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Coat
04:46
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I surely should be carried up a mountainside
Placed upon a bough
High up above
No one can reach my feet
I’d stay away
Up in my tree you’d be so free
So free from me
‘Cause mountainsides
They’ll draw you down
I know you’re safer on ground
Lay low
I can lay low
I’m the coat to your summer
So I’ll lay low
I surely should be set out to sea
I’d drift away
On all my waves
They swell and moan
You are my float
Out at sea
I’d sink so quickly
And you’d be so free
In our sea
I sink you more
I know you’re safer on shore
Lay low
I can lay low
I’m the coat to your summer
So I’ll lay low
Silence is golden
You always told me so
But my trade is never silent
And I’ve been around enough to know
That she’s beautiful and young
And you’re so beautiful and young
And I’m quicker with my tongue
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Emily
03:29
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I do not have a sister
Nor do I a brother
I’m left with too much soul to give to another
Emily, she wept
On the velveteen steps
From a film we saw in midtown about a boat
So I took her hand in mine
And helped her on my shoulders
She screamed,
"You can’t move boulders
But you sure as hell move me"
Leave the rest for me
She said farewell
I said no one says that anymore
I’ll go home and that’s alright
Emily, she knows
To wave on country roads
To drivers coming toward her
Just like she learned to do
Now the bones in my hand
Are heavy with the knowledge
Of what they’ve written of her
And what’s been written to them
Leave the rest for me
She said farewell
I said no one says that anymore
I’ll go home and that’s alright
I do not have a sister
Nor do I a brother
I’m left with too much soul to give to another
And you do not have a sister
Nor do you a brother
Perhaps we steal the pieces from each other
That were meant for them
Leave the rest for me
I said farewell
But no one says that anymore
I’m going home
And that’s alright
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Princes & Kings
04:11
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There’s gold on the walls
You need gold on your teeth
I could peel it away
Cover the holes underneath
But as my skin turns brown
Aren’t you proud of me now
Liquor you up
And I’ll put out the sun
With the blanket your mother made for me
You remember the one
Woven of princes and kings all mouthing the letter O
Oh no
Your dog watched as we sang
Different parts of the same song
You’re anything but
A simple man
And a case would knock me flat
But I drink what I can
What kind of shape are you in when it’s not night
Cause I like the light
I like you in light
Do you like you in light
Will you watch as we sing
Different parts of the same thing
Am I just wrong
Tell me I’m wrong
You’re still not old enough to avoid
Dying young
You’re still not old enough to avoid
Mm
I can’t watch as we bring
The same comforting
I’ll see you at dawn
Are we too far gone
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Promised Land
04:45
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Hold out
Can you feel it coming
It’s cold out
I can feel it coming
The way this will go is only what I know
So step on up to the promised land
Hold on
I can see it coming
I’m not sold on what he’s pitching
But I know we both see it coming
But fear not friend
There is no end
So step on up to the promised land
I’ll follow through
I promise, man
I pass the years gluing splinters to floorboards
For our home
I cannot say what makes me stay
But his bellowed laugh has its way with me
I love her
My dearest mother
But when he looks at me I could give up
I could give in and become her
I am a doe
Further into the woods I go
Out of fear I guess
But I don’t know
‘Cause I like the woods
And I like this show
I’ve wished upon him rain
And I have wished upon him silver
If playing stems the pain
Then as children we think clearer
Think clearer
All the little things about him
All the little things
Spotted eyes and skinny thighs
He stole me first but that belies the point
Hold out
Can you feel it coming
It’s so damn cold out
But I know you see it coming too
But fear not friend
This is not the end
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