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Tidal Wave (acoustic)
04:18
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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 (acoustic)
03:15
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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
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Oildrips (acoustic)
04:35
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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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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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