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Uneasy Street

by The Revenants

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1.
Thought I left you long ago Well it looks like I thought wrong Thought I had the strength to let you go But I guess I was not that strong So many roads I’ve gone down So many places I’ve passed on through But every direction I’ve ever taken Always leads me straight back home to you Every night when I go to bed Well I pray you are not in my dreams Thought I relieved myself of you But I’m still bursting, bursting at the seams I bet that you must hate me For all of the pain that I’ve wrought I just hope you can forgive me It’s all I’ve ever sought
2.
This is pretty good What we got here Got it going on For an old buccaneer It's clear up ahead Least that's what I heard was said We are on the road to tomorrow Best to just sit back and enjoy the ride Here on the road to tomorrow Well it's good to have a companion by your side This is pretty cool These devices Plays to our strengths And our vices All these accessories Now bare necessities This is pretty neat All this media We are one big Encyclopedia We're an open book Full of gobbledygook
3.
If I Let Go 05:38
Everyone is leaving for parts unknown Everyone has packed up Charged their cell phone The taxi is a-waiting to take them to their trains Got their tickets altogether Letting go of the reins And I would like to join them but I can't find the time I need a small vacation I'm no longer in my prime If I let go will I make it eastward If I let go will I make it eastward Or drift on to shore I am standing on a platform with guilt in my heart But if I don't ever leave here I can't make a start Now I'm on a subway A girl is sending a text And I would like to ask her what will happen next I am traveling far and wide with no guidebook and no plan I am going here and yon in this strange and distant land I am living on the cheap Going native where I can I am seeing inside out I've become a different man Everyone is gone now I am gone as well All the streets have been deserted All the lawns have gone to hell Don't plan on me returning I've got new fish to fry See you on the flip side This is my goodbye
4.
Terrorists in the closet Ebola under the bed Seems wherever I turn Somethin's 'bout knock me dead The world's pretty spooky Lotsa shit is a-goin' down And the ones who run the thing Are the loudest ones around I sing, I sing Sing la-la-la-la Sing la-dee-day Monkeys makin' moolah All over this here land Even the smart guys Well they ain't so smart Yeah, the don't understand People sending texts While the world goes up in flames And who, who is responsible Well you won't even know their names I sing, I sing While the world is going to hell In a tourist cruise Only celebrities Make front-page news While the world is going to hell In a reality show The rest of us wait around For Godot to show And all through it all I just want to sing I just want to sing
5.
A woman on the subway platform Is shouting that she's clean Been off the stuff since late last week Says she's quit that ugly scene Nobody is listening Except for me and my kid My kid spins her finger 'round her ear Can't keep her feelings hid I am walking down This uneasy street People are so strange On this uneasy street Nobody knows me But that's all right I can walk this uneasy street In the dead of night A big man in a red bandana Is holding a brown bag Something odd is oozing out He's not your usual swag He sees me looking My first and last mistake He gives me a fearsome stare His eyes black like a snake A baby in a baby carriage Starts rolling toward the tracks Some dude in the middle of a text Doesn't see it when it smacks He stepped right out of its way Didn't notice and didn't care Never heard the mother screaming Over his iPhone blare
6.
I was a baby boy in a big boy's world Didn't know my left from right When it came to a girl I was always trip, trip, tripping Always playing the fool Didn't know what I was doing Didn't know any rule Girls they always laughed at me But I never seemed to know it And when I finally wised on up I tried to never ever show it Well I stood by and I took my licks I never bothered to shove I got kicked Kicked in the butt by love I was a baby boy in a big boy's town When it came to loving a girl Didn't know my up from down I always said something kinda lame I always sounded dumb I was just about as subtle as a big bass drum Girls they always gave me grief and I didn't get why Didn't get why I bugged them so like a tsetse fly I was a baby boy at a big boy's table Didn't know which fork to use Didn't know nothing, Mable Thought I could fake my way But I lacked finesse Wound up in a no man's land, but I digress Girls they seemed pretty foreign to me Never got the hang Whenever I endeavored to make a move It was all sturm and drang
7.
Cracking Up 04:00
I can't hold it together Can't keep it in one piece Can't make sense of it all Can't find a new lease My life is melting down Nothing I can do I'm cracking up Cracking up Just like Humpty Dumpty Amen, amen Just like Humpty Dumpty Can't put the pieces together again Thought I'd find an answer But it never did arrive Just wound with the question How can I survive Things are falling apart The center does not hold Giving it one last chance Then I'm packing in No one's gonna miss me Or ask where I been The car is in the ditch And the road is at an end
8.
Don't recognize the signs Don't recognize the faces Nothing looks familiar to me Don't know the names Don't get the language Don't share a history Don't you look me in the eye Whatever you do Don't need nothing from me Don't need nothing from you This is your world This is your time I just live here, I just live here You got it all and I got squat I just live here, I just live here Don’t feel I belong Don’t feel a connection I am nearly invisible What happened to our pledge One nation under God One nation indivisible Don't tell me ‘bout diversity It’s one big lie You got yours And no rules apply Don’t mind me I don’t want much I really don’t want nothing at all You got the money And you got the means You got the wherewithal
9.
These are the days The days of wonder And they are crashing down like thunder These are the days The days of wonder And they leave me wondering They leave me wondering These days of wonder These days of wonder I see things I simply can't believe Things that completely blow my mind I see a kind of insanity A craziness that can't be defined I see a world spinning out of control In ways it's never done People are fighting tooth and nail They are taking away the fun
10.
Don't Let Go 04:20
How many times must I ask you To reach out and take my hand Yeah, yeah And how many times must I ask you Before you finally understand Don't let go Don't let go, now Don't let go Don't let go, my old friend How many pleas must I make of you Before you'll finally listen to me Yeah, yeah And how many tears must I shed Before you take me seriously How many years will it take you Till you finally get it in your head Yeah, yeah And how many years will it take you Will you wait until I am dead
11.
River Road 05:55
A green light it flickered all down the coast And a voice on the TV said, Who loves you the most You awoke that morning and cleaned the crumbs from your bed But when the drugs kicked in You couldn't clean out your head, no, no, no You took a drive down on River Road The sea ate the land down on River Road The dream came true, the world turned blue Down on River Road Down on River Road A siren had sounded down on Beacon Street The gum ball light swirled and dispensed you a treat You downed it so gladly You awaited a change A revolution of the mind Didn't seem so strange, yeah, yeah, yeah Ooo-ooo the river is rising A taxi is waiting His meter is running He's all out of patience His engine is gunning Won't you hop on aboard Let the world explode Get out while you can Down that river road, yeah, yeah, yeah
12.
I heard a noise Then I saw you there In the weary blue light of dawn Your eyes were gray And your dress was torn You said, "I really don't belong" I said I'd follow you wherever you roam Even the long road home We gathered our stuff And we packed our bags And headed out to the train The wind was cruel Nearly blew us down How we cursed the Memphis rain Where we go who really cares Just that we go is the point Our time is done We've had enough Let's go blow this joint We travelled for weeks To distant lands Where street signs were carved in trees You said this must be it Let's set up camp And you fell down on your knees

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"What then are the situations, from the representation of which, though accurate, no poetical enjoyment can be derived? They are those in which the suffering finds no vent in action; in which a continuous state of mental distress is prolonged, unrelieved by incident, hope, or resistance; in which there is everything to be endured, nothing to be done."
–Matthew Arnold

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released October 19, 2023

Cover "Uneasy Street" by Eliot Wilder

Songs written and performed by Eliot Wilder

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