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Ocean Of Value
04:01
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With a box full of records from Columbia House
Come hell or high water, I'll make the future somehow
With some clothes I've outgrown
Some looks I can live without
I'm an ocean of sentimental value, I wanna leave it behind somehow
I'm dying to feel better, dying to patch up all the leaks
Off chasing better weather with a head full of antiques
Hoping one of these'll shoot me back into the breeze
Lord I'm bending on my knees
To go find peace somehow
I'll trade my past to you
For a future past
Everything must go, all that I can throw
And all that I can cash
My days roll together into a ball of twine
Can't tell you how it stands, or how it got so high
I'd find some more time to waste
If I had a little more time to buy
Here, kid they're your memories now
Take em, I hope they're kind
Let me go find peace somehow
I'll trade my past to you
For a future past
Everything must go, all I've ever known
Was never built to last
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Moonlight, OR-99W
04:04
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Bathed in Bugler smoke, I’ve never loved the moonlight more
Than in some far off town, far away from my own name, in a new heart
Busk until we’re drunk, do it till the day I hate my own voice
Can I sleep in your loft? May I borrow your microphone, and maybe your guitar?
Snap a photo with your eyes and if it’s a blur, it’s all right
I swear I’ll get you that song one day if I get better at this
It's somewhere shining in the corner of the moonlight over 99 West
Find a space on the wall, have fun go painting in the caves
Find a couple lines, hold them together and hope it makes you feel brave
Try and find a voice, take a handful when you go, just to see what fits
Busk until the dusk, after all the banks shut down and call it quits
Snap a photo with your eyes and if it’s a blur, it’s all right
I swear I’ll get you that song one day if I get better at this
It's somewhere shining in the corner of the moonlight over 99 West
I'll even sign it with a heart
Moonlight, Oregon-99 West
I'll even sign it with my name
Moonlight, Oregon 99 West
99 West
I've never loved the moonlight more
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Aurelian
04:27
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I hate the snake in this bag
100 pounds of it on my back.
You slithery stone
this crowd seems to love us so.
For all of those who are afraid to come near
it keeps your distance as well as it should
trust me
it's for your own good
don't want you so close to me
through the curtains
I'm all I'm not
hell, I'm even a man my father would've never fought
so, Damien
let's prove the old man wrong
even if he doesn't care
we're moving on.
This airplane vodka don't help at all
I ain't going out there without an 8-ball
This crowd calls my name
I answer back to them in shame
Which way do I go
Who am I up against
Where's my 8-ball you son of a bitch
Just give this kid the count
I'll see myself out
Just give me my money now.
Cos out there
I'm all I'm not
all that's left of me's dying out there in a parking lot
Aurelian
we'll prove the old man wrong
even if he doesn't care
we're moving on
I used to hate the snake in this bag
but it's been around longer than my dad
it serves and protects
this crowd seems to love us still
days are brighter and my head's on straight
I started yoga
hell I lost a little weight
I think I may have found my good
I found my name again.
through the curtains
I'm all I'm not
hell, I'm even a man my father would've never fought
so, Damien
let's prove the old man wrong
even if he doesn't care
we're moving on.
even if he doesn't care.
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El Monte Legion Stadium
03:45
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I wanna send this one out
to my dad in Lancaster prison
I love you anywhere you go
I swear soon I’ll come visit
till then here’s “Smile Now, Cry Later”
Send one to my baby
fifth night in a row, she's locked me out
tell her I'm waiting and I hope
she lets me back in somehow
Here’s “Always & Forever”
Art would you read my letter to my family back at home.
Tell them I miss them, give my wife a kiss through the microphone
And play “Gangsters Get Lonely Too”
I wanna send one out with forgiveness on my breath
to all the ghosts out here, all the ones that never left
Play em “Groovin’ on a Sunday Afternoon”
Art, all around my home
Somewhere in the heartbeat there
Are all those once in a lifetime dances
all our drunken relatives shared
Go on and let our love and our forgiveness into the air
with the El Monte Legion Stadium
still lingering up there somewhere
Gone but it's somewhere
Here's "Smile Now, Cry Later."
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Latch The Gate
04:14
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onward, progress. on with the show
we gotta get out
this place needs to close
this wake's gotta clear out and make room for the next.
an hour ago we said we'd be gone in five minutes
on with the obvious, you can't turn it off. look it in the eye, hope that it's enough
race the moon home hope that a nice dream comes, chase a glass of water raise it up to everyone
here's to you hope you make it through
hope you make it through the night
here's to you
hope you make it through, hope you make it through the light
on with the program, our lives minus one. it's a brand new day somehow it's a rerun
we'll all still carry love, it weighs whatever you want
it's a hummingbird, it's your best friend getting carried out of a bar
on with our seasons, on with our coats, always keep a song stuck in your throat
I may leave this party I may irish goodbye
find a glass of water and maybe throw away this tie
here's to you hope you make it through
hope you make it through the night
here's to you
hope you make it through, hope you make it through the light
here's to you
hope it's not too late
hope you make it home and latch the gate
may we make it home and latch the gate.
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Alex Salcido Cincinnati, Ohio
Alex Salcido is one half of indie rock-folk group The Harmed Brothers.
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