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Salt Rimmed Eyes
03:25
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Beggar by choice
Scholar by trade
A crown is a crown
Even if it is of thistles made
I know what I like
This prison is fair
But I'm looking for some new
More comfortable shackles to wear
Stylish like the ones I had before
But with just a little less
Of a bite, I dont want em tight
When I'm sitting high upon the shore
Looking at the ocean well I do not cry
It's just my salt rimmed eyes
Just my salt rimmed eyes
Teller of tales
Causer of pain
I don't got time to think
Why they gave me those names
Places to go
People to meet
I'm gonna need one on the rocks
I got to have my best wits about me
I'm not gonna make her wait that long
She knows that I'm always almost home
Always almost home
When I'm sitting high up on the shore
Looking at the ocean well I do not cry
Its just my salt rimmed eyes
Just my salt rimmed eyes
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2. |
Break Away
03:16
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I need variety
There's a dream I can't unsee
No way around it once you’ve found it
The thing that makes you free
I need a new vibration
Give me the magic touch
You guessed my constellation
Let's break away just us
Break
Break Away
Down metropolitan
I need a pick up pick me up
No way around it once you’ve found it
Cannot change your speed
I need a new vibration
Give me the magic touch
You guessed my constellation
Let's break away just us
Break
Break
Away
High society
Im as high as high can be
No way around it once you’ve found it
You can trust on me
I need a new vibration
Give me the magic touch
You guessed my constellation
Let's break away just us
Break
Break
Away
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3. |
Go Getter
03:07
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She said I'll be back again
I'm just stepping out the door
And when I return
Could I get some more?
More of your heart, less of the ache
More of the deep. less of the fake
I don't think that its too much to ask for
Hey hey when it comes to love
I'm a go getter
My my when it comes to the truth
I could always do better
I cant get too far alone
We gotta go together
My my have you seen my girl
I'm a go getter
I'm a go getter
I'm a go getter
Like a diver in the depths
Looking for a pearl
Shut my mouth
And hold my breath
Listen to that girl
More of your heart, less of the ache
More of the deep. less of the fake
Only way to go is up
In this broke down world
Hey hey when it comes to love
I'm a go getter
My my when it comes to the truth
I could always do better
I cant get too far alone
We gotta go together
My my have you seen my girl
I'm a go getter
I'm a go getter
I'm a go getter
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Rough hands silently wake
Armies of the dawn
On the twilight train
Ride to the docks
And the towers in droves
Carrying a load
Name without a name
While the smoke talkers
Droppers of names
High born sons
With no skin in the game
Finish their night
On a rooftop glow
They don’t have a load
We are not the same
Take the city as a liar
Doesn’t care about the truth
Bring the beast to the doorstep
Hide your dreams like troops
He’s a jackal not a boss
Put your week in a noose
Gotta hold him accountable
Comin home to roost
Coming home to roost
5am shift white knuckle grip
Daddy was raised
Neath the throgsneck bridge
I could count myself
In the ranks of them
But I want out and Im climbing
I preyed with the vultures
The soul they steal
Dragged a corpse
In the dust of my wheels
Feast on a lyre
With a carrion call
Shout my name
From the city walls
Take the city as a liar
Doesn’t care about the truth
Bring the beast to the doorstep
Hide your dreams like troops
He’s a jackal not a boss
He’ll put your week in a noose
Gotta hold him accountable
Coming home to roost
Coming home to roost
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If it were my decision
Id be swimming
In a lake so clear
In the tall green pines
I know my way there
Middle of nowhere
I'll make it out somehow
Got my eyes closed now
There is a certain someone
She's from where I'm from
We will dive right in
With the warm sunshine
I know my way there
Middle of nowhere
I'll make it out somehow
Got my eyes closed now
I know my way there
I know my way there
I know my way there
I know my way there
I know my way there
I know my way there
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Taking a ride down veterans drive
I know every block as it blurs by
I could do it with my eyes closed
When was the last time you were home?
It’s a simpler place from a simpler time
There were kids my age or at least close to my age
We could play outside on our own
When was the last time you were home?
Red oak trees pot-holed streets
Water towers grocery meats
The sound of the dial tone
When was the last time you were home?
There’s the Dairy Queen where I had my first job
Where I saw my first gun, took my first drugs
We were 15 or 16 years old
She was twisting cones
When was the last time you were home?
Underneath the bridge by the riverside
Where those vampires lured a drifter within
And cracked his skull with a stone
When was the last time you were home?
The monastery nursing floor
Where they hide the monks no one wants to know
How they stole the youth from those poor souls
When was the last time you were home?
First place I go is that shoreline
Where they don’t build houses
And don’t allow boats
And I hold my breath underwater for a while
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7. |
No Gloom No Doom
03:28
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Walkin through Queens cemeteries
That’s the only place round here with trees
Opens at nine, closes at four
Then we stare at stray cats through the door
No gloom no doom
No lies from me
Im happy Im happy
No gloom no doom
No lies from me
Im happy Im happy
Hot as can be but it’s mothers day
Watchin white and brown folks visit graves
Some drive by slow dropping their flowers
Some stay for a while talking with strange powers
No gloom no doom
No lies from me
Im happy Im happy
No gloom no doom
No lies from me
Im happy Im happy
A month later now, the third sunday
Its crowded again in that same place
Im seeing new flowers, hearing less words
One kid’s ‘I love you’ floats up to the birds
No gloom no doom
No lies from me
Im happy Im happy
No gloom no doom
No lies from me
Im happy Im happy
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8. |
Losin Control
03:42
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Everybody losin losin control
Learnin how to love it losin control
Isnt hard to master Losin you know
You should get lost
Everybody losin losin control
And I get the feeling you already know
If we gotta run, are you ready to go?
Ready to go?
Well I, I got a message from Achilles
That maybe winning doesn't matter anyway
All we wanna do is own our own
All we wanna do is see the start
Its a feeling in my bones
Its a fire in your heart
Everybody losin losin control
Learnin how to love it losin control
Isnt hard to master Losin you know
You should get lost
Everybody losin losin control
And I get the feeling you already know
If we gotta run, are you ready to go?
Ready to go?
Well I, I gotta let it out from deep within
Cuz everything that's trying to get lost is gonna win
Are we ever gonna own our own?
Is the finish at the start?
Its a feelin in my bones
Its a fire in your heart
Everybody losin losin control
Learnin how to love it losin control
Isnt hard to master Losin you know
You should get lost
Everybody losin losin control
And I get the feeling you already know
If we gotta run, are you ready to go?
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9. |
Enemy
03:26
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It has always been
The same routine
Only thing that changes
Is the scene
Somehow I think
You’ll always need
An enemy
You could trace it back
And root it out
Somewhere among
The pride and doubt
But then what would you be
Without an enemy
Enemy Enemy
Enemy Enemy
But then what would you be
Without an enemy
At least that pride
Can rest upon
The list of those
Who’ve done you wrong
The list goes on
And on and on
Enemies
For a decade now
We’ve been friends
You say I’m the only
Real one left
But I can see
What’s coming next
Enemy Enemy
Enemy Enemy
But then what would you be
Without an enemy
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10. |
Get On With Your Life
03:37
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Make a wish and throw it in the fountain
Get on with your life
Shoot a star and put it in your pocket
Get on with your life
Not killed a hero lately
Not looked behind the curtain again
I know just what awaits me
Keep the receipts and leave em on read
Id almost always rather hear a joke from
Someone who is a terrible friend
Id almost always rather hear a song from
Someone who is a ghost in the end
Make a wish and throw it in the fountain
Get on with your life
Shoot a star and put it in your pocket
Get on with your life
Make a wish and throw it in the fountain
Get on with your life
Shoot a star and put it in your pocket
Get on with your life
Im driving myself crazy
Preppin for interviews in my head
For a fake documentary
They'd never give the questions ahead
Id almost always rather see a show
If it was on an inflatable stage
Watchin it blow up see their gonna blow up
Who’d want to blow up at that age
Make a wish and throw it in the fountain
Get on with your life
Shoot a star and put it in your pocket
Get on with your life
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11. |
Karma Come Over
03:32
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View out the window is still a wall
My dreams all hit the ceiling
Even though I know I got the call
Can’t hover above this feeling
Walking out in the rain
Had bout all I can take
Any day now any day
Karma come over
Fill up this cup of mine
Make it runneth over
You know I’ve done my time
Karma come over
Fill up this cup of mine
Make it runneth over
You know I’ve done my time
Star at the bottom deep in the well
Lower me down to grab it
Tired and dried up
but I’m not climbing out empty handed
Walking out in the rain
Had bout all I can take
Any day now any day
Karma come over
Fill up this cup of mine
Make it runneth over
You know I’ve done my time
Karma come over
Fill up this cup of mine
Make it runneth over
You know I’ve done my time
Pour until it runneth over
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Paul Spring Saint Cloud, Minnesota
This May, Paul Spring will canoe down the Hudson River. With his guitar beside him in the boat, he will dock at 7 concert venues along the water. Paul Spring is a songwriter and guitarist based in Queens, NY. His latest albums, Always Almost Home and Thunderhead, received praise from Irish Times and Minnesota Public Radio. ... more
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