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Intruder

by The Revenants

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1.
The Rose of Jericho 04:37
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I've been deserted By all that I know All that I love Has let me go Was it something I said Or the way that I live Or something I did That they can't forgive I need me my water I need me my air I need me my earth And some tender loving care I need me my sun I need me my sky Or I will wither and I will die Like the rose of Jericho Like the rose of Jericho I've been abandoned By all of my friends I could say sorry And make my amends But no one is listening And nobody cares Whatever went wrong I'm unawares I've been forsaken By my family I've been cast off Like a deportee Nobody loves you When you're down and out But shouldn't that be What love's all about
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Intruder 04:56
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Now I see you, now I see you See you plain as day Now I see between your lines Between the words that you say Now I hear you, now I hear you Hear you loud and clear It weighs on my like a rancid fog Wanna make it disappear All I want is to be left alone Not bothered with your storm and strife All I want is you to go away And let me live my life Now I feel you, now I feel you Feel you way too much Now I feel just how bad you feel Set me free from your touch Now I know you, now I know you Know you way too well You’ve made it explicitly clear Your own personal hell I don’t want you, I don’t want you Ain’t no room for you here Hope you get me, get the message Hope I’m being clear I got my way and you got your way We are worlds apart You say you love me, oh how you love me But I don’t want your heart
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Tiny Steps 03:32
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I grew up in the land of strange Put my money in, never got back change The road’s been long, the road’s been tough Hard to know when it’s been long enough And when I see another twisty bend I wonder, Will it bring me to the end And when I see another twisty bend I went to school, I got good grades Had some scrapes, had some escapades Had good times, had some grief Thought that the end would bring me some relief Got a job, thought I was set How could I know what hadn’t happened yet Didn’t see what’s coming, but up it crept We descend to hell in a tiny step So when I see another twisty bend I wonder, Will it bring me to the end And when I see another twisty bend I turned to drugs, then I turned to the Lord But neither one could I afford Driven by faith, driven by desire Hobbled by pain, burnt by fire If life is a test, I never passed Ran a marathon, came in last Had me dreams but they came to naught Tried to buy salvation but it couldn’t be bought And when I see another twisty bend I wonder, Will it bring me to the end
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Crossing the Line 04:05
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Who has let the genie out He has lots to answer for All these troubles, all this insanity It's too hard to ignore What else is in store, what else is in store I am crossing the line And I don't want to look back I am crossing the line Treading softly Who has unleashed the dogs of war There's a circle in hell just for him All these casualties, all this folderol Did he do it on a whim Things are looking pretty grim Gonna dig me a foxhole Gonna bury my whole self alive Don't see any other way to go Don't see how I can survive Started out a correspondent Could not believe what I saw All this madness, all this brutality No such thing as the law Knew this was my last hurrah
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I Hear Your Song 06:15
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I feel your pain I feel your joy I feel your strength Nothing can quite destroy I can see No need to disguise I can see I feel likewise I hear your song I hear your song I feel your love I feel your hate I feel your wounds I can relate I can see No need to hide I can see See from the inside
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If I Never Met You 03:48
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I was just living my life But I was living a lie One that I was happy to go along You woke me up From out of my dream Just by singing your secret song If I never met you I wouldn't be on my merry way If I never met you I wouldn't be where I am today If I never met you I was just doing my thing For what it was worth But deep down nothing felt quite right Then you came along And you opened my eyes Suddenly I could see the light I was just singing my song Didn’t have a care No one told me it was out of tune You were the first to say You can’t go on this way You let the air out of my balloon
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Danny Boy 03:45
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Come ye back when summer's in the meadow
 Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
 I will be here in sunshine or in shadow
 Oh, Danny Boy I love you so Oh, Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
 From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
 The summer's gone, and all the roses falling 
It's you must go and I must bide But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying
I f I am dead, as dead I well may be 
Ye'll come and find the place where I am lying
 And kneel and say an Ave there for me And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me
 And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be 
For you will bend and tell me that you love me 
And I shall sleep until you come to me
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A Break With the Past 04:46
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It all unfolds In a strange tableau This strange life of mine And I hold these threads And they’re tangled in knots But I like to see how they intertwine Now I’m walking upstairs For a grander view Where the whole wide world it looks divine And I can see What is yours And I can see what is mine The credits come up It’s the end of the film And people are heading out the door They hit the streets Like a disease And they spread their infection like a whore I am aghast But I'm starving And I want to eat them up like a carnivore So I eat 'em up But it's never enough And in the end I'm always wanting more The story goes on The characters change And me, I’m forever miscast My rage grows strong It’s almost out of control But somehow you remain steadfast I take one step Then I take another And I step over this divide so vast And I voice inside Says let it all go Time to a break with the past
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Carry Me 05:08
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It was summertime And the rain kept pouring down Until the ground swelled up like a blister And I felt as if I were drowning In a deep depression Which amplified in me like a transistor What am I, what am I, what am I Won't you carry me Carry me home -Carry me, carry me home You're the one You're the one that I need -The one that I need Won't you carry me Carry me home -Carry me, carry me home You're the one You're the one that I bleed -The one that I bleed It was summertime But the sun refused to shine It might as well have been the depths of December I could only see your eyes And I could only hear your voice It will be with me for as long as I’m allowed to remember Who am I, who am I, who am I It was summertime But it was a gray day every day Not like I was feeling like I was on vacation An anxious wind was whipping Bout to knock me flat But weirdly I could feel you inside that vibration What is this, what is this, what is this
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My Best Days 04:32
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I was having the time of my life Never thought it would end Every day was a new adventure Beyond what I could comprehend I took some crazy chances And I walked a fine line Did what I wanted and all the stars did align Now when I think about it Now when I dream about it Those were my best days Those were my best days Wouldn’t change a single day I was ready to go all the way Those were my best days Those were my best days I was living my life to the max Living my life in my own way Did not care about consequences So long as I could make it pay Did not care about no one Just cared about me Caused a lot of damage living large and carefree Good times, good times, good times all around Good times, good times, that blessed sound Thought I'd go on and on And why wouldn't I I was young and I was healthy I could spit in your eye Could not see all the changes That would come my way Did not care who I ran down On the human highway
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The History Train 05:26
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Here it comes, blowin' smoke Straight to your town Full of piss, full of steam Gonna run you down Black as hell, big as shit Scary as a beast Never stops, juggernaut This movable feast Shake that chain it's the history train Going down, going down, down Like a hurricane, the history train Going down, going down, down Thunder crack, lightning bolt Makes a big ol' noise Mothers weep, soldiers march Coming in convoys Rappers shout, rabies scream All gone in a wink Pots and pans, arms and legs The whole kitchen sink You can close all your curtains And silence your clocks But outside your window it circles like a hawk Here it comes. It is coming to you Here it comes and there's nothing you can do Angry words in an angry time What will we remember, what will we forget When the story is written just how will it look Will it be a future of regret
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Peace B With U 04:45
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I see you now as you stroll along Going your own way You and yours, me and mine Much to my dismay And you are right We will never be one And that's the hardest thing The hardest thing I done Peace be with you Peace be with you Now and forever Peace be with you Peace be with you And you Peace be with you Peace be with you Even though we're not together Peace be with you Peace be with you Yeah you You got that look that says This ain't what you want it to be It's just wishful thinking Wishful thinking A fantasy You say you don't love me That's not something you feel It may be what I want But what I want is just not real Can't imagine that this pain Will ever go away It's gonna haunt me Till my dying day

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"You can beat us with wires
You can beat us with chains
You can run out your rules
But you know you can’t outrun the history train"
–Paul SImon

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released October 10, 2023

Cover "Intruder" by Eliot Wilder

Songs written and performed by Eliot Wilder

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