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Thanks
03:16
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well I'll pack my bags for the west
with some love & a bent up cigarette
cause lover when you're gone it's sad like
my last match oh i know i shouldn't smoke
but honey can't we just go home?
honey cant we just go home.
so I'll curse the diamond railroads
on my pilgrimage of thanks
cause darling when I speak it's like their eyes just see
oh right over me i'm lost
lord I miss my wife
lord I miss california wine
oh my - I was
selling drugs to the exciteable boys they were
eating out of my hands
I was stoned as hell somewhere wearing plaid when they
told me about Leonard Cohen
lover i'm getting spooked
honey it's getting hard
companion i'm still followed by smoke
baby it's getting colder
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2. |
Europe Baby
02:47
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lover she don't mind the smoke
says it makes her feel like europe
i have got no place to go
so i'll catch a train to houston
where i'm useless
cause when people know my name it's excitement or shame
let me go somewhere where i'm not known
there i'll scribble & hide, kerouac for the ride
if you see angel by the coast
won't you tell her i didn't know.
all these jokes at my expense
by people i call my friends
it adds crooked color to my lips
& darkness around my eyes
it's no surprise
that i run off with a writer, still call up my mother
only when i'm feeling well
there i'll scribble & hide
kerouac for the ride
if you see angel by the coast, won't you tell her i didn't know
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Forever For a Month
02:49
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i'm on a nicotine high
& everything's up in the sky
i won't feel this way tomorrow
settle down
you're freaking me out
if it's all cool now
stop screaming so loud
i'm gonna drink my life away
forever for a month
it's all a bunch of shit
it's all fucked up
cause you're not around
an i miss you when you're gone
i'm gonna piss my life away
forever for a month
i won't feel this way tomorrow
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4. |
Evangeline
02:32
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oh come clean Evangeline
oh don't be mean Evangeline
I had a stubborn cough in memphis
& I was wearing plaid
I had to get out 'fore the well run dry & i made my woman mad
oh you wear my ring Evangeline
oh to better things Evangeline
I had an aching gut in nashville & i was feeling sad
so I had to get gone while the going's good & the getting is
getting bad
so oh won't you sing, Evangeline ?
oh it's all free Evangeline
since i changed my zip code
i've been lonelier now
but i'm followed by smoke
& there's no one to watch my mouth
oh be sweet Evangeline
oh you're so keen, Evangeline
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Gloaming
03:16
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she's a work of art that gloams
& i'm bumming all her smokes tonight
i'm bumming on her love tonight
while my woman's away i'm fine
i could stay here all night, love .
if that'd be alright, love.
Lying in the grass
patting the earth's back
darling, I want you bad
there's a dead bird in my shirt
we're gonna set her free, dear
down the river she will float clear
I want you bad
every choice i've made
was the wrong mistake
cause i want you bad
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10th Street
02:40
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I got lost on 10th street
in an overcoat that didn't belong to me
& even when i'm happy i'm sad
don't look at me like that
so when that girl came to pick me up
all those substances were deep in my gut
& i scratched my skin just to soothe the burn
but oh i guess i never learn
tell that guy who gave you his number
i'll break his ribs if he gets any closer
cause i'm a fool & men are wolves
they'll try & eat you up while i'm at school
& i hate myself for writing this but oh i had to get it off my chest /
so what causes humans to behave this way this nicotine buzz
is getting strange & i know i'm gonna feel ashamed for standing here preaching all my fears
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Halo of Sage
02:59
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all I want to do is honey talk to you
but i said a prayer it went something like this
o my god please make this quick
& my father's a whore but who's keeping score?
i've got the blues without you
eating your mum's pot
when she's not around
& i've got a halo of sage around my head
what if we were birds
& the clouds were trees
& you've got a halo of stars around your head
don't look now
but i think they drugged my coffee
no need to shout
cause everything's cool, babe
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Sweet Jane
02:58
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later we'll get married
& smoke cigarettes on the porch
take the world by storm
sweet jane, you don't have to take my name
sweet jane, you don't have to take my name
after all the time's gone of profanity & fame
you & i are the same
sweet jane, my darling you can stay
sweet jane, my darling you can stay
& i love you like an all night diner
ella kissed me by the old hotel i guess
she could tell i was lonely as hell
sweet jane, you don't have to take
sweet jane, you don't have to take my name
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Halfway to Eugene
02:30
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& as the earth was trembling & san francisco fell
i followed the flower to the ground
& ended up just as well
so repent, dearest chicago you know what you've done
i litter these streets with the parts of me that are ash & tarred oxygen
drink up seething nashville your friends are at the bar
mine's a detox stroll past the shelby bridge trolls on the other side of town
but i've got to go
& don't you follow
don't call me tomorrow
cause i'll be halfway to eugene
chasing some new dream
with my love at the edge of my hand
let's take a ride on ethel's caravan
i'm so finished grieving this unfinished peace
i just want some place with a nice front fate
& my love there with me
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Somewhere in Eugene
03:34
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i'm wearing bluejeans somewhere in eugene
sitting on the city steps smoking a cigarette
i woke up in california choking on an apple core
sitting by the water shore still wondering bout the score
up on confusion hill all the hippies live there still
dreaming about license plates & making a big escape but
just a few steps west & you'd be in a white dress
with a halo of sage around your head
& there must be guests in eden
cause all the rooms are full
& california must be dreaming cause i feel like santa cruz
hattie thom & the chicken witch were trying to figure how to make it rich
with maybelline & her bad hat, sweet tallulah & troubled max
they were lost somewhere down the road
i was busy dreaming of chicago
the gypsy in the mansion home
the lighthouse on the west coast
but i'm not quite satisfied yet
with all these aloof sights i've found up in my head .
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