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Gone for Good

by The Revenants

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1.
Your Secret Song 04:20
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I hear what you’re saying and I like what I hear It’s coming through to me loud and clear You give it to me straight You hand me no bull You got no need to pull the wool But something seems off No, not quite right You go too easily into that good night Your eyes betray you They sing your secret song And your secret song is low and blue Your eyes betray you They sing your secret song And your secret song is pure and true Humdinger You got the right stuff, yeah that's for certain You show me what's behind the curtain You make me glad Glad that I had met you I know you'd love me if I let you But something seems off Like it might be a grift So many dreams that you won't lift You got the power You got the juice Only you can turn me loose I hear what you're saying, how can I not You say it loud and you say it a lot Message received Message understood I'm sure the end result will do me good But something seems off And I can't quite guess it Maybe it's you who can confess it
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In My Old Bedroom 04:39
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In my old bedroom I’d be listening to “Music From Big Pink” I’d roll a joint in the gatefold It had that stanky skunky stink And when “The Weight” would start playing My creaky old bed would start swaying In my old bedroom It was my hideaway My hideaway from all the screaming In my old bedroom My secret place My secret place where I was dreaming In my old bedroom I’d lie me down, I’d lie me down and masturbate I’d dream of that girl in Geometry class And how I might ask her out on a date But I never ever found the cojones I was too busy standing on ceremonies No one could hurt me Or say I’m retarded I could be myself And not be guarded In my old bedroom I could pretend that I was the new Bob Dylan I’d fake my way on my shit guitar My playing was weak but my spirit was willin’ My sister would bust in and laugh at me She’d say, Who you trying to be
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The Longest Dream 04:55
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It is down here in a dark place Behind the closed door There is movement Protoplasm Bursting open like a spore The stair is twisting like an Escher Up and back and through All these pictures collecting dust Hence and hitherto It is the longest dream And it will never end It is the longest dream A lost world of pretend There is laughter and there is rage And there is illness all around It’s in this building It’s on these streets It’s all over this seasick town I see fat faces, I hear odd voices They bubble up through the cracks I look for clues. I parse the logic I study the syntax There is weeping In cathedrals There are virgins sacrificed All these rituals They come to naught In the name of Jesus Christ
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Next Stop Wonderland 03:48
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Heat and humidity Gonna be the death of me Where can I seek sweet relief Hop on that Blue Line train Go where it's a less insane Pack up my woes and say goodbye to my grief Next stop Wonderland Down the rabbit hole I go Next stop Wonderland Where I go nobody know Is that a breeze I feel Why does it feel surreal Did the gummies just kick in Shoes, ships and sealing wax Rows and rows of sunburned backs Hey dude that's me trippin' I dive into the ocean blue And when I come up I am born anew All the ice cream is melting And the seagulls are pelting And my feet are all covered with tar Get back on that Blue Line train Click clack like a blue migraine Stop and go like a bumper car
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Share 04:17
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I got my book right next to the bed And I read it just before I lay down my head It is for me, for me on my own It is for me and me alone, no We can share Share what we got We can share a little We can share a lot You can have my stuff And I don't care Just as long as we share Just as long as we share My records my number one prize possessions You can say they are my crazy obsessions If you want to play 'em that's OK The street we drive should be two-way Wherever we draw the line That's just fine You got yours and I got mine I got my way of doing what I do And I know that you got your own way too But when it comes to taking and giving That's the way I prefer to be living
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Long Time Gone 04:25
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Living in a dream A twisted, endless dream It feels weirdly familiar and strange I try to hold on to it But then it slips away As it moves in and out of range Long time gone I am long time gone I am no longer here Long time gone I am long time gone Where did I disappear Who do I know Don’t know no one I am an outlier in my own town The faces I see They all look foreign to me And their voices make a alien sound I am long time gone I am long time gone Don’t expect to ever see me back I am long time gone I am long time gone Even I can’t even keep track Wish you could see you The way I see you And then you would know how I feel But you will never know Just what I think I know And I know is beautiful and surreal
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My Madeleine 04:34
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Learned a thing or three along the way Mostly how I don’t know nothin’ And the best I can say It hasn’t been all bad But when I say that you know I’m just bluffin’ If only I knew then what I know now I wouldn’t be in such a stupid mess But isn’t that just what Everyone always says When they back on their life’s progress Where there’s life there’s hope or so I’ve read And I would like to think that’s true Maybe I’m the sort of man Who’s doomed to be a failure Or maybe one day I’ll finally break on through Well I once had such big ideas But looking back they seem absurd They were the thoughts That felt important when I was young But now they’re all dreams deferred Nowadays I get up at four in the morn I have a cup and then I do some writing Try to mark my days the best that I can Collect my thoughts while they’re still biting These are the days and this is the time The time I am living in Trying my best to do what I can I am not yet giving in This is the road, the road I’m on And it’s getting near to the end But before I get there I need to know That it wasn’t all just pretend
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Keep Me Here 04:50
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You would like to keep me here Chained to the old ways You’d wanna lock me in your dreams Back from those old dreamy days It’s not like we remember It’s not like anything at all Still we’d like to make believe As we all grow so feeble and fat Still we’d like to make believe I guess there’s nothing wrong with that Keep me here, darling keep me Keep me here, honey keep me You only see me as I was More than a little bit dumb Who’d ever have predicted All of the things to come It’s not like what we remember It’s not like anything at all Still we’d like to make believe As we all grow so feeble and fat Still we’d like to make believe I guess there’s nothing wrong with that You say, don’t go changing who you are Don’t go changing my memoir I prefer the way I like to recall The past don’t need no overall You’d like to stick me like a bug And pretend that everything’s the same I hate to shatter your fantasy But you knew me by a different name It’s not like we remember It’s not like anything at all Still we’d like to make believe As we all grow so feeble and fat Still we’d like to make believe I guess there’s nothing wrong with that
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Above This World 04:17
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Off I go into the wild blue yonder Or so I dream, so I dream Up so high above the sky You can’t see me, you can’t see me Just how high do I have to be So I could fly above this old world Will I achieve escape velocity So I could fly above this old world This crazy old world This mean old world Got a running start and I’m ready to take off Wish I had faith, a little bit if faith I’m lowering my trunk and flexing my legs Wanna let go, gotta let go And if I could I’d get so high So high above the sky Last night I dreamed of contrails And they were streaming out of eyes And your face was beautiful and blue Calling to me to come on home Off I go into the wild blue yonder Up so high above the sky Down I go sprouting my flame from under Or so I dream, so I dream
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Jump Out of My Skin 04:14
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My whole body aches It aches me right down to the bone Something’s burning in me Burning like acetone There ain’t no remedy There ain’t no kind of cure And I gotta wonder How much more I can endure Wanna jump Wanna jump out of my skin Wanna blow myself up Wanna pull out the pin Wanna jump out of my skin I don’t have good days I just have days of endless pain I go out for a stroll And I get hit by a train I don’t ask for much I ask for nothing at all Try to right myself But then I stumble and fall I didn’t ask for this But this is what I got Ask me how much it hurts It hurts a lot I raise the white flag And I am calling for surrender Will you take me by the hand Will you treat me sweet and tender Is it too much to ask Won’t you give me what I need Or would rather be a jerk And simply watch me bleed
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Gone From Here 04:22
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Wish I had the time to say goodbye But I gotta be moving right along I’ve packed my stuff Ain’t that much Just some socks, some shirts And this here song Don’t know where I’m going But this much is clear Gotta get going out of here I am gone, gone from here And I won’t be coming back I am gone, gone from here Out of the blue into the black Gone from here I am sorry if I brought you down You should know I had good intentions Yeah I get it It don’t make no sense My disbelief and its suspensions What do you care, I’m out of your hair And I am out the door Just like that I will disappear Just like that I'm gone from here Don’t know where I’m going And I don’t care Don’t got no forwarding address You can have my stuff For what it’s worth So sorry about the mess When I get there, I’ll drop you a line Farewell to you my porcupine
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Toodaloo 03:45
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What can I say That I’ve not said Go ahead and call me a shithead I got no choice But to walk away Let’s just say it’s not the happiest day Toodaloo, toodaloo This is me saying goodbye to you Toodaloo, toodaloo I see no reason to continue Bye-bye, bye-bye Don’t be sad, don’t you cry Don’t be angry Don’t kick up a fuss I know I’m acting like a fussy old cuss We’ve not been good For t oo many years Broken hearts and busted chandeliers You can stop pretending You care about me You can finally live your life So gay and so carefree You can keep the books But I get the cat You get the tit and I get the tat Look for a card When Christmas rolls ‘round Remember the child that was drowned

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"The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed."
–Søren Kierkegaard

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released November 16, 2023

Cover "Gone From Here" by Eliot Wilder

Songs written and performed by Eliot Wilder

This one's mostly acoustic.

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"It was hell," recalls former child.

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