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Crowhammer (single edit)
08:17
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I've seen the look in your eyes
when the feeling always turns to ice
and the waking world is broken
go back to sleep
We've been living hand-to-mouth
'cuz I let too many ghosts in the house
through the cracks in the wall
where the world gets in
No one comes over
the lawn's overgrown
this is just the devil I know
I've been seeing shapes
in the stormclouds
and corners of the house
Don't turn your back on the sea
don't turn your back on the plains
honey, my land is parched, parched
and my house is fallen down
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This is where it ends
chapter and verse
you win
take the handful of hate with you as I die
and step into the bright sunshine
We took the same road long enough
to see it was a waste
long enough to fry our minds on the hot pavement
watching angels of the lord
in their dizzy choruses
crashing to the humid earth
How did I get here?
Just a broken-axled pickup rusting in the salt air
return to the soil
return to the soil
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O'kaylord (single edit)
02:17
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A few lifetimes ago
a strong mind crept in silence
and rolled the stone
It's okay with me, Lord
I don't mind what they've done to
your chosen one
With no halo to hold
and none worth holding on to,
we might be overcome
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Qomolongma (single edit)
04:54
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Along the spine
of a broken world
solemn and dangerous
climbing 'cuz it's there
Gravity loves you, baby
the ground will always
be there to catch you
Not like the eagle
not a controlled fall
Where thousands have tried
these untested heights
Same high
same blur of cloud and glory
same water in my veins
You came all this way
nailed yourself to the roof of the world
just to slide back down
wrapped in your nation's flag
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It feels so good to be wrong
to climb to the top of a dying pine
to celebrate your every failure
sleeping in a cold, cold trailer
Beneath the mountain's weary shoulders
resonating through the hollow
where this goes I cannot follow
drinking from that bitter bottle
I drove by the old place a few years back
nothing left but an empty lot
beneath the mountain's weak shoulders
in my heart, an empty spot
Raise your glass to the river in flood
drink it down and close your eyes
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Alpha Cop Raleigh, North Carolina
Channing/bass + gtr
Kari/violin
Brian/drums
Corbie/gtr + mic
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