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Violence & Violins
05:09
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Got a mouthful of penny fingers
Spit the taste out, still it lingers
The day that god slept in I prayed for forgiveness
Got a jazzmouth, jitter language
Spit the words out, loose the hinges
And on and on and on my god where have you gone
I'm in need of a better hand
Played by the turn of the river
It's violence and violins in my head
Got a mouthful of penny fingers
Spit the taste out, still it lingers
The day that god gave in I prayed to forget
All the wishes, all the stories
All the shadows and own my own glory
On and on it goes, my god what do you know
I'm in need of a severed hand
Plagued by the indifference of a dying man
Violence and violins in my head
The day that god slept in I prayed for forgiveness
No, I'm in need of a better hand
Played by the turn of the river
It's violence and violins
No, I'm in need of a severed hand
Plagued by the indifference of a dying man
Violence and violins in my head
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Suddenly Sunshine
03:42
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Hallelujah when you fall in love
Hallelujah when you fall in love
Damn it all when you fuck it up
Hallelujah when you fall in love
Hallelujah when you fall in love
Hallelujah when you fall in love
Damn it all when you fuck it up
Hallelujah when you fall in love
Too many mirrors to be mad about the truth
Suddenly sunshine, not so bright
Permanent moonlight, I'm lost tonight
Suddenly sunshine is just an idea in my mind
I remember every single night
I remember every single night
Between the sheets and the money running out
I remember every single fight
Too many mirrors to be mad about the truth
Suddenly sunshine, not so bright
Permanent moonlight, I'm lost tonight
Suddenly sunshine is just an idea
And I say to you that I've lost myself
Keep it like a secret stuck inside my mouth
And I feel for you in fluorescent light
Keep it like a secret locked inside my eyes
Suddenly
Suddenly sunshine, not so bright
Permanent moonlight, I'm lost tonight
Suddenly sunshine is just an idea in my mind
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Proof
03:51
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Roll the windows down so the smoke don't cloud
Driving for my life tonight and no one's here to hear the sound
Of another alarm scribbled on my arm
Either you're this or you're that
Still you're so beautifully you
You could be my proof tonight
One day you can tell the truth about my life
He lived, he tried, he died
Turned out all the lights and said goodbye
For the love of god give me another drink
Raise it up and take 'em down one by one and pour the next round
Of another alarms, I need a witness to the way it's going down
'Cos it may not come back around
Still you're so beautifully you
You can be my proof tonight
One day you can tell the truth about my life
He lived, he tried, he died
Turned out all the lights and said goodbye
You can be my proof tonight
One day you can tell the truth about my life
He lived, he tried, he died
Nothing more and nothing less is all I regret
I can be your proof tonight
See you sleeping innocent and full of life
I'll never cease to try
Knowing you're still so beautifully you
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Are You Ok To Drive
04:38
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Have I been wasting the sun running down a love that's only in my head?
I need somewhere to go, but there's nobody I know, my friends are in my head
Into the bible-black cobble streets with Palestrina
Organ Morgan olly olly oxen free
Are you okay to drive?
I know you've had a drink or two, if you're still counting
And it's okay to pray if you don't mind dirty knees
Everybody's been waiting
I've been biding my time walking along a fine line nobody's reading
I need someone who knows me better than myself, Polly I'm waiting
Dear Leah our lives are long
Dear Leah, I don't think that we belong
Are you okay to drive?
I know you've had a drink or three, if you're still counting on me
It's okay to stay if you need some time to think
Just don't tip the boat or we both sink
Find me in shadow of our last kiss
It's there in the darkness that you'll feel my lips
Hold my hand and tell me how you missed this
Dear Leah our lives are long
Are you okay to drive?
I know you've had a drink or two, if you're still counting
And it's okay to pray if you don't mind dirty knees
Everybody's been waiting
Are you okay to drive?
I know you've had a drink or three, if you're still counting on me
It's okay to stay if you need some time to think
Just don't tip the boat or we both sink
Dear Leah our lives are long
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Castle In The Air
04:09
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If only we were kids playing games in the summer air
If only the truth wasn't harder than the dare
Is it impossible to do
To say the things that we really need to
Let's start trying
Let's start trying
Anything's better than lying before we begin
Maybe we'll meet in a castle in the air
Maybe we'll fall in love when we get there
If it's impossible for you
Then it's impossible for me too
Let's start trying
Let's start trying
Anything's better than dying before we begin
Should I say I'm sorry
Should I turn myself in
Can I start all over
Can I be forgiven
Or am I so incapable of loving you the way I first intended to
From the very beginning
Let's start trying
Let's start trying
Let's start trying
Let's start trying
Let's start trying
Let's start trying
Anything's better than lying before we begin
Anything's better than lying before we begin
Anything's better than dying before we begin
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At The Bound'ry
02:51
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You can find me at The Bound'ry with Lady K and Tim
And a topped off few, the usual view
I don't want no one to see me here
It's mine all mine
Every world wrapped in skin, every star in jeans
Every chair thrown from the balcony
I don't want no one to meet me here
I'm almost done
I'm sorry for that final pour
I was out of my mind
Out of my mind
Just give me more time to explain
I was out of my mind
You can find me at The Bound'ry with Lady K and Tim
And a topped off few
The usual view
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Floral
04:25
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Lost in a ray of smoke
In a barely lit bar
In a barely lit bar
Found a new and numb love
In a floral framed door
In a floral framed door
You never see it coming
No one sees it coming
And then you die beneath the beat
You die beneath the beat of a heart
Everyone here
Everyone here knows
The past is a prophet
It's never a ghost
So gather around
One and all
Together we shelter
Or together we fall
You never see it coming
No one sees it coming
And then you die beneath the beat
You die beneath the beat of a heart
I remember the full moon bright
Swimming in the shallows of a fool proof night
Old enough to know but too young to see
Living life don't come so easily
And now we're living in a sun set sun
Now we're living in a sun set sun
Now we're living in a sun set sun
Lost in a ray of smoke in a barely lit bar
Found a new and numb love in a floral framed door
Everyone here, everyone knows
The past is a prophet, it's never a ghost
So gather around now one and all
Together we shelter, together we fall
And now we're dying beneath a heart
And now we're dying
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Tonight I Am A Tourist
02:10
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Tonight I am a tourist in this towering city
All I see are the poor and the piss and the streets are so dirty
Just brick and bullshit, stars and cigarettes
Sightseers seeing nothing but loneliness and a lingering pity
I need a little more madness my mind's making a fool of me
Gotta run run run out from underneath these neon trees
Bar to bar I go beneath the skyless moon
Running around the whores singing their songs in the street
Tonight I am a tourist
Tonight I am a tourist
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Breathe
05:13
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Breathe and believe you will get through
At the end there is truth that you already knew
Breathe and just be, you can be strong
Where so much went wrong, what's right won't take long
So put down the phone
Lay down your head
What's said has been said
And you'll rise up again
You'll wake from the dead
And in the end you'll begin
So lay down your head
Breathe in between every waking word
When you speak it's a blur, but you will be heard
So breathe and just lean on a love that will catch your fall
It's as soft as a song that sings for us all
So put down the phone
Lay down your head
What's said has been said
And you'll rise up again
You'll wake from the dead
And in the end you'll begin
So lay down your head
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Justin Hulsey Los Angeles, California
I love the stream of conscious approach to writing. Saying exactly what you mean or exactly how you feel doesn't leave much
room for anyone else's own interpretation.
I'm always under the influence of artists like Elbow, Doves, R.E.M., & Radiohead.
FACTS:
Born and raised in Kansas City.
Spent 12 years in Nashville, TN
Short stint in Denver, CO
Currently alive and well in Los Angeles, CA
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