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Billet​-​Doux

by The Revenants

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1.
My Penance 04:46
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I done some bad things long time ago And those bad things I did they laid me low They filled me with sadness, for sure And they filled me with regret Thought I was done with them But I guess not just yet Trying to do right, trying to do better Trying to be as faithful As an English Setter, oh yeah I was wicked once, I did rotten stuff I took more than my share I couldn't get enough I saw suffering and I turned away People cried out and I said, Have a nice day Now I've changed, I've read the Bible I'm on the hook, I am libel, oh yeah They used to call me Mister Misery I rained down terror through history I didn't care about nothing Unless I could stand to gain I was the arbiter, the arbiter of pain But I am different now I've turned a new leaf I'm done with the hurt I'm done with the grief, oh yeah
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Two Different Devils 05:08
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We came from the same place But wound up at different destinations We both picked our poisons We had our opposite aspirations You had a head for business I was an artsy type guy Sometimes I think you're jealous of me But I can't understand the reason why You went this way, I went that way We could never get ourselves aligned You had savvy, you had courage I never knew what I was hoping to find Two different devils Two different devils Chasing us down, down, down You do your skiing in Aspen While I trudge through the Boston snow Your daughter went to NYU But where my kid will go I don't know Why have you forsaken me When you're the one with all the luck Doubt you'd want to swap places With a guy who can't seem to make a buck You are a smart guy, you are a sharp guy You never seem to get it wrong You got the brass ring, you got the golden fleece And all I got is this crummy song
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Your Ride's Here 04:51
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You did all you could, gave all you had to give Until you just plumb ran out of time You lost heart, you lost your reason for being Got all the way down to your very last dime Don't you waste another day, don't you let time slip away You may find you're at the thin end of the wedge Prepare for the worst, jump in headfirst Take a stand and make a pledge Get ready to go, no don't you be slow The horn is honking, your ride's here Pack up your stuff, make sure you have enough Run out to the curb, your ride's here You did all you could, gave all you had to give You dug your heels into the bottomless deep Why should you care, you had nothing to gain While the world around you has fallen asleep Hop aboard, hop aboard, hop aboard Get on, get on, get on We're pulling out of here right as we speak Are you going to be with us Are you going to stand there and dawdle Are going to jump right in And rule with the rest of the meek
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Winter Will Come 03:08
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When you come back It will be cold 'round here The leaves will have blown away With a change in the atmosphere There'll be a nor'easter And a bottle of rum Pile on the blankets Winter will come I will have missed you To say the least My lips will be chapped All life will have ceased I'll slip on black ice And break my leg I'll hang all my coats Up on a peg I'll light a candle And I'll watch it burn I'll hold out hope That you will return
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Work. Buy. Repeat. Die. 03:39
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Who thinks about their lot in life And all the crazy things that they are doing We applaud for the dumbest stuff When we really should be booing We buy junk that we don't really want And then we buy a whole lot more No never once do we ever ask ourselves What we want these stupid things for Live out your life and never ask the question why Slice off yourself the biggest piece of the pie Do as little as you can for each and every other guy Work buy repeat die Who thinks about the things they say Before they open their big old mouths We stand around chewing our cuds Like a bunch of dumb old cows We go through the motions of life But we don't think about the meaning Nothing seems to wake us up Until death comes intervening We want what we want and we want it now We want it now We want what we want and we want it now We want it and how Gimme, gimme, gimme, our rallying cry, rallying cry Gimme, gimme, gimme, before we die Who thinks about what they think It really is too much trouble It's a whole lot easier to live your life Inside a little bubble Sure it may seem like nothing but a mindless exercise But who on their horse is high enough To tell us how to live our lives
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The Water Is Rising 03:59
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There's danger here and there's danger there Sparks are flying everywhere Anger on the left, anger on the right There can be no peace There is only fight, fight, fight You wanna fight, you wanna fight But who can tell you what is right, what's right The water rising, going over the top The water is rising It don't ever stop, no, no It is flooding your basement Gonna wash you away You can't stop it Here comes judgment day There's hatred here and there's hatred there People are hatin' everywhere Fighting on the left, fighting on the right And the ones that win are the ones with might, might, might You gotta have might, have might But who in the end is upright, forthright There are righteous here and there are righteous there Everyone's righteous everywhere Slogans on the left, slogans on the right It's us against them Black versus white, black, white Dynamite, it’s dynamite And who ever sees the warning light Goodnight
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The Wilding 04:38
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It is there from the moment you are born It's the seed that grows and grows It matures into something base and rank Like a bone that won't ever decompose It becomes a part of who you are It becomes the clothes you wear It becomes the way you walk and talk Follows you around like your own special air It is you I swear These are the ways of the wicked and the wild The black ugly heart in the soul of every child These are the ways of the demonic and depraved The black ugly heart that never will be saved Look out, look out here comes the wilding It is there in the mirror every morning Staring back at you with an evil grin It is there when you go to bed at night The thing that makes it easy to sin It is part of your casual conversations It's embedded in your DNA You can't shake it, try as you might You can't shake it, try as you may It has you in it's sway Here it comes, here comes the wilding Here it comes to the streets of your town And we're going, we’re going down, down, down It is there in your every single action Whether you intend it or not It is there when you call for arbitration When you're really trying to stir the pot It is in your insidious laughter It is in your crocodile tears It is part of your machinery It is part of your well-oiled gears It is all that it appears
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Girl From New York City 04:11
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Must be nice to be young and pretty To be the girl from New York City Must be nice to be young and pretty To be the girl from New York City Well all the boys they want to hold your hand And say you're their special one And all the boys they want to kiss your lips And caress you like a gun But you don't want none of that, you say You want to do just as you please You just as soon be all alone Than to be someone who will appease Go on and get away Go on and get away from me I don't want to be with any of you I'm the girl from NYC Well all of the boys they got a thing for you A big ol thing that goes down to their loins And all of the boys they all dream of you As being better than a girl from Des Moines But you don't want to be a part of it You just want what you want And what you want is piece of mind Not to be a phony debutante
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Runaway Days 05:40
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Gotta run, run, run Gotta run, run, run Gotta run, runaway days Never going back to where I been Never going back to way back when Gotta run, run, run, runaway days Gotta run, run, run, runaway days Somebody tells ya they can sell ya the key The key to the land of free Better beware and be ready to go Ready to go Look out below Somebody tells ya they can show ya the way They way to a brighter day Better beware of and be ready to rock Be ready to rock Before the chime of the clock
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Sufferin' 03:54
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We seen a lot of hard times on that we can all agree We done a lot of terrible stuff It's all through our history Nothing much changes when it comes to causing pain So why we do we always do it Is it that down deep we're insane We're sufferin', sufferin' Sufferin' you and me We suffer together We're sufferin' can't you see We stage our stupid battles for all the good that they do We kill a million people and somehow we ain't through We come home to our families But nothing's ever the same And when we ask who's responsible It's never us who's to blame We wreck our sad little planet from sea to polluted sea We stack up all our cans and boxes And we leave 'em for posterity We say that we mean well But you know about good intent So let's get together and sing this sad lament
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Merrily We Roll Along 04:21
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So what if we keep rolling along We never seem to get anywhere You are here and I am there And none of us could give a care We are headed for the same destination Every person in every nation Merrily we roll along Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Merrily we roll along Woo-hoo, woo-hoo Who cares if we get what we want Who cares about each passing trend A big old house and a big old car It doesn't matter in the end If you think there's a final reward Be like the rest and climb on aboard What's the sense in your fretting Might as well have yourself a good time Get what you can while you can Before all them final bells do chime Are you feeling a just little bit cheated Well what the hell did you expect Did you think that you would live forever If you did you were incorrect Life is long but time is short Better get it on before you mort
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It's Yesterday Today 05:38
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Had time to think about the world at large Had time to think but I didn't take charge I have some regret but what can you do Go back in time and live it anew And it's yesterday It's yesterday today It would be nice if we could change the past It would be nice if the die weren't cast I would be humble, maybe not so cavalier I'd give all away A life of good cheer Time is a-wasting Time's flying by Time is as finite as a summer sky The clock is a-ticking Can't turn back the hands We think we know it all But who understands

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"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough." —William Blake

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released March 21, 2024

Cover "Billet-Doux" by Eliot Wilder

Songs written and performed by Eliot Wilder

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