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No matter how I look at it
No matter how I try
I’m never gonna get what I need
I can scream
And I can fret
And I can rip wide open and bleed
It’s impossible
Yeah it’s impossible
Don’t need a weathervane
To know which way the wind blows
It is impossible
Impossible
The impossibility of crows
Impossible, impossible
I can go through therapy
And I can seek a higher truth
But in the end I’m left with who I am
I can write a song
So I can make it clear
But the world it just don’t give a damn
I wish that I were a believer
But I know it’s all a lie
I can build a monument
With my own two hands
And stand back and wonder at all
I can learn the steps
To your favorite song
But first I gotta learn how to crawl
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Missing You
03:46
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You were there at the beginning
And I thought you'd be there at the end
But now you're gone, gone
Gone from my life
Down the dark stairs I descend
I have looked high and low
I have looked low and high
I have covered every inch of the ground
I have searched every speck of the sky
I am missing you
Missing you, missing you
That's all I do
I am missing you
Missing you, missing you
My world is blue
You had touched me down to my essence
But now that touch has disappeared
I don't feel it, don't feel it
Don't feel it no more
All I feel is weird
I have yearned for what I had
I have yearned for that connection
There's never been no one
Not no one
With whom I have shared that affection
What will it take to get you back
Back into my heart
I miss your face, I miss your smell
I miss my better part
You were there at the beginning
And I thought you'd be there forever
But now you're gone, gone
Gone from my life
My life is a fruitless endeavor
I would do anything at all
If I could get you back
But there's nothing I can do
Nothing I can do
And all has gone black
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Lifeline
04:24
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It's an act of compassion
But it's an act just the same
And you don’t know
No you don't know
Your very own confidence game
I don’t, I don’t, I don’t wanna fall again
I don’t, I don’t, I don’t wanna fall, oh on
I don’t, I don’t, I don’t wanna fall again
I don’t, I don’t, I don’t wanna fall, oh no
And I gotta know
Gotta know
Are you gonna be my lifeline
And I gotta know
Gotta know
Are you gonna be my lifeline
It’s an act of kindness
But it’s an act to be sure
And you don’t care
No you don’t care
That’s all part of the allure
It’s an act of sincerity
But it’s an act without a doubt
You talk your talk
Yeah you talk your talk
But you won’t ever bale me out
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This Madness
05:01
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These feels of mine, what can I say
Wanna to shake 'em, wish they'd go away
Try to drown 'em, try to stab their heart
But it don't matter they don't depart
All I want is a little piece of mind
Just a day where I can finally unwind
A kind of madness, that's what I feel
It may seem crazy but it feels so real
A kind of madness, deep and blue
It don't leave me
This madness of you
Feeling trapped, there is no escape
A sticky mess, a formless shape
No explaining, no reason why
It's in the dirt, it's in a winter sky
Years go by and there is no release
Wishing a wish that it would cease
A kind of madness, it lives in me
A kind of madness, it won't let me be
A kind of madness
It hangs on and on
These feels of mine, yeah they never rest
They go on and on, unwanted guest
I get drunk, I get high
I shoot myself right between the eye
And still I just can't get no relief
Just days and days of endless grief
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Lost Without You
04:11
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I see you fading off into the distance
Just like my dad did years ago
Your tiny hand waving bye bye
And me I’m left in a world of woe
Woe, woe
I am lost without you
I am ruined and woebegone
I am lost without you
Don’t know no way to carry on
Lost without you
I knew this day was coming
But it's much worse than I thought
I am bound and I am tortured
Tangled up like a Gordian knot
Release me, release me
I am lost without you
I am lost with nowhere to go
I am lost without you
Whichever way the wind does blow
My whole world revolved around you
There was only you and me
Can't make it through these days
I am living in misery
Agony, agony
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6. |
Pop Life
03:58
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Never saw myself as being someone’s dad
Ain’t it odd how things wind up the way they do
I wound up being someone I could not imagine
I wound up being someone someone looks up to
Pop life
Never saw myself as someone who could so deeply
That I would kill someone if they ever hurt my kid
Never knew I could put someone else before me
But hey that’s exactly what I did
Pop life
Yeah I know that we’ve been making babies
All the way back to Adam and Eve
But this my own personal take on the matter
It tears you apart when they up and leave
Never saw myself being someone so connected
But that's what happens when you share your DNA
She took everything I had and now she’s gone
But I wouldn’t have it any other way
Pop life
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Come On Home
05:35
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Every day passes like another
I'm bored and broken and bent
The world turns slowly on its axis
I wonder where another day went
People pass beneath my window
They don't see where they are going
If you ask them what they're doing
They have no way of knowing
I'm just waiting for you
I'm just waiting for you
I'm just waiting for you to come on home
Come on home
Every day passes like another
And fades into eternity
I am witness to all these shenanigans
It's just not healthy for me
People say they sincerely care
About a world in trouble
I don't wanna bring them down
I don't wanna burst their bubble
Every day passes like another
And nothing seems to change
Just another gray hair on my stubble
No plans long range
People act quite peculiar
I am a stranger and alone
Looking for my one and only
Who will tickle my funny bone
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Empty Nest
05:06
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I was there right from the beginning
And I was there right up to the end
I was there every single step of the way
I gave you all that I had
And then I gave you a whole lot more
I gave it all to you every single day
Now you are flying, flying away
You are off on your quest
Now you are flying, flying away
And I’m back here in an empty nest
I taught you everything that I knew
Even when I got it wrong
I surprised myself with what I did and did not know
You stood there and took it all in
More than you realized
I planted a seed and then I watched it grow
Come back
Come back home to me
It is hard for me to let you go
In fact it is impossible
But I got no choice in the matter
I held on as long as I could
But now the wind has blown you away
And I stand back while all your bits scatter
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A Death in the Family
04:16
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I knew that it was coming
And I knew it would be bad, so bad
And once it really happened
I cried and I cried
Never have I felt so sad
Now you’re gone from me
Ripped away like a severed limb
A light that once shined so bright
Is now so dim
A death in the family
There’s the grieving and the guilt
But mostly ineffable sense of loss
A death in the family
Now there’s a hole in my the fabric
Of space and time
Your own hands get nailed up on that cross
I could see it off in the distance
And I kept hoping it would go away, go away
But then it beared down on me so suddenly
In the middle of my busman’s holiday
You’ve vanished from me
Like a ghost whistling into oblivion
And I chased you through these endless halls
Of some strange Saint Simeon
There was a black song on the horizon
And I tried to block it out, block it out
But it consumed me in a lick
Had no chance to knock it out
I knew I could not keep you
And in the end you had to go
But nothing no one says
Will diminish the pull of the undertow
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No Direction Home
05:09
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Yeah, you probably know the words.
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In Your Hands
05:35
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All the good and the bad
All the sane and the mad
All the best laid plans, it’s all in your hands
All the truth and the lies
All the dumb and the wise
All the best laid plans, it’s all in your hands
You got the whole wide world
Right there in your hands
It is up to you, it is up to you
All the right and the wrong
Why can't they get along
All the best laid plans, it’s all in your hands
All the left and the right
All the black and the white
All the best laid plans, it’s all in your hands
All the love and the hate
All the poor and the great
All the best laid plans, it’s all in your hands
All the weak and the strong
Why can't they get along
All the best laid plans, it’s all in your hands
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12. |
Now I See
06:12
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These are the eyes
These are the eyes you gave me
And I see
I see with clarity
This is the world
This is the world you showed me
And it spins
It spins freely
This is the truth
This is the truth you gave me
And I wear it
I wear it like a badge
This is love
This is love you shared with me
And I feel it
I feel it in my guts
This is the food
This is the food you fed me
And it filled me
It filled me to the brim
This is the vision
This is the vision you showed me
And I took
I took a look around
Now I see
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The Revenants Boston, Massachusetts
"It was hell," recalls former child.
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