Devil's Boots
03:22
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She let off the weight on my shoulders saying "don't,
don't think too hard 'bout the ocean that's filling your boat
Battered and bruised
Licking all of my wounds
Stumbling home
Wearing the devil's boots
Didn't take much time 'fore I was on my way
Down that broken path, hell, it never seemed to change
No, I ain't been here before
but it's familiar like the truth
Standing at your door
wearing the devil's boots
Won't you come down
Mangle my brain
Can't recall how
everything changed
I've been looking deep inside
my little mind
but honey I can't find the words
They just run from my forked tongue
at the blast of guns
and scatter with the birds
Oh, my my my, my my darling won't you
Let me walk you home
Wearing my new boots
Oh, my my my, my my darling won't you
Let me walk you home
Wearing my new boots
Wearing my new boots
Wearing my new boots
Wearing my new...
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All the Same
04:12
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I've been down this road before
and I've seen
the way it's gonna go down
I mean
It's all the same to me
If it's all the same to you
Do what you please
just watch your step
and if it shakes your knees
then it's probably deadly
and you should probably just leave
Who are you?
I wasted my belief on faith
and got no remedy for my pain
but it's all a dream to me
Is that how it seems to you?
Who are you?
Do you, do you know?
Does it make me weak?
You've made your mark
and all your scars
Carved them deep
into my heart
for the world to see
while I share it carelessly
Who are you?
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In the Reeds
01:33
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Backroads
04:24
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Somebody open my eyes
I must be dreaming
I can't believe that
I'm all alone out here
chasing a hole in the sky
haunted by deamons
begging for freedom
with a head full of doubt and fear
Hit like a cannonball
so I broke with the morning sun
didn't know what to do but run
to break my fall
Oh, oh bottle of sorrow take me home
back where I know the roads
I got all mixed up looking for a ghost
but she was never home
We've got the wisdom of years
can you help me reason
in the Garden of Eden
we all fight for air
pumping the pain
the the gears of greed
crushing our weak bones
to dust and despair
Nothing but open roads
can't seem to make a move
I can't even lift my shoes
forget my soul
Oh, oh bottle of sorrow take me home
back where I know the roads
I got all mixed up looking for a ghost
but she was never home
Now you're all I've got so I hold you close
won't ever let you go
Oh, oh bottle I think I'm losing hope
Won't you just take me home?
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Misty Nebraska
03:52
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I'm not sure
of many things in this world but I
I can tell the truth from a lie
I know that both can make you cry
I've seen it happen once or twice
It's not war
at least it's not supposed to be
but sometimes I feel the universe against me
even though I've got everything I need
that's just the American that's running through my bloodstream
Oh darling where did we go wrong
One day you're here the next you're gone
and like the mist from the morning sun
we're slowly burning off
What's this for
this life we need and where we go
Them tired trees don't seem to know
but every day they still proceed to grow
and the rivers chatter down the mountains as they flow
Is there more
beyond the depths that we can see
inside of you, outside of me
in all the spaces in between
collecting dust and shattered dreams
Oh darling where did we go wrong
One day you're here the next you're gone
and like the mist from the morning sun
we're slowly burning off
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Oildrips
04:44
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Tied my shoes
kissed my wife
and waved the sun goodbye
Next time I see his light
will be under the desert sky
All else seems to fail
in government we trust
Shackles 'round our ankles
as our bones begin to rust
Asleep beneath the palm trees
laid out in freedom's rest
stretching as far as I can reach
trying so hard to forget
about the landmine sitting next to me
and the angel of death
He's been circling like a vulture
hanging just above my head
My heart still kicks
My lungs they swell
The oil drips
as the bodies start to smell
Death came graceful
and stepped into the light
he said "take my hand, son"
but I just waved goodbye
I've got to shoot through the sun again
We're halfway home, now
I turned twenty-one on Tuesday
and I took fifteen shots of sand
dried out my mouth 'til I could speak
but it wasn't hard to stand
The devil he just laughed
and sent his best regards and love
calling me back home
but, lord, he knows
I was meant for up above
Or maybe not
It's hard to tell
My eyes can't see
if there's a bottom to the well
Death be patient
and take a step aside
you must be mistaken
it's just not my time
I've got to shoot through the sun again
We're halfway home now
Long live the free
Bathe in black gold
I've got to shoot through the sun again
We're halfway home now
I don't know God
I don't know God
I know no God who done seen the likes of me
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Unraveling Strand
01:01
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Ghosts
04:14
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Open your eyes and let me in
I wanna see what's inside of there
Wanna know what's inside
Between the bones beneath your skin
I wanna go where you've ever been
Wanna go where you've been
Tell me how it is you know
that this is real
'Cause I know only that I don't
unless I can feel it in my arms
or see it in the light
but when everybody's gone
who'll be there to say goodbye
Do you believe in ghosts?
Don't you wanna know?
Where'd everybody go?
I've seen your body every inch
but I could never read your mind
so I'm begging you please
I wanna know the words that make you itch
see the color drip in your spine
and drift off to sleep
to the pictures racing by
the ones that keep you up and breathing tight
honey, I know what it's like
to feel the empty in your bones
under a neverending sky
chasing ripples from a stone
through the oceans of the night
Do you believe in ghosts?
Seems everybody knows
where you're gonna go
if you believe in ghosts
How come I've never seen the light
My eyes are open all the time
When all the world is coming unglued
and everybody goes away
just let it go away
Oh, but hell I heard that, too
nothing every goes away
it changes shape
Do you believe in ghosts?
Don't you wanna know?
Where'd everybody go?
Do you believe in ghosts?
Honey, can't you see that I
just wanna be there all the time
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10. |
The Wheel
04:45
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Some days I wish I could shed off my skin
exposed and bleeding I would let it all in
every bruise, every cut, feel the sting
and know that it, too, will end
If we run out of room for the stars in the sky
who will determine which one takes a dive
Scattered in pieces and lost in the night
no effort to defend
Another shimmering spoke in the wheel
which one's a lullabye and which one is real
I'm never quite sure how it is I should feel
I just take it on the chin
So give me your love, make it real, make it true
If it's anything else my dear, what's the use
'cause the mind can get twisted when the heartstrings are loose
upon them won't you swing
Some days I wish I could shed off my skin
exposed and bleeding I would let it all in
every love, every heartache and sting
and know that it, too, will end
just like everything.
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Nico Rivers Boston, Massachusetts
One of the only known constants in the universe is transformation. All that is was and will some day again be something
else.
What will you be?
Nico Rivers is a Boston-based singer/songwriter with a knack for transformation.
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