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Across America
01:08
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2. |
Yep
01:16
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You’ve got to describe it to claim it
What do you highlight
It’s just the curve of an outline
A few minutes of night life
A land you agreed to
That’s something you own
That’s never really yours
Pale colors
Damp then dry
Trees tall and
Cars that drive
A beach you’ve only
Been to once
Not a hard yes but a yep
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3. |
Nope
00:38
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I’m a kind of
Tangent
A footpath
A houseplant
When I’m in the sun
I’m light grey
A smooth stone
In a clean hand
I’m slow and pure
And sweet and good
I read like
A brochure
And there’s times I say yeah
When I wanna say nope
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4. |
Apple
00:26
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There’s not enough
Of the left alone
And no way to say
The thing to say
Where are the new vacant lots
Where are the new swear words
Feel like I’m always
Parallel to something
Kind of don’t see it
Kind of not looking
They’re building a new apple
While I still eat the old ones
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5. |
Fishing
01:38
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Walking up and down the same set of stairs
Day in, night out, not getting nowhere
No friends that call, same four spinning walls
Taking off work to take a big fall
Setting up for failure
Waiting for fame to nail ya
Can’t settle down or even sleep around
Always surrounded by serious clowns
Laughing when no one else is around
Swapping jokes with the face in the mirror
But don’t wait up for the pop charts to hear ya
Fortune is calling, inspiration is falling down the stairs
On the sidewalk sprawling, teeth everywhere
Everyone is here but
Something is missing
And they wonder why
I’d rather be fishing
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6. |
Trains
01:26
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Inside the car is a color I can’t see
And the landscape lasts a second
And a moment later the tracks are cloudy
I sit near the bridge and watch them go by
I like things at this level
The space between rail clatter
The calm of dust
Each day is green and brown, bright and then blue
The land is weedy and still
I’ll never leave, I think, but I could
I try to count the steps between
Front step and smoke stack,
Dirt mound and horizon line,
One hour and the next
A train rolls by
And I think about it
Another rolls by
I think about it
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7. |
Baseball
02:02
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Ain’t no such thing as everybody wins
Want it to be cool to lose
Instead of what it really is
So I can afford to lose a little more hair
So I can be some blank space along a baseline
I sip smoke scratch sweat and wait
Any real thing I do I do alone
A face in the crowd is fine for someone like me who don’t really wanna be seen
There are faces I avoid
There’s a shadow falling on the field
The sky’s a warmer color right before it disappears
The light’s come on
There’s an echo
I’m standing here
At absolute zero
There’s nowhere I’ve got to be
I’m heading home
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8. |
I Grew Up
01:00
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Sometimes I don’t know where I’ve been
and don’t remember how it used to be
God almighty gonna strike me down someday
And it won’t matter what I used to know
When the bad things come
They come on on like weather
My eyes adjusting
Like a camera
You start to hear the things you couldn’t hear before
You blink and double check the things you see
I didn’t think I’d be sighing even more
I didn’t think I’d feel like a print-out of something
When the bad things come
They come on like weather
I unbutton another button
While the air gets hotter
I took a blur and I smudged it
Slowed it down to a crawl
Until like air I ignored it
If I grew up that’s how I knew it
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9. |
Talking
00:42
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“Motherfucker don’t waste my time”
Humming in color like a neon sign
I breathe through my nose
Do my work
Don’t say nothing
The walk home is a dream
Birds chatter
The creek rolls along
The door creaks
And I never complain
I smile when I’m tired
And I lay back and think
I’ll find some land of
Almost no talking and
Motherfucker I won’t come back
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10. |
Across America
01:19
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11. |
Cowboy II
01:52
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Complete the poem
Laying down in the tall grass
Looking at a silver maple
While a cat walks up to us
When the ice runs out
We fill the tray up
Complete the body
Near a prairie’s edge
Near a Live Oak branching
Where a breeze can find us
The moon is resting in a pendant
The moon is cool and grey
The moon is just far enough
The moon is the only sound
Connect the landmarks
Fall into the tall grass
Pull our caps down low
While the day leaves us
When the ice runs out
We fill the tray up
When the work is done
We name the mountains
We complete the poem
We complete the body
We hear the moon rise
We hear the cat walk up to us
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12. |
Science
01:18
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Smart people need a dumb anthem
A dirt track for a clean mind
Some freedom ringing they can still tune out
Something they could build if they only had the time
It’s not a real science
It’s just something I saw
It’s not a plaque on a wall
It’s just something I heard
Some people gotta clear their heads
And pull the weeds from the dirt
Somewhere in the back of their minds
Water moving in a straight line
It doesn’t come from on high
It’s just something I was thinking
It’s not the white of a lab coat
It’s just something I picked up
Some people on a porch at night
Some people like a refilled drink
Some people steady as a law
Some people wrote
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13. |
Eight
00:51
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How far can chaos really go
How deep can dumb-as-shit be
Do you feel it in your bones
Or in your blood when it ain’t what it should be
Can you believe the air
Can you trust your eyes
Do you clean the windshield
And just keep driving
There are voices you hear
And jokes you forget
And grass that grows
And gets cut above the dead
I’ll take it
any deep breath
any petty theft
Any spare change
any home
any range
Any way out
any time now
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14. |
East Boy
01:58
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I was waiting for a breeze
I was waiting for a thunder
The past was more and more less and less
than I’d remembered
I know I’m covered in a kind of dust I can’t see
I know there’s some people that never get clean
I was building a fort inside the city lines
I was thinking how much I loved the fort every night
I know I look like I’m the same guy
I know I shrug talk move like I did the last time
I disappeared from somewhere
I fell asleep I woke up here
I went away I came back down here
I drove east and I liked it there
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15. |
Lava
00:50
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Swear to water
Swear to rocks
Watch the planets
From the dock
Swear to lava
Swear to caves
Check the weather
Hear it rain
Sand’s cooling
Under night air
We’re folding up
A folding chair
Some wave is moving
In the night out there
Something we don’t see
Is in the air
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16. |
Vegas
00:55
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You keep pouring water
Into the ocean
You keep finding flowers
On the ground
You ain’t a part of
No country you know
You don’t glitter
When the light hits you
The money’s tender
LED numbers
And when I have it
I feel like someone else
For like a minute
I’m a billboard
I’m a hotel
The light hits me
Something is lit
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17. |
Sad Stooge
01:23
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When I close my eyes
I see the mountains
When I open my eyes
I’m barely there
On the sidewalk kind of humming
Walking slowly still tired
Skyline like a painted backdrop
I’m in a play I’m sleeping through it
When the sun is staring
And the mountains sit there
I look around
I”m barely here
When the sun is worn out
And the mountains are cooling
I close my eyes
And try to see something
On the sidewalk kind of humming
Walking nowhere still tired
Skyline like a painted backdrop
It never ends and it ain’t over yet
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18. |
Across America
01:12
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