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Himself
03:15
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Nice to meet you
Now I see you as a ghost upon the stairs
Or in the April sun
In the door of our garage after the rain
Now it’s over is it?
Everything lasts for a long time
And we’ll stop fucking around with the day that we decided just to shut it down and let it die
And we will gather around
The grave lies deep in your heart, haunted
Forgot to carry the one and the sum of what you totaled never added up to anything
And could you face it alone?
The way winds down through your roads, haunted
In the hospital
Float an inch above your bed
“Are we just paranoid?”
“What was that again?” you said to me
Now it’s over is it?
Everything lasts for a long time
And we’ll stop fucking around with the day that we decided just to shut it down and let it die
And we will gather around
The grave lies deep in your heart, haunted
Forgot to carry the one and the sum of what you totaled never added up to anything
And could you face it alone?
The way winds down through your roads, haunted
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All my luck is down in the fountain
Lost my money but it means nothing to me
Are you there?
Are you well?
It’s lonely in the high country
I share my air with a low moon
And think of all the roads that mean nothing to me
For all your love
You’re austere in the way that you move
Place to place
With the one you meet from time to time
It’s all familiar
But he wears a different face
And the things that he will tell you are all lies
Are you there?
Are you well?
It’s lonely in the high country
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3. |
Weathervane
02:42
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This is my whole world
Landed beside me and blue on the wind
All of us down
Alright
This is all I know
It's a cold season to let acres grow
All of the fields littered with stones
Alright
Trust in the leaves
And the things that you would never think to bring
They're along there beside you
In the side of you that's gone
This is all I see
It's an old reason to let bygones be
There in the pond left to be still
Alright
Trust in the leaves
And the things that you would never think to bring
They're along there beside you
In the side of you that's gone
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4. |
Wolves
02:55
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Dark forms moving on the white of the snow
Going to those places where only they can go
Twin moons setting on mercurial minds
See how they’re there now they’re gone now they’re lost
Now they’re mine
Don’t you think that I am lost?
No more waiting around to survive
Past tense and the memory when
We took a long drive from Colorado to Coeur D’Alene
And the mountains there filled me with ardor
And I stood there and felt continental movement
And the way that you melt into light
Dark forms moving on the white of the snow
Going to those places where only they can go
Twin moons setting on mercurial minds
See how they’re there now they’re gone now they’re lost
Now they’re mine
Every time I’m there I’m gone
Took a long time to learn how to live
Life cycle took the lyrical kid
To a dark wave rising from the shelf to the shore
We were young we were young we were young
And now the tide has gone out
Your hometown is empty
And the birds will return to the sea
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5. |
Caroline
04:22
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Would you call my name
Even if you had no voice to speak?
Would you draw me down
Even if you lost your touch?
Well Caroline
You were mine
Now you’re lost to yourself and everybody else
And it’s time to go
In the afternoon
Autumn light is creeping up your wall
You had Joni on
Watching all the leaves fall
Leaves fall Caroline
It’s the way we know
That there’s an art to letting go
Just like footprints in the snow they will be gone
Our love
Is beautiful and old
Beautiful and cold
And I don’t know you
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6. |
It's Only the Rain
03:58
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It’s only the rain
Clouding my mind
Maybe the fog
Will clear up sometime
Down on the mountain
We’re leaving the bar
Shaking your hand
Don’t know you at all
It’s true what they say
These are the golden days
I’m just a man
Follow no plan
Trying to simplify my life
I’m walking at night
In the shoes of the bad one
Barely alive
Not even there
I’m on the wrong side of the morning
Dodging invisible cold hands
When you are old
You will stretch out your hands
And another will dress you
And carry you where
You do not want to go
When I cross that damn river
Give the devil his due
And come face to face
With the one friend I knew
It’s true what they say
These are the golden days
I’m just a man
Follow no plan
Trying to simplify my life
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7. |
Hard Times
04:56
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Hard times on the town line
I know it’s about time to be leaning towards the leaving
I got too much i got nothing
We ride on old tires
The world is on fire
Would you pay two coins just to watch somebody die?
Would you gamble everything to lose it on a lie?
Hard times on the town line
I know that you’re not mine
I grow older every damn day
I got too much i got nothing
We ride on old tires
The world is on fire
Would you pay two coins just to watch somebody die?
Would you gamble everything to lose it on a lie?
For sale on the town line
I think its about time
To settle down from this ramblin of mine
Waiting on some miracles some water into wine
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8. |
The Fall
02:50
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All that you’ve said
Is just a brief thought crossing my mind
All that I know
Locked in cathedrals covered in snow
You stood apart
And had a eulogy for your heart
All dressed in white
We placed a rose down upon the stone
You’re part of the problem now aren’t you?
You’re part of the fall of me
I saw the twist of your body there, midair
Sorry
Glass to the concrete and under
And you would have loved
The photograph they ran black and white
You were wearing a veil
In some lonely corner of the world
Cross legged on a bench
The Vondelpark was covered with fog
And if we were to look again
You wouldn’t be there at all
You’re part of the problem now aren’t you?
The crown of the gravity queen passed down
I saw the twist of the lies I wove unwind
Sorry
With my hands behind my back fingers crossed
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Tommy Hawk Austin, Texas
Acoustic and other errata
by
Seth Coburn.
Austin TX.
soundcloud.com/tommyhawkmusic
Contact:
tommyhawkmusic1@gmail.com
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