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Simple
04:25
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Well, I woke up this morning
You didn't even say goodbye
Better put some distance between us
I run out of time
It's a beautiful country
As long as you don't mind living the lie
I've got my patriotism, honey
But I run out of time
I've been well educated
To within inches of my life
Learned a lot about chemistry
But I run out of time
I ain't got no religion
But I am not the first one to decline
Real estate in a spiritual wasteland
I run out of time
Life ain't too complicated
Fact it's as simple as pie
You don't get even
You just get older
I run out of time
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Out on the Boundary
04:34
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It would be like telling you goodbye
To see you again
It would be like telling you a lie
You were a good friend
It would be like kissing you goodnight
After the ceremony
It would be like seeing you go by
Out of the limosine
I know I have to carry on
But it's all I can do just to mourn
You leave a mother and a child
You leave a family
You left me wandering and wild
Out on the boundary
I ran with prostitutes and thieves
Avoiding shelter
Living on interstates and dreams
Of when I held her
One I come rolling home
Just to find you gone
It would be like telling you goodbye
To see your face again
Strange like some memory or mind
I had forgotten
It would be like telling you goodbye
To have you see me
Stop and give up everything to lie
Down in your deep field
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Golden Hour
04:28
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While I sifted through the ashes
As I drifted out to sea
Barna Norton up in Jonesport
He set the whole thing up for free
The golden hour lasts forever
And lifetimes pass inside of days
I spent my life drawing circles
Around the things we didn't say
Go on living
Yeah you
Go on
You go on living
Yeah you
Go on
You may think, but not to answer
You may fear, but not suspect
You may stoop, but not to gather
You may hope, but not expect
As you go on living
You go on
Go on living
Yeah you
Go on
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There’s lotus blooming in the old canal
Painted doorways, perspectival cherubim
And the Francis Scott Key Hotel
Where you bought your wedding dress lifetimes ago
And this one, circling now
Bowstring drawn up in arms
My still beating heart
Lay bare my chest to let his arrows in
Curious, we navigate the right-hand margin of the Civil War
Unjustified past night clubs, tired balconies
Fake sawbones shops and painted-over gore
The kids are gonna have to take
the long way home again
Militia lie in ambush in the orchards for them
I can’t keep finding you out cold
Out of this song, out of your story, out of mind
Maybe your were looking for a place
to lay your bones when it was time
No one ever signs up for the hand we’re dealt
And you made damn sure
None of us have that excuse again
We’ve slipped this knot down-line
So far, so long, so many times
That we can’t recognize a noose
Complain there’s no one left to hang it’s just as well
Not one of us would cut the others down
If we got loose
You carried us ‘cross continent
From Israel Creek to this sweet union blue
Sobbing, cresting, joined in locust song
We celebrate you Red, you brilliant beast
Drunk on pilgrims blood we feast
As we go slouching back into your
Junkyard Bethlehem
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