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#1 Coven
01:21
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I couldn't call you up drunk from the dice club
Cause the sound of your angelic voice talking chances it sobers me up
There's something in this full moon has dried up my gambling luck
Do you think that I could tell that if I was drunk?
I know you and your mama went through with that curse on me
Some black hearse for an exit off of Aperol and whiskey
And we're trapped in the five-sided star of the Devil
But if we dig our heels in we can keep the whole thing level
We won't sink very far
If you think you're in this story
There's a good chance that you are
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You sent me a picture of the dress you wore
Just to stay in alone for the night
Your roommates headed downtown but you didn't have the energy
You swore it'd be the last time and that we should just meet up
You tattooed some scripture on the marks on your arm
From your brush with the phantom
And we shared that kiss in your car
We had that much in common
But I drank the venom
And you've had a bit of poison yourself
And in the past
They've tried to love us but wouldn't let 'em
Feels kind of nice to ask for some help
Feels like a new beginning headed out on 41
And I promised you that we would make the most of the summer
That is until some semi-pro cop from the neighborhood watch
Ran a red light on his way to Culver's
And his first thought
Was of the Skokie Crime Stoppers Business Owners Committee
And when he turned himself in
It was the first crime he'd solved for the city
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She says when the cataclysm rains down
It will make fossils and mud monsters
Of true romantics embraced in the dirt
Says she wants to go out on a high note
With my hand up her skirt
Since when did I like 'em so morbid?
And why do I like it in your bed and not mine?
Do we still gotta act like this is going somewhere down the line
With you still tryna make the move to Philadelphia
And me with two old flames on my mind?
She took me in her room
Spread out a Mayan calendar
Showed told me all the acts of God
She says she's watching out for
She took me in her room
Spread out, a Mayan calendar
Showed me all the acts of God
She says she's watching out for
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Those Girls
04:56
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Those girls
Mary and Ellen care for Sara Jean
She's two weeks off her job
So she's two weeks off nicotine
They said stay away from that musician boy
Still she's been persistent with me
They say he's got it bad for another girl,
Whose picture he's got stuffed in his coat pocket
But all that she needs is a brand-new habit
She don't like how the girls have been talking
Those girls
Mary and Ellen care for Sara Jean
She's two weeks off her job
So she's two weeks off nicotine
They said stay away from that musician boy
But she was quite persistent with me
And I've still got it bad for another girl
Whose picture I took out of my coat pocket
Sweet Sara Jean's seen the door to my heart
She might be the girl to unlock it
Those girls
Mary and Ellen came to talk to me
Saying Sara Jean's been off and on
Thinks she may have run her course with me
She's got it bad for another boy
The kind whose picture she'd hang up in her old locker
She never was quite the kind of girl
To settle for a sad indie rocker
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For Sisters to Decipher
08:24
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The drive from Sutton's County meant to lift you up
Texas hold them til they drown
I've only met one girl
Could form a fist from a frown
That would punch your fucking lights out
Your sister told me you left town
It's funny we can't speak, it's funny we can't talk without her now
After that spot of sibling rivalry
In your history
That spot of sibling rivalry
That kept you away from me
I walk through town today on my own again
Hey if it's alright
This might be a bad time
But I think I'm hanging on your every word
Aiming just high enough
To take care of my insides
And I can't be hanging around much more
Your sister told me you left town
She said it would be wise to let lie
All the times your head got cloudy about me
It's the only way
Not to make the same mistake that your mother made
Like that spot of sibling rivalry
In her history
Like that spot of sibling rivalry
That kept you away from me
I walk through town today on my own again
Hey if it's alright
This might be a bad time
But I can't be hanging on your every word
Tell me what you feel like
and fake it in the meantime
I can't be hanging around much more
I can't be hanging around
I can't be hanging around much more
Ooo
Blue, that family trait
That bait and switch
You used to have a lot to fill your time with
Blue, that family trait
That bait and switch
You used to have a lot to fill your time with
You used to have a lot to fill your time
Use me, your little fool
Help me decide
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Five Sisters Window
03:52
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I walked to the Jewel and the liquor store
Bought us some rations that we'd put away
I'm hoping like hell on a kiss from her
But however she wants me is fine for today
There's a church in Old Yorkshire where the archbishop's buried
If it weren't for money or the Church of England then it's where we'd be married
I walked to the shore of Lake Michigan
Sat in the sand and I planned it all out
I'm hoping like hell that she'll go with me
But however she wants me is alright for now
I painted a dream of two years from now
We're living in Memphis down by Orange Mound
And I learned to drive for a contract job
Grew out of the panic I carry around
And I look more like my father now
Don't lose any sleep about the lights, heat, and water
I only get the shakes about the ring that I bought her
There's a church in Old Yorkshire where the archbishop's buried
If it weren't for money or the Church of England then that's where we'd be married
There's a church in Old Yorkshire where the archbishop's buried
If it weren't for money or the Church of England then that's where we'd be married
There's a church in Old Yorkshire where the archbishop's buried
If it weren't for money or the Church of England then that's where we'd be married
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Her Last Boyfriend
02:23
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Kissed her for the first time under the sturgeon moon
And I was telling all the jokes that I do
I guess her last boyfriend was in the movies
Not the kind you go to see
Tells me I hold up fine against the competition
She knows how self-conscious I can be
Still it ended there that night
I remember it was something she said
How we never fight
And that don't feel right
I guess her last boyfriend was into making up
Making up
All night
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Storeggaraset
02:24
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You once had a solid nerve
Turned plaster by those eyes of hers
Crumbling to dust well before
You can ask her how a man can serve
Suspended endless nights let pass
Hollow trees and hearts of glass
Red lights and smoke and misanthropes
You're running with a faster class
Try and write an honest tune for you
Stay apart and I'll stay blue for you
Stayed at the party but I know that I'm losing you
And it might be that you want me to
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My heart is a harbor
It's a port and it does not move
Every time I leave it behind
It stands and it waits for you
My hands have a purpose when
They're working in your servicin'
And I hope that you'll hold me to that contract
For a kiss that could bring the fire back
Once I finally finish all my
All of my labors
I plan to come running
Once I give the man my papers
My lungs have gone swimming love
My last breath is drawn with thought of you
And I'll love you to Babylon, baby
But there's one more thing I've got to do
Fore I finally finish all my
All of my labors
I plan to come running
Once I give the man my papers
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Send us Saints as workmen and
Angels to conduct them
Send us Saints as workmen and
Angels to conduct them
Send us Saints as workmen and
Angels to conduct them
Send us Saints as workmen and
Angels to conduct them
Tools of the passion
Weapons of Christ
Your Mother's asking around
Where you been tonight
Send us Saints as workmen and
Angels to conduct them
Send us Saints as workmen and
Angels to conduct them
Send us Saints as workmen and
Angels to conduct them
Send us Saints as workmen and
Angels to conduct them
The darkness owes you something
The darkness owes you something
The darkness owes you something
In the night
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1886
03:56
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There had been a riot or so the police would say
Outside McCormick's on the third of May
Somebody threw a bomb the next night and
Now we can't keep the law away
And I'm headed up to Des Plaines
On that great Northwest Railroad train
And if I ever hang
Be it that I haunt you
Oh, you lawmen
Be it that I haunt you
To your last day
There had been a fire almost fifteen years to the day
And Father Zeglen of Saint Stanislaus Kostka saved the life of the King of Spain
You go on and lose a round or two
They might have kept the peace today
But I'm headed west in the rain
It's raining trinitroxypropane
And if I ever hang
And if I ever hang
And if I ever hang
Be it that I haunt you
To your last day
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He always said
That his mama met the King on a movie set
About 8 months and some change
To his birthday
Never mind that he's the picture of a man still doing time
At Leavenworth State
Sawyer Elvis Hamlin was just like his daddy
The kids in junior high did not take too kind
Fight after fight, Mama took the reins one night
Took him outta class
‘fore he fell behind
Short of the Navy, it's whatever they could find
between the town he was born in
And a town where they won’t know his father
And they’ve always got the radio on
Tuned to K-Plex in the morning
That’s how he met the sheriff's daughter
He took her to the senior prom
She got drunk in the bathroom
And they only danced
To the one song (it went like this)
Wise men say
Any bastard with ambition is a demigod
And every house is haunted by the heart
(And he said)
“Can I stay over?
I don't want to go the distance
I just want you here
In the case that I fall apart”
He had always said
That his mama met the King on a movie set
About 8 months and change
To his birthday
Well he always said
That his mama met the King on a movie set
About 8 months and some change
To his birthday
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13. |
I've Been Strong (Demo)
02:05
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I’ve been strong all night tonight
Held my arms together, holding no part to the knife
I’ve been strong all my life long
I have been a river and I’ve given all
I plan to give
Lived about as long as I planned to live
But I’ve been wrong before
Each time I live some more
I must’ve been strong before
I must’ve been strong before
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Show Kindness
03:20
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They had a kindness of their own kind
And a love made of all things
Maybe it wasn't easy for them
But it's so hard for some to show kindness at all
They were meant for the peach blossom spring
Someone's gonna make it through to the dream
They're gonna plant a tree for each of them
And they'll all sing
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Some of my dreams are cautionary tales
In even more of them a prophecy's entailed
The dream that I had about you last night
It must've been the harmless kind
Cause it was the two-thousandth time
That a dream didn't make you mine
The sum of my nights is all my tears
The sum of my pain is five years
The dream that I had about you last night
It must've been the harmless kind
Cause it was the two-thousandth time
That a dream didn't make you mine
Two hours and change
And I won't have to wait for
The dream that I'll have
About you tonight
It will be the harmless kind
The two-thousand-and-first time
That a dream didn't make you mine
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Those Girls (Demo)
04:02
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