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Low-Hanging Fruit
04:12
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Hope I still know you, honey
When I get old
Maybe I’ll call sometime and
talk on the phone
I’ve got all kinds of problems
I wouldn’t tell to anyone but you
Years pass quickly now
It’s easy to hurt yourself
But when I look at you crying
I can’t help but thinking of how
somebody somewhere is making lots of money
Tried to get free
Tried to go clear baby
The feeling followed me
from there to here
Low-hanging fruit
on every tree, y’know
I can’t reach anything of any use
Maybe sometime I’ll have
something I can offer to you
I fall apart in all the ways you’d expect
My body’s hollowed out and my mind is wrecked
You drive a car that you bought with
lint from your pockets
while somebody somewhere is making lots of money
Tried to get free
Tried to go clear baby
The feeling followed me
from there to here
Low-hanging fruit
on every tree, y’know
I can’t reach anything of any use
Maybe sometime I’ll have
something I can offer to you
Look around
It’s easy to see
somebody somewhere is making lots money
It’s not you, it isn’t me
but somebody somewhere is making lots of money
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2. |
Let It Pass
03:32
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Open the doors
turn on the lights
I know I’m looking for things I’ll never find
I’ve always known how
but I’ve never known why
You take off easy like a sparrow might
I’m coming down there to see you
Gonna waste all your time
Gonna take you down to the river
Let it pass by
in the yellow light of evening
I’ll feel alright
Yeah, I’m coming down there to see you
Gonna change your mind
Up from the ground
Down from the sky
I’ve seen visions of you moving by
when I’m looking around
on my way home
I almost drive off of the side of the road
I’m coming down there to see you
Gonna waste all your time
Gonna take you down to the river
Let it pass by
in the yellow light of evening
I’ll feel alright
Yeah, I’m coming down there to see you
Gonna change your mind
If I move to the country baby
and go to bed sober every night
would you forget all about me baby
or would you come and hang around sometime?
I’m coming down there to see you
Gonna waste all your time
Gonna take you down to the river
Let it pass by
in the yellow light of evening
I’ll feel alright
Yeah, I’m coming down there to see you
Gonna change your mind
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3. |
Summer in Your Mouth
03:20
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Naked with the summer in your mouth
Gotta get back to it
Wanna see all slow motion flowers
I’m gonna get back to it now
Into an open field
I gotta get back to it
I wanted everything once
Now I wanna get back
When the time is right
You will not recognize it
When you know you will not know
Keep a watchful eye, you still won’t see it coming
but it’ll leave you crying when it goes
Dreamt that I was swimming in a lake
somewhere in Saskatchewan
You were hanging off my every word
I gotta get back to it now
It’s been a couple years
Are you cursing my name somewhere?
You wanted everything
I just wanna get back
When the time is right
You will not recognize it
When you know you will not know
Keep a watchful eye, you still won’t see it coming
but it’ll leave you crying when it goes
I wanna hear you say my name
like the failure of a mountain range
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4. |
Waiting for a Train
06:12
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I remember you walking up my driveway
Out in your socks on the gravel
Grinning through the pain like a ballerina–
you were that happy to be there
Tell me, why do you feel lost in your own life again?
Why this sheet of darkness hanging overhead?
I know that you’ve been laying up all night
You can’t fall asleep when you’re near me
Feel like I’ve been living here my whole life
Talking in my sleep
Dreaming of your golden light
I’ve got a garden in my backyard
I never learned how to take care of
I’ve got a scar just below my ribs
I don’t know where it came from
Honey, I cannot believe the ways you’ve changed again
I don’t know how to say I’m where I’ve always been
I know that you’ve been laying up all night
You can’t fall asleep when you’re near me
Feel like I’ve been living here my whole life
Talking in my sleep
Dreaming of your golden light
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5. |
Gasoline
04:19
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Jesus Christ
the moon is huge tonight
Saw you standing in a field as I drove by
My stomach turned and dread filled my mind
I kept on driving because I was terrified, baby
I was terrified
Lay down on the road, baby
Measure me against the centre lines
Guess I’ve always known you would
break my broken heart sometime
Jesus Christ
the moon is huge tonight
Water is turning in dark corners of my mind
I saw fire burning out behind your eyes
I kept on driving because I was terrified, baby
I was terrified
Lay down on the road, baby
Measure me against the centre lines
Guess I’ve always known you would
break my broken heart sometime
It was like a stranger spoke my name
I saw the light upon your face
Like my life had been erased
Like gasoline flowed through my veins
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6. |
Rattlesnake Dream
04:01
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Take me out to your parents place
Read the braille poetry on my face
Touch my shoulders and comb my hair
I’d come down to see you if I knew you were there
I dream I'm walking kinda fast
the sun always blinding
I hear sounds along the path
behind and ahead
There’s a snake in the grass
I try to turn away but
somehow I never can
Gets his fangs in my neck
so I kill him back with my hands
Take me out to the edge of town
There are constellations no one has found
You’ve got love but you don’t have time
I bet by tomorrow I’ll feel just fine
I dream I'm walking kinda fast
the sun always blinding
I hear sounds along the path
behind and ahead
There’s a snake in the grass
I try to turn away but
somehow I never can
Gets his fangs in my neck
so I kill him back
Sure as our love’s gonna last
Real as a scene from my past
Clear in my mind like a photograph
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7. |
Even in a Car
03:52
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You only live a couple miles away
Even in a car I couldn’t make it there today
I heard about the darkness in your mind
I wish I knew you were doing fine
Pretty soon the weather’s gonna change
We’ll stay out til whenever or as long as it takes to
wash away the darkness in my mind
These days I feel it all the time
Let me hear your voice inside my telephone once more
Tell me something about yourself I haven’t heard before
Anything I can think to say
Comes out pretty stupid when I talk to you today
I hope that I get stronger as I age
In some ways that I can name
Let me hear your voice inside my telephone once more
Tell me something about yourself I haven’t heard before
Let me hear your voice inside my telephone once more
Tell me something about yourself I haven’t heard before
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8. |
Aerostar
03:33
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Look straight through me
Dreamt you were having a baby boy
Tears shining like olive oil
Take my body
I know you’ve got places you plan to be
Will you go dancing with me?
I was born in the backseat of a turquoise Aerostar
on the side of the road
Strangers drove by
It’s like you say
The landscape ages like a face
Been gone so long
I got lost on the way
Walk beside me
Nobody tells you that hearts break slow
It takes your whole life just to know
Take my body
I know there are places you plan to be
But will you go dancing with me?
Last night I woke up thirsty as the day I was born
I move slow,
barely speak anymore
and I’ve been away
The landscape ages like a face
I got lost
I didn’t know what to say
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9. |
Fallin' Off the Wagon
03:38
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Pull the walls around me, turn off all the lights
Deep inside my basement suite I focus on straight lines
Lots that I could say to you but I’ll leave it for tonight
Fallin’ off the wagon is heavy on my mind
Every note on the piano played at the same time
I’m in up to my eyebrows, babe – throw me a line
The job I had is where I’m working still
Spend your whole life, never crest that hill
Even way outta town on the clearest night
You’re a constellation I can never find
but I stay out til the morning light
They say that when you’re dying you see you life before your eyes
I think if I were dying, babe, I’d see a bunch of times
Of wishing I was anywhere with your arms around me
The job I had is where I’m working still
Spend your whole life, never crest that hill
Even way outta town on the clearest night
You’re a constellation I can never find
but I stay out til the morning light
The job I had is where I’m working still
Spend your whole life, never crest that hill
Even way outta town on the clearest night
You’re a constellation I can never find
but I stay out til the morning
I stay out til the morning light
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10. |
Do You Know
03:51
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Do You Know
Do you know what is wrong with me, my brother?
Do you see how little’s left of me this morning?
I would do almost anything to be back there now
In a car sitting next you going nowhere
See you smiling through the pain
like a dancer on a stage
pirouetting through your days
Do you know what is wrong with me, my lover?
Do you see how little’s left of me every morning?
I would go almost anywhere to back there now
in a bar sitting next to you, but oh my god I’m tired
See you smiling through the pain
like a dancer on a stage
pirouetting through your days
See you smiling through the pain
like a dancer on a stage
pirouetting through your days
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Starpainter Lethbridge, Alberta
Starpainter is a folk rock band from Lethbridge, Alberta. They wear their influences on their sleeves, showcasing old-school songwriting craftsmanship and an affinity for gently psychedelic alt-twang tones.
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