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A Year of Forevers

by The Revenants

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1.
Like Digging Saint Patrick's Well 04:34
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Sometimes you struggle against the odds Sometimes the odds, they are against you Sometimes you feel like you just can't win Because the world seems immense to you Sometimes you get broken and you can't be fixed And nothing, no nothing makes sense to you And it's like digging Saint Patrick's Well Sometimes you're down as you can get So down there is no below Sometimes you get crippled by someone's cruelty You just lie there and take the blow Sometimes you get hoisted on your own petard No one to blame but your own ego Sometimes you get walloped in your own backyard Like a hurricane came to call Sometimes you shut down when it's all too much Don't wanna feel nothing, nothing at all But sometimes you win when you least expect It's someone else who takes the fall
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Bread and Butter Letter 04:55
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Dearest blank Thanks so much for your kind gift Glad you thought of me Glad you didn't give me the short shrift Dearest blank How did you know the colors that I like It is so functional Sitting in the basket of my bike This is my bread and butter letter to you, my old friend Thanking you for all the good you've done This is my bread and butter letter to you, my old friend It's been real, it's been fun It will come in handy Whenever I need that sort of deal I know just where to put it Shows me how strongly that you feel I mean this sincerely As sincere as I can be I mean this sincerely As sincere as your love for me Dearest blank Your thoughtfulness has touched my heart I will think of you Every time I see this work of art
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To Be Determined 03:11
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A stranger came and sat beside me In the park and said There are things you can't have known He looked at me as if we'd been friends For a thousand years His black eyes shook me to the bone Come away, come away to a place You've only lived inside your heart Where and when Where and when To be determined Where and when Before we start We walked ourselves down a path Then beyond the woods, you said Over there lies your destiny How will you get there Well, it all depends on you, you see Will you be vengeful Will you love your enemy Come away, come away to a life You've not begun to chart What could I say except I'm grateful for your concern And the way you look out for me No one else has thought to even give me a call Everyone else is absentee The stranger and me we walked a little further Up the road a piece Till he said It's time for you to take it from here We bid farewell and with a tear in my eye I said, I'm really gonna miss all your good cheer Then come away, come away and we'll live A life together but apart
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Blabbermouth Blues 04:09
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Well you talk and you talk and you talk and you talk And you say a lot of blah, blah, blah But you talk the talk and you don't walk the walk Mostly you just wah, wah, wah Like a big ol' baby, a big ol' baby, yeah With a mean streak right down the middle Hey diddle diddle East or West, North or South The call you the blabbermouth Well you stamp and you stamp And you stamp and you stamp And you throw your big ol' weight around But for all your stamping and your bit champing It's really just an empty sound Like a mean ol' mama, a mean ol' mama, yeah With a frog stuck down in her throat She's a funky ol' goat Well you snipe and you snipe and you snipe and you snipe And you run your friends in the dirt And for all your sniping and incessant griping You don't know just who you hurt Like spoiled princess, a spoiled princess, yeah Living large in your kingdom of dust, a great big bust
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Sounds Like Goodbye to Me 03:33
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Lovebirds are flirting like spastic lovers in the rain And I wave and they give me no sign And far away a man puts a pen in a drawer And all of the lawyers dream of other lawyers And there is so much more That I wanna say No I'm not gonna say it this time A baby's laughter It turns to weeping And then a bridge falls and the jungle seethes In the cabinet lurks the keys to the kingdom But they're hiding behind the crockery And the ancient bells are cracked And when they ring they burn like Ciscero Maybe one day You will wear that amulet That your mother died for So you could fly
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Memoirs of a Visible Man 04:47
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Well I came here out of nowhere A bolt of lightning in the dark I stuck around for awhile, I did it on a lark And when I felt I'd seen enough I put in my two cents These are the memoirs of a man Not sitting on the fence Well I got out on the TV, I got on the radio I beat my chest like an angry ape Said, I won't go with the flow I spoke out loud and clearly Spoke in a way you could understand These are the memoirs of a visible man Well I said things controversial about all the minorities About how they were taking over Didn't care who disagrees Some people called me obnoxious But I knew I was in the right These are the memoirs of a man Who's ready to fight I kicked up quite a ruckus, I caused quite a storm People sent me death threats My image wasn't fuzzy and warm I turned up the heat, had a master plan These are the memoirs of a visible man You can say that you don't like me You can say all you can say But I am sticking to my guns, I won't go away And if you do bump me off Someone like me is standing nearby These are the memoirs of a man who just won't die Well I came out of nowhere but I have left my mark Some would rather call it a stain Let them all be eaten by a shark I raised my voice, shouted out across the land These are the memoirs of a visible man
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All Our Days 04:38
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We get up bright and early And we drink our cup, drink our cup We brush our teeth and drag ourselves out the door We get in our cars and we wait in line, wait in line We do it every day and we don't think what for Well we run, run, run, run, run and we never stop, never stop Never really see our crazy ways Yeah we run, run, run, run, run and we never stop, never stop All our days, all our days We sit at our desk and we drink our cup, drink our cup And stare at a screen and fake our way through the day We stare at a clock and it goes tick and tock, tick and tock We wait for the moment we can get away And we wind up wishing we were done and gone Done and gone And we wind up finding our whole life's a yawn We try to make our peace with who we are, who we are We rationalize and say that it's all right And time goes flying by like a passing train, passing train That's barreling off into an uncertain night
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I Take My Leave of You 06:59
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So there I was in media res What I would do next was anyone's guess I'd lost all my strength, had no reason to go on Nothing but holes in my pockets And my dreams were gone I'd run out of options and I'd run out of gas Everyone I'd ever trusted had kicked me in the ass What do you do when you've hit your last wall What do you say when you're done with it all Farewell my love Don't feel so blue I take my leave I take my leave of you So there I was lost and alone I know that nobody will ever throw me a bone I look to my friends to toss me a rope But no one responds and I'm all out of hope What does it matter, so why should I try What does it matter if I live or die What do you do when you've hit your last wall What do you say when you're done with it all
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Farewell Smilin' Joe 04:06
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Farewell Smilin' Joe You're someone I'd never know I'll see you around, maybe in the lost and found Where you are going, I’ve no way of knowin' Farewell Smilin' Joe Thought you were my friend Guess it was all pretend I looked around, you were gone without a sound Farewell Smilin' Joe Farewell Smilin' Joe Where the hell did you go First you were here, then you disappeared Didn't say goodbye, didn't say why Farewell Smilin' Joe Thought that we were close You supplied me my dose One second I knew ya, what happened to ya Farewell Smilin' Joe Farewell Smilin' Joe You're someone I'd never know I'll see you around, maybe in the lost and found Think of me sometime and drop me a dime Farewell Smilin' Joe
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Cover Me 04:17
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One on one That's how we get the job done We perform the same task Neither one of us has to ask Every time we get it right We can go and say goodnight If you cover me I will cover you And if you be my girl I will be true Me, I got your back And you, you got mine When you stall I take the lead When you resume then I concede Doesn't matter in the end When you have a good friend You, you make me cry You don't even have to try I am crying tears of joy You're my girl and I'm your boy That's the way that it should be for all eternity
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A Man Out of Time 04:55
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I thought that I had forever and a day But how wrong I turned out to be Time it went by, my oh my And it happens nothing lasts for eternity Don't got another minute, too late to begin it Come on, come on, won't you run to me Oh I'll be gone before the clock will chime Come on, come on, won't you run to me Can't you see I'm a man out of time We all have our own special dreams Along with the hope that one day they will come true But as we move through life things don't go as planned And then what do you do I thought that I might make it big some day But that's not the way that it went I made it small, almost not at all Not long enough to ferment The clock may stop ticking but I am still kicking Well I'm a man out of time Tick-tock, tick-tock and your life ain't worth a dime Not a dime for a man out of time We all have our own special dreams With the hope that one day they will come true
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A Year of Forevers 05:53
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The grass was way overgrown And the fences needed a good mend Summer seemed to drag on and on Just like it never would end I could hear the noise of children laughing Taunting me with their happy sound I ran through the steamy streets No children to be found It was a year of forevers Forever and a day It was a year of forevers It did not go away I took a trip to Montauk Point Past the valley of ashes The sky was the color of blue honey The sun poking through the clouds in flashes This was my destiny, I thought The place I'd make my final stand The days here last an eternity This strange and unquiet land

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Maybe one day
You will wear that amulet
That your mother died for
So you could fly

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released January 24, 2024

Cover "A Year of Forevers" by Christine Wilder

Songs written and performed by Eliot Wilder

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